29 March 2014 Current Affairs
Norway’s Stoltenberg Appointed as new NATO chief
Norway’s ex-PM Jens Stoltenberg has been appointed Nato’s next secretary general, replacing Denmark’s Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He will take over as leader of the 28-nation military alliance in October 2014, when Rasmussen steps down after a Nato summit in Wales. Rasmussen has headed Nato for the past five years.Stoltenberg was prime minister of Norway at the time of Anders Breivik’s bomb and gun attacks in 2011.
Astronomers Discovered First-ever Miniature Planet
Astronomers have discovered a miniature planet named Charkilo with two rings of ice and pebbles between Saturn and Uranus in the Kuiper Belt. This is the first ever discovery of a celestial body with rings like giant planets Saturn and Jupiter. Rings of the discovered celestial body are not more than few hundred meters thick and are only three and seven kilometer wide. The centers of the two rings are 14 kilometer and the gap between them is 9 Kilometer.The smaller celestial body was discovered by a team of researchers from Niels Bohr Institute. It is two billion kilometers out in the solar system and has been named as Chariklo.