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Volume 2018, Issue No.2a, Dated: 16 to 28 February 2018, Time:10:13:05 PM
February 16-28, 2018: New Kind of Photonic Matter, Visakhapatnam beaches unsafe, polluted water supply issue, Raigad 40C on Friday, Hindu Maya "returning to original state", Wearable Devices, Europe Chill from Russia, Cincinnati flooding, two earthquakes Papua New Guinea, UK earthquake twice this week.
Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
M.Sc. (Math. Phys.), M.Sc. (Nucl. Phys.), Ph. D. (AU), Int. Edu & Res. (Sweden 1964-65)
While returning from Sweden, spent few days in England, Paris, Egypt and etc. countries.
Visited USA about 12 Universities, several National Laboratories and Institutes
during four months Sept.to December 1988. and in 1989 visited Japan, and South Korea.
Residential Address: 17- 11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. Mobile: 09491902867.
kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com; DOB:23-07-1940.
lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com
Aditya Venkatramani at Harvard University, Sergio Cantu at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and their colleagues found a way to make photons stick together. Groups of three photons interacting and essentially sticking together to form a new kind of photonic matter. The discovery of this new form of light may be used to perform complex and fast quantum computations. 16 Feb. 2018: Strong rip currents make Visakhapatnam beaches unsafe. Studies made by Oceanography experts suggest that a few locations in the coastal sretch of Port City are not safe for swimming. A powerful earthquake shook Mexico City on Friday, triggering the capital`s quake alarm system and causing buildings to sway. the magnitude of the quake at 7.0, and seismic monitor network Sky Alert said the quake was felt across the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Puebla. 17 Feb. 2018: Delhi, Haryana told to resolve polluted water supply issue. The DJB had claimed that while at the source point in Haryana, the ammonia content in the water was negligible, the source point in Delhi saw high levels of ammonia. Saturday 17 February 2018:22:24, UK hit by biggest earthquake for a decade. A 4.4 magnitude tremor hits South Wales, but its effects are felt as far away as Liverpool, Birmingham and Cornwall. 18 Feb.2018: BA Sanskrit student Jyotsna Padmanabhan aged 18 years, from Sree Sankara College, Kalady, exposed to tantric (poojas) rituals from childhood, accepted puja performances at Krishna Temple, Ponjanam, Kattoor, in Kerala State. She has no ambition of priesthood, but wishes to do research in Tantra from the perspective of women. Human Cells Grown: Scientists grow hybrid embryos by injecting human stem cells into sheep embroys. They contain both human and sheep cells, called Chimeras develop in just 28 days. Findings published in The Financial Times, producing embroys, for which about one in every 1,00,000 cells were human. 20 Feb. 2018: It’s called Octa Air. It is a new "super" antenna that can pick up over-the-air TV signals no other antenna was able to pick up before. So you get over 100 channels completely free and legal in India. Vodafone has created the world’s first Radio Positioning System (RPS) for drones which uses a 4G SIM to communicate with other drones. 21 Feb.2018: Gollings’ eyes and his camera have captured and thereby immortalised Hampi through over 10,000 pictures over the past four decades. An archive of his pictures along with map references can be found at John Gollings Photography website. In Sri Lanka a tribe named Ahikuntala with main livelihood of Snake charming, speaking Telugu, exist for many centuries, and their population just a few hundred of them, is on decline. 22 Feb 2018: Scientists from University of Washington have developed a laser emitter that can safely charge a smartphone across a room as quickly asa standard USB cable. Feb 23, 2018, 08:07 AM IST: NDMA gears up to deal with heat wave, asks states to prepare 'action plan'. The NDMA has asked all states to prepare an action plan to deal with heat wave. 23 Feb 2018: Bihira, Raigad, in Maharashtra State bakes at 40C on Friday, it may be due to heat absorbed and radiated by the basalt rock, the predominant rock here. 24 Feb. 2018: Massive Black Holes: Scientists have detected a set of gargantuan black holes that are likely the most massive ever discovered in the universe. With our atom chip, we can even influence the time it takes the system to return to one particular state. This is obviously modern-day solipsism and not conceptually different than Brains in a Vat or the Plato's cave or the Hindu Maya. Natural Colours in Phalguna, it falls in the month of phagun and this year it is on March 2. A sum of Rs. 22 lakh 32 thousand 124 has been sanctioned for 430 farmers of village Hinotiya. Feb 26, 2018 07:55 AM IST: Powerful quake rattles homes, gold mine in Papua New Guinea. The magnitude-7.5 quake that hit about 89 km southwest of Porgera in the Pacific Island nation. February 28, 2018 2:46 pm: Fresh earthquake rocks Papua New Guinea. A magnitude-6 earthquake shook the interior of Papua New Guinea on Wednesday. 28 February 2018 10:53, UK: Cumbria earthquake: Houses shake as tremor of 3.2 magnitude hits county: Residents reported that buildings "swayed" as the tremors hit on Wednesday morning, the second quake to hit the UK in two weeks.
