Last Six Month Updates For IBPS Part 16

Sensitive portrayal of life for young women facing the threat of the diktat of khap panchayats in Haryana has earned Ankita Anand, a journalist-writer the European Commisions’s prestigious Lorenzo Natali Media prize for 2015.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Major General Jai Shankar Menon to head the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force which monitors the Syria – Israel ceasefire in the Golan Heights. Menon secceeds Lieutenant General Purna Chandra Thapa of Nepal. Menon earlier has served with UN interim force in Lebanon from 2007 to 2009 and was Additional Director General for equipment management in the Indian Army.

The UK and India have agreed to strengthen their economic cooperation in infrastructure and financial services as they vowed to address cross- border tax evasion and avoidance. Arun Jaitley who held talks with his UK counterpart George Osborne as part of the 8th UK-India economic and financial Dialogue and had a series of meetings with UK based investors and fund manager.

Defense Minister Mahohar Parrikar hoisted the largest Tricolour in the country a top the tallest pole at PAHARI MANDIR IN RANCHI. I feel elated to unfurl the country’s tallest, biggest and most beautiful tricolor on the occasion of 119th birth anniversary of NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE. The country’s largest and tallest tricolor, 96 ft X 64ft in dimension was flying on a 250ft high pole in Faridabad.

Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf baaned for 5 years by the BCCI after its disciplinary committee found him guilty of corrupt practices and bringing the game into disrepute. Rauf has been withdrawn by Pakistan from the ICC’s elite panel after the allegations against him broke out.

Army Lieutenant General John Nichoson was appointed as the commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan. He succeeded US General John Campbell who has been leading the Afghan operation for nearly 18 month. HE has served in multiple capacities like chief of staff of operations for the international security assistance force and US force- Afghanistan and many more.

China is set to explore the Antarctic and the deep sea this year with newly developed equipment. The state oceanic administration will establish an air service team for Antarctic exploration. The SOA will conduct the 7th Arctic research expedition in 2016 and try to arrange a joint Arctic Ocean expedition with Russia for the first time.

Tamar Hahn of Israel took the charge as the director of the united nations information in Buenos Aires that serves Argentina and Uraguay. She was appointed by UN secretary – General Ban Ki-moon. Hahn was the Regional Adviser for Resource Mobilization and partnerships at the UNFPA (United Nation Population Fund) Regional office for Latin America and Caribbean in panama city since 2013.

Star sports Pro Kabaddi League signed actor Rana Daggubati as their brand ambassador for the 3rd season. The new face of star sports pro kabaddi will promote the sport and league across medium to kabaddi enthusiasts.

Chinese authorities have named an asteroid after scientist Tu Youyou who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or medicine for her work with artemisinin which is now widely used to fight malaria. To Youyou was born on December 30 1930.
Kenyan pacemaker Gideon Kipketer won the men’s race in an expected all – East African clean sweep of the podium by setting a new course record in the 13th standard chartered Mumbai marathon.
FILM TITLI directed by debutant kanu behl and co - produced by YRF and DBP has won the best first foreign film prize by the French Syndicate of Cinema critics. The first Indian film has won this award.

Chinese researchers have engineered a liver tissue in the lab which closely mimics the organ’s complicated functions more effectively a finding that can lead to the development of functional liver tissue for clinical applications and drug screening. A new Microfluidies based tissue was built that copied the liver’s complex lobules and the organ’ s tiny structures that resemble wheels with spokes reported lead author JINYI WANG PROFESSOR at NORTHWEST A AND F UNIVERSITY.