Shashi Kapoor has been conferred
with prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2014
i. The award was bestowed upon him by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley at a special function held in Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
ii. He is the 46th film personality to receive this honour and third member of his illustrious family after father Prithviraj Kapoor (1972- Posthumously) and elder brother Raj Kapoor (1987).
i. The award was bestowed upon him by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley at a special function held in Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
ii. He is the 46th film personality to receive this honour and third member of his illustrious family after father Prithviraj Kapoor (1972- Posthumously) and elder brother Raj Kapoor (1987).
1.
Born as Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on March
18, 1938 in Kolkata, West Bengal. Started acting in films as a child in late
1940s. Since then he has appeared in 160 movies altogether, 12 being in English
and the rest in Hindi.
2. His
Bollywood debut as a lead actor was in the film Dharmputra (1961). His best
known performances as child artist were in Aag (1948), Awaara (1951) and
Sangram (1950). He is also best-known for his performances in Hindi films like
‘Jab Jab Phool Khile’, ‘Deewar’ and ‘Kabhi Kabhie’. American and British films:
The Householder (1963), Shakespeare Wallah (1965), Bombay Talkie (1970), Heat
and Dust (1982), The Deceivers (1988), Side Streets (1998) etc.
3.
Apart from acting in movies, he also had worked
as a film director, assistant director and film producer.
WHO declares Liberia Ebola-free
i. WHO has hailed Liberia’s Ebola eradication efforts as an
enormous development in the long crisis and monumental achievement as the virus
has killed more than 4,716 people in the country alone.
ii. Now, Liberia’s neighbous Guinea and Sierra Leone are only two
countries fighting to stop Ebola outbreak since it began in December
2013.
Criteria for declaring a nation
Ebola-free
1.
WHO can declare a country Ebola free, if no new
cases are reported over two incubation periods of virus i.e. 21 days.
2.
In case of Liberia, no new cases of Ebola were
reported in past 42 days i.e. twice the number of days the virus requires to
incubate. The last confirmed death in Liberia was reported on 27 March
2015.
Haryana Government has decided
to include Deaflympics in its Sports Policy
i. Haryana Government has decided to include Deaflympics in its
Sports Policy in order to boost the morale of differently-abled sportspersons
in the state. Decision in this regard was taken during a state cabinet meet
chaired by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
ii. With this inclusion, Deaflympian medalists now will be able to
get cash rewards, jobs and other benefits from the state government.
About Deaflympics
1.
Deaflympics
is an International Olympic Committee (IOC) sanctioned event, at which deaf
athletes compete at an elite level.
2. The
first event of was held in Paris in 1924. It is the first international
sporting event for athletes with a disability.
3. Previously,
it was known as World Games for the Deaf and International Games for the Deaf.
4. Organised
by the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf, (French- Committee
International des Sports des Sourds) since first event.
5. Deaflympics
are held every 4 years and often considered as the longest multi-sports event,
excluding the Olympic.
6.
To qualify for the Deaflympics, athletes must
have a hearing loss of at least 55 decibel (dB). In order to maintain equality
and same level in participation among athletes, hearing aids, cochlear implants
are not allowed during the games.
Navneet Rajan Wasan appointed as
DG of Police Research & Development Bureau
i. The post of Director General (DG) of Bureau of Police Research
and Development had been lying vacant since March 2015 following the retirement
of Rajan Gupta.
ii. Presently, Wasan is working as Special Director General
in the National Investigation Agency (NIA). He is a 1980-batch IPS officer of
the Andhra Pradesh cadre.
Other Appointment- Indian
Postal Service (IPoS) officer Sheuli Burman was appointed as the Chief
Vigilance Officer (CVO) in the Indian Telephone Industries (ITI),
Bangalore.
Book titled Unbelievable – Delhi
to Islamabad written by Prof Bhim Singh released
i. Book titled Unbelievable – Delhi to Islamabad authored by
senior Advocate Prof. Bhim Singh was released on 8 May 2015 by Vice President M
Hamid Ansari in New Delhi.
ii. The book, a travelogue is an effort initiated by the lawyers
of India and Pakistan to work jointly to ensure that Pakistani prisoners
languishing in Indian jails are treated in accordance with the spirit of the
Constitution of India. Similarly, the same treatment should be mended for the
Indian prisoners on Pakistan and they should be given fair trials.
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