April 16, 2018: Deadly storm tornados, Snow in US, Boy discovers Viking Silver coin, new enzyme will 'eat' plastic, twin storms in Kolkata, pot-full of drinking water, African Berry Congo, Heat waves in Andhra and in India, Sikkim enjoyable weather, Surviving companion to a supernova

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Volume 2018, Issue No.4a,  Dated: 16 April 2018,  Time:06:36:42 AM

April 16, 2018: Deadly storm tornados, Snow in US, Boy discovers Viking Silver coin, new enzyme will 'eat' plastic, twin storms in Kolkata, pot-full of drinking water, African Berry Congo, Heat waves in Andhra and in India, Sikkim enjoyable weather, Surviving companion to a supernova.

               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

for about 10 days, and South Korea Conf. in Physics for a week in 1989.

 [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; DOB:23-07-1940.

lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com

                                                               ABSTRACT

16 April 2018: OCEAN BEACH: Visakhapatnam Beach exhibiting a sensational behaviour. The sand dunes on the shore on the next day, get mixed with the Sea interior. April 16, 2018 10:58 IST: Deadly Storms Unleash Tornadoes And Record Snow In United States, Cause Havoc. The storms stretched from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest and were moving into the Northeast and New England, causing damage. A single silver coin was first found in January by two amateur archaeologists, one of them a 13-year-old boy, in a field near the village of Schaprode. He was one of the last Viking kings of what is now Denmark, northern Germany, southern Sweden and parts of Norway. Tuesday, 17 April 2018 08:07:13 AM: PM Narendra Modi in Sweden for first bilateral visit in 30 years. Stockholm :Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven received Modi at the airport here with a warm handshake. Through inter alia an Indo-Swedish Space Seminar and a visit by an Indian delegation to Swedish space establishments. Explore possible collaboration between the European Spallation Source (ESS), hosted by Sweden, and Indian partners. The event, hosted by Prince Charles, will include the launch of a new Ayurvedic Centre of Excellence, aimed at creating a first-of-its-kind global network for evidence-based research on yoga and Ayurveda. April 17, 2018 0649 GMT (1449 HKT): Scientists hope new enzyme will 'eat' plastic pollution. The enzyme, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, is able to "eat" polyethylene terephthalate, PET, which was patented as a plastic in the 1940s and is used in millions of tons of plastic bottles. April 17, 2018 15:13 IST: Football Field-Sized Asteroid Flew By Earth. The giant asteroid,  47-100 metres in width,  flew by Earth at a speed of 106,000 km per hour. The asteroid was as close to planet Earth as half the average distance between the Earth and the Moon. April 17, 2018 11:01 IST: This Indian-Origin Man Sued Mark Zuckerberg For "Stealing" His Idea, Got Millions In Settlement. April 18, 2018: The Nordic countries of Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Finland welcomed India’s application for membership to the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group. Apr 18, 2018 14:52: Twin storms kill 15 in West Bengal as winds top 98kmph, disrupt life in Kolkata.  A north-western -- seasonal storm common in this part of the world -- with gale speed of 84 km per hour hit Kolkata and other South Bengal districts in the evening. A north-western with gale speed of 84kmph first hit Kolkata and other south West Bengal districts around 7:42pm. Another storm struck the state capital and adjoining districts with a wind speed of upto 98kmph soon after at 7:55pm.there was a cloud build-up of 10km in height, 13% more than that of Mount Everest, and a spread across 40km. April 18, 2017: For one hour it rained in Visakhapatnam around 8PM to 9PM and thundershowers in Srikakulum, Vijayanagaram, East Godavari districts, Renigunta, Kothakota each received 4 cm rainfall, Malliveedu, Kantakapalli, and Lakshminarasamapeta and Uttarapalli received 3 cm till Wednesday evening. 18 April 2018: 10:30am IST - 02:01: SpaceX rocket launches from Florida carrying NASA planet-hunting telescope. Inhabitat 28mIn. Roads aren’t just for walking or driving anymore. Solar road or pathway projects around the world are showing that streets can both provide firm footing. April 19, 2018: Flouride affected Mandal: Saved by a 300 years old stepwell, woman from Mylacherla  treks a long distance of exhausting walk to the well, along with other woman, to collect just a potfull of drinking water, in the flouride affected Mandal. April 19, 2018:  Final fruit was a delicious African berry from deep in the Congo. Delhi Doctor Discovers Shockingly Simple Way To Lose 1Kg Per Day Without Diet or Exercise. 