Date: 10/3/2018

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03-Oct-2018 PM MODI RECEIVES UN’S ‘CHAMPIONS OF THE EARTH AWARD’ Read More Prime Minister Modi has been chosen not only for his leadership of the International Solar Alliance but also his pledge to eliminate single use plastic in India by 2022. PM Modi also said that climate and calamity are directly related to culture. The world has recognised India's ancient connect with the environment. Prime Minister stressed that 'Sabka Saath,' includes nature in it. He reiterated that Climate justice must go hand in hand with mitigating climate change. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres hailed PM Modi's initiatives and leadership in the field of climate change and climate justice. It has taken on PM Modi's challenge of generating 175 Gigawatts of renewable energy and has managed to bring down the cost of solar energy from Rs 17 to a little over two rupees. French President Emmanuel Macron shares the honour with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for partnering in setting up the International Solar Alliance.
03-Oct-2018 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY FOR FRANCES H. ARNOLD, GEORGE P. SMITH, SIR GREGORY WINTER Read More The 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter for their work that harnessed evolutionary principles to create new proteins. Sir Gregory Winter used phage display to produce new pharmaceuticals. 3 october phage display has produced antibodies that can neutralise toxins, counteract autoimmune diseases and cure metastatic cancer. While, Nobel Prize laureate George Smith developed a method known as phage display, where a bacterio-phage a virus that infects bacteria can be used to evolve new proteins. Frances Arnold conducted the first directed evolution of enzymes, which are proteins that catalyse chemical reactions. Chemistry is the third of this year's Nobels and comes after the prizes for Medicine and Physics were awarded earlier.
03-Oct-2018 JUSTICE RANJAN GOGOI SWORN-IN AS THE 46TH CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA Read More President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to Justice gogoi at a function held in Rashtrapati Bhawan. Justice Gogoi will continue in office till November 17, 2019. Born on November 18, 1954, Justice Gogoi was enrolled as an advocate in 1978. He was appointed as a permanent judge of the Gauhati high court in 2001. Justice Gogoi was appointed as Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana high court in 2011 and then a judge of the Supreme Court in 2012. PM Modi in a tweet said that Justice Ranjan Gogoi's experience, wisdom, insight and legal knowledge will benefit the country greatly.
03-Oct-2018 SRI LANKA: MORE THAN 150 HUMAN SKELETONS FOUND IN MASS GRAVE Read More In Sri Lanka, a mass grave containing skeletal remains of more than 150 individuals have been found so far in Mannar district of Northern Province. The excavations of the site began in June after some skeletal remains were found while digging foundation for a building. Professor R. Somadeva, a forensic expert involved in the excavation said that only one third of the area has been dug so far and more skeletons are expected as the process continues. The bodies are suspected to be dumped during the three decade long LTTE war though the exact period cannot be ascertained without forensic examination. Somadeva said the samples of skeletons will be sent to lab in Florida, USA for its scientific dating. The skeletons are being kept under the judicial custody of Mannar court. Sri Lanka has already a few mass graves discovered in war affected areas of north and east in the past.
03-Oct-2018 THE GIRL IN ICONIC 'GLOW OF HOPE' PAINTING DEAD AT 102 Read More The girl holding the lamp in the celebrated painting `Glow of Hope', also known as the Woman With the Lamp, has died at 102. Gita Uplekar died at her daughter's house in Kolhapur in western Maharashtra 2 october evening after a brief illness, family sources said. The painting, a watercolour masterpiece by S L Haldankar, is now housed in the Jaychama Rajendra Art Gallery at the Jaganmohan Palace in Mysuru, Karnataka. It is one of the most prized possessions as well as a major attraction at the gallery. It was painted in 1945-46, almost seven decades ago, but yet holds the same amount of fascination for art lovers all over the country as then Raja Uplekar had said some years ago, a buyer from France was ready to buy the painting for Rs 8 crore When the painting was being done, she had to hold her pose for over three hours continuously, Gita Uplekar had said.
