Famous Personalities - Current Affairs for June, 2016

On what is his 148th birthday, Google honoured Nobel Laureate Karl Landsteiner which id the discoverer of blood groups which are the key to efficient blood transfusion with a doodle

• Landsteiner made blood transfusion safe and helped millions of people lead longer and healthier lives
• First fundamental discovery in the history of serology did not come till 1901 when Karl Landsteiner’s identification of blood groups sparked additional research and discovery and led to the receipt of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• During the 17th century, dangerous practice of blood transfusion used in the Middle Ages was banned in EU before this

For the fifth consecutive year, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has been named the most powerful woman in technology on the Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women list, placing at No. 7 on the list overall.

• With a personal fortune of $1.4 billion, Sandberg is powerful not only as a billionaire and top executive at the world’s fifth most valuable brand, but also as a voice for female empowerment in the workplace and shared responsibilities at home.
• After Sandberg, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (No. 8 overall) took the No. 2 spot in tech followed in quick succession by HP CEO Meg Whitman (No. 9), IBM CEO Virginia “Ginni” Rometty (No. 11), Apple Senior VP Angela Ahrendts (No. 15), Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz (No. 20), Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat (No. 27) and Ursula Burns (No. 34), the CEO of Xerox since 2009.
• Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (No. 55), down the list 33 spots, is currently overseeing a sale of the embattled tech pioneer’s core business amid falling traffic and ad revenue.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has announced that a new Indian Reserve Battalion in Rajasthan will be named after Maharana Pratap, the great warrior of Mewar region. The Home Minister, who is on a two-day visit to the state, made the announcement at a programme. Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje had made a request to Singh in this regard.

• The Indian Reserve Battalion will be named after Maharana Pratap, a Rajput ruler who had fought against the Mughals and never bowed before them, Singh said. The government will make sure that his contribution is highlighted.
  
• The Union minister also announced setting up of a global centre for counter terrorism at Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice at Jodhpur and said the process of police modernisation will be expedited.
• Pratap Singh or Pratap Singh popularly known as Maharana Pratap the ruler of Mewar, a region in north-western India in the present day state of Rajasthan.