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Volume 2018, Issue No.12, Dated: 1 December, 2108, Time: 06:51:15 AM
December 1, 2018: Luxembourg public transport free, 46P/Wirtanen, will be closest to earth, signs of water on nearby asteroid Bennu, Furniture & Kitchenware Made From Rice Husk Beach Dust-Sand has flown up about 1000 feet,
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
Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu asserts Art and Dance in Ancient India, // Part of the dying river brought back to life by citizen effort. Two years after initiative began, over 700 species of flora planted on the banks near Someshwarwadi are today bearing the fruit. // Dec. 3, 2018: 15:10 IST: Washington: New supernova may rewrite the theory of exploding stars.// 23:51 IST: After 2-Year Journey, NASA Spacecraft Reaches Target Asteroid.// 04 December 2018: Andean Glacier and Water Atlas warn of ‘significant reduction in glacier mass’. // December 5, 2018, 6:36 pm: This Resourceful Andhra Teacher Has Over 44,000 Subscribers on YouTube. // 6 December 2018, 10:29 AM: Luxembourg to become the first country to make all its public transport free. // Dec 07, 2018, 18:11 PM IST: After Taking Up Bomb Diffusion, Robots Are Ready To Clean British-Era Drains In Mumbai. // 10:53 AM IST: Meet The First Female Anthropologist Who Has Interacted With 'Nature Worshipper' Sentinelese Tribe. // Dec 8, 2018, 1:15 am IST: NELLORE: Farmers’ associations have been appealing to paddy growers not to raise crops by taking advantage of the recent rains while pointing to lack of water in Somasila and Kandaleru dams. // Dec. 09, 2018: The brightest comet of 2018, officially called the 46P/Wirtanen, will be closest to earth from next week onwards, say reports. It is already visible in the night sky. // December 10, 2018, 09:00 IST: Jharkhand government to extend benefits to 67,000 primitive tribal families. // 11 Dec. 2018: 11:10AM: NASA probe finds signs of water on nearby asteroid Bennu. // 12 Dec. 2018: UK Theresa May wins confidence vote but 117 MPs go against her. The UK prime minister won a vote of confidence in her leadership by a result of 200-117. She now can’t be challenged for a year. // 13 December 2018: Manipur honors women who revolted against British rule. // December 14, 2018: 8:13 pm: Furniture & Kitchenware Made From Rice Husk? IIT Kharagpur Students Say It’s Possible. // December 15, 2018: Beach Dust-Sand has flown up about 1000 feet and landed in the house due to the 30-40 miles/hr wind that blew over the houses in Official Colony, Maharanipeta.P.O., Visakhapatnam-530002 on the 14 Dec. 2018. It lasted just a few hours in the afternoon from 2PM to 5PM. This is the first time observation is made since the ocean at Visakhapatnam has considerably retreated by about 500 feet into the sea. Last fifteen days the Ocean has retreated exposing the beach sand on the coast. // 15 Dec. 2018: sea was found to be irratic at Visakhapatnam, with chilly and forceful wind.
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Dec 1, 2018, 06:41 IST: British Raj-era chimney law smoked out, to be killed. Though the law has for all purposes been defunct for decades, Victorian literature has kept alive the saga of chimneys and their heartless cleaners, chimney sweeps, men who sent up children as young as four up hot chimneys to clean up the soot.
December 01, 2018 11:45 AM: Leh coldest at minus 9C. Kargil recorded minus 8.5C, Srinagar minus 1.4, Pahalgam minus 5 and Gulmarg minus 3.3.
December 01, 2018: BrahMos Missile to be fitted on ‘Project 1135.6’ Stealth Frigates. The world’s fastest missile has the supersonic speed of Mach 2.8, a very low-cruising altitude of 10 meters at the terminal phase and pin-point accuracy, and is expected to make the frigates of the Indian Navy more deadly. This missile has been in with the Indian Navy since 2005. At Saturday’s meeting the DAC gave approval for the acquisition of defense equipment worth Rs 3000 crore, these include the BrahMos missiles for the Indian Navy frigates.
