05 October 2016 Current Affairs

5 October: World Teachers’ Day

The World Teachers’ Day (WTD) 2016 was observed across the world on 5 October 2016. The theme for the World Teachers’ Day 2016 was Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status. It embodies the fundamental principles of the fifty-year-old Recommendation. It also throws light on the need to support teachers as reflected in the agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2016 WTD also marks the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. It is also the first world Teachers’ Day to be celebrated within the new Global Education 2030 Agenda adopted by the world community in 2015.


Powerful typhoon Chaba to hit Japan

Powerful typhoon Chaba barrelled toward Japan after it hit a South Korean resort island causing flight cancellations and flooding streets. The typhoon hit the South Korean resort island of Jeju, bringing heavy rains that flooded streets, forced flight cancellations and disrupted power to thousands of homes.


Three win Nobel chemistry prize for molecular machines

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British born J Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard Feringa on 5th Oct won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing molecular machines. The laureates share the 8 million kronor (USD 930,000) prize for the “design and synthesis” of molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added. The academy said molecular machines “will most likely be used in the development of things such as new materials, sensors and energy storage systems.” The chemistry prize was the last of this year’s science awards. The medicine prize went to a Japanese biologist who discovered the process by which a cell breaks down and recycles content. The physics prize was shared by three British-born scientists for theoretical discoveries that shed light on strange states of matter.


New Solar Powered Guard Van of Goods Train flagged off

Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inspected and flagged off the newly manufactured Guard Van of Goods (Freight) Train on 05 October at Delhi Safdarjung Railway Station. The newly manufactured Guard Van of Goods Train (8 wheeled) has been equipped for the first time with Solar powered Light, Fan, Mobile Charging Point along with the facility of Zero discharge Bio Toilet. The Guard vans (also called 8 wheeled Brake Vans Z- frame Improved BVZI) modified by IROAF with the assistance of Amritsar Workshop of Northern Railway are provided with a fan, a light and mobile charging facility which are supported by Solar Power generation at the rooftop. Thus the power now being available for Guard comfort is environment friendly, as it does not generate any emission / pollution. The Solar generation is supported with a battery bank to power the brake van facilities for more than 24 hours continuously even on a rainy day.


Former Portugal PM, Antonio Guterres set to become next UNSC

Portugal’s former premier Antonio Guterres is set to become the next UN Secretary-General after the Security Council in the sixth straw poll conducted on 05 October declared him to be the unanimous choice. Guterres, 67, received 13 encourage votes and two no opinion votes. An engineer by trade, Mr Guterres first entered into politics in 1976 in Portugal’s first democratic election after the “Carnation revolution” that ended five decades of dictatorship. He quickly rose in the ranks, becoming leader of the Socialist party in 1992 and was elected prime minister in 1995. As head of the UNHCR refugee agency from 2005 to 2015, Mr Guterres led the agency through some of the world’s worst refugee crises, including Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq.


Sushil Chandra appointed CBDT Chairman

The Government has appointed Indian Revenue Service officer Sushil Chandra as the next chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes. He will take over from the current CBDT Chairperson Rani Singh Nair, who will retire on October 31. Sushil Chandra is IRS officer of 1980 batch. Prior to this appointment he was serving as member of CBDT.


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