General Awareness 27th December 2016 | Current Affairs 27th December 2016

Chronic capacity shortage sends ISRO searching for lease of overseas satellite

Issues request for proposal fortwo-year hire

• A chronic national shortage of communication satellite capacity has forced the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to search for a quick-fix lease of an overseas satellite in orbit.
• ISRO routinely leases partial capacity on foreign satellites, primarily for the bulk of private direct-to-home television operators.

A.S. Kiran Kumar

ISRO Chairman and Secretary, Department of Space.

’11 lakh minority students benefited from scholarships this year’

‘Awareness about minority welfare schemes has increased’

Razak Ustad, Academic Council member of Gulbarga University, said that even 10 years after the Rajinder Sachar Committee submitted its report on educational backwardness of Muslims and its resultant impact on their employment status, it is regrettable that nothing has changed much to empower the community.

Scholarship

4.5 lakh students who applied for scholarships.

Wreckage of Russian plane found

crash that killed 92 people

• Russian rescuers found the first parts of the Syria-bound military plane that plunged into the Black Sea, as officials said they do not suspect terrorism as the reason for the crash that killed 92 people on board.
• The Tu-154 jet, whose passengers included more than 60 members of the internationally-renowned Red Army Choir, was heading to Moscow’s military base in Syria.

Tu-154

Name of the plane which got crashed.

Agni-V test-fired again from mobile-launcher

Signals that country’s nuclear deterrence capability has come of age

The test-firing of India’s most formidable ballistic missile, Agni-V, from the Abdul Kalam Island, off the Odisha coast, was an unalloyed success, signalling that India’s nuclear deterrence capability has come of age.

Agni-V

It is a product of the DRDO(Defence Research and Development Organisation).

Goa police question AAP’s chief ministerial candidate on land scam

AAP terms it a false case registered by BJP government out of vendetta

Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) officers of the Goa police on Monday grilled Aam Aadmi Party Goa convener Elvis Gomes for nearly two hours in connection with an alleged land scam, which took place when Mr. Gomes was working as an officer with the State government.

False cases on AAP

• Valmiki Naik
• Elvis Gomes

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