2 Dec. 2015: Daily News Updates

1. Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan assumed Presidency of the Royal Society in London for five years. With this appointment he joined the elite club that has included Christopher Wren, Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, Joseph Banks, Humphry Davy, and Ernest Rutherford. He studied how genetic information is translated by the ribosome to make proteins and the action of antibiotics on this process. The Indian-American scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009 with Tom Steitz and Ada Yonath. He was awarded a knighthood in 2012.                                                                                                                                    
2. Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) Scheme to boost the quality of higher education in India.                                                                                                                                                                                        
3. India’s Thakur Anoop Singh won gold medal in the 7th WBPF World Bodybuilding and Physique Championships.                                                                                                                                                            
4. The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery was observed globally on today  2 December 2015.                                                                                                                                                                                           
5. India and France launched the International Solar Alliance in Paris. The alliance was launched jointly by PM Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande during the United Nations climate change conference (COP21).                                                                                                       
6. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) awarded with the E-India Award for adopting technology to serve the public better and using resources efficiently through mobile applications.                                                                                                                                                                        
7. Renowned sarangi player Ustad ”Sabri Khan” died.