CURRENT
AFFAIRS - 2015
1. The new tiger census
released by Union Environment Minister, Prakash Javadekar on January 20, 2015,
shows that India (which has 70% of the world tiger population) has registered
an increase of 30% in country's tiger population in the past three years.
Latest estimates
show 2,226 tigers roamed forest reserves in the country in 2014, up sharply
from 1706 in 2010.
2. Former Prime
Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the late Madan Mohan Malaviya (educationist
and freedom fighter) were chosen for the Bharat Ratna, the country's
highest civilian honour, on December 24, 2014. On December 25, 2014, the
President of India announced the Bharat Ratna award to Vajpayee. His birthday,
December 25, was declared ‘Good Governance Day’.
Recommendations for
the Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President, with a
maximum of three awardees being awarded per year. Bharat Ratna recipients rank
seventh in the Indian order of precedence, but are constitutionally prohibited
from using the award name as a title.
3. The 13th edition of ‘Pravasi
Bharatiya Divas’, a day to mark the contribution oi the overseas Indian
community to the development of India, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi
on January 7, 2015 at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar (Gujarat). The event was held
from January 7-9, 2015.
This year was
significant because exactly 100 years ago, a Non Resident Indian (Mahatma
Gandhi) had returned to India to serve the people.
Chief Guest of the
13th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrations was Guyana President Donald
Ramotar. The Guyana President will also be presented with the ‘Pravasi
Bharatiya Samman’, the highest honour conferred on overseas Indians and People
of the Indian origin (PIOs).
Pravasi Bharatiya
Divas is celebrated on January 9 every year to mark the contribution of
Overseas Indian community in the development of India.
The Modi
government's key ‘Make in India’ programme was in the centre at Parvasi
Bharatiya Divas 2015. The convention provided a platform to overseas Indian community
to engage with ‘Make in India’ programme.
The schemes related
to Pravasi Bharatiya Samman are :
(a) Persons of Indian Origin Card.
(b) Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana.
Non-Resident
Indians (NRI)
Person of
Indian Origin (PIO)
Overseas
Indian (OI) and Expatriate Indian
4. Modi government
set-up National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog in place
of the Planning Commission on January 1, 2015. The Prime Minister will head the
new institution tasked with the role of formulating policies and direction in
the government.
The Planning
Commission was set-up in March, 1950 through a Cabinet Resolution, which the
Modi government scrapped in August, 2014.
Chairperson: Prime
Minister
Vice-Chairperson:
Arvind Panagariya
5. On January 7, 2015, two gunmen forced their way into and
opened fire in the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, killing twelve
including staff cartoonists Charb, Cabu, Honore, Tignous and Wolinski,
economist Bernard Maris, editors, Elsa Cayat and Mustapha Ourrad. French
President, Francois Hollande described it as a "terrorist attack of the
most extreme barbarity". The two gunmen were identified as Said Kouachi
and Cherif Kouachi, French brothers of Algerian descent.
6. The government
appointed eminent filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani as the Chief of Central
Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on January 19, 2015.
7. President Pranab
Mukherjee appointed Nasim Zaidi as the new Chief Election Commissioner
on April 18, 2015. He took over from Harishankar Brahma.
The Chief Election
Commissioner and Election Commissioners are appointed by the President of India
for tenure of six years or up to the age of 65 years. The Chief Election
Commissioner can be removed from office only through impeachment by Parliament.
8. AK Mittal has
been appointed new Chairman of Railway Board on December 31, 2014.
9. Senior IPS officer Prakash
Mishra was appointed as the Directorate General of Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) on December 22, 2014.
10. Amitabh Bachchan is
appointed as the Brand Ambassador for health sector in Andhra Pradesh on
January 7, 2015.
11. An eminent
Indian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist Frank Islam has been
presented with the prestigious Martin Luther King Junior Award.
12. 21st Screen Awards
were announced on January 15, 2015 in Mumbai. Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka
Chopra won the Best Actor for Male and Female category, respectively.
Shahid won the award for 'Haider' and Priyanka won for 'Mary Kom'. Best film
award was given to film Queen, while its director, Vikas Bahl won the Best
Director Award. Hema Malini was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
13. Portugal's Cristiano
Ronaldo won the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the second year in a row and the third
time in his career, ahead of Argentinian Lionel Messi and Manuel Neuer of
Germany on January 1, 2015.