Dec 1, 2018, 4:46 pm IST: Intel-based AI Imaging Solution to accelerate critical patient diagnoses.
December 1, 2018: India: Retail 2.0 and the way forward. Positive investor sentiment resulted in India's ranking in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index jumping 23 positions, from 100 in 2017 to 77 in 2018. In January 2018, the government allowed 100 percent FDI under the automatic route for single-brand retail trading and construction development.
December 01, 2018:13:56: Telangana: Intrigued by this unusual sound apparently made by the motors, we decided to ask Mallesh, a young farmer, about it. His family owns four acres of land where the groundwater dried up this year. “Since we have 24 hours of power supply, we just allow the motor to run round the clock with the hope that at least some of the time we may get water,” he explains.
December 02, 2018: 10:30 IST: After the massive earthquake, Alaska hit by over 230 aftershocks. The magnitude-7.0 earthquake sent residents scurrying for cover when it hit about 8.30 a.m. on Friday. The quake was centered 10 miles northeast of Anchorage, the state's largest city with a population of about 300,000. A magnitude-5.2 aftershock at about 11 p.m. on Friday was the second-biggest event since a magnitude-5.7 temblor hit minutes after the main quake earlier in the day.
Dec. 2, 2018: 10:31AM: The city of Srinagar recorded the season's coldest night temperature at minus 2.4 degrees Celsius with the weather office on Sunday forecasting a further fall in temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir.
December 2, 2018: 8:50 AM IST: Sensing the rural distress in poll-bound states like Rajasthan, the BJP government at the Centre raised the Minimum Support Price of bajra or pearl millet by Rs 525 per quintal. The poll sop, announced with much fanfare after approval from the Union Cabinet, was part of the BJP outreach to farmers of this semi-arid region growing coarse cereals.
Moon and a Planet in the morning of 3 December 2018:
3 Dec. 2018: 6:15AM: Part of the dying river brought back to life by citizen effort. Two years after initiative began, over 700 species of flora planted on the banks near Someshwarwadi are today bearing the fruit.
Dec 3, 2018, 06:15 IST: Pune: witnesses rise in heatwave trend. 2C rise reported.
December 3, 2018: 15:10 IST: Washington: New supernova may rewrite the theory of exploding stars. Combining data from ASAS-SN, Kepler, and telescopes around the world, the astronomers realized that ASASSN-18bt looked unusual during its first couple of days. "Many supernovae show a gradual increase in the light they put out." "But for this event, you could clearly see there's something unusual and exciting happening in the early times, an unexpected additional emission." Type Ia supernovae originate from the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf star, the dead core left over by a Sun-like star after it exhausts its nuclear fuel. The material must be added to the white dwarf from a companion star to trigger the explosion, but the nature of the companion star and how the fuel is transferred has long been debated. One possibility is that this additional light seen during the supernova's early times could be from the exploding white dwarf colliding with the companion star. Although this was the initial hypothesis, detailed comparisons with Piro's theoretical modeling work demonstrated that this additional light may have a different, unexplained origin. "While the steep increase in ASASSN-18bt's early brightness could indicate that the explosion collides with another star, our follow-up data don't fit predictions for how this should look," said Tom Holoien, from Carnegie. "Other possibilities, such as an unusual distribution of radioactive material in the exploded star, are a better explanation for what we saw."
Dec 1, 2018, 4:46 pm IST: Intel-based AI Imaging Solution to accelerate critical patient diagnoses.
December 1, 2018: India: Retail 2.0 and the way forward. Positive investor sentiment resulted in India's ranking in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index jumping 23 positions, from 100 in 2017 to 77 in 2018. In January 2018, the government allowed 100 percent FDI under the automatic route for single-brand retail trading and construction development.
December 01, 2018:13:56: Telangana: Intrigued by this unusual sound apparently made by the motors, we decided to ask Mallesh, a young farmer, about it. His family owns four acres of land where the groundwater dried up this year. “Since we have 24 hours of power supply, we just allow the motor to run round the clock with the hope that at least some of the time we may get water,” he explains.
