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Pratap Singh wins Institute of Physics Prize
15-year-old Indian-origin student, Pratap Singh from United Kingdom (UK) has won prestigious award Institute of Physics (IOP) Prize. Singh, who is a student at The Perse School, Cambridge received the prize for his experiment to verify an effect of Albert Einstein’s ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Dena Bank inks MoU with Life Insurance Corporation to provide insurance cover
State owned Dena Bank has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India to provide insurance cover to its all Aadhaar-linked savings account holders in the age group of 18 to 50 years. LIC will provide ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Bangladesh Cabinet approves revised trade deal with India
Bangladesh cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved the revised India-Bangladesh trade agreement. The revised agreement will facilitate both countries to use each other’s land and water routes for trade with a third country and remove long ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Dr. Mayilsamy Annadura took charge as Director of ISRO satellite centre
Dr Mayilsamy Annadurai has assumed the office of Director, ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He replaced Dr. S.K. Shivakumar, who had retired on 31 March 2015. About Dr Mayilsamy Annadurai Annadurai had joined ISRO in 1982. He had ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
BCCI re-appoints Rajeev Shukla as IPL Governing Council chairman
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has re-appointed Rajeev Shukla as chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council. Previously, he was IPL chairman till 2013 but had resigned from the post after the IPL ‘spot-fixing’ scandal. ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
First indigenously-built Scorpene Submarine Kalvari undocked
First indigenously-built Scorpene Submarine on 6 April 2015 was undocked at the Mazagaon Dockyard Limited (MDL) in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The undocked submarine was named Kalvari and is expected to be commissioned into Indian Navy by September 2016. The submarine is ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Arab poet Adonis chosen for 2015 Kumaran Asan World Prize for poetry
Syrian-Lebanese Arab poet Adonis has been chosen for 2015 Kumaran Asan World Prize for poetry. Adonis was born as Ali Ahmad Said Esber in Western Syria in 1930. Since 1985, he had settled in Paris, France. He has been described as ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Dronavalli Harika wins bronze in World Women's chess championship
Indian chess Grandmaster Dronavalli Harika on 6 April 2015 won the bronze medal in the World Women’s chess championships along with Swedish Grandmaster Pia Cramling. In the semifinal match played at Sochi in Russia, Harika lost to Ukraine’s Mariya Muzychuk ..