14. Prominent Chinese
theoretical physicist Yu Min has been awarded State Pre-eminent Science
and Technology Award for 2014 held at Great Hall of the People in Beijing. He
was awarded for his groundbreaking The research, which led to the development
of China's first hydrogen bomb in 1967.
15. The Director of
Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota range (SHAR), MYS Prasad
was awarded for the Vikram Sarabhai memorial award 2015 on January 12, 2015.
16. Eminent Hindi
litterateur Kamal Kishore Goyanka has been selected for the prestigious Vyas
Samman for 2014 for his book Premchand Kee Kahaniyo Kaa Kaalkramanusar.
17. The World Future
Energy Summit 2015 was held in Abu Dhabi, UAE on January 19, 2015.
18. Hyderabad will host
the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in 2018. This will be the
first WCIT to be held in India and the theme of the 2018 WCIT will be ‘Future
of Entrepreneurs’.
19. Book:
(a) The Red Sari When Life is the Price of Power
by Javier Moro.
(b) Why I Assassinated Mahatma Gandhi? by
Nathuram Vinayak Godse/Gopal Vinayak Godse. This book contains the original
statement given by Nathuram Godse (Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi). Writer is real
brother of Nathuram Godse himself.
20. The year 2014 was
ranked as the Earth's hottest year since 1880 as per the two separate analyses
done by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientists and
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists.
21. Pope Francis has
declared 17th century Indian Priest and Missionary Joseph Vaz as Saint in
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
22. Amitabh Bachchan was
honoured with the Yash Chopra Memorial Award on December 23, 2014.
23. Maithiripala
Sirisena has sworn-in as 7th President of Sri Lanka on
January 10, 2015.
24. Sushaasan Express was
flagged off by the Union Ministry of Mines and Steel on December 25, 2014.
25. Union Ministry of
Home Affairs set-up Mathur Committee to examine the possibility of
constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for reinvestigation of the
1984 anti-Sikh riot cases on December 23, 2014. The committee will be headed by
former Supreme Court Judge Justice (retd.) GP Mathur.
26. The Union government
launched Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching on
December 25, 2014
27. India ranked 78th globally in Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) list of 93 countries in
terms of talent competitiveness of its human capital. This GTCI list was
compiled by INSEAD Business School In partnership with Adecco and Human Capital
leadership institute of Singapore (HCLI). GTCI measures a nation's competitiveness
based on the quality of talent it can produce, attract and retain.
28. In its World
Economic Outlook report released on January 20, 2015, the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected India to grow at 6.5% in 2016, overtaking
China whose growth was forecast to slow down to 6.3%.
World Economic
Outlook is a survey conducted and published by the International Monetary Fund.
It is published twice and partly updated 3 times a year.
29. Leading social
networking website Twitter has bought Indian mobile marketing start-up ZipDial
on
January 20, 2015. It will be first Indian technology product startup to be bought by Twitter.
January 20, 2015. It will be first Indian technology product startup to be bought by Twitter.
30. The Union government
has introduced a Rs. 900 Crore e-governance venture, Panch Deep, to
automate all transactions between the organizations and staff with regard to
Staff State Insurance Coverage Company (ESIC).
31. The team of
researchers led by Gregory Lanzaro of University of California-Davis have
discovered a Hybrid Super Mosquito in the West African country of Mali
that is resistant to insecticide-treated bed nets. The findings of this
discovery were published in the journal, ‘Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences (PNAS)’ on January 6, 2015.
32. The World Health
Organization released the Global Status Report on Non-communicable diseases on
January 19, 2015. As per the report, every year, 16 million people die
prematurely before the age of 70 from heart and lung diseases, stroke, cancer,
and diabetes. Most of these deaths are preventable.
33. Hyderabad-based
Indian Immunological Limited (IIIL) has launched ‘Raksha Blu’ India's
first vaccine for ‘blue tongue’ disease prevalent among flocks of goats and
sheep across the country.
34. According to trends
in Global Carbon Dioxide emissions, a record of 35.3 billion tones (Gt) Carbon
Dioxide, which is 0.7 Gt higher than last year, was released in 2014.
