1-15, March 2017: A new canyon formation off the coast of Visakhapatnam and close to Kovvada, time crystals, Earth Tremors in India, Indus Script identifications, Hailstorms and thunder showers.

       trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com                              Volume 2017, Issue No.3,  Dt: 1 to 15 March 2017,  Time:08:40:02 AM


1-15,  March 2017: A new canyon formation off the coast of Visakhapatnam and close to Kovvada,  time crystals, Earth Tremors in India, Indus Script identifications, Hailstorms and thunder showers.

                                                      by

               Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,

M.Sc. (Math. Phys) M.Sc. (Nucl. Phys) Ph. D. (AU), Int. Edu & Res. (Sweden 1964-65) 
DOB:23-07-1940. [Retd. Prof of Physics; Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004]
Residential Address: 17- 11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,

      Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. Mobile: 09491902867.

kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com;  lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

         In 2015, Sondhi and colleagues including then-graduate student Vedika Khemani, who earned her Ph.D. at Princeton in 2016 and as well as collaborators published the theoretical basis for how time crystals may be created J. Phys. Rev. Lett. June 2016. For the first time in 146 years it didn’t snow in the windy city. Jan and Feb passed without a single flake in Illinois. It is a part of climate change. Storms that swept across Illinois overnight. The GRAPES-3 muon telescope, the world's largest of its kind,  at the Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty, a hill station in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the scientists recorded a two-hour burst of galactic cosmic rays that invaded the atmosphere on 22 June 2015. The magnetic field breach was the result of charged particles from the Sun striking the Earth at high speed. The first major upgrade to the LHC, the world's biggest machine. Engineers have been carefully installing the new "pixel tracker" in CMS in a complex and delicate procedure on Thursday 2 March 2017, at 100m underground. It should boost the hunt for signs of new physics phenomena. Madam S. Sinha was complimented for the successful launch of the missile in defence of India on the 2 March 2017. January 2017 was recorded as the eighth warmest in 116 years. Above normal conditions are likely over "core heatwave zone". This includes Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana. The core heatwave region also includes Marathwada, Central Maharashtra and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra and coastal state of Andhra Pradesh.  On 4 March 2017, the Hubble space telescope has captured a new image showcasing an incredibly massive galaxy located under 400 million light-years away from the Earth. The galaxy UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral, according to NASA. It lies in the westernmost region of the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster, a long chain of galaxy clusters that stretches out for hundreds of light-years, one of the largest known structures in the cosmos. UGC 12591 itself is also extraordinary, it is incredibly massive. Sravanthi Maddila at a cheap cost she extracted from the leaves of the Ankudu Tree a phenyl compound and perfected it. It reduces Glucose and Colostral levels! She published in International Journal. Also she researched on Picchibatani leaves and extracts from it also helps to control the disease. On 8 March 2017 more than 200 weather records were broken during Australia's most recent summer. Hottest summer on record for Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra. Moree, a town in New South Wales, experienced 54 consecutive days above 35°C. Adelaide endured its hottest Christmas Day in 70 years (41.3°C). Scientist discovered a new canyon formation off the coast of Visakhapatnam and close to Kovvada news 10 March 2017. Equipped with CTD system, multi-beam bathymetric system, echo-sounder and sub-bottom profiler they conducted surveys in KG basin. The Tamil Nadu state received only 168.3 mm of rainfall during monsoon against a normal rainfall of 440.4 mm. Pre-monsoon rains lashed Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and UP. Few places could also witness hail storm and thunderstorms. The rainy spell is likely to continue till March 11. Fairly widespread moderate to heavy rains over the entire hilly region of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand occurred. This will mark the return of chilly weather across the hilly region including famous tourist destinations of Srinagar, Manali, and Shimla. The system has also induced a trough over plains, which is extending from Punjab to West Bengal across Delhi, North Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Another trough is seen running from West Bengal up to Tamil Nadu across Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Now, both the troughs continued to pound good amount of rains over East India including states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. Ten people injured and two died due to lightning during unseasonal rains in Guntur, Krishna and north coastal districts in the last 24 hours.  The fresh snowfall is expected to bring more tourists to the hilly state during, the three-day weekend that ends with Holi on Monday, 13 March 2017. Western disturbances, storm systems originating in the Caspian Sea moved across the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, remained active till Sunday 12 March 2017. Indus script has been deciphered by R. Adhikari and S. Palaniappan by AI identifying the individual graphemes using deep neutral networks. They have identified 89, 17, 8 and 342 from the Indus script.  Kalpa in Kinnaur district was the coldest place in the state with a low of seven degrees Celsius below the freezing point. The western disturbances, a storm system originating in the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea which causes rain and snowfall in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, would recede by Monday, resulting in dry weather. Midnight and early morning Monday 13 March 2017, from 2:45 to 2:50 AM, earth tremors 3.5R, occurred in Korikapaddu mandal Pamidipadu, and Ravinutham centred. Ardhangi, Marchuri, Vangaluru, Mundlamuru, and Chimakurthi and as well Ongole town. Adhanki and Medarmetta and Marjurulo, the earth tremors were more severe. In Adhinki, Ramnagar and Vasivinagar buildings have developed cracks. Pasupugattu, Mrela, Edhara, Mundlamuru, Ullagallu houses faced the shake twice. In Ongole it shook one second. Guntur Zillah, Appapuram and Marillapalem Earth shook two seconds. Mar 13, 2017 01:27 IST coldest March in Shimla in three decades, minimum temperature recorded at minus 0.9. in the last three days. An earthquake of magnitude 3.6R shook the Kathua region of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday 14 March 2017. On Mar 14, 2017 12:05 IST a 5.9 magnitude quake strikes Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The quake, whose epicentre was in the Nicobar Islands region, occurred at 8:21 AM at a depth of 10km. Scientists discover star circling closest known orbit around likely black hole! X9, show that it changes in X-ray brightness in the same manner every 28 minutes. An alternative explanation for the observations is that the white dwarf is partnered with a neutron star, rather than a black hole. Children braving the snow in Kanidajam (Budgam District) to attend school in Kashmir since last Seven days. Mangalyaan is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research. Nearly three years after it was launched, 'Mangalyaan' is still functioning well, it would keep going for many years.

