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14 Oct
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2 Oct
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6 May
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17 Nov
Super aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya inducted into Indian Navy
INS Vikramaditya was formally commissioned on 16 November, 2013 at a ceremony held at Severodvinsk, Russia.
INS Vikramaditya is a Kiev class aircraft carrier which was commissioned by Russian Navy in 1987 under the name Baku. It was later renamed as Admiral Gorshkov and last sailed in 1995 in Russia, before being offered to India. The ship has been renamed in honour of Vikramaditya, a legendary 1st century BC emperor of Ujjain, India, famed for his wisdom, valour and magnanimity.
INS Vikramaditya, the floating airfield has an overall length of about 284 meters and a maximum beam of about 60 meters, stretching as much as three football fields put together. Standing about 20 storeys tall from keel to the highest point, the sheer sight of this 44,500 tonne mega structure of steel is awe inspiring. The ship has a total of 22 decks. The ship has the ability to carry over 30 aircraft comprising an assortment of MiG 29K/Sea Harrier, Kamov 31, Kamov 28, Sea King, ALH-Dhruv and Chetak helicopters.
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14 Oct
Nobel Prizes 2013 – Winners List – Facts
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace – the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
At the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies on 10 December the Nobel Laureates receive three things: a Nobel Diploma, a Nobel Medal and a document confirming the Nobel Prize amount. Each Nobel Diploma is a unique work of art, created by foremost Swedish and Norwegian artists and calligraphers. The Nobel Medals are handmade with careful precision and in 18 carat green gold plated with 24 carat gold.
The Nobel Medals in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature are identical on the face: it shows the image of Alfred Nobel and the years of his birth and death (1833-1896). Nobel’s portrait also appears on the Nobel Peace Prize Medal and the Medal for the Prize in Economic Sciences, but with a slightly different design. The image on the reverse varies according to the institution awarding the prize.
Nobel Prizes 2013: Full list of winners
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 – Americans James Rothman (Yale), and Randy Schekman (University of California) and German-born Thomas Sudhof (Stanford University) have been awarded the world’s top medicine prize “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 – The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to Francois Englert (Belgium) and Peter W. Higgs (Britain) for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 – The Nobel prize in chemistry was jointly to Martin Karplus (Harvard University), Michael Levitt (Stanford School of Medicine) and Arieh Warshel (University of Southern California) for “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 – Alice Munro (Canada) won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her tales of the struggles, loves and tragedies of women in small-town Canada that made her what the award-giving committee called the “master of the contemporary short story.”
The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 – Nobel Peace Prize for 2013 is to be awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) “for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical
weapons.”
2013 Prize in Economic Sciences – The 2013 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded jointly to Eugene F. Fama (USA), Lars Peter Hansen (USA) and Robert J. Shiller (USA) “for their empirical analysis of asset prices”.
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3 Sep
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26 Oct
Competition Success Review (CSR): Year Book 2013
Competition Success Review (CSR): Year Book 2013 – Table of Contents:
- London Olympics 2012
- Outstanding Achievers and Important Events
- Year at a Glance
- Topics of the Year
- Exploring the Universe
- The World We Live In
- UN & International Organisations
- Fundamentals of Science
Number of Pages: 982
7 Oct
General Knowledge and Current Affairs – Free SMS Alerts!
- The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) was legislation passed by the Indian Parliament in 1973 by the government of Indira Gandhi and came into force with effect from January 1, 1974.
- GIF – Graphics Interchange Format.
- The six official languages of the United Nations (UN) are: 1) Arabic 2) Chinese (Mandarin) 3) English 4) French 5) Russian 6) Spanish.
- India’s Deepika Kumari wins silver in 2012 Archery World Cup final.
- ‘Barfi‘ is India’s entry for Oscars in Foreign Language Film category.
- Blood pressure is measured by an instrument called Sphygmomanometer.
- Vitamin K is required by the liver for normal formation of prothombin.
- The International Week of the Deaf is observed annually during the last full week of September.
- Manmohan Singh – born on: 26-09-1932.
- ‘World Elders Day’ is celebrated on 1st of October every year.
- India’s first National Security Advisor (NSA) Brajesh Mishra passes away.
- Gambusia affinis (Mosquitofish) is used in biological control of mosquito larvae.
- Limestone is a sedimentary rock.
- The average lifespan of a human platelet (thrombocytes) is normally just 5 to 9 days.
- Yala National Park is the most visited and second largest national park in Sri Lanka.
- Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is an orphanage, nursery and captive breeding ground for wild Asian elephants located at Pinnawala (Srilanka).
- India slips to 7th spot globally in coffee production.
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN was established on 16 October 1945.
- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology – Kolkata.
- National Chemical Laboratory – Pune.
- Central Road Research Institute – New Delhi.
- Indian Institute of Petroleum – Dehradun.
- Central Leather Research Institute – Chennai.
- National Aerospace Laboratories – Bangalore.
- The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is the world’s largest trade union federation and was founded on: 01 November 2006.
- Kovalam (Kerala) has three beaches separated by rocky outcroppings in its 17 km coastline. They are: 1) Lighthouse Beach 2) Hawah Beach 3) Samudra Beach.
