Current Affairs 10 January 2014

Posted on the January 12th, 2014 under Daily Dose by Maru Gujarat

• Justice Kuldeep Singh was today sworn in as additional judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court. With his elevation, the number of judges in the High Court rose to 48.
• Congress General Secretary Ajay Maken today took oath as a member of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC).
• Czech President Milos Zeman will appoint Social Democrat leader Bohuslav Sobotka as prime minister by next week.

• Amiri Baraka (79), a controversial playwright, poet and activist who set a new path for fellow African-American artists by bringing militancy and verve to works about race in America, died on at at New Jersey.

• India is gearing up to launch Chandrayaan-II by 2016-17, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan said today.