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16 February 2018, 9:31 pm EST: But Aditya Venkatramani at Harvard University, Sergio Cantu at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and their colleagues found a way to make photons stick together. Scientists Created New Form of Light With Potential Use In Quantum Computing: Groups of three photons interacting and essentially sticking together to form a new kind of photonic matter. The discovery of this new form of light may be used to perform complex and fast quantum computations. Different From Normal Light. The photons in the lightsaber beams would collide and crash into each other. Photons from two beams of normal light from flash lights, on the other hand, would pass right through each other. In experiments, observed that when a very weak laser beam passes through a thick cloud of cold rubidium atoms, the photons come out bound together in pairs or in groups of three instead of exiting as single randomly spaced photons. The photons are like some form of atom-size lightsaber. The results suggest some kind of interaction taking place among the light particles. The observation of traveling three-photon bound states in a quantum nonlinear medium where the interactions between photons are mediated by aic Rydbtomerg states. Photon correlation and conditional phase measurements reveal the distinct bunching and phase features associated with three-photon and two-photon bound states. More Sluggish Than Normal Light Particles: Normal photons also do not have mass and travel at a speed of 300,000 km per second, but the researchers found that the bound photons acquired some mass, equivalent to a fraction of that of an electron's. They are also relatively sluggish and travel 100,000 times slower than the speed of light. Potential Applications In Quantum Computing: As photons have been shown to indeed attract or entangle each other, the researchers said that they can be harnessed to perform quantum computations. If photons can influence one another, then if you can entangle these photons, you can use them to distribute quantum information in an interesting and useful way.
16 Feb. 2018: Strong rip currents make Visakhapatnam beaches unsafe. Studies made by Oceanography experts suggest that a few locations in the coastal sretch of Port City are not safe for swimming. Rip Current forecost exists along the 60 km stretch along the Visakhapatnam beach. Strong wavesat Arilova, Rushikonda and Judugulapalem are very dangerous.
16 Feb. 2018: A winter storm will move through the Lehigh Valley this weekend and could bring significant snowfall to parts of the area, less than 48 hours after some areas saw near-record warmth. A winter storm watch in effect from Saturday evening through early Sunday morning for wet, heavy snow. The warning came a day after highs pushed into the upper 60s in Allentown. The track of the storm this weekend would bring the heaviest snow amounts to the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos, with amounts decreasing as you move south. This would mean 4 to 6 inches of snow in Carbon, Monroe, Berks, Lehigh and Northampton counties, but lower amounts closer to the Interstate 95 corridor. The high end totals of the storm could bring as much as eight inches of snow to Mount Pocono. Immediately east, New Jersey could see more snow than the Lehigh Valley.
Feb 13, 2018, 11:13 AM: PORT BLAIR: An earthquake of 5.6 magnitude hit the Andaman Islands on Tuesday morning. As per the meteorological department, the earthquake occurred at around 8: 09 AM in the morning.
Feb 13, 2018, 11:13 AM: PORT BLAIR: An earthquake of 5.6 magnitude hit the Andaman Islands on Tuesday morning. As per the meteorological department, the earthquake occurred at around 8: 09 AM in the morning.
Saturday 17 February 2018:22:24, UK hit by biggest earthquake for a decade. A 4.4 magnitude tremor hits South Wales, but its effects are felt as far away as Liverpool, Birmingham and Cornwall, with a depth of 7.4km, and the epicentre was about 20km north of Swansea. The quake happened just after 2.30pm on Saturday.