DETAILS

At 8:40 a.m. March 1, 2017 

                 For the first time in 146 years it didn’t snow in the windy city. Jan and Feb passed without a single flake. It is a part of climate change. OTTAWA, IL.  Storms that swept across Illinois overnight, on Tuesday night, significant tornado damage was reported in Washburn and Naplate, where there were unconfirmed reports of people trapped, as well as gas leaks. Just after 10 p.m., a "large and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted near Crossville in White County with reported damage. As many as seven tornadoes touched down in Illinois during Tuesday's storm, ABC 7 Chicago reports. The storms also brought large hail, heavy downpours and high winds and wind damage to towns throughout the Chicago suburbs. A tornado that touched down in Oregon in Ogle County has been classified as an EF-1 with wind speeds between 90 to 95 mph and the Naplate tornado has been classified as an EF-3 with wind speeds peaking at 155 mph.

New Delhi: March 1, 2017 4:07 am

              In line, with the global trend, 2016 was one of the warmest years on record for India, while predicting hotter than usual summer in 2017. Northwest India and the plains near the Himalayas are likely to face particularly warmer summer this year with temperatures likely to be more than 1°C above normal.

 January 2017 was recorded as the eighth warmest in 116 years. Above normal conditions are likely over "core heatwave zone". This includes Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana. The core heatwave region also includes Marathwada, Central Maharashtra and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra and coastal state of Andhra Pradesh.

How India uses recycled pipes to detect ferocious solar storm 

             9 hours ago at 15:15 on 01-03-2017: More than 3,700 such pipes are actually at the heart of a most significant scientific finding. A team of Indian and Japanese scientists recently published an internationally-feted paper which recorded the events that unfolded after a breach in the Earth's magnetic shield. Using the GRAPES-3 muon (a sub-atomic particle) telescope, the world's largest of its kind,  at the Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty, a hill station in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the scientists recorded a two-hour burst of galactic cosmic rays that invaded the atmosphere on 22 June 2015. The magnetic field breach was the result of charged particles from the Sun striking the Earth at high speed.

