Lieutenant General S K Saini took over as the new commandant of the Indian Military Academy (IMA).
Saini, who was posted at the National Defence College (NDC) in Delhi as senior director (staff) has worked both in field operations and administration during his career. The prestigious academy had been without a full fledged commandant since some time with the duties of the commandant being taken care of by acting commandant Maj Gen YS Mahiwal.
The post of commandant fell vacant after the incumbent Lt General BS Negi was transferred to central command as the general officer commanding-in-chief in December last year. Since then, Maj Gen Mahiwal was carrying out the administrative and protocol duties of the commandant. The delay in appointing a full-fledged commandant for the academy which is due to conduct its next passing out parade on June 11, had been questioned by several retired officers.
2. Pankaj Advani Creates History, Wins Asian Six-Red Snooker Title
India's ace cueist Pankaj Advani created history in Abu Dhabi by clinching the Asian 6-Red Snooker title.
Advani thus became the first in the world to hold both world and continental titles in 6-red snooker at the same time.
The double IBSF World Six-Red Snooker Champion stamped his authority again in the short format of the game, defeating top seeded Malaysian Keen Hoh Moh 7-5.
3. Veteran sports photojournalist Bikash Sandhu passes away
Veteran sports photojournalist Bikash Sandhu died.He was 64.
Sandhu has covered several Tests and One-day Internationals, including World Cups. He has also covered the Wimbledon, Olympic Games and several other prestigious tournaments in his long career spanning more than three decades.
Sandhu was also a well-known photojournalist in Kolkata and national football circuit.
He has served Aajkal newspaper from its inception in 1985.
4. Ravichandran Ashwin retains No.2 spot in Test bowlers
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has managed to retain his second spot in the latest ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers issued today, while no Indian features in the top 10 batsmen list.
Ashwin (871) trails England's Stuart Broad (872) by just a point while another Englishman James Anderson has returned to the top three following his 10-wicket haul at Headingley against Sri Lanka to leapfrog Yasir Shah of Pakistan and South Africa's Dale Steyn. Anderson earned 49 points for his performance, which has put him on a career-high 854 points.
The ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen was being headed by Australia captain Steven Smith (925), followed by England's Joe Root (876), New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson (868), South Africa's Hashim Amla (860) and veteran Pakistan batsman Younus Khan (826).
Besides, Ashwin continues to head the Test all-rounders' ranking with 406 points. Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan is second ahead of England's Broad.
5. Indian film wins documentary cinema prize in Cannes
Indian film 'The Cinema Travellers', a documentary on the traditional art of travelling cinema in the country, has won the jury prize of the Cannes documentary award.
Directed by Mumbai-based filmmakers Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya, 'The Cinema Travellers' was bestowed the Honourable Mention by the jury of the Golden Eye (L'Oeil d'Or) award, presented on the sidelines of the Cannes film festival to recognize the contribution of documentary films.
6. Ken Loach stuns at Cannes 2016 with Palme d'Or win for I, Daniel Blake
Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or – the festival’s highest honour – for I, Daniel Blake, a social-realist drama about a disabled carpenter struggling with the red tape of the benefits system.
Loach has a very loyal following in Europe: many of his films have premiered at Cannes, while The Wind That Shakes the Barley, about two brothers who join the IRA in the early 1920s, won the Palme d’Or in 2006.
The prize for best director was a tie between Graduation, Cristian Mungiu’s Romanian drama about a doctor’s daughter struggling with her exams and Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper, a horror starring Kristen Stewart as a recently-bereaved psychic PA in Paris.
7.India successfully launches its own 'space shuttle'
India successfully launched the first technology demonstrator of indigenously made Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), capable of launching satellites into orbit around earth and then re-enter the atmosphere, from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
This
is the first time ISRO has launched a winged flight vehicle, which
glided back onto a virtual runway in the Bay of Bengal, some 500
kilometres from the coast.
Known as hypersonic flight experiment, it was about 10 minutes mission from liftoff to splashdown.
The RLV-TD is a scaled-down model of the reusable launch vehicle.
RLV, being dubbed as India's own space shuttle, is the unanimous solution to achieve low cost, reliable and on-demand space access, according to ISRO scientists.
RLV-TD is a series of technology demonstration missions that have been considered as a first step towards realising a Two Stage To Orbit (TSTO) fully re-usable vehicle, ISRO said.
It has been configured to act as a flying testbed to evaluate various technologies, including hypersonic flight, autonomous landing, powered cruise flight and hypersonic flight using air-breathing propulsion, it said.
The 6.5 metre long 'aeroplane'-like structure weighing 1.75 tons was hoisted into the atmosphere on a special rocket booster.
The RLV-TD is described as "a very preliminary step" in the development of a reusable rocket, whose final version is expected to take in 10 to 15 years.
8. Jayalalithaa takes charge as Tamil Nadu chief minister for sixth time
AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa was sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister for a historic second consecutive term, after her mentor M G Ramachandran set the record in 1984.
Governor K Rosaiah administered the oath of office and secrecy.
Her 28 cabinet colleagues, including former chief minister O Panneerselvam were also sworn in.