19 April, 2018: Heat Wave in Coastal AP and Rayalaseema: Kadapa 44C, Kurnool 43C, Anantapur 43C, Visakhapatnam 38C, Vijayawada 42C, Tirupati 42C, Vizianagaram 42C,  Nellore 49C, Guntur 42C, Srikakulum 38C, Ongole 38C, Eluru 41C and Kakinada 41C are the temperatures recorded on Thursday. Apr 20, 2018 09:46 IST: Japanese volcano erupts for first time in 250 years, no-go warning issued. Japan's Mount Io volcano erupted Thursday at around 3.39 pm local time, shooting smoke and rocks into the air following the eruption at the 1,298 m (4,258 ft) high volcano. April 20, 2018 13:43 IST: Can Diamonds Be Stretched Like Rubber? Here's What Scientists Have Discovered. An international team of researchers has found that diamond can bend and stretch much like rubber and snap back to its original shape. April 20, 2018: 0516 GMT (1316 HKT):  'Pre-monsoon' rains begin in Bangladesh. 21 April 2018.: Dramatic electrical storm lights up sky. Australia. Apr 21, 2018 12:00 IST: India’s third tulip garden becomes attraction for tourists in Shimla. April 22: Water logging in front of Cubban Park Metro railway station due to rain in Bangalore city. 23 April 2018: Nasa Can't Explain Images of Strange Ice Circles in Arctic Sea. In a routine flyover in the Arctic ocean earlier this month, a NASA scientist photographed images of mysterious ice holes over the eastern Beaufort Sea. It is surprising that for the first time I have noticed a snake-hood like Mushroom of enormous size, at the root-hold of the Mango tree in our house Door. No. 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta, P.O. Visakhapatnam. 24 April 2018: In Visakhapatnam it rained from 2 to 3PM heavily and then slightly till  5.30PM. The night became very cool and necessitated me to cover with a large towel. Lalitha found Vijayawada very hot. Swell waves might sustain in Visakhapatnam beach for  several days. They would hit North Andhra and Odisha in the next 24 hours. The weatherman suspects tremors in the sea are affecting the water levels. Huge waves in Visakhapatnam beach at RK centre on Tuesday, 24 April. A white April Monday Day 24 April at 29C in Odisha with carpeted hailstones. 25 April 2018: Nebraska: The weather is very volatile here with severe rains, hot temps and between cold temps with snow. Not sure if spring is here as yet. 25 April 2018: CAIRO –  Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has expressed sympathy with people affected by the rare heavy rains over the past two days 25 April 2018: Thunderclouds hover over Gangtok, Sikkim capital last four days experiencing pre-monsoon showers and all the north-eastern states have been receiving good rains. A
cyclonic circulation is over West Assam and adjoining Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and a trough is extending from this system to up the Southern Peninsula. In fact, the remnants of the Western Disturbance are moving slowly across the upper regions of Arunachal Pradesh. 27 April 2018: SUPERNOVA COMPANION: Washington:  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image of a surviving companion to a supernova. 27 April 2018: pile-up of galaxies detected 12.4 billion light-years away from Earth looks set to radically change current thinking about the early universe.  The collision of 14 galaxies, which occurred more than 12 billion years ago. 27 April 2018: SUPERNOVA COMPANION: Washington:  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image of a surviving companion to a supernova, a compelling evidence that some supernovas originate in double-star systems. 27 April 2018: Archaeologists unearthed the remains of more than 140 children and 200 young llamas from what appeared to have been a ritual sacrifice that took place 550 years ago on a bluff along the northern coast. 27 April 2018: JERUSALEM: The Latest on the deadly flash floods in Israel (all times local): 8:30 p.m. Israel's rescue service says nine teenagers have died in flash floods while hiking south of the Dead Sea. April 28, 2018 15:14 IST: Watch: Runway Barely Visible, Pilot Lands Plane During Sandstorm. The pilot's skilled landing in the middle of a raging sandstorm in Saudi Arabia has impressed many on social media. 29 April 2018: The Buddha Pournima Moon and an accompanying planet at 23h40m15s. Apr 30, 2018 19:59 IST: Heat wave conditions engulf Haryana, Punjab.

