15 September 2015 Current Affairs
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wins UN Award for Leadership on Climate Change
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been honoured with the United Nations Champions of the Earth award in recognition of her country’s initiatives to address climate change. Sheikh Hasina has proven that investing in climate change is conducive to achieving social and economic development. Ms Hasina has demonstrated “leadership and vision” in both making climate change an issue of national priority and advocating for an ambitious global response.
India ranks 11th place in World Wealth Report-2015
India has become the 11th largest population of millionaires woth 198,000 such high net worth individuals (HNWI). India got the 11 rank in the World Wealth Report- 2015 released by Capsgemini and RBC Welath Management. In 2013, there were 1,56,000 HNWIs in India. The US topped the list with 43,51,000 millionaires followed by Japan with 24,52,000 millionaires , Germany with 11,41,000 millionaires and China with 8,90,000 millionaires in the second, third and fourth places respectively.
Longest chain of Volcanoes “Cosgrove Hotspot Track” found in Australia
The world’s longest chain of continental volcanoes created over the past 33 million years have been found in eastern Australia streching for over 2000 Kilometers. The volcanic chain “Cosgrove Hotspot Track” runs from Cape Hillsborough on the central Queensland coast, south west through central New southwales to Cosgrove in Victoria.
Bharat Dynamics Limited Test Fires Indigenous Anti-tank guided Missile ‘Amogha-1’
Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed second generation, 2.8 km range, anti-tank guided missile called Amogha-1 on September 10 at Babina Army Range in Madhya Pradesh. This is the first ever design and developmental effort in respect of missiles by BDL, Hyderabad. Amogha-I missiles will be offered to the army after due qualification and validation trials.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe three day visit to India
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on 15 September came to Delhi on a three day visit to India. In this regard India and Sri Lanka held extensive talks on sticky fishermen issue, ensuring justice to Tamils and ways to deepen trade and defence engagements besides resolving to intensify cooperation in combating terror and securing the maritime neighbourhood. The two nations signed four agreements to deepen cooperation in health care and space science.
Sunjeev Sahota’s novel “The Year of the Runaways” shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize
Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota shortlisted for the prestigious 2015 ‘Man Booker Prize prize for Fiction’ for his novel “The Year of the Runaways”. The novel is a story of an unlikely family thrown together by circumstances. This is the second year that the prize has been open to writers of any nationality, writing originally in English and published in the UK. Previously the prize was open only to authors from the UK and the Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland and Zimbabwe.