Ø Pro-Russian forces seized two Crimean navy bases and captured Ukraine’s
naval chief as Moscow tightened its grip on the flashpoint peninsula despite Western warnings its “annexation” would not go unpunished.
Dozens of despondent Ukrainian soldiers — one of them in tears — filed out of
the Ukraine’s main navy headquarters in the historic Black Sea port city of
Sevastopol after it was stormed by hundreds of pro-Kremlin protesters and
masked Russian troops.
Ø United Nations General Assembly President John Ashe has informed
Italy that he will raise the issue of two of their marines on trial for the
killing of two Kerala fishermen during his three-day visit to India.
Ø Serving as electronic eyes, unmanned aerial vehicles to be deployed by the police will keep a constant vigil during the Lok
Sabha elections in Kolkata and erstwhile in West Bengal during elections.
The UAVs, equipped with self-activated cameras, will man the skies during
elections in sensitive constituencies to be identified by the Election
Commission.
Ø Sansarchand, accused of killing 200 tigers and often blamed for wiping out the
entire big cat population of the Sariska Tiger Reserve, died of prostrate cancer.
Ø The former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden emerged from his Russian exile Tuesday in the
form of a remotely-controlled robot to promise more sensational revelations
about U.S. spying programmes. Mr. Snowden’s face appeared on a screen as
he manoeuvred the wheeled android around a stage at the TED gathering,
addressing an audience in Vancouver without ever leaving his secret hideaway.
Ø book : “What Pakistan knew about Bin Laden” by Carlotta Gall
Ø Less than a week after Britian’s five biggest banks shelled out close to
$100 million each to keep their outdated software secure, the Reserve Bank of
India has warned all domestic banks to take steps before Microsoft ends its
Windows XP software support. The U.S software giant will stop issuing
updates and patches for bugs in its Windows XP operating system from April 8,
2014.
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