Nov 11, 2013

News : 7-14 Nov 2013

NEWS


Appointments : 

  1. Honeywell on Monday announced the appointment of Jim Bujold as President, Southeast Asia, and Anant Maheshwari as President, Honeywell India. 

Resignations/Retirements

Obituaries

Awards

  1. Gabriela Isler, a 25-year-old television presenter and accomplished flamenco dancer from Venezuela, has been crowned Miss Universe 2013 in Russia.

Sports

International

  1. Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) signed a roadmap agreement to allow inspectors broader access to nuclear sites. 
  2. No result in Nuclear talks between Iran and Major Powers : 
    • Iran will not stop its uranium enrichment programme, President Hassan Rowhani told the Parliament , even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers not to rush into signing a “dangerous” deal with Iran, and ease sanctions that have halted most oil exports and crippled the county’s economy while Tehran continued uranium enrichment  .
    • Iran’s highest enrichment level, at 20 per cent, is still below the more than 90 per cent needed for weapons-grade material, but experts say the process could be done at a rapid pace. Iran insists that its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes and that it has no plans to produce a nuclear weapon.
    • the Iranians welcomed Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Tehran and they had signed an agreement with the agency, which would, for the first time, allow its inspectors to visit Arak.
  3. The Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games landed back on Earth.
  4. Greece’s Conservative-Socialist coalition government survived a no-confidence motion tabled by the main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) part.(Prime Minister Antonis Samaras)
  5. The recent polio outbreak in Syria has originated from Pakistan, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO’s Disease Outbreak News on Monday said 13 cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) have been confirmed in the Syrian Arab Republic.
  6. An exceptionally rare 14.82 carat orange diamond, the largest known gem of its kind, has fetched a record to be sold at price $35.5 million

National

  1. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s decision not to attend the Commonwealth Summit in SriLanka owing to Tamil Nadu's state government pressure. But Union government to participate in the 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), scheduled to begin  in Colombo.
  2. Aarogyasri . More >>
  3. The Financing and Project Agreements for World Bank assistance (IDA assistance) of US $ 236 million for Tamil Nadu-Puducherry Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction Project (CDRRP) were signed between the Government of India, Government of Tamil Nadu and the Government of Puducherry and the World Bank.
    • The Project will have the following five components, viz. (i) Vulnerability Reduction; (ii) Sustainable Fisheries; (iii) Capacity building in Disaster Risk Management; (iv) Implementation Support; and (v) Contingency Emergency Response. 

Polity

  1. Guhawati HC set aside 1963 resolution on CBI formation and mark it as unconstitutional.More >>
  2. With the amendments to the Waqf Act passed by Parliament recently coming into force from November 1, the encroachment on waqf property, believed to be a rampant phenomenon across Karnataka, has been made a cognisable and a non-bailable offence.

Economics

  1. Japan will extend an assistance of Rs. 1,958 crore (30.7 billion yen) to India for Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad and investment promotion programme in Tamil Nadu. 

Env & Ecology

  1. The annual climate talks are all set to begin at the National Stadium at Warsaw in Poland.This conference of parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be crucial to ensure that sufficient technical and political ground is covered in order to meet the ambitious time frame set for a deal in 2015 in Paris. More
  2. Super Typhoon Haiyan hits Philippines.(speed is more than 310 km/hr).Haiyan was earlier reported to be the most intense tropical storm in this area since Super Typhoon Tip (1979), and may even have exceeded the force of Tip.
  3. HONEYBEES play a crucial role in pollination, which lies at the crux of fruit formation and seed setting in plants. Unfortunately, anthropogenic activities (human activities)are increasingly threatening their survival like that of Diesel exhaust from automobiles. It was also noticed that of all the chemicals in the diesel exhaust, oxides of nitrogen (NOx) appeared to be the most damaging to floral scents. 

Science & Tech 

  1. India's Mars Mission.More >>
  2. Google, has featured Sir C. V. Raman, the Nobel laureate physicist on its Doodle feature to celebrate his birthday that falls on November 7.
  3. The US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has on November 7, 2013 proposed a ban on artificial trans fats in processed foods.More
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