3rd July 2015 Daily Current Affair Updates|Daily GK Updates
1.
Noted scientist Sanjeev Galande has been selected for the prestigious
G D Birla award for 2014 for his pioneering research in the field of
epigenetics and molecular cell biology. Galande is a professor at the
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune and
is widely respected for his works in genomics and related areas. He is
the 24th recipient of the award.
2.
The government appointed U.P. Singh, a Joint Secretary in Oil
Ministry, as the interim chairman of state-run Oil India Ltd, after
appointment of a regular head was delayed because of questions being
raised on the shortlisted candidate. U.P. Singh, Joint Secretary
(Exploration), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas assumed the
additional charge of Chairman and Managing Director in place of S.K.
Srivastava who superannuated.
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3.
Balvender Kumar IAS (UP: 1981) took over as Secretary Ministry of
Mines in New Delhi. Before joining the Ministry of Mines, Balvender
Kumar was holding the charge of Vice-Chairman, Delhi Development
Authority under Ministry of Urban Development. He took over the charge
from Dr. Anup K. Pujari.
4.
China has become successful in making first fully indigenous bullet
train. It has began testing the first bullet train completely made from
locally produced parts. This move of China is being considered as a
major step in eliminating dependence on import of bullet train from
Germany, Canada and Japan. Till now most of the parts of bullet trains
made by China were imported from abroad.
5.
Literacy rate in rural areas was pegged at 71 percent in 2014,
compared to 86 percent in urban areas, while among the age group of
seven years and above, male literacy rate was found higher than the
female literacy rate, according to NSSO survey. Among the age group of
seven year and above, the male literacy rate was registered at 83 per
cent vis-a-vis the female literacy rate of 67 per cent.
6.
Congress leader K.A. Sabarinathan was sworn-in as a legislator of the
Kerala legislative assembly. In the results for the Aruvikara
by-election announced, Sabarinathan, 31, secured 56,448 votes to defeat
former speaker and minister M. Vijayakumar, 67, of the Communist Party
of India-Marxist (CPI-M), who secured 46,320 votes.
7.
Greece became the first developed nation to default on International
Monetary Fund (IMF) debt. It became a defaulter after it missed the
deadline for payment of 1.7 billion dollar (1.5 billion euro) to IMF.
According to IMF's Fund spokesman Gerry Rice, Greece has too much debt
to return and it can get finance from the IMF only if it repays the
loan.
8.
Dr. Anup K. Pujari took over as Secretary Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSME). He is a 80th batch IAS officer. He succeeds Madhav
Lal who superannuated on June, 30 2015. Before joining the Ministry of
MSME, Dr. Pujari was holding the charge of Secretary, Mines. Pujari has
served the Central and Karnataka Govt. in various capacities.
9.
Country’s largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) announced its tie-up
with travel company MakeMyTrip.com. This partnership includes
partnership with personal banking unit for consumer facing propositions –
including EMIs on purchase of holidays & international travel,
customized travel products like Forex cards and travel products. On the
other hand MakeMyTrip customers will be able to access special offers
from SBI on debit/credit cards and personal financing.
10.
Finland's Matti Makkonen, the man responsible for conceiving the idea
of short messaging service (SMS) technology, passed away following
chronic illness. He was also known as ‘Father of SMS’. He was 63.
