9 October 2015 Current Affair Updates |Daily GK Download
1. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2015 is awarded to
the Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich "for her
polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".
2. Steve Simon has been named as the new Chief
Executive of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Earlier he was the
Tournament Director and Chief Operating Officer of the BNP Paribas Open
Indian Wells Tennis Tournament. Simon (American) succeeds Stacey
Allaster.
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9 October 2015 Current Affair Updates |Daily GK Download |
3. Bollywood actor Sidharth Malhotra has been named the
first Indian ambassador for Tourism New Zealand, which markets New
Zealand as a visitor destination.
4. Saudi blogger and social activist Raif Badawi and
British poet and critic James Fenton were jointly awarded with the 2015
PEN Pinter Prize. While, due to Badawi's imprisonment, his award was
accepted by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and campaigner for Raif
Badawi.
5. INS Astradharini, the first indigenously-designed
and built torpedo launch and recovery vessel commissioned into the
Indian Navy. INS Astradharini is an advanced replacement for INS
Astravahini which was decommissioned earlier.
6. Indian cyclist Deborah Herold bagged one gold, three
silver and one bronze medal in the Taiwan Cup Track International
Classic I Tournament 2015 held at the Hsin Chu Velodrome, Taiwan. With
this, she became the first ever Indian cyclist to win in women's elite
section.
7. South Korea's Hoesung Lee has been elected as the
new head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN
body tasked with assessing climate science at its 42nd session in
Dubrovnik, Croatia. He succeeded India’s R.K. Pachauri.
8. An expert committee under the Chairmanship of former
Secretary General of the Lok Sabha, P.D.T. Achary, and formed by the
Speaker of the Delhi Assembly Ram Niwas Goel has proposed a huge 316%
salary increase for the MLAs of Delhi in its report. The committee
proposed raising the salary from present Rs. 12,000 to Rs. 50,000 per
month.
9. Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, Dr. Sanjeev
Kumar Balyan launched ‘KISAN Project’ (C(K)rop Insurance using Space
technology And geoiNformatics) that seeks to speed up payment of crop
insurance claims to farmers and provide accurate assessment of crop
damage. An Android-based app for collection of data of hailstorm with
assistance from ISRO to assess large-scale damage to standing crops was
also launched.
10. International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected the
economic growth rate of 7.5 percent for India in 2016 as against
China's 6.3 percent. In its latest World Economic Outlook Update, IMF
said growth in India is expected to rise above the rates in other major
emerging market economies.
11. Russia's women volleyball team beat the Netherlands
to win 2015 Women's European Volleyball Championship held in Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
12. Russia’s Sergey Karjakin won the 2015 FIDE World
Chess Cup by beating Peter Svidler (Russia) by 6-4 in the final.
Championship was held in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku.
13. IFS officer Vinay Mohan Kwatra was appointed as
Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in Prime Minister's Office for three
years. Kwatra, a 1988 batch Indian Foreign Service officer will be
replacing IFS officer Jawed Ashraf in the PMO.
14. National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd
(NCDEX) signed an agreement with Kotak Mahindra Bank. Under the
agreement, farmers and traders who have kept their commodities in
NCDEX-approved warehouses, can use such commodities as collateral for
availing financial assistance from Kotak Mahindra Bank.