03-Oct-2018 JAPAN SPACE PROBE LAUNCHES NEW ROBOT ONTO ASTEROID Read More A Japanese probe launched a new observation robot towards an asteroid on 3 october as it pursues a mission to shed light on the origins of the solar system. The Hayabusa2 probe launched the French-German Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, or MASCOT, towards the Ryugu asteroid's surface, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said. The 10-kilogramme (22-pound) box-shaped MASCOT is loaded with sensors. It can take images at multiple wavelengths, investigate minerals with a microscope, gauge surface temperatures and measure magnetic fields. MASCOT's launch comes 10 days after the Hayabusa2 dropped a pair of MINERVA-II micro-rovers on the Ryugu asteroid a world first. Unlike those machines, MASCOT will be largely immobile it will "jump" just once on its mission, and it can turn on its sides. The Hayabusa2 is scheduled later this month to deploy an "impactor" that will explode above the asteroid, shooting a two-kilo (four-pound) copper object into it to blast a small crater on the surface
03-Oct-2018 UN CHIEF ANTÓNIO GUTERRES SUPPORTS INDIA'S BID FOR PERMANENT SEAT IN UNSC Read More On a day he presented Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the UN Champions of the Earth Award for his pioneering work on International Solar Alliance and his pledge to eliminate single use plastic in India by 2022, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in an exclusive conversation with DD News said that the honour is a fitting recognition of PM's leadership in the fight against climate change. The UN Secretary General also supported India's bid for a permanent seat in United Nations Security Council.
03-Oct-2018 IRAQ NAMES NEW PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER Read More Iraq's parliament elected a veteran Kurdish politician as the country's new president on 2 october, a step toward forming a new government nearly five months after national elections. State TV said Barham Salih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, won 220 votes out of the 273 lawmakers who attended 2 october's session. He was among 20 candidates for the post, including one from the rival Kurdistan Democratic Party. The two parties have dominated Kurdish politics for decades. The new president will have 15 days to task the nominee of the largest parliamentary bloc with forming a new government. The prime minister-designate will then have 30 days to submit his cabinet to parliament. Shiite lawmaker Hamid al-Moussawi said the lawmakers were supposed to vote 1 october, but delayed the session for nearly 24 hours after the KDP and the PUK were unable to agree on a candidate. The parliament speaker eventually decided to hold a vote among all 20 nominees.
03-Oct-2018 FIRST HYPERLOOP PASSENGER CAPSULE UNVEILED Read More Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. unveiled its first full-scale passenger capsule, offering the world a peek at the future of travel. The capsule, 105 feet (32 meters) long and weighing 5 tons, was shown in Spain and will be moved to Toulouse, France, for additional assembly before it’s used on one of the first commercial tracks the California-based startup, known as HyperloopTT, said in a statement. Named the Quintero One, the product is made almost entirely out of composite material. Hyperloop is a technology that gained popularity after billionaire Elon Musk touted it in 2013, prompting several companies to join the race to build a high-speed transportation system. It envisages moving passengers in capsules at speeds of more than 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) per hour through low-pressure tubes, in order to reduce friction. The technology will be able to propel trains faster than existing methods such as the Maglev, which uses a levitation technology to lift the train cars above a track to eliminate surface drag The Los Angeles area is emerging as a hyperloop center, home to competitors Arrivo and Virgin Hyperloop One. Musk’s Boring Co. also has its base there.
03-Oct-2018 BANK OF MAHARASHTRA TO SHUT 51 BRANCHES AS PART OF COST-CUTTING MEASURES Read More Public sector bank Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has announced the closure of 51 branches across the country as part of cost-cutting measures being implemented in the banking industry, an official said on 3 october All the branches were in urban centres and have been identified for the action as they were declared non-viable and were incurring huge losses, said the official of the Pune-headquartered bank. Declining to be identified, the senior bank official said that these 51 units have been closed down and merged with neighbouring branches. This is the first such measure initiated by any PSB in Maharashtra. The BoM has around 1,900 branches all over India. In a terse announcement on 1 oct., the BoM said that it has closed down and merged these 51 branches for public convenience. The IFSC Code and MICR codes of these branches have also been cancelled and all the savings, current and other bank accounts have been transferred to the branches with which they have been merged. All customers have been directed to deposit their cheque-books issued from the closed branches with the old IFSC/MICR Codes by November 30, and collect their payment instruments bearing the new branch’s IFCS/MICR codes.
03-Oct-2018 INDIA’S FIRST DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTRE TO COME UP SOON IN PATNA Read More With the population of the endangered Gangetic river dolphin decreasing and its habitat changing, there is finally good news that the much-awaited National Dolphin Research Centre (NDRC) India’s and Asia’s first, would be a reality here soon with October 5 being hinted at as the date for the groundbreaking ceremony. After remaining in a limbo for nearly six years on one or the other pretext, the NDRC is likely to be set up next month on the banks of the Ganga river in the Patna University premises “We are in final stages to commence work to set up the NDRC after some formalities are cleared between the department and Patna University,” Surendra Singh, Conservator of Forests and Additional Secretary, Department of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, told IANS here. The process to set up the NDRC started after the Patna University agreed nearly two months ago to provide the land. The university’s Syndicate had earlier stalled the proposal for over three years. Sensing a tough stand, the university finally gave its clearance for the land.