35. World's smallest
Goanna lizard species was discovered in Australia. The new species has been
named Dampier Peninsula Goanna while its scientific name is Varanus sparnus.
The goanna lizard weighs barely 16 grams.
36. Poland won its first
Hopman Cup title, beating the USA on January 10, 2015.
37. Andy Murray won the
ATP World Tennis Championship at Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi on January 4,
2015. He won the title after the world number one Novak DJokovic withdrew from
the final match citing illness.
38. Australia won the
Border-Gavaskar trophy 2014-15 played against India by 2-0. It was the four
match test series.
The Border-Gavaskar
Trophy is a Test cricket series, played between India and Australia.
39. Australian cricketer
Brett Lee announced his retirement from all forms of cricket after a 20-year
career on January 14, 2015.
40. Three-day Flamingo Festival had concluded on January
12, 2015 at the famous brackish water of Lake Pulicat in Nelapattu Bird
Sanctuary located at Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. It will be hosted in
Doravari Satram mandal, in Nellore district.
The festival
provides a unique opportunity for people, particularly ornithologists,
environmentalists, bird watchers, forest and tourism officials to study the
biodiversity of Pulicat and Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary.
41. Diplomatic
community was formalised by VIENNA convention. It protects diplomats from
prosecution under host country’s laws useful during conflicts or tense
situations. Home country can waive if diplomat has been involved in serious
crime unconnected to work. But almost no country does so.
42. Goods and Services
Tax (GST) Bill is pending in Parliament. Constitution Amendment is required to pass
it. It will not be possible to roll out GST before 2017?
43. Ganga Devi (1928-1991)
is one of the most acclaimed Mithila artists of the 20th century. Her
painting a kohbar ghar has been seen in a room of the Crafts Museum in New
Delhi in the 1980s. The walls of the room had been “painted from top to bottom
by Ganga Devi over a period of 3 to 4 months” despite suffering from cancer. It
was in late 1980s. She was detected with cancer and the doctors suggested that
she should not be allowed to go back to Mithila as she needed regular
chemotherapy. So she was given some space at the Crafts Museum to stay and get
herself treated. Since she was in acute pain those days, she wanted to draw and
also given her a room to paint. Almost all the four walls of that room were
painted by her from the floor to the ceiling. The date of completion of the
work as signed by her on it was 1.1. 1990.
44. River Godavari was
formally connected with river Krishna in Andhra Pradesh in 1st river linkage on
September 16, 2015. The Pattiseema lift irrigation project will link the two rivers. The next river to be linked Ken (M.P.) and Betwa (U.P.) in December 2015.
September 16, 2015. The Pattiseema lift irrigation project will link the two rivers. The next river to be linked Ken (M.P.) and Betwa (U.P.) in December 2015.
The goal is to
interlink major rivers to eventually form a national water grid.
45. Gir National Park in
Junagadh district of Gujarat (India’s only Lion’s Sanctuary) celebrates of its
establishment as a sanctuary on september 18, 2015. It was notified as a
sanctuary on September 18, 1965 with 174 lions. Now it has 523 lions.
46. Indian Institute of
Horticulture Research (ICAR) is stituated at Hessaraghatta Lake Post,
Bengaluru, Karnataka.
47. Mullah Mansour, a kin
of dead Mullah Umar, is appointed as new Taliban Chief in Afghanistan.
Mullah Umar died in Pakistan.
48. A joint WHO-UNICEF
report states that deaths due to Malaria have plunged by 60% since 2000 and the
numbers of malaria cases have also dipped by 37% in 15 years. This means that
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target about malaria to halt and begin
to reverse incidences by 2015 have been met conveniently.
49. Cristiano Ronaldo
(Portugal) is the most outstanding player of football in the world. He is again
declared FIFA best player of the game by FIFA for the year 2014. Land Messi (Argentina)
the next best player. Both play for Real Madria and Barcelona (Clubs in Spain)
respectively.
50. Jagmohan Dalmiya was
the Chairman of BCCI and Anurag Thakur is its Secretary. Jagmohan Dalmiya died
of heart attack on September 20, 2015.