December 02, 2018: 10:30 IST: After the massive earthquake, Alaska hit by over 230 aftershocks. The magnitude-7.0 earthquake sent residents scurrying for cover when it hit about 8.30 a.m. on Friday. The quake was centered 10 miles northeast of Anchorage, the state's largest city with a population of about 300,000. A magnitude-5.2 aftershock at about 11 p.m. on Friday was the second-biggest event since a magnitude-5.7 temblor hit minutes after the main quake earlier in the day.
Dec. 2, 2018: 10:31AM: The city of Srinagar recorded the season's coldest night temperature at minus 2.4 degrees Celsius with the weather office on Sunday forecasting a further fall in temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir.
December 2, 2018: 8:50 AM IST: Sensing the rural distress in poll-bound states like Rajasthan, the BJP government at the Centre raised the Minimum Support Price of bajra or pearl millet by Rs 525 per quintal. The poll sop, announced with much fanfare after approval from the Union Cabinet, was part of the BJP outreach to farmers of this semi-arid region growing coarse cereals.
December 2, 2018: 6:04:19 am: While inaugurating Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)’s four-day biennial agro technology and business fair in Chandigarh, the President said that the Indian farmer has proven to be remarkably adaptable, unafraid of innovation, new techniques, and scientific inputs. As a result, India has emerged as an exporter of key agricultural and allied products such as rice, marine products, fruits, vegetables, and even flowers. Our farmers supply commercial crops like cotton to the rest of the world.
02 Dec. 2018: New Delhi: Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that art and dance forms act as a bridge between the value systems of ancient India and the new generation.Moon and a Planet in the morning of 3 December 2018:
Fig. 1 Moon and nearby Planet on 3 December 2018
at Time 05h 27m 03s mornings.
December 2, 2018, 8:46 AM: Leaders of the world’s largest economies agreed the global system of rules that’s underpinned trade for decades is flawed, in a post-summit statement Saturday that the White House quickly claimed as a win for Donald Trump’s protectionist agenda. The Group of 20 communique was the culmination of days of round-the-clock talks.
03 Dec, 18: India will buy supersonic missiles in $431 million arms spending. 3 Dec. 2018: 6:15AM: Part of the dying river brought back to life by citizen effort. Two years after initiative began, over 700 species of flora planted on the banks near Someshwarwadi are today bearing the fruit.
Dec 3, 2018, 06:15 IST: Pune: witnesses rise in heatwave trend. 2C rise reported.
December 3, 2018: 15:10 IST: Washington: New supernova may rewrite the theory of exploding stars. Combining data from ASAS-SN, Kepler, and telescopes around the world, the astronomers realized that ASASSN-18bt looked unusual during its first couple of days. "Many supernovae show a gradual increase in the light they put out." "But for this event, you could clearly see there's something unusual and exciting happening in the early times, an unexpected additional emission." Type Ia supernovae originate from the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf star, the dead core left over by a Sun-like star after it exhausts its nuclear fuel. The material must be added to the white dwarf from a companion star to trigger the explosion, but the nature of the companion star and how the fuel is transferred has long been debated. One possibility is that this additional light seen during the supernova's early times could be from the exploding white dwarf colliding with the companion star. Although this was the initial hypothesis, detailed comparisons with Piro's theoretical modeling work demonstrated that this additional light may have a different, unexplained origin. "While the steep increase in ASASSN-18bt's early brightness could indicate that the explosion collides with another star, our follow-up data don't fit predictions for how this should look," said Tom Holoien, from Carnegie. "Other possibilities, such as an unusual distribution of radioactive material in the exploded star, are a better explanation for what we saw."
December 3, 2018, 6:38 PM IST: ISRO's HySIS Satellite Sends First Image, Covering Parts of Lakhpat Area in Gujarat.ISRO said that the image from Hyperspectral imaging satellite (HySIS), which can be used in wide-ranging areas, including agriculture, soil survey, and environmental monitoring, was acquired at the National Remote Sensing Centre on Sunday.
