Current Affairs: Other Issues: 20 - 30 March 2010

CAG Weekly
(Current Affairs & GK)
By Om Prakash (goldy sir)

Others (Science/ Environment/Sports etc)

Content:

  1. Agni-I test-fired successfully
  2. Dhanush, Prithvi-II test-fired successfully
  3. Sony Ericsson Open
  4. Karan Rastogi in final
  5. Abel Prize for John Torrence Tate

Brief Description:

Agni-I test-fired successfully

  • Agni-I ballistic missile, which can carry nuclear weapons and has a range of 700-km range, was successfully test-fired on Sunday from the Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast.
  • This comes a day after the successful launch of two other short-range missiles. Fired from a rail mobile launcher, the single-stage missile roared into the sky leaving behind a column of thick orange and white smoke. 

Dhanush, Prithvi-II test-fired successfully

  • Nuclear-capable, ship-based Dhanush and surface-to-surface Prithvi-II were successfully flight-tested in quick succession early Saturday with both systems zeroing in on pre-designated targets with a high degree of accuracy. The salvo-mode test-firing was carried out by personnel of the Strategic Forces Command as part of a user-training exercise.
  • While Dhanush, a naval variant of Prithvi, was launched first from INS Subhadhra, anchored near Balasore, off the coast of Orissa at 5.30 a. m., Prithvi-II was fired a few minutes later from Launch Complex-III at the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur.

Sony Ericsson Open

  • Venus Williams gets past Sorana Cirstea
  • Venus Williams began a bid for her fourth Key Biscayne title — and her first since 2001 — by beating Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the Sony Ericsson Open.

Karan Rastogi in final

  • Karan Rastogi reached the final with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over the seventh-seeded Adrian Sikora of Slovakia in the $10,000 ITF men's Futures tennis tournament at the CLTA Complex.

Abel Prize for John Torrence Tate

  • The prestigious Abel Prize in Mathematics for 2010 has been awarded to American mathematician John Torrence Tate, 85, one of the most outstanding number theorists in recent times, “for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.”