October 8, 2013 (Current Affairs)

Nobel prize, 2013 for physiology or medicine

The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced the winners of noble prize as James E. Rothman, 62, of Yale University; Randy W. Schekman, 64, of the University of California, Berkeley; and Dr. Thomas C. Südhof, 57, of Stanford University. Their basic research solved the mystery of how cells, which are factories producing molecules, organize a system to transport the molecules within cells and export them outside.

Arundhati Bhattacharya becomes first woman head of SBI

Arundhati Bhattacharya elevated as chairperson of the State Bank of India on Monday. She is the first woman chief succeeding Partip Choudhary who retired on 30^th September and is 24^th head of the bank.