Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams - 26 March, 2014

Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams

Medical diagnostics and imaging equipment company GE Healthcare,said it was jointly investing Rs.720 crore with U.S.-based Cancer Treatment Services International (CTSI) to set up a chain of 25 cancer detection and treatment centres across the country.
GE Healthcare would put a minor portion into the $120-million programme planned over the next five years.
With the new tie-up format, the diagnostics-focussed company had made its closest approach towards treating a disease anywhere in the world.
GE was also developing low-cost diagnostic technologies ‘in India and for India’ for various diseases, 100 of them targeting cancer alone. It recently launched a low-cost version of PET-CT that is widely used to find cancerous tumours.
GE would provide equipment while CTSI, which set up the 250-bed American Oncology Institute in Hyderabad in 2012, would take care of treatment, doctors, medical personnel and related services.

Mount Everest - the world's highest mountain - may have been born as Asia was squeezed like a tube of toothpaste after India smashed into the rest of the continent, scientists say.
The unexpectedly prolonged collision led to the formation of the Himalayas and then caused them to grow ever taller.
These mountains are home to the world's 100 highest mountain peaks, including the Everest.
Moresi and colleagues have developed a computer model that explains what happens when continents collide.
The model shows that when one continent bears thick or buoyant crust that blocks subduction, the other continent gets squeezed like a tube of toothpaste and folds around the blockage, creating a complex array of geophysical features.
It suggests that as India shoves into Eurasia, China and South-East Asia initially resist being pushed underneath, and then get pushed aside instead.
The process unclogs the subduction zone and allows India to keep pushing into Eurasia, raising up Mount Everest and its towering siblings.

Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams will have a rematch of their 2013 final in the Miami WTA semi-finals after both advanced in formidable style.
Sharapova, who has not beaten the world number one American since 2004 and has lost 14 consecutive matches in the rivalry, regained her big-match confidence after twice being pushed to three sets by defeating Petra Kvitova 7-5, 6-1.
Fourth seed Sharapova's 90-minute victory over the Kvitova, a fellow Wimbledon champion, was a relief for five-time Miami finalist Sharapova, who had faced huge battle in her previous two victories.

North Korea test-fired two missiles into the sea, prompting condemnation from South Korea, Japan and the United States.
It was the latest of several such launches , as South Korean, Japanese and US leaders criticised North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme at a meeting in the Netherlands.
The missiles were fired from north of Pyongyang and flew around 650 kilometres before falling into the waters east of the Korean Peninsula.
The United States said the latest launches of No-Dong type missiles, as well as those of Scud missiles on March 3 and February 27, violated UN Security Council resolutions that established missile moratoriums for Pyongyang.