10 October 2013 Current Affairs
India’s Varun Arora Won UN Award For ‘Open Curriculum’ Web Platform
Varun Arora, a young innovator from India on 10 October selected for United Nations 10 Young Innovators Competition 2013.Varun Arora is among 10 people from around the world selected for a prestigious United Nations award in recognition of their work as entrepreneurs and use of technology to change the world.Varun Arora awarded for his creation Open Curriculum, an online platform for local educational material for standard, primary and secondary schooling.
Alice Munro Won Nobel Prize For Literature
Canadian author Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature on 10 October.The Swedish Academy which selects Nobel literature winners described her as the master of the contemporary short story.She won the Man International Booker Prize in 2009 for a body of work.Alice Munro won the Giller Prize twice, for The Love of a Good Woman in 1998 and Runaway in 2004.She won the Giller Prize twice, for The Love of a Good Woman in 1998 and Runaway in 2004.