Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams - 31 July, 2014
Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams
31 July, 2014
Magsaysay for Chinese scribe, lawyer
- An influential Chinese journalist and a crusading environmental lawyer from China are among this year’s winners of Asia’s Magsaysay awards.
- Among this year's six awardees is Hu Shuli (61), founder and editor of Caijing, a business magazine famed for its groundbreaking investigative reporting that has had a profound impact on China.
- Another winner was Chinese lawyer Wang Canfa (55), founder of the Centre for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, which has handled thousands of environmental complaints and beaten powerful industrialists in court.
- Also honoured were Indonesian anthropologist Saur Marlina Manurung, National Museum of Afghanistan director Omara Khan Masoudi, Filipino teacher Randy Halasan, and the Pakistani non-government group The Citizen’s Foundation.
Mali adds to India’s tally
- Chandrakant Mali boosted the Indian tally by winning a bronze medal in the 94kg category of the weightlifting competitions.
- The Indian had a best of 150kg in the snatch and 188kg in the clean and jerk to finish with a total of 338kg, behind Steven Kukuna Kari (Papa New Guinea) and Simplice Ribouem (Australia). Kari won the gold on lower body weight after he and Ribouem finished with 349.
- India is ranked 6th after Navjot Kaur won the latest bronze medal for the Indian side taking their medal tally to 42 with 10 gold, 20 silver and 12 bronze.