51. SAFF Cup will be
played in Pakistan later this year, i.e., 2015.
52. According to some
Ayurvedic doctors, Papaya leaves (juice) and goat milk reduce the severity of
the dreaded dengue disease - raging in many parts of the country particularly
in Delhi.
53. Arun Goel is
the new Vice-chairman of Delhi Development Authority (DDA).
54. IPDS stands for
Integrated Power Development Scheme under the Ministery of Power, Govt. of
India.
55. According to a recent
report published in London, Delhi air will be world’s deadliest in 10 years
followed by Mumbai and Kolkata. Report says by 2025, nearly 32,000 people will
die in Delhi solely due to inhaling polluted air.
56. Incredible India is
the caption (Motto) of Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India.
57. Pansare, Dabholkar
and Kalburgi, three famous rationalists, were killed in 2013-15, allegedly
by right wing fundamentalists. Citing the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq and the
murders of rationalists Narendra
Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and M M Kaburgi, the group voiced concern over
the rising intolerance in the country. “People are being murdered for their
beliefs and opinions. There has been no official condemnation of these groups
(by the government) and we question this silence,” said eminent documentary
filmmaker Anand Patwardhan on Wednesday while returning his National Award
along with 9 others, including Dibakar Banerjee, Nishtha Jain, Anand Patwardhan
and Rakesh Sharma.
58. Poultry and Meat
producing animals are being pumped with antibiotics to fatten them up,
seriously threatening human beings, according to the State of the World
Antibiotics report 2015 released on September 17, 2015 in London.
59. The Dictionary of
Obsecure Sorrows a website acts as a ‘Compendium of invented words’ by John
Koenig a graphic designer, editor and voice performer. Each word on TDOOS,
Koenig says, “aims to fill a hole in the language, to give a name to emotions
we all might experiences hut do not yet have a word for a delightful website
for etymologists and wordsmiths”.
60. OROP : Stands
for One Rank One Pension for ex-servicemen, now accepted by Govt. of India.
61. India is the world’s
antibiotic - popping capital recording the highest number of such pills
consumed annually 13 billion against 10 billion in China and 7 billion in the
USA, according to a recently published State of the World Antibiotics report.
62. CDDEP : Stands
for Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy based in Washington
(USA).
63. The Union
Government and the key Naga faction NSCN
- (1M) on August 3, 2015 signed a peace accord aimed at ending India’s longest
running insurgency, caping protracted peace tasks that began in 1997.
64. ISRO inks deals to
launch 9 VS Satellites.
65. Salma Multipurpose
Dam, a goodwill project executed by the Indian Government in Afghanistan, is
projected to be constructed on Harirud river in 2016 across the river in the
Herat Province of Afghanistan.
66. PM Narendra Modi
visited UAE on 16-17 August, 2015 for close partnership between UAE and India
to counter. Terrorism and to promote mutual cooperation between the two
countries. Modi visited the world famous Sheikh Zyad mosque in UAE.
67. Cochin to be first
port operating on Solar power.
68. Women to vote for the
first time in national elections in Saudi Arabia.
69. China starts
construction of Asia’s largest suspension bridge over Longjiang river in
Yunnan province.
70. Ram Nath Kovind was
appointed as the new governor of poll-bound Bihar where election to Legistative
Assembly to be held in October - November, 2015.
71. Wes Craven, a mster
of Cinematic horror, died on August 30, 2015. He directed the famous Nightmare
on Elim street.
72. Suhasini Haider, an
editor of the Hindu newspaper, was honoured will the Prem Bhatia Memorial Award
for the Best Political reporting in 2015.
73. Noted Mathematician
Amalendu Krishna of the TIFR, Mumbai is honoured with the Ramanujan Prize for
2015.
74. 25% of Indians may
die of life style diseases before they are 70, ascending to confederations of
Indian Industry Academia published on August 13, 2015.
75. China sets up world’s
largest mosquito factory in Guangzhou province to tackle dengue fever by
releasing one million sterilised mosquitoes everyweek in a bid to dilute their
population with insects that do not carry the disease.
76. Three years old boy,
a child prodigy, becomes Mayor of US town in Minnesota.
77. ‘The Devourers’
a book is written by Indra Das - Knowledgeable strategy is written by Parag
Kulkarni.
