Friday, April 6, 2012

HEADLINES

• The 2012 edition of the annual India-U.S. naval exercise, ‘Malabar,' will be held in the Bay of Bengal from April 7 for 10 days
• Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman delivered the 5th Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Lecture on ‘Arab Spring Revolution — How, Why and What After?, and said that dictatorships and terrorism feed off each other

NATIONAL NEWS

• Film Heritage Mission to conserve blockbusters
  • The National Film Development Corporation of India plans to launch the National Film Heritage Mission with a view to conserving blockbuster movies of the past 100 years of Indian cinema;
  • A digital heritage laboratory is also proposed to be set up to make them accessible to masses.
• Second Brazilian plane with Indian AEW&C System flown
  • The maiden flight of the second fully modified Embraer aircraft for India-developed Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) System took place on April 4 at Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo in Brazil;
  • This aircraft will be delivered to India in June 2012. The other mission systems will then be integrated and the mission system flight trials may begin from November 2012. The mission systems and components, including the dummy Active Antenna Array Unit (AAAU), were fitted onboard an Embraer EMB 2451. The AEW&C System is mounted on top of the plane's fuselage;
  • India's first AEW&C System, with dummy electronics, made its maiden flight on December 6, 2011 on another modified Embraer from the Sao Jose dos Campos facility. India will receive the third Embraer by the middle of 2013 to be fitted with the AEW&C System.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Sanctions grip on Myanmar to ease
  • China on Thursday called for the West to immediately lift their punitive sanctions on Myanmar in the wake of by-elections won by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party.
• Google tests real-time information glasses
  • Google has announced test of its “Project Glass”, a pair of augmented reality glasses that provides users real-time information right in front of their eyes.
• Power and trade issues seen to propell discussions between Indian PM and Pakistani PM in the upcoming meeting

EDITORIALS, OPINIONS & COLUMNS

• Read this article which is a response to the article on the CTBTO posted on April 4, 2012
• Read this article on foreign doctors and the growth of medical tourism