Feb 17 2018 12:24AM: A Russian skier was killed while his compatriots were rescued after an avalanche hit the ski-resort Gulmarg on Friday. A group of Russian skiers comprising 9 members left this morning for skiing in Gulmarg. However, despite being warned not to venture into the prohibited area, the skiers went in the “danger zone”, where they were hit by an avalanche.
Feb 17, 2018, 08:03 AM IST:
Powerful earthquake with 7.2 magnitude shakes Mexico City: A powerful earthquake shook Mexico City on Friday, triggering the capital`s quake alarm system and causing buildings to sway. the magnitude of the quake at 7.0, and seismic monitor network Sky Alert said the quake was felt across the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Puebla. The USGS initially gave the quake`s magnitude as 7.5, later revising it down to 7.2, and located its epicenter 37 km (22 miles) northeast of Pinotepa de Don Luis, in the southwestern state of Oaxaca.
17 February, 2018: Delhi, Haryana told to resolve polluted water supply issue. The DJB had claimed that while at the source point in Haryana, the ammonia content in the water was negligible, the source point in Delhi saw high levels of ammonia. The colour of the water being received from Haryana is blackish in colour and has a foul smell.
17 February, 2018: Delhi, Haryana told to resolve polluted water supply issue. The DJB had claimed that while at the source point in Haryana, the ammonia content in the water was negligible, the source point in Delhi saw high levels of ammonia. The colour of the water being received from Haryana is blackish in colour and has a foul smell.
Drought California: About 45 percent of California was experiencing some level of drought conditions as of Feb. 6, 2018.
17 Feb 2018: URANUS AND NEPTUNE: New Form of Water, Both Liquid and Solid, Is ‘Really Strange’. Long theorized to be found in the mantles of Uranus and Neptune, the confirmation of the existence of superionic ice could lead to the development of new materials.This new form, called superionic water, consists of a rigid lattice of oxygen atoms through which positively charged hydrogen nuclei move. It is not known to exist naturally anywhere on Earth, but it may be bountiful farther out in the solar system, including in the mantles of Uranus and Neptune.
17 Feb 2018: Atom is Visible:
17 Feb 2018: URANUS AND NEPTUNE: New Form of Water, Both Liquid and Solid, Is ‘Really Strange’. Long theorized to be found in the mantles of Uranus and Neptune, the confirmation of the existence of superionic ice could lead to the development of new materials.This new form, called superionic water, consists of a rigid lattice of oxygen atoms through which positively charged hydrogen nuclei move. It is not known to exist naturally anywhere on Earth, but it may be bountiful farther out in the solar system, including in the mantles of Uranus and Neptune.
17 Feb 2018: Atom is Visible:
Strontium atoms are relatively large, with radii around 215 billionths of a millimetre. The atom is visible in this photograph because it absorbs and re-emits the bright light of the laser.
18 Feb. 2018: People feel the pinch as mercury levels touch 35C, in Kurnool, Kadapa, and 34C at Nandigamma, Anatpur, while Vijayawada, Bapatla, Tirupati and Visakhapatnam at 33C. In the monthof February 2018 people started feeling the summer at many places in the state. Visakhapatnam felt very humid weather on Saturday 17 Feb. and citizens felt sweating.
18 Feb 2018:
Screaming Mummy left gry in sheep skin.
An ancient papyrus record from Egypt refers to a prince sentenced to be hanged to death for conspiring against his father. The marks around the neck of the screaming mummy appear to confirm this account. The 'Screaming Mummy' instead, was left out to dry and wrapped in sheepskin which was considered impure by ancient Egyptians.
18 Feb. 2018: ISTANBUL – Turkey's military says two soldiers are missing in a flood after heavy rains pummeled the country's southeast, and Turkish media reported that their armored vehicle had toppled into a river. In a statement Sunday, the army said the soldiers were on guard in southeastern Sanliurfa province on the border with Syria before being swept away in the flood early Sunday.
Fig.4 Jyotsna Padmanabhan Sanskrit researcher
in Tantric rituals and a women Priest in Kerala.