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April 14, 2018: LAKE SUPERIOR: High winds during an April storm created these dramatic "exploding" waves along Lake Superior's rugged Minnesota shorelines at the weekend. In video filmed on April 14 ahead of a storm and at a time of higher-than-average water levels, exploding spray shoots waves more than 50ft into the air against the shore. While it is awesome for wave watching to experience these conditions, it, unfortunately, causes much erosion and other shoreline damage too. It is humbling to be in the presence of Lake Superior when she's whipped into a frenzy. The power of those thundering waves is absolutely incredible! Sustained winds topped 30mph with gusts well above 50 mph. Wave heights were sometimes greater than 15feet. The exploding spray shot more than 50 feet into the air. This is not the ocean.

April 16, 2018 17:22 IST: 9-Year-Old Boy In Kashmir's Gurez Invents A Pen That Counts Words While Writing. Jammu and Kashmir's young innovator, Muzaffar Ahmad Khan, wins accolades for his 'counting pen', which records a word count as you write."It is a pen with a casing attached to its rear. Once someone starts writing, it keeps a track of the word count, which is displayed on a small LCD monitor attached to it, said Muzaffar, a student of class 3. What's more, the word count can also be displayed on one's mobile phone through a message, says the boy. April 16, 2018: Mercury shoots up at many places in Andhra Pradesh: Visakhapatnam city sizzled at 40C, on Monday, 16 April 2018, heat felt almost all areas of the city, barring areas close to the beach. Visakhapatnam Airport  40C, Waltair 34C,  Tuni, Gannavaram, Nandigamma, Rentachintala, recorded  40C each, Nellore 39C,  Kakinada 38C, Machillipatnam, Ongole, and Kavali 37C each, Narasapur 36C, Kaligpatnam and Bapatla 35C each are the recorded temperatures on Monday. 

16 April 2018: OCEAN BEACH: Visakhapatnam Beach exhibiting a sensational behaviour. The sand dunes on the shore on the next day, get mixed with the Sea interior. Some days the Ocean moves forward and the ocean waves dump the Beach Road boundaries. The road also gets cut with the ongoing waves of the Ocean. From coastal battery to Rushikonda area several times the sea erosion occurs, freightening people. The beach real appearance may get washed off in due time. World bank has given a loan of Rs.150 crores to safe guard the coast. Netherlands Delta Society, Chennai National Institute of Ocean Technology, and GVMC have made an agreement. Coastal depth of ocean, waves raising features, and waves touching places along the coast, and the associated reasons are being recorded. GVMC aims to prevent the onslaught by the year 2012.

April 16, 2018: BANGLORE: A commitment to place 10,000 e-rickshaws and electric auto-rickshaws in service in the next 12 months. Three-wheelers are a vital means of transportation and a source of livelihood for millions of people every day. It also represents an immediate opportunity to improve outcomes for all stakeholders while reducing pollution across towns and cities.
April 16, 2018 10:58 IST: Deadly Storms Unleash Tornadoes And Record Snow In United States, Cause Havoc. The storms stretched from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest and were moving into the Northeast and New England, causing damage.
April 16, 2018: Archaeologists find silver treasure on German Baltic island. BERLIN. Hundreds of 1,000-year-old silver coins, rings, pearls and bracelets linked to the era of Danish King Harald Gormsson have been found on the eastern German island of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea. A single silver coin was first found in January by two amateur archaeologists, one of them a 13-year-old boy, in a field near the village of Schaprode. He was one of the last Viking kings of what is now Denmark, northern Germany, southern Sweden and parts of Norway.

Monday 16 April 2018: Indian monsoon recovering after decades of decline. As the Sun crosses the equator into the Northern Hemisphere on March 20, Indian landmass begins to warm up. Due to its lower heat capacity compared to the ocean, it warms faster than the Indian Ocean and thus a northward increase in air temperature is set up which is critical for initiating the monsoon circulation and supply of moisture from the ocean over to land.
Apr 16, 2018 19:08 IST: Delhi has double concentration of finer, more dangerous pollutant PM1. Saying that though more study is required on the subject, project director of SAFAR finds automobile combustion to be one of the major contributor of PM1 in Delhi.

April 17, 2018 15:13 IST: Football Field-Sized Asteroid Flew By Earth. Scientists Nearly Missed It. The giant asteroid, estimated to be between 47 and 100 metres in width, was flew by Earth at a speed of 106,000 kilometres per hour. Reports suggest that the asteroid was ass close to planet Earth as half the average distance between the Earth and the Moon.

April 17, 2018:Brazil corn farmers to get relief from late April rain. SAO PAULO: Above average rains in key corn-growing regions should bring relief to Brazilian farmers, easing drought fears as the country's second corn crop develops through the end of April.
April 17, 2018: (Reuters) - Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could in future help in the fight against pollution. The enzyme is able to digest polyethylene terephthalate, or PET - a form of plastic patented in the 1940s and now used in millions of tonnes of plastic bottles. PET plastics can persist for hundreds of years in the environment and currently pollute large areas of land and sea worldwide.

Tuesday, 17 April 2018 08:07:13 AM: PM Narendra Modi in Sweden for first bilateral visit in 30 years.

 Fig.1 Swedish Prime Minister S. Lofven

receiving PM N. Modi at airport on Monday evening

 Fig.1a Swedish Prime Minister with PM Modi

at the Stockholm Lake. 

Stockholm : Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Monday evening to a warm welcome on the first leg of his three-nation tour of Europe that will also see him going to Britain and Germany. Breaking protocol, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven received Modi at the airport here with a warm handshake. 17 Apr, 2018: Sweden India Joint Action Plan. Space and science: Acknowledge the importance of bilateral cooperation on space research, technology, innovation and applications. Encourage the space agencies and other space entities to enhance space cooperation under the Memorandum of Understanding, particularly in Earth observation, planetary exploration and satellite ground station activities, through inter alia an Indo-Swedish Space Seminar and a visit by an Indian delegation to Swedish space establishments. Explore possible collaboration between the European Spallation Source (ESS), hosted by Sweden, and Indian partners.

