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Volume 2018, Issue No.11, Dated: 1 November, 2108, Time: 08:34:45 AM
November 1, 2018: A new University in Prakasam District, World's First PET Aerogel, Automatic Charge Cycle, International Proton Therapy, use resonators to read qubits, India became a member of ITU, Odisha Sun Temple Preservation, better trade deals with India.
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
Nov. 1, 2018: AstroSat and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found that a black hole in the binary star system 4U 1630-47 spins close to the maximum possible rate which makes it even more exotic. // Nov 2, 2018: Snow on Himachal hills. Shimla: Temperatures across Himachal Pradesh on Friday dipped as high altitudes received mild spells of snow while others experienced rains. The minimum temperature here was 10.5C. Kalpa, 250 km from Shimla, and Keylong in Lahaul and Spiti district recorded the night temperature at three degrees and minus 1.1C, respectively.// 2 Nov. 2018: A new University in Prakasam District, from the academic year 2019-2020, named after Andhra Kesari Tanguturi Prakasam, at Ongole in Prakasam district. While he was the Chief Minister of Andhra State, he appointed Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) to create the Second University of Andhra Pradesh in 1954, but alas he lost the Chief Minister post due to political wrangling. Prof. K. R. Rao was also unfortunate not to secure the Vice-Chancellor post of the Tirupati Venkateswara University and left only as a special officer.// The other measures announced today included an increase in the share of small and medium industries in total government procurement from 20 to 25 percent. He also announced a 2 percent interest relief on loans up to Rs. 1 crore for small businesses that file GST returns. // World’s first PET aerogels cut plastic waste, and are suitable for heat and sound insulation, oil spill cleaning, carbon dioxide absorption, as well as fire safety applications. // November 3, 2018, 3:32 PM: Jammu And Kashmir: 120 rescued as heavy snowfall blocks the Mughal road. Over 120 persons, mostly truckers, were rescued from Peer Ki Gali along the Mughal road, which recorded the season's first heavy snowfall over the past couple of days. Over three feet of snow had accumulated in the high altitude Peer Ki Gali stretch of the road. // 7:53 pm, Shimla: Fresh snowfall in upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh disrupts normal life. // This Detroit teacher, a physicist lyricist, uses rap to excite his students about science. He was one of four Detroit educators who told their stories last month on stage at the Lyft Lounge at Musictown Detroit as part of the Tale the Teacher storytelling event. // Automatic Charge Cycle by Kambampati Naga Sripawan, of Krishna Zillha Thotlavalluru youth, invented to present in USA Boston University, from November 4 to 11, he would present the details. He already left for the USA. // he tradition of making Indigo has survived 4000 years, witnessing Indo-Europen trade disputes, British colonialism, the Mahatma Gandhi led protests against the crop, and ultimately a modern India where the color is in vogue but with not enough craftsmen to meet the demand. // 5 Nov. 2018: Researchers use resonators to see and read the state of qubits since resonators are much easier to interact with. // PM felicitates crew of INS Arihant on completion of Nuclear Triad. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi received today the crew of Strategic Strike Nuclear Submarine (SSBN) INS Arihant. //
6 Oct 2018: The world’s first fully-autonomous indoor farm. A farm in Silicon Valley which is capable of autonomously growing and picking leafy greens is now operational. // 07 Nov 2018: As the retail industry story unfolds in India, new strategies come to the fore. // J&K: After nine years, Kashmir has witnessed an early snowfall in the month of November. At least 5,000 trucks carrying apples are stranded on the highway. The cultivators are worried that a huge quantity of apples may rot if the road remains blocked for long. On Saturday, November 3, Kashmir was wrapped in a blanket of snow. // 16:38: 2018: India has been elected as a Member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council for another 4-year term (2019-2022). // Nov. 8, 2018: I found Visakhapatnam beach has moved slightly backward from Maharanipeta area to the RK beach, but what surprised was the typical sound of the waves at the RK mission beach. This is unusual since Deepavali Amavasya (No moon day) sea should have moved forward! // 21:00: Now scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern think they may have seen another particle, detected as a peak at a certain energy in the data, although the finding is yet to be confirmed. // Consequently, many Indian tech employees will be returning home: bringing years of American work experience with them. These IT professionals have experience working internationally, having benefited from in-house training in multinational companies. More importantly, experienced professionals returning to India will likely be willing to work for competitive rates.// 9 Nov. 2018: Surprisingly, Nebraska, Kearney in the US where Vani Kotcherlakov stays it snowed heavily and people are confined at home for their official work, around establishments. It snowed heavily for three days, beginning 9 November 2018.//16:34 IST: In a first, Empire State Building lit up in orange to celebrate Diwali. The Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT) and the FIA have been illuminating the Empire State Building in August every year in the colors of the Indian tricolor to mark India's Independence Day. // November 10, 2018, 04:16 PM: Flash floods kill 11 in Jordan. // 4:59 pm: With the start of the winter season, the arrival of migratory birds started. Central Eurasia and North American birds can be seen now. Bhopal, The hap of different species of birds has started arriving now from the early stages of the winter season.// 8:00:53 pm: Parker Solar Probe, NASA’s historic mission to solve the mysteries of the Sun, is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from its surface. // November 11, 2018: Female flight attendant Patrisha Organo breastfeeds strange baby on board. In a brilliant example set up by a female cabin crew member, Patrisha Organo of Philippines airlines as she is winning millions of hearts by giving breastfeed to a stranger baby because of her mother was not able to feed the baby. // Students Demand a University in Ladakh. There are four colleges in the entire Ladakh region, which are affiliated to the University of Kashmir. For a long time, Ladakhi students from the two districts of Leh and Kargil have been raising their demand for a full-fledged university in the Ladakh region of the state Jammu and Kashmir. // Odisha CM seeks inquiry into negligence in Sun Temple preservation. It has been mentioned in the newspaper report that 40 percent of the artistic stone carvings of the existing Konark Sun temple has been replaced by the ASI with plain stones. // The sea has receded in Visakhapatnam on the 11 Nov. 2018. // November 12, 2018: 12:25 AM: Teacher-pupil ratio disproportionate in Kashmir. ‘Blue-eyed’ teachers posted in schools with no enrollment. The government in a sheer failure is yet to streamline pupil-teacher ratio in government-run schools as most schools in Kashmir are running with an unbalanced ratio. // 13:26: Mining: A picture of neglect: How bauxite mining has affected tribals in AP's East Godavari. Activists allege that the mining violates several safeguards meant for the protection and strengthening of the forest ecosystem and Adivasi livelihoods. // 09:02 AM IST: The four-day long festival of Chhath has begun across the country. The festival dedicated to the Sun God and the Goddess of Dawn (Usha Devi or Chhati Maiyya) is celebrated by women who hail from the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. The actual day of the festival (the third day or Chhath Puja) falls on the sixth day of the Hindu month of Kartik and hence it is called Chhath. Women observe fast during the festival and perform various rituals while offering their prayers. Dressed in saree embellished with heavy ornamentation, women take a dip in the Ganga or any other Holy river. // 9:53 AM: New Zealand school teachers strike again in a stand-off with Ardern government. WELLINGTON: School teachers walked off the job in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, on Monday, kicking off a week of national strike action as a three-month battle over wages and work conditions tests the Labour-led government. // 1:40 AM; After howitzer, Vajra, Army guns for ‘made in India’ firepower. The Indian Army will focus on the next lot of guns that are totally made in India and will expectedly form the bulk of long-range artillery firepower over the next three decades. Such guns fire at targets that are 40 to 45 km away. // 21:04 IST: PM inaugurates India's first inland waterways port in Varanasi. // Monday: Indian landmass is warming, confirms past climate records. The new study, that combines data from 146 sites across major climatic zones, shows mean warming of one degree Celsius since about 1860. // 09:06 PM: This year's snowfall in November to break the 34-year-old record in Jammu and Kashmir. The Valley experienced season's first snowfall on November 4-5. The heavy snowfall disconnected Kashmir's surface link with outside country for two days and air link for a day. // 13 November 2018, 10:09 AM: Launch of pepper app for farmers on Friday. AISEF said the app aims to empower pepper farmers to utilize the knowledge of the expert network created to support them // Manipur man wishes to undertake a cycle tour to save the deer. //21:07 IST: ISRO's 'Geo-Eye' To Monitor India, Offer Web Access To Remote Locations. // Grateful for PM Modi's friendship says US President Trump at White House Diwali celebrations. "The United States has deep ties to the nation of India and I am grateful for my friendship with Prime Minister Modi," Trump said before lighting the ceremonial Diya in the historic Roosevelt Room of the White House. We're trying very hard to make better trade deals with India. But, they're very good traders. They're very good negotiators. You would say right. The best. So we're working. And it's moving along. // Rains bring some respite from severe air pollution. That’s no guarantee though that air quality would not deteriorate. // 14 Nov. 2018: London: Massive 'ghost' galaxy spotted hiding next to Milky Way. Despite its size, the galaxy has very few stars, challenging conventional theories of galaxy formation. //21:46 PM IST: MUMBAI: The water supply for domestic users will be cut by 10 percent, while for all other non-domestic uses, it will be slashed by 15 percent, in view of a grim water storage situation confronting the country`s commercial capital, BMC. The latest restrictions have been necessitated due to around 75 percent capacity available in all the seven dams which supply water to the city with a population of around 17 million. // The Hindu page 3: Prof. K. Rangadhama Rao's memorial lecture was delivered by Indian Scientists at Andhra Unversity. // Nov 15, 2018: Mountains Amass More Snow, Rains Lash Plains. Fresh snowfall and rains occurred in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as the Met forecast scattered rains and snow to continue till Thursday. // Sonamarg, police team make a narrow escape at Zojila Pass during snow avalanche. While the party was returning from Zero points Zojila, it had a narrow escape as many snow avalanches hit the area. “The police team left their vehicle on the other side of the Zojila ad returned to Sonamarg police station by foot after walking more than 10 km.” // In Visakhapatnam, it started raining around 1PM today, but only slightly. The sky was today totally cloudy, and in the last two days, it was partially cloudy. // Nov 15, 2018 08:45 IST: ISRO successfully launches communication satellite GSAT-29. The launch took place at 05.08 hours from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The countdown for the launch had begun at 2.50 pm on November 13. The GSLV Mark-III rocket weighs around 640 ton and has a height of 43.4 meters.
