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AWARDS AND HONORS

Anita Gopalan wins 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants

Translator and artist Anita Gopalan has been awarded the 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her English translation of Hindi novel “ Simsim ” by Geet Chaturvedi.

Ms. Gopalan, who is based in Bengaluru, is the second Indian translator to be selected for the grant. PEN America is a renowned literary organisation of the United States.

Quick Link – PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants

APPOINTMENTS

Pushpa Kamal Dahal elected as new Prime Minister of Nepal

Maoist Chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal was  elected Prime Minister of Nepal, the eighth in as many years, making a come back to the post after a gap of over seven years.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and known by the nom de guerre Prachanda, or Fierce, was the sole candidate offered to replace K.P. Sharma Oli, who resigned 10 days ago to avoid a no-confidence vote.

Quick Link – Pushpa Kamal Dahal as new PM

Kerala cabinet appoints Achuthanandan head of administrative reforms panel

Former Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, who was in contention for the top political post in Kerala after the May 16 assembly elections, was appointed chairman of the Administrative Reforms Committee (ARC), a post carrying cabinet status. It is the first time that a former Chief Minister has been given the ARC post.

Former chief secretaries Neela Gangadharan and CP Nair are other members of the three-member commission.

Quick Link – Kerala cabinet appoints Achuthanandan

Angela Ruggiero appointed IOC’s Athletes’ Commission chair

American ice hockey Olympic champion Angela Ruggiero was elected as the new Chair of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Athletes’ Commission, replacing Claudia Bokel.

IOC President Thomas Bach officially appointed Angela Ruggiero during joint meeting between the IOC Athletes’ Commission and the IOC Executive Board, following a vote by the members of the Commission.

Quick Link – Angela Ruggiero as Commission chair

Indian-American Named New York’s Chief Digital Officer

An eminent Indian-American digital media expert has been named by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio as the city’s new Chief Digital Officer to focus on promoting access to local government through technology and support its tech ecosystem.

An immigrant from India, Sreenivasan was born in Japan and received a Bachelor’s degree in History from St Stephen’s College in Delhi.

Sree Sreenivasan has previously served as the renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first Chief Digital Officer as well as at Columbia University.

Quick Link – New York’s Chief Digital Officer

INDIAN AFFAIRS

BHEL commissions 500 Mw Marwa Thermal Power station in Chhattisgarh

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has successfully commissioned the second 500 MW thermal unit at Marwa Thermal Power Station in Chhattisgarh. Located in Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh, Marwa TPS has been set up by Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company Ltd. (CSPGCL). The first unit of Marwa TPS was also commissioned earlier by BHEL.

BHEL has been associated with power projects of CSPGCL, (the erstwhile Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board), from the time when the 120 MW Korba TPS extention-1 was commissioned in March 1976.   

Quick Link – BHEL successfully commissioned Chhattisgarh

Six New IITS Get Parliament Nod

Parliament approved establishment of six new IITs across the country by passing the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill 2016 in the Rajya Sabha. IITs will also be started in Palakkad (Kerala), Goa, Dharward (Karnataka), Bhilai (Chhattisgarh), Jammu and Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh). The Lok Sabha had passed on July 25 the Bill which also seeks to bring the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, within the ambit of the proposed Act.

Quick Link – Six New IITS

3,000 Jan Aushadhi Stores to be opened across India

Under Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Yojana (PMJAY), the central government will open 3,000 Jan Aushadhi Stores (JAS) pan India by the end of this fiscal to make quality drugs available at affordable prices.

In order to open JAS proposed within government hospital premises, a one-time financial assistance is provided to the extent of Rs 2.50 lakh and the margin available for the retailers is 20 per cent so as to ensure a reasonable level of profitability for them,” Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh L. Mandaviya told the Lok Sabha .

Quick Link – PMJAY

Khandu expands cabinet, inducts 10 ministers

In its first expansion of the cabinet, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu expanded his cabinet by inducting 10 ministers including former Speaker Nabam Rebia.

Governor Tathagata Roy administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly appointed ministers at Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan.

Quick Link – Khandu expands cabinet

FOREIGN RELATIONS

Infosys invests $4 million in Israeli firm Cloudyn

IT services major Infosys has invested $4 million in Cloudyn, an Israeli corporation, as it seeks to strengthen its cloud computing service offering, an area in which the majority of Indian export companies struggle.

Israeli-based Cloudyn is a start-up that enables corporates to monitor their cloud computing usage and optimise its usage. of these services. The Infosys investment will give them for a minority stake, Cloudyn supports multiple infrastructure services including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and OpenStack, and has 80 per cent of its customers in the US.

Quick Link – Infosys in Israeli

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Neyveli Lignite plans to buy 1200 MW Raghunathpur Thermal Power Project

State-run Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) is planning to acquire Damodar Valley Corporation’s 1200 mw Raghunathpur Thermal Power Project (RTPP) through a joint venture company.

Quick Link – NLC to RTPP

OBITUARY

Egyptian Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail passed away

Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, a science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East, died  in the United States.

Zewail, who was 70 and a member of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) faculty, was the sole recipient of the Nobel chemistry prize in 1999 for his pioneering work in femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions in ultra-short time scales.

Quick Link – Ahmed Zewail passed away

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