Dear readers, here is daily current affairs update for 11th December, 2014.
- India’s economic growth is expected to improve to 6.3 per cent in 2016 with the country leading economic recovery in South Asia, according to a United Nations report.
- Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi received joint Nobel award
- Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi have received the Nobel Peace Prize awards.
- The Nobel committee described both laureates as “champions of peace”.
- Both the recipients received medals and prize money 1.4 million US dollars from the Norwegian Nobel Committee at Oslo
- India likely to grow 5-6% in 2015: Moody’s
- Randhir Singh made honorary member of IOC
- Former Indian Olympic Association secretary General Randhir Singh has been made the honorary member of the International Olympic Committee.
- Apps on urban birds, trees launched for bio-diversity info
- With a view to enthuse students with biodiversity and make them interested in environment, three mobile apps on urban birds, butterflies and trees were launched.
- The three apps were launched as part of the project ‘Mobile Apps for Climate Change: A Citizen Science Programme for Schools in Metros’ by World Wide Fund for Nature-India.
- Samsung appoints HyunChil Hong as President of Southwest Asia
- Samsung Electronics Co today announced the appointment of HyunChil Hong as President of Southwest Asia, based in India, with immediate effect.
- Hong replaces outgoing President BD Park, who will now head sales and marketing for digital appliances business in HQ, Korea,
- Based out of Gurgaon, Hong will lead all of Samsung Electronics’ business in Southwest Asia that includes India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.
- The Ebola fighters named as TIME magazine’s Person of the Year 2014
- The Ebola fighters have been named as TIME magazine’s Person of the Year 2014.
- The Ebola Fighters beat the Ferguson protesters to the prestigious title, which honors the ‘person’ who most influenced the news, for better or for worse throughout the year.
- In third place came Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed by Masoud Barzani, the acting president of the Iraqi Kurdish Region, and English teacher-turned-Alibaba founder Jack Ma.
- Russia agrees with India to construct 12 nuclear reactors
- Russia’s state-owned Rosatom said it would supply 12 nuclear energy reactors for India over 20 years, under an agreement aimed at boosting nuclear energy cooperation signed by the two countries during a summit in New Delhi
- A 1,000-megawatt reactor is operating at the Russian-built Kudankulam power station in Tamil Nadu, with a second due to come onstream in 2015.