13 June 2012 Current Affairs
First Women to win Nobel in economics died
Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom, the first and only woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences,died on 13 June due to cancer.she was 78 years old .
Legendary Cuban Boxer Teofilo Stevensan Died At The Age Of 60
Legendary Cuban Boxer Teofilo Stevensan Died of heart attack on 13 June 2012 at the age of 60. stebenson,won his first gold at the 1972 Munich games,and went on to win two more golds at the 1976 Montreal and 1980 Moscow games,ruled the game for nearly 14 years.He was the first fighter to win the olympic gold medal in the same division three times.
Ghazal King Mehdi Hassam passes Away
Indian born Ghazal legend Mehdi hassan, the melodian voice behind evergreen hits like ,patta patta,boota boota and kabke bichare, died on 13 june following multiple organ failure at the age of 84.
Dr K.C. Chakrabarty has re-appointed as Governor of RBI
The central government, on 13 June appointed Dr K.C. Chakrabarty as deputy governor of RBI, "for a further period of 3 months beyond June 14,2012,or until further orders,which ever is earlier ."the RBI said in a release. Mr.Chakrabarty was appointed as Deputy governor in 209 for 3 years and took charge as deputy governor of RBI on June 15,2009,it added.
Largest database of Martian impact craters
A University of Colorado Boulder team recently finished counting, outlining and cataloguing 635,000 impact craters on Mars — the single largest database ever compiled of impacts on a planet in our solar system.
March 7 Solar Flare Is Strongest Eruption Yet
The powerful March 7 flare, which earned a classification of X5.4 based on the peak intensity of its X-rays, is the strongest eruption so far observed by Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT).
Israeli micro-irrigation innovation wins World Food Prize
This year's winner of world Food Prize(WFP)in Israeli scientist Daniel Hillel has pioneered a method of bringing water to crops in arid and dry-land regions.Dr.Hillel was given the prestigious award, established in 1987 by Nobel Peace Prize winner Noruran Borlaug.