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1 Power failure may be the reason ISRO?lost contact with GSAT-6A communication satellite
  • Scientists from Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are still trying to find out why they lost contact with the communication satellite GSAT-6A on Saturday after its launch on Thursday.

  • Power failure is the most likely cause, according to officials grappling with the second setback in just over half a year.
03-Apr-2018 News in Details
2 Kerala lifts their sixth Santosh Trophy
  • Kerala has lifted their sixth Santosh Trophy Football title. In a thrilling final at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on Sunday, Kerala held their nerves to beat defending champions and 32-time winners Bengal via penalty shootout.

  • Locked 2-2 after extra time, Kerala goalkeeper V Mithun put up a stellar show in the tie-breaker to help his side win 4-2.

02-Apr-2018 News in Details
3 Former Guatemala dictator Rios Montt, accused of genocide, passes away

  • Efrain Rios Montt, a former military dictator who ruled between 1982 and 1983 and who was facing retrial on genocide charges, died on Sunday aged 91, sources close to his family said.

  • One of his lawyers, Luis Rosales, told reporters that Rios Montt “died in his home, with the love of his family and a clear conscience.”

  • Rios Montt is accused of being responsible for the murders of 1,771 indigenous Ixil-Maya people during his short reign, which came at the height of a brutal 36-year civil war.
02-Apr-2018 News in Details
4 Delhi Becomes First Indian City to Roll-Out Euro-VI Ultra Clean Petrol, Diesel
  • Ultra-clean Euro-VI grade petrol and diesel, at no additional price, supply has been started in the national capital in a bid to combat alarming levels of air pollution.

  • Delhi is among the first city in the country to leapfrog from Euro-IV grade petrol and diesel to Euro-VI. Cities in the national capital region like Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad as well as 13 major cities including Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune will switch over to cleaner Euro-VI grade fuel from January 1 next year. Rest of the country will follow suit from April 2020.
02-Apr-2018 News in Details
5 Mithali Raj adjudged 'Sportsperson of the Year'
  • Hyderabad: Indian women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj was adjudged 'Sportsperson of the Year' while ace shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and PV Sindhu bagged the best senior male and female athletes at the Telangana Sports Journalists Association annual awards for 2017.

  • Mithali Raj was not present to receive the award and her parents received it on her behalf from BV Papa Rao, Advisor to the Telangana government.
02-Apr-2018 News in Details
6 U.S., South Korea begin joint military exercises as tensions thaw on Korean Peninsula
  • SEOUL — The United States and South Korea began their joint military training exercises Sunday as diplomatic relations have been thawing on the Korean Peninsula, according to the South Korean defense ministry.

  • The planned drills, known as Foal Eagle and Key Resolve, take place before the April 27 summit between North and South Korea and ahead of a meeting with President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expected in May.
02-Apr-2018 News in Details
7 India now world’s second-largest mobile phone producer: ICA
  •  India is now the second largest producer of smartphones in the world only behind China, according to fresh data shared by the Cellular Association with Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha and IT Minister Ravi Shanker Prasad, reported news agency PTI.  

  • The FTTF (), which has members from industry and government, has set target to create USD 8 billion component manufacturing as result of growth in mobile phone production and create 1.5 million direct and indirect jobs by 2019.  
02-Apr-2018 News in Details
8 NASA to launch mission to study Mars’ deep interior for the first time

. NASA's next mission to the Red Planet will be the topic of a media briefing at 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m. EDT) Thursday, March 29, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The briefing will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

. NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander will study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all rocky planets formed, including Earth and its moon. The lander's instruments include a seismometer to detect marsquakes and a probe that will monitor the flow of heat in the planet's subsurface.

30-Mar-2018 News in Details
9 Long term capital gains tax to come into effect from April 1
  • Several Budget proposals, including the reintroduction of tax on long term capital gains (LTCG) exceeding Rs 1 lakh from sale of shares, will kick in from April 1, the beginning of 2018-19 financial year.
  • Besides, other tax proposals like reduced corporate tax of 25 per cent on businesses on a turnover of up to Rs 250 crore and a standard deduction of Rs 40,000 in lieu of transport allowance and medical reimbursement, will come into effect from Sunday.
  • While the exemption limit on income from interest for senior citizens has been raised five times to Rs 50,000 per year, that for health insurance premium and medical expenditure has been raised to Rs 50,000 from Rs 30,000, respectively under section 80D of the I-T Act.
30-Mar-2018 News in Details
10 Microsoft's Windows head Terry Myerson to leave company amid reorganization

. Microsoft Corp on Thursday said Terry Myerson, executive vice president of its Windows and devices business, will be leaving the company amid a major management reshuffle that increases the company's focus on its cloud products.

The latest transition builds on earlier efforts to unite engineers who work on software with those that oversee hardware. Microsoft is creating two new engineering teams, with one focusing on how consumers use technology and the other on how businesses use cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

30-Mar-2018 News in Details