Latest Current Affairs of 6th November 2015

Exit polls divided on Bihar

Exit polls on Thursday were divided on the out come of the month-long assembly polls in Bihar, with our of the six available giving he Mahagathbandhan of Nit sh Kumar, Lalu Prasad and Congress a majority in the 243member house, one giving the BJP-led alliance a sweeping victory and the sixth predict ng that neither side would cross the half-way mark.

Metro's Heritage line to bring alive Shah Jahan's Delhi

A series of panels installed at four Delhi Metro stations will seek to narrate the story of Shahjahanabad. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has tied up with Intach to showcase the rich heritage of the Walled City, especially the aesthetic and architectural marvels that marked the capital in the 17th century .

The four stations--Delhi Gate, Jama Masjid, Red Fort, and Kashmere Gate--have been thematically connected for this purpose as part of the Metro's Heritage line. This line is an extension of the Central Secretariat corridor, which now terminates at Escorts Mujesar, Faridabad.

FIGHT FOR RIGHT - No OBC quota in judiciary in Delhi: Panel

In the season of heated, competitive OBC politics, Delhi may have a nettlesome issue at hand in the form of the state's twin judicial services.

The National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has said that recruitment in Delhi's judiciary--Delhi Judicial Services and Delhi Higher Judicial Services--was being done without reservation for OBCs. It said every state has given quota to backward communities in their judiciary and it is mandatory under constitutional provisions. The Delhi services have reservation only for SCs and STs.

These services recruit civil judges, additional district judges and district judges.

In a first, tapeworm spreads tumours to man

Stunned scientists described the first known case of a man infected with tumours by a common parasitic tapeworm, raising concern about more such infections that may go undetected.

“We were amazed when we found this new type of disease -tapeworms growing inside a person essentially getting cancer that spreads to the person, causing tumours,“ said Atis Muehlenbachs, staff pathologist in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch. “We think this type of event is rare. However, this tapeworm is found worldwide and millions of people globally suffer from conditions like HIV that weaken their immune system. So there may be more such unrecognized cases,“ said Muehlenbachs, lead author of the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

War of attrition on fever pitch

India and South Africa played thrust and parry with the double-edged sword of an underdone pitch on Thursday .India got what they wanted: a chance to bat first on a dry, customized pitch tailored to suit their three-spin attack, but spent large parts of the day looking like a spider caught in its own web.The visitors found, to their delight, that the part-time spin of Dean Elgar (422 off eight overs) had more quality then the Indians would have anticipated. When South Africa's chance came to bat, though, India's first-innings effort of 201 must have seemed a tougher ask to match than seemed apparent at first glance.