BA Sanskrit student Jyotsna Padmanabhan aged 18 years, from Sree Sankara College, Kalady, exposed to tantric (poojas) rituals from childhood, accepted puja performances at Krishna Temple, Ponjanam, Kattoor, in Kerala State. She has no ambition of priesthood, but wishes to do research in Tantra from the perspective of women.
Fig.5 Remarkable student Vijaya Lakshmi
Anantapuram, Gidijala Parishad Higher secondary
school Multi purpose Solar device named Agriculture Robo.
18 Feb. 2018. In Visakhapatnam Vijaya Lakshmi exhibited a Solar Agricultural Robo, possibly multi purpose Solar device.
19 Feb. 2018:
Fig.6 Canadian Prime Minister with his family
at Gandhi Ashram
19 Feb. 2018: Canadian Prime Minister son Xavier tries his hands on a spinning wheel as his mother, father, brother and sister watch him during their visit to Sabarmati Ashram or Mahatma Gandhi Ashram in Ahmadabad, India.
Fig.7 Indonesia Eruption as school children walk.
School children walk as Mount Sinabung erupts in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
20 Feb. 2018: Human Cells Grown: Scientists grow hybrid embryos by injecting human stem cells into sheep embroys. They contain both human and sheep cells, called Chimeras develop in just 28 days. Findings published in The Financial Times, producing embroys, for which about one in every 1,00,000 cells were human.
20 Feb. 2018: It’s called Octa Air. It is a new "super" antenna that can pick up over-the-air TV signals no other antenna was able to pick up before. So you get over 100 channels completely free and legal in India.
20 Feb. 2018: Vodafone has created the world’s first Radio Positioning System (RPS) for drones which uses a 4G SIM to communicate with other drones. These IoT drones are easy to track and safer than the commercial civilian drones. The tech behind RPS will be utilized for other IoT services like tracking luggage using tags. RPS might also end up replacing GPS for better location tracking to enhance security. What is RPS and what are its capabilities? The Radio Positioning System RPS is capable of tracking each drone in real-time with 50 meters accuracy for drone operators and air traffic control. It gives over the horizon, beyond the line of sight control to the operator which reduce the risk of accidents after operator losing the line of sight.
World's Smallest Rocket Japan credit: The SS-520 rocket, about the size of a lamp post and 50 centimeters in diameter, lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima and placed its payload in the intended orbit, according to Japan’s space agency JAXA. The three-stage rocket carried a micro-satellite weighing about three kilograms developed by the University of Tokyo to collect imagery of the Earth’s surface.
21 Feb. 2018:
Fig.8 Sri Lanka Ancient Indian Snake charmers
descendants of erstwhile Sri Lanka before Lankan History.
In Sri Lanka a tribe named Ahikuntala with main livelihood of Snake charming, speaking Telugu, exist for many centuries, and their population just a few hundred of them, is on decline. They are belived to live in Sri Lanka even before Tamils, with the last king of Sri Lanka, before the British took over in 1817, was of Telugu origin, most of them lived as nomads,
21 Feb. 2018: Gollings’ eyes and his camera have captured and thereby immortalised Hampi through over 10,000 pictures over the past four decades. His work remains a vital part of arguably one of the most comprehensive research projects on Hampi – Vijayanagara and its past. An archive of his pictures along with map references can be found at John Gollings Photography website.
22 Feb 2018: Scientists from University of Washington have developed a laser emitter that can safely charge a smartphone across a room as quickly asa standard USB cable.
22 Feb. 2018:
Fig.9 The solo fighter jet flyer Avani
Avani Chaturvedi has become the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft SOLO, when she flew a MIG-21 Bidon aircraft from IAF's Jamnagar base on Monday, 19 Feb. 2018.
BUSO FINDING: SN 2016gkg was spotted in September 2016 by study coauthor Victor Buso, an amateur astronomer based out of Rosario, Argentina. Buso had been testing a new camera on his 16-inch telescope by aiming it at spiral galaxy NGC 613, which lies roughly 80 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. After taking a series of short-exposure photographs, Buso took a look at his work and noticed, at the end of one of the galaxy's spiral arms, a bright point in the later images that hadn't been there in the earlier ones.
Feb 23, 2018, 08:07 AM IST: NDMA gears up to deal with heat wave, asks states to prepare 'action plan'. The NDMA has asked all states to prepare an action plan to deal with heat wave.
