Science & Technology, Defense, Environment

• DGCA Surprise Checks Reveal Leading Airlines Violating Safety Procedures (Free Available)
• BMW launches updated version of X3 (Free Available)
• Florida s newest university opens bookless library (Free Available)
• India to get decadal climate Prediction Model (Free Available)
• First indigenously built stealth corvette inducted (Only for Online Coaching Members)
• Drones to guard India's forests and wildlife (Only for Online Coaching Members)
• WHO says it s ethical to try untested Ebola medicines (Only for Online Coaching Members)
• Sierra Leone Declares Emergency (Only for Online Coaching Members)
• Russia Violated Missile Treaty: U.S. (Only for Online Coaching Members)

DGCA Surprise Checks Reveal Leading Airlines Violating Safety Procedures

• The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) put up a presentation on safety standards for airline representatives that revealed some glaring lack of safety procedures by leading carriers.

BMW launches updated version of X3

• German luxury carmaker BMW, launched the updated version of its sports utility vehicle X3.
• The new X3 is available only in diesel option, and is being locally produced at the company’s Chennai plant.

Florida s newest university opens bookless library

• There are no dusty bookshelves or piles of textbooks in the library of Florida’s newest university. Welcoming its first students this week, Florida Polytechnic University’s new library houses not a single physical book.

• The ‘bookless’ library is not the first in America: Library Journal also cites a bookless public library in Bexar County, Texas, a school library in Minnesota and two NASA libraries.

India to get decadal climate Prediction Model

• Along with this, the Geological Survey of India has been working on area-specific forecasting of landslides.

• India is on the verge of developing a new climate prediction model exhibiting climatic fluctuations on decadal timescales that have large societal implications, ShaileshNaik, Secretary to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, has said.

• Addressing the media, Mr. Naik said scientists of various agencies led by the India Meteorological Department were on the final stage of establishing a model that could forecast the subtleties of climate with a fair degree of accuracy.

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