04.10.2010 - Current Affairs

• CHENNAI: A section of employees of Chennai's public transport system, Metropolitan Transport Corporation, went on a flash strike on Monday morning, demanding action against those who had assaulted their colleagues.They warned of intensifying their agitation if their grievances were not addressed.
• LONDON: Russian archaeologists have unearthed some ancient and virtually unknown settlements which they believe were built by the original Aryan race about 4000 years ago.According to the team which has discovered 20 of the spiral-shaped settlements in remote part of Russia steppe in southern Siberia bordering Kazakhstan, the buildings date back to the beginning of Western civilisation in Europe.
• STOCKHOLM: British physiologist Robert Edwards, whose work led to the first "test-tube baby", won the 2010 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology, the prize-awarding institute said on Monday.Edwards, 85, won the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.5 million), Sweden's Karolinska Institute said.
• MUMBAI: National carrier Air India will launch a flight to Chicago from Hyderabad via Delhi by this month-end.We are all set to operate flight service to Chicago connecting Hyderabad with New Delhi from October 31," airline sources said, adding that a plan to launch a direct service to San Francisco was also being studied.
• AHMEDABAD: Naxalism, which has wreaked havoc in various parts of the country in the recent times, may soon get a management perspective. A team of five students of the post graduate programme for executives ( PGPX) at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) took the initiative to find out the root cause for the disturbance. Now, they will come up with a way to tackle it.
• NEW DELHI: After the reverses it has suffered, including the loss in last year's national election, BJP is now -- almost literally -- facing an 'identity theft', allegedly at the hands of the Congress.And the clash in the virtual world promises to be fierce. On Sunday, the party announced it had served a legal notice to Congress, accusing it of "petty, pickpocketlike theft" of its online identity.