Feb 23, 2018, 08:07 AM IST: NDMA gears up to deal with heat wave, asks states to prepare 'action plan'. The NDMA has asked all states to prepare an action plan to deal with heat wave.
ANCIENT MAP OF THE SKY AND ITS CONSTELLATIONS:
Fig.10. The possible ancient Netherlanders sketch of the Sky with its constellations.
Feb. 23, 2018:
Fig.11 Medivial Pottery of early humans in Odisha.
The recent archaeological excavations Odisha’s Bargarh district has unearthed stone tools, weapons and artefacts made by early humans, centuries ago. The excavation site located in the upper Danta stream, a tributary of the River Jira, near Torajunga village of the district, is a storehouse of treasure. This discovery will help us in understanding migration and subsequent colonisation by human beings in this part of India. The tools bear striking similarities with those found in Eastern and Southern Africa. Most of them were designed for hunting large animals.
23 Feb 2018: Bihira, Raigad, in Maharashtra State bakes at 40C on Friday, it may be due to heat absorbed and radiated by the basalt rock, the predominant rock here.
24 Feb. 2018:
24 Feb. 2018: Massive Black Holes: Scientists have detected a set of gargantuan black holes that are likely the most massive ever discovered in the universe. The “ultra-massive” black holes are located up to 3.5 billion light years from Earth. They were spotted using data captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope, a space observatory that has greatly advanced the field of X-ray astronomy.
25 Feb. 2018: NATURAL COLOURS IN PHAGUN: It falls in the month of phagun and this year it is on March 2. It is celebrated by applying colours on each other and enjoying food and drinks. Earlier the colors used for Holi made using flowers.You can make both dry and wet pink or magenta color by using beetroots.You can use red rose or hibiscus flower to make red color.You can use good-quality henna powder for green color. The dry, powdered henna will not leave color and you can brush it off easily. It will only leave color if it is mixed with water.All you have to do is mix food color to rice flour and add a little water to make a thick paste. Dry this paste and then grind it using a mixer to form the powder. You can also use kasturi turmeric powder instead of cooking turmeric as kasturi turmeric is more fragrant and has several beauty benefits You can use different food colours to make Holi colors. Another method is to boil marigold flower in water and leave it overnight.
25 Feb. 2018:
Fig.13. Fresh spell of snow over Himachal Pradesh
The continuing cold tightened its grip over Himachal Pradesh on Sunday as the higher reaches of the state received a fresh spell of snow. However, there was widespread rainfall in the low and mid hills.The weather office here has forecast more snow and rain in the state till Monday. Shimla, which was received 15.8 mm rain, recorded a minimum temperature of 4.6C, a fall by four Celsius from Saturday. High hills in Lahaul-Spiti, Kinnaur, Kullu, Shimla, Sirmaur, Mandi and Chamba districts have been experiencing light to moderate snowfall since Friday.
25 Feb. 2018: ULTRA COLD GAS: The behaviour of an ultracold gas, consisting of thousands of atoms, which is kept in place by electromagnetic fields on a chip. There are several different quantities describing the characteristics of such a quantum gas, for example coherence lengths in the gas and correlation functions between different points in space. These parameters tell us, how closely the particles are linked by quantum mechanical effects. With our atom chip, we can even influence the time it takes the system to return to one particular state. This is obviously modern-day solipsism and not conceptually different than Brains in a Vat or the Plato's cave or the Hindu Maya.
25 Feb. 2018: WEARABLE DEVICE:
Fig.14 Professor Takao Someya's Skin-Sensor
Professor Takao Someya from the University of Tokyo unveiled what he believes will be the future of health-monitoring for our ageing society, a fully conformable and comfortable skin-wearable health monitoring system. Continuous health-monitoring with ultraflexible on-skin sensors consists of gold nanomesh-based breathable skin sensors and an elastic display that fits snugly on the skin, so recorded data (such as an electrocardiogram or temperature) can be made readily visible for the patient. Combined with a wireless communication module, this integrated biomedical sensor system could transmit biometric data to the cloud for physicians to monitor. The new integrated system combines flexible, deformable display with a light weight sensor such aselectrocardiogram,can either be sent wirelessly to a smart phone, for viewing or to a cloud for storage. The skin display consists of 16x24 array micro LEDs, and stretchable wiring mounted on a rubber sheet.
