Today current news of 19 September 2013

Today current news of 19 September 2013
IBM to invest $1 billion in Linux

IBM said it would invest $1 billion in new Linux and open source technologies for its servers in a bid to boost efficiency for big data and cloud computing.

IBM vice president Brad McCredie said--Many companies are struggling to manage big data and cloud computing using commodity servers based on decades-old, PC era technology.

These servers are quickly overrun by data which triggers the purchase of more servers, creating unsustainable server sprawl.

The era of big data calls for a new approach to IT systems; one that is open, customizable, and designed from the ground up to handle big data and cloud workloads.


Linux is an open-source operating system which can be used in servers, personal computers and other devices

P. Sudhakar Appointed as the CMD of Electronics Corporation of India Limited

P. Sudhakar took over as the Chairman & Managing Director of the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) on 16 September 2013.

He was working with ECIL since 1979 and was holding the Office of the Director (Technical) and acting CMD, prior to this appointment.

P. Sudhakar is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh and holds a Masters in Integrated Electronics and Circuits from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

He specialised in the areas of design, development, manufacturing, testing and commissioning. He is closely involved with the control and automation systems of all the operating nuclear power plants of the country.

GSAT-7 ---- is the country’s first full-fledged military communications satellite and it will be used by the Navy for its ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications.
ISRO has earlier said the satellite would be functionally readied for its user by the end of September. Launched on August 30 from Kourou in French Guiana, the multi-band satellite has transponders operating in the UHF, S, C and Ku-bands. GSAT-7 is positioned in its planned orbital slot of 74 degrees East longitude.


Indian rollerskater Rohan Kokane entered into Guinness Book

Rohan Kokane, a 12 year old Indian roller skating enthusiast, made it into the 2014 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records released on 12 September 2013.

He is one of the youngest new record breakers to make it into the Guinness Book.
About Rohan Kokane

He is from Belgaum in Karnataka
He is studying VII class in St. Xavier’s High School.
He is the lowest limbo skater, achieving a roller skating height of just 25 cm over a distance of 10 m.

Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton dies

Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton, who beat Muhammad Ali and then lost a controversial decision to him in Yankee Stadium, has died at a local care facility, his son said. 

He was 70.

Norton won a heavyweight title eliminator the following year and was declared champion by the World Boxing Council.


But on June 9, 1978, he lost a bruising 15-round fight to Larry Holmes in what many regard as one of boxing’s epic heavyweight bouts and would never be champion again.

ICICI Prudential Life launches new unit-linked pension plan

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance has launched Easy Retirement, a unit-linked plan that enables customers to build their retirement corpus.

The plan provides customers the flexibility to choose their equity exposure according to their risk appetite.

ICICI Pru Easy Retirement rewards customers for continuing over the long-term through Pension Boosters which add 5 per cent of the fund value every five years after the tenth policy year onwards, thereby enhancing the corpus built, which provides regular income for life.

Customers also have the flexibility to choose the premium paying term to build a corpus to ensure regular income to maintain their lifestyle post retirement.

ICICI Pru Easy Retirement is available on the online platform.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said-Iran 'will never develop nuclear weapons

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed that his government will never develop nuclear weapons, his strongest signal yet that he may be seeking a diplomatic thaw with the West after decades of acrimony.

Speaking to the US network at his presidential compound in Tehran, Rouhani said the tone of a letter he had received from President Barack Obama, part of a recent exchange of messages between the leaders, was "positive and constructive.

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said that nuclear weapons development would be inconsistent with Islamic values. But a willingness by a newly elected president to rule out nuclear arms could help provide a new opening in long-stalled international nuclear talks.

Note—
The United States and Iran cut diplomatic relations in 1980, after students and Islamic militants stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and took American diplomats hostage.

Obama ran for president in 2008 in part by vowing to engage with Iran. But Tehran continued its nuclear development and tough sanctions imposed by Washington and the United Nations have taken a severe toll on Iran's economy.

SEBI inks MoU with Argentina for info exchange on securities markets

Market regulator, SEBI has inked a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with its counterpart in Argentina to promote mutual assistance and exchange information related to securities markets in both the countries.

In a statement, Securities and Exchange Board of India yesterday said that the MoU entered with Comisión Nacional de Valores, CNV aims to facilitate the development of deeper and broader capital market, enhance greater cross border activities and attain closer regulatory co-operation between two jurisdictions in a mutually beneficial manner.

The MoU also seeks to establish and implement technical assistance and training programme, for an effective development of regulatory framework for securities markets in the two jurisdictions.

The MoU was signed between SEBI Chairman UK Sinha and CNV Chairman Alejandro Vanoli during the 38th IOSCO annual conference in Luxembourg on Monday.

Pakistan judicial commission to leave for India 

Pakistan judicial commission to leave for India on 21 september , special public prosecutor and head of the Commission Chaudhry Mohammed Azhar on Wednesday said that all the visas were in place and the new defence counsel Khwaja Haris would also be accompanying the team to spend a week in India as part of its continuing investigation into the November 26, 2008 terror strike.

India is hoping that the visit of the commission will give some momentum to the terror strike case which has been dragging on in the court in Islamabad.

Malala receives top Amnesty award

Pakistani schoolgirl and education rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai and American singer, human rights and social justice activist Harry Belafonte were jointly awarded with Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2013 on 17 September 2013 in Dublin, Ireland.

The Ambassador of Conscience Award is the human rights group's highest honour, recognizing individuals who have promoted and enhanced the cause of human rights through their life and by example.

The Ambassador of Conscience Award is Amnesty International's most prestigious human rights award. It is given to individuals who show exceptional leadership in the fight to protect and promote human rights and human conscience.

The Award, inspired by a poem written for Amnesty International by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, aims to promote the work of Amnesty International by association with the life, work and example of itsAmbassadors.

केंद्र सरकार के विभागों में अब कोई नई नियुक्ति नहीं होगी।

खस्ता वित्तीय स्थिति से जूझ रही सरकार ने खर्च में कटौती के उपायों के तहत भर्तियों पर पूरी तरह से प्रतिबंध लगा दिया है।
सरकार गैर योजनागत खर्च में 10 फीसदी तक कटौती करके राजकोषीय घाटे को जीडीपी के 4.8 फीसदी पर सीमित करना चाहती है।
खर्चों में कटौती की मुहिमः-
--सरकारी विभागों के पांच सितारा होटलों में बैठक करने पर रोक।
--अधिकारी एक्जीक्यूटिव क्लास में हवाई सफर नहीं कर पाएंगे।
--मंत्रालयों और विभागों के नई गाड़ी खरीदने पर प्रतिबंध।
--नए पद नहीं सृजित होंगे और ही खाली पदों पर नियुक्तियां होंगी।
--विदेश जाने वाले सरकारी प्रतिनिधिमंडल में सदस्यों की संख्या कम से कम रखनी होगी।

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