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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">1. The abbreviation of UNRISD is<br /> 2. The Headquarters of International Maritime Organization (IMO) is in<br /> 3. The Smallest Planet of our Solar System is<br /> 4. ‘God of Small Things’ is the famous book written by<br /> 5. This Place is called ‘The Island of Pearls’<br /> 6. Under this Council, the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) was launched<br /> 7. Theyyam, is the dance of this Indian State<br /> 8. Gyaku, is the term associated with this game<br /> 9. Val Baker Trophy is associated with this game<br /> 10. The Indian Nobel Laureate who got in the field of Medicine is<br /> <br /> <strong>ANSWERS </strong><br /> <br /> 1. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development<br /> 2. London<br /> 3. Mercury<br /> 4. Arundhathi Roy<br /> 5. Bahrain<br /> 6. National Development Council (NDC)<br /> 7. Kerala<br /> 8. Judo<br /> 9. Boxing<br /> 10. Hargobind Khorana</div>

RAPID GK SERIES 1

1. The abbreviation of UNRISD is 2. The Headquarters of International Maritime Organization (IMO) is in 3. The Smallest Planet of our Sola...

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Yemen unity govt sworn in, soldier killed

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Yemen's new unity government, formed to try and avert civil war, met for the first time on Saturday, hours after a soldier was killed in continuing violence between supporters and opponents of outgoing president Ali Abdullah Saleh.</span></span></li> </ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">State news agency Saba said Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, to whom Saleh transferred his powers under a deal brokered by Yemen's Gulf neighbors, chaired the meeting of the newly sworn-in cabinet, which includes members of the opposition.</span></span></li> </ul></div>

Yemen unity govt sworn in, soldier killed

Yemen's new unity government, formed to try and avert civil war, met for the first time on Saturday, hours after a soldier was killed ...

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China to set up military base in Indian Ocean

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">China on Monday announced that it will set up its first military base abroad in the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles to "seek supplies and recuperate" facilities for its Navy.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">China has already cemented its foothold in the Indian Ocean by signing contract with the UN backed International Seabed Authority to gain rights to explore polymetallic sulphide ore deposit in Indian Ocean over the next 15 years.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><br /> </span></span><br /> </li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; text-align: justify;">The base in Seychelles is regarded significant by analysts as China is about to launch its first aircraft carrier. It is currently undergoing final trials</span></span></li> </ul></div>

China to set up military base in Indian Ocean

China on Monday announced that it will set up its first military base abroad in the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles to "seek suppl...

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National capital Delhi celebrates 100th birthday

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">National capital Delhi has completed 100 years</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">A book on the history of seven cities of Delhi and detailing the account of how the present city was constructed will be released by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the occasion.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">on 12th December, 1911 the National Capital of the colonized India was shifted by the British from Kolkata to Delhi by the Emperor of India George V.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Between the 12th and the 19th century AD, Delhi was the capital for many rulers. Siri, Tughlakabad, Jahanapanah, Ferozabad, Dinpanah, Shergarh and Shahajahanabad are the historic seven cities that took shape in Delhi. </span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The eighth city, or the present New Delhi, was built by the British Empire</span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

National capital Delhi celebrates 100th birthday

National capital Delhi has completed 100 years A book on the history of seven cities of Delhi and detailing the account of how the p...

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‘1300MW Solar Power will be generated under JLN Solar Mission’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Government says that 1300 Megawatt of Solar Power will be generated under Jawahar Lal Nehru Solar mission in the country. Inaugurating a programme to promote Research and Produce Quality man power in the field of Solar Energy in New Delhi the Minister of New and Renewable energy Dr. Farooq Abdullah said that the target of producing 20,000 megawatt of solar power under the mission will be achieved in three phases by 2022.</span></span></li> </ul></div>

‘1300MW Solar Power will be generated under JLN Solar Mission’

Government says that 1300 Megawatt of Solar Power will be generated under Jawahar Lal Nehru Solar mission in the country. Inaugurating a p...

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Israel calls for crippling sanctions against Iran

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Israeli Defence Minister Yehud Barak has called for crippling sanctions against Iran to prevent it from building nuclear weapons.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">it was time for urgent and coherent action to impose punitive sanctions targeting Iranian oil trade and its central bank.</span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

Israel calls for crippling sanctions against Iran

Israeli Defence Minister Yehud Barak has called for crippling sanctions against Iran to prevent it from building nuclear weapons. it...

