Monday, August 19, 2013

People to know

Noted theatre personality Sh Ratan Thiyam appointed Chairperson of the National School of Drama

Activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was in the forefront of a campaign to persuade Maharashtra government to pass an anti-superstition and black magic bill, was shot dead in Pune on Tuesday morning by unknown assailants.


Malala Yousafjai wins 2013 childrens peace prize


Shushmita banerjee - Indian author shot dead in Afghanistan

Hun Sen- Cambodian new PM

Nina Davuluri - first Indian origin Miss America

Amit Kumar - silver medal in world wrestling championship

Google's 'Hummingbird' - replacing 'caffeine design'

Arundhati Bhattacharya - first woman head of SBI

Nobel prize for literature 2013 -  Alice Munro

President of Maldives - Abdulla Yameen or Yameen Abdul Gayoom
Nobel peace prize -organisation for prevention of chemical weapons


Peter Higgs and Francois Englert were awarded the prize “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.”

Magnus Carlsen - world chess champion

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