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Volume 2018, Issue No.11a, Dated: 16 November, 2108, Time: 10:23:59 AM
November 16, 2018: Dust parked on Himalayan Snow, Atlantis discovered, dropping sunspot activity, Taj Mahal with ‘dhoop batti’, Indian software developers fair post-Brexit chance, cosmic hurricane, shahi snana, teacher who sang & danced, Lohachara has already vanished.
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 a 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.
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 Nov. 2018: Washington: West Asian dust found parked on Himalayan snow. // Flooded ancient ruins off the coast of Spain 'could be lost the city of Atlantis'. The location of the lost city of Atlantis may finally have been discovered, according to one team of historians. Ancient ruins examined using satellite imagery provide evidence that the city's huge harbor walls once stood in southern Spain. // 17 November 2018, 02:01 PM: 11 million-year-old human ancestor fossil discovered in Kutch. // 17:20 IST: Space to witness ice age due to dropping sunspot activity, warns NASA. A scientist at NASA has warned that space will witness a mini ice age due to the decline in sunspot activity. // Nov 18, 2018, 07:16 IST: Farming in 20% of districts in India threatened by climate change. The effects of climate change on India’s agriculture, which employs half the population and accounts for 17% of the country’s economic output, are no longer about distant projections. // Pranab Mukherjee was stressing on the need to have a strong research ecosystem that comes from “institutional collaborations, research parks, and talented researchers”. // Dalits, Adivasis to Protest in Gandhinagar Demanding Priority to Land Rights than Contract Farming. // 16:39 IST: WASHINGTON: Half of the measured global precipitation in a year just falls in twelve days. // 08:40 IST: District RBD women’s wing president Meena Diwakar said, “We entered the Taj Mahal with ‘dhoop batti’ (incense sticks), Gangajal and matchbox and performed ‘aarti’ at the mosque on the premises. We ‘purified’ the location as it is our ‘Shiv Temple’, the sanctity of which was damaged by ‘namaz’.” “The identity of the Taj Mahal is because of Tejo Mahalaya, the Shiva Temple. // Log 9 an IIT Roorkee spin-off, says it is using the wonder material ‘graphene’ to make the metal-air batteries commercially viable and affordable for e-vehicles and stationary applications like power backup products. // November 19, 2018: 3:21 PM: Doctor Arti Kashyap, Principal Project Investigator, Centre for Uplifting Himalayan Livelihood at IIT-Mandi.Now it has successfully prepared briquettes and pellets from pure pine needles mixing these with other biomasses. The Centre for Innovative Technology for the Himalayan Region (CITHR) has come up with a unique machine which can produce briquettes and pellets from pine needles as the pine needles are harmful to the ecology, diversity, and economy in the Himalayan region. Himachal Pradesh is home for a massive number of pine trees. During monsoon, the pine trees shed leaves, which end up covering the lands within the forest. // 06.51 PM IST: Theresa May vows to give an Indian software developers fair post-Brexit chance. // 04:18:42 PM: Americans to get high-speed broadband services through satellite technology. The new broadband services are expected to offer high-speed internet service and connectivity for sensors and other intelligence devices. // 20 Nov 2018: Indian student among top winners for Hyundai's innovation challenge. The 2018 challenge saw the participation of around 80 individuals from 17 teams including professors, undergraduates, and graduate students. The four winners were announced at the 3rd Mobility Innovator’s Forum, which took place in Silicon Valley on November 16, 2018. // Surprise discovery for Indian scientists: nanosheets can also act as chemical reagents. The team from IIT Gandhinagar discovers that boron-rich nanosheets are chemical reagents too, with potential applications in energy storage devices and next-generation sensors. // The Doomed star on brink of rare gamma-ray burst discovered. Scientists have discovered a rare star 8,000 light years from Earth that is on the brink of a massive supernova explosion and is expected to produce a dangerous gamma-ray burst, one of the most extreme energetic events in the universe after the Big Bang. A gamma-ray burst has never been detected within the Milky Way galaxy before. // 21 Nov. 2018: 15:41PM: The residents of West Bengal’s Mousini Island are all too familiar with damp, cracked walls and muddy floors littered with debris. // 4:55 PM: Finance ministry directive to I-T appellate officers triggers fears of ‘tax terror’. // 4:16 pm: India To Become ‘Sugar Bowl Of The World’: Expected To Topple Brazil As World’s Largest Sugar Producer. Produced in India is poised to increase by 5.2 percent to 35.9 million metric tons thanks to the rise in acreage and productivity, as per a report by the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. // 8:39 PM: NET Telecom Secretary asks states to utilize Bharat Net infrastructure. The government Wednesday exhorted states to use the rural broadband infrastructure being put in place through Bharat Net project and said it will create opportunities for monetization and ensure that the benefits of the network reach the masses. // 17:16 PM IST Why the dark matter storm hurtling through our galaxy is more exciting than scary. Earth will soon be caught in the path of a cosmic hurricane, a recent paper suggests. A collection of hundreds of stars, and a large amount of dark matter is headed towards our neck of the woods, cosmically speaking, and there’s no force we can muster that even has a chance of stopping it. Is this how the world ends? Maybe not. A team of researchers from King’s College London, Universidad de Zaragoza, and the Institute of Astronomy, UK, discovered the ‘dark matter hurricane’ from the ESA’s Gaia telescope data. The Gaia mission released the locations and trajectories of almost 2 billion stars near the Milky Way. // Nov 22, 2018, 11.10 PM IST:539 child care institutions closed down across India: WCD. In Maharashtra, 377 CCIs were closed, the highest among all states and union territories, followed by Andhra Pradesh (78) and Telangana (32). Other states where such centers were closed included Jharkhand, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh. // Ongole: Showers in Prakasam and Nellore cheer up farmers, now they cover area missed for Kharif season. The sky opened up in Ongole in the wee hours of Thursday, downpour continued all day, and other towns and villages, the old market, Bhaghyanagar, Pragati colony, and Balaram colony inundated and clogged the drains. Normal 2.26lakh hectares covered. Moderate rain in Chittoor and temple town of Tirupati drizzled more than 24 hours, registering 6.52 cms rainfall. Tamil Nadu registered heavy rain, Yerrapadu Mandal alone 14.18 cm rain, followed by Vadamalapeta, Satyavedu, and Varadalahpalem. // 16:43 IST: UN warns that climate-warming greenhouse gases have reached record levels. // 16:43 IST: UN warns that climate-warming greenhouse gases have reached record levels. "The window of opportunity for action is almost closed," says the UN. It found 9,000 cities in 128 countries were taking action, along with 240 states and regions in 40 countries and more than 6,000 businesses in 120 countries. // 23 Nov. 2018: AJMER: A large number of Nagas, Das and Aghoris, different sects of Sanyasi community, took a dip in the Pushkar Sarovar on Thursday for the ‘shahi snana’ (royal bath).The custom of ‘shahi snana’ was started from Banaras where Sadhus took a vow to safeguard the religion in India. // 12:54 AM: Assam gives black panther to Ranchi Birsa zoo. // 06:59 AM IST: Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) created an “Art Spot” at Miyapur Metro station to encourage students and upcoming artists to practice and improve their painting skills. An art event “Adbutha” was held recently, where students from Sharada Vidya Mandir, Stanford school and MNR schools took part. // 9:10AM: The Kerala school teacher who sang & danced for her students. // Nov 24, 2018, 5:40 pm IST: Magnificient Mary becomes six-time boxing World Champion. // 3:31 pm: Where Do The Mizos Come From? This Ancient Lost Civilisation May Hold the Answers! From enigmatic engravings on a stone to one of India’s oldest rainwater harvesting systems. // November 25, 2018, 18:48 IST: European Union gives the nod to landmark Brexit deal; agreement beginning of 'new chapter' for Britain, says PM May. // November 26, 2018: 8:20 pm: Rockford experiencing snowiest November after Sunday’s record-breaking storm.The month’s total so far is 15.6″, and could still climb with a chance for a little more snow on Thursday. // 27 Nov. 2018: The Steering Committee meeting of the S3P – Industry is taking place in Bilbao. // India: Ladakh Now Accessible By Double-Lane Road In All Weather Conditions. // November 28, 2018: 01:04 IST: GVMC looks for alternatives as reservoir levels plummet. the water levels at Thatipudi and Raiwada reservoirs have drastically gone down. // 6:11 pm IST: Employee unions claimed that the govt has not allotted spectrum for 4G services to BSNL in order to prevent it from competing against RJio. // November 29, 2018: 01:09 AM: Migratory birds flock Kashmir’s wetlands. Wetlands in Kashmir region are abuzz as Mallards, Greylag Geese, Pochards, Ruddy Shelduck among other rare bird species are flocking Kashmir’s wetland bodies on their annual migration. // 16:10 PM IST: Coastal areas are one of the first and worst hit by the effects of climate change and global warming. Due to the rising seawater levels, many low-lying areas in the coastal regions have already been submerged entirely or are in the process of being taken over by the waters. For the residents of the Ghoramara Island in West Bengal, it is a story that they know all too well. Ghoramara is among many islands in the Sundarban delta, which is affected by rising sea levels and soil erosion. Another island in the area, Lohachara has already vanished under the water forcing residents to flee and take shelter in the nearby Sagar Island. // Nov 30 2018 10:21AM: Minimum temperatures below freezing point in Kashmir Valley. Same weather conditions are likely to continue for another five to six days, Srinagar city recorded minus 0.9C, Pahalgam minus 0.6 and Gulmarg minus 1.2 as the night's lowest temperatures. Kargil town was the coldest in the state at minus 7.6C followed by Leh at minus 6.5.
