Current Affairs - November, 2011
Current Affairs: November 30, 2011
“Rann Utsav”: Desert festival from December 15, 2011 The Rann Utsav, a grand fiesta in the white desert of Kutch in Gujarat, will be held this year from December 15, 2011 to January 15, 2012. The festival, a tourist’s delight, ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony was organized on September 18, 2011 at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California Emmy Awards are known as: OSCARs of the small Screen The awards ceremony was to honour the best ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Neutrinos: Faster than Light? It’s proved
It has been generally assumed that neutrinos travel at the speed of light. According to the theory of relativity, if neutrinos are massless, they must travel at the speed of light. However, if they carry a mass, they cannot reach ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Potential use of Radon in Earthquake Predictions
Recently, it was published in the media that Dipak Ghosh, emeritus UGC fellow, who had embedded a solid-state nuclear track detector 70cm underground beside the Faculty Club at Jadavpur University, recorded abnormal fluctuations in radon gas emission from below. This ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Squalamine: The Wonder Drug from Sharks
Squalamine is a Wonder drug from a compound found Shark Fishes. Its a strong naturally derived broad-spectrum antibiotic that is predominantly derived from the livers of dogfish and other shark species and can be helpful in Dengue, Yellow Fever, Hepatitis. ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Spigelia genuflexa: New Plant species that sows its own seeds
Scientists have discovered a tiny angiosperm plant which bows down and sows its own seeds. The dainty, inch-high plant with pinkand-white flowers was found growing in the backyard of a local plant collector in rural north-eastern Bahia, Brazil, one of ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, fondly known as Tiger, one of India’s greatest cricket captains passed away at Sir Ganga Ram hospital, New Delhi on 22 September 2011. He died due to respiratory failure leading to cardiac arrest. He was 70. ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011
Justice Markandey Katju
On 19 September 2011, Justice Markandey Katju has retired as a judge of Supreme Court of India. Katju was appointed as a judge of the Allahabad High Court in 1991, as its Acting Chief Justice in August 2004, as the ..