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By EXAM JOB EXPERT Published: September 12, 2024
Day of the Year
Programmers Day
- Programmers Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year – chosen because this is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, and the highest power of two which is less than 365. And when this number is translated to binary code? It reads 1 0000 0000. Clever!
- If that all sounds like a bunch of crazy tech-speak, then it’s likely that the reader is not a programmer. But certainly there are plenty of programmers out there to thank on this day.
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Kolkata doctors set fresh conditions, continue stir
- The impasse between protesting resident doctors and the West Bengal government over the resumption of duty in public medical institutions continued for the second day on Wednesday, with the former setting fresh conditions for holding talks. They included the demand that no fewer than 30 representatives be allowed at the State Secretariat for a meeting to be held in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and televised live on news channels.
- Chief Secretary Manoj Pant said the government was disheartened with the response of the junior doctors setting conditions for talks, which did not result in a discussion with an open mind.
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IIT Guwahati Dean of Academic Affairs resigns amid protests over death of third-year student
- The Dean of Academic Affairs of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) has resigned following protests over the death of a student on Monday.
- The IIT-G authorities on Wednesday confirmed receiving the resignation of K.V. Krishna. “We are discussing this internally. A decision will be taken soon,” read a statement issued by the institute.
- Around 3,000 students of IIT-G staged protests to “claim the night” after 21-year-old Bimlesh Kumar, a third-year B. Tech Computer Science Engineering student, was found dead in his hostel room on Monday morning. Many of them did not attend classes and the protests continued in different forms until Wednesday afternoon.
Eviction by Railways in Haldwani: SC gives Uttarakhand govt. two months to finalise rehabilitation
- The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the Uttarakhand government two months to finalise a rehabilitation scheme for families facing eviction by the Railways in Haldwani.
- A Bench headed by Justice Surya Kant, in a hearing on July 24, had asked the Uttarakhand Chief Secretary to meet with the Railway authorities and the Ministry of Urban Affairs to iron out a “fair and equitable” rehabilitation project for the families.
India’s increasing competitiveness at the Chess Olympiad
- As the 45th Chess Olympiad is being held in Budapest, we look at historical performances in the Open section of the most prestigious event of team chess. India has been participating in the biennial event since 1956 and has played in every Olympiad since 1980. The Olympiad was dominated by the erstwhile Soviet Union, which won 18 gold medals. Russia and the U.S. have won six gold medals each, while India has got two bronze medals, in 2014 and 2022 (Table 1).
- In Budapest, India’s team comprising Grandmasters Arjun Erigaisi, D. Gukesh, R. Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, and P. Harikrishna is the strongest one ever fielded by the country (Table 2).
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Centre to nudge banks to fund green energy projects
- To help meet India’s ₹30 trillion funding requirements for installing 500 GW of non-fossil fuel capacity by 2030, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is in talks with financial institutions, public and private sector banks, urging them to commit a portion of their loans to renewable energy projects.
- At the forthcoming Re-Invest summit, scheduled in Gandhinagar next week, all major banks and financial institutions will be giving “shapath patra” (promissory notes) about their proposed loans or funding plans in the renewable energy sector, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi said at a press briefing on Wednesday.
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