16 Nov. 2018: Washington: West Asian dust found parked on Himalayan snow. Soot from the region settles on snowpack and affects the intensity of Indian Monsoon. Dust and soot transported from the deserts of the Middle East settle on the snow cover of the Himalaya mountains range and affect the intensity of the summer monsoon in India, Large quantities of aerosols, air-born particles such as dust and soot that absorb sunlight, settle on top of the Tibetan Plateau's snow peaks, in the months of April, May and June, in spring before the monsoon begins.
Nov 16, 2018, 7:43 pm IST: At least 13 dead, over 81,000 affected after Cyclone Gaja hit Tamil Nadu coast. Six districts of Tamil Nadu and two in Puducherry were hit by the cyclonic storm which also brought heavy rains to the region.
Nov 16, 2018, 11:16 AM IST;
Fig.1 Cherry Blossom Shillong India
International Cherry Blossom Festival Kicks Off In Shillong & The Pics Are Breathtaking!
16 November 2018: Flooded ancient ruins off the coast of Spain 'could be lost the city of Atlantis'.The location of the lost city of Atlantis may finally have been discovered, according to one team of historians. Ancient ruins examined using satellite imagery provide evidence that the city's huge harbor walls once stood in southern Spain, the experts say. Many of the sites studied by the team were already known to archaeologists, and are thought to have been constructed by the ancient Romans and Greeks.
November 16, 2018: Snow, rain boost hydropower generation in north Kashmir. Baramulla: Thanks to the snow and rain, the state’s own Lower Jhelum Hydroelectric Power Project (LJHP) located at Bimyar village of Uri in north Kashmir is generating an impressive 65-megawatt electricity for the past two weeks.
November 17, 2018, 19:05 IST: With the power of fintech and the reach of digital connectivity, we have started a revolution of unprecedented speed and scale. To begin with, financial inclusion has become a reality for 1.3 billion Indians. We have generated more than 1.2 billion biometric identities: called Aadhaar or foundation, in just a few years. With our Jan DhanYojana, we aimed to give a bank account to every Indian. In three years, we have opened 330 million new bank accounts. These are 330 million sources of identity, dignity, and opportunities. Less than 50 percent of Indians had bank accounts in 2014; now, it is nearly universal. So today, more than a billion biometric identities, bank accounts, and cell phones give India by far the biggest public infrastructure in the world.
Nov. 19, 2018: 9:30AM: PM Modi pays tribute to Rani Lakshmibai on her Jayanti Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tributes to Rani Lakshmibai on her Jayanti. In a tweet, Mr. Modi said, Rani Lakshmibai is a source of inspiration for every Indian and her fortitude in the face of adversity and steadfast opposition to colonialism will never be forgotten. He said It is due to greats like Rani Lakshmibai that India won freedom.
November 19, 2018: 3:21 PM:
Nov 19, 2018, 06.51 PM IST: Theresa May vows to give an Indian software developers fair post-Brexit chance. There has been widespread criticism of the draft 585-page withdrawal agreement struck by the British PM with her counterparts in the EU, which is set to sign off on the deal at a summit on November 25.
Nov 16, 2018, 11:16 AM IST;
International Cherry Blossom Festival Kicks Off In Shillong & The Pics Are Breathtaking!
16 November 2018: Flooded ancient ruins off the coast of Spain 'could be lost the city of Atlantis'.The location of the lost city of Atlantis may finally have been discovered, according to one team of historians. Ancient ruins examined using satellite imagery provide evidence that the city's huge harbor walls once stood in southern Spain, the experts say. Many of the sites studied by the team were already known to archaeologists, and are thought to have been constructed by the ancient Romans and Greeks.
November 16, 2018: Snow, rain boost hydropower generation in north Kashmir. Baramulla: Thanks to the snow and rain, the state’s own Lower Jhelum Hydroelectric Power Project (LJHP) located at Bimyar village of Uri in north Kashmir is generating an impressive 65-megawatt electricity for the past two weeks.
November 17, 2018, 19:05 IST: With the power of fintech and the reach of digital connectivity, we have started a revolution of unprecedented speed and scale. To begin with, financial inclusion has become a reality for 1.3 billion Indians. We have generated more than 1.2 billion biometric identities: called Aadhaar or foundation, in just a few years. With our Jan DhanYojana, we aimed to give a bank account to every Indian. In three years, we have opened 330 million new bank accounts. These are 330 million sources of identity, dignity, and opportunities. Less than 50 percent of Indians had bank accounts in 2014; now, it is nearly universal. So today, more than a billion biometric identities, bank accounts, and cell phones give India by far the biggest public infrastructure in the world.
17 November 2018, 02:01 PM: 11 million-year-old human ancestor fossil discovered in Kutch. Apes, or hominoids, are a group of primates from Africa and Southeast Asia that includes the gibbons and the great apes: chimps, orangutans, gorillas, and humans.
Nov 17, 2018, 22:16 PM IST: The final orbit raising operation of India's latest cutting-edge communication satellite GSAT-29 was successfully carried out on Saturday by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Nov 17, 2018, 17:20 IST: Space to witness ice age due to dropping sunspot activity, warns NASA. A scientist at NASA has warned that space will witness a mini ice age due to the decline in sunspot activity.
Nov 18, 2018, 07:16 IST: Farming in 20% of districts in India threatened by climate change. The effects of climate change on India’s agriculture, which employs half the population and accounts for 17% of the country’s economic output, are no longer about distant projections. The latest research, cited by the ICAR study, shows the impact of climate change will be increasingly felt, as demonstrated by an extreme weather event
Nov 18, 2018,06:15 IST: India needs a strong research ecosystem’. Pranab Mukherjee asked his students at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA). He was stressing on the need to have a strong research ecosystem that comes from “institutional collaborations, research parks, and talented researchers”.
18 Nov 2018: Dalits, Adivasis to Protest in Gandhinagar Demanding Priority to Land Rights than Contract Farming. Dalits, Adivasis and landless people across Gujarat are going to gather in Gandhinagar on November 26, demanding land and other rights. Nov 17, 2018, 17:20 IST: Space to witness ice age due to dropping sunspot activity, warns NASA. A scientist at NASA has warned that space will witness a mini ice age due to the decline in sunspot activity.
