India’s ace mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu died
(ii) He went missing during his attempt to scale the Cerro Tres Cruces Sur Mountain, the second highest peak of Chile at 6749 meter.
(iii) Babu hailed from Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh and was the fastest seven summiteers in the world.
(iv) That is, he was the fastest in world and the first Indian mountaineer to climb the seven summits of the world in record 172 days in 2006.
(v) He also was the first Indian mountaineer to summit the tallest peak in Antarctica, Mt Vinson Massif and was also the first person from Andhra Pradesh to scale the Mt Everest.
Govt cancels admission in 14 colleges in A.P.
(i) The State Government has annulled the admission in 11 engineering colleges and three pharmacy colleges across the State for the academic year 2014-15.
(ii) The decision was taken after a committee formed by the Government found that the colleges were indulging in gross irregularities in the admission for the last couple of years.
(iii) This was disclosed by HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao at a press meet held here on Monday.
(iv) The Minister said that the Government will now crackdown on the B.Ed Colleges, as the education department had received a number of complaints on a few colleges.
Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams won the 2015 Miami Open Tennis Singles titles
(ii) Novak Djokovic of Serbia on 5 April 2015 beat the third seeded Andy Murray of Britain 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-0 to win his fifth Miami Open title.
(iii) Serene Williams of the US on 4 April 2015 defeated the twelfth seed Suarez Navarro of Spain 6-2, 6-0 to secure the title for eighth time.
(iv) With this win, Williams has won 66 singles titles, one behind Billie Jean King of the US.
At present, both Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams are placed at the top spots in men’s and women’s singles rankings respectively.
Ragamayuri group to set up Food Park in Kurnool
(i) Kurnool-based Ragamayuri Group has planned a mega food park and an electronic park with the centre of activity on Telangana-Andhra border.
(ii) The core food park will come up at Putandoddi in Mahabubnagar District of Telangana, 35 km from here and the processing centres at Kurnool, Ranga Reddy, Anantapur and Kadapa.
(iii) Group Chairman K.J. Reddy said that the company would invest about Rs. 112 crore to create infrastructure for 50 individual units which will be engaged in various activities of food processing and value addition.
(iv) According to the promoters, the food park was likely to create 10,000 jobs and marketing facilities for one lakh farmers.
(v) The food park would have strategic links with markets at Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Vijayawada.
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won 2015 Miami Open Women's Doubles title
(ii) In the title clash played in Miami, Florida, the duo defeated the Russian pair of Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova, 7-5, 6-1.
(iii) This was second consecutive team title for the Indo-Swiss pair. Earlier on 21 March 2015, Mirza and Hingis had won the Indian Wells Open.
New case of polio detected in Pakistan
(i) At least one new polio case has been detected in Pakistan’s north-western province, taking the number of cases found so far this year to 21.
(ii) The Polio Virology Laboratory of the National Institute of Health (NIH) said that one new polio victim was found after tests were conducted in the virology facility of the hospital.
(iii) The new case was reported from Peshawar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Dawn reported on Saturday.
Keshari Nath Tripathi sworn-in as 16th Governor of Mizoram
(ii) He replaced Aziz Qureshi, who was sacked by Union Government on 28 March 2015. Congress-ruled Mizoram has seen seven governors in eight months.
(iii) According to article 153, there shall be a Governor for each State but the 7th Constitutional Amendment Act 1956 facilitated the appointment of same person as governor for two or more states.
Saina skips Singapore Open, Srikanth leads Indian charge
(i) Olympic bronze-medallist Saina Nehwal has withdrawn from the Singapore Open Super Series badminton tournament to recharge her batteries after competing at the highest level for the last few weeks.
(ii) The Indian ace had a hectic last month as she competed at the All England Championship, India Open Super Series and Malaysia Open Super Series Premier.(iii) In Saina’s absence, Kidambi Srikanth will lead the Indian challenge when the main draw gets underway at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Wednesday.
(iv) Srikanth, who won the Swiss Grand Prix Gold and India Super Series last month, will open his campaign against Vietnam’s Tien Minh Nguyen.
(v) Interestingly, the 22-year-old from Guntur had beaten Tien at the last edition.
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