23 January 2016 Current Affairs

Shivnarine Chanderpaul retires from international cricket

West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has announced his retirement from international cricket on 22 January 2016. He is the seventh highest test match run-maker in history.The 41-year-old former captain from Guyana ends his Test career on 11,867 runs, just 86 short of the West Indies all-time record held by Brian Lara. He made his debut against England in March 1994 in Guyana, hitting a half-century as the West Indies won by an innings and 44 runs. His final Test was also against England last May in Barbados where the West Indies won by five wickets to level a three-Test series against Alastair Cook’s side.Chanderpaul’s highest score in his 164 Tests was 203 not out. He hit a total of 30 Test centuries and 66 fifties. He made 8,778 one-day international runs with 11 centuries. He has also played 22 times for the West Indies in the Twenty20 format, but his last outing was in 2010.In 2008, Chanderpaul was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year by Wisden.


Former Kerala Assembly Speaker A.C. Jose passed away

Senior Congress leader and former Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly A.C. Jose died at Kerala on 23 January 2016 after suffering from a heart attack. He was 80. Mr. Jose, who played a dominant role in the formation of Kerala Students Union (KSU), the student wing of Congress in Kerala, served as Mayor of the Kochi Corporation in 1970s. Later in 1980, he was elected Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from Paravur Constituency. Elected as Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1982, he used casting vote to retain the Congress government headed by K. Karunakaran. Mr. Jose, a former Vice President of KPCC, was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996, 1998, 1999 general elections.


Largest tricolour to be hoisted in Ranchi

“Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar hoisted the largest Tricolour in the country atop the tallest pole at Pahari Mandir in Ranchi, Jharkhand on 23 January 2016.The flag is 66 ft in height, 99 ft in width and it is hoisted on a 293 ft tall pole. Till yesterday, the country’s largest and tallest Tricolour, 96 ft X 64 ft in dimension, was flying on a 250 ft high pole in Faridabad. It was hoisted last year.”


Lok Nayak Foundation Award to Garikapati

The 12th Lok Nayak Foundation Award presented to noted scholar and ‘Maha Sahasravadhani’ Garikapati Narasimha Rao in Vishakapatnam on January 23. The foundation’s Life Time Achievement award presented to Chalasani Gandhi for his services as trade union leader for the welfare of railway employees and workers. Addressing newsmen, Lok Nayak Foundation chairman Y Lakshmi Prasad said that their foundation has been felicitating literary and social persons and litterateur Garikapati Narasimha Rao received Rs 1.5 lakh in cash, while Chalasani Gandhi presented Rs 50,000. Lakshmi Prasad said that the award was being presented every year on January 18, the death anniversary of former chief minister of AP NT Rama Rao, but due to some reasons they are presenting it on January 23.


Indian-Origin  Cottalango Leon won Oscar award

The 44-year-old technician of Indian roots Cottalango Leon has been chosen for this year’s Oscar for scientific and technical achievement.The Indian-American has won the award under the ‘Scientific and Technical Achievements’ category for the design, engineering and continuous development of Sony Pictures Imageworks.The academy award recognises the collaborative tool he and his two team members developed for Sony. Dubbed as “itview” the software makes review of movie segments by artists at various levels a lot easier during film making.Born in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district, Mr Cottalango grew up in Coimbatore. He moved to the US to pursue his Masters in 1994.  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present 10 scientific and technical achievements during its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on February 13. The main Oscar Award ceremony will take place on February 28, 2016.


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