Mar 1, 2017, 02.00 AM IST ELECTRONIC ROSE PLANT CAN STORE ENERGY

                    In a breakthrough, scientists have turned a rose into a supercapacitor that may lead to systems harvesting energy from ‘electronic plants’ to power sensors. Researchers showed that they had caused roses to absorb a conducting polymer solution. Conducting hydrogel formed in the rose’s stem in the form of wires. With an electrode at each end and a gate in the middle, a fully functional transistor was created. The levels of energy storage we have achieved are of the same order of magnitude as those in supercapacitors. Researchers developed a material that polymerises inside the rose without any external trigger. The innate fluid that flows inside the rose contributes to create long, conducting threads, not only in the stem but also throughout the plant, out into the leaves and petals.

Mar 2, 2017 17:05PM
Huge Large Hadron Collider experiment gets 'heart transplant': BBC 3 hours ago.
              The first major upgrade to the LHC, the world's biggest machine. Engineers have been carefully installing the new "pixel tracker" in CMS in a complex and delicate procedure on Thursday 100m underground. It should boost the hunt for signs of new physics phenomena.

Pakistan TV mentions Bharat Rocket experiment
     On March 2, 2017 Pakistan TV mentioned about Madam Sasi Sinha, name for the advent of Ballistic Defence System rocket successe in India. BMD rocket experiment and its launch thrilled the Director, Dr. Anjaneyulu who attended a meeting to complement the Lady. 

March 3, 2017 7:35 am

               HARARE, Zimbabwe: Nearly 250 people have died from flooding in Zimbabwe, months after severe drought. For months, they pleaded for rain. Now they’re dying from the downpour. Floods in Zimbabwe have killed nearly 250 people since December in regions that were recently suffering from drought.

Mar 4, 2017, 9:01 PM (IST): The Hubble space telescope has captured a new image showcasing an incredibly massive galaxy located under 400 million light-years away from the Earth. The galaxy UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral, according to NASA. It lies in the westernmost region of the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster, a long chain of galaxy clusters that stretches out for hundreds of light-years, one of the largest known structures in the cosmos. UGC 12591 itself is also extraordinary, it is incredibly massive. The galaxy and its halo together contain several hundred billion times the mass of the Sun, four times the mass of the Milky Way. It also whirls round extremely quickly, rotating at speeds of up to 1.8 million km/hour.Stunning India Beaches

          14. Tip Beach, Lakshadweep: 13. Astaranga Beach, Odisha: 12. Lalaji Bay Beach, Andaman Islands: 11. Kondura Beach, Maharashtra: 10. Malpe Beach, Karnataka: 9. Jallandhar Beach, Diu: 8. Butterfly Beach, Goa: 7. Cherai Beach, Kerala:6. Yarada Beach, Andhra Pradesh”: 5. Mandarmani Beach, West Bengal: 4. Ottinene Beach, Karnataka: 3. Mandvi Beach, Gujarat:2. Cola Beach, Goa: 1. Ezhimala Beach, Kerala.

March 4, 2017 at 02:28PM: Pollution turning country’s rainfall acidic: Analysis of rainwater samples from Nagpur, Mohanbari (in Assam), Allahabad, Visakhapatnam and Kodaikanal in the decade 2001-2012 showed a pH level varying from 4.77 to 5.32, indicating that these places have actually been receiving 'acid rain'. Rainwater with pH below 5.65 is considered acidic. Potential of hydrogen, or pH, is a scale to measure acidity or alkalinity of a solution, where 7 is 'neutral'. For lesser values, acidity increases with decreasing count. Acid rain is a result of rainwater in the atmosphere mixing with polluting gases such as oxides of sulphur and nitrogen emitted from power plants, automobiles and some industrial units.

Saturday, March 4, 2017 - 11:04:                   Imphal: India-Myanmar border region hit by earthquake, no casualties.  A moderate earthquake measuring 5.0R hit the border region of Manipur at 7.42 a.m. today. This morning a mild tremor measuring 3.5R was also reported in Manipur Chandel district. Loss of life or property has not been reported so far.

ANDHRA JYOTHI 5 March 2017

Fig.1 Sravani Maddila Biochem Ph.D student

offers a  remedy for diabetics with leafy extract.

            For diabetics a classic remedy offered by an Andhra University, Biochemistry doctoral student Sravanthi Maddila.  At a cheap cost she extracted from the leaves of the Ankudu Tree a phenyl compound and perfected it. It reduces Glucose and Cholesterol levels! She published in International Journal. Also she researched on Picchibatani leaves and extracts from it also helps to control the disease.