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Nov 1, 2018, 06:15 IST: Instant messaging. 6 Oct 2018: The world’s first fully-autonomous indoor farm. A farm in Silicon Valley which is capable of autonomously growing and picking leafy greens is now operational. // 07 Nov 2018: As the retail industry story unfolds in India, new strategies come to the fore. // J&K: After nine years, Kashmir has witnessed an early snowfall in the month of November. At least 5,000 trucks carrying apples are stranded on the highway. The cultivators are worried that a huge quantity of apples may rot if the road remains blocked for long. On Saturday, November 3, Kashmir was wrapped in a blanket of snow. // 16:38: 2018: India has been elected as a Member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council for another 4-year term (2019-2022). // Nov. 8, 2018: I found Visakhapatnam beach has moved slightly backward from Maharanipeta area to the RK beach, but what surprised was the typical sound of the waves at the RK mission beach. This is unusual since Deepavali Amavasya (No moon day) sea should have moved forward! // 21:00: Now scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern think they may have seen another particle, detected as a peak at a certain energy in the data, although the finding is yet to be confirmed. // Consequently, many Indian tech employees will be returning home: bringing years of American work experience with them. These IT professionals have experience working internationally, having benefited from in-house training in multinational companies. More importantly, experienced professionals returning to India will likely be willing to work for competitive rates.// 9 Nov. 2018: Surprisingly, Nebraska, Kearney in the US where Vani Kotcherlakov stays it snowed heavily and people are confined at home for their official work, around establishments. It snowed heavily for three days, beginning 9 November 2018.//16:34 IST: In a first, Empire State Building lit up in orange to celebrate Diwali. The Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT) and the FIA have been illuminating the Empire State Building in August every year in the colors of the Indian tricolor to mark India's Independence Day. // November 10, 2018, 04:16 PM: Flash floods kill 11 in Jordan. // 4:59 pm: With the start of the winter season, the arrival of migratory birds started. Central Eurasia and North American birds can be seen now. Bhopal, The hap of different species of birds has started arriving now from the early stages of the winter season.// 8:00:53 pm: Parker Solar Probe, NASA’s historic mission to solve the mysteries of the Sun, is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from its surface. // November 11, 2018: Female flight attendant Patrisha Organo breastfeeds strange baby on board. In a brilliant example set up by a female cabin crew member, Patrisha Organo of Philippines airlines as she is winning millions of hearts by giving breastfeed to a stranger baby because of her mother was not able to feed the baby. // Students Demand a University in Ladakh. There are four colleges in the entire Ladakh region, which are affiliated to the University of Kashmir. For a long time, Ladakhi students from the two districts of Leh and Kargil have been raising their demand for a full-fledged university in the Ladakh region of the state Jammu and Kashmir. // Odisha CM seeks inquiry into negligence in Sun Temple preservation. It has been mentioned in the newspaper report that 40 percent of the artistic stone carvings of the existing Konark Sun temple has been replaced by the ASI with plain stones. // The sea has receded in Visakhapatnam on the 11 Nov. 2018. // November 12, 2018: 12:25 AM: Teacher-pupil ratio disproportionate in Kashmir. ‘Blue-eyed’ teachers posted in schools with no enrollment. The government in a sheer failure is yet to streamline pupil-teacher ratio in government-run schools as most schools in Kashmir are running with an unbalanced ratio. // 13:26: Mining: A picture of neglect: How bauxite mining has affected tribals in AP's East Godavari. Activists allege that the mining violates several safeguards meant for the protection and strengthening of the forest ecosystem and Adivasi livelihoods. // 09:02 AM IST: The four-day long festival of Chhath has begun across the country. The festival dedicated to the Sun God and the Goddess of Dawn (Usha Devi or Chhati Maiyya) is celebrated by women who hail from the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. The actual day of the festival (the third day or Chhath Puja) falls on the sixth day of the Hindu month of Kartik and hence it is called Chhath. Women observe fast during the festival and perform various rituals while offering their prayers. Dressed in saree embellished with heavy ornamentation, women take a dip in the Ganga or any other Holy river. // 9:53 AM: New Zealand school teachers strike again in a stand-off with Ardern government. WELLINGTON: School teachers walked off the job in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, on Monday, kicking off a week of national strike action as a three-month battle over wages and work conditions tests the Labour-led government. // 1:40 AM; After howitzer, Vajra, Army guns for ‘made in India’ firepower. The Indian Army will focus on the next lot of guns that are totally made in India and will expectedly form the bulk of long-range artillery firepower over the next three decades. Such guns fire at targets that are 40 to 45 km away. // 21:04 IST: PM inaugurates India's first inland waterways port in Varanasi. // Monday: Indian landmass is warming, confirms past climate records. The new study, that combines data from 146 sites across major climatic zones, shows mean warming of one degree Celsius since about 1860. // 09:06 PM: This year's snowfall in November to break the 34-year-old record in Jammu and Kashmir. The Valley experienced season's first snowfall on November 4-5. The heavy snowfall disconnected Kashmir's surface link with outside country for two days and air link for a day. // 13 November 2018, 10:09 AM: Launch of pepper app for farmers on Friday. AISEF said the app aims to empower pepper farmers to utilize the knowledge of the expert network created to support them // Manipur man wishes to undertake a cycle tour to save the deer. //21:07 IST: ISRO's 'Geo-Eye' To Monitor India, Offer Web Access To Remote Locations. // Grateful for PM Modi's friendship says US President Trump at White House Diwali celebrations. "The United States has deep ties to the nation of India and I am grateful for my friendship with Prime Minister Modi," Trump said before lighting the ceremonial Diya in the historic Roosevelt Room of the White House. We're trying very hard to make better trade deals with India. But, they're very good traders. They're very good negotiators. You would say right. The best. So we're working. And it's moving along. // Rains bring some respite from severe air pollution. That’s no guarantee though that air quality would not deteriorate. // 14 Nov. 2018: London: Massive 'ghost' galaxy spotted hiding next to Milky Way. Despite its size, the galaxy has very few stars, challenging conventional theories of galaxy formation. //21:46 PM IST: MUMBAI: The water supply for domestic users will be cut by 10 percent, while for all other non-domestic uses, it will be slashed by 15 percent, in view of a grim water storage situation confronting the country`s commercial capital, BMC. The latest restrictions have been necessitated due to around 75 percent capacity available in all the seven dams which supply water to the city with a population of around 17 million. // The Hindu page 3: Prof. K. Rangadhama Rao's memorial lecture was delivered by Indian Scientists at Andhra Unversity. // Nov 15, 2018: Mountains Amass More Snow, Rains Lash Plains. Fresh snowfall and rains occurred in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as the Met forecast scattered rains and snow to continue till Thursday. // Sonamarg, police team make a narrow escape at Zojila Pass during snow avalanche. While the party was returning from Zero points Zojila, it had a narrow escape as many snow avalanches hit the area. “The police team left their vehicle on the other side of the Zojila ad returned to Sonamarg police station by foot after walking more than 10 km.” // In Visakhapatnam, it started raining around 1PM today, but only slightly. The sky was today totally cloudy, and in the last two days, it was partially cloudy. // Nov 15, 2018 08:45 IST: ISRO successfully launches communication satellite GSAT-29. The launch took place at 05.08 hours from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The countdown for the launch had begun at 2.50 pm on November 13. The GSLV Mark-III rocket weighs around 640 ton and has a height of 43.4 meters.
