Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 07 August 2015

:: National ::

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Friday inaugurate the first National Handloom Day at a function in Chennai.
Prime Minister Modi will confer the Sant Kabir awards and National awards for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 to distinguished handloom personalities.
The program is being held in the prestigious Centenary hall of Madras University.
The Prime Minister will also launch 'India Handloom' Brand. An exhibition showcasing master creations of the awardees is also being inaugurated on the occasion in the adjacent senate building of Madras University.
The Handloom Day will be celebrated all over the country in cooperation with state governments.
The date August 7 has been chosen due to its special significance in India's history; it was on this day that the Swadeshi Movement was launched in 1905.

There is a fine line between the Internet and World Wide Web. Today, in 1991, the World Wide Web was born! And to understand it more closely, we need to take a closer look at the origin of a project at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).
In the 1980s, CERN was undertaking research that involved scientists and researchers distributed across geographies.
There was a need to share files, and collaborate over very critical data. But there was a problem.
They didn’t have common systems, or presentation software. Computing was nascent and evolving.
Despite the challenges, a contractor at CERN named Tim Berners-Lee saw opportunity. The solution was supposed to be text.
That was 1980. And he was just a contract employee. Four years later in 1984, Lee returned to the CERN as a permanent employee and decided to take a look at the problem faced by CERN – information management.

On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for a distributed information system at CERN. He created the following concept.

The first concept proposed by Tim Berners-Lee. Image: CERN
It was a means to exchange information across computers spread geographically, and was aimed to solved the vital problem that needed to be solved at CERN.

On December 20, 1990, the world’s first website went live at CERN. It was Christmas of 1990, and Lee had defined most of the common terminologies as we know them today, including URL, http and HTML.

The compressed natural gas (CNG)-run buses are harmful for humans as they emit "nanocarbon" particles which can cause cancer, according to a study conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Though the study was conducted on a very limited sample size in Delhi, CSIR took the findings seriously owing to the health hazard it poses to humans and alerted the central government for further follow up,

No study has so far supported the theory that global warming was causing natural calamities in the Himalayan region, parliament was told on Thursday.
"There is no study reported so far, which supports the fact that many type of instances similar to natural calamities are occurring in the Himalayan region due to global warming," Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
"However, for monitoring and prediction of extreme weather events over the Himalayan region, India Meteorological Department has established state meteorological sentres at Srinagar, Shimla, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati and Agartala for forecast of natural calamities like very heavy rainfall,

Cricketer Yuvraj Singh has now set his eyes on juicy burgers. Singh's company YouWeCan Ventures has invested in American burger chain Carl's Jr that is set to open its first store in India this weekend.
CybizBrightStar, the master franchisee of Carl's Jr here, said YouWeCan has picked up an undisclosed amount of equity in the company.
This would also lead to Singh acting as 'brand ambassador' for the burger chain that has been associated with celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Padma Lakshmi.
Last month, Singh picked up a stake in JetSetGo, an online marketplace for jets and helicopters. Cybiz, which has interests in the F&B sector, has been looking to raise capital for Carl's Jr. It raised around Rs 12.5 crore from Delhi-based PE

Broad became the fifth England bowler to take 300 Test wickets after Anderson, Botham, Willis and Trueman.
Stuart Broad described the day as a dream after taking career-best figures of 8-15 to help England bowl out Australia for 60 on the first morning of the fourth Ashes Test on Thursday.
Broad struck five times in his first four overs, claiming his 300th Test victim with the third ball of the match when he had opener Chris Rogers caught at first slip by captain Alastair Cook for a duck.