Nov 18, 2018, 07:16 IST: Farming in 20% of districts in India threatened by climate change. The effects of climate change on India’s agriculture, which employs half the population and accounts for 17% of the country’s economic output, are no longer about distant projections. The latest research, cited by the ICAR study, shows the impact of climate change will be increasingly felt, as demonstrated by an extreme weather event
Nov 18, 2018,06:15 IST: India needs a strong research ecosystem’. Pranab Mukherjee asked his students at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA). He was stressing on the need to have a strong research ecosystem that comes from “institutional collaborations, research parks, and talented researchers”.
Nov 18, 2018, 16:39 IST: WASHINGTON: Half of the measured global precipitation in a year just falls in twelve days.
18 Nov. 2018: Cars Fuelled by Water & Aluminium? IIT Roorkee’s New Innovation Is Brilliant! According to the team from IIT, the prototype has tremendous potential for mass production. The process of running the car on water is based on simple fuel cell technology, which uses electrochemical reactions to produce electricity. The graphene rod along the metal plate generates electricity with water as its base for the chemical reaction. The generated electricity is sent to an electric motor that fuels and drives the car. Log 9 an IIT Roorkee spin-off, says it is using the wonder material ‘graphene’ to make the metal-air batteries commercially viable and affordable for e-vehicles and stationary applications like power backup products. But there is a ‘graphene rod’ along the metal plate that generates electricity with water as its base for the chemical reaction. The electricity thus generated is sent to an electric motor that drives the car. The car will give a range of 1,000 km on a single charge and will require 1 liter of water every 300kms. Once you cross the 1,000 km mark, the aluminum plate will need to be replaced. Costing Rs 5,000, the replacement will not take longer than 15 minutes.
Nov 18, 2018, 08:40 IST: District RBD women’s wing president Meena Diwakar said, “We entered the Taj Mahal with ‘dhoop batti’ (incense sticks), Gangajal and matchbox and performed ‘aarti’ at the mosque on the premises. We ‘purified’ the location as it is our ‘Shiv Temple’, the sanctity of which was damaged by ‘namaz’.” “The identity of the Taj Mahal is because of Tejo Mahalaya, the Shiva Temple. Nov. 19, 2018: 9:30AM: PM Modi pays tribute to Rani Lakshmibai on her Jayanti Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tributes to Rani Lakshmibai on her Jayanti. In a tweet, Mr. Modi said, Rani Lakshmibai is a source of inspiration for every Indian and her fortitude in the face of adversity and steadfast opposition to colonialism will never be forgotten. He said It is due to greats like Rani Lakshmibai that India won freedom.
November 19, 2018: 3:21 PM:
Fig.2 Pine-needles
Doctor Arti Kashyap, Principal Project Investigator, Centre for Uplifting Himalayan Livelihood at IIT-Mandi.Now it has successfully prepared briquettes and pellets from pure pine needles mixing these with other biomasses. The Centre for Innovative Technology for the Himalayan Region (CITHR) has come up with a unique machine which can produce briquettes and pellets from pine needles as the pine needles are harmful to the ecology, diversity, and economy in the Himalayan region. Himachal Pradesh is home for a massive number of pine trees. During monsoon, the pine trees shed leaves, which end up covering the lands within the forest.Nov 19, 2018, 06.51 PM IST: Theresa May vows to give an Indian software developers fair post-Brexit chance. There has been widespread criticism of the draft 585-page withdrawal agreement struck by the British PM with her counterparts in the EU, which is set to sign off on the deal at a summit on November 25.
Nov 19, 2018: 04:18:42 PM: Americans to get high-speed broadband services through satellite technology. The new broadband services are expected to offer high-speed internet service and connectivity for sensors and other intelligence devices.
20 Nov 2018: Indian student among top winners for Hyundai's innovation challenge. The 2018 challenge saw the participation of around 80 individuals from 17 teams including professors, undergraduates, and graduate students. The four winners were announced at the 3rd Mobility Innovator’s Forum, which took place in Silicon Valley on November 16, 2018. The winners along with a cash prize received the opportunity to conduct joint industry-academic research with Hyundai, using the winning ideas as a foundation to develop an appropriate startup business.
20 November 2018: The Doomed star on brink of rare gamma-ray burst discovered. Scientists have discovered a rare star 8,000 light years from Earth that is on the brink of a massive supernova explosion and is expected to produce a dangerous gamma-ray burst, one of the most extreme energetic events in the universe after the Big Bang. A gamma-ray burst has never been detected within the Milky Way galaxy before, according to the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. The star is a part of a system nicknamed Apep, after the serpentine Egyptian god of chaos. It comprises two hot, luminous stars, known to astronomers as Wolf-Rayets - orbit each other every hundred years or so, according to researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia. This orbital dance is embossed on a fast wind streaming off the stars. Using spectroscopy, the astronomers have measured the velocity of the stellar winds as fast as 12 million km an hour.
20 Nov 2018: Indian student among top winners for Hyundai's innovation challenge. The 2018 challenge saw the participation of around 80 individuals from 17 teams including professors, undergraduates, and graduate students. The four winners were announced at the 3rd Mobility Innovator’s Forum, which took place in Silicon Valley on November 16, 2018. The winners along with a cash prize received the opportunity to conduct joint industry-academic research with Hyundai, using the winning ideas as a foundation to develop an appropriate startup business.
20 Nov.2018: Revati (16°40′ to 30°00′ Pisces) Revati 18:34 is the twenty-seventh and final nakshatra. Looking up at the night sky, Revati is a group of stars in the constellation Pisces. The brightest of the group is Zeta Piscium. The ruling deity, Pushan, provides nourishment and has the ability to shine the light on a person’s life.
Fig.3 The Kartika Shuklapaksha Masam at 17:29 and 17:30 PM.
on 20 November 2018
Today, Tuesday 20 Nov. 2018, joined with Dwadasi Nakashtram at 14:40 lunar day, in Kartika shuklapaksha Masam, and is regarded as a Kshirabda Dwadashi. The phase of the Moon till 12:40 PM on Nov.20, 2018. Good auspicious time till 5:20 PM. Revati Nakshatra till 5:40 PM on Nov. 20, 2018. In western parts of India (Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, north Karnataka and south Rajasthan), Revati Nakshatra till 6:34 PM on November 20. Meena Rashi till 5:40 PM on Nov 20. In western parts of India (Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and south Rajasthan), Meena Rashi till 6:34 PM on Nov 20.
20 November 2018: Surprise discovery for Indian scientists: nanosheets can also act as chemical reagents. The team from IIT Gandhinagar discovers that boron-rich nanosheets are chemical reagents too, with potential applications in energy storage devices and next-generation sensors. The research team at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, has found that boron-rich nanosheets, developed by them earlier this year, can also act as a chemical reagent. During experiments, researchers noticed that boron nanosheets could remain afloat in water for long durations. The nanosheets, they found, remained afloat due to hydride groups borrowed from the water. This observation led them to a new idea, using nanosheets in place of sodium borohydride, a popular reagent used to chemically reduce gold salt. When gold salt was introduced in the dispersion of boron-rich nanosheets, it instantly reduced and formed gold nanoparticles onto nanosheets without the need of any external help. They found that this can be extended to synthesize platinum and silver nanoparticles by dipping nanosheets in their respective salt solutions. This means boron-rich nanosheets can function as nanoscale factories to manufacture nanoparticles by using metal ions as raw material. “The formation of nanohybrids with gold and graphene provides the proof of concept that the inherent reducing character of these nanosheets can be availed to create diverse mixed-dimensional heterostructures in solution,” researchers observed in their study in journal Nanoscale.20 November 2018: The Doomed star on brink of rare gamma-ray burst discovered. Scientists have discovered a rare star 8,000 light years from Earth that is on the brink of a massive supernova explosion and is expected to produce a dangerous gamma-ray burst, one of the most extreme energetic events in the universe after the Big Bang. A gamma-ray burst has never been detected within the Milky Way galaxy before, according to the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. The star is a part of a system nicknamed Apep, after the serpentine Egyptian god of chaos. It comprises two hot, luminous stars, known to astronomers as Wolf-Rayets - orbit each other every hundred years or so, according to researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia. This orbital dance is embossed on a fast wind streaming off the stars. Using spectroscopy, the astronomers have measured the velocity of the stellar winds as fast as 12 million km an hour.