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US claims to have secured 5 thousand surface-to-air missiles in Libya

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The United States has claimed that a team of its officials and Libyan bomb disposal experts has secured about 5,000 surface-to-air missiles stockpiled during the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">they had identified, disbanded and secured Man-Portable Air Defence Systems, while thousands more have been destroyed during NATO bombing.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Dozens of these missiles were detonated along the shore facing Sidi Bin Nur village, east of Tripoli, as Shapiro, on a one-day visit to Libya. MANPADS are perceived as potential weapons which can be used by militant groups against commercial airliners and helicopters. These missiles have been widely used in military conflicts.</span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

US claims to have secured 5 thousand surface-to-air missiles in Libya

The United States has claimed that a team of its officials and Libyan bomb disposal experts has secured about 5,000 surface-to-air missil...

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A package of pacts approved to combat climate change at UN Conference in Durban

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Negotiators at the UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa, have approved a package of agreements to combat global climate change.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The biggest achievements was the approval of a European Union plan to negotiate a future legal deal to combat climate change.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The agreement calls for parties to end negotiations on a future pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2015 and to implement the new regime no later than 2020.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The future deal will replace the Kyoto Protocol, an existing legal framework that was enacted in 2007 and was due to expire next year. </span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Governments that are part of Kyoto, including the EU, agreed in Durban to a second commitment period to the protocol that will last five to eight years, though Russia, Japan and Canada have said they will not take part.</span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

A package of pacts approved to combat climate change at UN Conference in Durban

Negotiators at the UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa, have approved a package of agreements to combat global climate change. ...

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NATO to withdraw its Iraq training mission by Dec end

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="5107" style="display: block;"> <ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">NATO has announced that it will withdraw its Iraq training mission by the end of this year. </span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"> </span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The decision follows a nearly complete pullout of US troops from Iraq. Meanwhile the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Malki left for the United States to hold talks on ties between the two countries after the withdrawal of the American military troops by the end of this month</span></span></li> </ul></div></div>

NATO to withdraw its Iraq training mission by Dec end

NATO has announced that it will withdraw its Iraq training mission by the end of this year.    T...

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Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta wins London Chess Classic’s open section

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta has won the London Chess Classic's open section, with a hard-earned victory over Grandmaster Keith Arkell of England. Abhijeet, a former world junior champion and reigning national champion,</span></li> </ul></div>

Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta wins London Chess Classic’s open section

  Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta has won the London Chess Classic's open section, with a hard-earned victory over Grandmaster Keith...

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India beats Afghanistan 4-0, retains SAF Federation Championship

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Defending Champions India have won their sixth SAFF football title. </span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">In the final at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , hosts beat Afghanistan four-nil.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Afghanistan were playing their first final in a major football tournament. </span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

India beats Afghanistan 4-0, retains SAF Federation Championship

Defending Champions India have won their sixth SAFF football title.  In the final at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , hosts ...

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Elon Musk's private Dragon ship to dock with ISS in Feb

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">NASA has announced that - all being well - the first mission to the International Space Station by a privately built and operated spacecraft will lift off on February 7. The craft will be a Dragon capsule launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket, both made and handled by techbiz visionary Elon Musk's new company SpaceX.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; text-align: justify;">Thus far the Dragon capsule has flown just once, achieving a textbook lift to orbit atop its Falcon 9 launch stack followed by two circuits of the Earth and a successful splashdown in the Pacific. On that occasion it carried only a large cheese, but it is planned to use the Dragon to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.</span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

Elon Musk's private Dragon ship to dock with ISS in Feb

NASA has announced that - all being well - the first mission to the International Space Station by a privately built and operated spacecr...

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New Bill: Life imprisonment for violating Arms Act

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">A bill to provide for life imprisonment and fine, in addition to death penalty, as punishment for contravening the provisions of the Arms Act was introduced in the Lok Sabha</span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2011, was tabled in the wake of several litigations following which the Supreme Court had held that the 1959 Act, which only provided death penalty for its violations, was "harsh, oppressive and unjust", according to the Statement of Objects and Reasons of the bill. </span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"> The  government proposed to amend a sub-section of Section 27 of the Act to provide that whoever used prohibited arms or ammunition or contravened any provision of the law which results in the death of any other person "shall be punishable with death or imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine instead of mandatory sentence of death only</span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

New Bill: Life imprisonment for violating Arms Act

A bill to provide for life imprisonment and fine, in addition to death penalty, as punishment for contravening the provisions of the Arms...

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Mahatma's message echoes at UN global meet in Doha

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Mahatma Gandhi's message that no culture can blossom without people connecting to other cultures was recalled at the UN Alliance of Civilisations Forum which is being attended by world leaders</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Brazilian Vice President of Brazil Michel Temer, in his address to the inaugural session of the meet, said Gandhi's ideals and vision hold well even today. </span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Around 2,500 participants representing the world governments and civil society have gathered here to discuss Inter-cultural Dialogue to Boost Development.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><br /> </span></span><br /> </li> <li> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; text-align: justify;"> India was represented by Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamad and its Ambassador to Qatar Dheepa Wadhwa</span></span></div></li> </ul></div>

Mahatma's message echoes at UN global meet in Doha

Mahatma Gandhi's message that no culture can blossom without people connecting to other cultures was recalled at the UN Alliance of C...