 Mar 5, 2017, 06.31 PM IST

                AI flies into record books with flight by all-women crew. In a quest to set a new world record, Air India has operated a flight around the world with an all-women crew ahead of International Women's Day. The flight which departed from Delhi on February 27 for San Francisco, returned to the Indira Gandhi International airport on Friday 3 March 2017 after flying across the globe.

March 6, 2017: The networks of genes in each animal is a bit like the network of neurons in our brains, which suggests they might be "learning" as they go.

Monday 6 March 2017: Srikakulam district towns Palasa, Mandana, Haripuram and neighbouring areas on Monday 6 March had very heavy rain for about one and half hours in the afternoon. Cashew, Mango crops received good rain and business crops of ground nuts and sesame oil crop survived. In Vijayanagaram  Zillah  had rains, at several places. Rains after a gap of four months people became jubilant. On Monday and Tuesday the temperatures have lowered.TAMIL NADU

       The Tamil Nadu state received only 168.3 mm of rainfall during monsoon against a normal rainfall of 440.4 mm.

Rajasthan

       JAIPUR: Farmers in the eastern Rajasthan got a shock on Thursday, 2 March when mild to moderate showers accompanied with hailstorm were witnessed in the state. Since the farmers in the state are now eyeing wheat and mustard harvest, the sudden rainfall and hailstorm was something unexpected. Mild showers were also witnessed in Jaipur that made the traffic chaotic. However, the rainfall helped mercury to take a dip. Attributing the rainfall and hailstorm to the active western disturbances, that mild to moderate showers will continue in the state. This has been a pattern in past two years. Hopefully, from Monday, 6 March onwards, the clouds will vanish from the state. 

7 March 2017 02:09PM: Pre-Monsoon Rains To Lash Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, UP, Delhi. Few places could also witness hail storm and thunderstorms. The rainy spell is likely to continue till March 11, reducing thereafter. By March 12, we can see significant drop in the rain activity. 

Tuesday: Cyclone Enawo: Madagascar death toll rises to 38. But not before the cyclone destroyed roads and cut off communications to the north-eastern Antalaha district. It dumped 12 inches of rain across the region in 12 hours on Tuesday, with winds reaching up to 300km/h (185mph).

8 March 207: More than 200 weather records were broken during Australia's most recent summer. Hottest summer on record for Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra. Moree, a town in New South Wales, experienced 54 consecutive days above 35°C. Adelaide endured its hottest Christmas Day in 70 years (41.3°C). Perth had its highest summer rainfall on record (192.8mm; 7.6in). News South Wales temperatures were 2.57C above average, a summer record.

ISS TEST ON BOSE-EINSTEIN QUANTUM STATE, GRAVITY AND DARK MATTER 
WASHINGTON:  NASA is planning to send an ice chest-sized box to ISS, where it will freeze gas atoms to create the coolest spot in the universe, an advance that may provide new insights into gravity and dark matter. Inside that box, lasers, a vacuum chamber and an electromagnetic knife will be used to cancel out the energy of gas particles, slowing them until they're almost motionless.  It is set to ride to space in August aboard the SpaceX CRS-12. CAL's instruments are designed to freeze gas atoms to a mere billionth of a degree above absolute zero, more than 100 million times colder than the depths of space. Studying these hyper-cold atoms could reshape our understanding of matter and the fundamental nature of gravity. The experiments we'll do with the CAL will give us insight into gravity and dark energy, some of the most pervasive forces in the universe. When atoms are cooled to extreme temperatures, as they will be inside of CAL, they can form a distinct state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. In this state, familiar rules of physics recede and quantum physics begins to take over. Matter can be observed behaving less like particles and more like waves. Rows of atoms move in concert with one another as if they were riding a moving fabric. These mysterious waveforms have never been seen at temperatures as low as what CAL will achieve. On Earth, the pull of gravity causes atoms to continually settle towards the ground, meaning they are typically only observable for fractions of a second. However, on the ISS, ultra-cold atoms can hold their wave-like forms longer while in freefall. That offers scientists a longer window to understand physics at its most basic level. CAL will allow Bose-Einstein condensates to be observable for up to five to 10 seconds, future development of the technologies used on CAL could allow them to last for hundreds of seconds. Bose-Einstein condensates are a superfluid, a kind of fluid with zero viscosity, where atoms move without friction as if they were all one, solid substance. If you had superfluid water and spun it around in a glass, it would spin forever. There's no viscosity to slow it down and dissipate the kinetic energy, if we can better understand the physics of superfluids, we can possibly learn to use those for more efficient transfer of energy, said Sengupta.

