1 September 2012 Current Affairs
China developing new class of guided missile destroyer’
The
Chinese Navy is developing a brand new class of guided-missile
destroyer, a “new type” of naval warship with upgraded air-defence
missiles, anti-ship and anti-submarine missiles.The new destroyers are
equipped with two 32-unit vertical launch systems capable of launching
HQ-9B air-defence missiles, anti-ship and anti-submarine missiles.The
new destroyer is comparable to the “Aegis” equipped destroyers of the US
Navy which use powerful computers and radars to track and guide weapons
to destroy enemy targets.
America Court Summons to Parkash Singh Badal
Punjab
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who was served summons by a US
court last month in a case of alleged custodial torture and extra
judicial killings of Sikhs, has sought dismissal of the motion against
him or additional time of 90 days to defend the charges.The US District
Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin had issued Summons against
Badal on August 8 when he was in Wisconsin on a private visit to attend a
marriage ceremony.
St Andrews shines new light on vital medical procedures
Dr
Tomas Cizmar, Research Fellow in the School of Medicine and Professor
Kishan Dholakia of the School of Physics at the University of St
Andrews have made a breakthrough in fibre optic research which could
allow doctors to see inside some of the hardest to reach parts of the
human body with imaging devices no thicker than a human hair.
Obama appoints IIT graduate to admin post
U.S.
President Barack Obama has announced to appoint eminent
Indian-American, Romesh Wadhwani, to a key administration post by making
him board of trustees of the prestigious John F Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts
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