Friday, 3 July 2015

CURRENT AFFAIRS INDIA - 4 JULY 2015

1. Mobile Number Portability (MNP) was formally started across the country today. With this facility, mobile subscribers can now keep their existing mobile phone numbers unchanged when they are travelling to a different location or a state.

With about 3 million intra-circle MNP requests every month, more than 157 million subscribers have ported to other operators as of April this year, as per TRAI.

2. The Maharashtra state Government has announced that students from Madrasas which are not teaching Mathematics, Science and Social Sciences will be considered out-of -school. The government assured that madrasas however won't be de-recognised and their grants will continue.

3. Europe's leading aviation company Airbus Group and India's Mahindra Group have struck a deal to build helicopters jointly as they bid to win an expected wave of orders from India's armed forces.

The two groups will form a joint venture in the coming months in order to become the first private manufacturer of helicopters in India to participate in the ˜Make in India' initiative launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

4. Indian-American professor R Paul Singh was selected for 2015 World Agriculture Prize laureate, as per announcement made at the annual Global Confederation for Higher Education Associations for Agriculture and Life Sciences (GCHERA) conference held at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon.

He is known for niche research areas of agricultural sector such as freezing preservation, energy conservation, post-harvest technology and mass transfer in food processing.

5. Indian-American teacher Darshan Jain was selected for prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. He was named for the award by President Barack Obama along with 107 Mathematics and Science teachers across the USA. Darshan Jain is currently working as director of mathematics at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

US Presidential Award is awarded annually to outstanding science and mathematics teachers from across US from K-12 (kindergarten through 12th grades). The award carries monetary prize of US 10000 dollars.

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