A FIND: NEWS 8 March 2017

         Archeologists have found bricks dating back to 261 BC at Dathpauri  village in Srikakulam district.
March 9, 2017: IBM researchers create world's smallest magnet       
                  An international team of researchers working at IBMs' San Jose research facility announced recently that they had created the world's smallest magnet, it was made from a single atom. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes their achievement as the ultimate limit in reducing the size of magnetic storage media using the classical approach, they report that they were able to use the tiny magnet to store a single bit of data. IBM built an atomic hard drive: The system uses atoms of holmium seated atop a magnesium oxide surface, which keeps the atom's magnetic poles stable, even in the presence of other magnets. The orientation of these poles determines whether the atom constitutes a 1 or a 0. To write to this storage system, a microscopic needle induces a current to flip the atom's orientation. Reading the information, conversely, is simply a matter of measuring the magnetic current passing through each atom, which varies depending on which pole is facing up. But don't expect this technology to show up in the next iPhone, mind you. It currently requires a liquid nitrogen-cooled tunnelling electron microscope operating in a vacuum to work. The study was published today in the journal Nature.

9 March 2017: 

                Delhi and adjoining areas may experience dust storms and rain and thunderstorms are anticipated on Thursday and Friday evening. A warning for heavy snowfall on Wednesday and Thursday has been issued in Jammu and Kashmir. Western Disturbance refers to a system of low pressure that moves from west to east, bringing moisture from Eurasian water bodies, and is responsible for winter rain in north-western India and snowfall in the Himalayan tracts.

          State wide rains since last two days Guntur and Nellore Zillah received moderate to light rains. Chejerla on Wednesday hail storm destroyed rice and cotton crops. Lightning struck killing three people, two people are drunkards in Nellore district and in Dasarapalli a shepard. In Chittoor Zillah 36 Mandal had moderate rains. Vizianagaram town, S.kota, Denkada, Bhogapuram, Pusapati, Rega, Nellimarla, Gajapathinagaram, Mentada and Visakha Zillah Araku Loya, Ananthagiri, madugula. Srikakulam on Wednesday Icchapuram, Kaviti, Rajyam mandals had little rain. Tirumala on Wednesday from 4 to 4.30 AM it rained 2.6mm slightly, but haze covered and chilly weather sustained people went round gardens enjoying.  

VISAKHA RAINFALL   

Fig.2 The unexpected rainfall in Visakhapatnam

                  on the eve of 9 March 2017 from 4:30 to 6 PM.            

       In the city Visakhapatnam, at several locations in the evening slight rainfall has occurred. The heat wave conditions receded and the  entire city covered with thick clouds gave  people a  pleasure, to move around.  On 10 March and 11 March during the night time it rained heavily in Visakhapatnam for about two  hours in the early morning and were preceded by winds.

TIME CRYSTALS

         In 2015, Sondhi and colleagues including then-graduate student Vedika Khemani, who earned her Ph.D. at Princeton in 2016 and is now a junior fellow at Harvard, as well as collaborators Achilleas Lazarides and Roderich Moessner at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Germany, published the theoretical basis for how time crystals, at first considered impossible,  could actually exist. Published in the journal Physics Review Letters in June 2016, the paper spurred conversations about how to build such crystals.
10 March 2017
            The molecule , a nanographene -rhenium complex connected via an organic compound known as bipyramid,triggers a highly efficient reaction that coverts carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide. The carbon neutral that serves as a fuel. Nanographene complex absorbs light, and drives the conversion of carbon dioxide as a carbon monoxide said Liang-shi Li of Indiana University.
KOVVADA FIND
      Scientist led by P.S.Rao discovered a new canyon formation off the coast of Visakhapatnam and close to Kovvada. Equipped with CTD system, multi-beam bathymetric system, echo-sounder and sub-bottom profiler they conducted surveys in KG basin. 

Fig.3 The new underwater canyon in the Bay of Bengal

off the coast of Kovvada on Thursday 9 March 2017.

