Current Affairs - 07.08.2010

• Terming the alleged large scale corruption in CWG projects as a "national shame" BJP on Saturday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to step into the matter and demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe or a judicial enquiry to investigate the charges of irregularities. 
• Zardari claimed to have convinced Cameron that Pak was doing all it could to stop militant jihadi groups 'exporting terror' to Afghan and Britain.  
• A newly discovered vulnerability in the software that runs Apple Inc's(AAPL.O) iPad and iPhone could allow hackers to enslave the popular mobile devices, three security firms said on Tuesday.
• The Government said the banking ombudsman has received several complaints against private sector lenders including HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank of violating RBI guidelines on engagement of agents to recover loans. 
• Almost everyone likes beautiful women colleagues in the workplace, but a new study claims that attractive females often face discrimination when it comes to grabbing certain kinds of jobs.  
• A professor of engineering and neuroscience at Brown University is studying how human brain signals could combine with modern electronics to help paralyzed people gain greater control over their environments.
• A giant sheet of ice measuring 260 sq km (100 sq miles) has broken off a glacier in Greenland, according to researchers at a US university.
• One visit to a booby-trapped website could direct attackers to a person's home, a security expert has shown.The attack, thought up by hacker Samy Kamkar, exploits shortcomings in many routers to find out a key identification number.
• It uses this number and widely available net tools to find out where a router is located.Demonstrating the attack, Mr Kamkar located one router to within nine metres of its real world position.
• An international team of researchers led by a university professor from Japan has discovered a biochemical signal in flu virus that indicates whether it would infect humans and spread, the US science journal PLoS Pathogens has said.
  
• Global climate change talks have moved backwards since last year, say negotiators from both rich and poor nations at discussions in Germany.
• The US envoy said some countries had "walked away" from commitments made at Copenhagen last year to contain greenhouse gas emissions.But the top UN climate official, Christiana Figueres, said progress had been made towards an eventual deal.Negotiators are working towards the next climate summit in November.