1.
The Indian cricket team will open its campaign in next year's World
Twenty20 Championships against arch-foes Pakistan when the event is
staged in Bangladesh from March 16 to April 6.
2. Serial bomb blasts rocked Patna on Sunday even as the Bharatiya
Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi's arrived in the city for 'Hunkar' rally.
3. Sebastian Vettel roared into history as Formula One's youngest
four-time champion in superlative style as he dominated the Indian Grand
Prix on Sunday.
4. Paradip Port Trust inked an initial pact
with public sector pipeline operator GAIL (India) for setting up a
liquefied natural gas terminal at Paradip at a joint investment of 3108
crore rupees.
5. Nasa's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space
telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever
before and search for the most distant and faint galaxies that can
possibly be seen.
6. The power generation at Kudankulam
Nuclear Power Project’s first reactor, which was resynchronized with the
southern grid on Thursday night, has been stabilised at 200 MWe.
7. The Japan-aided drinking water project for Kozhikode (Calicut,
Kerala) will be ready for commissioning by April next year, District
Collector C.A. Latha has said.
8. Global retail giant Walmart
has resumed its lobbying with the US lawmakers on matters related to FDI
in India and it spent USD 1.5 million on about 50 specific issues,
including those related to Indian market during the last quarter.
9. Human Development Index (HDI) front as the Gujarat's Infant
Mortality Rate (IMR) has declined significantly. It has fallen to 38 in
2012 from 57 in 2003 - a drop of 33.3% - better than the 30% decline at
the national level.
10. Georgians geared up to vote in
presidential polls on Sunday to pick a successor to flamboyant Mikheil
Saakashvili, with a trusted proxy of his billionaire foe Prime Minister
Bidzina Ivanishvili frontrunner to claim victory in the ex-Soviet state.
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