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Want to run for Yemen Prez but can't: Nobel winner

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Yemini  "Arab Spring" activist Tawakkol Karman, who received the Nobel Peace Prize, lamented that she could not stand as a candidate in her country's presidential elections in February. </span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Karman, 32, is first ever Arab woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and is a leading figure in Yemen's "Arab Spring" uprising that pushed Saleh to agree to leave power. </span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">She shared her award with Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson and Liberian "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee for demonstrating how women facing war and oppression can shed the mantle of victimhood and lead the way to peace and democracy. </span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

Want to run for Yemen Prez but can't: Nobel winner

Yemini  "Arab Spring" activist Tawakkol Karman, who received the Nobel Peace Prize, lamented that she could not stand as a cand...

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Tunisian assembly adopts provisional constitution

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Tunisia's constituent assembly has adopted a provisional constitution that will allow the north African country to name a government, a month and a half after its first post-revolution election. </span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The 217-member assembly approved each of the 26 clauses of the document individually to get state institutions back on the move before voting on the entire basic law. </span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The outgoing government of Beji Caid Essebsi, formed in the wake of the ouster on January 14 of dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, has officially resigned and many Tunisians have expressed growing impatience at the institutional limbo. </span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

Tunisian assembly adopts provisional constitution

Tunisia's constituent assembly has adopted a provisional constitution that will allow the north African country to name a government,...

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Pak forces take control of Shamsi airbase.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Pakistani security forces on Saturday took control of a strategically important airbase in the country's southwest after US military personnel </span></span><br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">vacated the facility in line with a demand from the Pakistan government.</span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Pakistan had asked the US to vacate Shamsi airbase in Balochistan province after a cross-border NATO attack on two border posts killed 24 soldiers on November 26.</span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The US had been using the airbase since late 2001 for military operations in Afghanistan and drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt.</span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The United Arab Emirates had leased the airbase, located about 300 km from the Balochistan capital of Quetta, in 1992 for use by members of the country's royal family who travel to Pakistan every year for hunting expeditions. </span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The UAE gave the US access to the airbase after the 9/11 terror attacks.</span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"> Shamsi airbase was originally built to operate small aircraft and the US extended the runway so that larger military aircraft could be based there. </span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

Pak forces take control of Shamsi airbase.

Pakistani security forces on Saturday took control of a strategically important airbase in the country's southwest after US military ...

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India determined to eradicate polio

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">  </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">With only one case of polio being reported in India this year, the government is hoping to eradicate the paralytic disease completely, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Sudip Bandyopadhyay told.</span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></li> </ul><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">There is 98 percent decline in polio cases over last year. Only one polio case reported in 2011 as compared to 42 in 2010.</span></li> </ul><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div></div>

India determined to eradicate polio

  With only one case of polio being reported in India this year, the government is hoping to eradicate the paralytic disease completely, M...

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Japan launches new spy satellite

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Japan launched a new spy satellite into orbit today amid concerns over North Korea's missile programme and to monitor natural disasters in the region. </span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The Japanese H-2A rocket carrying an information- gathering radar satellite lifted off at 10:21 am (0121 GMT) from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; text-align: justify;">The government decided to build an intelligence-gathering system following North Korea's missile launch in 1998 into the Pacific over the Japanese archipelago.</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; text-align: justify;">In defiance of international pressure, North Korea launched what was believed to be a three-stage Taepodong-2 missile in April 2009, with an estimated range of 6,700 kilometres</span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

Japan launches new spy satellite

Japan launched a new spy satellite into orbit today amid concerns over North Korea's missile programme and to monitor natural disaste...

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Seeker successfully flight-tested in Nag

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">In a breakthrough in indigenous seeker technology for missiles, an RF (radio frequency) seeker was successfully flight-tested in anti-tank Nag missile in the Army ranges at Ahmednagar in Rajasthan on Sunday.</span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">While the scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation had so far developed Imaging Infra-red (IIR) seeker, this was the first time that a millimetric Wave (mmW) seeker, having all-weather capability  was tried for a 2,000 metre range in a successful mission.</span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">This would provide solutions for applications in surface-to-air missiles, air-to-air missiles, anti-tank missiles and air-to-surface missiles. It would also provide the technology base for changing to dual-mode seeker in future.ability, was tried for a 2,000 metre range in a successful mission.</span></span><br /> <br /> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The  four-km range Nag missile has top-attack capability to nullify the explosive reactive armour of a modern battle tank.</span></span><br /> </li> </ul></div>

Seeker successfully flight-tested in Nag

In a breakthrough in indigenous seeker technology for missiles, an RF (radio frequency) seeker was successfully flight-tested in anti-tan...

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