1. Irish author Eimear McBride wins Baileys women's prize for fiction with her debut novel 'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing'.
- The £30,000 prize was earlier known as 'Orange Prize for Fiction'.
- The winner apart from the cash prize receives a bronze sculpture called the Bessie created by artist Grizel Niven.
2. Lithuania is set to be the 19th country to adopt the common currency euro beginning 1 January 2015.
- Presently 18 out of total 28 European Union countries have joined single currency union 'Eurozone'.
- Apart from UK and Denmark, all other countries are required to join this union sooner or later.
3. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has nominated Jordan’s envoy, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein as the new High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- He is currently Jordan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
- He replaced Indian-origin Navi Pillay as such.
4. TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu becomes the first Chief Minister of residuary Andhra Pradesh.
- It will be his 3rd stint as CM after two consecutive terms from 1995-2004.
5. Uday Kotak, Executive Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank, has been conferred on the ‘EY World Entrepreneur of The Year 2014’ award.
- He is the second from India to win the award after NR Narayana Murthy of Infosys had won the same in 2003.
6. Sanjay Kapoor has been appointed as the Chairman of Indian smart phone maker Micromax.
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