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Nov 01, 2018 10:31 IS: What has driven India’s poverty reduction? 55 % of Indians were classified as poor by the MPI methodology in 2005-06. India halved its poverty rate in the next 10 years. In absolute terms, the number of poor fell from 630 million to 360 million during this period. Improved nutrition, better sanitation, and increased asset ownership have halved India’s poverty rate between 2005-06 and 2015-16, according to a study by Oxford University.
November 01, 2018 13:23 IST:
Fig.1 black-hole-generic.
Indian Satellite Helps Find Black Hole That Spins Near Max Possible Rate. AstroSat was launched in 2015 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is the first dedicated astronomy satellite of India, and the SXT aboard AstroSat is the first Indian X-ray telescope. Scientists using data from India's first dedicated astronomy satellite, AstroSat, and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found that a black hole in the binary star system 4U 1630-47 spins close to the maximum possible rate which makes it even more exotic.
November 1, 2018, 07:44am ET: NASA's Parker Solar Probe Just Started Its First Skim Past the Sun. the sun produces such enormous amounts of radio waves that they will drown out the spacecraft's signals. But the probe is designed to take care of itself, autonomously troubleshooting problems and twisting to stay safe from the sun's overwhelming heat. And all the while, the spacecraft's instruments will be working to crack the mysteries of the sun that powers our every moment here on Earth. Four different sets of instruments will study the structure of the star's outer atmosphere, which scientists call the corona. We may even get our first image from within that corona.
Nov 01, 2018, 14:00 IST: Mumbai beats Delhi to become most unsafe for women, reveals analysis. A scribe's analysis of the #MeToo movement in India reveals that Mumbai has beaten New Delhi to become the most unsafe for women.
02 November 2018: World’s first PET aerogels cut plastic waste, and are suitable for heat and sound insulation, oil spill cleaning, carbon dioxide absorption, as well as fire safety applications. Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have made a significant contribution towards resolving the global issue of plastic waste, by creating a way to convert plastic bottle waste into aerogels for many useful applications. The research team took two years (from August 2016 to August 2018) to develop the technology to fabricate PET aerogels. This work was published in the scientific journal Colloids and Surfaces A in August 2018. When coated with fire retardant chemicals, the novel lightweight PET aerogel demonstrates superior thermal resistance and stability. It can withstand temperatures of up to 620C this is seven times higher than the thermal lining used in conventional firefighter coats but weighs only about 10 percent of the weight of conventional thermal lining. The soft and flexible nature of the PET aerogel also provides greater comfort. When coated with an amine group, the PET aerogel can quickly absorb carbon dioxide. The research team has filed a patent for its novel PET aerogel technology.
Nov 2, 2018, 11:26 am IST: Mastercard lodged US protest over Modi's promotion of Indian card network RuPay. More than half of India’s 1 billion debit and credit cards now go through the RuPay payment system. More than half of India’s 1 billion debit and credit cards now go through the RuPay payment system, and that means companies such as Mastercard face an uphill task to expand rapidly in one of the world’s biggest payments growth markets.
Nov 2, 2018: Snow on Himachal hills. Shimla: Temperatures across Himachal Pradesh on Friday dipped as high altitudes received mild spells of snow while others experienced rains. The minimum temperature here was 10.5C. Kalpa, 250 km from Shimla, and Keylong in Lahaul and Spiti district recorded the night temperature at three degrees and minus 1.1C, respectively. Lower hills of Dharamsala, Kangra, Palampur, and Hamirpur saw rains.
November 2, 2018: IIT-Madras develops India’s first microprocessor Shakti technology. Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IITM) have designed and booted up India’s first microprocessor, Shakti, which could be used in mobile computing and other devices. According to IITM, the Shakti microprocessor can be used in low-power wireless systems and networking systems besides reducing reliance on imported microprocessors in communication and defense sectors.
02 November 2018: World’s first PET aerogels cut plastic waste, and are suitable for heat and sound insulation, oil spill cleaning, carbon dioxide absorption, as well as fire safety applications. Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have made a significant contribution towards resolving the global issue of plastic waste, by creating a way to convert plastic bottle waste into aerogels for many useful applications. The research team took two years (from August 2016 to August 2018) to develop the technology to fabricate PET aerogels. This work was published in the scientific journal Colloids and Surfaces A in August 2018. When coated with fire retardant chemicals, the novel lightweight PET aerogel demonstrates superior thermal resistance and stability. It can withstand temperatures of up to 620C this is seven times higher than the thermal lining used in conventional firefighter coats but weighs only about 10 percent of the weight of conventional thermal lining. The soft and flexible nature of the PET aerogel also provides greater comfort. When coated with an amine group, the PET aerogel can quickly absorb carbon dioxide. The research team has filed a patent for its novel PET aerogel technology.
Nov 2, 2018, 11:26 am IST: Mastercard lodged US protest over Modi's promotion of Indian card network RuPay. More than half of India’s 1 billion debit and credit cards now go through the RuPay payment system. More than half of India’s 1 billion debit and credit cards now go through the RuPay payment system, and that means companies such as Mastercard face an uphill task to expand rapidly in one of the world’s biggest payments growth markets.
Nov 2, 2018: Snow on Himachal hills. Shimla: Temperatures across Himachal Pradesh on Friday dipped as high altitudes received mild spells of snow while others experienced rains. The minimum temperature here was 10.5C. Kalpa, 250 km from Shimla, and Keylong in Lahaul and Spiti district recorded the night temperature at three degrees and minus 1.1C, respectively. Lower hills of Dharamsala, Kangra, Palampur, and Hamirpur saw rains.
November 2, 2018: IIT-Madras develops India’s first microprocessor Shakti technology. Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IITM) have designed and booted up India’s first microprocessor, Shakti, which could be used in mobile computing and other devices. According to IITM, the Shakti microprocessor can be used in low-power wireless systems and networking systems besides reducing reliance on imported microprocessors in communication and defense sectors.
Nov. 2, 2018: A new University in Prakasam District, from the academic year 2019-2020, named after Andhra Kesari Tanguturi Prakasam, at Ongole in Prakasam district. While he was the Chief Minister of Andhra State, he appointed Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) to create the Second University of Andhra Pradesh in 1954, but alas he lost the Chief Minister post due to political wrangling. Prof. K. R. Rao was also unfortunate not to secure the Vice-Chancellor post of the Tirupati Venkateswara University and left only as a special officer. But he appointed about 15 Professors and other academic staff, before leaving the post of a Special Officer in 1954.
Nov 02, 2018:7:55 PM: Japanese island vanishes for good under the waves. The Japanese Coast Guard said the island protruded about 55 inches from the sea surface back in 1987. Leading climatologists believe over the last 31 years the islet has been eroded by the Sea of Okhotsk drift ice and wind every winter. Seasoned fishermen mentioned they steered clear of the island decades ago because navigational systems believed it was an undersea reef. Esanbe is one of 158 uninhabited islands off the Japanese coast. It is situated in the Northern Territories, an area of dispute between Japan and Russia. The islands were snatched from Japan by the Soviets after World War II ended. Local residents were made aware Esanbe could be gone in September.
Nov 02, 2018:7:55 PM: Japanese island vanishes for good under the waves. The Japanese Coast Guard said the island protruded about 55 inches from the sea surface back in 1987. Leading climatologists believe over the last 31 years the islet has been eroded by the Sea of Okhotsk drift ice and wind every winter. Seasoned fishermen mentioned they steered clear of the island decades ago because navigational systems believed it was an undersea reef. Esanbe is one of 158 uninhabited islands off the Japanese coast. It is situated in the Northern Territories, an area of dispute between Japan and Russia. The islands were snatched from Japan by the Soviets after World War II ended. Local residents were made aware Esanbe could be gone in September.
