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Friday 19 December 2014

19 DECEMBER 2014: GSLV Mark3 test flight is successful!

Ø  The Standing Committee on Urban Development has rapped the Union Ministry of Housing and Poverty Alleviation for allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) through the automatic route in the construction and development sector without studying its impact on the urban poor. In its latest report tabled in Parliament on Thursday, the committee said that though the construction and development sector secured cumulative investments of Rs. 10,74,92 crore from April 2000 to February 2014, which is 11 per cent of the net FDI flow of equity, it was “dismayed” to learn that no survey was undertaken by the Ministry to assess the impact of allowing FDI in the sector. Pointing out that a majority of urban housing needs were in the economically weaker section and the lower income group segment, the committee said there was an “urgent need” to conduct such a survey so that the real impact of allowing FDI in the housing sector with reference to the urban poor could be assessed.
GSLV mark 3

Ø  The first experimental flight of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark III registered success as it lifted off from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on the dot at 9.30 a.m., taking India much closer to realising the dream of manned space flight. The mission control centre erupted in smiles and claps and the scientists hugged each other, as the GSLV Mark III moved a step closer to its first development flight with the functional C25 cryogenic stage. Also known as LVM3/CARE, the suborbital experimental mission was intended to test the vehicle’s performance during the critical atmospheric phase of its flight and this carried a passive (non-functional) cryogenic upper stage. The vehicle, exactly five-and-a-half minutes after take-off, carried its payload — the 3,775-kg crew-module atmospheric re-entry experiment (CARE) — to the intended height of 126 km. Two massive S-200 solid strap-on boosters, each carrying 207 tonnes of solid propellants, ignited at lift-off and separated 153.5 seconds later. The L110 liquid stage ignited 120 seconds after lift-off. This new launch vehicle performed very well and was a great success. We had an unmanned crew module to understand re-entry characteristics. That went off successfully and the crew module splashed as expected in the Bay of Bengal.
Ø  The United Nations has sent a team of international experts to Bangladesh to help clean up the world’s largest mangrove forest, more than a week after it was hit by a huge oil spill. Thousands of litres of oil have spilt into the protected Sundarbans mangrove area, home to rare Irrawaddy and Ganges dolphins, after a tanker collided with another vessel. A team from the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) has arrived in the capital Dhaka to support Bangladesh’s “cleanup efforts of the oil spill in the Sundarbans”, a statement from the U.N. said.

Ø  Pakistan is preparing to execute 55 inmates on death row after the country ended the moratorium on death penalty in terror-related cases following the horrific attack on a school in Peshawar that killed 148 people, mostly children. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Interior Ministry forwarded 120 mercy appeals to the Premier for consideration. Pakistan is feared to lose a concessionary trade deal with the EU after resuming hangings. 

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