Bharat Ratna for Sachin Tendulkar and Prof CNR Rao

All cricket god fans, here is the perfect climax for the story. The Indian Government has announced Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of India to batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar.  Just hours after he bids goodbye to cricket, it was decided that he would be awarded with this great honor. "I dedicate this award to my mother," said Mr Tendulkar, who had made special arrangements to ensure his mother, Rajni Tendulkar, watches his last Test match against West Indies at Mumbai's Wankhede stadium. With this, Tendulkar has become the first sportsperson to receive the biggest honour possible for any Indian.

Eminent scientist and a well recognized international authority on solid state and materials chemistry Prof. CNR Rao (Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao) also got this prestegious award along with sachin. He has published over 1,400 research papers and 45 books. He already has been honoured with several national and international awards.  He serves as the head of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.

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Meet the Gold Medal Winner of World Cup Shooting 2013 - Heena Sidhu

Indian woman shooter Heena Sidhu has created history by becoming the first pistol exponent from India to win a gold medal at the ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup finals in Munich, Germany. She won this award in in 10m Air Pistol event. Punjab born heena won this gold medal by defeating double Olympic Champion Guo Wenjun from China, world champion Arunovic Zorana from Serbia and multiple Olympic medallist Olena Kostevych of Ukraine in a stiff competition in the 10m Air Pistol. The ISSF World Cup is a prestegious competition for shooters. This was introduced by the International Shooting Sport Federation in 1986 to provide a homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic shooting competitions. It is held once a year and features only top 10 shooters of the world. 

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Meet the Miss Universe 2013 - Gabriela Isler

25 year old Miss Venezuela, Gabriela Isler crowned Miss Universe 2013 on Saturday, marking the seventh contest win for the South American country during a glittering ceremony at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia. Gabriela Isler, whose full name is Maria Gabriela de Jesus Isler Morales, works on Venezuela's Venevision television, and as a flamenco dancer. Last year's winner Olivia Culpo from United States of America handed over her diamond crown to Isler, who looked stunning in a silver rhinestone studded evening dress. “I have a lot of emotions. I can’t describe all the things that I feel at this moment because I’m shaking,” she said. Meanwhile, Spain's Patricia Yurena Rodriguez came second, while Constanza Baez from Ecuador secured the 3rd place, while India's contender Manasi Moghe could only make it to the top ten. The last time an Indian won the Miss Universe title was Lara Dutta in 2000.

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Meet the (Youngest) Man Booker winner 2013 - Eleanor Catton

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton won the  Man Booker prize 2013 for her novel, The Luminaries, a mystery novel set in the 19th century West Coast goldfields -a tale of murder set to the movements of the stars, published by Granta. Ms. Catton was born in Canada and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. 28 year old Eleanor is the  youngest winner in the award's 45-year history. Eleanor Catton is the second New Zealander to win the Man Booker. She is going to get 50,000 pounds ($80,000) prize along with this award. 50,000 pounds ($80,000) prize. She is not only the youngest novelist to win the coveted literary prize, but has set a new record for the longest winning novel. The Luminaries is of 852 pages.

"I feel so proud and pleased that so many readers now will be going to Hokitika, metaphorically speaking", she said. The Booker is Britain’s most prestigious literary prize, awarded annually to a novelist from Britain, Ireland or a Commonwealth country. The winner receives £50,000, or about $80,000. Hilary Mantel for her book Bring up the Bodies won this award for the year 2012.

Important Points to Note : 

1. Youngest Winner (she is 28 but completed The Luminaries aged 27)
2. Longest winning novel (852 pages)
3. This is 45th Booker Prize
4. She is the 2nd New Zealander to win the prize (1st is Keri Hulme - The Bone People in 1985)

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Nobel Prize for Economics 2013 Winners - Fama, Shiller and Hansen

Three American scientists Eugene F. Fama (University of Chicago, IL, USA),  Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago, IL, USA) and Robert J. Shiller (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)  won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for the year 2013 for research that has improved the forecasting of asset prices in the long term and helped the emergence of index funds in stock markets, the award-giving body said. According to the committee, the economists' research "laid the foundation for the current understanding of asset prices." 