3 December 2018, 09:54 PM: Vardhan focuses on India’s solar power, ‘green good deeds’.
3 Dec 2018: 2.54PM: Dubai-based Indian teen provides sanitary pads to tribal girls in Maharashtra. Inspired by Akshay Kumar's film "Padman" which raised awareness about menstrual hygiene, a 13-year-old Dubai-based girl has adopted 250 girls from rural Maharashtra and donated sanitary napkins to them.
3 Dec 2018: 2.54PM: Dubai-based Indian teen provides sanitary pads to tribal girls in Maharashtra. Inspired by Akshay Kumar's film "Padman" which raised awareness about menstrual hygiene, a 13-year-old Dubai-based girl has adopted 250 girls from rural Maharashtra and donated sanitary napkins to them.
December 03, 2018: 23:51 IST: After 2-Year Journey, NASA Spacecraft Reaches Target Asteroid. The $800 million mission, known as OSIRIS-REx will use its suite of five science instruments to study asteroid Bennu for the next year and a half.
04 December 2018: Andean Glacier and Water Atlas warn of ‘significant reduction in glacier mass’. UNESCO project highlights the impact of shrinking glaciers on water availability and the threat to water security for millions of people. The report notes that Glacial meltwater is a critical water source for millions of people living in the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
Dec 04, 2018: NEW DELHI (PTI): The government has approved induction of 56 new ships and six submarines to augment Indian Navy's overall prowess while the country's first indigenous aircraft carrier Vikrant has entered its final phase of construction, Navy Chief Adm. Sunil Lanba said Monday.
05 Dec 2018: New Caledonians ordered to shelters in tsunami alert after the quake. The epicenter was some 300 km east of Noumea. "Hazardous tsunami waves are forecast for some coasts," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said, after earlier warning that the danger zone included "coasts located within 1000 kilometers of the earthquake epicenter." The epicenter was some 300 kilometers east of Noumea. Several aftershocks were reported as the tsunami center warned of waves of up to three meters above tidal levels for New Caledonia and Vanuatu and up to one meter for some parts of Fiji.
05 December 2018 Bibha Chowdhuri celebrating a forgotten life in physics. Despite working with some of the leading lights of the physics fraternity in India and abroad, Chowdhuri remains an unsung hero of Indian science.
Dec 5, 2018, 12:04 IST GSAT-11: India’s heaviest communication satellite launched successfully from French Guiana. The 5854-kg GSAT-11 will provide high data rate connectivity to Indian mainland and islands users through 32 user beams in Ku-band and 8 hub beams in Ka-band. With 32 Ku-band transponders and 8 Ka-band hubs on board, GSAT-11 would be three to six times more powerful than any other ISRO's satellite.
December 5, 2018, 6:36 pm:
Fig.2 Resourceful Andhra Teacher
This Resourceful Andhra Teacher Has Over 44,000 Subscribers on YouTube. Here’s Why! What started out as an initiative to simplify teaching, soon led to the creation of a YouTube channel named Mangarani Lessons six years back. This primary teacher from Rajahmundry is taking education beyond the confines of textbooks and rote learning. She has been successfully tapping into the potential of visual media and YouTube to teach not just her own students but over 44,000 people who have subscribed to her channel! M Manga Rani hails from Murari, a village near Rajahmundry, and ventured into teaching after completing her graduation in Computer Science. What started out as an initiative to simplify teaching, soon led to the creation of a YouTube channel named Mangarani Lessons six years back. Most of the videos I’ve created comprise rhymes, which allow them to sing along while there are others where concepts like subtraction in Mathematics or opposites in English are explained in an engaging manner.
