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Current Affairs Today: April 22 2015

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Brief News

Indian Affairs

Tamil Nadu cancels permission for Coca-Cola’s Perundurai plant

  • The Tamil Nadu government has cancelled the plots allotted to Coca-Cola’s beverages manufacturing facility in the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT) Industrial Growth Centre in Perundurai

Neyveli Lignite commissions CFBC based power plant after 6 year delay

  • Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited (NLC) has commenced commercial operations of India’s first Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustion (CFBC) Boiler plant in Tamil Nadu.
  • The company informed that Unit II (250 MW) of Thermal Power Station – II Expansion project (2X250 MW) at Neyveli, has been successfully declared for commencement of commercial operation with effect from April, 22, 2015.

NTCA Approves 2 National Parks As Tiger Reserves

  • The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has approved Kudermukh national park in Karnataka and Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand for being announced as tiger reserves.

International Affairs

India Shifts Embassy From Sana’a to Dijbouti

  • India has shifted its embassy to Djibouti after a conclusion of the process to evacuate Indian nations from Yemen’s capital Sana’a

Former Egyptian president Mursi jailed for 20 years

  • An Egyptian court sentenced ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for abuses against protesters but acquitted him of charges carrying a possible death penalty.

Science & Technology

Japanese Bullet Train Breaks Own Speed Record

  • Japanese maglev which is the fastest passenger train across the world, has broken an earlier speed record of 581 kmph as the train reached 603 kmph in a test run.

Pakistani Taliban announces successfull test-fire of missile ‘Omar 1’

  • Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed to have successfully test fired its first indigenously developed missile, named as “Omar 1”.