*CURRENT AFFAIRS (01:04:2014)

1.Indian shuttler Sourabh Varma loses to Indonesian Simon Santoso in
the final of Malaysia Grand Prix gold badminton championship.

2.Andrej Kiska to be the next president of Slovakia after a shock
landslide victory over the current Prime Minister Robert Fico.
-He, a millionaire-turned-philanthropist, secured 59.4 percent votes
as against Fico's 40.6 percent.

3.President re-promulgates the ordinance on SEBI Securities Laws
(Amendment) Bill 2013 as it lapsed owing to the parliament inability
to pass it in its final session.
-It aims to give powers to Securities and Exchanges Board of India
(SEBI) to act against Ponzi scheme.
-An ordinances lapses in case it does not get passed by the parliament
within six weeks of its reassembling.

4.Russia, in a concilliatory gesture to west, pulls out a motorised
infantry battalion from Ukraine's eastern border a day after the talks
withUSin Paris.