Sankarankoil MLA V M Rajalakshmi, 30, sworn in as minister for adi dravidar and tribal welfare, is the youngest in Jayalalithaa's cabinet.
9. Dynamic Denmark win first Thomas Cup title, beat Indonesia 3-2
Denmark created history by winning the Thomas Cup Finals for the first time.
After crashing out in eight previous finals since the tournament’s inception in 1949, Denmark finally got their acts right by beating fancied Indonesia 3-2 in the final to become the first European country to win the world team title.
They are only the fifth nation to win the Thomas Cup.
India's ace cueist Pankaj Advani created history in Abu Dhabi by clinching the Asian 6-Red Snooker title.
Advani thus became the first in the world to hold both world and continental titles in 6-red snooker at the same time.
The double IBSF World Six-Red Snooker Champion stamped his authority again in the short format of the game, defeating top seeded Malaysian Keen Hoh Moh 7-5.
3. Veteran sports photojournalist Bikash Sandhu passes away
Veteran sports photojournalist Bikash Sandhu died.He was 64.
Sandhu has covered several Tests and One-day Internationals, including World Cups. He has also covered the Wimbledon, Olympic Games and several other prestigious tournaments in his long career spanning more than three decades.
Sandhu was also a well-known photojournalist in Kolkata and national football circuit.
He has served Aajkal newspaper from its inception in 1985.
4. Ravichandran Ashwin retains No.2 spot in Test bowlers
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has managed to retain his second spot in the latest ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers issued today, while no Indian features in the top 10 batsmen list.
Ashwin (871) trails England's Stuart Broad (872) by just a point while another Englishman James Anderson has returned to the top three following his 10-wicket haul at Headingley against Sri Lanka to leapfrog Yasir Shah of Pakistan and South Africa's Dale Steyn. Anderson earned 49 points for his performance, which has put him on a career-high 854 points.
The ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen was being headed by Australia captain Steven Smith (925), followed by England's Joe Root (876), New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson (868), South Africa's Hashim Amla (860) and veteran Pakistan batsman Younus Khan (826).
Besides, Ashwin continues to head the Test all-rounders' ranking with 406 points. Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan is second ahead of England's Broad.
5. Indian film wins documentary cinema prize in Cannes
Indian film 'The Cinema Travellers', a documentary on the traditional art of travelling cinema in the country, has won the jury prize of the Cannes documentary award.
Directed by Mumbai-based filmmakers Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya, 'The Cinema Travellers' was bestowed the Honourable Mention by the jury of the Golden Eye (L'Oeil d'Or) award, presented on the sidelines of the Cannes film festival to recognize the contribution of documentary films.
6. Ken Loach stuns at Cannes 2016 with Palme d'Or win for I, Daniel Blake
Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or – the festival’s highest honour – for I, Daniel Blake, a social-realist drama about a disabled carpenter struggling with the red tape of the benefits system.
Loach has a very loyal following in Europe: many of his films have premiered at Cannes, while The Wind That Shakes the Barley, about two brothers who join the IRA in the early 1920s, won the Palme d’Or in 2006.
The prize for best director was a tie between Graduation, Cristian Mungiu’s Romanian drama about a doctor’s daughter struggling with her exams and Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper, a horror starring Kristen Stewart as a recently-bereaved psychic PA in Paris.
7.India successfully launches its own 'space shuttle'
India successfully launched the first technology demonstrator of indigenously made Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), capable of launching satellites into orbit around earth and then re-enter the atmosphere, from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Known as hypersonic flight experiment, it was about 10 minutes mission from liftoff to splashdown.
The RLV-TD is a scaled-down model of the reusable launch vehicle.
RLV, being dubbed as India's own space shuttle, is the unanimous solution to achieve low cost, reliable and on-demand space access, according to ISRO scientists.
RLV-TD is a series of technology demonstration missions that have been considered as a first step towards realising a Two Stage To Orbit (TSTO) fully re-usable vehicle, ISRO said.
It has been configured to act as a flying testbed to evaluate various technologies, including hypersonic flight, autonomous landing, powered cruise flight and hypersonic flight using air-breathing propulsion, it said.
The 6.5 metre long 'aeroplane'-like structure weighing 1.75 tons was hoisted into the atmosphere on a special rocket booster.
The RLV-TD is described as "a very preliminary step" in the development of a reusable rocket, whose final version is expected to take in 10 to 15 years.
8. Jayalalithaa takes charge as Tamil Nadu chief minister for sixth time
AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa was sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister for a historic second consecutive term, after her mentor M G Ramachandran set the record in 1984.
Governor K Rosaiah administered the oath of office and secrecy.
Her 28 cabinet colleagues, including former chief minister O Panneerselvam were also sworn in.
Sankarankoil MLA V M Rajalakshmi, 30, sworn in as minister for adi dravidar and tribal welfare, is the youngest in Jayalalithaa's cabinet.
9. Dynamic Denmark win first Thomas Cup title, beat Indonesia 3-2
Denmark created history by winning the Thomas Cup Finals for the first time.
After crashing out in eight previous finals since the tournament’s inception in 1949, Denmark finally got their acts right by beating fancied Indonesia 3-2 in the final to become the first European country to win the world team title.
They are only the fifth nation to win the Thomas Cup.
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