Sunday 27 September 2015

World This Week: 11 May-17 May 2015

11 May 2015
• IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) adopted environmental section of Polar Code
• KV Kamath appointed as first President of New Development Bank of BRICS nations
• Indian-origin Priti Patel appointed as Minister of State for Employment in British Government
• Pop artist Chris Burden passed away
• Picasso's painting Les Femme d’Alger sold for 179.3 million US dollars

12 May 2015

• Indian-American professor Dr. Sivanadane Mandjiny won UNC’s 2015 Award for Excellence in Teaching
• Indian author Neel Mukherjee won 2014 Encore Award for The Lives of Others
• Indian-American Sivanadane Mandjiny won UNC Board of Governors 2015 Award
• Indian-Origin Harbhajan Kaur Dheer became first Asian woman elected as Mayor in UK
• Peter Gay, Eminent American historian on European Thought passed away

13 May 2015 
• Vatican recognised Palestine as State in the Holy See-Palestine Joint Statement
• World Economic Forum (WEF) released The Human Capital Report 2015
• Indian-American boy Karan Menon won 2015 National Geographic Bee Championship

14 May 2015

• Japanese Scientists discovered new state of matter called Jahn-Teller-metal
• Riley B. King, the King of Blues, passed away
• UNESCAP released Survey titled Making Growth More Inclusive for Sustainable Development
• Microsoft Sunrise launched Meet Keyboard

15 May 2015
• Palestinians observed 67th Nakba Day
• DD, CCTV signed agreement for exchange of art, culture programmes
• PM Narendra Modi announced e-Visa facility for Chinese Tourists
• India and China Signed 24 Agreements to Enhance Bilateral Co-operation
• Opah, the world’s first fully warm-blooded fish species, discovered by researchers

16 May 2015

• Former Army Brigadier David Granger sworn-in as eighth President of Guyana
• ICICI bank opened its first branch in China

17 May 2015 

• Pope Francis Canonizes Two 19th-Century Palestinian Nuns as Saints
• India and Mongolia signed 13 agreements to enhance bilateral relations
• Brad Haddin, the Australia wicketkeeper retired from ODI cricket
• Novak Djokovic won 4th Rome Masters Tennis title


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