Thursday, October 16, 2014

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Photo: **** Meet Granth Thakkar: The fastest mental calculator in the world **** :-) 

Granth Thakkar, a 13-year-old student from Vapi, has become the new world mental arithmetic champion.

Thakkar, who won the 6th world championship in mental arithmetic on October 12 in German city of Dresden, surprised judges with his ability to solve mathematical problems in no time and without any mistakes .

Marc Jornet Sanz from Spain won the second prize. Chie Ishikawa from Japan came third.

About 40 young math enthusiasts from 18 countries took part in the contest. Calculator, even paper and pencil, were off limits for contestants.

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Photo: **** India launches third navigation satellite **** :-) 

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C26) lifted off with aplomb from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota at 1.32 a.m. on Thursday and precisely put the Indian navigation satellite, IRNSS-1C into its perfect, pre-designated orbit. This was the 28th successful launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation.

K.P. Kunhikrishnan, Mission Director, said the satellite went into a very precise orbit, with an perigee of 282 km and an apogee of 20,670 km.

The IRNSS-1C, the third of the seven navigation satellites in the Indian Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), has wide-ranging applications in terrestrial, aerial and marine navigation. From vehicle tracking to fleet management and from disaster management to mapping, the satellite extends services to its clients.

The IRNSS-C1 carried two types of payloads, one for transmitting navigation service signals to the users and another consisting of a C-band transponder to facilitate Cube Retro Reflectors for laser ranging.

The first two satellites in the series, IRNSS 1A and IRNSS 1B were launched from Sriharikota on July 1 2013 and April 4 this year respectively.
TRICKS TO REMEMBER =
"INDIAN GOLD MEDALISTS in Common Wealth Games - 2014"

Wrestling-

1) The names ending with “Kumar/kumari” belongs to Wrestling like
a)Sushil Kumar , b)Amit Kumar, c)Babita Kumari

2)The first name ending with “-esh” belongs to Wrestling like Yogesh,Vinesh
I.e a) Yogeshwar Dutt, b)Vinesh Phogat
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Weightlifting
Remember like "HEN-SAT-SUN"
Mind Trick - HEN SAT under the SUN to do weightlifting
HEN - SukHEN dey
SAT – SATish Sivalingam
SUN - SANjita Chanu
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shooting-

Mind Trick : ABHINAV – APURVI went to Shoot JITU (rai) RAHI
1)Abhinav Bindra
2)Apurvi Sarnobat
3)Rahi Sarnobat
4)Jitu Rai
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Other players can be remembered easily :-
Discus throw : Vikas Gowda
Squash : Dipika Pallika and Joshna chinappa
Badminton : Parupalli Kashyap.
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*******************LATEST UPDATES*****************

[1] RBI asks banks to comply with one address proof norm.
[2] Tata Value Homes launches e-commerce platform; eyes Rs 1,000 crore revenue.
[3] French economist Jean Tirole on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Economics for research on market power and regulation.
[4] Yemen's UN envoy Khaled Bahah appointed as new PM of Yemen.
[5] India 55th on Global Hunger Index, lags behind Nepal, Sri Lanka.
[6] External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met her Canadian counterpart John Baird for a discussion on Canada-India relations to strengthen bilateral economic ties between the two countries.
[7] Roger Federer rises to second spot in ATP world rankings.
[8] India will host the Para Open Games, which will see some top international differently-abled athletes in action here, from February 20 to 26 next year.

About Nobel Prize -
Nobel Prize, any of the prizes (five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel. The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world.

For Medicine and Physiology:
John O’Keefe, May-Britt Monser and Edvard I. Monser
Prize Share - 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was divided, one half awarded to John O’Keefe, the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Monser “for the discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.”

For Physics:
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, Shuji Nakamura
Prize Share - 1/3
They were jointly awarded the prize for the invention of "efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.”

For Chemistry:
Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, William E. Moerner
Prize Share - 1/3
The Nobel Prize was awarded to them “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”

For Literature:
Patrick Modiano
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 was awarede to Patrick Modiano “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”

For Peace:
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”

For Economics:
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014 was awarded to Jean Tirole "for his analysis of market power and regulation".

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