21 Nov. 2018: 15:41PM: The residents of West Bengal’s Mousini Island are all too familiar with damp, cracked walls and muddy floors littered with debris. It’s a sight that they, and those in the neighboring islands of Sagar and Ghoramora, encounter regularly in their flood-ravaged homes. All around them, in the Sundarbans delta, climate change’s insidious footprints are visible: water levels are rising, their land is eroding, and livelihoods are getting lost.
November 21, 2018, 4:55 PM: Finance ministry directive to I-T appellate officers triggers fears of ‘tax terror’. Alarmed by the rising mountain of direct taxes stuck as arrears or in litigation, the Finance Ministry has come up with incentives/rewards for ‘performance by appellate income tax officers in order to boost government coffers through recoveries.
Nov 21, 2018, 4:16 pm: India To Become ‘Sugar Bowl Of The World’: Expected To Topple Brazil As World’s Largest Sugar Producer. Produced in India is poised to increase by 5.2 percent to 35.9 million metric tons thanks to the rise in acreage and productivity, as per a report by the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. Brazil’s output, on the other hand, may drop by 21 percent to produce 30.6 million tons due to unfriendly weather.
November 21, 2018:
QUANTUM MECHANICAL SPIN: Scientists have discovered that semiconducting molecules with unpaired electrons, termed 'radicals' can be used to fabricate very efficient organic-light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), exploiting their quantum mechanical 'spin' property to overcome efficiency limitations for traditional, non-radical materials.Radicals are usually noted for their high chemical reactivity and often detrimental effects, from human health to the ozone layer. Now radical-based OLEDs could form the basis for next-generation displays and lighting technologies. Running electricity through these radical-based OLEDs leads to the formation of bright-doublet excited states which emit deep-red light with near-100% efficiency. For traditional compounds (i.e. non-radicals without an unpaired electron), quantum-mechanical-spin considerations dictate that charge injection forms 25% bright-'singlet' and 75% dark-'triplet' states in OLED operation. Radicals pose an elegant solution to this fundamental spin problem which has troubled researchers ever since the development of OLEDs from the 1980s.In future, efficient blue- and green-light radical-based diodes could appear with further materials innovation. The researchers are working on exploiting radicals beyond lighting applications, and expect radicals to impact other branches of organic electronics research.
Nov 21, 2018, 17:16 PM IST:
Why the dark matter storm hurtling through our galaxy is more exciting than scary. Earth will soon be caught in the path of a cosmic hurricane, a recent paper suggests. A collection of hundreds of stars, and a large amount of dark matter is headed towards our neck of the woods, cosmically speaking, and there’s no force we can muster that even has a chance of stopping it. Is this how the world ends? Maybe not. A team of researchers from King’s College London, Universidad de Zaragoza, and the Institute of Astronomy, UK, discovered the ‘dark matter hurricane’ from the ESA’s Gaia telescope data. The Gaia mission released the locations and trajectories of almost 2 billion stars near the Milky Way.
23 November 2018: Industrialist Mukkamala Manoja:
23 November 2018: AJMER: A large number of Nagas, Das and Aghoris, different sects of Sanyasi community, took a dip in the Pushkar Sarovar on Thursday for the ‘shahi snana’ (royal bath).The custom of ‘shahi snana’ was started from Banaras where Sadhus took a vow to safeguard the religion in India. On Friday, there will be Purnima snana and the closing of the Pushkar fair.A large number of devotees, mostly from the villages nearby, waited on the ghats of the Pushkar Sarovar early Thursday morning and as the bells in the temples started to ring, they took a dip in the pond. There was also a ‘maha aarti’ at the Brahma Temple and the devotees participated in the rituals in large numbers. Thousands of people from rural regions, as well as from towns and cities, came to participate in the shahi snana. It was the occasion of chaudas, a religious day before Kartik Purnima. Looking at the decreasing water levels in the pond, the district administration had arranged water in the tanks constructed on the steps of the pond, which were filled with the water from Bisalpur. The Naga sadhus took out a rally in the town early in the morning and then took a dip in the Sarovar, with religious rituals.
November 23, 2018, 11:01 AM: Firhad Hakim is Kolkata's first Muslim Mayor since Independence. Firhad Hakim will be required to be elected as a councilor in the next six months as per a new bill passed Thursday.
23.11.18, 12:54 AM: Assam gives black panther to Ranchi Birsa zoo. The zoo in Jharkhand's capital will send a pair of ostriches to Assam State Zoo and Botanical Garden in Guwahati
November 23, 2018: Birla Ayurveda enters medicines and personal care segment. The new offerings will spread across four personal care products that include aloe vera face wash, aloe vera gel, Kizhi kit and ache oil as well as four ayurvedic herbs, including shilajit, Brahmi, Ashwagandha and Shatavari, along with four proprietary medicines — Novajoint, Abdoplus, Arshotex, and Eveshor.
Nov 23, 2018: 06:59 AM IST: Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) created an “Art Spot” at Miyapur Metro station to encourage students and upcoming artists to practice and improve their painting skills. An art event “Adbutha” was held recently, where students from Sharada Vidya Mandir, Stanford school and MNR schools took part.
November 22, 2018: 09:19: Hyd police arrest officials for cloning fingerprints to fake attendance. The Associate Professor of Nova Engineering College has been arrested for designing a technique of cloning fingerprints from the internet to avoid biometric attendance.
23 November 2018: 9:10AM: The Kerala school teacher who sang & danced for her students. The video shows the teacher performing ottamthullal during Children's Day celebrations at a primary school.
November 23, 2018: 8:37:30: Female astrophysicist’s experience at airport security sparks gender bias debate on Twitter. California-based Amber Roberts, an astrophysicist and an artificial intelligence program director, was recently "talked down" by a random guy when she took out not one but two laptops from her bag. A woman astrophysicist’s disappointing experience at airport security has set off a huge debate surrounding gender bias and outlook of people towards women in the scientific field. I take out both of my laptops at airport security Random guy: *scoffs* “What do you need 2 laptops for?” Me: “Well one is for my astrophysics work and one is for my artificial intelligence work.”
24.11.18, 11:46 AM: Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks Indian Museum artefacts for exhibition. Some of the other museums in India from where the Met will borrow artefacts include the Archaeological Survey of India and Telangana Museum. India sends its museum pieces for exhibition to Singapore, Japan, China, France and Belgium, among other countries. But there is hardly any reciprocation. No antiques come from China, Japan or the US.
24 November, 2018: 02:37 AM: Country’s first digital library to be launched at VTU. The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, has become the first in the country to launch a virtual/digital library.
Nov 24, 2018: 10:32:32, IST: Brexit: Indian businesses must face facts to survive shift in UK policies, take timeout from Commonwealth fantasy league. For Britain, the hypotheticals include a fast-tracked, broad and deep trade deal with India as well as a dream-team partnership that enables both countries to relentlessly work a pan-Commonwealth free trade agreement. For India, post-Brexit hypotheticals cover a range of highly desirable scenarios: more employment opportunities in Britain for skilled Indian workers; more Indian rather than European students in the UK, many of them on scholarships generously funded by the British government; tax breaks for Indian companies prepared to invest in the UK, and, finally, a free trade agreement with Britain that potentially benefits key sectors such as textiles, machinery, engineering goods, information technology and banking.
November 24, 2018: How Digital Trust Is A Big Part Of The Next Wave Of Internet. Digital Trust Dialogues are working towards a safer internet by enabling an environment, where conversations concerning these issues can happen. The programme, which is held across several cities in India, takes these conversations directly to the nation’s youth. These dialogues significantly engage college students towards building awareness and finding solutions to the concerns they raise.
