Home Secretary Anil Goswami sacked

Union Government on 4 February 2015 sacked Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami from his post. Anil Goswami had admitted to calling the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials dealing with the Saradha case after former minister Matang Sinh was named in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund case of West Bengal.

LC Goyal appointed as the Union Home Secretary

The government Wednesday appointed rural development ministry Secretary L.C. Goyal as the new home secretary in place of Anil Goswami who resigned. A home ministry release said Goyal’s term will be for two years. L.C. Goyal is a 1979-batch IAS officer of the Kerala cadre. Till now he was the Rural Development Secretary.

Micromax overtakes Samsung in India’s smartphone market: Canalys Report

India’s Micromax Mobile has overtaken Korean tech giant Samsung as the largest seller of smartphones in India for the first time. As per Canalys report, Micromax accounted for 22% of India’s smartphone market share in the October-December 2014 quarter (Q4, 2014). While, Samsung’s market share has fallen down to 20%. Micromax was able to overtake Samsung because of its cheap smartphone segment that catered to India’s local smartphone market preference. India, which has the world’s second-highest number of mobile phone accounts after China, is the third-biggest market by the number of smartphones sold.

British House of Commons voted to allow creation of babies with DNA from three people

The UK is now set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people. This bill allows the ground-breaking Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy (MRT) technique that uses a modified version of IVF to combine the DNA of the two parents with the healthy mitochondria of a donor woman.