2 Nov. 2018: "As we speak, somewhere in the country your entrepreneurial brother or sister is getting a loan... sanctioned in just 59 minutes," PM Modi said. "Think, only 59 minutes. Just 59 minutes." The other measures announced today included an increase in the share of small and medium industries in total government procurement from 20 to 25 percent. He also announced a 2 percent interest relief on loans up to Rs. 1 crore for small businesses that file GST returns. "These 12 decisions are not just Diwali gifts for MSMEs but will also herald a new age and new chapter for small enterprises," PM Modi told a gathering at Delhi's Vigyan Bhawan.
3 Nov. 2018:
3 Nov. 2018:
Fig.2 City-based girl Siva Rasgmya Peddapali, who is now
residing in New York dressed up in Ardhanareswara
(A form of Siva-half man and half-women).She
bagged an award in the best makeup category at her workplace.
November 3, 2018, 3:32 PM: Jammu And Kashmir: 120 rescued as heavy snowfall blocks the Mughal road. Over 120 persons, mostly truckers, were rescued from Peer Ki Gali along the Mughal road, which recorded the season's first heavy snowfall over the past couple of days. Over three feet of snow had accumulated in the high altitude Peer Ki Gali stretch of the road, connecting the twin districts of Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu with south Kashmir Shopian.
November 3, 2018, 7:53 pm, Shimla: Fresh snowfall in upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh disrupts normal life. Fresh snowfall disrupted normal life in the upper reaches of Kullu, Kinnaur and Lahaul Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh with some areas recording more than 2 feet snow.
3 Nov. 2018: 22 hours ago: WATCH: This Detroit teacher a physicist lyricist, uses rap to excite his students about science. He was one of four Detroit educators who told their stories last month on stage at the Lyft Lounge at Musictown Detroit as part of the Tale the Teacher storytelling event.
November 3, 2018, 7:53 pm, Shimla: Fresh snowfall in upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh disrupts normal life. Fresh snowfall disrupted normal life in the upper reaches of Kullu, Kinnaur and Lahaul Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh with some areas recording more than 2 feet snow.
3 Nov. 2018: 22 hours ago: WATCH: This Detroit teacher a physicist lyricist, uses rap to excite his students about science. He was one of four Detroit educators who told their stories last month on stage at the Lyft Lounge at Musictown Detroit as part of the Tale the Teacher storytelling event.
November 04, 2018 07:12 IST: Here's Why Snowfall In Kashmir, Himachal Is A Good Sign For Delhi's Air. The weather conditions which led to the snowfall and rains, western disturbance, have however moved east and are set to leave a positive impact over Delhi-NCR, Punjab, Haryana.
November 04, 2018, 09:14 IST: Apollo Hospitals organizes 1st International Proton Therapy Education Programme. Global oncology specialists come together to share insights on cancer care through PROTON beam therapy. Delegates tour the soon-to-be-launched state-of-the-art Apollo Proton Cancer Centre facility, South East Asia’s first Proton Therapy Centre. I have worked on the Synchrocyclotron, in Sweden in 1964 that had a programme of Proton Therapy.
Nov 4, 2018, 7:57 am IST: Chennai: Rising temperature, falling groundwater level. The final draft of State Specific Action Plans (SAP) with a component on water budgeting to be ready by December.
Nov. 4, 2018:
November 4, 2018, 8:08:41 pm: Storms, floods in Sicily kill at least 12 people; two missing. Divers pulled out nine of the victims from a home flooded by a rapidly swelling river in the countryside near Palermo. The sole survivor of the home was the owner, who had just stepped out to walk the family dogs when the torrent hit.
November 04, 2018, 09:14 IST: Apollo Hospitals organizes 1st International Proton Therapy Education Programme. Global oncology specialists come together to share insights on cancer care through PROTON beam therapy. Delegates tour the soon-to-be-launched state-of-the-art Apollo Proton Cancer Centre facility, South East Asia’s first Proton Therapy Centre. I have worked on the Synchrocyclotron, in Sweden in 1964 that had a programme of Proton Therapy.
Nov 4, 2018, 7:57 am IST: Chennai: Rising temperature, falling groundwater level. The final draft of State Specific Action Plans (SAP) with a component on water budgeting to be ready by December.
Nov. 4, 2018:
Fig.3 Automatic Charge Cycle.
Automatic Charge Cycle by Kambampati Naga Sripawan, of Krishna Zillha Thotlavalluru youth, invented to present in USA Boston University, from November 4 to 11, he would present the details. He already left for the USA. November 4, 2018, 8:08:41 pm: Storms, floods in Sicily kill at least 12 people; two missing. Divers pulled out nine of the victims from a home flooded by a rapidly swelling river in the countryside near Palermo. The sole survivor of the home was the owner, who had just stepped out to walk the family dogs when the torrent hit.
Nov. 4, 2018: Blue is the warmest color. Neeli Raag is a cinematic ode to Indigo and to craftsmanship. Neeli Raag, True Blue, begins with the history of Indigo, which is not simply the rise and fall of a natural dye. The tradition of making Indigo has survived 4000 years, witnessing Indo-Europen trade disputes, British colonialism, the Mahatma Gandhi led protests against the crop, and ultimately a modern India where the color is in vogue but with not enough craftsmen to meet the demand. 5 Nov. 2018: If simply observing these qubits changes them and causes a loss of information, you can imagine how sensitive they are. One of the problems with our quantum computers now is that quantum effects are extremely delicate. Heat, noise, and dust can all cause qubits to change their state of superposition so that they have to be shielded and run at very cold temperatures, sometimes only a few degrees warmer than absolute zero (–459.67°F). Researchers use resonators to see and read the state of qubits since resonators are much easier to interact with.
November 5, 2018: No bail for those caught with banned firecrackers in Kolkata. In a recent announcement, Kolkata police have stated that this year during Diwali celebrations, those caught with banned firecrackers will not be granted bail. Further, if required the arrested people will be presented before a court, from where they would have to seek bail.
05 Nov 2018: PM felicitates crew of INS Arihant on completion of Nuclear Triad. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi received today the crew of Strategic Strike Nuclear Submarine (SSBN) INS Arihant. The submarine recently returned from its first deterrence patrol, completing the establishment of the country’s survivable nuclear triad. Stressing the significance of the successful deployment of INS Arihant for the completion of India’s nuclear triad, the Prime Minister congratulated the crew and all involved in the achievement which puts India among a handful of countries having the capability to design, construct and operate SSBNs.
November 5, 2018: No bail for those caught with banned firecrackers in Kolkata. In a recent announcement, Kolkata police have stated that this year during Diwali celebrations, those caught with banned firecrackers will not be granted bail. Further, if required the arrested people will be presented before a court, from where they would have to seek bail.
05 Nov 2018: PM felicitates crew of INS Arihant on completion of Nuclear Triad. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi received today the crew of Strategic Strike Nuclear Submarine (SSBN) INS Arihant. The submarine recently returned from its first deterrence patrol, completing the establishment of the country’s survivable nuclear triad. Stressing the significance of the successful deployment of INS Arihant for the completion of India’s nuclear triad, the Prime Minister congratulated the crew and all involved in the achievement which puts India among a handful of countries having the capability to design, construct and operate SSBNs.
Nov 05, 2018: Why Early Snowfall Does Not Cheer Up Kashmiris. Snowfall, a natural phenomenon, can occur at any time by the will of God, as it happened this year more than a month before the scheduled time of winter. With early snow came a lot of miseries as it caught the people unawares and unprepared.
06 Oct 2018: The world’s first fully-autonomous indoor farm. A farm in Silicon Valley which is capable of autonomously growing and picking leafy greens is now operational. The BBC's Dave Lee met the company's boss Brandon Alexander as well as Angus, the mobile robot.
October 06, 2018: 10:02 IST:
After years of waiting, the Diwali stamp was released on Wednesday in the USA.
Emirates: To add more cheer to festivities, Emirates will also be serving special Diwali treats to passengers flying with the airline from November 7 to November 10. Diwali is a festival of colors, lights, and sweets. And to bring out the sweetness of the festival, Emirates Airlines has come up with a special Mitai (sweets) truck in Dubai to spread some Diali cheer among locals.
Oct. 6, 2018:
Oct. 6, 2018:
Fig.5 Super scavenger Genorobotics.
Thiruvananthapuram-based start-up Genrobotics has come up with a solution. Its four-member team has built a 50-kg robot, named Bandicoot, which can clean up a manhole in 20-45 minutes. A manual attempt usually takes around three hours. The robot opens the lid of the manhole, reaches down into it, cleans the drain floor and collects the debris.
