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Abhyaas Newsboard … for the Quintessential Test Prep Student November 5, 2017 ANB20171111 Abhyaas Newsboard … For the quintessential test prep student News of the month Nobel Prizes announced for 2017: The Editor’s Column Dear Student, The month of October is noted for the Nobel Prize announcements and the Man Booker Prize announcement. There have been some changes in Governors and Lieutenant Governor for some States and UT. i) The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three US Do check out the new appointments and the awards scientists – Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. this month. Barish for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. Congratulations to Sri Nandita for bagging the prize ii) The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to for the crossword. News bytes for this edition Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard contributed by Sai Maruth. Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of Read on to go through the current affairs for the biomolecules in solution. month of October 2017. iii) The Nobel Prize in Medicine(Physiology) was awarded jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries on how plants, animals and humans adapt to their biological rhythm so that it is synchronised with the earth’s revolution. iv) The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Padma Parupudi British writer Kazuo Ishiguro who, in novels of great Index: emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world Page 2: Persons in News v) The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Page 3: Places in News International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for its work to draw attention to the Page 4: Events of Significance catastrophic consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to Page 8: Crossword achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons. vi) The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Richard H Thaler for his contributions to behavioural economics. Abhyaas Newsboard… www.abhyaas.in Page 1 November 5, 2017 Persons in News 1. President Ram Nath Kovind appointed Governors in five States and Lieutenant Governor in one Union Territory. Brigadier(retd.) B.D. Mishra - Arunachal Pradesh, Ganga Prasad - Meghalaya, Satya Pal Malik - Bihar, Banwarilal Purohit - Tamil Nadu, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi - Assam. Admiral(retd.) Devendra Kumar Joshi will be the Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 2. President Ram Nath Kovind recently appointed a Commission to examine the sub-categorisation of the OBCs with Justice(retd.) G. Rohini as the chairperson. 3. Dr. Soumya Swaminathan has become the first Indian to hold the deputy director general post for Programmes at the World Health Organisation(WHO). 4. Rajnish Kumar, the Managing Director of SBI, has been appointed as the new chairman of the State Bank of India after the term of Arundhati Bhattacharya ended in October. 5. Ukhnaa Khurelsukh has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Mongolia. 6. Veteran actor Anupam Kher was appointed as new Chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune succeeding Gajendra Chauhan. 7. Gautam Bambawale was appointed as India's new Ambassador to China. Bambawale is an Indian Foreign Service Officer of the 1984 batch. 8. Former French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay was elected as the next Director General of the UNESCO. With this, she became the first Jew to hold the office. 9. Solicitor-General of India Ranjit Kumar, the second highest ranking law officer of the government, resigned. 10. Sibi George has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Switzerland. He will replace Smita Purushottam. 11. Jackson Singh Thounaojam created history at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium by scoring India’s first goal in a FIFA U-17 World Cup during India’s match against Colombia. 12. Carnatic vocalist T.M. Krishna has won the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for 2015 -16 for his services in promoting and preserving national integration in the country. 13. Former President Pranab Mukherjee has released the third part of his memoir ‘The Coalition Years: 1996- 2012’, speaking candidly about believing he could have been the Congress’ choice for the Prime Minister’s post. 14. Actor Varun Dhawan will get a wax statue at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, making him the youngest Indian actor to have his statue at the museum. 15. Actress Deepika Padukone launched Hema Malini's biography 'Hema Malini: Beyond the Dream Girl' on the occasion of Hema's 69th birthday. 16. US author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize. He became the second American writer to win the Britain’s renowned prize, which was awarded for his first full-length novel “Lincoln in the Bardo”. 