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Lydia Davis won the Man Booker prize
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Lydia Davis, American short story writerhas won the Man Booker Internationalprize 2013.
Her works includes the storycollections Break It Down (1986), Samuel
Johnson Is Indignant(2002) and Varietiesof Disturbance (2007).
Davis, 65, was chosen from a heavyweightlist of ten contenders including U.R.Ananthamurthy of India, Chinese writerYan Lianke and Vladimir Sorokin of Russia.
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Indian as US circuit court judge
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Srikanth Sreenivasan became thefirst South Asian to hold the postof judge on the powerful appealscourt for the American capital.
Born in Chandigarh, he is now thejudge on the US Court of Appealsfor the District of ColumbiaCircuit, often called the nation'ssecond-highest court.
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New DRDO chief
Avinash Chander, the man behind Agniseries of missiles, was on Fridayappointed as the new Scientific Adviserto the Defence Minister and Director-General of Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation (DRDO).
He will also hold the post of Secretary,Department of Defence Research andDevelopment. He succeeds V. K.Saraswat
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Rituparno Ghosh passed away
Illustrated Bengali film maker, Rituparno Ghosh,passed away on 30 May 2013 due to cardiacarrest. He started his career in advertising andhis directional debut was Hirer Angti (Thediamond ring).
Ghosh received a National film award for BestDirector for his Bengali film Abohoman starring
Jishu Sengupta, Ananya Chatterjee. Some of hisfilms include 'Chokher Bali', 'Last Lear', 'UnisheApril' and 'Raincoat.
He had bagged 12 National Awards
For "Arekti Premer Golpo", "Memories In March"and "Chitrangada", he faced the camera to showhis acting skills.
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Seaplane launched
Kerala launched the country's firsttourist seaplane service.
The maiden service betweenAshtamudi Lake here and
Punnamada in Alappuzha, however,was called off due to bad weather.
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Best Athletes
Olympian K T Irfan and TintuLuka were selected as the BestAthletes during the first KeralaState Athletic Associationawards.
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New record set
David Liano Gonzales, the Mexicanclimber became the first person toclimb Mount Everest from bothsides of the mountain in the sameseason
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MCOCA, the new sensational act
Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA) is lawenacted by Maharashtra state in India in 1999 to combat organisedcrime and terrorism.
The preamble to MCOCA says that "the existing legal framework, i.e.
the penal and procedural laws and the adjudicatory system, are found tobe rather inadequate to curb or control the menace of organised crime.Government has, therefore, decided to enact a special law with stringentand deterrent provisions including in certain circumstances power tointercept wire, electronic or oral communication to control the menaceof organised crime."
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Nicobar islands declared a world biosphere
reserve
UNESCO under its Man and theBiosphere Programme, hasadded The Great Nicobar islandsto the World Network ofBiosphere Reserves which is thehome to indigenous Shompen
people. It is the 9th Indian reserve to be
added to the list.
It incorporates two Nationalparks, the larger Campbell Bay
National Park on the northernpart of the island, and GalatheaNational Park.
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IndoChina relation
Chindia is a portmanteau word that refersto China and India together in general. Thecredit of coining the now popular term goesto Indian MP Jairam Ramesh.
China is perceived to be strongin manufacturing and infrastructure while Indiais perceived to be strong in services and IT.China is stronger in hardware while India isstronger in software. China is stronger inphysical markets while India is stronger
in financial markets.
To utilize these merits China and India willintroduce joint venture products in the market.
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S K Roy to be new LIC chairman
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The government has decided toappoint S K Roy the new chairmanof Life Insurance Corporation ofIndia.
He is currently the MD of LIC.
He will be posted in place ofretired chairman D K Mehrotra
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AirAsia India appoints TCS' S Ramadorai
as Chairman
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Ramadorai is the Non-Independent, Non-Executive ViceChairman of Tata ConsultancyServices where he was CEO from1996 until 2009
He is also a cabinet ranked official
in Manmohan Singh's governmentas he is an advisor to the PrimeMinister in the National Councilon Skill Development.
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Bharti Airtel completes 5 per cent stake
sale to Qatar Foundation
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Bharti Airtel has completedthe allotment of 199.87million new equity shares,representing 5 per cent equitystake in the company, to QatarFoundation Endowment.