78. Kumar Sangakkara bids
adieu to International Cricket in the second test against India on August 24,
2015 at the P. Sara oval stadium Colombo. He is the fifth biggest cover his
tests after S.Tendulkar, R.Pounting, J.Kallis, Rahul Dravid.
79. Deepak Joshi
becomes International outdoor Hockey Umpire in 2015.
80. Britain’s Andy Murray
clinched the Montreal’s masters single crown and Swiss Belinda Bencic won the
single crown in women category Montreal masters also known as the Rogers
Cup-2015.
81. Roger Federer and
Serena Williams were eliminate single titles in 2015.
82. BWI world Badminton
Championship is won by Carolina Marin
of Spain defeating Saina Nehwal of India in Jakarta. Men’s Singles title is won
by Chen Long of China in August, 2015.
83. Jason Day of
Australia captured the coveted Wanamaker Golf Trophy (USA) in 2015.
84. Sebestian Coe of
Britain is new President of International Association of Athletics Federations
(IAAF).
85. Pankaj Advani
won World Red Snooker Championship 2015 in Karachi.
86. Lewis Hamilton won
the Belgian Grand Prix in 2015.
87. U Mumba won the championship of the Pro-kabaddi League 2015
defeating Bengaluru Bulls.
88. Ashwani Lohani is new
chief of Air India.
89. Anupam Kher has been appointed the ambassador of UN He For She
Campaign.
90. Amitabh Bachchan is
the Tiger Ambassador of Maharashtra.
91. India successfully
launched a new communication satellite GSAT-6. It is the 25th geostationary
communication satellite of India by ISRO and 12th in the GSAT series. It was
launched on August 27, 2015.
92. The new CEO of google
is Sundar Pichai.
93. Ranil Wickremesinghe
of UNP is the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. The present President of Sri
Lanka is Maithripala Sirisena.
94. Bollywood movie
Phantom is banned in Pakistan.
95. Noted Indian
agricultural scientist Modadugu Vijay Gupta and Ante Tong, the President of
Kiribati Islands were honoured with the first SUNHAK PEACE PRIZE on August 28,
2015 in Seoul - it is also compared with Nobel Peace prize in South Korea.
96. According to world
famous medical journal LANCET published from London, working over 8 hrs. a day
raises stroke risk by 33%.
97. Beijing wins the 2022
winter Olympics Hosting Rights.
98. Joshna Chinappa of
India won victoria open squark championship in Melbourne in 2015.
99. Religion based Census
figures of 2011 are released by Government of India. They are as under :
Hindu - 79.8 %
Muslims - 14.2 %
Christian - 2.3 %
Sikh - 1.7 %
Buddhist - 0.7 %
Jain - 0.4 %
Other Religions
& Persuasions - 0.7 %
Religion Not Stated - 0.2 %
Total population
121.09 crores.
Topmost 5 populated
Countries : China, India, USA, Indonesia, Brazil.
Top 5 least
populated Countries : Tuvalu, Nauru, Palau, San, Marino, Monaco
100. Kazakhstan is WTO
162nd member country.
101. India ranks 4th in
Global Confidence survey according to KPMG. The top three countries are China,
Span and Italy.
102. NCD stands for
Non-Communicable Diseases - Cardiovascular diseases like heart attacks and
Strokes, Cancers, Chronic respiratory diseases, Diabetes.
103. India joins Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Sumit was held at Ufa (Russia) on July 9-10,
2015. P.M. Narendra Modi led the Indian delegation.
104. Former President APJ
Abdul Kalam passed away after he collapsed during a lecture of the 11M-shillong
on July 27, 2015. An eminent Scientist and prolific writer, he is known as ‘The
missile man’ of India.
105. Conakry, the capital
of the Republic of Guinea was named as the World Book capital for 2017 by
UNESCO in July, 2015.
106. Nobel Prize winner
PETER HIGGS has joined the ranks of Charles Darwin and Albert Eistein
by winning the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s Copley
Medal. In July for his pioneering work on the theory of the Higgs Boson, which
was discovered in 2012.
107. World Car Free Day is
observed on September 22 in order to fight traffic congestion and air
pollution.