February 26, 2018: Icy Blast From Siberia Sweeps Across Europe. Paris, France: A wintry blast of freezing temperatures swept across Europe on Sunday, with a biting wind from Siberia claiming four lives and endangering the continent's homeless, with the worst yet to come. The "Beast from the East", is expected to bring chilling winds from Russia over the next week that will make it feel even colder than thermometers indicate. The cold snap has already been linked to several deaths, as well as postponing an Italian football match and causing traffic chaos. In France, where temperatures were forecast to drop to minus 10C (14F) and feel as low as minus 18C over the coming days, fears ran high for people living on the streets.
27 Feb 2018: Lithium Batteries: Kaho India Pvt. Ltd started in India in 2012 developed a device that can power three lights, one fan, one phone charger and has a socket to power a DC power television. They imported 10 devices priced at Rs.5000/- all sold, but soon realised the problem with the battery. It is expensive to replace the bettery at 40% cost, every 2-3 years, with solar panel of the unit has a life span of 25 years. Lithium batteries can be charged in 10 minutes, giving 4.5VAh per peak watt. Lithium-ion batteries are common in home electronics. They are one of the most popular types of rechargeable batteries for portable electronics, with a high energy density, tiny memory effect and low self-discharge. A rechargeable battery will typically give you anything from two or three to as much as 10 years of useful life (depending on how often you use it and how well you look after it).The biggest issue is safety: Li-ion batteries will catch fire if they're overcharged or if an internal malfunction causes a short circuit; in both cases, the batteries heat up in what's called a "thermal runaway," eventually catching fire or exploding. That problem is solved with a built-in circuit breaker, known as a current interrupt device or CID.
26 Feb. 2018: Students sang Maha Ganapathim Manasa Smarami, penned by Muthuswami Dikshithar, at the start of the foundation stone laying ceremony of National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts to be set up along with the institute. Union minister of road transport and highways, shipping and water resources, Nitin Gadkari, and Union minister of state for finance, Pon Radhakrishnan, attended the function.
February 27, 2018, 3:30 pm: Ohio River Flooding in Cincinnati.
February 28, 2018 2:46 pm: Fresh earthquake rocks Papua New Guinea. A magnitude-6 earthquake shook the interior of Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, two days after another magnitude-7.5 earthquake in the same region caused landslides that left at least 31 people dead and another 300 injured. Seismic activity around the world, placed the hypocenter of the earthquake at a depth of 10 km and its epicentre at 90 km from Mendi, the provincial capital of the Southern Highlands Province. At least 13 people were killed in Mendi after the first earthquake and another 18 in the regions of Kutuku and Bosave.
28 Feb. 2018:The Hindu page 9: Satypal Singh, a Jumior Union Minister for Education, New Delhi, observed Darwin's theory of Scientific evolution is wrong, no one seen an ape turn into a human being. Human being seen on Earth had been a human being all along. This has nothing to do with India's reputation.
Wednesday 28 February 2018 10:53, UK: Cumbria earthquake: Houses shake as tremor of 3.2 magnitude hits county: Residents reported that buildings "swayed" as the tremors hit on Wednesday morning, the second quake to hit the UK in two weeks, tremor hit shortly after 7.30am.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
24 Feb. 2018:
Fig.12 Yoga by Indo-Tibetan border Police
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) posted stunning pictures of soldiers practicing yoga in higher altitudes. The personnel are bare-bodied while performing yoga, despite the freezing temperatures. Social-media users has been buzzing with compliments for the personnel from praising their amazing fitness level to saluting their sacrifice and dedication for the nation. Photographed against the picturesque Himalayan ranges, the breath-taking photos are a fine example of their strength and fitness levels. These photos of the personnel, who are also popularly known as Himveers, are breaking the internet.24 Feb. 2018: Massive Black Holes: Scientists have detected a set of gargantuan black holes that are likely the most massive ever discovered in the universe. The “ultra-massive” black holes are located up to 3.5 billion light years from Earth. They were spotted using data captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope, a space observatory that has greatly advanced the field of X-ray astronomy.
