20.09.2010 - Current Affairs

• An all-party delegation led by Home Minister P. Chidambaram arrived here on Monday on a two-day visit to assess the ground situation in Kashmir Valley which has witnessed unabated violence in recent months.
• India put up an improved performance to crush Pakistan in straight sets, 25-17, 25-15, 25-22, in the final league match of the third Asian volleyball championship (central zone) at the Netaji Indoor Stadium to set up a revenge match in the final against Iran on Monday.
• NEW DELHI: The month's wettest day, with heavy rain in the morning and an incessant drizzle thereafter, made Sunday the coldest September day experienced by Delhiites in at least five years. The maximum temperature crashed to 23.6 degrees Celsius -- 10 degrees below normal -- barely 0.5 degrees above the minimum temperature. The city saw 56.2mm rain till 8.30pm, most of came between 8.30am and 11.30am. 
• BANGALORE: Its good news for citizens, for they get to voice their opinions and ideas before the Planning Commission. The panel will introduce an inclusive process, which will help people to participate in the 12th five-year plan.
• MUMBAI: The plethora of online Nigerian frauds, instances of hacking and obscene text messages might be spiralling endlessly, but the city is yet to see a single conviction in cyber crime cases in the last 10 years.
  
• PARIS: A Frenchman whose arms and legs were amputated swam across the English Channel this weekend using leg prostheses that have flippers attached.Philippe Croizon, 42, had expected the tough crossing to take up to 24 hours and instead, he finished in only 13 and a half. His team believe this is a record time for a disabled swimmer.
• People who think more about whether they are right have more cells in an area of the brain known as the frontal lobes.UK scientists, writing in Science, looked at how brain size varied depending on how much people thought about decisions.But a nationwide survey recently found that some people think too much about life.