20 MAY 2015 CURRENT AFFAIRS

Jung Cancelled the appointment made by the Delhi Government

*Lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung cancelled all the appointment made by the Delhi Government in the last four days.

*Chief Minister Aravind Kejriwal questioned his move and wrote to PM Narendra Modi seeking his intervention.


ISRO developing atomic clocks

*The Indian Space Research Organisation is developing rubidium based atomic clocks for use in its next series of navigation satellites

*ISRO is building the seven satellite regional navigation constellation and they are for civil and military uses for showing the exact position of person and object

Economist Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri passed away

*Economist and policy adviser Mrinal Datta Chaudhari passed away

*Dr Mrinal Datta works had great influence on the former PM of India Mr Manmohan Singh.

*One important paper he wrote was on challenges of economic reform in the contest of both State and market failures in 1990.

Astra missile successfully test-fired from Sukhoi-30 MKI in Odisha

*Missile beyond visual range air-to-air Astra missile was successfully test fired at the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, Odisha.

*Indigenously developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and one of the smallest weapon systems developed by it.

*It is air-to-air beyond-visual-range (BVR) all-weather missile that can be launched from different altitudes. They are capable of engaging and destroying supersonic aerial targets and destroy enemy aircraft at supersonic speed of 1.2 Mach to 1.4 Mach.




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