- Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai sworn in as first lady judge of Sikkim High Court
- Meenakshi Madan Rai has sworn in as the first lady judge of the Sikkim High Court.
- Rai is also the third High Court judge who hails from the small border state.
- Nokia to buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion
- Finnish communications and IT giant Nokia has confirmed that it has finalised a deal to buy Alcatel-Lucent in a share deal worth 15.6 billion Euros ($16.6 billion).
- This merger will create the world’s largest supplier of telecom equipment’s that powers mobilephone networks by surpassing Ericsson and Huawei.
- Sachin Tendulkar inducted into Laureus Sports Academy
- Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar was inducted as one of the five new members into the prestigious Laureus Sports Academy in a glittering annual award ceremony at the Shanghai Grand theatre.
- Besides Tendulkar, retired Chinese professional basketball player Yao Ming, Kenyan long-distance runner Tegla Loroupe, Chinese gymnast Li Xiaopeng and former Chinese short track speed skater Yang Yang were the other athletes to be inducted into the Laureus academy.
- Mohan Kumar appointed as new Indian Ambassador to France
- Senior diplomat Mohan Kumar, currently India’s top envoy to Bahrain, has been appointed the next Ambassador to France to succeed Arun Kumar.
- Arun Kumar has been appointed the country’s Ambassador to the US, replacing S Jaishankar.
- Canada to Supply Uranium to India for 5 Years Under Landmark Deal
- Canada on Wednesday agreed to supply 3,000 metric tonnes of uranium to energy-hungry India from this year under a $254 million five-year deal to power Indian atomic reactors.
- Cameco Corporation will supply 3,000 metric tonnes of uranium over five years to India at an estimated cost of $254 million and the supply will start from this year.
- Canada is the third country to supply uranium to India after Russia and Kazakhstan. The supplies will be under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards.
- TCS to give its employees one-time bonus of Rs 2,628 crore
- Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest IT services company, said it would give its employees a one-time bonus of Rs 2,628 crore to mark ten years of the company’s listing on the stock exchanges.
- The company has about 319,000 employees globally. All employees who have completed at least a year of service with the company will be eligible for the bonus.
- Each employee will be given a bonus equal to one week’s salary for each year they have been with the company.
- TCS went public in August 2004 and is now the most valuable company by market capitalization on the Indian stock exchanges.
- Nuclear-Capable Agni-III Ballistic Missile Test-Fired
- India today successfully test fired its nuclear-capable Agni-III ballistic missile with a strike range of more than 3,000 km from Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.
- The indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile was test fired from a mobile launcher at launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR).
- The Agni-III missile is powered by a two-stage solid propellant system. With a length of 17 metres, the missile’s diameter is 2 metres and launch weight is around 50 tonnes.
- It can carry a warhead of 1.5 tonne which is protected by carbon all composite heat shield.
- Susanta Lahiri, a co-creator of element 117, awarded Hevesy Medal
- Professor Susanta Lahiri, Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, received the Hevesy Medal Award 2015.
- He is awarded for his outstanding contributions to heavy ion induced radioisotope production, tracer packet technique, converter targets, and green chemistry.
- The other person to also win the award this year is Professor Kattesh V. Katti of the Cedntre for Radiological Research, University of Missouri, Columia.
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