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1) Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani Commended by Stanford University.

  • US` Stanford University of US has commended Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, for his decade long support to students keen on pursuing higher studies through scholarships.
  • Mr. Ambani had instituted the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Undergraduate Scholarship Fund for International Students to provide scholarships to bright students.
 
About Mukesh Ambani
 
  1. Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian business magnate who is the chairman, managing director and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited, a Fortune Global 500 company and India`s second most valuable company by market value
 

2) Anand Kumar`s Super 30 success story to feature in a French film.

  • Mathematician Anand Kumar has added yet another feather to his cap! Anand, who`s Super 30 institute is acclaimed for helping students of deprived section to crack the prestigious IIT entrance examination, now features in a film made by famous French director Pascal Plisson.
  • The film titled `The Big Day` has already gained popularity and is being displayed on TV and across various YouTube channels. According the officials of the Super-30, the movie is set to be released next month.
 
About Anand Kumar
 
  1. Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematician and a columnist for various national and international mathematical journals and magazines.
  2. He is best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches economically backward students for IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). By 2014, 308 of the 360 had made it to IITs and Discovery Channel showcased his work in a documentary.
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3) R.K. Pachauri steps down as IPCC chair After facing allegations of sexual harassment.

  • After facing allegations of sexual harassment, Dr. Rajendra K Pachauri has stepped down as Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
  • The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) also announced that Dr Pachauri, who is its director general, has proceeded on leave for the time being.
 
About R.K. Pachauri
 
  1. M. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri was the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
  2. He held the post from 2002 until his resignation in 2015, during which time the organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  3. He resigned from IPCC following allegations of sexual abuse of a junior colleague at his New Delhi based organization.
  4. In July 2015, he was also dismissed as the Director General of TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) the New Delhi head-quartered environmental think tank that he had led for over three decades.
4) Stephen Hawking to answer your queries on alien life.
 
  • The renowned physicist Stephen Hawking will address the issue of artificial intelligence and other topics at his first Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) forum.
  • Typically, a Reddit AMA is live as people throw questions at the person and he or she tries to respond as best as possible. But the format for Mr. Hawking will differ from the usual pattern.
 
About Stephen Hawking:
 
  1. Stephen William Hawking born 8 January 1942 is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
  2. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger enrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation.
  3. Hawking was the first to set forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.