Ø Dr S Jaishankar is appointed as foreign policy advisor to PM.
Ø Two Indian-Americans — Sriram J. Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe — scripted history by becoming co-champions of the prestigious Scripps
National Spelling Bee, after a thrilling final in which they almost exhausted
the 25 designated words, the first tie since 1962.
Ø After pushing vultures to the verge of extinction in the country, the
veterinary painkiller and anti-inflammatory drug, Diclofenac, is turning out
to be a serious threat to eagles as well.
Ø Actor and reality TV star Laverne Cox has become the first transgender to feature on
the cover of TIME magazine.
| Loverne Cox |
Ø The Dragon
V2, short for version two, is the first attempt
by a private company to restore Americans’ ability to send people to the
orbiting space station in the wake of the space shuttle program's retirement in
2011. SpaceX is competing with other companies — including Boeing,
Sierra Nevada and Blue Origin — to be the first commercial outfit to take
astronauts to space, possibly as early as 2017. Until then, the world’s
astronauts must rely on Russian Soyuz spacecraft at a cost of $70 million per
seat. Musk said a key feature of the Dragon V2 is that it will be able
to “land anywhere on Earth with the accuracy of a helicopter.”
Ø Singapore Airline’s Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft, is welcomed with
water cannons on its landing at the IGI Airport in New Delhi.
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