Nobel Prize Winners 2013 : Short Summary

A Look on the Nobel Prize Winners 2013

Nobel Prize in Chemistry , Physics and Physiology or Medicine has been announced for 2013. The Prize in chemistry has been awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael levitt and Arieh Warshel for the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems. The Prize in Physics has been jointly shared by Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.

In 1964, they proposed the theory independently of each. In 2012, their ideas were confirmed by the discovery of a so called Higgs particle at the CERN laboratory outside Geneva in Switzerland. The Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to James E. Rothman, RandyW. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.

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News Digest of this week : To be noted in Diary

The Government has decided to increase the foreign Direct Investment (FDI) cap in telecom , insurance , credit Information and asset reconstruction companies. The government also made it easier for foreign investors to invest in single brand retail, petroleum refineries, commodity exchanges, power exchanges, tea and courier services by changing the investment rate to automatic.

The Supreme court has barred persons lodged behind bars from contesting polls to legislative bodies. The disqualification would not be applicable to a person subjected to preventive detention under law.

The Allahabad High Court has ordered immediate end to caste base political rallies in Uttar Pradesh.

Important Union Cabinet Decisions :

1. To set up two National Universities in Raebareli, UP. This includes first - ever National Aviation University and the second will be a University only for Women.

   2. To Setup Civil Aviation Authority.

   3.  To hike the total family income ceiling under its scholarship scheme for             scheduled Tribe students from Rs. 2.00 Lakh to Rs. 4.50 Lakh per annum from its fiscal year. 

• The Reserve Bank of India ( RBI ) has announced a slew of measures to ensure stability in the foreign exchange market. It pushed up the rate at which it lends money to banks by 200 basis points to 10.25 %. RBI also limited the sum banks can borrow at the softer rate of 7.25 percent to Rs. 75,000 crore per day.
• Kudankulam Nuclear power project has attained first critically after getting clearance from Atomic Energy Regulator Board to start nuclear chain reaction in the first 1000 MW of the power plant.
• In Bhutan People's Democratic Party (PDP) has won a landslide victory in country's second national election. It defeated ruling Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) by winning 32 seats out of the 47 in the national Assembly.
• Pran, Bollywood's most loved villain and Dada Saheb Phalke Awardee passed awayat 93 after prolonged illness.
• Amar G Bose, the Indian American visionary entrepreneur and acoustic pioneer, famous for making Bose Audio Systems and speaker for homes, auditorium has died. He was 83.
• Razia Sultan, a teenager from a village in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut  has been awarded the United Nation's Special Envoy for Global Education's Youth Courage Award for Education. The Award is for her efforts to liberate 48 children from child labour bondage and motivate them to go to school.

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International Info Crux June 2013 Noted Points

• Italy which has the world's third- largest gold reserves, ninth-largest nominal GOP, tenth-highest GOP (PPP) and the sixth-highest government budget in the world elected its President. Name it. Giorgio Napolitano 

• Which country is building an Indian Heritage Centre and will showcase trades and culture of early Indian settlers? . 'Singapore 

• Lebanon was known in its heyday as the "Switzerland of the East" has appointed its new Prime Minister. Name the person? Tamam Salam 

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International Info Crux June 2012

A Passenger Aeroplane crash, near Islamabad in Pakistan on April 20 2012 left more than 100  people
 dead.

 A powerful earthquake of 8.7 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Aceh province of Indonesia on  April 11, 2012.

Myanmar' s pro-democracy leader Aung San SuuKyi on April 1, 2012
won a parliamentary seat in a historic by-election. Her party, National League for Democracy (NLD) won 43 seats.

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