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Current Affairs for BANK, IBPS Exams

07 August 2015

:: National ::

PM launch National Handloom Day in Chennai

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Friday inaugurate the first National Handloom Day at a function in Chennai.
Prime Minister Modi will confer the Sant Kabir awards and National awards for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 to distinguished handloom personalities.
The program is being held in the prestigious Centenary hall of Madras University.
The Prime Minister will also launch 'India Handloom' Brand. An exhibition showcasing master creations of the awardees is also being inaugurated on the occasion in the adjacent senate building of Madras University.
The Handloom Day will be celebrated all over the country in cooperation with state governments.
The date August 7 has been chosen due to its special significance in India's history; it was on this day that the Swadeshi Movement was launched in 1905.

:: International ::

The World Wide Web turns 24

There is a fine line between the Internet and World Wide Web. Today, in 1991, the World Wide Web was born! And to understand it more closely, we need to take a closer look at the origin of a project at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).
In the 1980s, CERN was undertaking research that involved scientists and researchers distributed across geographies.
There was a need to share files, and collaborate over very critical data. But there was a problem.
They didn’t have common systems, or presentation software. Computing was nascent and evolving.
Despite the challenges, a contractor at CERN named Tim Berners-Lee saw opportunity. The solution was supposed to be text.
That was 1980. And he was just a contract employee. Four years later in 1984, Lee returned to the CERN as a permanent employee and decided to take a look at the problem faced by CERN – information management.

The genesis of the Internet

On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for a distributed information system at CERN. He created the following concept.

The first concept proposed by Tim Berners-Lee. Image: CERN
It was a means to exchange information across computers spread geographically, and was aimed to solved the vital problem that needed to be solved at CERN.

The world’s first website

On December 20, 1990, the world’s first website went live at CERN. It was Christmas of 1990, and Lee had defined most of the common terminologies as we know them today, including URL, http and HTML.

:: Miscellaneous ::

CNG-run vehicles emit dangerous nanocarbon, can cause cancer: CSIR study

The compressed natural gas (CNG)-run buses are harmful for humans as they emit "nanocarbon" particles which can cause cancer, according to a study conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Though the study was conducted on a very limited sample size in Delhi, CSIR took the findings seriously owing to the health hazard it poses to humans and alerted the central government for further follow up,

No Study Supports Global Warming Affecting Himalayas

No study has so far supported the theory that global warming was causing natural calamities in the Himalayan region, parliament was told on Thursday.
"There is no study reported so far, which supports the fact that many type of instances similar to natural calamities are occurring in the Himalayan region due to global warming," Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
"However, for monitoring and prediction of extreme weather events over the Himalayan region, India Meteorological Department has established state meteorological sentres at Srinagar, Shimla, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati and Agartala for forecast of natural calamities like very heavy rainfall,

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