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Indian-Origin Man Ashok Sridharan Becomes Mayor of Germany's Bonn City
Ashok Sridharan, a mayoral candidate of Chancellor Angela Merkel-led Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has comprehensively won the election in Bonn, becoming the first person of Indian-origin to occupy the mayor's office in a major German city.49-year-old Sridharan secured the absolute majority by polling 50.06 per cent of the votes in yesterday's election in the former German capital, according to provisional results.
His victory marks the end of more than 21 years' rule of the city by the Social Democratic Party (SPD).Mr Sridharan, who is the son of a migrant from India and a German mother, will take over the reigns of the city administration from the outgoing SPD mayor Juergen Nymptsch on October 21.Until now, he served as the treasurer and assistant mayor in the municipal administration of neighbouring town Koenigswinter.His absolute majority in the first round of the election and his strong lead over his two main opponents came as a surprise to many political observers, who predicted a close finish.
Frank D. Gilroy, whose play about a veteran’s fraught return home, “The Subject Was Roses,” won him a Pulitzer Prize, died Saturday in Monroe, New York. He was 89.Gilroy, who served in the Army from 1943 to 1946 in the European Theatre, also won a Tony Award for “The Subject Was Roses.” It premiered on Broadway in May of 1964. He then wrote a screenplay for a 1968 film adaptation starring Jack Albertson and Patricia Neal, which would earn both supporting Oscar nominations and a win for Albertson.
The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari released a book entitled “Feminist and Orientalist Perspectives – A Study of Lady Mary Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters” authored by Dr. Farha Hiba Parvez’ at a function . Addressing on the occasion, the Vice President said that this book on Lady Mary Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters is a serious work diligently done and will become an open area for many scholars. 
The 57-year-old's latest mission lasted 168 days, bringing his total to 879 days in space over five trips. This is two months longer than the previous record set in 2005 by Russian Sergei Krikalev over six missions. Mr Padalka and two other members from the International Space Station (ISS) landed safely in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz spacecraft just before sunrise. The capsule descended after re-entering the Earth's atmosphere under a parachute. Graduated as a pilot and became a colonel in the Russian Air Force First journey to space was in 1998, to Russia's Mir space station Only person to have commanded the ISS four times He beat the previous record for most time in space on 28 June 2015 Has participated in 10 spacewalks A ground crew rushed to welcome and extract the three astronauts from the charred spacecraft and medics checked their condition. "I am fine," Mr Padalka told them as he sipped tea and ate an apple, the news agency reports. Mr Padalka's companions - Andreas Mogensen from Denmark and Kazakh Aidyn Aimbetov - are both novices in comparison, having only spent 10 days in orbit on what was their first mission . Mr Aimbetov had travelled in place of British soprano Sarah Brightman, who had been due to made the trip as a space tourist but withdrew from training in Mayciting family reasons. Six astronauts now remain on the ISS, including Nasa's Scott Kelly and Russia's Mikhail Kornienko, who began a 12-month tour of duty in March - the longest continuous stay anyone would have been aboard the 400km-high (250 mile) orbiting platform.
prevailing against an inspired opponent and a hostile crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium to underscore his status as the world’s No. 1 player Djokovic’s 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 victory gave him a second U.S. Open singles title and a 10th Grand Slam singles title, moving him into a tie with Bill Tilden for seventh place on the career list. Federer remains on top of that pecking order with 17, but Djokovic has prevented him from adding to his record total.
. Flavia Pennetta, who overcame some early jitters to overwhelm her childhood friend Roberta Vinci 7-6 (4), 6-2 to win the US Open, waited until the end of the presentation ceremony to add, almost as an afterthought, "This is the way I want to say goodbye to tennis."
The Men's Doubles was clinched by the French pair : P. Herbert and N. Mahut. The french pair thrashed the pair of J.Murray and J.Peers in two direct sets by 6-, 6-4.
An international jury chaired by Steve Howard, chief sustainability officer at multinational IKEA Group, awarded Ryan Pandya of Silicon Valley startup Muufri the runner-up prize of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge 2015.
Qatar's emir has appointed an ambassador to Iraq, the first since the embassy was closed 25 years ago, Iraqi and Qatari media said, in the latest sign of a thaw in relations between Gulf Arab countries and Iraq.Iraq's foreign minister had said in May that Qatar would open an embassy in Baghdad.
Andhra Bank Managing Director and CEO (Additional Charge) SK Kalra has launched SPEEDPAY - an open loop mobile wallet in association with BSNL and PYRO technologies here .Speaking on the occasion, he said the SPEEDPAY allows people to use them for all sorts of utility payments and easily rechargable and very simple to operate from the Mobile.
Indian Naval Ship Vajrakosh was commissioned by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar at Karwar in Karnataka. INS Vajrakosh, the latest establishment of the Indian Navy will be a premier naval base in the coming years. It will be third major base on the Western seaboard as there are plans to have some of the vital naval assets in Karwar.
The Union Cabinet gave its approval for the maiden National Offshore Wind Energy Policy.The focus of the policy is to harness offshore wind energy potential in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The EEZ is an area up to 200 nautical miles from the coast.