         The  original sea shore survey was initiated by the Principal, Andhra University, in 1949, Prof. K.R. Rao D.Sc.(Madras) D.Sc.(London) and made Prof  Mahadevan of Geology Department to scale every mile of the sea shore, for the amount of newer materials along the beach coast, as every mile data was submitted by a research student for his  M.Sc. Degree of Andhra University, Waltair. Subsequently,a visit by the Prime Minister of India, gave a thoughtful research of the Andhra Pradesh research on its unique and versatile collection of outstanding rocks spread over the state and Dr. Mahadevan was happy to show the collection of rocks to the then Prime Minister of India.  Perhaps no individual, other than me corroborates the research jenius of Prof. K. R. Rao, Meritorious Principal and Magnanimous  who encouraged and promoted of excellent research on a wide variety of subjects, spread over 49 departments which were established and created by Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc.(Madras) D.Sc.(London).

         Prof. Lafond (with his family and kids,the present author had the privilege of meeting his family and admirable two sons and Prof. Lafond and his wife, at the tin and brick roofed residence) visited the Andhra University, when Prof. K. R. Rao was the Principal of AU and it is who made the foreign scientist to study deep in the Visakhapatnam Beach. Earlier he helped Dr. Mahadevan to study every mile of  Visakhapatnam beach stretch, as a part of M.Sc. (by research), and note the contents.

HEAVY SNOW IN SIMLA AND KASHMIR

           Tourist spots near Shimla like Kufri, Fagu, Narkanda and Chail experienced moderate snowfall, turning the hill stations even more picturesque. Manali and its nearby Solang ski slopes and Kalpa, 250 km from here, also witnessed heavy spells of snow.. High altitude areas of Lahaul-Spiti, Kullu, Kinnaur, Chamba, Sirmaur and Shimla districts have been experiencing moderate snow since Tuesday, 7 March 2017. Lower areas in Himachal Pradesh including Dharamsala, Palampur, Solan, Nahan, Bilaspur, Una, Hamirpur, and Mandi towns, meanwhile, received moderate to heavy rains, bringing a considerable fall in temperature. The fresh snowfall is expected to bring more tourists to the hilly state during the three-day weekend that ends with Holi on Monday, 13 March 2017. Western disturbances, storm systems originating in the Caspian Sea are moving across the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, would remain active till Sunday 12 March 2017.

Fig.4. Lightning storm  

Fig.5 Himachal Pradesh snowfall

10 March  2017 at 14:17:

     Fast radio bursts are millisecond-long flashes of radio waves, travelling billions of light years, recorded using enormous radio telescopes. Since their discovery in 2007, fewer than 20 have been detected. The bursts last only the briefest of moments, but they can generate as much energy as 500 million suns.
Chandrayaan-1  Located
          Chandrayaan-1 proved the perfect target for demonstrating the capability of this technique. To find a spacecraft 380,000 kilometres away, JPL's team used Nasa's 70-metre antenna at Nasa's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California to send out a powerful beam of microwaves directed towards the Moon. Then the radar echoes bounced back from lunar orbit were received by the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. The Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is very small, a cube about 1.5 meters on each side, about half the size of a smart car. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost an year after it was launched on October 22,2008. 

10 March 2017 11:59 AM: Pre-Monsoon Rain In Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad:  DUE TO TWO TROUGHS

             Fairly widespread moderate to heavy rains over the entire hilly region of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand occurred. This will mark the return of chilly weather across the hilly region including famous tourist destinations of Srinagar, Manali, and Shimla. The system has also induced a trough over plains, which is extending from Punjab to West Bengal across Delhi, North Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. With this, light to moderate rains are likely to lash many parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and North Madhya Pradesh. Few places may record one or two heavy showers as well. Due to this, mercury is likely to drop across the plains leading to pleasant weather conditions.

             Another trough is seen running from West Bengal up to Tamil Nadu across Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Now, both the troughs will continue pound good amount of rains over East India including states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. Squally winds will blow across the region with few places recording lightning spells as well.

LIGHTNING AND CYCLONE IN ANDHRA 11 March 2017
        Ten people injured and two died due to lightning during unseasonal rains in Guntur, Krishna and north coastal districts in the last 24 hours. Four were reported in Guntur, nine suffered injuries, mostly labourers working in the fields and Krishna districts, one died while standing under a tree on Friday. Two others injured in Chandarlapadu village. Unseasonal rains  were also reported in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram.  Rayalaseema had a partly cloudy weather, and with moderate winds. These weather conditions would continue another three days with thunder showers. Tirupati, Kurnool and Anantapur recorded 39C, 37C and  38C respectively. 

