Current Affairs October 2014

2014 Nobel Peace Prize[10/10/2014]

The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay "for their struggle against the suppression of children and
young people and for the right of all children to education".
2014 Nobel Prize in Literature[10/10/2014]
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 was awarded to Patrick odiano "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human
destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation".
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014[09/10/2014]
!"ericans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and #er"an scientist Stefan W. Hell won the Nobel Prize in che"istry for de$elo%in& new "ethods that
let "icrosco%es see finer details than they could before.
Nobel prize for Medicine and Physics[07/10/2014]
Isamu Akasaki (a!an"# Hiroshi Amano (a!an"# Shu$i %akamura (a!an" won the Nobel %rize in Physics for the in&ention of efficient
'lue light(emitting )io)es *hich has ena'le) 'right an) energy(sa&ing *hite light sources.
ohn +,Keefe(-K"# May(Britt Moser an) E)&ar) I. Moser (%or*ay" won the Nobel %rize in edicine for their )isco&eries of cells that
constitute a !ositioning system in the 'rain.
Thomas Kailath ins !" National Medal of "cience[04/10/2014]
.homas Kailath' a Pune educated (ndian)!"erican en&ineerin& %rofessor at *tanford +ni$ersity' is one of the reci%ients of the +* National edal of
*cience announced by President ,arack -ba"a. .ailath is also a reci%ient of the Pad"a ,hushan' one of (ndia/s hi&h ci$ilian awards and is a "e"ber of
"ajor science and en&ineerin& acade"ies in (ndia.
PM Narendra Modi launches "achh #harat campai$n[02/10/2014]
0ieldin& a broo"' Pri"e inister Narendra odi on 2nd -ctober launched the / S*achh Bharat/ ca"%ai&n' a cleanliness dri$e across (ndia' on #andhi
1ayanti. ore than 2'200 students fro" close to 20 &o$ern"ent schools in 3elhi took the /*wachhta *ha%ath/ alon& with odi as he inau&urated his
a"bitious /S*achh Bharat A'hiyan/.