1) Justice
R.M. Lodha appointed next Chief Justice of India: Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha has been appointed
as the next Chief Justice of India and he will assume charge on April 27. On
Friday, the law ministry issued a press note saying the President has appointed
Justice Lodha as the next CJI. Justice Lodha (64) is the most senior judge of
the Supreme Court after CJI P Sathasivam. He will have a brief tenure of five
months as CJI as he is scheduled to retire on September 27. Read more from here.
2) EC
banned Amit Shah, Azam Khan rallies: Taking serious exception to the
failure of the U.P. government to file an FIR against Urban Development
Minister Azam Khan for his communal utterances and to check inflammatory
speeches by BJP leader Amit Shah, the Election Commission on Friday directed
the Chief Secretary to initiate criminal proceedings against the two and ban
public meetings where they are expected to be present.
3) Former
media adviser of PM- Sanjaya Baru's book sparks controversy: Manmohan Singh's
former media adviser, Sanjaya Baru, has come out with a tell-all memoir of his
days in the Prime Minister's Office during UPA I. The Accidental Prime
Minister: Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh is like a House of Cards of
Indian politics - not as ruthless as the American television series about
Capitol Hill but terrifically real. In his book he describes, PM Manmohan Singh
was in office, but not in power.
4) Deadly
‘Heartbleed’ virus arrived in Indian cyberspace: Indian cyber security
sleuths have alerted Internet users against a “highly severe” virus named
‘Heartbleed’, which has set alarm bells ringing across the globe for fear of
exposing millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive
information to hackers. The virus prowling in the domestic arena, authorities
said, attacks the openSSL of an online system which is the most essential
protocol which encrypts information and data transfer over the Internet.
5) President
presented Sangeet Natak Akademi awards: President Pranab Mukherjee
presented the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Sangeet Natak Akademi
awards for 2013 at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday. Akademi
Ratna, the Fellowship, was conferred on Dr. Kanak Rele, R. Sathyanarayana, and
Mahesh Elkunchwar. The Fellows received a cash purse of Rs. 3 lakh. The awards
for overall contribution and scholarship in the performing arts were presented
to Mysore V. Subramanya and N. Ramanathan.
6)
India successfully conducted maiden night test of Agni missile: India last
night successfully conducted maiden night test of its indigenously developed
nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile with strike range of 700 km from a
test range off Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the Army. The
surface-to-surface, single-stage missile, powered by solid propellants, was
test-fired from a mobile launcher at 2310 hours from launch pad-4 of the
Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island, about 100 km from here, Defence
sources said.
7) Infosys starts new CEO search: IT major
Infosys is poised to choose a CEO from outside its six founders as incumbent
CEO S.D Shibulal is set to exit well before the end of his term. Days before
announcing its annual financial results, the company declared to the stock
exchange early on Thursday that it will start its hunt for a new CEO, and
interestingly, this time the search will include external candidates.
8) Maruti
to recall over one lakh units of Ertiga, Swift, DZire: Maruti Suzuki, on
Friday, said it would recall over one lakh units of its popular models —
Ertiga, Swift and DZire — to replace faulty fuel filler neck.
9) Vodafone
Group buys out minority partners, now owns 100% in India unit: Vodafone Group Friday said that it has taken
complete ownership of its India telecom venture Vodafone India Ltd. (VIL), by
buying oput minority partners Piramal Enterprises, and Analjit Singh and Neelu
Analjit Singh for a combined Rs10,142 crore.
10)
SBI mops up record $1.25 billion in overseas bond sale: State Bank of India
has mopped up $1.25 billion in overseas debt sale through a dual tranche bond
programme, making it the largest ever offering from a domestic issuer.
11) Stuart
Parkin won Millennium Technology Prize 2014: British-American physicist
Stuart Parkin won Millennium Technology Prize 2014 for discoveries leading to a
thousand-fold increase in digital data storage on magnetic disks. The Prize is
worth of 1 million euro and it was announced by the Technology Academy Finland
in Finland on 9 April 2014.
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