Nov 7, 2018 - 12:06:19: On the other hand, pilgrim city Puri echoed with ‘Badabadua Ho Andharare Aasa, Aalua Re Jao’ (Oh forefathers, come in darkness and go back in light) chanting with devotees thronging Singhadwara, in front of Srimandir to offer ‘Paya Shraddha’ (homage) to their ancestors since morning on the occasion of Diwali. Eldest son of each family burnt bunches of ‘Kaunria Kathi’ (jute stick) in front of Singhadwara and invoked their forefathers. It is believed that the souls of fathers, which came to their descendants’ place on ‘Mahalaya’, leave their children’s house for heaven on the day of Diwali.
Fig.6 Modi with Indian Army prior to
visit the Kedarnath temple.
07 Nov 2018: As the retail industry story unfolds in India, new strategies come to the fore. Recent news of Amazon acquiring a stake in Future Retail is an indication that the strategy will be differentiated given the nature of the market and consumption trends. Amazon's acquisition of a stake in Future Retail is in addition to the stake it took in Shoppers Stop and the earlier Aditya Birla-backed "More" chain. These acquisitions are an indication that large retail players think that, to gain a greater market share, the online strategy will have to be complemented with an offline route as well.
07 Nov 2018: J&K: After nine years, Kashmir has witnessed an early snowfall in the month of November. At least 5,000 trucks carrying apples are stranded on the highway. The cultivators are worried that a huge quantity of apples may rot if the road remains blocked for long. On Saturday, November 3, Kashmir was wrapped in a blanket of snow. The local tourism is expected to be thriving with the rise in the number of visitors to the Valley due to the early snowfall. However, the main source of Kashmir’s economy "saffron and the apple crops" has faced a sizeable loss. It may take the cultivators years to recover from this loss.
07 Nov 2018: J&K: After nine years, Kashmir has witnessed an early snowfall in the month of November. At least 5,000 trucks carrying apples are stranded on the highway. The cultivators are worried that a huge quantity of apples may rot if the road remains blocked for long. On Saturday, November 3, Kashmir was wrapped in a blanket of snow. The local tourism is expected to be thriving with the rise in the number of visitors to the Valley due to the early snowfall. However, the main source of Kashmir’s economy "saffron and the apple crops" has faced a sizeable loss. It may take the cultivators years to recover from this loss.
November 07: 16:38: 2018: India has been elected as a Member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council for another 4-year term (2019-2022). The elections to the Council were held during the ongoing ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 at Dubai, UAE. By securing 165 votes, India ranked third among the 13 countries elected to the Council from the Asia-Australasia region, and eighth among the 48 countries elected to the Council globally. The ITU has 193 member states who elect representatives to the Council.
Nov. 8, 2018: I found Visakhapatnam beach has moved slightly backward from Maharanipeta area to the RK beach, but what surprised was the typical sound of the waves at the RK mission beach. This is unusual since Deepavali Amavasya (No moon day) sea should have moved forward!
Nov 8, 2018, 08:04:IST: India's largest container port to host edible oil refinery. India’s largest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) is planning to host an edible oil refinery to maximize revenue and ensure captive cargo.
Nov.8, 2018: 21:00: Now scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern think they may have seen another particle, detected as a peak at a certain energy in the data, although the finding is yet to be confirmed. Again there’s a lot of excitement among particle physicists, but this time it is mixed with a sense of anxiety. Unlike the Higgs particle, which confirmed our understanding of physical reality, this new particle seems to threaten it. The new result – consisting of a mysterious bump in the data at 28 GeV (a unit of energy) – has been published as a preprint on ArXiv.The new finding comes from an experiment involving the CMS detector, which recorded a number of pairs of muons – well known and easily identified particles that are similar to electrons, but heavier. It analyzed their energies and directions and asked: if this pair came from the decay of a single parent particle, what would the mass of that parent be? In most cases, pairs of muons come from different sources – originating from two different events rather than the decay of one particle. If you try to calculate a parent mass in such cases it would, therefore, spread out over a wide range of energies rather than creating a narrow peak specifically at 28GeV (or some other energy) in the data. But in this case, it certainly looks like there’s a peak. Perhaps. You can look at the figure and you can judge for yourself.
November 8, 2018: Talent Procurement in India’s Information Technology Sector. On April 19, 2017, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating that federal agencies review the H-1B visa program. An expected change is doubling the minimum salary for H-1B visa holders to US$130,000 – rendering mass hiring from India unprofitable. Consequently, many Indian tech employees will be returning home: bringing years of American work experience with them. These IT professionals have experience working internationally, having benefited from in-house training in multinational companies. More importantly, experienced professionals returning to India will likely be willing to work for competitive rates.
November 09, 2018: 16:34 IST: In a first, Empire State Building lit up in orange to celebrate Diwali. The Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT) and the FIA have been illuminating the Empire State Building in August every year in the colors of the Indian tricolor to mark India's Independence Day.
Nov 10, 2018, 17:34 PM IST: Amaravati: No to nighty: Andhra village elders issue bizarre dictate. The rule has allegedly been formulated by the elders of the village. In a bizarre incident, women in an Andhra Pradesh village are prohibited to wear nighties during the daytime. According to the elders of Tokalapalli village in the state's West Godavari district, no woman should wear nighties between 7 am to 7 pm.
Nov 8, 2018, 08:04:IST: India's largest container port to host edible oil refinery. India’s largest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) is planning to host an edible oil refinery to maximize revenue and ensure captive cargo.
Nov.8, 2018: 21:00: Now scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern think they may have seen another particle, detected as a peak at a certain energy in the data, although the finding is yet to be confirmed. Again there’s a lot of excitement among particle physicists, but this time it is mixed with a sense of anxiety. Unlike the Higgs particle, which confirmed our understanding of physical reality, this new particle seems to threaten it. The new result – consisting of a mysterious bump in the data at 28 GeV (a unit of energy) – has been published as a preprint on ArXiv.The new finding comes from an experiment involving the CMS detector, which recorded a number of pairs of muons – well known and easily identified particles that are similar to electrons, but heavier. It analyzed their energies and directions and asked: if this pair came from the decay of a single parent particle, what would the mass of that parent be? In most cases, pairs of muons come from different sources – originating from two different events rather than the decay of one particle. If you try to calculate a parent mass in such cases it would, therefore, spread out over a wide range of energies rather than creating a narrow peak specifically at 28GeV (or some other energy) in the data. But in this case, it certainly looks like there’s a peak. Perhaps. You can look at the figure and you can judge for yourself.
November 8, 2018: Talent Procurement in India’s Information Technology Sector. On April 19, 2017, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating that federal agencies review the H-1B visa program. An expected change is doubling the minimum salary for H-1B visa holders to US$130,000 – rendering mass hiring from India unprofitable. Consequently, many Indian tech employees will be returning home: bringing years of American work experience with them. These IT professionals have experience working internationally, having benefited from in-house training in multinational companies. More importantly, experienced professionals returning to India will likely be willing to work for competitive rates.
November 09, 2018: 16:34 IST: In a first, Empire State Building lit up in orange to celebrate Diwali. The Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT) and the FIA have been illuminating the Empire State Building in August every year in the colors of the Indian tricolor to mark India's Independence Day.
Nov 10, 2018, 17:34 PM IST: Amaravati: No to nighty: Andhra village elders issue bizarre dictate. The rule has allegedly been formulated by the elders of the village. In a bizarre incident, women in an Andhra Pradesh village are prohibited to wear nighties during the daytime. According to the elders of Tokalapalli village in the state's West Godavari district, no woman should wear nighties between 7 am to 7 pm.
November 10, 2018, 04:16 PM: Flash floods kill 11 in Jordan. Heavy rains starting on Friday afternoon in southern Jordan caused the flooding of Wadi Musa town on Saturday. At least 11 people have been killed due to the flash floods while as 3,700 tourists have been evacuated, on Saturday.
November 10, 2018, 4:59 pm: With the start of the winter season, the arrival of migratory birds started. Central Eurasia and North American birds can be seen now. Bhopal, The hap of different species of birds has started arriving now from the early stages of the winter season. They can be seen during bird watching camp held in the city. Experts are giving information about their needs in life, behavior, and biodiversity of birds. Local and migratory species are coming in large numbers. According to experts, species such as Black Red Start, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, and Gray belly Cuckoo are quite special and rare. It is exciting to see them. Migratory birds coming in the cold season are quite special. They come on migration to make their couples and to lay eggs.
Nov 10, 2018: Sitharaman unveils M777, K9 howitzers for Army.