108. India remains the top
supplier of experienced doctors to OECD countries - 34 countries followed by
Chinese. According to a recant report, 86, 686 Indian expatriate doctors worked
in OECD, which include the US and EU bloc, during 2010 - up from 56,000 in
2000. The US employs 60% of expert Indian doctors followed by UK. Phillippines
provided the most number of nurses at 2.21 lakh followed by India 70,471.
109. New York Yanikees
Baseball icon Yogi Berra died in september, 2015. He was 90.
110. Debutant Chaitanya
Tamhane's National award-winning Marathi film "Court", a poignant
commentary on India's judicial system, has been selected to officially
represent the country in the Best Foreign Film category at the 88th Oscars next
year.
111. At least 717 piligrims
were killed on September 24, 2015 in a stampede in Mina, a few kilometres east
of the holy city of Mecca (Saudi Arabia), in the worst disaster to strike the
annual Haj pilgrimage in 25 years.
112. ICAR - Indian
Institute of Wheat and Barley Research is located at Karnal (Haryana).
113. The Central Head
Quarters of Geological survey of India is located in Kolkata (West Bengal).
114. Nepal promulgated its
latest constitution, seventh in its stumbling march towards “Sampoorna
Loktantra” on September 20, 2015 nine years after people power ousted an
entrenched monarchy - declaring Nepal Secular Democratic Republic instead of a
Hindu Rashtra- the only country of the world having declared itself a Hindu
Rashtra officially till now but cow is still official animal of Nepal.
115. 42nd Edition of the World Bridge Championship
begins on September 26 in Chennai.
116. According to the
latest World Bank Report, Delhi’s air is worst among 381 cities in South Asian
region followed by Karachi (Pakistan). In India second most air polluted city,
according to this report is Patna followed by Gwalior and Raipur.
117. Sourav Ganguly, former
Indian Captain will succeed Jagmohan Dalmiya (now dead) at the helm of Cricket
Association Bengal (CAB).
118. The four czars of
Information Technology in Silicon Valley, USA are
Facebook CEO: Mark
Zuckerberg
Apple CEO: Tim Cook
Google CEO: Sundar Pichai
Microsoft CEO: Satya
Nadella
119. Anmol Swami from
Meerut who lives in Gandhinagay colony, received the title 'Meerut's Google Boy' last year
in 2014 by a city-based school as at the age of 3, he remembered the name of
the capitals of almost all the countries in the world.
Kautilya Pandit is a child prodigy from a Kohand village of Karnal
district in the Indian state of Haryana. He was born on 24 December 2007, in
Kohand village of Karnal district, siraha, India. Kautilya Pandit, aged about 6
years, (as of 2014) displays good memory power regarding current affairs,
general knowledge and geographical statistics. A series of T.V. shows
displaying the memory power of Kautilya Pandit have made him known as "wonder kid" in Haryana and
surrounding states and made him popular. He is also nicknamed "Google boy".
120. Ravindra Jain (28
Feb. 1944 - 09 Oct. 2015) was an Indian music composer and lyricist. He won the
Filmfare Best Music Director Award in 1985. He was a well respected figure, and
considered a role model for many people, as he overcame his disability of
blindness. He died on 9th October, 2015 in Mumbai's Lilawati hospital after
prolonged illnesses.
121 Deepika Padukone launched her foundation 'The Live Love Laugh';
a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to addressing the issue of mental health
in India on World Mental Health Day in 10 October, 2015. The foundation's logo
is based on the idea of hope and freedom.
122. PARAM Yuva-II: 44th most energy efficient supercomputer in the
world.
123. AV Magnivisualizer: Indigenous Device to Detect Cervical Cancer.
124. Fuel Cell is a device that converts chemical energy to electrical
energy.
125. European
Space Agency launches GAIA to Map
Milky Way.
126. The world's oldest bible is among 200 objects tracing Egypt's
religious evolution in an exhibition at London's British Museum, which opens
Friday and spans the 1,200 years since Cleopatra's death.
127. A man hailing from Odisha
performing amazing job of breaking green coconuts with elbow. The person named
Keshab Swain has smashed 92 green coconuts within a minute by means of his elbow.
This amazing feat has got his name registered in the Guinness World Records
book.
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