1. Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature will be at the centre of celebrations of the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week in the country.
2. LIC Housing Finance Ltd has appointed Sunita Sharma as Managing Director and CEO with effect from November 5, 2013.
3. Pakistan on 5 November 2013 successfully test-fired Hatf IX (Nasr) missile, a surface-to-surfacemissile with a range of 60 km.
4. Sri Lanka has approved visa on arrival to Callum Macrae, the Director of Channel 4 documentaries on Sri Lanka’s war crimes, to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting later this month.
5. Tarla Dalal, noted food writer, chef, best-selling cookbook author and host of multiple cooking shows, passed away on Wednesdaymorning.
6. Microsoft has narrowed its list of CEO candidates including India’s Satya Nadella, Ford chief Alan Mulally and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop.
7. Home, auto and consumer loansare expected to become costlier with the country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) raising its lending rates by 20 basis points with effect from Thursday. The bank has revised the base rate or the minimum lending rate to 10 per cent from 9.80 per cent, SBI said in a statement.
8. Moderate Republican Chris Christie easily won re-election as New Jersey governor, while a conservative Republican popular with the Tea Party movement narrowly lost his bid for the Virginia governorship, in two racesclosely watched for their potential impact on future races for Congress and the White House.
9. Attacks in Iraq killed 13 people Tuesday, most of them security personnel, officials said, the latest casualties in a country-wide spike in violence that the government has failed to stem.
10. Gaganjeet Bhullar, who has never won the Indian Open, nor a pro title at the Delhi Golf Club gave himself a great booster by leading his team to a fine win in the Pro-Am of the 50th Hero Indian Open which kick-started theGolden Jubilee edition of the tournament, here on Wednesday.
