30 October 2014 Current Affairs
Pankaj Advani Won IBSF World Billiards Championship Title
Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani won the IBSF World Billiards championship (timed format) on 30 October 2014. Bangalore-based Advani had won the title in the points format (150-up) on 24 October 2014. Advani, who took a stranglehold of the match leading 746-485 at the half-way mark, thus became the first player ever to win titles in both formats thrice, following his double in 2005 and 2008.
Union Minister Harsh Vardhan Announced India’s “TB-Mission 2020”
Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister, announced TB-Mission 2020 to eliminate Tuberculosis (TB) from India. The announcement was made at WHO’s Global TB Symposium titled Moving out of the box to end global TB epidemic: with post-2015 strategy while addressing the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health at Barcelona. The delegation comprising Indian and South African ministers also chaired the meeting of technical experts from BRICS countries. Tuberculosis control was also declared as the dominant agenda for the upcoming meeting of BRICS Health Ministers in December 2014.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Galway Kinnell Died
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell died in Vermon. He was 87. Kinnell’s published work spanned five decades and dealt with a wide spectrum of subjects, from the texture of urban life to immortality. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Kinnell graduated from Princeton University. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, travelled everywhere from Paris to Iran, opposed the Vietnam War and served as a field worker for the civil rights organization CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). Kinnell published his first book of poetry What a World It Was in 1960 at the age of 32.His book Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.