April 17, 2018 0649 GMT (1449 HKT): Scientists hope new enzyme will 'eat' plastic pollution. The enzyme, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, is able to "eat" polyethylene terephthalate, PET, which was patented as a plastic in the 1940s and is used in millions of tons of plastic bottles.

Tuesday 17 April 2018: The litter-collecting monk on the Tibetan plateau. A Buddhist lama and his local volunteers search for a solution to the growing piles of rubbish on the remote grasslands at the source of Asia’s rivers. It’s seven o’clock in the evening Beijing time, but out on the Ganjia grasslands the sun shows no sign of setting. Outside the yurts of Sirou village several marmots rest by their burrows, plump rears upturned, showing no fear of people

 April 17, 2018 11:01 IST: This Indian-Origin Man Sued Mark Zuckerberg For "Stealing" His Idea, Got Millions In Settlement. Divya Narendra was the first person to think of a social network to connect fellow Harvard students, an idea that he says was "stolen" by Mark Zuckerberg to create Facebook.

18 April 2018 12:08 AM: Heat wave looms over Bengal even as storm provides temporary relief Team. Kolkata: The mercury may soar up to 40 degree Celsius in some of the Western districts of the state, while a high level of discomfort may prevail in the city later this week. However, a sudden spell of rain and thunderstorm took the city by surprise on Tuesday evening, which brought down the temperature by a few notches.

Apr 18, 2018 08:57 IST:

                                   

Fig.2 The splashing lightning

in Kolkata on April 17, 2018

Kolkata and its suburbs were hit by a storm on April 17, 2018. 
Apr 18, 2018 14:52: Twin storms kill 15 in West Bengal as winds top 98 kmph, disrupt life in Kolkata.  A northwestern -- seasonal storm common in this part of the world -- with gale speed of 84 km per hour hit Kolkata and other South Bengal districts in the evening. A northwestern with gale speed of 84kmph first hit Kolkata and other south West Bengal districts around 7:42pm. Another storm struck the state capital and adjoining districts with a wind speed of upto 98kmph soon after at 7:55pm.there was a cloud build-up of 10km in height, 13% more than that of Mount Everest, and a spread across 40km. The storm and rain brought down the temperature by about 7 degrees Celcius. The temperature at 6:30am on Tuesday was 27.3 degrees Celsius, 2 degrees above normal. The temperature on Wednesday at the same time was 20.2 degrees Celsius or 5 degrees below normal.

April 18, 2018 09:09 IST: The event, hosted by Prince Charles, will include the launch of a new Ayurvedic Centre of Excellence, aimed at creating a first-of-its-kind global network for evidence-based research on yoga and Ayurveda. The Ayurveda Centre of Excellence in London has been set up at the University of Westminster.
April 18, 2018;17:17 IST: New Delhi: India is 2nd largest international job creator in UK, show new data.
Apr 18, 2018 15:38 IST: Nordic countries support India’s bid to United Nations Security Council. The Nordic countries of Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Finland welcomed India’s application for membership to the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group.The Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Finland) agree that India is a strong candidate for a permanent seat in a reformed Security Council expanded with both permanent and non-permanent members.

April 18, 2018: It blows hot and cold in the city Visakhapatnam, luckily till date no hot winds are blowing. Tuni 40C, Vijayawada airport 40C, Nellore 39C, Kakinada 38C, Ongole ,Kavali, Machilipatnam 36C, Bapatla and Narasapur 35C, Rayalseema, Kurnool and Anatpuram 42C, and Tirupati 41C, temperatures were  recorded.
April 18, 2017: For one hour it rained in Visakhapatnam around 8PM to 9PM and thundershowers in Srikakulum, Vijayanagaram, East Godavari districts, Renigunta, Kothakota each received 4 cm rainfall, Malliveedu, Kantakapalli, and Lakshminarasamapeta and Uttarapalli received 3 cm till Wednesday evening.

18 April 2018: 10:30am IST - 02:01: SpaceX rocket launches from Florida carrying NASA planet-hunting telescope. A Falcon 9 rocket  blasted off on Wednesday on SpaceX's first high-priority science mission for NASA, a planet-hunting space telescope whose launch was delayed for two days by a rocket-guidance glitch.
Inhabitat 28mIn. Roads aren’t just for walking or driving anymore. Solar road or pathway projects around the world are showing that streets can both provide firm footing.  Late 2016, France opened what was then the first solar road in the world: a one-kilometer stretch in Tourouvre-au-Perche, built with technology from Colas’ Wattway. The 2,880-panel road was said to generate enough energy to power street lights in the 3,400-person village.

