HEADLINES
- Digital age loses leading light – Steve Jobs, former CEO and Co- founder of Apple dead
- Omar Abdullah rejects PDP's demand for resignation
- Pakistan Hobnobbing with unsavoury characters – Obama
- An earth quake of the magnitude of 6.2 hits Argentina
NATIONAL NEWS
- Mulitple entry Visas for business man
- India and Pakistan have agreed to give multiple visas to businessmen valid for a year.
- T.M Krishna leaves Jaffna audience speel bound
- Carnatic vocalist T.M Krishna gave a series of successful concerts in Sri Lanka culminating with a spectacular performance at the Jaffna
- This is an Indian effort for developing the relationships between India and Sri Lanka.
- Rajastan favorite for Solar power projects
- Out of the 210 proposals received by the NTPC vidyut Vyabar Nigam (NVVN), to develop 350 MW of solar power under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, 145 were based in Rajastan.
- The National Solar Mission, forming part of the national action plan on climate change, aims at transforming the country's energy prospects and providing large scale grid connecting power.
- Highest webcam beams live images of everest.
- The world's highest webcams have been installed in the Nepalese himalayas beaming live images of the mount everests.
- It is used to study the effect of climate change on the planets tallest peak.
- The Solar powered camera has been set in Kala patthar . It can withstand a temparature of -30 degrees celcius
- Aadhar to be linked with MGNREGS scheme
- Under a MOU signed between the UIDAI and Rural development ministry, the ministry has been appointed registrar for the collection of data in Assam, Bihar, Jharkand, Tripura and W.B
- The MGNREGS wages will be paid in these states through Aadhar linked bank accounts,
- India, Russia review defence ties.
- Mr. Antony reviewed India – Russia defence ties at the 11th meeting of the India – Russia Intergovernmental commission on Millitary and technical cooperation along with his Russian counterpart.
- INS Vikramaditya (Aircraft carrier) would be delivered as per schedule
- Concern at the tardy progress made in the design and development of multi role transport aircraft.
- As regards Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA), being jointly designed and developed by India and Russia, both sides noted that while the first stage of preliminary design contract was complete, the second stage should be finalised before September next year
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- Tomas Transtormer wins Nobel prize for literature
- Swedish poet Tomas Transtomer has won the Nobel prize for literature. His sometimes bleak for powerful work explores the themes of nature, isolation and identity.
- Israeli Scientist Dan Schetman won the Nobel for Chemistry, for discovering quasi crystals, material in which atoms were packed together in a well defined pattern that never repeats.
- Nobel prize for physiology or medicine has been given to Bruce A. Buetler, Jules. A.Hoffman, and Ralph steinman for revolutionizing our understanding of our immune system.
EDITORIALS, OPINIONS & COLUMNS
- An article on how the pathogens are killed in the human body, explaining the Nobel Prize winners view point
ECONOMY & BUSINESS NEWS
- World's cheapest tablet PC launched
- India has launched the world's cheapest Tablet PC.
- The tablet PC named Aakash cost the government Rs. 2276/-. It will be given to the students at 50% subsidy
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