CURRENT AFFAIRS MAY/13/2015
- 1. Dr. Sivanadane (Siva) Mandjiny an Indian-American professor wins award for excellence in teaching
- Chemistry professor Sivanadane Mandjiny was named UNC Pembroke's recipient of the UNC Board of Governors 2015 Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Annually, the Board of Governors names one professor at each of the 17 UNC campuses to receive the award.
- Announcing the award, UNC Pembroke Chancellor Kyle R. Carter praised Mandjiny's dedication to teaching and mentoring students
About Dr. Sivanadane (Siva) Mandjiny :-- Dr. Sivanadane (Siva) Mandjiny is native of Tamil Nadu, India, he earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Madras and a master's degree in biochemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
- He did a second master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the Universite de Technologie de Compiegne in France.
- Mandjiny studied in three languages, Tamil, English and French, and he taught himself Hindi Hard work, determination and a strong wife fueled his educational achievements.
- 2. 43 killed 13 other wounded as gunmen open fire on bus in Karachi
- At least 43 people have been killed when gunmen on motorcycles attacked on a bus in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi the people who have died are belived to be from minority Shia Ismaili community.
- Six armed men on motorcycles opened fire on a bus at Safoora Chorangi, Gulistan-e-Johar area of Karachi, killing at least 43 passengers
- The gunmen stopped the overloaded bus, entered inside it and open fire indiscriminately, the police said.
- The death toll could further rise as about 20 others are seriously injured.The injured and dead were shifted to various hospitals by rescue workers.
- Taliban have claimed responsibility of the attack.
- Pakistan’s Shia minority has been repeatedly targeted by extremists over the past few years. Scores have died in these attacks
- 3. Over 60 killed in yesterday's earthquake in Nepal; 44 in India
- People's life was returning to normalcy in cities and quake-affected people in several villages trying to build temporary shelter,another strong tremor hit parts of Nepal and several parts of India which killed more than 60 people and about 1100 injured
- Prime Minister Sushil Koirala appealed his people to come together to face this big crisis.
- The April quakes have so far killed over 8,000 people and left more than 17,000 injured.
- 4. Google to set up Rs 1000 cr campus in Hyderabad
- Google Inc. will build its biggest campus outside the US in Hyderabad at an investment of Rs.1,000 crore.
- The 2 million square feet facility, the Internet giant’s first company-owned campus in Asia, will house 13,000 employees when it is ready in 2019.
- Telangana information minister K.T. Rama Rao, who is on an official visit to the US, signed the agreement with Google Inc. at its headquarters at Mountain View, California
- State government will allocate the company 7.2 acres in Hyderabad’s Gachibowli locality.
- The offices of Microsoft, Cap Gemini SA, CA Inc., Infosys Ltd, Wipro Ltd and Deloitte are also based in Gachibowli locality.
- 5. South Central Railway to operationalise 17 automatic ticket vending machines in AP
- Southern Central Railway will operationalise 17 automatic ticket vending machines in Vijayawada, Nellore, Tenali and Rajahmundry railway stations from today
- passengers have to purchase a smart card for 50 rupees initially which will be valid for one year from the date of purchase.
- The smart card is valid for the purchase of unreserved tickets and platform tickets
- The passengers can re-charge the required amount up to five thousand rupees and use to purchase tickets through the ticket vending machines.
- 6. Third Secular blogger hancked to death in Bangladesh
- A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death on Tuesday in north-eastern Bangladesh it was third such deadly attack since the start of the year
- They chased him down the street and first attacked his head with their machetes and then attacked him all over his body after the attackers fled into the crowds, Das was rushed to hospital but declared dead on arrival
- Ananta Bijoy Das was murdered in broad daylight he was a blogger who regularly blogged for Mukto-Mona.
- The website used to be moderated by Roy, a Bangladeshi-born US citizen who was hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in February.
- Officially Bangladesh is an secular country but more than 90 percent of its 160 million population are Muslims.
- Since 2013, at least five bloggers have been attacked by Islamists after another hardline group, Hefazat-e-Islam
- 7. Hyderabad to host global pharma summit 2015 from July 23
- Hyderabad will host four-day global pharma expo and summit from July 23.
- The theme for global pharma expo and summit 2015 will be ‘Innovation and Advances'
- The summit will deliberate on a range of issues, from pharmaceutical technology to education, indigenous drugs and drug regulatory affairs, besides serving as a platform for joint ventures and project collaboration
- 8. Retail inflation falls to 4.87% in April;rate cut hope brightens, factory output slows to 2.1% in March
- Consumer Price Index, CPI, fell to 4.87 percent in the month of April 2015 as against 8.48 percent in April last year prices of food items, vegetables and fruits turned cheaper.
- Data released by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation mentioned that Inflation in food items like pulses and products was recorded at 12.52 percent highest in the category. Milk and its products registered a price hike of 8.21 percent , spices at 8.7 percent. Whereas the inflation in vegetables and meat stood at 6.63 percent and 5.50 percent.
- On the other hand, factory output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), contracted by 0.5 per cent in March 2014
- The ministry said that the rural inflation stood at 5.37 percent whereas urban centres registered CPI of 4.36 percent.
- 9. Cabinet approves flagship 'Namami Gange' programme
- The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi today approved the flagship “Namami Gange” Program which integrates the efforts to clean and protect the Ganga river in a comprehensive manner
- The program has a budget outlay of Rs. 20,000 crore for the next 5 years. This is a significant four-fold increase over the expenditure in the past 30 years
- Marking a major shift in implementation, the Government is focusing on involving people living on the banks of the river to attain sustainable results.
- Learning from the unsatisfactory results of the earlier Ganga Action Plan, the Centre now plans to provide for operation and maintenance of the assets for a minimum 10 year period, and adopt a PPP/SPV approach for pollution hotspots.
- In an attempt to bolster enforcement the Centre also plans to establish a 4-battalion Ganga Eco-Task Force, a Territorial Army unit, apart from contemplating on a legislation that aims to check pollution and protect the river.
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