April 19, 2018: Final fruit was a delicious African berry from deep in the Congo. Delhi Doctor Discovers Shockingly Simple Way To Lose 1Kg Per Day Without Diet or Exercise. The first all-natural weight loss solution! In medical school, I took a class on ancient medicines, and I recalled my professor telling me how this one specific African tribe would ritually eat these fruits to raise their metabolism before they went out hunting so that they had higher agility and energy. The tribe was known for its hunting skills and had survived for centuries without being threatened by another tribe. I knew for a tribe to survive this long they probably had some ace up their sleeves. My colleagues thought I was crazy when I mentioned this final experiment. “You’re actually trying to cure obesity with magic fruit?” They all laughed, “You’re living in a fantasy!”. When the shipment of the rare fruit arrived, I was nervous but I knew I had nothing to lose. I dried the fruit using my oven, crushed it and then mixed it with a saline solution. I poured this saline solution on fat tissue we had grown in the lab and went home hoping for the best. The next morning I walked into the lab half prepared to be disappointed. However, I was shocked to see more than half the fat had literally melted away. I couldn’t believe my eyes. This simple fruit had literally melted the same type of fat once considered impossible to lose! In all my years of research and medicine I'd never seen something like this. On a chemical level the fruit had accelerated the breakdown of fat into energy and boosted the metabolism of the cells in the fat tissue which is why the tribal men going for hunting were so full of energy. Their fat was being converted into energy almost instantly! I began to jump for joy. This was the solution I had been looking for! I knew if I went to the university to run human trials it will take me months to get permission but I didn’t want to wait so long so I decided to be the guinea pig and test it on myself. I knew I had no time to lose so I started eating a spoonful of the extract daily and recorded my results. After one week, I was totally shocked. My energy levels were up, and I wasn't even hungry. I got on the scale and couldn't believe my eyes. I had lost 5.7 Kg. I was impressed but still not convinced. Afterall, I could just be losing water weight as you do at the beginning of any diet. I continued taking the fruit extract and every day I woke up with even more energy. I was also sleeping more soundly than ever before. I was no longer waking up during the night and tossing and turning because my body was actually able to relax (I suspect this is a result of getting rid of toxins). After another week passed I managed to lose an additional 6.3 Kg, putting me at an unbelievable 12 Kg of weight loss, in just 2 weeks.
April 19, 2018: Flouride affected Mandal:

Fig.3 300 years old step well is being used to

collect a pot full of fresh drinking water

Saved by a 300 years old stepwell, woman from Mylacherla  treks a long distance of exhausting walk to the well, along with other woman, to collect just a pot full of drinking water, in the flouride affected Mandal. Mylachrla located in the western part of AP, Prakasam district. Water scarcity has become acute following the fourth consecutive year of draught in the Chandrsekharpuram Mandal of Prakasam district.
TWO NEWS PAPERS ON 19 April 2018 DIFFERING REPORTS:
INDAN EXPRESS: 19 April, 2018: Heat Wave in Coastal AP and Rayalaseema: Kadapa 44C, Kurnool 43C, Anantapur 43C, Visakhapatnam 38C, Vijayawada 42C, Tirupati 42C, Vizianagaram 42C,  Nellore 49C, Guntur 42C, Srikakulum 38C, Ongole 38C, Eluru 41C and Kakinada 41C are the temperatures recorded on Thursday.

Fig 3. The full blown reddish hue of Sun set

in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday 18 April 2018

TELUGU ANDHRA JYOTHI: 19 April 2018: Jagameheswarapuram 42.8C, Anantpuram 41.8C, Kurnool 41.9C, Kadapa 41C, Kavali 40.4C, Nellore 38.7C, Vijayawada 39.5C, Tiupati 39.5C, Machilipatnam 38.4C, Ongole 38.2C, Tuni 38C, Kakinada 37C, Visakhapatnam Airport 38.3C, Telangana: Adilabad 43.5C, Nizmabad42.6C, Ramagudem 42.2C, Medak 41.5C, and Hyderabad 41C  are the temperatures.
Apr 20, 2018 09:46 IST: Japanese volcano erupts for first time in 250 years, no-go warning issued. Japan's Mount Io volcano erupted Thursday at around 3.39 pm local time, shooting smoke and rocks into the air following the eruption at the 1,298 m (4,258 ft) high volcano, the authorities raised the warning level to "3".The agency said that large flying rocks could fall as far as 2 km (1.2 miles), as the eruption threw smoke and ash. The agency captured the footage of the volcano that showed grayish smoke jetting from the mountain.
April 20, 2018 13:43 IST: Can Diamonds Be Stretched Like Rubber? Here's What Scientists Have Discovered. An international team of researchers has found that diamond can bend and stretch much like rubber and snap back to its original shape. Washington:  An international team of researchers has found that diamond, the strongest of all natural materials, can bend and stretch like rubber and snap back to its original shape. A study published on Thursday in the journal "Science" opened the door to a variety of diamond-based devices for applications such as sensing, data storage, biocompatible in vivo imaging, optoelectronics, and drug delivery.
April 20, 2018: 0516 GMT (1316 HKT):  'Pre-monsoon' rains begin in Bangladesh, highlighting plight of Rohingya refugees. (CNN)The first signs of incoming monsoon rains have been felt in Rohingya refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh. Following showers Wednesday, the camps were subjected to a heavy downpour Thursday 19 April 2018. Heavy rain fell for over an hour.
Friday 20 April, 2018: Tirupati Heavy rain with soaring sun till afternoon when the cloudy weather engrossed, and imediately rain started pouring in three shifts. The devotees suffocating due to soaring Sun got relaxed with the rainfall. Praksam district experienced gales, heavy rain and thunder-lightning occurred on April 20. Yerragondapalem, Markapuram, Giddaluru, Kanigiri, and Darsi Mandals, on Friday evening had roaring gales and Nibabupullala cheruvu areas the Banana crops got totally destroyed. In Kambam for three hours the electric supply was disturbed. An 18 year old girl Mekala Parvati, died due to fall of  an electric-pole. Palnadu, Guruzala, Pidigurallu, Dachepalli, Satennapalli, Achampeta, Narasaraopeta and neighbouring areas had severe gales that created a havoc. In Visakhapatnam Agency area, Arakuloya, Umbriguda, Paderu, Hukumpeta Mandal had severe gales that made trees, electric-poles collapsed. Koya Varalakshmi aged 30 years, died due to lightning strike, in Sapengaputtu village. Satenappali yard, got completely wet and several bags of Kandulu pulses got affected.  In Chennampalli Bopai gardens got destructed.
21 April 2018.: Dramatic electrical storm lights up sky in Australia.