CITY NEW YORK WASHINGTON 11 MARCH 2017 02:09:33

Fig.6  New York City Dark

                Two lakh houses arrested of current supply in New York due to blowing cyclic winds blowing from the seas. Current poles fallen down, and since the evening the houses are without electric supply. The sea waves are over 10 to 14 feet high. Coastal areas threatened most.

12 March 2017
              Kalpa in Kinnaur district was the coldest place in the state with a low of seven degrees Celsius below the freezing point. Solan town recorded a low of 0.5 degree Celsius, while it was minus 3.8 degrees in Manali and 2.8 degrees above the freezing point in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. The western disturbances, a storm system originating in the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea which causes rain and snowfall in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, will recede by Monday, resulting in dry weather.

Sun, 12 Mar 2017-08:25 PM: 

Fig. 7 france-corsica , archaeology-mithra_ea  

350 archaeological remains and claim to be 50,000 years old

The excavation conducted by Shridhar Wakankar Archaeological Research Institute led to the discovery of 350 archaeological remains which the experts claim to be 50,000 years old. In 2009, the team led by Prof Mishra had found the pieces of ostriches eggs, which were related to modern human civilisation, during the excavation at the same site. The ancient relics found here certify that ancient and rare antiquities are available in abundance in the state. The Human civilisation of Mehtakhedi area is related to African human group date of microblade was estimated 50,000 years old by Physical Research Laboratory-Ahmedabad. The carbon date of ostriches egg was verified as over 42,000 years old.

 March 13, 2017

Fig.8 The Indus Script much older than

  Prakrit and Brahmi scripts.

                Indus script has been deciphered by R.Adhikari and  S. Palaniappan by AI identifying the individual graphemes using deep neural networks. They have identified 89, 17, 8 and 342 from the Indus script and noted Iravatham Mahadevan, who compiled the vast amount of Indus concordance, complimented the computerised study of the script.

13 March 2017 Fluorescent FROG

                     In normal light the  polka-dot tree frog appears to have a dull complexion, mottled browny-green skin with red dots, but under UV light it glows a bright fluorescent green.Fluorescence, the ability to absorb light at short wavelengths and re-emit it at longer wavelengths, is uncommon in creatures that live on land.

Mar 13, 2017 01:27 IST:
                  Coldest March in Shimla in three decades, minimum temperature recorded at minus 0.9. In the last three days, Shimla recorded around 17 cm snowfall, Kufri over 20cm, Narkanda 25cm, Kharapathar 25cm and Kalpa 30cm. State capital Shimla witnessed its lowest March temperature in the last three decades with the mercury taking a plunge after 72 hours of intermittent snowfall, rains across the state. The minimum temperature recorded was -0.9 ° C in the last 24 hours. On Saturday, Shimla recorded -0.2°C. Keylong was recorded coldest in the state at -8.6 °C. Tourist town Manali was recorded minimum with -3.8 °C, Kalpa in Kinnaur with -7 °C, Chamba 2.7°C and Sundernagar 1° C. In last 24 hours, Manali recorded 8 cm of snowfall, Shimla and Kalpa 7 cm each, Bijahi 6cm, Jubbal and Khadrala 5 cm each. While Jhandutta (Bilaspur) recorded 26 mm of rainfall, Naina Devi 16mm, Nahan and Jubbal (Shimla) 12 mm each, Gaggal, Manali and Seobagh (Kullu) 6 mm each, Saloni (Chamba), Dharamshala, Bhuntar (Kullu), Jubbarhatti (Shimla) 5 mm each, Bajaura, Sarahan and Paonta Sahib 4 mm each.

