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Mahatma Gandhi's prison 'charkha' to be auctioned in UK
One of Mahatma Gandhi's most prized possessions, the 'charkha' he used in Yerwada Jail, will go under the hammer at a prestigious British auction house on November 5 with the minimum bid set at 60,000 pounds.
The charkha (spinning wheel) used by Gandhi while he was in the prison at Pune during India's freedom struggle, was given to the American Free Methodist missionary Revd Floyd A Puffer.
Puffer was a pioneer in Indian educational and industrial cooperatives. He invented a bamboo plow that was later adopted by Gandhi.
Gandhi presented the charkha to Puffer for his work in Colonial India.
Mullock's will auction over 60 Gandhi-related artifacts. Highlights include important documents, photographs and books, including an early publication advising German Jews to take up 'Satyagraha' during the holocaust.
Most notable of them are a 19th century painting of Tipu Sultan, a British school painting of the Sultan's daughter dated 1837, an early account dating to 1805 of Maharajah Ranjit Singh, the lion of Punjab and a rare miniature Koran printed for Muslim soldiers who fought alongside allied forces in the First World War.
Bihar nurse to share stage with Malala at UN function
A Bihar woman health official is set to share stage with
Malala Yousufzai.
Martha Dodray, in her mid-40s, is an auxiliary nursing
midwife posted at Kusheshwarsthan primary health centre in the state's
Darbhanga district. She was selected by the United Nations Foundation (UNF) for
her extraordinary work to eradicate polio.
She said she walked several kilometres each day to
reach remote and inaccessible villages to administer polio vaccine to hundreds
of children, mostly belonging to poorest of the poor.
Marha was recently selected as one of the best
polio workers in India for her devotion and hard work in polio vaccination
drive. v. Her name was recommended for the award ceremony in New York,"
Darbhanga civil surgeon UK Choudhary said.
Bihar has not reported a single case of polio in the
last three years and has virtually remained polio free since August 2010.
Economy News
RBI forms panel to implement new bill
payment system
The Reserve Bank of India has constituted a GIRO Advisory
Group (GAG) to implement a national Indian Bill Payment System so that
households will be able to use bank accounts to pay school fees, utilities,
medical bills and make remittances electronically.
The terms of reference of GAG, which is headed by Prof.
Umesh Bellur, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, include
suggesting the nature of organisation to undertake the GIRO-based bill payments
and framing guidelines for setting up and operating the GIRO-based bill
payments.
The group will also recommend the criteria (financial,
governance, ownership, technical, operational, etc.) for the entity to seek
authorisation for setting up bill payments system in the country under the
Payment & Settlement System Act 2007.
If GAG is of the opinion that a new organisation be
created on the lines of entity like National Payments Corporation of India
(NPCI), then it will have to make recommendations, among others, on the nature
of the organisation (whether Section 25 company or profit making entity, etc.);
membership composition; capital structure & contributions by stakeholders.
Business News
Austrade, YES Bank ink pact for
knowledge sharing in food sector
The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) and YES Bank
on Wednesday entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore
avenues for mutually beneficial knowledge sharing in food processing and
agricultural sectors.
The tie-up marked the start of a relationship in which
Australia can offer to India some insights on how to expand food exports to
Japan and Europe, said Nicola Watkinson, Minister Commercial and Senior Trade
and Investment Commissioner-South Asia, Austrade.
According to the MoU, Austrade and YES Bank have agreed
to jointly organise workshops across India to create awareness about Australian
capabilities in the food and agri-business sectors.
Austrade will assist Australian companies in their
expansion in India through identification of joint venture partners and
investment opportunities in India.
Australia’s food exports are estimated at $30 billion
each year and nearly 60 per cent of its exports are accounted for by
agricultural products.
Sebi has disqualified Cals Refineries from issuing equity shares
Market regulator Sebi has disqualified Cals Refineries from issuing equity shares and any other security for a further eight years, as the company was found guilty in a case involving irregularities in issuance of Global Depository Receipts (GDRs).
An interim prohibitory order was imposed on the company in 2011 and the company has already undergone restrictions for two years, while a final order was passed today imposing a ten-year ban on the company from issuance of any securities.
However, Sebi noted that Cals had already undergone the prohibition imposed on it for a period of about two years following an interim order in 2011 by the market regulator in view of the GDR manipulation charges against the company.
Sebi said the modus operandi adopted by Cals Refineries in conceiving the fraudulent arrangement of GDR issue to defraud investors and also facilitating the unjust enrichment of its promoter at the expense of investors has been fraught with mala fides at every stage of its execution.
Former Indian Bank Chairman
sent to imprisonment
A CBI court here yesterday sentenced former Chairman and
Managing Director of Indian Bank M Gopalakrishnan and four others to one year
imprisonment for defrauding various branches of the bank to the tune of about
Rs 6.5 crore.
