Current Affairs - 11.08.2010

• The School Education Department has withdrawn its decision to regulate the fees collected by private schools across Tamil Nadu this academic year.The new fee structure prescribed by the committee, formed by the School Education Department, for unaided private schools in the State under the Tamil Nadu Schools (Regulation of Collection of Fee) Act 2009, will be implemented next academic year, it was announced here on Tuesday.
• NEW DELHI: About 33 percent of the officers selected through Civil Services had considered resigning at some time or the other in their career, the government said on Wednesday.A survey has indicated that "about 33 percent of the respondents had considered resigning at some time or the other in their career mainly because of better opportunities outside government and disappointment about lack of recognition among others," Minister of state for personnel, public grievances and pensions Prithviraj Chavan told Lok Sabha.
• A staggering 96.3 million square feet of residential space — or about 80,000 homes — is lying unsold in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), the highest-ever inventory pile-up for the area. Sales are down 38% over last year.
• Activists are warning that the more than 600 wildfires still burning in Russia could move into the areas affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and spread harmful radiation.
• NEW DELHI: Admitting that the delivery of Scorpene submarines  was facing "problems", the government Wednesday said it had sanctioned an additional Rs.4,764 crore ($1 billion) for the project signed with France in 2004.
• NEW DELHI: The wheels of the current academic season have just begun to chug but the memories of the menace of ragging seems not to have been left behind.A bus decked with graffiti and posters was flagged off from the Delhi University campus today as part of a nationwide campaign "Bus- Aur Nahin".
• NEW DELHI: Marriage between minors is valid and it can be annulled only on the plea by one of the partners, the Delhi High Court ruled on Wednesday."A marriage in contravention of clause (iii) of section 5 (which fixes minimum age of twenty-one years for bridegroom and eighteen years for bride) does not fall in the category of void marriages nor does it fall in the category of voidable marriages. Consequently, by the process of elimination, it would be a valid marriage," the court said.
• Scientists have found Arctic rocks that may preserve the earliest remnants of Earth.Over billions of years, much of the material that made up the early Earth was modified by processes such as melting and mixing.
• Thousands of online banking customers have had their accounts drained by a sophisticated new computer virus, internet security experts say.
• 2010 is already being branded as the year the weather went berserk.In Pakistan, floods have claimed over 1,600 lives and left over two million people homeless.Countries across the world are scrambling to donate aid supplies to the 14 million people affected by the flooding.In China, massive downpours have caused mudslides, killing more than 1,117. Rescue teams have given up trying to find survivors and are attempting to locate bodies.