Nov 24, 2018 09:26 IST: Physicist proposes new idea to travel faster than light; could pave way for time travel. Miguel Alcubierre believes that creating a warp bubble will help spacecraft travel above the speed of light. Making things more clear, Alpha Centauri is our closest neighboring star system which lies approximately 4.4 light years away. To reach there quickly, space agencies should put a spaceship in a warp bubble after shrinking the space in front and expanding the space behind. The starship will then arrive Alpha Centauri in just 4.4 years. Alcubierre also made it clear that the concept of traveling via warp bubble is very similar to that of a moving walkway in an airport. "You just stand there and you move. You don't have to walk. It just pushes you along," said Alcubierre, New York Times reports. To travel via warp bubble, energy is needed, and initial calculations revealed that it demands an impossibly gargantuan amount of energy, much more than the energy that exists in the universe to materialise this plan. Later, researchers found that the energy demanded to create a warp bubble will be very much equivalent to Jupiter's mass converted to energy. If scientists succeed in traveling at a speed greater than light, it could break all current theories of physics. Traveling faster than light may also help humans to travel across time, a concept which is mostly depicted in Hollywood science fiction movies.
24 Nov. 2018: 6 AM: Sticky hydrogel could revolutionize knee surgery. In fact, the new hydrogel (that's 90 percent water and composed of a double-network matrix and a fiber network) adheres to tissues even more when it's compressed or stretched. Dominique Pioletti, one of the team leaders, explained that it's because the "double network structure distributes incoming mechanical energy throughout" the hydrogel. If you load the material with repair cells or drugs, it can heal broken cartilages without the need to damage them further with sutures. Pioletti said: "Our hydrogel is ten times more adhesive than currently available bioadhesives on the market such as fibri. And thanks to its high water content, our hydrogel is very similar in nature to the natural tissue it's designed to heal." The researchers have already proven that the hydrogel can adhere to several types of tissues. Going forward, they plan to load it with different agents typically used for treatment and to tailor it to specific applications.Nov 24, 2018, 5:40 pm IST:
November 24, 2018, 3:31 pm: Where Do The Mizos Come From? This Ancient Lost Civilisation May Hold the Answers!
November 26, 2018, 8:34 IST: Hundreds of flights canceled as a snowstorm blankets US Midwest. Strong winds and snow created blizzard conditions across much of Nebraska and parts of Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri.
November 26, 2018, 6:49 IST: Magnitude 6.3 earthquake jolts western Iran; over 170 injured. The quake struck just after 8 pm in Iran, meaning most were still awake at the time and ability to quickly flee.
Nov 30, 2018, 10:21AM: Minimum temperatures below freezing point in Kashmir Valley. "Same weather conditions are likely to continue for another five to six days, Srinagar city recorded minus 0.9C, Pahalgam minus 0.6 and Gulmarg minus 1.2 as the night's lowest temperatures. Kargil town was the coldest in the state at minus 7.6C followed by Leh at minus 6.5.
November 21, 2018, 4:55 PM: Finance ministry directive to I-T appellate officers triggers fears of ‘tax terror’. Alarmed by the rising mountain of direct taxes stuck as arrears or in litigation, the Finance Ministry has come up with incentives/rewards for ‘performance by appellate income tax officers in order to boost government coffers through recoveries.
November 21, 2018:
Fig.4 Rooftop garden maintains 300 plants.
Chennaiite maintains over 300 plants in her roof garden. The roof-top garden of Choolaimedu resident Anju Agarwal can be certainly called as the pride of the neighborhood. The green patch is a visual treat with over 300 plants of different varieties. Anju speaks to ‘News Today‘ about her love for gardening and more. “As a child, I have always had a green thumb. My previous home in Mumbai was a bungalow, and since we had a lot of space, we maintained a garden back then,” she says.
November 21, 2018, 12:39 PM: How PM Narendra Modi has helped Khadi industry’s turnaround in India. Ever since being elected as the prime minister, Narendra Modi has been promoting Khadi and mentioned it in his radio address multiple times. He even talked about the growth of the Khadi industry in this year's Independence Day address.Nov 21, 2018, 4:16 pm: India To Become ‘Sugar Bowl Of The World’: Expected To Topple Brazil As World’s Largest Sugar Producer. Produced in India is poised to increase by 5.2 percent to 35.9 million metric tons thanks to the rise in acreage and productivity, as per a report by the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. Brazil’s output, on the other hand, may drop by 21 percent to produce 30.6 million tons due to unfriendly weather.
November 21, 2018: 8:39 PM: NET Telecom Secretary asks states to utilize Bharat Net infrastructure. The government Wednesday exhorted states to use the rural broadband infrastructure being put in place through Bharat Net project and said it will create opportunities for monetization and ensure that the benefits of the network reach the masses.
21 November 2018: Nellore and Chittoor zillahs had heavy rain on Wednesday. In Tirupati in second ghat road, several rocks fell down the road obstructing movement of vehicles. Evening from 5PM tonight till 7:30 PM along the link road and at the 14th Km several rocks fell down. On the top of hills, heavy rain lashed up to 10 cms. Satya Sethu and Srikalahasti it rained. Chittoor had moderate rain in 45 Mandals. Vadamalapeta had 74.8 mm and Gudur also experienced heavy rain. Temple in Tirupati was engulfed by rainwater. The chili-winds troubled people and an old lady of seventy years died due to cold wave. November 21, 2018:
Fig.4a Double emission OLED's Explore Spin Property
Nov 21, 2018, 17:16 PM IST:
Fig.5 Dark Matter presence in our Galaxy?
Why the dark matter storm hurtling through our galaxy is more exciting than scary. Earth will soon be caught in the path of a cosmic hurricane, a recent paper suggests. A collection of hundreds of stars, and a large amount of dark matter is headed towards our neck of the woods, cosmically speaking, and there’s no force we can muster that even has a chance of stopping it. Is this how the world ends? Maybe not. A team of researchers from King’s College London, Universidad de Zaragoza, and the Institute of Astronomy, UK, discovered the ‘dark matter hurricane’ from the ESA’s Gaia telescope data. The Gaia mission released the locations and trajectories of almost 2 billion stars near the Milky Way.
Nov 22, 2018, 11.10 PM IST:539 child care institutions closed down across India: WCD. In Maharashtra, 377 CCIs were closed, the highest among all states and union territories, followed by Andhra Pradesh (78) and Telangana (32). Other states where such centers were closed included Jharkhand, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.
22 November 2018: Ongole: Showers in Prakasam and Nellore cheer up farmers, now they cover area missed for Kharif season. The sky opened up in Ongole in the wee hours of Thursday, downpour continued all day, and other towns and villages, the old market, Bhaghyanagar, Pragati colony, and Balaram colony inundated and clogged the drains. Normal 2.26lakh hectares covered. Moderate rain in Chittoor and temple town of Tirupati drizzled more than 24 hours, registering 6.52 cms rainfall. Tamil Nadu registered heavy rain, Yerrapadu Mandal alone 14.18 cm rain, followed by Vadamalapeta, Satyavedu, and Varadalahpalem.
Nov 22, 2018, 16:43 IST: UN warns that climate-warming greenhouse gases have reached record levels. "The window of opportunity for action is almost closed," says the UN. It found 9,000 cities in 128 countries were taking action, along with 240 states and regions in 40 countries and more than 6,000 businesses in 120 countries.
