News in Nutshell : OCT 25,2014

• Google executive Alan Eustace broke the sound barrier and set several skydiving records over the southern New Mexico desert after taking a big leap from the edge of space(a spacsuit(inset) is carried aloft by a helium-filled balloons).

• GSAT-16, the next national communication satellite , reached French Guiana and is on its way to space port near Kourou ahead of an early December flight, European launch service company Arianespace has said.

• John Denver finds a place on Hollywood Walk of Fame Posthumously.

• Technology giant Google is teaming up with Oxford University to advance research on artificial intelligence to ultimately enable machines to better understanding human users.

•  India's highest altitude Zoo is Darjeeling.

• Rajasthan is all set to introduce pentavelent immunisation plan from November 1.It will protect children from threatening diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and Hib

• J.K.Rowling to publish New Harry Potter short story on Halloween.

• Japanese auto major Nissan has announced that it would  recall about 9000 units of India-built compact car  Mirca and Mid-size sedan Sunny cars to fix faulty airbags.

• Google Inc Chief Executive Office Larry Page has put Sundar Pichai, one of his key lieutenants, in charge of the Internet company's product.

• The International Monetary Fund has announced a minimum interest on its unique special drawing rate(SDR) will be 5 points.

• European Commission has asked 1.7 billion pounds by December 1,something David Cameron Prime Minister of England has termed "completely unacceptable".

• The WHO warned  the situation in Mali was an ëmergency, and said in its latest Ebola situation report that the biggest outbreak on record has now killed 4922 people , the vast majority of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone with 10141 cases reported.

• A state of emergency into force across much of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after 30 soldiers were killed in the suicide car bombing by suspected jihadists.

• Clashes over anti-Pyongyang leaflets in Paju(South Korea).

• A U.S. student who had issued chilled warning on Twitter opened fire in a school cafeteria in Marysville, north of seattle, killing at least one person and critically injuring three before taking his own life.

• Russia decided to turn back its clock to winter time permanently in a move backed by President Vladmir Putin, reversing a 3-yr experiment with non-stop summer time that proved highly unpopular.(GMT + 3hrs).

• Govt scheme to give priority to household with women to get Toilets.

• PM inaugurated the Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre to focus on preventive healthcare.

• Six submarines to be made in India(Defence Acquisition Council)

• Chief Minister of Sr i Lanka's Northern Province C.V.Wigneswaran will deliver a lecture on civil liberties in South Asian at an event organised by the People's Union for Civil Liberties(PUCL) in chennai in November. 

• A special committee by Union govt. for implementing the National River Linking Project(NRPL).

• Govt of karnataka decided to restrict the prestigious award Rajyotsava to 59 this year.

Source : The Hindu