21 March 2014 Current Affairs
Shubranshu Choudhary Won 2014 Digital Activism Award
A UK based organisation promoting free speech- Index on Censorship, awarded a journalist from India- Shubhranshu Choudhary the 2014 Digital Activism award . Choudhary is the founder of CGnet Swara, a mobile news service.He was awarded for developing a service that allows tribal in remote parts of India to receive and share news in the local language.
Scientists Found Presence Of Water Vapour Around ‘ Hot Jupiter ‘
Researchers have made the first detection of water in the atmosphere of a ‘ hot Jupiter ‘ planet orbiting the nearby star Tau Bootis. The planet, named tau Boo b, belongs to a class of exotic planets called ‘hot Jupiters’. A ‘hot Jupiter’ is a massive extrasolar planet that orbits very close to its parent star. Unlike our Jupiter, which is fairly cold and has an orbital period of about 12 years, tau Boo b orbits its star every 3.3 days and is heated to extreme temperatures by its proximity to the star.