1. Indian-American students sweep National Geographic Bee contest
Indian-American students have swept the prestigious national bee competitions, securing the first three positions for this year's National Geographic Bee championship finals.
Rishi Nair, 12, a sixth grader from Florida took top honours at the 28th annual National Geographic Bee held at the National Geographic headquarters here.
As National Geographic Bee champion, Rishi received a USD 50,000 college scholarship and a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society. This is the fifth consecutive year that an Indian-American has won the prestigious national tournament.
Eighth-grader Saketh Jonnalagadda, 14, from Massachusetts was the runner up and recipient of the USD 25,000 college scholarship. Third place and a USD 10,000 college scholarship was grabbed by Kapil Nathan, a 12-year-old sixth-grader from Alabama.
2. EPFO doubles insurance for subscribers to Rs 6 lakh
Government has finally enforced the decision of retirement fund body EPFO to almost double the maximum sum assured under its insurance scheme to 6 lakh.
In September, Employee Provident Fund Organisation's apex decision making body Central Board of Trustees (CBT) had decided to increase benefits under the Employees' Deposit Linked Insurance ( EDLI) scheme from Rs 3.6 lakh to Rs 6 lakh.
3.Union HRD Minister Launches Bharatavani Portal
The Union HRD Minister, Smt Smriti Zubin Iani launched the multilingual knowledge portal www.bharatvani.in at Lucknow today. While launching the app the Minister said that under the Prime Minister Shri Modi’s Digital India Mission, Bharatavani App will perform the task of bringing about digital revolution in the county. The Government’s mission is to showcase the Indian culture and heritage to the world through the medium of technology.
This project is in line with the HRD Ministry’s efforts to not only ensure universalization of education but also towards creation of a knowledge society in the digital age. The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru is implementing this ambitious project of MHRD.
One Point language resource : Bharatavani is the first knowledge portal of its kind in India which focuses on becoming a single point source for multiple language learning, content and technology.
Given India’s diversity, Bharatavani is an attempt to bring the people of India under one portal, its goal being to bridge the Digital and language divide, with the idea to publish as well as involve people in the Open Knowledge movement.
Alongwith the Bharatavani portal, MHRD has also launched the Bharatavani Multi-lingual App called Bharatavani. This App will enable users to search for one language text in another language as well as get meanings in different languages. Currently the App has 35 multilingual Dictionaries and MHRD aims to extend it to 250 dictionaries in a years time. This App, on the day of its launch becomes India’s first and largest multilingual dictionary.
The portal has been launched in 22 scheduled languages, which eventually will be extended to 100 more languages.
4. Renowned Chinese writer Yang Jiang dies at age 104
Renowned Chinese writer Yang Jiang, known for her prolific output and marriage to an equally famous author, died at the age of 104 years.
Born in 1911, Yang became a household name in China for her novels, plays, essays and translated works. She was the first to translate "Don Quixote" into Chinese, and her version is still considered the definitive one by many.
In a 1981 collection of essays, Yang wrote with a sense of poignancy on the daily lives of Chinese intellectuals during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, when scholars and intellectuals were forced to perform hard labour.
Her 2003 essay collection "We Three," about her family life with her late husband and their daughter, was a best-seller.
In addition to "We Three," she published a sequel to her novel "Baptism" at age 103.
5. India fifth largest producer of e-waste in world: Study
India, which is has emerged as world's second largest mobile market, is also the fifth largest producer of e-waste, discarding roughly 18.5 lakh metric tonnes of electronic waste each year, a study says.
The telecom equipment alone accounting for 12 per cent of the e-waste, a joint study by Assocham-KPMG said.
The rising levels of e-waste generation in India has been a matter of extreme concern in recent years. With more than 100 crore mobile phones in circulation, nearly 25 per cent end up in e-waste annually, it said.
6. YES Bank gets ex post facto approval to raise FDI limit
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affiars (CCEA) gave ex post facto approval to increase the foreign investment limit in YES Bank to 75 percent.
This will result in a foreign direct investment of $1 billion (Rs.6,885 crore approx.) in the country, the statement said. Bank's present foreign equity is 41.87 percent.
7. Union Cabinet gives approval to six new IITs
The Union Cabinet gave its ex post facto approval to amend the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 to incorporate 6 new Indian Institutes Technology (IITs) at Tirupati, Palakkad, Bhilai, Goa and Jammu and conversion of Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad to an IIT.
8. Pinarayi Vijayan sworn in as Kerala CM
CPI-M politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan sworn in as the 22nd Chief Minister of Kerala.
Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam also administered oaths of office to 18 cabinet ministers - 11 from the CPI-M, four from CPI, and one each from the Congress-S, Janata Dal (S) and the Nationalist Congress Party.