December 5, 2018, 18:15 [IST]: India's first homegrown satellite was one among 64 launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX. India sent their first-ever satellite into space, designed and produced in Mumbai-and Hyderabad, by the Mumbai-based startup company exceed Space. The Indian satellite ExseedSat-1 was one of 70 satellites from 16 countries that will be launched on-board Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday. It's an exciting time not just for the Indian space industry and exceed Space, but also on a global scale.
Dec 06, 2018 09:47 AM IST: The dead donor of the womb was a 42-year-old mother of three who passed away from an episode of brain hemorrhaging or bleeding in the brain. Doctors at the hospital were able to remove healthy eggs from the soon-to-be-mother's ovaries and fertilized them with the father’s sperm. The fertilized eggs, or zygotes, were then frozen for a few weeks till the mother’s new uterus was accepted by her body's immune system and responsive to the fertility treatments. Six weeks after the uterus from the deceased donor was transplanted, the 32-year old to-be-mother began to have her period. The 32-year-old woman was born without a womb, a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, where the vagina and uterus fail to form completely. This makes the partially-developed uterus an unfit environment to have a healthy pregnancy. The dead donor of the womb was a 42-year-old mother of three who passed away from an episode of brain hemorrhaging or bleeding in the brain. Doctors at the hospital were able to remove healthy eggs from the soon-to-be-mother's ovaries and fertilized them with the father’s sperm. The fertilized eggs, or zygotes, were then frozen for a few weeks till the mother’s new uterus was accepted by her body's immune system and responsive to the fertility treatments. Six weeks after the uterus from the deceased donor was transplanted, the 32-year old to-be-mother began to have her period. Over the following seven months, the doctors saw the transplant as successful, at the end of which the frozen eggs were implanted and a pregnancy had begun. The pregnancy appeared normal to doctors every step of the way, ending in a wailing, healthy, 2.5-kilogram baby on 15 December 2017 in a Caesarian (C-section).
6 December 2018, 10:29 AM: Luxembourg to become the first country to make all its public transport free.
Dec 06, 2018, 02:58 PM IST: Tsunami warning issued after 7.6 earthquake strikes east coast of New Caledonia. A powerful undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck off the east coast of New Caledonia in the South Pacific on Wednesday, adding tsunami waves had been observed. The undersea quake was only a shallow 10 km (6 miles) deep and about 155 km (95 miles) east-southeast of the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia's east coast. Tsunami waves reaching 1 to 3 meters above the tide level are possible along with some coasts of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, with waves of up to one meter (three feet) possible for some coasts of Fiji.
06-DEC-2018, 18:09: ISRO launches a low-volume satellite from PSLV, which has a capacity of about 2 tonnes, but GSAT-11 is launched by French Guiana Arianespace because the GSAT-11 satellite weighs more than 5 tons. India has not been completely self-reliant in launching a massive satellite. Moreover, India's agency currently does not have a rocket which is capable of lifting the satellite to orbit in one piece. At present, maximum 4 tons of satellites can be carried by GSLV Mk-III. That is why the French Arianespace's Ariane-5 rocket has been hired by ISRO to launch GSAT-11 which has a capacity of about 9.1 tons.
December 6, 2018, 7:01:51 PM: Indian scientists predict space environment conditions slightly harsher over the next decade. The technique used in this research is successful in matching sunspot activity observations over the last one hundred years and also makes it possible to make predictions almost a decade before the next sunspot cycle activity peaks in strength – a first for any team in the world. Their research work appears today in the journal Nature Communications.
Valley of Flowers up in the Himalayas.
Fig.3c Fig.3d
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OLD DATA:
29 Nov. 2018: Athens Jurnal of History suggested that the ancient civilization understood, an effect caused by a gradual shift of Earths rotational axis, from carvings in Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, shows a memorial to a devasting comet that struck around 11,000BCE. and the Lascaus Shaft Scene in France shows a dying man with several animals, commemorates another comet strike around 15,200BCE. Carvings in Europe reveal human knowledge of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 40,000 years ago. Humans kept track of time, by knowing the positions of stars, that slowly change with over thousands of years of passage of time.
