Employment News 27 August 2013

Employment News 27 August 2013 , Bamura.com Gk Updates 2013

Brazil's foreign minister resigns

Brazil's foreign minister Antonio Patriota has resigned following an embarrassing diplomatic maneuver involving neighboring Bolivia.

A spokeswoman for the presidency says Patriota will now head to New York to take that spot at the UN.

Patriota's resignation comes a day after a Brazilian diplomat spirited into the country a Bolivian opposition senator who had been holed up in the Brazilian Embassy in La Paz for more than a year.

India and Iraq singed MoUs during the visit of Nouri al-Maliki to India

Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of Republic of Iraq was on a state visit to India.

This was the first visit of Maliki to India. During his visit, he was accompanied by a high-level delegation that comprised ministers, senior officials and business leaders.

MoU in the field of Energy between the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas of the Republic of India and the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq.

MoU between the Ministry of External Affairs of the Republic of India and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq on Foreign Office Consultations.

MOU between the Ministry of Water Resources of the Republic of India and the Ministry of Water Resources of the Republic of Iraq on Bilateral Cooperation in Water Resources Development and management.

Nouri al-Maliki also ensured that his government would speed up the visa procedures for investments and opening up of the branches of Indian Banks in Iraq and will provide all possible help to Indian industries willing to set up their projects in Iraq.

Hyderabad pharma company unveils new typhoid vaccine

Bharat Biotech on Monday launched what it claimed was the world's first clinically proven typhoid conjugate vaccine, Typbar - TCV, for infants above six-months as well as adults.

According to Bharat Biotech chairman and managing director Krishna M Ella, the typhoid conjugate vaccine would be priced higher than its existing typhoid vaccine that costs Rs 180 per dose. 

However, the company would follow the dual pricing model, wherein the vaccine for public usage would be pegged lower than for the product being sold in the private market.

Typhoid is a common disease in the Indian subcontinent that is transmitted through food or drink contaminated by the faeces or urine of infected people. 

According to a World Health Organization report, 90% of the typhoid deaths occur in Asia and the disease persists mainly in children under five years.

The company has commenced commercial production of Typbar-TCV in pre-filled syringes at its vaccine production facility in Genome Valley here. 

The plant has a capacity to produce 10 million doses each year, which is expandable to 50 million doses per year in the future

Amitabh Bachchan joined UN Campaign The World Needs More

Bollywood actor and UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) Goodwill Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan on 23 August 2013 joined the UN and its humanitarian partners to promote The World Needs More global campaign.

The campaign seeks to turn words into real assistance for communities affected by humanitarian crises. 

It was launched on 19 August 2013.

Besides Amitabh Bachchan, international celebrities who have supported the campaign, includes Beyonce, Kid President, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Lopez, LL Cool J, Geena Davis, Trey Songz and Christina Applegate

The World Needs More campaign was produced in collaboration with Leo Burnett New York.

It allows brands and the public to sponsor a word (such as Education, Inclusion, Strength, Empowerment or Dialogue) they believe the world could use more of. Gucci, Intel, Western Union, Barclays Bank, and Crescent Enterprises have already sponsored words.

Amitabh Bachchan was appointed a Goodwill ambassador of UNICEF April 2005. 

Since 2002 he has supported UNICEF’s efforts in collaboration with partners to boost immunizations against polio especially in India.

Google plans to turn self-driving cars into robo taxi service

Google's self-driving cars use the Toyota Prius, a full-hybrid hatchback that typically costs around $25,000 in the US, and retrofit these with an array of sensors, cameras and computers. 

Although no official prices for the finished vehicles have been released, it's expected that the necessary technology costs upwards of $100,000. 

It would be an incredible risk for Google to cough up the funds necessary to start manufacturing vehicles, and although the self-driving cars are operated from within Google X (an R&D lab that houses all of the company's 'moonshots' or high-risk projects) it still seems more likely that the company will continue to explore alternative avenues.

Google's cars have so far only been involved in two accidents — one involved the car being rear-ended after stopping at a red light and the other occurred after a human driver took control of the vehicle.

China developed military attack helicopter

The Chinese military has launched the first ingenuously developed military attack helicopter WZ-10 successfully for its first air-to-air missile.

State-run Xinhua news agency reported today that the WZ-10, meaning "armed helicopter", carried out the launch during a live-fire drill involving army aviation troops of the People's Liberation Army in the eastern waters off south China's Guangdong Province last week. 

The WZ-10 is designed primarily for anti-tank missions and was first seen in public at the 9th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in the southern city of Zhuhai in Guangdong in 2012.

Three senior advocates — L. Nageswara Rao, Santosh Kumar Bagaria and K.V. Viswanathan — have been appointed as Additional Solicitors General in the Supreme Court for a period of three years.

They will be in addition to the existing ASGs and handle various cases assigned to them and would also assist the Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati and Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran.

The lengthy process of going through a volley of amendments to the Bill and subsequent division, demanded by many members, took more than three hours as the House sat till late on Monday night to complete the tedious legislative process.