23 November 2018: 
Fig.6 Anchor Suma helps rebuild a house in Srikakulam
Anchor Suma helps rebuild the home of a poor family in Srikakulam The small screen star helped rebuild the house in Kaligam. 23 November 2018: Industrialist Mukkamala Manoja:
Fig.9 Kotcherlakota Village and Sivalayam Trustee Chairman
Prakasam District, Markapuram nearby Kotcherlakota village where my parents worked in Zilla Parishad as teachers. My mother-in-law worked as Hindi Pundit. I gave birth to a female kid, having lost the earlier one years ago. I turned all ayurvedic books with us. In one book I got the know-how of a Hair oil formula. When I applied the oil, the child white hair gradually changed to Coffee color. In 2001 I started selling the Herbal Hair Oil and in 2007 I got small-scale industries patent, for business I sold my bangles, with Rs. 6000/- I started selling the "MANUSHU" named herbal oil, it fetched me Rs.20,000/-. with a bank loan and selling the oil I got Rs. 1.5lakhs. In six months it increased to Rs.30 lakhs to Rs. 40 lakhs, and turning back was not necessitated. In 2011, I was involved in a road accident and all the effort came to full stop. Later in Vijayawada, with "Divine" name gave 400 people beautician courses. After that the Hair Oil and other products I started selling. "Manus" Herbal products became popular in Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, and Gwalior. Ayurveda vanamulikalu (forest produce) with pure Coconut oil, the company now employs about 35 people. My 11 years of effort made it possible. I became a single trustee Chairman, for Kotcherlakota Sivalayam. (Paparao Sambathulla, Vijayawada write up).23 November 2018: AJMER: A large number of Nagas, Das and Aghoris, different sects of Sanyasi community, took a dip in the Pushkar Sarovar on Thursday for the ‘shahi snana’ (royal bath).The custom of ‘shahi snana’ was started from Banaras where Sadhus took a vow to safeguard the religion in India. On Friday, there will be Purnima snana and the closing of the Pushkar fair.A large number of devotees, mostly from the villages nearby, waited on the ghats of the Pushkar Sarovar early Thursday morning and as the bells in the temples started to ring, they took a dip in the pond. There was also a ‘maha aarti’ at the Brahma Temple and the devotees participated in the rituals in large numbers. Thousands of people from rural regions, as well as from towns and cities, came to participate in the shahi snana. It was the occasion of chaudas, a religious day before Kartik Purnima. Looking at the decreasing water levels in the pond, the district administration had arranged water in the tanks constructed on the steps of the pond, which were filled with the water from Bisalpur. The Naga sadhus took out a rally in the town early in the morning and then took a dip in the Sarovar, with religious rituals.
November 23, 2018, 11:01 AM: Firhad Hakim is Kolkata's first Muslim Mayor since Independence. Firhad Hakim will be required to be elected as a councilor in the next six months as per a new bill passed Thursday.
23.11.18, 12:54 AM: Assam gives black panther to Ranchi Birsa zoo. The zoo in Jharkhand's capital will send a pair of ostriches to Assam State Zoo and Botanical Garden in Guwahati
November 23, 2018: Birla Ayurveda enters medicines and personal care segment. The new offerings will spread across four personal care products that include aloe vera face wash, aloe vera gel, Kizhi kit and ache oil as well as four ayurvedic herbs, including shilajit, Brahmi, Ashwagandha and Shatavari, along with four proprietary medicines — Novajoint, Abdoplus, Arshotex, and Eveshor.
Nov 23, 2018: 06:59 AM IST: Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) created an “Art Spot” at Miyapur Metro station to encourage students and upcoming artists to practice and improve their painting skills. An art event “Adbutha” was held recently, where students from Sharada Vidya Mandir, Stanford school and MNR schools took part.
November 22, 2018: 09:19: Hyd police arrest officials for cloning fingerprints to fake attendance. The Associate Professor of Nova Engineering College has been arrested for designing a technique of cloning fingerprints from the internet to avoid biometric attendance.
23 November 2018: 9:10AM: The Kerala school teacher who sang & danced for her students. The video shows the teacher performing ottamthullal during Children's Day celebrations at a primary school.
November 23, 2018: 8:37:30: Female astrophysicist’s experience at airport security sparks gender bias debate on Twitter. California-based Amber Roberts, an astrophysicist and an artificial intelligence program director, was recently "talked down" by a random guy when she took out not one but two laptops from her bag. A woman astrophysicist’s disappointing experience at airport security has set off a huge debate surrounding gender bias and outlook of people towards women in the scientific field. I take out both of my laptops at airport security Random guy: *scoffs* “What do you need 2 laptops for?” Me: “Well one is for my astrophysics work and one is for my artificial intelligence work.”
November 23, 2018 18:12 IST:
Fig.10 Japan's Ama Grannies Fishing tradition 3000 years old.
Japan's 'Ama' Grannies Cling To Their Freediving Fishing Tradition. The tradition in Japan dates back "at least 3,000 years," and old photos depict the divers fishing topless, a practice that ended in the 20th century but remains associated with the ama and the idea of them as "exotic objects of fantasy".
24 November, 2018: 02:37 AM: Country’s first digital library to be launched at VTU. The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, has become the first in the country to launch a virtual/digital library.
Nov 24, 2018: 10:32:32, IST: Brexit: Indian businesses must face facts to survive shift in UK policies, take timeout from Commonwealth fantasy league. For Britain, the hypotheticals include a fast-tracked, broad and deep trade deal with India as well as a dream-team partnership that enables both countries to relentlessly work a pan-Commonwealth free trade agreement. For India, post-Brexit hypotheticals cover a range of highly desirable scenarios: more employment opportunities in Britain for skilled Indian workers; more Indian rather than European students in the UK, many of them on scholarships generously funded by the British government; tax breaks for Indian companies prepared to invest in the UK, and, finally, a free trade agreement with Britain that potentially benefits key sectors such as textiles, machinery, engineering goods, information technology and banking.
November 24, 2018: How Digital Trust Is A Big Part Of The Next Wave Of Internet. Digital Trust Dialogues are working towards a safer internet by enabling an environment, where conversations concerning these issues can happen. The programme, which is held across several cities in India, takes these conversations directly to the nation’s youth. These dialogues significantly engage college students towards building awareness and finding solutions to the concerns they raise.
Nov 24, 2018 09:26 IST: Physicist proposes new idea to travel faster than light; could pave way for time travel. Miguel Alcubierre believes that creating a warp bubble will help spacecraft travel above the speed of light. Making things more clear, Alpha Centauri is our closest neighboring star system which lies approximately 4.4 light years away. To reach there quickly, space agencies should put a spaceship in a warp bubble after shrinking the space in front and expanding the space behind. The starship will then arrive Alpha Centauri in just 4.4 years. Alcubierre also made it clear that the concept of traveling via warp bubble is very similar to that of a moving walkway in an airport. "You just stand there and you move. You don't have to walk. It just pushes you along," said Alcubierre, New York Times reports. To travel via warp bubble, energy is needed, and initial calculations revealed that it demands an impossibly gargantuan amount of energy, much more than the energy that exists in the universe to materialise this plan. Later, researchers found that the energy demanded to create a warp bubble will be very much equivalent to Jupiter's mass converted to energy. If scientists succeed in traveling at a speed greater than light, it could break all current theories of physics. Traveling faster than light may also help humans to travel across time, a concept which is mostly depicted in Hollywood science fiction movies.
24 Nov. 2018: 6 AM: Sticky hydrogel could revolutionize knee surgery. In fact, the new hydrogel (that's 90 percent water and composed of a double-network matrix and a fiber network) adheres to tissues even more when it's compressed or stretched. Dominique Pioletti, one of the team leaders, explained that it's because the "double network structure distributes incoming mechanical energy throughout" the hydrogel. If you load the material with repair cells or drugs, it can heal broken cartilages without the need to damage them further with sutures. Pioletti said: "Our hydrogel is ten times more adhesive than currently available bioadhesives on the market such as fibri. And thanks to its high water content, our hydrogel is very similar in nature to the natural tissue it's designed to heal." The researchers have already proven that the hydrogel can adhere to several types of tissues. Going forward, they plan to load it with different agents typically used for treatment and to tailor it to specific applications.Nov 24, 2018, 5:40 pm IST:
Fig.11 Magnificient Mary Six-Time Boxing World Champion.
