General Awareness :In the News November, 2014
(General Awareness For Bank's Exams)
In the news
November - 2014
Indian-origin radiographer elected as the President of ISRRT
- Dr Fawzia Peer, who has been a radiographer for three decades, is the Manager of the Department of Nuclear Medicine and also an honorary lecturer at the Albert Luthuli Central Hospital’s Nuclear Medicine Department in Durban.
Robin Raphel
- The U.S. State Department has launched a counterintelligence investigation against Robin Raphel (67), a former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia who served in India and Pakistan, and also as an advisor on Israel, West Asia and as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Keith Vaz
- Indian-origin British politician Keith Vaz has been named as the Labour MP of the year 2014 for his valuable work for underrepresented, deprived and minority sections of the country.
M.V. Raghavan
- Veteran Communist leader and Communist Marxist Party (CMP) general
secretary M.V. Raghavan passed away at the Pariyaram Medical College
Hospital (PMCH). He was 81.
. - He had also been founder chairman of the Pariyaram Medical College (PMC) started in the cooperative sector. He had earlier founded the Pappinissery Visha Chikilsa Society (PVCS) which runs a snake park and an Ayurveda medical college, among others.
Mitchell Johnson
- It was double delight Mitchell Johnson as the Australian fast bowler declared ICC Cricketer of the Year as well as the ICC Test cricketer of the Year.
- The 33-year-old has won the coveted Cricketer of the Year award for the second time in his career while he is only third Australian after Ricky Ponting (2006) and Michael Clarke (2013) to win the Test Cricketer of the Year award.
Farhan Akhtar
- Bollywood actor-director Farhan Akhtar has become the first man in UN Women’s history to be appointed its Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia.
- In his new role, the 40-year-old actor will serve as an advocate for UN Women’s newly-launched HeForShe initiative for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
N. Ram
- N. Ram, former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu and chairman of Kasturi and Sons, publishers of The Hindu, has been selected for the first N. Ramachandran Foundation Award.
- The former Chief Justice of India, M.N. Venkatachaliah, would present the award at a function to be held on November 25, Foundation president B.R.P. Bhaskar said.
Tabare Vazquez
- Left-leaning former President Tabare Vazquez won the most votes in Uruguay’s presidential election, but he fell short of the outright majority needed to avoid a Nov. 30 runoff, exit polls said.
- Three polls indicated that Mr. Vazquez, 74, the candidate of the outgoing president’s Broad Front coalition, would face centre-right challenger Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, 41, of the National Party in a second-round vote.