CBI Principal Sessions Judge S Malathi also ordered
Gopalakrishnan, N Ramakrishnan, bank valuer, V Ravikumar of Arul Builders, K
Sai Jagannathan of Incom Builders, and Businessman Varadarajulu to pay a fine
ranging from Rs 15,000 to 40,000.
Apart from sanctioning the loan without sufficient
collateral security, Gopalakrishnan waived the loan amount of 64 lakhs to Arul
Builders, 50 lakhs to Incom Builders and Rs.6.72 lakhs to Incom builders.
SC awards Rs. 5.96 cr compensation in medical negligence case
The Supreme Court on Thursday awarded Rs 5.96 crore as compensation to be paid by Kolkata-based AMRI Hospital and three doctors to a US-based Indian-origin doctor for medical negligence which led to the death of his wife in 1998.
A bench of justices S.J. Mukhopadhaya and V. Gopala Gowda asked the hospital and the three doctors to pay the amount within eight weeks to Kunal Saha, an Ohio-based AIDS researcher.
The National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDRC) in 2011 had awarded Rs. 1.73 crore to the doctor whose wife Anuradha Saha died in 1998 following faulty treatment administered at the hospital.
The court said out of the total compensation amount, Dr. Balram Prasad and Dr. Sukumar Mukherjee will pay Rs. 10 lakh each and Dr. Baidyanath Halder will have to pay Rs. 5 lakh to Dr. Saha within eight weeks.
In 2009, though the apex court absolved the doctors and the hospitals of criminal liability for medical negligence, it had held them culpable of civil liabilities and referred Dr. Saha’s plea for compensation under provisions of the Consumer Protection Act to NCDRC, which, had in 2006 dismissed, the case.
Political News
Congress MP Rashid Masood disqualified from Rajya Sabha
Convicted Congress leader Rashid Masood today became the first MP to lose his seat after the Supreme Court struck down a provision that protects a convicted lawmaker from disqualification on the ground of pendency of appeal in higher courts.
66-year-old Masood was held guilty in a case of corruption and other offences in September.
His conviction was the first after the Supreme Court struck down a provision in the electoral law that provided immunity to MPs and MLAs from immediate disqualification.
Lok Sabha MPs Lalu Prasad and Jagdish Sharma, both convicted in the fodder scam, are set to be formally disqualified as the Lok Sabha secretariat is likely to follow suit.
Google tops world’s best multinational
workplaces list
Internet giant Google has emerged as the world’s best
multinational company to work for, followed by software developer SAS Institute
and network storage provider NetApp in the second and third place,
respectively.
Software giant Microsoft was ranked fourth by human
resources consultancy ‘Great Place to Work Institute’, which has compiled a
list of 25 such companies.
The 25 companies on the 2013 World’s Best
Multinational Workplaces list set a high standard for us all.
Their outstanding
achievement builds a better society by creating great workplaces,” it said.
The list also includes Autodesk ranked at the 11th
place, followed by Monsanto (12th), BBVA (13th), American Express (14th), Hilti
(15th), Telefonica (16th), Accor (17th), Quintiles (18th), SC Johnson (19th),
FedEx Express (20th), Atento (21st), Mars (22nd), McDonald’s (23rd), The
Coca-Cola Company (24th) and Novartis (25th).
Others in the top 10 include W.L Gore & Associates,
which was ranked 5th on the list, followed by personal and household goods
maker Kimberly-Clark (6th), hospitality giant Marriott (7th), consumer goods
firm Diageo (8th), National Instruments (9th) and IT company Cisco (10th).
Manna Dey, the legendary singer Passes away
Manna Dey, the legendary singer died on 23 October
2013 in Bangalore hospital. He was 94 years old.
He was treated for respiratory illness died of cardiac
arrest.
He is survived by his daughters Shuroma and Sumita.
He was born in the year 1919.
His original name was
Prabodh Chandra Dey but he was nicknamed Manna
He sang many songs in different languages like Malayalam, Kannada,
Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Hindi, Assamese, Punjabi and Bhojpuri.
His popular tracks include Poocho Na Kaise Maine (Meri
Surat Teri Aankhen), Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen (Waqt), Zindagi Kaisi Hai
Paheli(Anand), Yeh Dosti (Sholay) and Ek Chatur Naar (Padosan) and Laga Chunari
Mein Daag (Dil Hi Toh Hai) and'Yeh Raat Bheegi Bheegi' (Chori Chori).
Ranbir Kapoor new brand ambassador of
Philips
Actor Ranbir Kapoor was Thursday named the brand
ambassador for Philips, the country's leading lighting company.
In their new ad Philips revive the iconic song
"Saara zamana haseeno ka Deewana", originally picturised on Amitabh
Bachchan who sported an electric lightbulb suit in it.
It now features Ranbir
in a suit of LED lights.
The "Barfi" star said: "I have tried to
redo Amitjis 'Saara Zamaana song'. We have modernized the suit that was worn by
him then. It was fun re-doing the song."
