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Nobel Prize 2017: All The Winners

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

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Rainer WeissBarry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne
"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

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Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017

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Jeffrey C. HallMichael Rosbash and Michael W. Young
"for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017

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Kazuo Ishiguro
"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2017

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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
"for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017

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Richard H. Thaler
"for his contributions to behavioural economics"

Global Hunger Index 2017: India ranks 100th

India, which has more than a fifth (21 percent) of its children wasted (weigh too little for their height), slipped three places to 100th in the 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) - three places down from last year’s rank of 97th.

Government launches Sampoorna Bima Gram Yojana

Sampoorna Bima Gram Yojana:

14TH President Of India- Ram Nath Kovind

Ram Nath Kovind, lawyer, former MP and governor, was elected India's next President on Thursday. The government-backed candidate, a Dalit leader, won nearly 66 per cent of the votes cast by an electoral college of MPs and state lawmakers on Monday. He will be sworn in on July 25.

IIFA Awards 2017: List Of Winners

The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards 2017 is being held in New York, with Karan Johar and Saif Ali Khan being the hosts of the evening.

Money Market

A money market is a market for borrowing and lending of short-term funds. It deals in funds and financial instruments having a maturity period of one day to one year. It is a mechanism through which short-term funds are loaned or borrowed and through which a large part of financial transactions of a particular country or of the world are cleared.

  It is not a single market but a collection of markets for several instruments like call money market, Commercial bill market etc. The Reserve Bank of India is the most important constituent of Indian money market
In money market the players are :-Government, RBI, DFHI (Discount and finance House of India) Banks, Mutual Funds, Corporate Investors, Provident Funds, PSUs (Public Sector Undertakings), NBFCs (Non-Banking Finance Companies) etc.