Daily Current Affairs Updates: 08 October 2014

1) 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry announced: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 to Eric Betzig Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA,Stefan W. HellMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany and William E. Moerner Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA “for the development of...

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General Awareness Questions asked in IBPS PO IV Exam: 11 October 2014 (Morning Shift)

Friends.. Here are some GA questions asked in todays' morning shift IBPS PO Online Exam. Thanks to Pooja Mishra, Harikumar, Vinod KM, Ashraf Mohammad and Sneha Sharma for sharing the questions with us. Will useful for those having exams in coming days. 1) Currency of Spain? - Euro 2) Which freedom fighter was killed during protest of Simon Commission?- Lala lajpat Rai 3) Who is heading the commitee to take decision on Unclaimed PPF accounts...

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Karnataka Circle Postal/Sorting Assistant Final Results Declared

Friends.. After long wait, the first final result of a Circle is out. Karnataka Circle has on 10 October 2014 published the final results of PA/SA Direct Recruitment for the year 2013-2014. They have published the list of 628 provisionally selected candidates in the examination held on 21-04-2014. The write up along with the result read as follows: 1. The list is not in the order of merit. 2. All the candidates in the list have qualified...

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Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 to Patrick Modiano

Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014  The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 is awarded to the French author Patrick Modiano “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”. -->  Paris' literary doyen Patrick Modiano has won literature's most coveted price for his unparalleled mastery in portraying loss and legacy. --> The 69-years-old...

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Daily Current Affairs: 07 October 2014

1) Karnataka HC rejected Jayalalithaa bail plea: In yet another setback to AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday refused to release her on bail and rejected her plea for suspending the four-year prison sentence imposed by the trial court on September 27 in the disproportionate assets case. The court also rejected similar pleas of the other convicts in the case — V.K. Sasikala, V.N. Sudhakaran and J. Elavarasi....

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 announced  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 to Eric Betzig Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA, Stefan W. Hell Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany and William E. Moerner Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA “for...

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Daily Current Affairs for exams: 06 October 2014

1) Nobel Prize for medicine 2014 announced: Nobel Prize for medicine 2014 awarded to British-American researcher John O'Keefe alongwith Norwegian couple, Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser for their discovery of the brain's GPS system.  They revealed the mystery behind how the brain knows where we are and is able to navigate from one place to another. Read details: http://goo.gl/EJOwFZ 2) Eid-ul-Zuha celebrated across the nation: Lakhs...

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Nobel Prize for Physics 2014

Nobel Prize for Physics 2014 announced  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan Hiroshi Amano Nagoya University, Japan and Shuji Nakamura University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white...

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September 2014 Current Affairs PDF: Fourth Week

Current Affairs PDF September 2014 Fourth Week Download as PDF- Click Here 1) Name the campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 September 2014 to make India a manufacturing hub? Ans. Make In India Campaign Note: The campaign is aimed to attract foreign companies to set up their manufacturing units in India and to seek greater foreign investment. 2) Name the scheme launched by Union Government on 25 September 2014...

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 announced  The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was divided with one half to John O´Keefe and the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain" --> Keefe is currently director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University College London. -->...

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Daily Current Affairs Updates: 05 October 2014

1) Shah Rukh Khan received Global Diversity Award: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has been honoured with Global Diversity Award 2014 by British parliament for his contribution to cinema. House of Commons speaker John Bercow presented the award to Shah Rukh Saturday. "Now (in) parliament to receive the Global Diversity Award... Humbled and grateful. Thank you," he tweeted before the ceremony. The past recipients of the award include megastar...

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