Ø Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde was on his way
to the Delhi airport to catch a flight to his constituency in Beed of
Maharashtra to address a victory rally when he was killed in a road accident.
Around 6.20 a.m. at a traffic intersection, an Indica, driven by Gurvinder
Singh, hit Mr. Munde’s official car on the rear left side, where he was
sitting. Gurvinder, who called the Police Control Room, was arrested from the
accident site. He was granted bail after being produced at the Patiala House
Court.
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| Gopinath Munde |
Ø A ‘Godzilla’ planet that is
17 times the size of our earth has been discovered, leaving the scientific
fraternity in shock as anything so hefty would grab hydrogen gas as it grew and
become a Jupiter-like gas giant. This planet is bigger than previously
discovered “super-earths” — making it a “mega-earth”.
Ø Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have
developed sperm-inspired robots controlled by magnetic fields that may be useful for
drug delivery, IVF and other applications at the microscopic level. A team of
researchers at the University of Twente in Netherlands and German University in
Cairo developed the microrobots which can be controlled by oscillating weak
magnetic fields. The 322 micron-long robots consist solely of a head coated in
a thick cobalt-nickel layer and an uncoated tail. When the robot is subjected
to an oscillating field of less than five millitesla it experiences a magnetic
torque on its head, which causes its flagellum to oscillate and propel it
forward. The researchers are then able to steer the robot by directing the
magnetic field lines towards a reference point
Ø When you are busy chatting or surfing the Internet, do you know that nearly
4.8 billion people — or two-thirds of the world’s population — are not yet
online? This is going to change soon. Google is planning to launch 180
satellites to provide web access for them, according to a Wall Street
Journal report. The multinational firm is reported to be spending over
$1 billion on the technology, to be developed by Greg Wyler, founder of
satellite-communications start-up O3b Networks. Project Loon, a separate
project by Google, is designing high-altitude balloons to provide broadband
service to remote parts of the world.
Ø In a move that would clearly provide banks more headroom to lend money,
the Reserve Bank of India, on Tuesday, reduced the Statutory Liquidity Ratio
(SLR) by 50 basis points to 22.5 per cent with effect from the fortnight
beginning June 14.
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