Apr 21, 2018 12:00 IST: India’s third tulip garden becomes attraction for tourists in Shimla. Around 4,000 red and pink tulips are blooming in the garden at present and it is expected to see more such flowers in the next season.  Himachal’s first and country’s third tulip garden in Craignano Nature Park, 30km from Shimla, is starting to figure high on the list of attractions for tourists and locals. Around 4,000 red and pink tulips are blooming in the garden at present.

Sunday, 22 April 2018:

Fig.3a Water logging in front of

Cubban Park Metro Railway station.

Water logging in front of Cubban Park Metro railway station due to rain in Bangalore city.

April 22, 2018: In a major success for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' in the defence sector. A high-level meeting of the defence ministry will consider a proposal to acquire 300 Nag missiles and around 25 Nag Missile Carriers (NAMICA) worth around Rs 500 crore for induction into the Indian Army in the next few days. The NAMICAs are the launch vehicles of the Nag missiles and can carry six missiles at a time, which can destroy enemy tanks and infantry combat vehicles from a distance of 7 to 8 km.

23 April 2018: at 9:56 AM: An hour ago:

Fig 4.  Nasa Can't Explain Images of Strange

Ice Circles in Arctic Sea.

23 April 2018: Nasa Can't Explain Images of Strange Ice Circles in Arctic Sea. In a routine flyover in the Arctic ocean earlier this month, a NASA scientist photographed images of mysterious ice holes over the eastern Beaufort Sea. The holes appear to be the first of their kind ever captured on film, and researchers are struggling to understand what they are and how they got there. NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission scientist John Sonntag captured the images on April 14, marking in his field log, “I don’t recall seeing this sort of thing elsewhere,” NASA reported. The holes were noted about 50 miles northwest of Canada’s Mackenzie River Delta, and although the main purpose of the trip was to make observations of sea ice, somehow the mysterious holes became the highlight of the trip.

23 April23 2018:

Fig.5. Mushroom on Mango tree bottom at

Narasimha Ashram on 23 April 2018.

 Fig.5a Enhanced Mushroom on Mango trunk bottom

Fig.5b Enhanced Mushroom with changing

colour from brown to white 25 April 18 at 18:50PM.

A very big Snake-hood shape Mushroom: It is surprising that for the first time I have noticed a snake-hood like Mushroom of enormous size, at the root-hold of the Mango tree in our house Door. No. 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta, P.O. Visakhapatnam.

23 Apr, 2018:   A thick fog caused major delays at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport on Monday, the Australian authorities said. Several domestic flights were cancelled due to poor visibility. No international flights were, however, affected. With visibility reduced to 50 metre. 

Sun. 22 April  2018:at  00:05BST:  Mozambique prays for rain as water shortages hit country’s poor. Taps in capital city of Maputo being turned off every other day as climate change exacerbates southern African drought. A water crisis, partly caused by an ongoing drought affecting much of southern Africa, is already reversing progress in this coastal city.

23 April 2018: MANAGUA, Nicaragua: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 has struck in the Pacific off the coast of Nicaragua. The temblor was centred about 102 miles (165 km) west-northwest of the capital of Managua and 40 miles (64 km) west of the town of Chinandega. The earthquake occurred around 8:30 p.m. Monday at a depth of about 28 miles (46 km).

