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National:: SC Rules Out Review of Rajiv Case Commutation

The Supreme Court declined to review its February ruling commuting the death sentences of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment. The Tamil Nadu government then ordered the release of the convicts, but the Supreme Court stayed the order. NASA awarded five students from Madurai, Tamil Nadu third prize in a space settlement design contest for their work of fiction about life in the year 2250 on a space colony orbiting Saturn called Cronus. A UN climate change report identified Delhi as one of three mega cities worldwide at high risk of flooding.

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National:: SC Rules Out Review of Rajiv Case Commutation

The Supreme Court declined to review its February ruling commuting the death sentences of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment. The Tamil Nadu government then ordered the release of the convicts, but the Supreme Court stayed the order. NASA awarded five students from Madurai, Tamil Nadu third prize in a space settlement design contest for their work of fiction about life in the year 2250 on a space colony orbiting Saturn called Cronus. A UN climate change report identified Delhi as one of three mega cities worldwide at high risk of flooding.

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02 April 2014

National:
SC rules out review of Rajiv case commutation The Supreme Court declined to review its February 18 ruling in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, commuting the death sentence of three convicts Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan to life imprisonment. Based on the apex court verdict commuting the death sentence, the Tamil Nadu government ordered the release of convicts Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan, Nalini, Robert Payas, Jayachandran and Ravichandran. The order was stayed by the apex court and the matter is still being heard. In the review petition, the Centre contended that the court did not consider the merits of the case and that the court had ventured into the domain of the government by commuting the death sentence. The February 18 judgment was passed by a three-judge Bench instead of by a Bench of five judges as the case involved substantial interpretation of the law and provisions of the Constitution. After 10 years in orbit, INSAT-3E expires Communications satellite INSAT-3E has completed its life and gone out of service. Built to last 15 years, it has completed ten-and-a-half years in orbit. The third-generation satellite was launched in September 2003 with 36 transponders 24 C-band and 12 extended C-band transponders but only 25 of them have been working since 2009. Aamir Khan becomes EC's national icon Less than a week before polling begins, the Election Commission has clinched a key partnership with film actor Aamir Khan as its national icon, and recorded video and audio campaigns showing him urging people to vote "ethically". After Aamir confirmed his association with the EC as its national icon - joining the likes of former President A P J Abdul Kalam, cricketer M S Dhoni, badminton star Saina Nehwal and boxer Mary Kom. Madurai students win NASAs space settlement design contest Cronus-The Utopia, a work of fiction, by five students of Sri Sarada Vidyalayam Girls Matriculation Higher Secondary School in the city has won the third prize in the NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest 2014, under the Literary Merit category. The team comprising class XI students _ S.B. Vishaka Nandini, M. Shenbagam, K. Kamali, P. Dhivya Priya and S.G. Yogalakshmi, is the only one from Tamil Nadu to have won the prize. Set in 2250 AD, the story narrates how rapid depletion of natural resources on earth forces human beings to settle in Cronus, a fictional space orbit of Saturn.In the recent years, depletion of natural resources in Earth is rapid. In their work of fiction, they have created Cronus, which is diverse from Earth in so many ways. The resources available are all similar to the Earth, but those living there are well efficient in conservation of nature. Delhi faces high flood risk: Report Environmentalists have been warning about growing encroachments on the Yamuna floodplains being a recipe for disaster. Now, the latest UN panel report on climate change echoes these fears, putting Delhi among three of world's mega cities that are at high risk of floods. The other two cities facing similar risk are Tokyo and Shanghai, says the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change's report Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. It says river floodplains need to be secured to be able to adapt to extreme weather and recommends setting aside buffer zones along rivers instead of "hard defenses" like channelization or dams. Mumbai and Kolkata also figure in the top Asian cities vulnerable to coastal flooding by 2070s, along with Dhaka, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai, Bangkok, Rangoon, and Hai Phong. The report also talks about Delhi's past-paced growth impacting the micro-climate of the city.

02 April 2014

International:
NATO orders end to cooperation with Russia NATOs foreign ministers ordered an end to civilian and military cooperation with Russia and told their generals and admirals to quickly figure out ways to better protect alliance members that feel threatened by Vladimir Putins Kremlin. Russias unilateral annexation of Ukraines Crimean Peninsula, which the US and its allies have condemned as illegal. To reassure alliance members closest to Russia and Ukraine, NATO already has stepped up air patrols over the Baltic Sea and AWACS surveillance flights over Poland and Romania. Vatican turns to social media for double papal sainting The Vatican is turning to social media to reach out to pilgrims expected to attend the canonisation of John Paul II, the Polish Pope who attained rock star status by the time he died in 2005. Rome police expect up to five million people at the mass officially making saints of John Paul II, who was Pope from 1978-2005, as well as John XXIII (1958-63) in the first double papal sainting ceremony in the churchs history. China rejects UN arbitration in sea island dispute with Philippines China has rejected a move for United Nations arbitration on the ownership of a disputed island in the South China Sea after Phillippines moved the world body seeking its intervention. Beijing will stick to it earlier stand that the dispute should be resolved between the two countries and not internationalized.

Business & Economy:


No penalty for bank balance below minimum limit: RBI to banks Customers may soon be spared penalties for non-maintenance of minimum balances in savings accounts with the Reserve Bank India asking banks to cut down services on low-balance accounts and do away with fines. Banks however say the new regime will lead to higher charges on services for customers.In its first bi-monthly policy, RBI proposes to frame comprehensive consumer protection regulations based on domestic experience and global best practices. "Banks should not take undue advantage of customer difficulty or inattention. Instead of levying penal charges for non-maintenance of minimum balance in ordinary savings bank accounts, banks should limit services available on such accounts to those available to basic savings bank deposit accounts and restore the services when the balances improve to the minimum required level. Many account holders who maintained dormant accounts, which were short of the Rs 10,000 insisted on by most private banks, found that their balances had vanished as the bank had deducted a penalty every quarter for not maintaining adequate balance. Direct Taxes Code: Draft suggests higher tax burden on super-rich The finance ministry released a draft Direct Taxes Code (DTC), focused on raising more revenue from high net worth individuals, while leaving the slabs unchanged for others. A new DTC to replace the half-acentury-old Income Tax Act has been in the works since UPA took office in 2004 but the latest draft comes weeks before its second term comes to an end.

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