November 10, 2018, 8:00:53 pm:
November 10, 2018, 4:59 pm: With the start of the winter season, the arrival of migratory birds started. Central Eurasia and North American birds can be seen now. Bhopal, The hap of different species of birds has started arriving now from the early stages of the winter season. They can be seen during bird watching camp held in the city. Experts are giving information about their needs in life, behavior, and biodiversity of birds. Local and migratory species are coming in large numbers. According to experts, species such as Black Red Start, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, and Gray belly Cuckoo are quite special and rare. It is exciting to see them. Migratory birds coming in the cold season are quite special. They come on migration to make their couples and to lay eggs.
Nov 10, 2018: Sitharaman unveils M777, K9 howitzers for Army.
November 10, 2018, 8:00:53 pm:
Fig.7 Polar Solar Probe Collecting data
from November 11, 2018.
Parker Solar Probe, NASA’s historic mission to solve the mysteries of the Sun, is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from its surface. This is far closer than any spacecraft has ever gone. Parker Solar Probe’s first solar encounter phase began on October 31, and the spacecraft will continue collecting science data through the end of the solar encounter phase on November 11. It will be several weeks after the end of the solar encounter phase before the science data begins downlinking to Earth. The spacecraft will repeatedly break its own speed record as its orbit draws closer to the star and the spacecraft travels faster and faster at perihelion, NASA said.
November 10, 2018: What are the Fastest Growing Modern Business Sectors? And for start-ups in the AI sector, these are exciting times. In 2014, Google bought UK AI company Deep Mind for $400 million, and there have been a string of similar acquisitions as major corporations try to harness the benefits of AI technology. This trend is likely to strengthen with time, and some predictions suggest that as many as 70 percents of all companies in the global economy will be using at least one type of AI technology by 2030. So, whether its intelligent refrigerators that can order your weekly shopping or self-driving cars, the AI sector is sure to offer countless opportunities for new and ambitious start-ups over the next few years.
Nov 11, 2018: 10:31AM: Jammu/Srinagar, Minimum temperatures increase across Jammu and Kashmir. "There is a likelihood of light to moderate widespread rain and snow beginning from Monday,".
Surprisingly, Nebraska, Kearney in the US where Vani Kotcherlakov stays it snowed heavily and people are confined at home for their official work, around establishments. It snowed heavily for three days, beginning 9 November 2018.
Nov 11, 2018, 2:16 AM; Large-scale paddy purchase is ‘only on paper’ in Punjab. Arhtiyas, millers, officials in cahoots; vigil stepped up. The total paddy procured by the Punjab Government over the years could be much less than what is being projected and paid for by the Centre with a nexus emerging during the ongoing procurement season among Arhtiyas, mandi board officers, inspectors of procurement agencies and rice millers that points towards large-scale procurement being done only on paper.
November 11, 2018: Female flight attendant Patrisha Organo breastfeeds strange baby on board. In a brilliant example set up by a female cabin crew member, Patrisha Organo of Philippines airlines as she is winning millions of hearts by giving breastfeed to a stranger baby because of her mother was not able to feed the baby.
Nov 11, 2018, 2:16 AM; Large-scale paddy purchase is ‘only on paper’ in Punjab. Arhtiyas, millers, officials in cahoots; vigil stepped up. The total paddy procured by the Punjab Government over the years could be much less than what is being projected and paid for by the Centre with a nexus emerging during the ongoing procurement season among Arhtiyas, mandi board officers, inspectors of procurement agencies and rice millers that points towards large-scale procurement being done only on paper.
November 11, 2018: Female flight attendant Patrisha Organo breastfeeds strange baby on board. In a brilliant example set up by a female cabin crew member, Patrisha Organo of Philippines airlines as she is winning millions of hearts by giving breastfeed to a stranger baby because of her mother was not able to feed the baby.
11 Nov 2018:
Fig.8 Students demanded a University in Ladak
Students Demand a University in Ladakh. There are four colleges in the entire Ladakh region, which are affiliated to the University of Kashmir. For a long time, Ladakhi students from the two districts of Leh and Kargil have been raising their demand for a full-fledged university in the Ladakh region of the state Jammu and Kashmir.
November 11, 2018, 20:25 IST: Senior Air India Pilot Found Drunk, Another Skips Test. Both Grounded. Captain Arvind Kathpalia now faces a three-year ban from operating commercial jetliners in accordance with DGCA directives.
Nov 11, 2018: Odisha CM seeks inquiry into negligence in Sun Temple preservation. It has been mentioned in the newspaper report that 40 percent of the artistic stone carvings of the existing Konark Sun temple has been replaced by the ASI with plain stones. "The report is a matter of worry and concern for all of us. I have a feeling that the temple deserves more attention from the ASI than what it has got. The ASI needs to focus more on the proper conservation of Konark Sun temple and its art and aesthetic value.
11-11-2018:
11-11-2018:
Fig.9a The sea at Maharanipeta Visakhapatnam
receded on 11-11-2018
November 12, 2018: 21:04 IST: PM inaugurates India's first inland waterways port in Varanasi. Modi inaugurated India's first multi-modal terminal on the Ganga river and received the country's first container cargo transported on inland waterways from Kolkata.
12 November 2018: Monday: Indian landmass is warming, confirms past climate records. The new study, that combines data from 146 sites across major climatic zones, shows mean warming of one degree Celsius since about 1860. A new study of geothermal records across India has shown that the country has experienced about one degree of warming over the baseline mean temperature of the nineteenth century.
12 November 2018: 09:06 PM: This year's snowfall in November to break the 34-year-old record in Jammu and Kashmir. The Valley experienced season's first snowfall on November 4-5. The heavy snowfall disconnected Kashmir's surface link with outside country for two days and air link for a day.
November 12, 2018 - 13:26: Mining: A picture of neglect: How bauxite mining has affected tribals in AP's East Godavari. Activists allege that the mining violates several safeguards meant for the protection and strengthening of the forest ecosystem and Adivasi livelihoods. Dust engulfs the road leading to Vanthada, a hill-top Adivasi hamlet in the dense forests of the Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh, as several trucks carrying loads of minerals pass by. The road, which has been carved out of the hill, is part of a long journey to the top, where less than 150 families belonging to the Konda Dora tribe, considered as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), have been living for as long as they can remember.
Fig.9b The Visakhapatnam beach on 11-11-2018 November 12, 2018: 12:25 AM: Teacher-pupil ratio disproportionate in Kashmir. ‘Blue-eyed’ teachers posted in schools with no enrollment. The government in a sheer failure is yet to streamline pupil-teacher ratio in government-run schools as most schools in Kashmir are running with an unbalanced ratio.
Nov 12, 2018, 09:02 AM IST: The four-day long festival of Chhath has begun across the country. The festival dedicated to the Sun God and the Goddess of Dawn (Usha Devi or Chhati Maiyya) is celebrated by women who hail from the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. The actual day of the festival (the third day or Chhath Puja) falls on the sixth day of the Hindu month of Kartik and hence it is called Chhath. Women observe fast during the festival and perform various rituals while offering their prayers. Dressed in saree embellished with heavy ornamentation, women take a dip in the Ganga or any other Holy river. They greet each other and apply vermillion on each other's forehead.
November 12, 2018: 9:53 AM: New Zealand school teachers strike again in a stand-off with Ardern government. WELLINGTON: School teachers walked off the job in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, on Monday, kicking off a week of national strike action as a three-month battle over wages and work conditions tests the Labour-led government.
Nov 12, 2018, 1:40 AM; After howitzer, Vajra, Army guns for ‘made in India’ firepower. The Indian Army will focus on the next lot of guns that are totally made in India and will expectedly form the bulk of long-range artillery firepower over the next three decades. Such guns fire at targets that are 40 to 45 km away. To put it in perspective, the distance between Chandigarh and Ambala is about 45 km. Top sources told The Tribune that the focus is now on the Dhanush that is made at Ordnance Factory Board and the Advance Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS) designed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation and manufactured by Tata and Bharat Forge. Both have been tested in all conditions and production orders will be given anytime now. Nov 12, 2018, 09:02 AM IST: The four-day long festival of Chhath has begun across the country. The festival dedicated to the Sun God and the Goddess of Dawn (Usha Devi or Chhati Maiyya) is celebrated by women who hail from the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. The actual day of the festival (the third day or Chhath Puja) falls on the sixth day of the Hindu month of Kartik and hence it is called Chhath. Women observe fast during the festival and perform various rituals while offering their prayers. Dressed in saree embellished with heavy ornamentation, women take a dip in the Ganga or any other Holy river. They greet each other and apply vermillion on each other's forehead.
