5 July 2012 Current Affairs
Yahoo! India RAD Sets Up Lab at IIT Madras
Yahoo
! India RAD has entered into an agreement with IIT, Madras, to support
its faculty and students in closed computing research. Yahoo has setup a
grid computing lab Madras on IIT Campus, consisting of a cluster of
high-end server running its open source Hadoop software, which will
provide the infrastructure necessary to conduct research on bid data and
cloud computing systems.The lab, which costs over Rs.50 lakh to build.
will be accessible to students who have cloud computing courses and
doctoral candidates.
Floral Tributes Paid To Jagjivan Ram on Death Anniversary
Floral
Tributes were, on 6 July 2012 Paid to freedom fighter and former deputy
PM Babu Jagjivan Ram at his memorial ‘santa sthal’ in New Delhi on the
occasion of his 26th death anniversary.
Indian Emerged as the 3rd Most Preferred FDI Destination: UNCTAD report 2012
According
to the world investment report 2012 released by united nations
conference on trade & development(UNCTAD) on 5 July 2012, India
emerged as the third most preferred Foreign Direct
Investment(FDI)destination in the world.The first position was occupied
by china followed by US.The report noted that FDI inflows to had
increased by 33%in 2011 to 31.66 billion.
Fukushima Was ‘Man-Made’ Diasater ;Japanese Probe
Last
year’s Fukushima nuclear accident was a man made disaster just the
tsunami that hit the plant, adamning parliamentary report said on 5 July
2012.Ingrained collusion between plant operator Tokyo Electric Power,
the government and regulatory, combined with a lack of any effective
oversight led directly to the worst nuclear accident in a generation,
the report said.
Strong 6.3Quake Strikes Off Vanuatu: USGS
A
strong 6.3 magnitude quake struck off the Pacific Island nation of
Vanuatu on 6 July 2012, the US Geological survey said.The tremor hit
about 358km northwest of the capital port Vila at a depth of about
180km,USGS said.
World Zoonosis Day on July 6
6
July is recognized as “World Zoonosis Day”,Zoonotic diseases are
infectious disease that are naturally transmitted between animals and
humans.To educate people about Zoonotic infections, 06 July is
celebrated as ‘World Zonoosis day”. India being an agriculture country,
more that 80% of the rural population lives in close association with
animals.Thus, the chances of transmission of such diseases are high
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