Date:
Oct 11, 2014
Answer
the following, which are ‘CURRENTLY IN NEWS’:
Answer
should NOT exceed 30 words each
[10*3=30]
(01) Panama Canal
Panama Canal that connects Atlantic Ocean with Pacific Ocean celebrated its 100th anniversary recently
(02) Gaurav Gill
Indian car racer, who won the Malaysian Rally
recently.
(03) Umbrella Revolution
At Hong Kong; people demonstrate in Hong
Kong demanding for the democratic government. This revolution is
termed as “Umbrella Revolution”
(04) Operation Matanga
It is a project in Tamil Nadu to conserve elephants
and evolve ways to reduce human-animal conflict
(05) Justice R Banumathi
Justice R Banumathi has become the first woman judge
from Tamil Nadu to be elevated to the Supreme Court. She is only the sixth
woman judge of the Supreme Court since independence.
(06) Bipin Chandra
Bipan Chandra - Indian historian, specialising in
economic and political history of modern India, who passed away recently. He
specialized on the Indian independence movement and is considered to be one India 's
foremost scholars on Mahatma Gandhi. His books: The Rise and Growth of
Economic Nationalism, Communalism in Modern India.
(07) Manur Inscription
Belongs to the Pandya Kingdom; In Tirunelveli of
Tamil Nadu; inscription says that, Tamil Nadu had an elected judiciary more
than 1200years ago with rules stipulating that the judges should have sterling
character, should have passed legal treatises and so on.
(08) Subash Khot
Indian origin who have been awarded with prestigious
international ward in the field of Mathematics
(09) ‘CitizenFour’
It is a documentary film directed by Laura Poitras
concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal.
(10) NOTTO
National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation; function
as apex centre for All India activities of coordination and networking for
procurement and distribution of Organs and Tissues and registry of Organs and
Tissues Donation and Transplantation in the country.
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