"We are delighted that ourinvestment received overwhelmingsupport from Bharti Airtel'sexisting shareholders and lookforward to supporting the long
term strategic growth of thecompany." Qatar FoundationEndowment acting CEO Rashid Al-Naimi said.
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Iran got new reformist president
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Iran elected the reformist, Hasan
Rouhani, as the new president ofthe nation with 50.67
He has been a member ofthe Assembly of Experts since1999,member of the Expediency
Council since 1991,member ofthe Supreme National SecurityCouncil since 1989,and head ofthe Center for Strategic Researchsince 1992.[ % votes.
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Apple unveils new operating system iOS 7
for iPhones
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Apple officially unveiled the next
generation of the iOS, the iOS 7.
Apple CEO Tim Cook called it thebiggest change to the platformsince the iPhone was introducedfive years ago.
Apple also introduced iTunesradio recently
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Czech PM Petr Necas resigns over aide
scandal
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Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas
has resigned in an effort to endpolitical turmoil over a corruptioninquiry.
His governing coalition will try toform a new government led by
someone nominated by his CivicDemocratic Party (ODS).
Mr Necas announced he wouldquit after prosecutors charged hischief of staff with corruption and
abuse of power
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Chinas Tianhe-2 is fastest
supercomputer
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Tianhe-2, a supercomputerdeveloped by Chinas National
University of Defense Technology,achieved processing speeds of33.86 petaflops (1000 trillioncalculations) per second
Its main rival, the U.S.-designedTitan, had achieved a performanceof 17.59 petaflops per second
Also known as the Milky Way-2
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Justin Rose won U S Open golf
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Justin Rose became the first
Englishman for 43 years to win theU S Open golf tournament.
He carded a final-round 70 at theMerion golf course in Pennsylvaniato claim the biggest prize of his
career to date. He became the first English player
to win a major since Nick Faldo in1996 and the first to win the U.S.Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970.
Jason Day and Phil
Mickelson finished in a tie forsecond at 283, two strokes back.Defending champion WebbSimpson finished in a tie for 32nd.
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Apollo Tyres acquires Cooper Tires
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Apollo Tyres has signed an
agreement to acquire Cooper Tireand Rubber company under awholly-owned subsidiary of Apollovia transaction valued atapproximately Rs. 14,500 crores
With this acquisition, Apollobecame the 7th largest tyre makerin the world.
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National cycling coach Ruma Chatterjee
killed in hit-and-run near Delhi
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Former India international cyclist
and current chief coach of CyclingFederation of India RumaChatterjee was killed in a roadaccident here early Tuesdaymorning.
Ruma, who hails from Kolkata, wasattending a national camp ahead ofthe Indian team's visit toSwitzerland for training.
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Tharoors new book
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Union Minister of State for Human
Resource Development ShashiTharoor's latest editedbook brings together India's youngparliamentarians, cutting acrossideologies, geographies and
political affiliations. The young men and women who
have contributed to 'India: TheFuture is Now' provide aperspective on a wide range of
sectors, ranging from technologyto infrastructure, healthcare,education and environmentalissues.
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Kochi to host WEF India meet in November
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The World Economic Forum
(WEF)India 2013 meet will be heldin Kochi during November 8-9.
The WEF decision will transform
Kerala into an investor-friendlyregion further, said Chief Minister
Oommen Chandy in the presenceof Susanth Palakurthu Rao, SeniorDirector and Head of WEF, Asiaregion.
The World Economic
Forum (WEF) is a Swiss non-profit foundation, basedin Cologny, Geneva.
First named the "European ManagementForum"
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Heat win NBA
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Miami Heat won their 2nd
consecutive NBA title beating SanAntonio Spurs.
LeBron James for the 2nd seasonstarred in Heats victory.
He was also named MVP in thefinals.
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Snowden, the whistleblower
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Edward Snowden, former technical
assistant of National SecurityAgency's data-collecting programs.
PRISM - nationalsecurity electronicsurveillance program operated by
the United States NationalSecurity Agency
His controversial statementsrevealed the leaking of phone andinternet by US security agencies.
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New high commissioner to Pak
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India's old Pakistan-hand TCA
Raghavan, currently country's topenvoy in Singapore, has beenappointed as the new HighCommissioner in Islamabad.
A 1982-batch IFS officer, Raghavan,
who earlier served as DeputyHigh Commissioner in Islamabad10 years ago, will replace SharatSabharwal, who would bereturning this month end from
Islamabad
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