November 12, 2018: 9:53 AM: New Zealand school teachers strike again in a stand-off with Ardern government. WELLINGTON: School teachers walked off the job in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, on Monday, kicking off a week of national strike action as a three-month battle over wages and work conditions tests the Labour-led government.
November 12, 2018: 21:04 IST: PM inaugurates India's first inland waterways port in Varanasi. Modi inaugurated India's first multi-modal terminal on the Ganga river and received the country's first container cargo transported on inland waterways from Kolkata.
12 November 2018: Monday: Indian landmass is warming, confirms past climate records. The new study, that combines data from 146 sites across major climatic zones, shows mean warming of one degree Celsius since about 1860. A new study of geothermal records across India has shown that the country has experienced about one degree of warming over the baseline mean temperature of the nineteenth century.
12 November 2018: 09:06 PM: This year's snowfall in November to break the 34-year-old record in Jammu and Kashmir. The Valley experienced season's first snowfall on November 4-5. The heavy snowfall disconnected Kashmir's surface link with outside country for two days and air link for a day.
November 12, 2018 - 13:26: Mining: A picture of neglect: How bauxite mining has affected tribals in AP's East Godavari. Activists allege that the mining violates several safeguards meant for the protection and strengthening of the forest ecosystem and Adivasi livelihoods. Dust engulfs the road leading to Vanthada, a hill-top Adivasi hamlet in the dense forests of the Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh, as several trucks carrying loads of minerals pass by. The road, which has been carved out of the hill, is part of a long journey to the top, where less than 150 families belonging to the Konda Dora tribe, considered as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), have been living for as long as they can remember.
Fig.10 The Egypt pyramid construction steps.
13 November 2018, 10:09 AM: Launch of pepper app for farmers on Friday. AISEF said the app aims to empower pepper farmers to utilize the knowledge of the expert network created to support them. The farmers are so widely spread out that access to knowledge specific to their issues is beyond their reach. A farmers’ app providing personalized attention could bridge this gap.
Nov. 13, 2018: Mr. Phuritsabam was shocked to find that a brown antlered deer was hunted down in Manipur, for the sake of Sangai Festival. An Amur Falcon was also killed on Sunday. Poachers would be booked. Falcons eat up insects that destroy paddy fields. Manipur man wishes to undertake a cycle tour to save the deer.
November 13, 2018, 21:07 IST: ISRO's 'Geo-Eye' To Monitor India, Offer Web Access To Remote Locations. The experimental satellite carries onboard a unique high-resolution camera - a so-called 'GEO-EYE' to specifically aid the strategic community by tracking enemy ships in the Indian Ocean. Indian space agency ISRO's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk-III), on its second developmental flight, will haul the sophisticated communications satellite GSAT-29 into space tomorrow morning. The countdown began at 2:50 pm today; the launch is scheduled for 5:08 pm tomorrow. This will be the 67th launch from Sriharikota and the GSAT-29 is the 33rd communications satellite made by India. The advanced communications satellite weighs 3,423 kg and will help provide internet connectivity, especially to remote areas of Jammu and Kashmir and North-eastern India. Nov. 13, 2018: Mr. Phuritsabam was shocked to find that a brown antlered deer was hunted down in Manipur, for the sake of Sangai Festival. An Amur Falcon was also killed on Sunday. Poachers would be booked. Falcons eat up insects that destroy paddy fields. Manipur man wishes to undertake a cycle tour to save the deer.
November 14, 2018, 12:50 AM: The upper reaches of Kashmir on Tuesday received fresh snowfall while rains were lashed the plains including Srinagar. The upper reaches of the valley including Gulmarg, Youmarg, Amarnath cave in south Kashmir experienced fresh snowfall today. The plains including Srinagar experienced rainfall.
Wed, Nov 14, 2018: 8:51 am IST: Sivakasi laborers set to lose jobs! The fireworks manufacture association has announced the permanent closure of all the 1400+ fireworks manufacturing companies in Sivakasi, and it is expected that this might lead to more than crores of laborers employed there.
November 14, 2018, 18:36 IST: ISRO Launches Communication Satellite GSAT-29 For Mission Life Of 10 Years. According to the ISRO website, the GSAT-29 is a communication satellite weighing 3423 kg. The spacecraft will be located at 55 °E longitude and designed for a mission life of 10 years.
November 14, 2018, 20:27 IST: Over 18 Lakh Foreigners Visited India This Year On E-Visa. The maximum number of visitors who availed of this facility were from the UK, the US, China, France, and Germany.
November 14, 2018, 14:41 IST: Grateful for PM Modi's friendship, says US President Trump at White House Diwali celebrations. "The United States has deep ties to the nation of India and I am grateful for my friendship with Prime Minister Modi," Trump said before lighting the ceremonial Diya in the historic Roosevelt Room of the White House. We're trying very hard to make better trade deals with India. But, they're very good traders. They're very good negotiators. You would say right. The best. So we're working. And it's moving along.
14 November 2018: London: Massive 'ghost' galaxy spotted hiding next to Milky Way. Despite its size, the galaxy has very few stars, challenging conventional theories of galaxy formation, said researchers from Imperial College London in the UK. The galaxy, named Antlia 2 (or Ant 2), has avoided detection until now thanks to its extremely low density as well as a perfectly chosen hiding place, behind the Milky Way's bright central disc. It is as big as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a bright satellite galaxy that is a third the size of the Milky Way itself. Current theories of galaxy formation cannot fully explain how a galaxy so large has so few stars.
Wed, Nov 14, 2018: 8:51 am IST: Sivakasi laborers set to lose jobs! The fireworks manufacture association has announced the permanent closure of all the 1400+ fireworks manufacturing companies in Sivakasi, and it is expected that this might lead to more than crores of laborers employed there.
November 14, 2018, 18:36 IST: ISRO Launches Communication Satellite GSAT-29 For Mission Life Of 10 Years. According to the ISRO website, the GSAT-29 is a communication satellite weighing 3423 kg. The spacecraft will be located at 55 °E longitude and designed for a mission life of 10 years.
November 14, 2018, 20:27 IST: Over 18 Lakh Foreigners Visited India This Year On E-Visa. The maximum number of visitors who availed of this facility were from the UK, the US, China, France, and Germany.
November 14, 2018, 14:41 IST: Grateful for PM Modi's friendship, says US President Trump at White House Diwali celebrations. "The United States has deep ties to the nation of India and I am grateful for my friendship with Prime Minister Modi," Trump said before lighting the ceremonial Diya in the historic Roosevelt Room of the White House. We're trying very hard to make better trade deals with India. But, they're very good traders. They're very good negotiators. You would say right. The best. So we're working. And it's moving along.
14 November 2018: Rains bring some respite from severe air pollution. That’s no guarantee though that air quality would not deteriorate. The authorities should use the respite days to better plan how to implement banning private cars if things get out of hand.
14 Nov. 2018: The Hindu page 3: Prof. K. Rangadhama Rao's memorial lecture was delivered by Indian Scientists at Andhra Unversity. Prof. Rangadhama Rao's laboratories were visited by several Nobel Laureates. He developed NMR, NQR, etc disciplines extending over the entire Electromagnetic Spectrum from Radio Waves to Cosmic Rays. Each subject had devoted and trained people by him. He started the University by inviting the Maharaja of Jeypor, in 1931, JVDeo of Odisha state to donate a building famously known as JVD College of Science and Technology. Regular B.Sc.(Honrs) courses began there, in 1932. By 1972, scores of his disciples visited several foreign countries and he had the vision of allowing his disciples to have their D.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in their name, except all of them, acknowledged in their theses.
14 Nov. 2018: The Hindu page 3: Prof. K. Rangadhama Rao's memorial lecture was delivered by Indian Scientists at Andhra Unversity. Prof. Rangadhama Rao's laboratories were visited by several Nobel Laureates. He developed NMR, NQR, etc disciplines extending over the entire Electromagnetic Spectrum from Radio Waves to Cosmic Rays. Each subject had devoted and trained people by him. He started the University by inviting the Maharaja of Jeypor, in 1931, JVDeo of Odisha state to donate a building famously known as JVD College of Science and Technology. Regular B.Sc.(Honrs) courses began there, in 1932. By 1972, scores of his disciples visited several foreign countries and he had the vision of allowing his disciples to have their D.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in their name, except all of them, acknowledged in their theses.
November 14, 2018, 4:02 PM: The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to submit the action taken report within a month on the status of 51,837 industries in the national capital which is running in residential areas without requisite approvals.