Indian-American students have swept the prestigious national bee competitions, securing the first three positions for this year's National Geographic Bee championship finals.
Rishi Nair, 12, a sixth grader from Florida took top honours at the 28th annual National Geographic Bee held at the National Geographic headquarters here.
As National Geographic Bee champion, Rishi received a USD 50,000 college scholarship and a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society. This is the fifth consecutive year that an Indian-American has won the prestigious national tournament.
Eighth-grader Saketh Jonnalagadda, 14, from Massachusetts was the runner up and recipient of the USD 25,000 college scholarship. Third place and a USD 10,000 college scholarship was grabbed by Kapil Nathan, a 12-year-old sixth-grader from Alabama.
Government has finally enforced the decision of retirement fund body EPFO to almost double the maximum sum assured under its insurance scheme to 6 lakh.
In September, Employee Provident Fund Organisation's apex decision making body Central Board of Trustees (CBT) had decided to increase benefits under the Employees' Deposit Linked Insurance ( EDLI) scheme from Rs 3.6 lakh to Rs 6 lakh.
3.Union HRD Minister Launches Bharatavani Portal
The Union HRD Minister, Smt Smriti Zubin Iani launched the multilingual knowledge portal www.bharatvani.in at Lucknow today. While launching the app the Minister said that under the Prime Minister Shri Modi’s Digital India Mission, Bharatavani App will perform the task of bringing about digital revolution in the county. The Government’s mission is to showcase the Indian culture and heritage to the world through the medium of technology.
This project is in line with the HRD Ministry’s efforts to not only ensure universalization of education but also towards creation of a knowledge society in the digital age. The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru is implementing this ambitious project of MHRD.
One Point language resource : Bharatavani is the first knowledge portal of its kind in India which focuses on becoming a single point source for multiple language learning, content and technology.
Given India’s diversity, Bharatavani is an attempt to bring the people of India under one portal, its goal being to bridge the Digital and language divide, with the idea to publish as well as involve people in the Open Knowledge movement.
Alongwith the Bharatavani portal, MHRD has also launched the Bharatavani Multi-lingual App called Bharatavani. This App will enable users to search for one language text in another language as well as get meanings in different languages. Currently the App has 35 multilingual Dictionaries and MHRD aims to extend it to 250 dictionaries in a years time. This App, on the day of its launch becomes India’s first and largest multilingual dictionary.
The portal has been launched in 22 scheduled languages, which eventually will be extended to 100 more languages.
4. Renowned Chinese writer Yang Jiang dies at age 104
Renowned Chinese writer Yang Jiang, known for her prolific output and marriage to an equally famous author, died at the age of 104 years.
Born in 1911, Yang became a household name in China for her novels, plays, essays and translated works. She was the first to translate "Don Quixote" into Chinese, and her version is still considered the definitive one by many.
In a 1981 collection of essays, Yang wrote with a sense of poignancy on the daily lives of Chinese intellectuals during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, when scholars and intellectuals were forced to perform hard labour.
Her 2003 essay collection "We Three," about her family life with her late husband and their daughter, was a best-seller.
In addition to "We Three," she published a sequel to her novel "Baptism" at age 103.
5. India fifth largest producer of e-waste in world: Study
India, which is has emerged as world's second largest mobile market, is also the fifth largest producer of e-waste, discarding roughly 18.5 lakh metric tonnes of electronic waste each year, a study says.
The telecom equipment alone accounting for 12 per cent of the e-waste, a joint study by Assocham-KPMG said.
The rising levels of e-waste generation in India has been a matter of extreme concern in recent years. With more than 100 crore mobile phones in circulation, nearly 25 per cent end up in e-waste annually, it said.
6. YES Bank gets ex post facto approval to raise FDI limit
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affiars (CCEA) gave ex post facto approval to increase the foreign investment limit in YES Bank to 75 percent.
This will result in a foreign direct investment of $1 billion (Rs.6,885 crore approx.) in the country, the statement said. Bank's present foreign equity is 41.87 percent.
7. Union Cabinet gives approval to six new IITs
The Union Cabinet gave its ex post facto approval to amend the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 to incorporate 6 new Indian Institutes Technology (IITs) at Tirupati, Palakkad, Bhilai, Goa and Jammu and conversion of Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad to an IIT.
8. Pinarayi Vijayan sworn in as Kerala CM
CPI-M politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan sworn in as the 22nd Chief Minister of Kerala.
Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam also administered oaths of office to 18 cabinet ministers - 11 from the CPI-M, four from CPI, and one each from the Congress-S, Janata Dal (S) and the Nationalist Congress Party.
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