Mar 13, 2017: 
          The Monday heavy rains, in Mosul, Iraq.
Mar 14 2017: Temblor rattles in Addanki
            Midnight and early morning Monday from 2:45 to 2:50 AM,  earth tremors 3.5R, recorded 19km southeast of the Addanki seismic station at 2.43AM (TheHindu) occurred in Korisapaddu mandal, Pammidipadu, and Ravinuthula centred. Ardhangi, Marchuri, Vangaluru, Mundlamuru, and  Chimakurthi and as well Ongole town.  Its epicentre  was located 15.721N latitude and 80.090E longitude. It occurred at a depth of 3 km.  Addanki,   Medarmetta and Marjurulo, the earth tremors were more severe. Somm houses developed cracks.  In Adhinki, Ramnagar and Vasivinagar  buildings have developed cracks. Pasupugattu,  Mrela, Edhara, Mundlamuru, Ullagallu houses faced the shake twice. Ongole it shook one second. Guntur Zillah, Appapuram and Marillapalem it shook two seconds.

8:24AM 14 March 2017

                       

Fig.9 Snow covered house on 14 March 2017.

                       Winter Storm Stella to wreak havoc on US east coast. The north-eastern US states of New York and New Jersey have declared states of emergency as a huge winter storm sweeps in, threatening blizzard conditions. The US National Weather Service has issued blizzard warnings for parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. With winds of up to 60mph (100km/h), Winter Storm Stella is likely to cause severe disruption for commuters across many parts of the north-east on Wednesday morning. Snowfall rates of 1-3 inches (2.5-7.6cm), even up to four inches per hour happened. 
    
March 14, 2017: 06:36 IST: Earthquake measuring 3.6 on Richter scale hits Kathua region of Jammu and Kashmir:  An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 on Richter scale shook the Kathua region of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday 14 March 2017

Fig.10 Earthquake Kashmir 14 March 2017 

Mar 14, 2017 12:05 IST: 
           5.9 magnitude quake strikes Andaman & Nicobar islands. The quake, whose epicentre was in the Nicobar islands region, occurred at 8:21 AM at a depth of 10 kms.

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 08:50: Neutron Star or Black Hole!!

            Scientists discover star circling closest known orbit around likely black hole! X9, show that it changes in X-ray brightness in the same manner every 28 minutes, which is likely the length of time it takes the companion star to make one complete orbit around the black hole. Chandra data also shows evidence for large amounts of oxygen in the system, a characteristic feature of white dwarfs. A strong case can, therefore, be made that the companion star is a white dwarf, which would then be orbiting the black hole at only about 2.5 times the separation between the Earth and the Moon. An alternative explanation for the observations is that the white dwarf is partnered with a neutron star, rather than a black hole.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017
               A new and more powerful generation of batteries may be made from glass  said John Goodenough, 94-year old, published by UK Royal Society of Chemistry. A low cost all-solid-state cell can be made using globally abundant supplies of Sodium. His team works at University of Texas at Austin.   

KASHMIR SNOW          

Fig.11 Children braving the snow to attend school

in Kashmir since last seven days.

 Kanidajam in Budgam District

MANGALYAAN-1

                   Mangalyaan is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research. Nearly three years after it was launched, 'Mangalyaan' is still functioning well, it would keep going for many years. While we started, it was a basic mission of only six months. On September 24, 2014 launched we still have all the fuels and all the systems working on it, providing information from all five payloads for many years to come.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 

                      Present author is a Professor of Physics at Shivaji University, Kolhapur-416004, MS, since 1983 till July 31, 2000. He joined as a Lecturer in 1966 June 1, became a Reader in 1975. The present author is also maintaining trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com after retirement. Recently he initiated "TRU Literary works: A Science-Facts Episodes" since 9 September 2012. He also worked as a Professor of Physics, at AGL College,in Visakhapatnam for two years and worked at St.Theresa Womens College, Eluru for two years in 2005 to 2007.

                          The author is deeply indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London). The author also expresses his gratitude to him for the inspiration and constant guidance provided for his research and investigations. A summary of all his disciples, to my knowledge, and list of publications by him, are listed by the present author and is available on INTERNET. (His lifetime: 1899 Sept. 9 early morning to 1972 June 20 at 9:10 AM). He initiated several researches in wide variety of subjects, and earned respect from the several followers. Hundreds of his research students are well-spread over many countries. Many a foreign visitors to Andhra University remember his unselfish work, and promotion of  youngsters to aspire for world recognition. The then VC S. Radhakrishnan and VC C.R. Reddi were after C V Raman to get a  recommendation for a Nobel Prize and both the VCs were against Prof. K.R.Rao and snubbed his academic promotion and expertise. Paid dirty tricks to promote C V Raman research scholar for a professorial appointment depriving Prof.K.R.Rao his rightful place.

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