10 October-14 Current Affairs

• 2014 Nobel Prize for literature goes to French author Patrick Modiano.
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• Centre to name its ambitious Urban Housing Mission after Sardar Patel.  
  • The comprehensive mission, that aims to provide housing for all by 2022, has been created by merging and improving existing urban housing schemes.
  • Thirty million houses would be built by 2022, mostly for the economically-weaker sections and low income groups, through public-private-partnership, interest subsidy and increased flow of resources to housing sector.
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• Leela Samson steps down as the Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi.  
  • The renowned Bharatnatyam dancer was elevated to this office by the UPA government in August 2010 for a 5-year period.
  • The Sangeet Natak Akademi is India's national academy for all performing arts.
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• Veteran journalist MV Kamath breathes his last at 93.     
  • The former chairman of Prasar Bharati was a Padma Bhushan recipient in 2004.
  • He has penned over 50 books in his prolific career.
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• Aamir Khan has been appointed UNICEF Ambassador for South Asia.  
  • He will support Unicef work to promote the right of South Asian children to nutrition.
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• NCC National Games 2014 to take place in Delhi from October 8 - 18.  
  • Nearly 2000 cadets from 17 State Directorates representing all states and Union Territories in the country are participating across 8 disciplines.
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