14 March 2016 Current Affairs
Parliament Passed BIS Bill 2015
Parliament has passed the Bureau of Indian Standard(BIS)s Bill 2015 with the Rajya Sabha approving it on 14 March 2016. The Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha in last session.
Ballistic Missile ‘Agni-I’ Successfully Test-Fired
Indigenously developed nuclear capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile Agni-I was successfully test-fired off the Odisha coast on 14 March. It was conducted as part of training exercise by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of Indian Army. It weighs around 12 tonnes and is 15-metre-long. It can travel at a speed of 2.5 km/s and can destroy targets ranging between 700 and 1250 kms away.
ExoMars 2016 Spacecraft Successfully Launched
An unmanned spacecraft named ExoMars 2016 was successfully launched jointly Europe and Russia to search for biosignatures on Mars (or Martian life) in past or present. The spacecraft was launched on a Proton-M rocket operated by Russia’s Roscosmos from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. ExoMars 2016 is the first of a two-phase of ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) program.