Harvard Humanitarian of Year Award for 2015 : Kailash Satyarthi
- He has been conferred with this award in recognition for championing the cause of child reform and ending all forms of violence against children.
- It is annual award is given by US based Harvard University.
- It recognise the works and deeds individuals who have improved the quality of lives and inspired people to greater heights.
- Some of the recipients of are Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Javier Perez etc.
Pranab Mukherjee became first Indian President to address Israeli Parliament Knesset.
- He addressed the Knesset as last leg of his official visit to 3 countries of west Asia viz. Jordan, Palestine and Israel.
- He is also first Indian President to make a state visit Israel.
DRDO Missile Complex in Hyderabad renamed as Dr APJ Abdu Kalam Missile Complex.
- The country’s prestigious DRDO Missile Complex in Hyderabad was on 15 October 2015 renamed as Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar during an event at Research Centre Imarat on the occasion of the 84th Birth Anniversary of Dr Kalam, the Missile Man.
- Dr Kalam joined the Missile Complex, DRDO in 1982 and was a part of it for nearly two decades.
- The Missile Complex comprises Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL), Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) and Research Centre Imarat (RCI), which are considered to be the brain child of Dr Kalam.
India, US and Japan navies starts Malabar Naval Exercise 2015 at eastern coast in Bay of Bengal and India Ocean.
- The high-end warfighting and complex trilateral exercise is part of annual series of exercises conducted to advance multi-national maritime relationships and mutual security issues.
- 5-day exercise includes both ashore and at-sea training exercises, that would share knowledge on carrier strike group operations, anti-submarine warfare, maritime patrol etc. Military-to-military coordination, submarine familiarisation, air defence and surface warfare exercise sessions will be also undertaken at-sea.
- The joint fleet of 3 navies will include warships, aircraft carriers and fast attack submarines. Total Ten ships, five from India, four from US and one from Japan are participating.
Tata housing tied up with social networking firm Facebook to sell its affordable home online.
- Tata Housing launched the new campaign titled Social sell on Facebook for this purpose.
- Through this new campaign Social sell, the company plans to sell around 250 units of its new five-acre residential project in Goa called Goa Paradise.
- The initiative is in line with the company’s target to generate over 30 percent of its overall sales online in the next five years.
- Earlier, Tata Housing tied up with real estate portal Housing.com and online marketplace Snapdeal to sell its housing units across the country.
Portgual became first European country to sign MoU on estabilishment of Nalanda University.
- MoU was signed in New Delhi by Portuguese Ambassador to India Ana Martinho and Dr Jitendra Nath Misra, the Ambassador of India to Portugal.
- With this, Portugal became the 17th country overall and the fourth outside the East Asia Summit to do so.
Union Cabinet gave its approval to Revised Cost Estimate(RCE) of 2904.04 crore rupees for Kaladan Multi nodal Project in Myanmar.
- Decision in this regard was taken by Union Cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
- It will provide an alternate access route to India’s north east region and contribute towards the regional economic development.
- The strategic link will promote economic, commercial and strategic links between India and Myanmar as it will connect North-East, thereby reducing pressure on the Siliguri Corridor.
Union Cabinet approves MoU with Mozambique for Cooperation in field of Renewable Energy.
- The agreement aims at establishing a cooperative institutional relationship to encourage and promote technical bilateral cooperation, investment promotion and partnership on new and renewable energy issues on the basis of mutual benefit, equality and reciprocity.
- The agreement was inked between the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of the Government of India and the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, Government of Mozambique in New Delhi on 5 August 2015.
- The focus will be on the development of new and renewable energy technologies in the field of conducting on-the-job and specialized training courses on renewable energy field, research & development and of technology transfer in renewable energy.
Dell Inc acquires EMC Corporation for 67 billion US dollars.
- Dell Inc and EMC Corporation on 12 October 2015 signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners will acquire EMC Corporation, while maintaining VMware as a publicly-traded company.
- This will be the biggest tech deal in history with a 67 billion US dollars acquisition of EMC Corp by Dell.
- The owners of Dell include Michael S Dell, founder, chairman and CEO of Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing.
UP Govt Launched Mobile App mSehat for health workers to record maternal and infant data in real-time.
- The application was developed by Kellton Tech, a company that was selected as the technology partner for the initiative by State Innovations in Family Planning Services Agency (SIFPSA).
- Aim : The application is aimed at improving the infant mortality rate outcomes.
- mSehat is a cloud-hosted solution to facilitate remote access and enrolment from across the region through 2G-enabled mobile devices.
- The recorded data will be stored in the cloud, which will act as the central repository.
