15 August 2013 Current Affairs
Canadian Street Named After Mahatma Gandhi
A street in Canada's Winnipeg city has been named after Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of India's 67th Independence Day on 15 August. The street leading to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will now be known as " Honorary Mahatma Gandhi Way" . At a ceremony , the Mayor of Winnipeg Sam Katz explained that the street was named so after an individual who is synonymous with the struggle for human rights.
Marion Bartoli Retires From Tennis
On 14 August Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli of France announces her retirement from professional tennis.She announced the retirement after losing in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters to Romania's Simona Halep. She is ranked seventh in the world.Besides Wimbledon 2013, Bartoli won seven other WTA Tour titles, the first one was in Auckland in 2006. Recently she won two tournaments both in 2011 at Eastbourne and Osaka, Japan, prior to Wimbledon.
Former Nepal Prime Minister Man Singh Shrestha Died
Former Nepalese Prime Minister Marich Man Singh Shrestha has died in Kathmandu on 15 August.He had served as Nepal’s Prime Minister for about four years till April 1990, when the political parties launched an agitation to restore democratic rights.
Astronomers Solved Mystery of ' Magellanic Stream’s Origin
Astronomers have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy.Since the stream’s discovery by radio telescopes in the early 1970s, astronomers have wondered whether the gas comes from one or both of the satellite galaxies.Now, new Hubble Telescope observations reveal most of the gas was stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud about 2 billion years ago, and a second region of the stream originated more recently from the Large Magellanic Cloud.The team used Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope to measure the abundances of heavy elements, such as oxygen and sulfur, at six locations along the Magellanic Stream.