Magnificient Mary becomes six-time boxing World Champion. The 35-year-old outfoxed her Ukrainian counterpart in a unanimous 5:0 decision in the 48 kg (light flyweight) category. New Delhi: Legendary boxer Mary Kom on Saturday scripted history, becoming India's only six-time world boxing champion after defeating Hanna Okhota of Ukraine. As the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall was filled to the rafters for Mary, the 35-year-old outfoxed her Ukrainian counterpart in a unanimous 5:0 decision in the 48 kg (light flyweight) category.November 24, 2018, 3:31 pm: Where Do The Mizos Come From? This Ancient Lost Civilisation May Hold the Answers!
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From enigmatic engravings on the stone to one of India’s oldest rainwater harvesting systems, ASI’s recent discoveries may hold the key to hitherto unknown facts about northeast India! stone structures of varying heights from prehistoric times) engraved with very intricate artwork depicting scenes of traditional hunting practices, music instruments and heroes from this ancient Mizo civilization. Elephant and fish carvings found on many stones, according to some historians, could establish the link between Hindu kingdoms and the Mizos long before the arrival of the British colonialists, who decimated this relationship in their pursuit of profits from the region’s rich tea gardens. November 25, 2018, 18:48 IST: European Union gives the nod to landmark Brexit deal; agreement beginning of 'new chapter' for Britain, says PM May. The UK Parliament is expected to vote on the deal in early December but its approval is by no means guaranteed, with Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP, the DUP and many Conservatives MPs set to vote against. November 26, 2018, 8:34 IST: Hundreds of flights canceled as a snowstorm blankets US Midwest. Strong winds and snow created blizzard conditions across much of Nebraska and parts of Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri.
November 26, 2018, 6:49 IST: Magnitude 6.3 earthquake jolts western Iran; over 170 injured. The quake struck just after 8 pm in Iran, meaning most were still awake at the time and ability to quickly flee.
November 26, 2018, Monday, 5:34: 8.625″ Snowfall for Arlington Heights; 8.4″ Snowfall Official for O’Hare for November 25-26, 2018 Blizzard. The recent snow period lasted about 18:0 (hours: minutes). No snow cover was on the ground before the recent snowfall. The current snow cover is 8.625 inches in Arlington Heights. The snow quality was wet and heavy, good for packing, but difficult for shoveling. After a delay Saturday, snow accumulated significantly on grassy and paved areas.
Nov. 26,11:36 a.m. ET: NJ weather: Flooding expected in the last November rain.
November 26, 2018: 8:20 pm: Rockford experiencing snowiest November after Sunday’s record-breaking storm. The month’s total so far is 15.6″, and could still climb with a chance for a little more snow on Thursday.
27 Nov. 2018: The Steering Committee meeting of the S3P, Industry is taking place in Bilbao, the 27th of November 2018 co-organised with the Basque Country will offer the fourth occasion to further build the community of the S3P. The S3P, Industry grew and Bilbao will provide a place for discussion for 18 partnerships and various European Commission directorates on topics reflecting the needs of partnerships expressed in their progress report I/2018. A number of topics will be offered based on partnership needs.
Nov. 26,11:36 a.m. ET: NJ weather: Flooding expected in the last November rain.
November 26, 2018: 8:20 pm: Rockford experiencing snowiest November after Sunday’s record-breaking storm. The month’s total so far is 15.6″, and could still climb with a chance for a little more snow on Thursday.
27 Nov. 2018: The Steering Committee meeting of the S3P, Industry is taking place in Bilbao, the 27th of November 2018 co-organised with the Basque Country will offer the fourth occasion to further build the community of the S3P. The S3P, Industry grew and Bilbao will provide a place for discussion for 18 partnerships and various European Commission directorates on topics reflecting the needs of partnerships expressed in their progress report I/2018. A number of topics will be offered based on partnership needs.
November 27, 2018: India: Ladakh Now Accessible By Double-Lane Road In All Weather Conditions.
November 26, 2018: 07:30 IST: Temperature drops below 10C in Agency. Chintapalle mandal has been witnessing below 10C for a week. As per the Regional Agriculture Research Station (RARS) at Chintapalli, the least temperature recorded in Chintapalli on Sunday was around 6C. Similarly, temperatures at Araku, Ananthagiri, Paderu, and few others have been hovering around 10C. Locals say that the agency has been witnessing a thick fog till 9 a.m., making it difficult for travel.
27 November 2018: Drones are reshaping the surveying and mapping industry in India. In India, there has been an increasing demand for drones over the past five years. From aerial photography, technological innovations are now extending drones to provide detailed and accurate 3D reviews for surveyors and developers. UAV or drones along with exciting new positioning technologies, image-processing algorithms and compact high capacity imaging sensors are driving a fundamental change in how data aggregation takes place whereas providing quick, safe, economic and accurate drone surveys in India.
Nov 28, 2018: 6:11 pm IST: Employee unions claimed that the govt has not allotted spectrum for 4G services to BSNL in order to prevent it from competing against RJio. Demands of the strike include the immediate allotment of 4G spectrum to BSNL for rolling out its 4G service, implementation of the government rule in respect of payment of pension contribution by BSNL, wage revision of the employees and pension revision of the retirees, from January 1, 2017.
28 Nov. 2018: Visakhapatnam records the lowest temperature of 15.4C, with winter early settled sue to change in climate cycles in the coastal area, on Tuesday 27 Nov. 2018. while the airport was at 21C. On Monday airport was ar 12.9C on Nov.30. The temperature was at 10.5C on Jan 6, 1962. Siberian high outflow, of the dry cold weather, passes across Northern India and comes to South East coast. Himalayas act as a shield and winds pass through Pakistan and partially into India through Rajasthan. These westerly winds are deflected and become North Westerly winds that reach the coast. This year winter settled very early, due to change in climate cycle. The cold wind blows if the Siberian wind high pressure is strong. Cyclones more would have made the wind warmer.
November 28, 2018: 01:04 IST: GVMC looks for alternatives as reservoir levels plummet. the water levels at Thatipudi and Raiwada reservoirs have drastically gone down. As an alternative, some maintenance works are being undertaken at the Yeleru Left Main Canal (LMC) that feeds water from Yeleru reservoir to the city. The move, the officials say, will improve the carrying capacity beyond 350 cusecs so that the canal can receive 90 MGD to 100 MGD at the Kanithi Balancing Reservoir. The revival of the Old Raiwada pipeline that pumps 8 MGD to 16 MGD of water into the Meghadrigedda reservoir from the Yeleru LMC, pumping an additional 16 MGD from the Kateru scheme on the Godavari river taking it to 40 MGD and seeking the government’s permission to pump water from the dead storage of Raiwada reservoir are among the other measures. The construction of Purushottapatnam lift scheme on the Godavari river has led to filling of the Yeleru reservoir from which water will flow on its own by gravity. Besides, the reserves in Meghadrigedda reservoir will be built up so that it can last till July next year,
Nov 29, 2018, 16:10 PM IST: Coastal areas are one of the first and worst hit by the effects of climate change and global warming. Due to the rising seawater levels, many low-lying areas in the coastal regions have already been submerged entirely or are in the process of being taken over by the waters. For the residents of the Ghoramara Island in West Bengal, it is a story that they know all too well. Ghoramara is among many islands in the Sundarban delta, which is affected by rising sea levels and soil erosion. November 26, 2018: 07:30 IST: Temperature drops below 10C in Agency. Chintapalle mandal has been witnessing below 10C for a week. As per the Regional Agriculture Research Station (RARS) at Chintapalli, the least temperature recorded in Chintapalli on Sunday was around 6C. Similarly, temperatures at Araku, Ananthagiri, Paderu, and few others have been hovering around 10C. Locals say that the agency has been witnessing a thick fog till 9 a.m., making it difficult for travel.