29 November 2018: In the third century, before the advent of Christ, Buddhist and Jain designed nine storey buildings, at a length of 400 feet, with 40 rows, with each row with 40 standing pillars, with a total of 1600 pillars. Each pillar adorned with precious stones, and Pagadalu. The topmost cover was a mixture of Kanchu and Ragi plates. The palace is known as the Itthadi construct. Each floor had about 1000 rooms.
9 Dec. 2018:
December 09, 2018 10:02 IST:
04 December 2018: Andean Glacier and Water Atlas warn of ‘significant reduction in glacier mass’. UNESCO project highlights the impact of shrinking glaciers on water availability and the threat to water security for millions of people. The report notes that Glacial meltwater is a critical water source for millions of people living in the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
Dec 04, 2018: NEW DELHI (PTI): The government has approved induction of 56 new ships and six submarines to augment Indian Navy's overall prowess while the country's first indigenous aircraft carrier Vikrant has entered its final phase of construction, Navy Chief Adm. Sunil Lanba said Monday.
05 Dec 2018: New Caledonians ordered to shelters in tsunami alert after the quake. The epicenter was some 300 km east of Noumea. "Hazardous tsunami waves are forecast for some coasts," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said, after earlier warning that the danger zone included "coasts located within 1000 kilometers of the earthquake epicenter." The epicenter was some 300 kilometers east of Noumea. Several aftershocks were reported as the tsunami center warned of waves of up to three meters above tidal levels for New Caledonia and Vanuatu and up to one meter for some parts of Fiji.
05 December 2018 Bibha Chowdhuri celebrating a forgotten life in physics. Despite working with some of the leading lights of the physics fraternity in India and abroad, Chowdhuri remains an unsung hero of Indian science.
Dec 5, 2018, 12:04 IST GSAT-11: India’s heaviest communication satellite launched successfully from French Guiana. The 5854-kg GSAT-11 will provide high data rate connectivity to Indian mainland and islands users through 32 user beams in Ku-band and 8 hub beams in Ka-band. With 32 Ku-band transponders and 8 Ka-band hubs on board, GSAT-11 would be three to six times more powerful than any other ISRO's satellite.
December 5, 2018, 6:36 pm:
This Resourceful Andhra Teacher Has Over 44,000 Subscribers on YouTube. Here’s Why! What started out as an initiative to simplify teaching, soon led to the creation of a YouTube channel named Mangarani Lessons six years back. This primary teacher from Rajahmundry is taking education beyond the confines of textbooks and rote learning. She has been successfully tapping into the potential of visual media and YouTube to teach not just her own students but over 44,000 people who have subscribed to her channel! M Manga Rani hails from Murari, a village near Rajahmundry, and ventured into teaching after completing her graduation in Computer Science. What started out as an initiative to simplify teaching, soon led to the creation of a YouTube channel named Mangarani Lessons six years back. Most of the videos I’ve created comprise rhymes, which allow them to sing along while there are others where concepts like subtraction in Mathematics or opposites in English are explained in an engaging manner.
December 5, 2018, 18:15 [IST]: India's first homegrown satellite was one among 64 launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX. India sent their first-ever satellite into space, designed and produced in Mumbai-and Hyderabad, by the Mumbai-based startup company exceed Space. The Indian satellite ExseedSat-1 was one of 70 satellites from 16 countries that will be launched on-board Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday. It's an exciting time not just for the Indian space industry and exceed Space, but also on a global scale.
