NATIONAL UPDATES
1. Vice President confers 'Yeraringan' award to M.S. Swaminathan: India’s Vice
President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu conferred 'Yeraringan’ award to Prof. M.S.
Swaminathan (Father of Indian Green Revolution). M.S. Swaminathan has inspired
many scientists to focus on the problem of Indian agriculture and develop
progressive solutions for it.
2. Rahul Gandhi elected Congress president
unopposed: The Indian National Congress (INC) announced that Rahul
Gandhi has been elected unopposed as new Congress President. Rahul Gandhi
succeeds his mother Sonia Gandhi. The CEA (Central Election Authority) received
a total of 89 nomination papers proposing Rahul Gandhi’s name for the
top post. In January 2013, Mr. Gandhi became the vice-president of the party.
3.Union Minister J P Nadda launches new
initiatives on Universal Health Coverage Day: The Union Health
Minister JP Nadda has launched new initiatives including Laqshya-A
Labour Room Quality Improvement Initiative and safe delivery application at a
function in New Delhi. This will be implemented in Government Medical
Colleges besides District Hospitals & high delivery load Sub-District
Hospitals and Community Health Centres. The objective of this initiative is to
reduce preventable maternal and newborn mortality, morbidity & stillbirths
associated with the care around delivery in Labour room.
4. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad launches first NIC-CERT:
The Union Minister of Law & Justice and Electronics & Information
Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad has launched the “NIC-CERT” in New Delhi, a
setup of National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology.The objective of NIC-CERT to create a comprehensive framework that
integrates world-class security components and inbuilt threat intelligence for
detection, prevention & incident response.
INTERNATIONAL UPDATES
1. Six diplomats felicitated with Diwali 'Power of One' award at UN: Six top
diplomats have been felicitated with the inaugural Diwali "Power of
One" award at the UN headquarters in New York for their contribution to
help form a more "perfect, peaceful and secure world". The awards
have been presented on the occasion of the first anniversary of the US Postal
Service's issuing of a forever Diwali stamp last year. The awardees include
Lakshmi Puri (Indian head of the UN Women), outgoing British Ambassador to the
UN Matthew Rycroft and Nawaf Salam (Lebanese Ambassador to the UN),
elected to the International Court of Justice.
2. Mount Hope named as UK's highest peak: Recently, Mount Hope
was re-measured and found to tower above the previous title holder, Mt Jackson,
by a good 50m (160ft). Mt Hope is now put at 3,239m (10,626ft) & Jackson is
3,184m (10,446ft).Mt Paget on South Georgia island is the highest mountain on a
British Overseas Territory outside the Antarctic.
3. China starts world's biggest floating solar project: A unit of China
(Three Gorges Corp.) is building a 1 billion yuan floating solar power plant,
the world’s biggest, in the nation’s eastern province of Anhui. They started
building the 150-megawatt project in July and part of the plant was connected
to the grid. The project features panels fixed to floats on the surface of a
lake that formed after a coal mine collapsed. The entire facility is expected
to come online by May 2018.
OTHER UPDATES
BUSINESS/ECONOMY:
1. Construction equipment industry expected to grow at 14 %: According to the
Chairman of (ICECTT) International Construction Equipment and Construction
Technology Trade Fair Vipin Sondhi, the construction equipment
industry is expected to grow at 14% after Union Government’s decision to
spend over 10 billion dollars over next few years in the
infrastructure sector.
SPORTS:
1. India bags 4 Youth Olympic Games quotas, 21 Medals at Asian
Championship: India bagged 21medals (six gold, eight Silver &
seven bronze) at the 10th Asian Championship 10m Rifle/Pistol at Wako
City Japan and also booked 4 Youth Olympic Games quotas. Saurabh Chaudhary and
Manu Bhaker booked quota places for the 2018 Youth Olympic
Games (YOG) by winning a gold and a silver each. Chaudhary has won both
the individual as well as the Team gold in the men's 10m Air Pistol Youth
event, while Bhaker clinched a silver in the women's 10m Air Pistol Youth. India
claimed another silver in junior women's 10m Air Pistol.
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