Sports:
1) ATP Miami Masters Final Result : Andy Murray on won the ATP Miami
Masters by defeating David Ferrer in Miami,
Florida.
2) 12th Asian Billiards championship : Rupesh Shah, the world champion won the 12th Asian Billiards
championship after defeating Alok Kumar.
3) Adam Scott won
the Augusta Masters Golf championship. He beat Angel Cabrera in the play-off
for the
title.
4) Sebastian Vettel
won the Bahrain Grand Prix 2013.
5) Prayag Chauhan
Won Gold Medal at ASBC Asian Confederation Junior Boxing Championships 2013.
Obituaries:
1) V.S.Ramadevi India’s
only Women Chief Election Commissioner Died.
2) Former Chief Justice of India, JS Verma Died.
3) Legendary singer Shamshad
Begum died.
Miscellaneous:
1) The fifth BRICS Summit was held at the Durban
International Convention Centre (ICC), South Africa.
The theme of the 5th BRICS Summit was: Partnership for
Development, Integration and Industrialisation.
The participant nations in the summit were Brazil, Russia,
India, China and South Africa.
2) The third SAARC Ministerial Level Meet on Poverty
concluded in Nepal.
3) The Govt. cleared the proposal to increase Dearness
Allowance (DA) for the Central government employees from 72 percent to 80
percent.
4) India
and China held their first
dialogue on Afghanistan in Beijing in a bid to
evolve a joint strategy to deal with much feared possible return of Taliban and
al-Qaeda.
5) The 20th Meeting of Eastern Zonal Council was held at
Kolkata.
6) Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, Russia launched
the world’s only returnable satellite called Bion-M1.
