India's Heena Sidhu clinched World's No. 1 spot in 10 mts air pistol event 8th-april

1.    India's Heena Sidhu clinched World's No. 1 spot in 10 mts air pistol event

i. Heena Sindhu, the Indian shooter on 7 April 2014 clinched the World’s Number One spot in 10 meters air pistol event. By achieving this fete, she became the first Indian pistol shooter to be ranked at the top position in the list.

ii. Sindhu clinched the first spot in the rankings list by replacing the world champion Zorana Arunovic of Serbia with total pf 1699 rating points. Zorana is now placed at the second position in the list with 1514 points. China’s Wenjun Guo with 1190 points is placed at the third position.

 

iii. The rankings was released by International Shooting Sport Federation claimed that Sindhu was successful in achieving the World Number 1 spot through her performances in the recent events. 

2.    Ashish Bose foremost demographer died at 83

i. Ashish Bose, veteran demographer, 83, died in New Delhi due to illness on 7 April 2014.

ii. Asish Bose was best known for coining the term BIMARU in one page of research paper to then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi.

iii. BIMARU refer to the four grossly under-developed states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in the 1980s. Later it was expanded to BIMAROU which included the Orissa. Bose argument was to control the population of country the government should focus on these states as they accounted for more than 40 percent of country’s population.

3.  SAP appointed Ravi Chauhan as MD for India

i. Ravi Chauhan on 7 April 2014 was appointed as Managing Director for SAP India. He will take the charge immediately. He will report directly to Adaire Fox-Martin, President of SAP Asia Pacific Japan. 

ii. He had joined SAP after four years at Juniper Networks, where he had last served as Managing Director for India and South Asia. Before Juniper, Chauhan held leadership roles at Nortel Networks. 

iii. SAP innovations in cloud, mobile and social platforms are increasingly catered to the workplace of the future and the global networked economy with applications and solutions across all industries. 

About SAP 

SAP was founded in Walldorf, Germany in 1972 by five ex-IBM engineers. SAP stands for Systeme, Andwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung which translated to English means Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing. 

4.  UK legalised sale of self-testing kits for HIV

i. A new law legalizing sale of self-testing kits for HIV came into force in United Kingdom (UK) on 6 April 2014.

ii. The new law allows individuals to buy the self-testing kits available on shops and self-diagnose for HIV at home itself. The new law was approved by the UK Government in September 2013.

iii. Testing could involve taking a small drop of blood from a finger, or a swab from the inside of the mouth which can be easily read by people with no medical knowledge or training.

iv. Currently, people can take HIV tests at home but they have to send a saliva, or blood, sample to a lab which will give them their results after the sample has been analysed.