23 April 2018: Costal areas in Kerala battered by swell waves, houses and infrastructures got damaged. Fishermen warned not to ply vessels close to coast. Flooding roads and displacing families and people warned to brace themselves for a fresh battering till Tuesday  24 April. Rough sea and intermminant wave surge along Kollam, Alappuzha, Kochi, Ponnani, Kozhikode, and Kasargod coast till Monday mid-night possible due high-period swell waves.  These waves would affect low-lying areas of Kerals, Andaman and Nicobar islands and West Bengal are particularly vulnerable to these waves of 2 to 3 meters high. Upto 24 April this would continue.   The swell waves are induced by winds blocking the Westerlies for more than three days off the tip of the African coast. The high energy waves travelled more than 2000km across the ocean to hit the Indian coast.  

Fig.6 A white April Monday Day 24 April at 29C

in Odisha with carpeted hailstones 

24 April 2018: Tuesday the chambers are located at a depth of 10 meters (about 33 feet) under a pyramid in the Meroe area. The UNESCO world heritage site is home to pyramids ranging from six meters (20 feet) to 30 meters (100 feet) tall. It says archeologists from a Qatari mission discovered artifacts. The pyramids, with narrow bases and steep angles on the sides, were built by the ancient Nubian civilization between 720 and 300 B.C.
24 April 2018: ISTANBUL – Dozens injured after earthquake in southeast Turkey.  Turkish officials say dozens were slightly injured after an earthquake in south-eastern Turkey. The earthquake struck Samsat village in the province of Adiyaman early Tuesday at 3.34 a.m. local time (0034 GMT). The quake had a magnitude of 5.2 at 10 km deep.

24 April 2018: In Visakhapatnam it rained from 2 to 3PM heavily and then slightly till  5.30PM. The night became very cool and necessitated me to cover with a large towel. Lalitha found Vijayawada very hot. Swell waves might sustain in Visakhapatnam beach for  several days. They would hit North Andhra and Odisha in the next 24 hours. The weatherman suspects tremors in the sea are affecting the water levels.

25 April 2018: Nebraska: Vani Kotcherlakota: The weather is very volatile here with severe rains, hot temps and between cold temps with snow. Not sure if spring is here as yet.

25 April 2018: CAIRO:

Fig.6a  lightning in Egypt 27 April 2018.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has expressed sympathy with people affected by the rare heavy rains over the past two days. The downpour had caused flash floods on the streets, leaving parts of the capital, Cairo, and other parts of Egypt impassable. Footage on social media showed floods, leaky ceilings and parked cars completely submerged in water.

25 April 2018:

Fig.7 Watercolours in Sikkim all north-eastern 

states receiving good rains past four days.

Thunderclouds hover over Gangtok, Sikkim capital last four days experiencing pre-monsoon showers and all the north-eastern states have been receiving good rains. 

Northeast India had been recording good pre-Monsoon rains since last many days. However, during the past day, the intensity of rain decreased over many states. Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura recorded isolated pre Monsoon rains only. In fact, Nagaland witnessed complete dry weather conditions. Meanwhile, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Meghalaya recorded good rainfall activity. A cyclonic circulation is over West Assam and adjoining Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and a trough is extending from this system to up the Southern Peninsula. In fact, the remnants of the Western Disturbance are moving slowly across the upper regions of Arunachal Pradesh. It is anticipated that pre-Monsoon rains would continue to occur over Northeast India but with decreased intensity. Scattered rain and thundershower will continue to occur over Assam, Meghalaya, and Arunachal Pradesh.  Meanwhile, isolated activity is expected over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura.

27 April 2018: SUPERNOVA COMPANION: Washington:  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image of a surviving companion to a supernova, a compelling evidence that some supernovas originate in double-star systems, the US space agency said. Seventeen years ago, astronomers had witnessed a supernova go off 40 million light-years away in the galaxy called NGC 7424, located in the southern constellation Grus, the Crane, the NASA statement said. The image of the companion star was seen in the fading afterglow of that supernova, called SN 2001ig. SN 2001ig is categorised as a Type IIb stripped-envelope supernova. This type of supernova is unusual because most, but not all, of the hydrogen is gone prior to the explosion.

27 April 2018: pile-up of galaxies detected 12.4 billion light-years away from Earth looks set to radically change current thinking about the early universe.  The collision of 14 galaxies, which occurred more than 12 billion years ago has been detected 90% of the way across the observable cosmos. In effect, astronomers have been able to look back in time to when the universe was about a tenth its current age and have recorded the formation of a galactic protocluster, a precursor to the type of enormous galaxy clusters that are the largest-known objects in today's universe. Designated as SPT2349-56, the protocluster has a mass about 10 trillion times greater than our sun and according to conventional wisdom.