Carol Burnett Honoured With the Mark Twain Prize
for American Humor
The US comedian Carol Burnett was honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Three artists- Dame Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett and Tina
Fey performed specifically in the honour of Carol Burnett at the Kennedy Center
for Performing Arts.
The variety shows of Carol Burnett started in 1960s. These shows ran continuously for 11 years and fetched around 30 million viewers in a week.
Carol Burnett received her first break for the Ed
Sullivan Show. Thereafter, she also acted on Broadway and appeared on The Garry
Moore Show.
About the Mark Twain Prize
The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is the foremost
award for humour in America
It was first awarded in the year 1988 by the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The award is named after the essayist and humorist Mark
Twain, who belonged to the 19th century and was a renowned novelist as well.
Mark Twain made significant contribution to American humour.
Every year, the prize is presented in the Kennedy Center
Concert Hall in Washington DC.
The recipients of the Twain Prize receive an 1884 bronze portrait bust of
Mark Twain sculpted by Karl Gerhardt.
Tendulkar only Indian in Wisden all time World
test XI
India's retiring batsman Sachin Tendulkar has been named
in the Wisden all-time World Test XI.
Tendulkar was named at number four spot in the team
announced to mark 150 years of the Cricketers' Almanac in London.
The team captained by legendary Australian batsman Don
Bradman has four Englishmen, three West Indians, two Australians, one Indian
and a Pakistani.
Tendulkar's contemporaries like Brian Lara, Ricky
Ponting and Jaques Kallis could not make it to the team, nor other Indian
greats like Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev.
The members of Wisden World XI are: Jack Hobbs (England),
W G Grace (England), Don Bradman (Australia, captain), Sachin Tendulkar
(India), Vivian Richards (West Indies), Garry Sobers (West Indies), Alan Knott
(England), Wasim Akram (Pakistan), Shane Warne (Australia), Malcolm Marshall
(West Indies), Sydney Barnes (England).
Tendulkar will retire from Test cricket after playing
against the West Indies in his landmark 200th match in Mumbai next month.
World's first fully bionic man created: Walks,
talks & breathes
Scientists have developed the world's first robot human
made entirely of prosthetic parts and he can walk, talk and even has a beating
heart.
The robot, which cost almost USD 1 million to build, was
assembled from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by
laboratories around the world.
Roboticists Rich Walker and Matthew Godden of Shadow
Robot Co in England put together the bionic man.
To support his prosthetic legs, the bionic man wears a
robotic exoskeleton dubbed "Rex," made by REX Bionics in New Zealand.
The bionic man also has a nearly complete set of
artificial organs, including an artificial heart, blood, lungs (and windpipe),
pancreas, spleen, kidney and functional circulatory system.
The bionic man made his US debut at New York Comic Con
October 10-13 and will be on display at Smithsonian's National Air and Space
Museum in Washington, DC this fall.
Norh and South Zone declared joint winners of
Duleep Trophy
North Zone and South
Zone were declared joint winners of the Duleep Trophy this year after the fifth
day's play of the final match was also called off without a ball being bowled
in Kochi
Only 10 overs -- on the second day on October 18 -- were
possible in the five-day match as wet ground conditions at the Nehru Stadium
due to persistent rain played spoilsport.
The city again experienced a morning shower and the
umpires decided for a delayed start of the final day. The umpires inspected the
ground at around 2:45pm and decided to call off the match.
It was the fourth instance in the history of Duleep
Trophy when the title has been shared.
Previous instances were West Zone/South Zone in 1963-64),
North Zone/West Zone in 1988-89 and Central Zone/West Zone in 1997-98.
Dipika Pallikal Won Macau Open Squash Title 2013
India's ace Squash player Dipika Pallikal on 20 October
2013 won the Macau Open title at Macau, China.
In the title clash Dipika stunned former World Number
One Rachel Grinham of Australia, 12-10, 5-11, 11-7, 11-9. This was Dipika
Pallikal's seventh Women's Squash Association title.
The Macau Open 2013 is a squash tournament held in
Macau, China on 15 to 20 October 2013. It is part of the PSA World Tour and the
WSA World Tour.
The prize money for the Macau Open is 35000 $.
Dipika Pallikal (Born on 21 September 1991 at Chennai)
is an Indian squash player. She is the first Indian woman to break into the top
10 in the WSA rankings.
Jorge Lorenzo won Australian Grand Prix 2013
Jorge Lorenzo won the Australian Grand Prix on 20 October
2013 at the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix in Phillip Island.
The strong contender Marc Marquez was disqualified for
delaying a compulsory pit stop. Lorenzo of Yamaha, won a race shortened to 19
laps by 6.9 seconds from Honda’s Dani Pedrosa and veteran Valentino Rossi.
Marquez was disqualified five laps from the finish
after staying on the track one lap longer than permitted before he took a pit
stop.
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