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Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 30 January 2015

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Eminent singer and theatre director Shekhar Sen has been appointed the new chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the country’s premier institution for performing arts.
Mr. Sen was awarded the Padma Shri on Republic Day.
According to an order issued by the Culture Ministry , Mr. Sen has been appointed for a five-year term with immediate effect.
The Akademi has been without a head after earlier chairperson Leela Samson, who was appointed by the UPA government, quit on September 30 last year.

Pakistan recorded 2.25 million abortion cases in 2012, with the rate of annual abortions doubling in 10 years due to minimal use of contraception in its conservative society, according to a report.
The report titled ‘Induced Abortions and Unintended Pregnancies in Pakistan’ was carried out by Population Council in collaboration with Guttmacher Institute in U.S.

In a step that could significantly push the bar for quality online education in the country, IIT Bombay has embarked on a mass online education programme that will provide free online courses and give access to high quality, IIT-style education to students in Indian languages.
On Republic Day, Devang Khakhar, Director of IIT Bombay, launched Mass Open Online Courses (MOOC) in computer programming, thermodynamics, and signals and systems from the institute’s IITBombayX platform developed in collaboration with edX, a not-for-profit initiative by MIT and Harvard.