27 April 2018: Archaeologists unearthed the remains of more than 140 children and 200 young llamas from what appeared to have been a ritual sacrifice that took place 550 years ago on a bluff along the northern coast, NG reported Thursday. The children, both boys and girls, ranged from five to fourteen-years-old, evidence shows. Based on the layers of mud at the site, archaeologists believe the sacrificial ritual was a single event.
27 April 2018: JERUSALEM: The Latest on the deadly flash floods in Israel (all times local): 8:30 p.m. Israel's rescue service says nine teenagers have died in flash floods while hiking south of the Dead Sea. It says they were all 18 years old. Israeli media say that eight of the fatalities were female and one was male. Reports say another hiker is still missing. Earlier, spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said 25 students in a pre-army course were "caught off guard" and some were "washed away" Thursday by heavy rains as they were hiking in the area. The Dead Sea, the world's lowest point at about 1,400 feet below sea level, is surrounded by desert and generally arid cliffs. Rain can come rushing down the steep descents, causing sudden and violent torrents in otherwise dry spots.

Friday 27 April 2018: Rapidly rising sea level might force a climate-sceptic regime to rethink its policies and safeguard lives and security assets. The impact of sea-level rise inundation combined with annual wave-driven flooding will begin to significantly negatively impact Roi-Namur when mean sea level is 0.4 metres higher than at present. At this point, without active management measures, the annual amount of seawater flooded onto the island during storms will be of sufficient volume to make the groundwater non-potable year-round.
27 April 2018: The Visakhapatnam sea level have also risen and thrashing waves along the Beach coast at Maharanipeta is predominant, the sea has moved forward from a distance of 15 feet during the last few days.

28 April 2018:South (Dakshina) coastal towns recorded 42C, Rayalseema 40C, western winds blowing the temperatures would raise by 3-4C more. Middle India from May the heat wave would increase. Coastal towns here and there would have thundershowers and intense gales the weather warns the people. It is in central India that the rise in temperature is most notorious with high thermal amplitudes. Even if the rain is almost absent, the weather in India throughout April can be inconvenient not only because of the heat but also because of the risk of thunderstorms that happen from time to time. To get away from the heat, focus on the northern regions such as Himachal Pradesh, where a pleasant warmth and beautiful sunshine make the days more enjoyable. As for the province of Jammu and Kashmir, the cold and the storms are still present. Ladakh, Nagpur, Kolkata, Valley of Flowers National Park (Uttrakhand), Madras (Tamil Nadu), Puducherry, Chennai, Leh and Kânyâkumârî in April 2018 because the climate is rather bad.

April 28, 2018 15:14 IST: Watch: Runway Barely Visible, Pilot Lands Plane During Sandstorm. The pilot's skilled landing in the middle of a raging sandstorm in Saudi Arabia has impressed many on social media. A pilot's skilled landing in the middle of a raging sandstorm in Saudi Arabia has impressed Twitterati. Footage of the landing - which captures the runway slowly disappear in clouds of sand and dust. As the plane descends, visibility only gets worse. Seconds after its wheels hit the ground, the plane appears to be heading straight into a cloud of dust. In a haze of orange, all that is visible is the lighting on the edge of the runway.

Sunday 29 April 2018:

                                        

                                              Fig.8  A view in North China?                                              

Sunday 29 April 2018: 

                                                      

Fig.9 The Full blown Moon on Mango tree from

Narasimha Ashram on 29 April 2018 at 21h42m.
The eve of Buddha Purnima.

April 29, 2018: Anantapur 42C, Nandyala 41C, Kurnool 41C, Kadapa 41C, Jangamaleswarapuram 41C, Tirupati 40C, Nellore 39C, Kavali 38C, Kakinada 38C, Visakhapatnam 37C, Tuni 37C and Arogyavaram 37C are the temperatures recorded on 29 April 2018 in Andhra Pradesh.

Sunday April 30, 2018: at 00h:02m: Pics a few minutes before this time:

Fig.10a  The Buddha Pournima Moon

and an accompanying planet at 23h40m15s.

Fig.10b  The Buddha Pournima Moon

and an accompanying planet at 23h40m03s.

 

Fig.10c  The Buddha Pournima Moon

and an accompanying planet at 23h39m50s. 

 

        

                                               Fig.11 On 30 April 2018 The Moon rise

                                                      at Visakhapatnam Beach at 07:49PM

9:30 AM (IST), An earthquake with magnitude 5.3 on the Richter scale hit 109 km southwest of Abepura, Indonesia at 11.58 UTC (Universal Time Coordinated).

Apr 30, 2018 19:59 IST : Heat wave conditions engulf Haryana, Punjab. The maximum temperature crossed the 40C mark at several places across both states. Narnaul town in Haryana hit a high of 44.3C while Hisar town sizzled at 42.7C on Monday as heat wave conditions were reported in parts of Haryana and Punjab. The maximum temperatures were two to five degrees above average. Amritsar city in Punjab recorded a high of 42.1C, five degrees above average. Patiala and Ludhiana recorded 41.2C and 41.4C respectively. Chandigarh recorded a high of 40C.

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 in my ventures.    
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