ENGLISH NEWS - 11-11-2016

DAILY G.A UPDATE : 11-11-2016

In this competitive age, everyone needs to be updated with the current affairs. So, here is the important news for your upcoming exams like IBPS PO, IBPS CLERK, RRB and many more. 

1. Legendary poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen dies at 82

Leonard Cohen, the storied musician and poet hailed as one of the most visionary artists of his generation. He was 82.

2. Surat adjudged as best in Integrated Mass Transit

Surat has been adjudged as the best in Integrated Mass Transit, while Dharwad-Hubli (Karnataka) has the best city bus service, the Union Urban Development Ministry said as it announced the names of cities for their commendable initiatives towards promotion of public transport, non-motorised transport and road safety.

The Ministry has identified eight cities and the UT of Chandigarh for Best and Commendable initiatives toward promotion of public transport, Non-Motorised Transport and Road Safety, an official release said.

Minister of State for Urban Development Rao Inderjit Singh will present these Awards for Best and Commendable Initiatives for urban transport projects on the last day of the ongoing Urban Mobility Conference in Gandhinagar.

3. R Subramania Kumar to hold addl charge of MD and CEO, IOB

R Subramania Kumar was given additional charge of the post of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Indian Overseas Bank for three months. 

The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved entrustment of additional charge of the post of MD and CEO, Indian Overseas Bank to Kumar, the only available Executive Director in the bank, an order issued by Department of Personnel and Training said.

4. NASA Space Telescopes Locate Elusive Brown Dwarf 

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, NASA's Spitzer and Swift space telescopes have joined forces to unveil an elusive brown dwarf - thought to be the missing link between planets and stars, with masses up to 80 times that of Jupiter.

Researchers observed a microlensing event, when a distant star brightens due to the gravitational field of at least one foreground cosmic object.

This technique is useful for finding low-mass bodies orbiting stars, such as planets. In this case, the observations revealed a brown dwarf.

5. DRDO ropes in IIT Bombay and Madras for propulsion research

Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre laid the foundation stone of Centre of Propulsion Technology here, set up by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) alongwith with IIT-Bombay and IIT-Madras to support country's plans for developing aero- engines and hypersonic propulsion for long duration flight.

The centre, established at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay in Powai here, will be operational in the next two years and the research there will be jointly conducted by IIT-Bombay and IIT-Madras.

This is the third such centre being set up where a premier academic institute has been roped in for defence related research and development of technology.

Earlier, similar centres have been set up in Kolkata and Delhi.

Bhamre said the centre is going to be a game-changing institution in the field of defence research.

6. India, Japan sign landmark civil nuclear deal

India and Japan signed a landmark civil nuclear cooperation deal after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart Shinzo Abe, a move that will boost bilateral economic and security ties and facilitate US-based players to set up atomic plants in India