Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams - 29 July, 2014
Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams
29 July, 2014
Indian among the pre-finalists to receive humanitarian award
- An Indian humanist is among the pre-finalists of a humanitarian award worth $1 million to be handed over by Gonzaga University of northwestern United States in October.
- The award is given on behalf of The Opus Prize Foundation that recognises faith-based humanitarian work.
- Gollapalli Israel, the Indian pre-finalist is a Baptist priest who leads the Janodayam Social Education Centre in Tamil Nadu and provides education and human rights services to members of the Dalits.
- The other pre-finalists are U.S. based Joe Maier and Sister Teresa Fitzgerald.
Construction of bridge with world’s tallest pillar begins
- Construction of the world’s tallest railway bridge with the tallest pillar — it’ll be 141 metres-high — has begun near Noney in Manipur.
- The bridge, which spans over a gorge with an overall length of about 700 meters, is part of the 111-km long Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal broad gauge railway line under construction that will connect Manipur’s capital Imphal with the country’s railway network.
- This bridge is slated to become the tallest in the world from the point of view of pillar height surpassing the existing tallest of Mala-Rijeka viaduct on Belgrade-Bar railway line in Europe where the height of pillars is 139 m.
