Current Affairs - 12.08.2010

• The Lok Sabha was on Thursday adjourned till noon after opposition members created an uproar over caste enumeration expected to be done at the biometric phase of Census 2011, saying it was a time-buying tactic.
• After dipping for two straight weeks, India's food inflation rose again to double digits at 11.4 per cent for the week ended July 31, as prices of cereals, milk and fruits went up, official data released on Thursday showed. Food inflation was 9.53 per cent a week earlier.
• NEW DELHI: India's telecom regulator said today that mobile number portability (MNP) will be implemented nationwide from October 31, as announced earlier, ruling out any further delay.
• Hours spent sitting on chairs could invite cardiovascular disaster, says a study.Men who sit for 23 hours a week have a 64 percent greater chance of dying from cardiovascular disease than those who spend only 11 hours sitting. U.S. research published in Circulation found an 11 percent increased risk of death from all causes for every extra hour of TV viewing (i.e. sitting down) a day, reports The Daily Mail.
• Five combined water supply schemes and one supply improvement scheme, totally estimated to cost around Rs. 1,712 crore, have been cleared by the State government. The schemes cover Madurai, Coimbatore, Nagapattinam, Virudhunagar, Sivaganga and Tirupur districts. Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has ordered that the schemes be given administrative sanction, according to an official statement.
• Less than 20 per cent of plants and animal species in the world's tropical forests may remain in their current form by the end of the century due to global warming, a new study says.
• State Bank of India (SBI), the country's biggest lender, posted a 25 per cent rise in quarterly profit, beating forecasts. SBI and rivals such as ICICI, India's No. 2 lender, are seeing an improvement in asset quality as consumer loan defaults slow in an economy forecast to grow about 8.5 per cent this fiscal year.