Nov 14, 2018, 21:46 PM IST: MUMBAI: The water supply for domestic users will be cut by 10 percent, while for all other non-domestic uses, it will be slashed by 15 percent, in view of a grim water storage situation confronting the country`s commercial capital, BMC. The latest restrictions have been necessitated due to around 75 percent capacity available in all the seven dams which supply water to the city with a population of around 17 million.
November 14, 2018, at 6:27 PM: Magnetic Nanospring Capsules for Targeted Drug Delivery. Cobalt and cobalt-iron nanosprings were found to possess ubiquitous magnetic and elasticity properties that may be helpful to develop nanorobots, nanosensors, new types of memory, and targeted drug delivery agents. Nov 14, 2018, 21:46 PM IST: MUMBAI: The water supply for domestic users will be cut by 10 percent, while for all other non-domestic uses, it will be slashed by 15 percent, in view of a grim water storage situation confronting the country`s commercial capital, BMC. The latest restrictions have been necessitated due to around 75 percent capacity available in all the seven dams which supply water to the city with a population of around 17 million.
14 November 2018: London: Massive 'ghost' galaxy spotted hiding next to Milky Way. Despite its size, the galaxy has very few stars, challenging conventional theories of galaxy formation, said researchers from Imperial College London in the UK. The galaxy, named Antlia 2 (or Ant 2), has avoided detection until now thanks to its extremely low density as well as a perfectly chosen hiding place, behind the Milky Way's bright central disc. It is as big as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a bright satellite galaxy that is a third the size of the Milky Way itself. Current theories of galaxy formation cannot fully explain how a galaxy so large has so few stars.
November 15, 2018, 01:00 IST: 'Super-Earth' discovered orbiting Sun's nearest star. Paris: Astronomers studied Barnard's Star, a red dwarf just six light years away -- practically in our back garden, galactically speaking -- and noticed the presence of a "frozen, dimly lit world" at least 3.2 times heavier than Earth. The planet, known for now as Barnard's Star b, is the second nearest to Earth outside the solar system and orbits its host star once every 233 days. It has a surface temperature of -170C (-274 F), far too cold to support life as we know it.
Nov 15, 2018: Mountains Amass More Snow, Rains Lash Plains. Fresh snowfall and rains occurred in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as the Met forecast scattered rains and snow to continue till Thursday.
November 15, 2018, 02:06 IST: Theresa May Wins Cabinet Support For Draft Brexit Deal. Britain and the EU are now set to hold a Brexit summit on November 25. But the embattled leader conceded that she could face even stronger resistance when she takes the text to parliament for approval next month.
15 Nov. 2018: SHO Sonamarg, police team make a narrow escape at Zojila Pass during snow avalanche. While the party was returning from Zero points Zojila, it had a narrow escape as many snow avalanches hit the area. “The police team left their vehicle on the other side of the Zojila ad returned to Sonamarg police station by foot after walking more than 10 km.”
Nov 15, 2018, 13:07 IST: Cyclone Gaja LIVE updates: Storm set to make landfall between Cuddalore and Pamban in Tamil Nadu. The cyclone is likely to cross Pamban on Thursday afternoon with a speed of 80-90 km per hour and could possibly go up to 100 km per hour.
Nov. 15, 2018: In Visakhapatnam, it started raining around 1PM today, but only slightly. The sky was today totally cloudy, and in the last two days, it was partially cloudy.
15 Nov. 2018: The cyclonic storm Gaja has intensified and is expected to make landfall today between Cuddalore and Pamban close to Nagapattinam on Thursday evening or night. It is very likely to move west-south-westwards and cross Tamil Nadu coast between Pamban and Cuddalore, around Nagapattinam during late evening of today, the 15th November, 2018 as a Cyclonic Storm with a wind speed of 80-90 kmph gusting to 100 kmph. The cyclonic storm is expected to cause extremely heavy rainfall exceeding 20 cm at Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Karaikal, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur, Pudukkottai, Tuticorin and Ramanathapuram districts. A storm surge of height of about one meter above astronomical tide might occur. Cyclone Gaja is the third cyclone to make landfall on the Indian mainland this year.
14 November, 2018: 23:57, UK, Wednesday: An enormous crater believed to have been caused by an asteroid that slammed into Earth 12,000 years ago has been found beneath the ice in Greenland. The 19-mile-wide impact had remained hidden under a half-mile-thick sheet of ice until it was exposed by a state-of-the-art radar system at the University of Kansas. Located under the Hiawatha Glacier in remote northwest Greenland, the crater is thought to be the result of an iron asteroid about one kilometre in size that struck the island at the end of the Pleistocene. The Pleistocene period - beginning about 2.6 million years ago and lasting until about 11,700 years ago - included the final ice age, during which huge glaciers covered the surface of the planet. The 19-mile-wide impact had remained hidden under a half-mile-thick sheet of ice until it was exposed by a state-of-the-art radar.
November 15, 2018, 7:54 pm: Farmer Son’s Low-Cost, Zero-Electricity Purifier Cleans 500 Litres of Water Daily! “I realised how water is one resource we can only reuse and recycle but never manufacture. And so I had to find a solution.”
Nov 15, 2018, 18:52 PM IST: Our Earth Sucks 1,000,000,000 Billion Kg Of Ocean Water Into Its Core Each Year Due To Quakes.
Nov 15, 2018: Mountains Amass More Snow, Rains Lash Plains. Fresh snowfall and rains occurred in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as the Met forecast scattered rains and snow to continue till Thursday.
November 15, 2018, 02:06 IST: Theresa May Wins Cabinet Support For Draft Brexit Deal. Britain and the EU are now set to hold a Brexit summit on November 25. But the embattled leader conceded that she could face even stronger resistance when she takes the text to parliament for approval next month.
15 Nov. 2018: SHO Sonamarg, police team make a narrow escape at Zojila Pass during snow avalanche. While the party was returning from Zero points Zojila, it had a narrow escape as many snow avalanches hit the area. “The police team left their vehicle on the other side of the Zojila ad returned to Sonamarg police station by foot after walking more than 10 km.”
Nov 15, 2018, 13:07 IST: Cyclone Gaja LIVE updates: Storm set to make landfall between Cuddalore and Pamban in Tamil Nadu. The cyclone is likely to cross Pamban on Thursday afternoon with a speed of 80-90 km per hour and could possibly go up to 100 km per hour.
Nov. 15, 2018: In Visakhapatnam, it started raining around 1PM today, but only slightly. The sky was today totally cloudy, and in the last two days, it was partially cloudy.
15 Nov. 2018: The cyclonic storm Gaja has intensified and is expected to make landfall today between Cuddalore and Pamban close to Nagapattinam on Thursday evening or night. It is very likely to move west-south-westwards and cross Tamil Nadu coast between Pamban and Cuddalore, around Nagapattinam during late evening of today, the 15th November, 2018 as a Cyclonic Storm with a wind speed of 80-90 kmph gusting to 100 kmph. The cyclonic storm is expected to cause extremely heavy rainfall exceeding 20 cm at Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Karaikal, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur, Pudukkottai, Tuticorin and Ramanathapuram districts. A storm surge of height of about one meter above astronomical tide might occur. Cyclone Gaja is the third cyclone to make landfall on the Indian mainland this year.
14 November, 2018: 23:57, UK, Wednesday: An enormous crater believed to have been caused by an asteroid that slammed into Earth 12,000 years ago has been found beneath the ice in Greenland. The 19-mile-wide impact had remained hidden under a half-mile-thick sheet of ice until it was exposed by a state-of-the-art radar system at the University of Kansas. Located under the Hiawatha Glacier in remote northwest Greenland, the crater is thought to be the result of an iron asteroid about one kilometre in size that struck the island at the end of the Pleistocene. The Pleistocene period - beginning about 2.6 million years ago and lasting until about 11,700 years ago - included the final ice age, during which huge glaciers covered the surface of the planet. The 19-mile-wide impact had remained hidden under a half-mile-thick sheet of ice until it was exposed by a state-of-the-art radar.
November 15, 2018, 7:54 pm: Farmer Son’s Low-Cost, Zero-Electricity Purifier Cleans 500 Litres of Water Daily! “I realised how water is one resource we can only reuse and recycle but never manufacture. And so I had to find a solution.”
Nov 15, 2018, 18:52 PM IST: Our Earth Sucks 1,000,000,000 Billion Kg Of Ocean Water Into Its Core Each Year Due To Quakes.
Nov 15, 2018 08:45 IST: ISRO successfully launches communication satellite GSAT-29. The launch took place at 05.08 hours from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The countdown for the launch had begun at 2.50 pm on November 13. The GSLV Mark-III rocket weighs around 640 ton and has a height of 43.4 metres.
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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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