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23 November, 2013

DHANUSH MISSILE

• India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Dhanush ballistic missile from a naval ship off the Odisha coast most recently.
• Dhanush is a surface-to-surface, a naval variant of India’s indigenously developed ‘Prithvi’ missile.The single-stage, liquid-propelled Dhanush had been inducted into the armed services and is one of the five missiles developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).
• The Dhanush missile is capable of carrying a conventional as well as a nuclear payload of 500 to 1,000 kg and can hit both land and sea-based targets.

Day-long National Lok Adalat inaugurated

• In a mammoth exercise to settle 39 lakh pending cases, a day-long National Lok Adalat where for the first time cases would be taken up simultaneously all over the country for settlement was inaugurated by Supreme Court Chief Justice P. Sathasivam.
• The Lok Adalats take place in the Supreme Court, 24 high courts and all the district courts of the country.The main object of the adalat is to ensure speedy justice to the litigants and to make sure that there are no further appeals.
• Resolution of disputes through the Lok Adalat are cost-effective and provide easy access to justice.

Defamation suit to be filed against web portal by AAP

• Raising questions about the media portal ‘mediasarkar.com’ which conducted a sting operation that showed its leaders allegedly raising funds for the party through illegal means, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said that it would file a criminal defamation suit against the website for maligning the image of its candidates.
• Asking the Election Commission to probe the veracity of the sting operation within 48 hours, the party said that “if they find any of the candidates guilty of any wrongdoing, they will withdraw from the contest”. The party also announced that it would lodge a complaint with the News Broadcasters’ Association and the Press Council of India against news channels for showing the sting operation without verifying its authenticity.
• Backing its leader Shazia Ilmi, the AAP said she had offered to withdraw her candidature in the Delhi elections, but it has not been accepted and put on hold till the raw footage of the sting operation is examined.
• Meanwhile, a senior official in the state Election Commission told dna that the web portal has submitted the raw footage of the sting operation to them.

Magnus Carlson clinches chess world title

• Viswanathan Anand’s five-year reign as the undisputed world chess champion had to come to an end . The Indian played a solid line with black against Magnus Carlsen in the 10th game and drew in 60 moves to shake hands with the new world champion.
• Magnus Carlsen, the highest-rated player in the history of chess, will pocket Rs 8.4 crore to Anand’s Rs 5.6 crore. The draw gave Carlsen a 6.5-3.5 scoreline with two games remaining. The last time Anand lost by such a big margin was when Garry Kasparov defeated him in the PCA final in New York in 1995, also with two games remaining but in a 20-game match.
• Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the chess world championship , becoming the first Western player since Bobby Fischer to hold the title.

India clinches series against West Indies

• Statistical highlights of the first one-dayer of the three-match series between India and the West Indies.
• Rohit Sharma enjoys an outstanding record against the West Indies. His average of 62.07 is the highest in India-West Indies ODIs, his tally being 807 in seventeen innings, including nine fifties.
• Sharma's splendid 72 off 81 balls is his 20th fifty in ODIs.
• Sharma has recorded five consecutive fifty-plus scores in international cricket -- the sequence being 79 and 209 against Australia in ODIs; 177 and an unbeaten 111 against the West Indies in Tests and 72 at Kochi ODI.
• Sharma's home record in ODIs is quite impressive - his tally being 1154 at an average of 64.11 in 24 matches, including two hundreds and seven fifties.
• Sharma's tally of 1143 at an average of 60.15 in 23 matches is the highest by any batsman in ODIs in 2013. The leading run-getters being - Sharma (1143), Virat Kohli (1119), Misbah-ul-Haq (1119), George Bailey (1098) and Kumar Sangakkara (1033).
• India's victory with 88 balls remaining is their largest in terms of balls to spare against the West Indies in ODIs in India.
• India's ODI record at Kochi is superb - six wins and two losses out of eight played at Nehru Stadium, Kochi.
• Suresh Raina (3/34) has registered his best bowling figures in ODIs, surpassing the two for 17 vs West Indies at Indore on December 8, 2011.
• Raina's third duck vs West Indies is his 11th in ODIs. # Gayle has posted his fifth duck vs India - his 22nd in ODIs.
• Darren Bravo (59 off 77 balls) has posted his fourth fifty - his 13th in ODIs. Bravo's tally of 673 runs at an average of 35.42 in 21 matches, including a hundred and six fifties, is the highest by a West Indian player in ODIs this year.
• Ravindra Jadeja's aggregate of 49 wickets at an average of 22.22 in 29 matches is the highest by a bowler in ODIs in 2013, bettering Saeed Ajmal's tally of 48 wickets at an average of 19.77 in 25 game.
• Jadeja's performance is his best in a calendar year in ODIs.
• Sharma and Kohli were associated in a second-wicket partnership of 133 - India's second highest against the West Indies behind the 140 between Virender Sehwag and Suresh Raina at Indore on December 8, 2011.
• Kohli has raced to 5,000 runs in 114 innings, emulating Vivian Richards' feat. Kohli and Richards share a record for reaching 5000 runs in least number of innings.
• Kohli's match-winning 86 off 84 balls is his 27th fifty in ODIs - his sixth against West Indies. His excellent average of 65.54 in chases is the highest in ODIs (minimum 3000 runs).
• At 25 years 16 days, Kohli is the second youngest batsman to achieve the feat of managing 5000 runs, next only to the 23 years 294 days taken by Sachin Tendulkar.
• Kohli has justifiably received his fifth Man of the Match award against the West Indies - his 17th in ODIs.
• Kohli took five MOM awards this year in ODIs - the most received by him in a calendar year.
• The West Indian opening pair could manage just 85 runs in the last 10 outings vs India in India at an average of 8.50 - the best partnership being 34 between Edwards and Smith at Chennai on March 20, 2011.

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