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Awards and Honors
- President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday presented the
first ‘Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award’ for Excellence in Bengali
Literature to eminent poets and litterateurs Nirendranth Chakravarti for
the year 2012 and Sankha Ghosh for the year 2013 respectively at an award
function at the Raj Bhavan.
- Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan today presented
the K Veeramani Award forSocial Justice to Maharashtra Minister for Public
Works and Tourism Chhagan Bhujbal.
- Former India captain Kapil Dev was with the C K Nayudu
Lifetime Achievement Award by the BCCI at its seventh annual
awards ceremony today.
International Affairs
- A Pakistani schoolboy (Aitezaz Hassan – 17) who died
stopping a suicide bomber from attacking his school has been recommended
for a national award, the prime minister’s office said today.
- The South Pacific nation of Tonga was lashed by a
powerful cyclone on Saturday, destroying homes and ripping roofs from
churches and other public buildings in the populous northern islands.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
- UN leader Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council are
urging South Sudan President to release political detainees at the centre
of efforts to start a ceasefire in the country’s conflict.
National Affairs
- Nation remembered former Prime Minister Lal
Bahadur Shastri on his death anniversary today.
- Mountaineer and explorer Sir EdmundHillary remembered
on his 6th death anniversary.
- The government will launch its first wind energy
mission National Wind Energy Mission (NWEM) this year to give a boost to
the renewable source and putting it in the same league as the
high-profile solar mission.
- CPI today sought reversal of the environmental
clearance granted to South Korean giant Posco’s steel plant in Odisha,
asking the government not to “run rough-shod” over therecommendations of
the National Green Tribunal and the “popular resistance” against the
project.
- Centre approves Rs 300 crore grants to upgrade Guwahati
Medical College and Hospital & Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh.
Science and Technology
- Scientists have identified 14 new genes potentially
implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.
Deaths
- Former Bihar minister and RJD MP Sitaram
Singh dies after a prolonged illness; He was 65.
- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
(85) died today at a hospital near Tel Aviv.
Sports
- The Haryana pair of Jubin Kumar and Sourav Chakraborty
snatched the men’s doubles title from Rajasthan’s Vivek Bhargava and
Sudhanshu Grover 3-2 in the 75th Senior National Table Tennis
Championships today.
- The women’s double crown went to Railways’ Anindita
Chakraborty and Pallabi Kundu, who beat Airports Authority of India’s
Nikhat Banu and Krittwika Sinha Roy 3-1.
- New Zealand thrashes India 3-1 in Hockey World League.
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