17. Environmental scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has received the Blue Planet Prize, the world’s most prestigious award for pioneers in environmental science. 18. Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid’s Portugal striker, has been named the 2017 Best FIFA Men’s Player award for a second straight year at the 2017 award ceremony in London. He also has the distinction of being the richest sports personality in the world, according to the latest Forbes’ Rich List. 19. Jacinda Ardern was officially sworn in as the Prime Minister of New Zealand. At the age of 37, Ardern is the youngest New Zealand PM in 150 years. 20. According to Forbes magazine, Jeff Bezos surpassed Bill Gates as the richest person in the world. The fortune of Amazon's founder reached some $90.6 billion, compared with the $90.1 billion that the online edition of the magazine attributes to Gates. Abhyaas Newsboard… www.abhyaas.in Page 2 November 5, 2017 21. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has received the Golden Peacock Award under the category 'Global Leadership in Public Service and Economic Transformation' at a convention in London at the 17th London Global Convention. 22. Virat Kohli became the sixth Indian to complete 9000 ODI runs during the third game against New Zealand. He went on to score his 32nd ODI century off 96 balls. 23. Veteran actor Sharmila Tagore has received the Lifetime Achievement Award. The 72-year-old actor was bestowed with the recognition by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in New Delhi for her contribution in the field of cinema. 24. India captain Mithali Raj moved up one place to occupy the number one spot in the latest ICC ODI rankings for batswomen. 25. Prime Minister of Italy Paolo Gentiloni arrived in New Delhi on a two day visit to India. The visit is aimed at strengthening the bilateral political and economic relations between the two countries. 26. Ace Indian shooter Heena Sidhu has bagged gold in women's 10m Air Pistol event at Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Brisbane, Australia. 27. Eminent Marathi writer and journalist Hanumant Moreshwar Marathe passed away. 28. Purushottam Lal Kaushik, the former Minister for Information and Broadcasting, passed away in Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh. 29. Filmmaker Kundan Shah passed away in Mumbai. 30. Veteran and one of India’s eminent historians Satish Chandra passed away at the age of 95. Satish’s important works include ‘The Mughal Empire and its Downfall’. He was also the author of NCERT’s leading history book ‘History of Medieval India’. 31. India's first Olympic swimmer Shamsher Khan passed away in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district. Mr. Khan had represented India in 1956 Melbourne Olympics. He was the first swimmer to represent India in the Olympics.Eminent classical singer and Padma Vibhushan awardee Girija Devi died in Kolkata. She was considered as the "Queen of Thumri". She was from the "Benaras Gharana". Places in News 1. India’s first-ever Industrial Training Institute for the Divyangana(differently-abled) will come up in Assam. 2. The first ever ASEAN-India Music Festival was conducted at Purana Quila in New Delhi. The three-day festival was organised to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-India Dialogue Relations. 3. The Indian Space Research Organization will set up a research centre in Guwahati, Assam for start ups, academicians, environmentalists and entrepreneurs. 4. PM Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone for Bhadbhut Barrage to be built over the Narmada in Bharuch, Gujarat. He also flagged off the Antyodaya Express between Udhna in Surat and Jaynagar in Bihar. 5. The first BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise - 2017 (DMEx-2017) was held in New Delhi. It was conducted by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) as the lead agency in the National Capital Region. 6. IIT-Kharagpur has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Samsung India for the setting up of a digital academy on the institute’s campus. 7. Rajasthan is the first State in the country to incorporate skill development programme in higher education. 8. National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) was inaugurated at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras in Tamil Nadu. It is world’s largest combustion research centre and one of best diagnostic centres in the country to understand combustion. Abhyaas Newsboard… www.abhyaas.in Page 3 November 5, 2017 9. Arunachal Pradesh State Assembly passed Arunachal Pradesh (Re-Orgaisation of Districts) Amendment Bill 2017 to create a new district named ‘Kamle’ by bifurcating the present Upper and Lower Subansiri districts. Kamle is the 23rd district of Arunachal Pradesh. 10. INDRA-2017, the first ever Tri Services Joint Exercise between Indian and Russian Armed Forces concluded in Vladivostok, Russia. 11. 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