- The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology is awarded annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine and Physics. The award is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. It was first awarded in 1958.
- National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, is a research centre specialising in biological research and was established in 1992.
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18 Sep
General Awareness and Current Affairs – Get Free SMS Alerts on Your Mobile!
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) established in 1942, is an autonomous body and India’s largest Research and Development (R&D) organization.
- International Youth Day – August 12.
- National Youth Day is celebrated in India on 12 January on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda.
- Football: India beat Cameroon (5-4) to win 3rd successive Nehru Cup title.
- The 2012 Nehru Cup was the 15th edition (founded in 1982).
- ICTC – Integrated Counseling and Testing Centre.
- RTGS – Real Time Gross Settlement.
- NEFT – National Electronic Funds Transfer.
- The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN wasestablished on 29 September 1954. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta was the first IIM to be set up, on November 13, 1961.
- Indian Institute of Management Kashipur (Uttarakhand), the thirteenth and youngest IIM, started operation in July 2011.
- Closed-circuit television (CCTV) is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.
- India’s 1st television news reader – Pratima Puri.
- Alam Ara (released on 14-03-1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani – the first Indian movie with dialogues.
- ‘Operation flood’ a program started by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970 made India the largest producer of the milk in the world. This program with its whopping success was called as ‘The White Revolution’. The main architect of this successful project was Dr. Verghese Kurien, also called the father of White Revolution.
- Andy Murray (Britain) wins first Grand Slam with US Open title 2012.
- The Irani Cup (also called Irani Trophy) is associated with Cricket.
- The NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. “NASDAQ” originally stood for “National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations”.
- Entomology – Scientific study of insects.
- Myrmecology – Scientific study of ants.
- Paleontology – Study of prehistoric life.
- 12th five Year Plan (2012-17) targets an 8.2% growth in the economy.
- September 15 – Engineer’s day in India.
- In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly voted to designate September 16 as “World Ozone Day”, to commemorate the signing of the Montreal Protocol on that date in 1987.
- Vitamin D is produced in the skin by ultraviolet light.
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a serious form of pneumonia. It is caused by a virus called SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that was first identified in 2003.
- Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) is known for its wide sandy beach which is the world’s longest natural sandy sea beach.
- The Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) was launched as an integrated programme for self-employment of the rural poor on April 1, 1999.
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16 Aug
General Awareness and Current Affairs for Competitive Examinations, Free SMS Alerts on GK, Current Affairs, News, Jobs etc.
- On May 24, 2009, President Obama announced the nomination of Charles Bolden as NASA administrator, and Lori Garver as deputy administrator.
- Jamaica’s Usain Bolt defends 100m title with new Olympic record of 9.63 sec. in 2012 London Olympics.
- Hiroshima marks 67th anniversary (06th August 2012) of world’s first atomic bomb attack.
- DEET is an insect repellant, used to destroy mosquitoes in houses.
- Polygraph – popularly referred to as a lie detector.
- McAfee – Antivirus.
- MC Mary Kom, (born 1 March 1983) is a boxer from Manipur, India.
- Dextrocardia is a condition in which the heart is pointed toward the right side of the chest instead of normally pointing to the left. It is present at birth (congenital).
- Hamid Ansari re-elected as country’s 14th Vice President. The oath taking ceremony was conducted at Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 11, 2012.
- Neil Armstrong – first man to walk on the moon.
- August 09, 2012: 70 years of Quit India Movement.
- Maharashtra bans Bt cotton seeds by Mahyco-Monsanto (USA).
- Usain Bolt (Jamaica) defends 200m Olympic gold as well (200 meters in 19.32 seconds) in 2012 London Olympics.
- Football: India 168th in FIFA rankings, lowest ever.
- India’s highest ranking was in February 1996 when they were placed 94th.
- World and European champions Spain continue to lead the 206-nation chart followed by Germany, England, Uruguay, Portugal, Italy, Argentina, Netherlands, Croatia and Denmark in the top 10.
- Some Books by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: Turning Points, Ignited Minds, Target 3 Billion, India 2020, Songs of Life, Wings of Fire, The Life Tree.
- The Jaz drive was a removable disk storage system, introduced by the Iomega Company in 1995, originally released with a 1 GB capacity.
- Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFIs) facilitate bank-related financial services, such as investment, risk pooling, contractual savings, and market brokering.
- Excise duties on the product of commodities, sales tax, service tax, customs duty, tax on rail or bus fare are some examples of indirect taxes.
- Mihir Sen was the first Indian man to swim the English Channel. He achieved this feat on September 27, 1958, when he crossed the Channel in 14 hours and 45 minutes.
- PSLV-C15 is the seventeenth flight of ISRO’s versatile Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV. In this flight, PSLV placed the 694 kg CARTOSAT-2B in a 630 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) in the year July 2010. PSLV was initially designed for launching 900 kg Indian Remote Sensing Satellites into a 900 km polar SSO.
- The science of photonics includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and detection/sensing of light.
- The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations (UNs) Framework Convention on Climate Change, Signed on 11 Dec 1997. Effective from: 16 Feb 2005.
- The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was adopted in 1987.
- The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), was passed on September 11, 1958, by the Parliament of India.
- Direct Action Day – 16 August 1946.
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