P.C.Alexander passed away
Padinjarethalakal Cherian Alexander, a former IAS officer
Served
in Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s staff
P.C.
Alexander was at different times Principal Secretary to two Prime Ministers-
Indira Gandhi and Rajiv
Gandhi,
Indian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, Governor of Tamil Nadu and,
Maharashtra, a United
Nations
civil servant and even a Rajya Sabha MP
After
her assassination in 1984, Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded his mother kept him on
in the same post
He was
helpful in getting Gandhi’s 260-odd letters to
Herman Kallenbach
SAFF under 16 Football: Pak lift
inaugural title; Beat India 2-1
Pakistan
lifted the inaugural title of the SAFF under 16 Football Championship
In
Kathmandu they beat India 2-1 in the final
Nepal
secured the third position after defeating Bangladesh 2-1
China’s first Aircraft Carrier
China launched its first aircraft carrier for a maiden run on 10
August 2011
About
300 meters long
It will
be used for training and as a model for future carriers
The
launch of the aircraft carrier is considered a part of Chinese naval strategy
for expanding eastwards for
the next
30 years
China
bought its aircraft carrier from Russia
The
aircraft carrier was known as Varyag in Russia
Picture: China’s first aircraft
carrier at its shipyard at Dalian Port in northeast China’s Liaoning province.
China launched the vessel, a refitted
former
Soviet craft, for a maiden run on August 10, 2011
SC maintains Death Sentence for Mohammad
Arif
Supreme Court maintained the death sentence for Mohammad
Arif alias Ashfaq in connection with the 2000 Red Fort attack
case
A
division bench comprising justice VS Sirpukar and justice TS Thakur dismissed
Ashfaq’s appeal which had
challenged
the death penalty awarded to him for the attack carried out on Delhi’s historic
17th century Red Fort
by the
sessions court and upheld by the Delhi high court while six others sentenced
for various jail terms had
been
acquitted
Food Ministry seeks inclusion of food
wastage as school subject
Food
Ministry has written to the HRD Ministry and the State Education Ministers to
include the “Food Wastage” as a subject at School level
Objective: To create
awareness amongst the youth. Inclusion of a chapter on this topic will be
instrumental in making children conscious
about the important issue from the very growing age
Food and
Consumer Affairs Minister, K V Thomas in his letter, has appealed for the
subject to be included in the syllabus of secondary and
higher
secondary students
Mr Thomas
also requested the HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to ensure that the National Council
of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
makes
appropriate revisions to the National Curriculum Framework to include food
wastage as a subject
At the
State Level, similar action can be taken by the individual state boards on the
issue
Annual Health Survey: Educated people go
more for sex determination
tests
Annual
Health Survey: More and more educated people in the cities across the country
are opting for sex determination tests compared to
people in
villages
Urban
areas are recording a decline in female birth rate
The survey
found that sex ratio at birth, under 0-4 years and in all ages in rural areas is
better than in urban areas
V V Giri Memorial Award-2010
Union
Minister of Labour & Employment Shri Mallikarjun Kharge conferred the V.V.Giri Memorial Award 2010 to Dr. Panchmal Dinanath
Shenoy as
recognition of outstanding contributions towards the understanding of the
emerging labour issues
The V.V. Giri Memorial Award was instituted in
2008 by V.V.Giri National Labour Institute, Ministry of Labour & Employment
to
commemorate the birth anniversary (10th August)
of former President of India late Shri V.V.Giri for outstanding research
contributions in the area of labour studies. The award carries an
amount of Rs.1 lakh and a citation
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