Joseph Edward Murray : Dr. Joseph Edward Murray, the
first doctor to perform kidney transplant successfully died in November 2012. d-Doctor had received a Nobel Prize for the work. After he performed the first kidney
transplant on the identical twins, various other transplants on different
organs of the body were performed. Murray
also shared Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1990 along with Dr. E. Donnall Thomas,
who performed various bone marrow transplants.
Shinzo Abe: Shinzo Abe, the conservative leader of Japan
was elected as the prime minister of the country by lower house of the
Parliament called the House of Representatives. Shinzo Abe took oath to rebuild
Japanese economy as well as mend the coalition with US. The lower house of the
parliament in Japan,
which is said to be very powerful, Shinzo Abe as the new
leader of the country. All this came after the loud victory of Liberal
Democratic Party which is headed by Abe, in national election earlier in
December 2012. The Liberal Democratic Party had won over Democratic Party of
Japan (DPJ).
Fauja Singh: 101, the oldest marathon runner of the
world decided to stop running in the competitions after Hong Kong marathon
which will be held in February 2013. However, before the Hong Kong
marathon, Singh will be running in the Australia
marathon as well.
Fauja Singh is also popularly known as the Turbaned Tornado
in all the international events. Though Fauja Singh announced his retirement
from marathon, but he admitted that he would keep running for inspiring the
masses.
Uddhav Thackeray: was
elected as the Party President for Shiv Sena during the National Executive Meet
of the party held at Sena Bhawan, party’s headquarters at Dadar in Central Mumbai. He was elected to the
post of the President of the Party on the day of birth anniversary of the party
supremo and his father, Bal Thackeray.
NMEW: The National Mission for Empowerment of Women
(NMEW) in collaboration with the Lawyers Collective Women’s Rights Initiative
(LCWRI), supported by UN Women held the Sixth National Conference on
implementation of PWDVA (Protection of Women of from Domestic Violence Act),
2005 on 21 January 2013.
GETIT: Digital marketing company GETIT Infoservices rolled out DigiGains, a name give to platform
for digital marketing, for the benefit of Small and Medium Entreprises (SMEs)
in the region. The motto behind entering into partnership to furnish to the
strong demands for digital advertising from SMEs and market Google AdWords
products and as part of it they would develop, launch and manage digital
campaigns for SMEs. Getit's key role is to provide an extensive pan-India reach
with its strong field force and it is supposed to be involved in complete servicing
the Google adwords campaign.