25 Feb. 2018: NATURAL COLOURS IN PHAGUN: It falls in the month of phagun and this year it is on March 2. It is celebrated by applying colours on each other and enjoying food and drinks. Earlier the colors used for Holi made using flowers.You can make both dry and wet pink or magenta color by using beetroots.You can use red rose or hibiscus flower to make red color.You can use good-quality henna powder for green color. The dry, powdered henna will not leave color and you can brush it off easily. It will only leave color if it is mixed with water.All you have to do is mix food color to rice flour and add a little water to make a thick paste. Dry this paste and then grind it using a mixer to form the powder. You can also use kasturi turmeric powder instead of cooking turmeric as kasturi turmeric is more fragrant and has several beauty benefits You can use different food colours to make Holi colors. Another method is to boil marigold flower in water and leave it overnight.
25 Feb. 2018:
The continuing cold tightened its grip over Himachal Pradesh on Sunday as the higher reaches of the state received a fresh spell of snow. However, there was widespread rainfall in the low and mid hills.The weather office here has forecast more snow and rain in the state till Monday. Shimla, which was received 15.8 mm rain, recorded a minimum temperature of 4.6C, a fall by four Celsius from Saturday. High hills in Lahaul-Spiti, Kinnaur, Kullu, Shimla, Sirmaur, Mandi and Chamba districts have been experiencing light to moderate snowfall since Friday.
25 Feb. 2018: WEARABLE DEVICE:
Professor Takao Someya from the University of Tokyo unveiled what he believes will be the future of health-monitoring for our ageing society, a fully conformable and comfortable skin-wearable health monitoring system. Continuous health-monitoring with ultraflexible on-skin sensors consists of gold nanomesh-based breathable skin sensors and an elastic display that fits snugly on the skin, so recorded data (such as an electrocardiogram or temperature) can be made readily visible for the patient. Combined with a wireless communication module, this integrated biomedical sensor system could transmit biometric data to the cloud for physicians to monitor. The new integrated system combines flexible, deformable display with a light weight sensor such aselectrocardiogram,can either be sent wirelessly to a smart phone, for viewing or to a cloud for storage. The skin display consists of 16x24 array micro LEDs, and stretchable wiring mounted on a rubber sheet.
25 Feb 2018: Dr. Mishra told the farmers that relief amount will be given to each farmer affected by the hailstorm and drought. A sum of Rs. 22 lakh 32 thousand 124 has been sanctioned for 430 farmers of village Hinotiya.
Feb 26, 2018 07:55 AM IST: Powerful quake rattles homes, gold mine in Papua New Guinea. The magnitude-7.5 quake that hit about 89 km southwest of Porgera in the Pacific Island nation. The quake hit at a relatively shallow depth of 35 km, and shallow quakes tend to be more strongly felt. A series of strong aftershocks had rattled other parts of the fault line.February 26, 2018: Icy Blast From Siberia Sweeps Across Europe. Paris, France: A wintry blast of freezing temperatures swept across Europe on Sunday, with a biting wind from Siberia claiming four lives and endangering the continent's homeless, with the worst yet to come. The "Beast from the East", is expected to bring chilling winds from Russia over the next week that will make it feel even colder than thermometers indicate. The cold snap has already been linked to several deaths, as well as postponing an Italian football match and causing traffic chaos. In France, where temperatures were forecast to drop to minus 10C (14F) and feel as low as minus 18C over the coming days, fears ran high for people living on the streets.
27 Feb 2018: Lithium Batteries: Kaho India Pvt. Ltd started in India in 2012 developed a device that can power three lights, one fan, one phone charger and has a socket to power a DC power television. They imported 10 devices priced at Rs.5000/- all sold, but soon realised the problem with the battery. It is expensive to replace the bettery at 40% cost, every 2-3 years, with solar panel of the unit has a life span of 25 years. Lithium batteries can be charged in 10 minutes, giving 4.5VAh per peak watt. Lithium-ion batteries are common in home electronics. They are one of the most popular types of rechargeable batteries for portable electronics, with a high energy density, tiny memory effect and low self-discharge. A rechargeable battery will typically give you anything from two or three to as much as 10 years of useful life (depending on how often you use it and how well you look after it).The biggest issue is safety: Li-ion batteries will catch fire if they're overcharged or if an internal malfunction causes a short circuit; in both cases, the batteries heat up in what's called a "thermal runaway," eventually catching fire or exploding. That problem is solved with a built-in circuit breaker, known as a current interrupt device or CID.
