HEADLINES
- Supreme court refuses to intervene in the matter of age of the army chief and says he should honour his letters to the defence ministry accepting his DoB as 1950
- India sends a special envoy to Maldives to assess the situation
- Enforcement Directorate sends a notice to Google India for details of its payments to Google overseas and to explain if all clearances for such payments were taken from RBI
- Vilasrao Deshmukh, former CM of Maharastra, indicted by the Bombay HC for irregularities in allotment of land for Subash Ghai academy known as Whistling Woods
NATIONAL NEWS
- India test fires interceptor missile
- India moved closer to the deployment of the fledgling, home-grown Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system on Friday when an interceptor missile achieved a direct hit and destroyed an incoming target missile at an altitude of 15 km over the Bay of Bengal;
- Only 4 countries in the world now have this capability. For the testing, one of India's Pritvi missiles was launched as the attacking missile from Chandipur, Odissa, and the interceptor, AAD-05, was fired from the Wheeler Island. Equipped for the first time with an omni-directional warhead and travelling at a speed of Mach 5-6, the interceptor homed in on the target and smashed it to smithereens five minutes later.
- Polavaram Project may pose threat to Coringa Mangroves
- Sustained efforts by government and service organisations to improve green cover at Coringa mangroves on the city outskirts seem to have yielded results with the extent going up by 2,481.91 hectares in the last 25 years;
- However, there is a threat to the mangroves, the second biggest in India after the Sundarbans in West Bengal, from the Polavaram project. The importance of Coringa mangroves in protecting the mainland from natural calamities came to light during the massive cyclone of 1996. The Govt has imposed a ban on cutting trees in the area and the communities in the surrounding areas have been also involved in increasing the mangrove cover.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- Al-Shabaab, Somalia's extremist fighters announce joining ranks with the al-Qaeda
- In light of unrest in the Tibetan region, Chinese Premier takes a different tone with Tibetians and says greater efforts will be taken to protect tibetan culture, traditions and religious freedoms
- US Nuclear watchdog issues stinging report to the US Govt that safety of its own nuclear weapons was vague
EDITORIALS, OPINIONS & COLUMNS
- Read this article on the problems in Maldives
- If you have time, then read this article on why Russians are emigrating from Russia
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