09 Oct 2014 Current Affairs

• 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to the American duo of Eric Betzig andWilliam Moerner alongwith Stefan Hell from Germany.  
  • They bag the coveted award for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy which helps us see finer details compared to the earlier ones.
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• 'World Post Day 2014' is celebrated across the globe today on October 9.  
  • The day marks the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 in Bern (Switzerland). 
  • The Posts in many countries use the event to introduce or promote new postal products and services.
  • India has declared the whole week starting today as the National Postal Week till October 15. 
  10 October: Savings Bank Day 
  11 October: Mails Day 
  13 October: Philatel Day
  14 October: Business Development Day
  15 October: Personal Life Insurance Day
  • Insurance claims settlement will be given priority on 15th with intention to bring down pendency to zero. 
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• OECD declares 'Canberra' as the best place in the world to live.  
  • Australia also tops the country-wise ranking with Norway coming at second.
  • The survey featured 362 regions and 34 countries across the world for the assessment.
  • It employed nine measures of wellbeing, including income, education, jobs, safety, health and environment for the ranking.
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• Anoop Jain clinches the 'Waislitz Global Citizen Award' for the year 2014.   
  • The honour recognize his efforts in founding 'Humanure Power' (HP) in Bihar which deal with building community sanitation facilities across rural regions. 
  • The award carried a cash prize of 100000 US dollar.
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• Pratima Dharm bags another first; becomes the first Hindu chaplain at the Georgetown University (US).  
  • She will serve the religious needs of its Hindu students at this oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the country.
  • Its notable that she has also served as the first Hindu chaplain in the US Army.
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• Union Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) approves the appointment of Cramer Ball as Chief Executive Officer of Jet Airways.  
  • He, so far, was serving as the acting CEO after the resignation of the Gary Kenneth Toomey.
  • He now gets a 3-year term as the full-time CEO till 2017. 
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• Nokia pulls plug on its Chennai phone manufacturing unit.  
  • The plant, once Nokia's biggest, is embroiled in a long standing tax-dispute with the central government.
  • All the operations will be stopped from the first of November leaving future of some 6,600 full-time workers uncertain.
  • The factory, excluded from the Microsoft-Nokia deal, has been acting as a contract manufacturer for Microsoft.
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