Union Cabinet gives nod to 3 new AIIMS
Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its nod to establish 3 new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). These 3 AIIMS will be established at Nagpur (Maharashtra), Manglagiri (Andhra Pradesh) and Kalyani in West Bengal. They will be established under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana with the cost nearly 5,000 crore rupees.
Winners of 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur B. McDonald (Canada) have jointly won the prestigious 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has selected them for their key contributions to experiments showing that neutrinos change identities. They individually have discovered neutrino oscillations and shown that neutrinos have mass.
Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its nod to establish 3 new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). These 3 AIIMS will be established at Nagpur (Maharashtra), Manglagiri (Andhra Pradesh) and Kalyani in West Bengal. They will be established under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana with the cost nearly 5,000 crore rupees.
Winners of 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur B. McDonald (Canada) have jointly won the prestigious 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has selected them for their key contributions to experiments showing that neutrinos change identities. They individually have discovered neutrino oscillations and shown that neutrinos have mass.
Winners of 2015 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry
Tomas Lindahl (United Kingdom), Paul Modrich (US) and Aziz Sancar (US) have
jointly won 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
has chosen them for their research on mechanistic studies of DNA
(deoxyribonucleic acid) repair. Their work has provided fundamental knowledge
of functioning of living cell functions and its application for the development
of new cancer treatments
NGT orders to levy environmental tax on trucks entering Delhi
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed all commercial vehicles entering
Delhi to pay environmental compensation charge in addition to the toll tax.
This decision to levy environmental compensation charges dubbed as
environmental tax was taken by NGT as a tough measure to curb air pollution in
Delhi. The green panel has observed that vehicular pollution is one of the main
sources of inferior quality of air in Delhi.
RBI relaxed norms of FPI investment
in Government Securities
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 6 October
2015 relaxed the norms of Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) of government debt
and also announced higher investment limits in rupee terms in government
securities with a view to bring in an additional 1.2 lakh crore rupees by March
2018.
The RBI fixed the FPI investment limits in
rupee terms and raised the limits in phases to reach 5 percent of the
outstanding stock by March 2018.
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