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Meghalaya Govt & Israel agreed to set up ‘Centre of Excellence’

India and Israel
  • Meghalaya government has entered into a partnership with Israel with an aim to establish a one of a kind Centre of Excellence(CoE) on high-value vegetables in the state that will improve and promote the livelihoods of farmers.

Nobel Prize in Literature, 2020

Nobel Prize in Literature
  • The first female poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Wislawa Szymborska in 1996 is Louise Gluck for her poetry. Other women who have received the prize in the literature category were all writers and not poets.

Other winners of 2020 Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2020 was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna for “Development of a method for Genome Editing”.
  • The Nobel Prize, 2020 for Physics has been awarded to Andrea M Ghez, Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel for their research on black holes. They discovered the existence of a supergiant black hole in the centre of Milky Way.
  • The Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology has been jointly awarded to Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice and Michael Houhgton. The prize was awarded for the discovery of Hepatitis C.

2020 Nobel Prize in Peace announced

Nobel Prize 2020
  • The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP) which is the world’s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

Poet Nityananda Nayak to receive Sarala Puraskar

Sarala Puraskar
  • Nityanand Nayak will be conferred the prestigious Sarala Puraskar for his poetry work ‘Setebelaku Nathiba’ which was published in 2017. The poet will be felicitated with a cash award of `5 lakh and a citation.
  • For the contribution to fields of music and art, Ranjit Kumar Nag and Shyamsundar Pattanaik will be felicitated.

A well-known scientist & a Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina passes away

Mario Molina
  • A well-known scientist & a Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina passed away recently.
  • He shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frank Sherwood Rowland of the United States (US) and Paul Crutzen of the Netherlands for their 1970 research on the damage to the Ozone layer.

10th October is observed as National Postal Day

National Postal Day
  • 10 October, as an extension of World Post Day, which is celebrated on 9 October. The Day aims to commemorate the role played by the Indian postal department for the past 150 years.

Mukesh Ambani tops the Forbes India Rich List 2020

Mukesh Ambani
  • The Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani, has topped the Forbes India Rich list for 2020.
  • Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani, with a net worth of $25.2 billion got the 2nd position. Tech tycoon Shiv Nadar acquired the third spot with a net worth of $20.4 billion.

First woman chief justice of Kerala KK Usha passes away

KK Usha
  • Former Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court, Justice KK Usha, passed away. She served as a judge from 1991 to 2000.
  • Justice Usha became the first woman to join the High Court Judiciary from the Bar and became a Chief Justice.

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