CURRENT AFFAIRS 19/11/2013 1. German carmaker Volkswagen is the world’s top private-sector investor in research and development (R&D), followed by South Korean electronics giant Samsung, according to EU data released on Monday. 2. The system, called CanSAR, is the biggest disease database of its kind anywhere in the world and condenses more data than would be generated by one million years of use of the Hubble space telescope. 3. Burra Gautham Sidharth, Director, B.M. Birla Science Centre, here has been chosen for the 2013 award given by the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Advanced Mathematics Einstein-Galilei (IFM), Italy. 4. Malta, a Southern European country was on 17 November 2013 unanimously chosen as the host of the next Commonwealth summit in 2015. 5. India on 18 November 2013 successfully test-fired the advanced version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Pokhran test firing range in Rajasthan. 6. The Jamaican sprinters, Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce were crowned the male and female World Athletes of the Year, 2013 on 16 November 2013. 7. Rapid Metro-India’s First Private Metro service started operation from Gurgaon, Haryana on 14 November 2013. Rapid Metro is India’s first fully privately financed Metro system connecting NH-8 to Delhi Metro via Cyber City, Gurgaon. 8. Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull’s team on 17 November 2013 won United States Grand Prix. France’s Romain Grosjean in Lotus was second with Red Bull’s Mark Webber took the third place. 9. The Czech Republic on 17 November 2013 defended the Davis Cup title 2013 after Redek Stepanek defeated the Serbian Dusan Lajovic 6-3, 6-1, 6-1 in the fifth rubber of the final by BNP Paribas Final in Belgrade. 10. Dalit writer Omprakash Valmiki, whose memoir Joothan is regarded as a milestone in Hindi literature, succumbed to liver cancer in Dehradun on Sunday. He was 63.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:58:14 +0000
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