The economics prize, officially called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968. It was not part of the original group of awards set out in dynamite tycoon Nobel's 1895 will. Most of the recipients of the Nobel in economics were born in the United States. American economists Alvin E Roth and Lloyd S Shapley won this award for the year 2012.

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Nobel prize in literature 2013 Winner Alice Munro

Canadian short story Writer Alice Munro won the Nobel literature prize for the year 2013 for her short stories that focus on the frailties of the human condition. The Swedish Academy honored Munro, 82, as a "master of the contemporary short story". The 82-year-old, whose books include Dear Life and Dance of the Happy Shades, is the first winner of the $1.2 million prize to be fully identified with Canada. Saul Bellow won it in 1976, but though he was born in Canada, he moved to the U.S. as a boy and is more closely associated with Chicago.

Munro is the 13th woman to win the prize since its inception in 1901. Her stories are usually set in Ontario, her home province. Among her best-known is “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” about a woman who begins losing her memory and agrees with her husband that she should be put in a nursing home. With her acceptance of the 8m Swedish krona (£775,000) prize she joins a rollcall of 110 past winners including  Rudyard Kipling, Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Mann, Harold Pinter, Doris Lessing, Albert Camus and Rabindranath Tagore. Chinese Author Mo Yan won this award for the year 2012.

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Nobel Peace Prize 2013 Winner - Organization For The Prohibition Of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2013 for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is an intergovernmental organization, located in The Hague, Netherlands. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the decision at a press conference held in Oslo today's (11th October 2013) morning, saying it chose the OPCW "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons." 

The organization will receive a monetary prize of $1.25 million, to be awarded at a ceremony in December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 wi. OPCW tipped clear favourite 16 year old Pakistani Malala Yousufzai to win the world's top peace prize. Till now the Nobel peace prize has been awarded to 124 Laureates - to 100 individuals and 24 organizations. European Union got this award for the year 2012.

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70th Golden Globe Awards Winners List 2013

The 70th annual Golden Globes awards ceremoney was held in Hollywood on Sunday's evening (January 13), hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler . Here is the detailed list of winners.

Motion Picture :

Director : Ben Affleck, 'Argo.'

Actor, Drama : Daniel Day-Lewis, 'Lincoln.'

Actress, Drama : Jessica Chastain, 'Zero Dark Thirty.'

Actor, Musical or Comedy : Hugh Jackman, 'Les Miserables.'

Actress, Musical or Comedy : Jennifer Lawrence, 'Silver Linings Playbook.'

Supporting Actor : Christoph Waltz, 'Django Unchained.'

Supporting Actress : Anne Hathaway, 'Les Miserables.'

Foreign Language : 'Amour.'

Animated Film : 'Brave.'

Screenplay : Quentin Tarantino, 'Django Unchained.'

Original Score : Mychael Danna, 'Life of Pi.'

Original Song : 'Skyfall' (music and lyrics by Adele and Paul Epworth), 'Skyfall.'

Telivision

Actor, Drama : Damian Lewis, 'Homeland.'

Actress, Drama : Claire Danes, 'Homeland.'

Series, Drama : 'Homeland.'

Actor, Musical or Comedy : Don Cheadle, 'House of Lies.'

Actress, Musical or Comedy : Lena Dunham, 'Girls.'

Series, Musical or Comedy : 'Girls.'

Miniseries or Movie : 'Game Change.'

Actress, Miniseries or Movie : Julianne Moore, 'Game Change.'

Actor, Miniseries or Movie : Kevin Costner, 'Hatfields & McCoys.'

Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie : Maggie Smith, 'Downton Abbey.'

Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie : Ed Harris, 'Game Change.'

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Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2013 Winners Karplus Levitt and Warshel

A group of three scientists of United States  Martin Karplus (Université de Strasbourg, France and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA), Michael Levitt (Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA) and Arieh Warshel (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA) were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising computer simulations that are used to understand and predict chemical processes. The work helps in complex processes such as the development of drugs.


“Chemists used to create models of molecules using plastic balls and sticks. Today, the modelling is carried out in computers. In the 1970s, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes,” said The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in a release. The prize money of SEK 8 million ($1.25m) will be shared equally between the laureates.

