Ø Afghans voted in large numbers in the country’s first democratic
transfer of power as US-led forces end their 13-year war. Despite Taliban
threats, voting was largely peaceful with long queues in cities.
Ø Bhupal Man Damai alias Yusuf
Nepali, who was jailed in connection with the
hijacking of Indian airlines flight IC-814 to Kandahar in December 1999, was released
after a court exonerated him.
Ø A Chinese patrol ship, the Haixun 01,
searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 picked up a pulse signal from its
black box detector in the southern Indian Ocean, China’s official media
reported, in a possible breakthrough in the nearly month-long multinational
hunt for the jet.
Ø Asia’s largest tulip garden on the banks of Dal Lake here was thrown
open to visitors on Saturday, even as inclement weather has delayed blooming of
a majority of the bulbs. Formerly known as Siraj Bagh,
the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip garden was opened in 2008.
Ø The total grid-connected solar capacity, commissioned under the
National Solar Mission, crossed the 2,500-MW mark and stood at
2,632 MW as on March 31, 2014. Of the total, a little over a third of capacity
was commissioned in Gujarat. Gujarat (916 MW) topped the cumulative capacity table, followed
by Rajasthan (730 MW), Madhya Pradesh (347 MW) and Maharashtra (249 MW), among
others.