26 Feb. 2018: Students sang Maha Ganapathim Manasa Smarami, penned by Muthuswami Dikshithar, at the start of the foundation stone laying ceremony of National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts to be set up along with the institute. Union minister of road transport and highways, shipping and water resources, Nitin Gadkari, and Union minister of state for finance, Pon Radhakrishnan, attended the function.
Fig.15 The scene on the A2 coast-
-bound in Kent on Tuesday morning
GERMANY: Some parts have reported record lows for this winter, with temperatures falling to -27C (-16.6F) on the Zugspitze mountain in the Alps and -22C (-7.6F) in some Alpine valleys in the southern state of Bavaria on Monday. Rome's first snow storm since 2012 disrupted transport on Monday, closing schools and forcing Italian authorities to call in the army to help clear the streets. AUSTRIA: Temperatures were predicted to drop below -20C (-4F) on Monday night and feel 10 degrees Celsius colder, after already falling to -30C on Sunday night. RUSSIA: The temperature in Moscow dropped to nearly -20C (-4F) on Sunday night, the coldest night of the winter so far, but was expected to go down to -24C (-11F) in the next few days. Meteorologists said temperatures went as low as -24C (-11F) in the central Lithuanian town of Ukmerge on both Sunday and Monday. LATVIA: Eight people were taken to hospital with hypothermia and frostbite.Despite temperatures predicted to hover between -11C (12F) and -17C (1F) in the capital Riga, local media say children have been told they must go to school unless it goes below -20C (-4F) for under-13s and -25C (-13F) for over-13s. ESTONIA: Temperatures of -29C (-20F) are forecast in some areas. Ships have been stranded because the entire Gulf of Finland, from Tallinn to Helsinki, is covered with between 5cm-20cm of ice. POLAND: With temperatures falling to between -12C (-10F) and -22C (-7.6F), Fakt newspaper warned people to be wary of poor air quality as people burn anything and everything to keep warm - including polished and painted wood, plastic and rubbish. Sofia: Bulgaria: Snow brought chaos across the country, with villages left without electricity, roads blocked and schools closed by snow as deep as 16ins (40cm). CROATIAN: Schools have closed, heavy vehicles banned from all roads leading towards the coast, and about 1,000 soldiers have joined efforts to clear the snow in the worst-affected areas - where over 5ft (150cm) has fallen. GREECE: While it was raining in Athens, in and around Thessaloniki, some parts of the north had up to 3.5ft (100cm) of snow, with several villages snowed in. SWEDEN: The Prime Minister's car skidded off the road in a snow storm and smashed into a railing north of Stockholm.February 27, 2018, 3:30 pm: Ohio River Flooding in Cincinnati.
February 28, 2018 2:46 pm: Fresh earthquake rocks Papua New Guinea. A magnitude-6 earthquake shook the interior of Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, two days after another magnitude-7.5 earthquake in the same region caused landslides that left at least 31 people dead and another 300 injured. Seismic activity around the world, placed the hypocenter of the earthquake at a depth of 10 km and its epicentre at 90 km from Mendi, the provincial capital of the Southern Highlands Province. At least 13 people were killed in Mendi after the first earthquake and another 18 in the regions of Kutuku and Bosave.
28 Feb. 2018:The Hindu page 9: Satypal Singh, a Jumior Union Minister for Education, New Delhi, observed Darwin's theory of Scientific evolution is wrong, no one seen an ape turn into a human being. Human being seen on Earth had been a human being all along. This has nothing to do with India's reputation.
Wednesday 28 February 2018 10:53, UK: Cumbria earthquake: Houses shake as tremor of 3.2 magnitude hits county: Residents reported that buildings "swayed" as the tremors hit on Wednesday morning, the second quake to hit the UK in two weeks, tremor hit shortly after 7.30am.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
The author is indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc.(London) for his guidance and inspiration to present these articles on my website. He is grateful to his mother Late Mrs. Peramma Rangadhama Rao for her sustained interest.
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