16 Jun 2016

ENGLISH NEWS-16.06.2016

1. India-UK strike new solar, nano tech pacts 


India and the UK clinched two new key agreements on solar energy and nano technology as part of their wider science and technology cooperation.

2. Actress Anne Hathaway named goodwill ambassador for UN Women 



The UN agency promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women has appointed Academy Award-winning actress Anne Hathaway as a global goodwill ambassador.

3. Actress Ann Morgan Guilbert dies 


 
"The Nanny" star Ann Morgan Guilbert died. She was 87.

4. Margaret Atwood awarded 2016 PEN Pinter Prize 



Canadian poet, novelist and environmental activist Margaret Atwood was awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize.

Atwood will receive her award at a public event at the British Library on 13 October 2016.

Atwood was chosen by judges Vicky Featherstone, Zia Haider Rahman, Peter Stothard, Antonia Fraser and President of English PEN and Chair of Judges, Maureen Freely.

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is also the inventor and developer of the Long Pen and associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once for her novel The Blind Assassin. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

A few of her best novels are The Handmaid's Tale, The Robber Bride, and The Year of the Flood among others.

5. Bharti Enterprises’ Sunil Mittal named ICC Chairman 


 
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Bharti Enterprises' founder and chairman, has been elected Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), taking over from Terry McGraw, Chairman Emeritus of S&P Global.

McGraw has now become ICC's honorary chairman.

The International Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business organisation with over 6.5 million members in over 130 countries and Mittal will be it's 51st chairman.

Mittal, who has served on the Prime Minister of India's Council on Trade and Industry, has become the third Indian Chairman of the world business organisation in its near-100 year history.

6. First time-tabled container train service launched 


 
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu launched a series of initiative, including flagging-off of first time-tabled container train service named Cargo Express from Domestic Container Terminal, Okhla (Delhi) to Whitefield (Bengaluru).

7. IRCTC, Just Dial, UTI MF in Fortune India Next 500 list 



Just Dial, UTI Asset Management Company and IRCTC are among the firms that have made it to the Fortune Next 500 list of Indian companies, which has been topped by Dynamatic Technologies.

8. India beat Zimbabwe by 10 wickets, complete 3-0 clean sweep 



India beat Zimbabwe by 10 wickets in the third and final cricket one-day to clinch the series 3-0.