by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 29, 2020 | Current Affairs
Louise Elisabeth Gluck, an American poet and essayist born in 1943, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2020, “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. The prize was announced on October...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 29, 2020 | Current Affairs
As per the reports in Earthsky in October 2020, Mars would be closer to Earth in October 2020 than it will be in the coming 15 years but would become fainter as Mars and Earth travelled farther away from each other in their orbits around the Sun. After this event in...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 29, 2020 | Current Affairs
Indian-origin philanthropist and president of Hindu Charities for America (HC4A), Harish Kotecha, has been awarded the prestigious Sandra Neese Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY), at its...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 29, 2020 | Current Affairs
As reported on October 12, 2020, US economists Paul Milgrom (72) and Robert Wilson (83) won the Nobel Economics Prize 2020, for their work on commercial auctions, including for goods and services difficult to sell in traditional ways such as radio frequencies. As per...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 28, 2020 | Current Affairs
The Punjab Health Department in January 2020, launched India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI), for early identification of patients suffering from hypertension and putting them on treatment, in five districts of the state, namely, Bhatinda, Hoshiarpur,...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 27, 2020 | Current Affairs
Introduction A group of evolutionary biologists from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, in March 2020 came out with research findings revealing the link between the population size of bacteria and the kind of fitness trade-offs they...