American Scientists Robert J Lefkowitz and Brian K Kobilka have won Chemistry Nobel Prize for year 2012

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US Launches a new $100 Banknote with New Security Features

The United States on Tuesday (8th October 2013)  launched a new hi-tech $100 bank note that comes with several new security features including a new touch of colour, as well as special features to foil counterfeiters. In its first remake since 1996, the $100 banknote, which takes a key role in cash transactions for everyone from small traders to big drug traffickers worldwide, sports a blue 3D security ribbon and a bell and inkwell logo that authorities say are particularly difficult to replicate.

These combine with traditional security features, such as a portrait watermark and an embedded security thread that glows pink under ultraviolet light. On the back, too, it depicts Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776. 

It adds a yellowish “100” in one corner and, next to Franklin, a tan quill and bronze-coloured inkwell. Cutting vertically through the middle of the banknote is a blue security ribbon. The new design comes primarily to fight the increasing sophistication of counterfeiters, said Sonja Danburg, program manager in charge of currency education at the Federal Reserve.

The redesigned banknote, which features a portrait of US founding father and scientist Benjamin Franklin, also includes raised "intaglio" printing that gives the notes a distinctive feel, and microprinted words that are difficult to read without magnification.

Below is the specimen copy of the note 

The new US $100 bill is introduced by Michelle Scipione, vice president of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank Cash Services Department, during an event at the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial in Philadelphia October 8, 2013.  

 Sandy Juarez, director of project management for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Miami Branch, holds a new $100 bill, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, during a news conference at the Federal Reserve building in Doral, Fla. 

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Nobel Prize for Physics 2013 winners Peter Higgs, Francois Englert

 (theorists of Higgs boson, the key to the universe)

Peter Higgs (Britain) and Francois Englert (Belgium) won the Nobel Prize for physics for the year 2013 on Tuesday (09-10-2013) for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets.  The winners were much heralded following last year’s discovery of the Higgs by physicists at the CERN particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, using its Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is probably the least surprising Nobel of the year. Because people have been speculating for months that the award was going to be centered around the discovery of the Higgs Boson.

50 Years after their original work, the new building block of nature was finally detected in the year 2012 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) center's giant, underground particle-smasher near Geneva. The discovery was hailed as one of the most important in physics.

 "The awarded theory is a central part of the Standard Model of particle physics that describes how the world is constructed," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement.

The nobel prize for physics in the year 2012 won by Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of America.

Note : Following reported observation of the Higgs-like particle in July 2012, several Indian media outlets reported on the supposed neglect of credit to Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose after whose work in the 1920s the class of particles "bosons" is named, although physicists have described Bose's connection to the discovery as tenuous.

Read about the winners of Nobel Prize for Medicine 2013 from here 

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Nobel Prize for Medicine 2013 Winners Rothman, Schekman and Suedhof

A group of three researchers, namely James Rothman and Randy Schekman (America) and Thomas Suedhof (Germany) won Nobel Prize for  in Physiology / Medicine for the year 2013. Rothman, 62, is a professor at Yale University while Schekman, 64, is at the University of California, Berkeley. Suedhof, 57, joined Stanford University in 2008. They won this award for their discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells. The Nobel Committee said the work of the three scientists had great implications for neurological conditions as well as conditions affecting key organs.

 Researachers John Gurdon of Briton and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this award in the year 2012.

The medicine prize is the first to be revealed in Nobel announcements, followed by the prizes for remaining sections like physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics.

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Meet the First Woman to Head the State Bank of India (SBI) - Arundhati Bhattacharya

The State Bank of India (SBI) has today (Monday - 7th October 2013) announced that the central Government of India has appointed Ms.  Arundhati Bhattacharya as the chairperson of the India's largest bank. succeeding Pratip Chaudhuri who retired on September 30, she is the first ever lady chairman to head SBI in its 207-year history. The 57-year-old Bhattacharya, the front-runner for the post on account of years of service left, was managing director and chief financial officer of the bank prior to her elevation.  Bhattacharya's elevation leaves one MD post vacant. She will be the Chairperson of the bank for a period of three years from today.  

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Quick Reference Guide for IBPS PO CWE III Exam - Pdf Download

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