27 November 2018: Drones are reshaping the surveying and mapping industry in India. In India, there has been an increasing demand for drones over the past five years. From aerial photography, technological innovations are now extending drones to provide detailed and accurate 3D reviews for surveyors and developers. UAV or drones along with exciting new positioning technologies, image-processing algorithms and compact high capacity imaging sensors are driving a fundamental change in how data aggregation takes place whereas providing quick, safe, economic and accurate drone surveys in India.
Nov 28, 2018: 6:11 pm IST: Employee unions claimed that the govt has not allotted spectrum for 4G services to BSNL in order to prevent it from competing against RJio. Demands of the strike include the immediate allotment of 4G spectrum to BSNL for rolling out its 4G service, implementation of the government rule in respect of payment of pension contribution by BSNL, wage revision of the employees and pension revision of the retirees, from January 1, 2017.
28 Nov. 2018: Visakhapatnam records the lowest temperature of 15.4C, with winter early settled sue to change in climate cycles in the coastal area, on Tuesday 27 Nov. 2018. while the airport was at 21C. On Monday airport was ar 12.9C on Nov.30. The temperature was at 10.5C on Jan 6, 1962. Siberian high outflow, of the dry cold weather, passes across Northern India and comes to South East coast. Himalayas act as a shield and winds pass through Pakistan and partially into India through Rajasthan. These westerly winds are deflected and become North Westerly winds that reach the coast. This year winter settled very early, due to change in climate cycle. The cold wind blows if the Siberian wind high pressure is strong. Cyclones more would have made the wind warmer.
November 28, 2018: 01:04 IST: GVMC looks for alternatives as reservoir levels plummet. the water levels at Thatipudi and Raiwada reservoirs have drastically gone down. As an alternative, some maintenance works are being undertaken at the Yeleru Left Main Canal (LMC) that feeds water from Yeleru reservoir to the city. The move, the officials say, will improve the carrying capacity beyond 350 cusecs so that the canal can receive 90 MGD to 100 MGD at the Kanithi Balancing Reservoir. The revival of the Old Raiwada pipeline that pumps 8 MGD to 16 MGD of water into the Meghadrigedda reservoir from the Yeleru LMC, pumping an additional 16 MGD from the Kateru scheme on the Godavari river taking it to 40 MGD and seeking the government’s permission to pump water from the dead storage of Raiwada reservoir are among the other measures. The construction of Purushottapatnam lift scheme on the Godavari river has led to filling of the Yeleru reservoir from which water will flow on its own by gravity. Besides, the reserves in Meghadrigedda reservoir will be built up so that it can last till July next year,
November 29, 2018: 01:09 AM: Migratory birds flock Kashmir’s wetlands. Wetlands in Kashmir region are abuzz as Mallards, Greylag Geese, Pochards, Ruddy Shelduck among other rare bird species are flocking Kashmir’s wetland bodies on their annual migration. Like every year, nearby about three lakh migratory birds have started arriving at Hokersar, Wullar Lake, Dal Lake, Manasbal and Shalbug from Central Asia, China, Siberia, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, and central Asia. These beautiful birds, which feed on insects and fishes, present a beautiful picture and make wetlands mesmerizing, with the onset of winter. As per the wildlife Department, due to early snowfall, these birds have started flocking to Kashmir. The early arrivals include coots, teals, mallards and pintails, Greylag Geese, Pochards, Gadwalls, Wigeons, Shovellers, Tufted Ducks, Ruddy Shelducks, And Arganeys, among others.
29 November 2018: SINGAPORE: Researchers in Singapore are seeking a patent for a new sound-proof and heat-resistant material made from recycled plastic bottles they say could help reduce plastic waste dumped in oceans and clogging landfills. The National University of Singapore team said it had found a way to convert bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into aerogels that have many potential uses - from insulation and fire safety to cleaning up oil spills
Nov 29, 2018:Srinagar: Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.3 and 3.7 struck Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. The first quake of magnitude 4.3, which occurred at 2:30 pm, had its epicenter in Ladakh at a depth of 10 km. This was followed by another tremor of magnitude 3.7 that took place at 3:12 pm at a depth of 10 km in the same region.
Nov 29, 2018:Srinagar: Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.3 and 3.7 struck Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. The first quake of magnitude 4.3, which occurred at 2:30 pm, had its epicenter in Ladakh at a depth of 10 km. This was followed by another tremor of magnitude 3.7 that took place at 3:12 pm at a depth of 10 km in the same region.
Fig.13 Ghoramara, Sundarban delta, affected by rising sea levels.
Another island in the area, Lohachara has already vanished under the water forcing residents to flee and take shelter in the nearby Sagar Island.Nov 30, 2018, 10:21AM: Minimum temperatures below freezing point in Kashmir Valley. "Same weather conditions are likely to continue for another five to six days, Srinagar city recorded minus 0.9C, Pahalgam minus 0.6 and Gulmarg minus 1.2 as the night's lowest temperatures. Kargil town was the coldest in the state at minus 7.6C followed by Leh at minus 6.5.
Nov 30, 2018, 19:52 PM IST: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that terrorism and financial crimes are two of the biggest threats that the world is facing today. Speaking at BRICS Leaders' Informal Meeting on the sidelines of G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, PM Modi highlighted why the world needs to unite against the menace of terrorism and financial crimes. "Terrorism and radicalism are a threat to the world. Those who commit financial crimes are also a big threat. We have to work together against black money," he said.
30 November, 2018: 10:28 AM: North and South Korea start landmark journey for railway reconnection. Linking up the railway systems was one of the agreements made earlier this year in a key meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South's President Moon Jae-in. There is a passenger coach, a sleeping coach, an office coach and a wagon loaded with water for showers and laundry. When it arrives at Panmun Station -- the first North Korean terminal across the border -- the six carriages will be linked up to a North Korean train, and the South Korean locomotive will return home.
November 30, 2018: 15:57: Silapathar Science College Creates Rice Bank For Preserving Indigenous Varieties. The Silapathar Science College, located in Dhemaji district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, has so far documented and preserved 251 indigenous varieties through its rice bank. Set up in 1996, the college started to work closely with farmers in the district since 2015 and organised a “Rice Mela” to showcase the indigenous varieties grown in the district.
30 November, 2018: Friday: Indore Municipal Corporation plant to treat dry sludge into bio-fertiliser. MoU with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. This project has been taken up under Smart City initiative . Officials said that the facility would be operational within a year.IMC commissioner Asheesh Singh said that this sludge treatment plant would be set up on one acre land near Kabitkhedi water treatment facility. BARC will provide us all technical and scientific support for setting up this sludge hygienization plant . It will allow us convert dry sludge into bio-fertilizer.
30 November, 2018: 10:28 AM: North and South Korea start landmark journey for railway reconnection. Linking up the railway systems was one of the agreements made earlier this year in a key meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South's President Moon Jae-in. There is a passenger coach, a sleeping coach, an office coach and a wagon loaded with water for showers and laundry. When it arrives at Panmun Station -- the first North Korean terminal across the border -- the six carriages will be linked up to a North Korean train, and the South Korean locomotive will return home.
November 30, 2018: 15:57: Silapathar Science College Creates Rice Bank For Preserving Indigenous Varieties. The Silapathar Science College, located in Dhemaji district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, has so far documented and preserved 251 indigenous varieties through its rice bank. Set up in 1996, the college started to work closely with farmers in the district since 2015 and organised a “Rice Mela” to showcase the indigenous varieties grown in the district.
30 November, 2018: Friday: Indore Municipal Corporation plant to treat dry sludge into bio-fertiliser. MoU with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. This project has been taken up under Smart City initiative . Officials said that the facility would be operational within a year.IMC commissioner Asheesh Singh said that this sludge treatment plant would be set up on one acre land near Kabitkhedi water treatment facility. BARC will provide us all technical and scientific support for setting up this sludge hygienization plant . It will allow us convert dry sludge into bio-fertilizer.
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Acknowledgment:
The author Professor Dr. K. Lakshmi Narayana 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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