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AWARDS AND HONORS
Indian prof’s dept awarded UK royal patronage
Queen Elizabeth II has awarded the Regius Professorship (royal patronage) in Manufacturing to the department founded by Indian professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya in the University of Warwick. IIT-Kharagpur alumnus Lord Bhattacharyya’s Warwick Manufacturing Group is reportedly the largest centre for manufacturing in the world. The UK has granted 14 such recognitions since Queen Victoria’s rule.
Quick Link – UK royal patronage
APPOINTMENTS
New MDs of Banks – Appointments
N.K.Chari has assumed office as the new Managing Director of State Bank of Mysore. Prior to his new position, he was the Deputy Managing Director of State Bank of India. Mr. Chari, a postgraduate in commerce from Delhi University, joined State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer in September 1978. He served as the Chief Operating Officer in National Banking Group, the retail branch network of State Bank of India. He has also headed the Mid Corporate Vertical of State Bank of India.
CR Sasikumar has taken over as Managing Director of State Bank of Travancore (SBT), one of the associate banks of State Bank of India (SBI). Sasikumar started his career as a probationary officer with SBI in 1978 and has since held several key assignments.
Quick Link – MDs of Banks
BANKING AND FINANCE
World Bank cuts global growth forecast to 2.4%
The World Bank has lowered its global growth forecast, warning that risks to growth have increased since its earlier projection in January. The world economy will grow at 2.4% in 2016 and at 2.8% in 2017, the World Bank said in its June report on global economic prospects, lower than the earlier forecast of 2.9% and 3.1%, respectively, mainly on account of a slower than expected recovery in advanced economies.
Quick Link – Global growth forecast to 2.4%
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Scientists discovered a gigantic exoplanet, HATS-18b
International team of astronomers found an alien world named HATS-18b. It is a giant hot Jupiter exoplanet tidally spinning up its parent star. The team led by Kaloyan Penev of Princeton University carried out the observation campaign between April 2011 and July 2013. The new findings were published online on 2 June 2016 on arXiv.org.
Quick Link – HATS-18b
Union Government launched Surya Mitra Mobile App
Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy launched “Surya Mitra” mobile App at National Workshop on Rooftop Solar Power here today. The GPS based mobile app is developed by National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) which is an autonomous institution of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE).
Quick Link – Surya Mitra
India gets support for admission into MTCR
The members of the 34-nation Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), an international anti-proliferation group, have agreed to admit India. The deadline for MTCR members to object to India’s admission had expired without any objections. This would allow India to buy high-end missile technology and surveillance drones.
Quick Link – MTCR
FOREIGN RELATIONS
US names India as a Major Defence Partner
The U.S. has recognised India as ‘major defence partner,’ a classification that will allow India to buy more advanced and sensitive technologies from the U.S. This U.S. move will be complemented by India’s entry into the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), an exclusive club that restricts trade in sensitive defence technologies. The U.S. has also declared that it will be its “strong objective to have India voted as a member “of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), another export control regime, later this month.
Quick Link – Major Defence Partner
SPORTS
Ronaldo highest earning athlete: Forbes
Real Madrid star Ronaldo tops the list having earned $88 million (£60.9m) over the past 12 months, with Barcelona talisman Messi in second with earnings of $81.4m (£56.3m).
Golfer Tiger Woods and boxer Floyd Mayweather had dominated proceedings over the past decade, but with Woods struggling with injuries and form and Mayweather having retired, Ronaldo and Messi have stormed to the top.
Ronaldo becomes only the second team athlete after basketball legend Michael Jordan to rank as the highest-paid since Forbes began calculating sports stars’ earnings in 1990.
Quick Link – Highest earning athlete
L&T wins $135 million Qatar World Cup stadium contract
Larsen & Toubro Ltd has secured a contract to build a $135 million stadium for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup, a boost for the Indian firm facing a slowdown in its key Middle East market due to low oil prices. As part of a joint venture, L&T will serve as a contractor building the 40,000 seat Al Rayyan stadium. L&T is one of India’s biggest industrial groups and is involved in infrastructure projects in the Gulf including the construction of a metro line in Doha.
Quick Link – Qatar’s 2022 World Cup
OBITUARY
Veteran Journalist KK Katyal passes away
KK Katyal, veteran journalist and former Delhi Chief of Bureau of The Hindu, who led the newspaper’s wide-ranging coverage from the national capital during a particularly eventful phase of political change, passed away after a brief illness. He was 88. In the 28 years from 1976 that he spent at The Hindu, Mr. Katyal built his work on access to a wide body of political and diplomatic sources.
Quick Link – KK Katyal passes away
India’s first Mr Universe Manohar Aich passes away
104-year-old bodybuilder Manohar Aich, who was once a household name in Bengal after becoming India’s first Mr Universe in 1952, died at his Baguiati residence. Aich is survived by two daughters and two sons, one of whom manages a gym and fitness centre to fulfill his father’s dream of making the youth “healthy and strong”.
Quick Link – Manohar Aich passes away
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