Current Affairs - 05.08.2010

• Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the Reserve Bank is keeping a watch on demand factors and it will make adjustments, if necessary.  
• NEW DELHI: In a clear message to all sections of the people in Jammu and Kashmir, which has been hit by protests, strikes and firing over the past two months that has left scores dead and hundreds injured, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram urged them on Wednesday to heed the voices of reason and desist from violent protests.
• CHENNAI: A Rs.10,000-crore liquefied natural gas terminal will come up at Kattupalli near the Ennore port, on the northern outskirts of Chennai.
• Washington: In an unusual departure from traditional prescriptions for coping with high stress, the United States Army is recommending something more eclectic to its soldiers in Iraq — mindfulness mediation. 
• Washington: U.S. President Barack Obama has asked young leaders of Africa to follow Mahatma Gandhi to bring the changes they want in the continent.
• “One of the things that I think everybody here has to really internalise is the notion that, you know, I think it was [Mahatma] Gandhi who once said, you have to be the change that you seek, you have to be the change that you seek,” he told the Young African Leaders Forum, which he had convened in White House. — PTI 
• BANGALORE: Samsung India on Wednesday unveiled the world's thinnest 3D LED television with a screen as thin as 7.98 millimetres here.
• Forensic scientists have developed a test that can match a suspect's DNA to crime scene samples in just four hours. 
• Ronnie Screwvala, chairman of media & entertainment company, UTV Group, said that his firm had invested £75m (5.5bn rupees) in three game titles. 
• A regular weight training regime may help treat rheumatoid arthritis, research suggests.  
• Russia is to ban the export of grain from 15 August to 31 December after drought and fires devastated crops.