*CURRENT AFFAIRS (12:04:2014)

1. Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha, the senior-most judge of the apex
court, is to be the new Chief Justice of India from 27th April, 2014.
- He, due to retire on September 27 this year, will have a brief
tenure of just five months.
2. The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships (Akademi Ratna) 2014
conferred on Kanak Rele, R. Sathyanarayana,and Mahesh Elkunchwar.
- The 'Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards' (Akademi Puraskar) has been given
to 17 eminent artists; nine in the field of music and eight for
theater.
- The twin awards, established in 1953, are national honours bestowed
on artists, teachers and scholars in the field of performing arts.
- The fellows (Akademi Ratnas) received a cash prize of Rs. 3 lakh
whereas the Sangeet Natak Akademi awardees got Rs. 1 lakh.
3. Rushikulya Rookery, a major nesting site of endangered marine
turtles, brought Six lakh newborn Olive Ridley turtles to life this
year.
- Its a coast located in Ganjam district of south Odisha
- The site witnessed comparatively low mass hatching this year than
the previous one.
4. Shikhar Dhawan is the sole Indian to feature in the coveted list of
'Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year' for his performance in 2013.
- This annual honour, given since 1889, can be won by any cricketer
only once in his/her career.
The other four are...
- Chris Rogers and Ryan Harris of Australia
- Joe Root of England
- English women's skipper Charlotte Edwards
5. Millennium Technology Prize 2014 goes to British-American physicist
Stuart Parkin for enabling a revolutionary thousand-fold increase in
digital data storage on magnetic disks.
- The one-million euro prize honours significant technological breakthroughs.
- The biennial Prize, introduced in 2004, is given by the Technology
Academy Finland.
- Previous winners: Shuji Nakamura of Japan for laser research and
Time Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web
6. Heartbleed: The major Internet security bug
- Its a security bug in OpenSSL software that has exposed user's
sensitive personal data like usernames, passwords, and credit card
information to the hackers.
- The security deficiency has rendered about half a million websites
that use OpenSSL "vulnerable".
- The bug was discovered by security firm Codenomicon and Google
researcher Neel Mehta