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Appointments:
1) New DG of ITBP : Subhas
Goswami Appointed as the Director General of ITBP.
2) P.S. Raghavan
appointed as the next Russian Ambassador.
3) New IAF Chief : Government of India Decided to Appoint Arup Raha as Chief of the Indian Air
Force.
4) Shah Rukh Khan
Appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for South Korea.
5) New Chairman of Railway Board : Arunendra Kumar Appointed as Chairman of Railway Board.
6) Arundhati
Bhattacharya Took Charge as the First Woman Chairperson of SBI.
7) New CMD of BPCL : S.
Varadarajan on 1 October 2013 took over charge as chairman and managing
director (CMD) of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL).
S.Varadarajan has succeeded R.K. Singh.
8) Ranjan Mathai
Appointed as India's High
Commissioner to United
Kingdom.
Awards :
1) Indira Gandhi National Integration Award 2012 : MS Swaminathan Selected for Indira
Gandhi Award for National Integration for the Year 2012.
2)
Malala Yousafzai
Won European
Union's Sakharov Human Rights
Prize 2013.
3) Man Booker Prize : Eleanor
Catton, New Zealand
author won the Man Booker prize 2013 for her novel entitled The
Luminaries.
4) Bollywood actress Kareena
Kapoor was honoured in the House of Commons, London for her contribution to the global
entertainment industry.
5) Ashok Amritraj
was presented with the 'Soul of India Award' for his outstanding achievements
in the film industry.
6) Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social
Justice 2013 Presented to Sushmita Sen.
7) Anjali Gopalan
was awarded with French highest civilian award Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur.
8) Legendary singer Lata
Mangeshkar was presented the first national Yash Chopra Memorial Award at a
star studded function in Mumbai.
9) Nobel Prize :
Physiology or Medicine
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James Rothman
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Randy Schekman
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Thomas Suedhof
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Physics
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Peter Higgs
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Francois Englert
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Chemistry
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Michael Levitt
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Martin Karplus
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Arieh Warshel
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Peace
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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW)
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Literature
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Alice Munro
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Economics
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Eugene Fama
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Lars Peter Hansen
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Robert Shiller
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Important Days:
October 3 World
Habitat Day.
October 4 World
Animal Welfare Day.
October 8
Indian Air Force Day.
October 9 World
Post Office day.
October 10
National Post Day.
October 14 World
Standards Day.
October 16 World
Food Day.
October 24 UN
Day, World development information Day.
October 30 World Thrift Day.
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