Current Affairs: Other Issues: 06 - 13 March 2010

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

Others- Sports/Science/Environment etc

Content:

  1. Mahindra takes an interest in promoting Basketball in the country
  2. U.N. to hold independent review of IPCC: Ban
  3. The Netherlands makes it
  4. Dinosaur-eating snake
Brief Description:

Mahindra takes an interest in promoting Basketball in the country

  • The Mahindra group and the US National Basketball Association (NBA)  announced a partnership to set up a basketball league for teenagers in India.
  • The Mahindra NBA Challenge League, meant to nurture players in the 14-18 age group, will start off in Bangalore, Ludhiana and Mumbai and will run for seven weeks every year.
  • The league is being set up in collaboration with the Basketball Federation of India (BFI).
  • The NBA, founded in 1946 is a professional sports league and a global business that features 30 teams in the US and Canada. During the 2009-10 season, the NBA games will reach 215 countries and territories in 41 languages.

U.N. to hold independent review of IPCC: Ban

  • The United Nations has initiated, in tandem with the Chair of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC's procedures and processes,” including its 2007 Fourth Assessment Report, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said.

The Netherlands makes it

  • Defending champion Germany and the Netherlands joined England and Australia to complete the semifinal line-up in the Hero Honda hockey World Cup.
  • Korea, the Asian powerhouse, missed the berth by a whisker after subduing the Dutch. The 2-1 victory for Korea was insufficient to cover up the goal-difference, which eventually stood at plus 10 for the Netherlands and plus eight for Korea.

Dinosaur-eating snake

  • If well-preserved snake fossils are rare, the recovery of the nearly complete remains of a 3.5-metre long snake offering insights into its feeding behaviour is exciting news. The 67-million-year-old snake, Sanajeh indicus, unearthed from Dholi Dungri village in Panchmahal district, Gujarat, is an extraordinary specimen.
  • It was found in the nest of a sauropod dinosaur and lay coiled around broken pieces of a just-hatched egg adjacent to two unbroken eggs and a sauropod dinosaur hatchling fossil.