India won a crucial election to the UN Board of Auditors with its nominee Shash

i Kant Sharma, the Comptroller and Auditor General, garnering the largest number
of votes.
* Sharma won 124 votes out of the total 186 cast in the General Assemblys Fifth C
ommittee on Administrative and Budgetary questions. This made India to win by a
comfortable margin against its closest contender the Philippines, which got 62 v
otes. * Shashi Kant Sharma will be appointed to the UN Board of Auditors for a s
ix year term beginning on 1stJuly 2014.
Syria has met the deadline set by the OPCW Executive Council to complete as soon
as possible and in any case not later. The destruction of chemical weapons prod
uction and mixing or filling equipment. Organization for the Prohibition of Chemi
cal Weapons (OPCW) is presently involved in destroying Syria's stockpiles of che
mical weapons.
India and Vietnam signed a treaty for transfer of sentenced prisoners languishi
ng in jails in the Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Vietnam Minister of Publ
ic Security Tran Dai Quang signed the agreement on transfer of sentenced prisone
rs in meeting held at New Delhi.
* The 7th United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment o
f Offenders adopted the Model Agreement on the Transfer of Foreign Prisoners in
1985 and since then many countries have arrived at bilateral and multilateral tr
eaties.
* Capital of Vietnam: Hanoi
* Currency of Vietnam: Vietnamese dong
*Prime minister of Vietnam: Nguyen tan dung
*President of Vietnam: Truong tan sang
Cyprus notified as a notified Jurisdictional Area Under Section 94a of the Inco
me Tax Act, 1961. All parties to the transaction with a person in Cyprus shall b
e treated as associated enterprises and the transaction shall be treated as an '
International Transaction' resulting in application of transfer-pricing regulati
ons including maintenance of documentations.
November 4
Indian and Chinese army are set to hold their third joint military exercises af
ter a gap of 5 years. As a part of 10 day drill code named hand in hand, the Ind
ian army contingent of 150 people reached the Chengdu city on 4th November 2013
to take part in the anti-terrorism drills.
China has set up radar station to monitor the movement of Indian planes near Li
ne of Actual Control at the Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) sector in Ladakh after being
concerned over the landing of C-130J Super Hercules transport plane by India.
Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi and Queensland Univers
ity of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia signed the International Cooperatio
n Agreement to collaborate in academic program and in frontier areas of research
in Media and Communication. It was signed by Bimal Julka, IIMC Chairman and Sec
retary I&B Ministry and Prof. Peter Coaldrake, Vice Chancellor, Queensland Unive
rsity of Technology.
November 5
A court Bangladesh sentenced 152 soldiers to death for their role in a 2009 mut
iny. They were held guilty of killing 74 people, which includes 57 army officers
. The trial is considered one of the worlds biggest ever mass criminal trials.
Self made Charkha of Mahatma Gandhi that he used in Yerwada Jail during the Qui
t India Movement was auctioned in UK on 5 November 2013 got sold for 110000 (1.1
crore rupees approximately) at England. It is about eight decades old.
His last/ final will written at Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarati, was also auctioned
over 20000 (19 lakh rupees approximately) for historical documents and art facts
by the Mullocks Auction house in Shropshire, England.
India and the US to start their next round of Malabar a naval war-games in the Ba
y of Bengal. In which both courtiers naval forces will go under mutual practice.
The exercise will be held from November 5th 2013 till November 11th 2013.
Bharti Airtel entered into an agreement with the Warid Group to acquire its Con
go operations. The acquisition will make Airtel the largest mobile operator in t
he Republic of Congo with around 2.6 million customers. At present, Airtel is th
e second largest operator in this country.
November 6
Central Election Commission (CEC) of Tajikistan declared that Imomali Rakhmon w
as re-elected as the President of Tajikistan. He belongs` to Peop