Dec 06, 2018 09:47 AM IST: The dead donor of the womb was a 42-year-old mother of three who passed away from an episode of brain hemorrhaging or bleeding in the brain. Doctors at the hospital were able to remove healthy eggs from the soon-to-be-mother's ovaries and fertilized them with the father’s sperm. The fertilized eggs, or zygotes, were then frozen for a few weeks till the mother’s new uterus was accepted by her body's immune system and responsive to the fertility treatments. Six weeks after the uterus from the deceased donor was transplanted, the 32-year old to-be-mother began to have her period. The 32-year-old woman was born without a womb, a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, where the vagina and uterus fail to form completely. This makes the partially-developed uterus an unfit environment to have a healthy pregnancy. The dead donor of the womb was a 42-year-old mother of three who passed away from an episode of brain hemorrhaging or bleeding in the brain. Doctors at the hospital were able to remove healthy eggs from the soon-to-be-mother's ovaries and fertilized them with the father’s sperm. The fertilized eggs, or zygotes, were then frozen for a few weeks till the mother’s new uterus was accepted by her body's immune system and responsive to the fertility treatments. Six weeks after the uterus from the deceased donor was transplanted, the 32-year old to-be-mother began to have her period. Over the following seven months, the doctors saw the transplant as successful, at the end of which the frozen eggs were implanted and a pregnancy had begun. The pregnancy appeared normal to doctors every step of the way, ending in a wailing, healthy, 2.5-kilogram baby on 15 December 2017 in a Caesarian (C-section).
6 December 2018, 10:29 AM: Luxembourg to become the first country to make all its public transport free.
Dec 06, 2018, 02:58 PM IST: Tsunami warning issued after 7.6 earthquake strikes east coast of New Caledonia. A powerful undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck off the east coast of New Caledonia in the South Pacific on Wednesday, adding tsunami waves had been observed. The undersea quake was only a shallow 10 km (6 miles) deep and about 155 km (95 miles) east-southeast of the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia's east coast. Tsunami waves reaching 1 to 3 meters above the tide level are possible along with some coasts of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, with waves of up to one meter (three feet) possible for some coasts of Fiji.
06-DEC-2018, 18:09: ISRO launches a low-volume satellite from PSLV, which has a capacity of about 2 tonnes, but GSAT-11 is launched by French Guiana Arianespace because the GSAT-11 satellite weighs more than 5 tons. India has not been completely self-reliant in launching a massive satellite. Moreover, India's agency currently does not have a rocket which is capable of lifting the satellite to orbit in one piece. At present, maximum 4 tons of satellites can be carried by GSLV Mk-III. That is why the French Arianespace's Ariane-5 rocket has been hired by ISRO to launch GSAT-11 which has a capacity of about 9.1 tons.
December 6, 2018, 7:01:51 PM: Indian scientists predict space environment conditions slightly harsher over the next decade. The technique used in this research is successful in matching sunspot activity observations over the last one hundred years and also makes it possible to make predictions almost a decade before the next sunspot cycle activity peaks in strength – a first for any team in the world. Their research work appears today in the journal Nature Communications.
Valley of Flowers up in the Himalayas.
Fig.3a Fig.3b
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OLD DATA:
29 Nov. 2018: Athens Jurnal of History suggested that the ancient civilization understood, an effect caused by a gradual shift of Earths rotational axis, from carvings in Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, shows a memorial to a devasting comet that struck around 11,000BCE. and the Lascaus Shaft Scene in France shows a dying man with several animals, commemorates another comet strike around 15,200BCE. Carvings in Europe reveal human knowledge of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 40,000 years ago. Humans kept track of time, by knowing the positions of stars, that slowly change with over thousands of years of passage of time.
29 November 2018: In the third century, before the advent of Christ, Buddhist and Jain designed nine storey buildings, at a length of 400 feet, with 40 rows, with each row with 40 standing pillars, with a total of 1600 pillars. Each pillar adorned with precious stones, and Pagadalu. The topmost cover was a mixture of Kanchu and Ragi plates. The palace is known as the Itthadi construct. Each floor had about 1000 rooms.
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Dec 07, 2018, 18:11 PM IST: After Taking Up Bomb Diffusion, Robots Are Ready To Clean British-Era Drains In Mumbai. Officials said they plan to have a remote-controlled robot, mounted with a camera, that will remove silt from the drain and put it into a recycler machine.
December 7, 2018: India asks Pakistan to immediately vacate all the occupied territories including Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. India on Thursday voiced strong objection to Pakistan’s move to change the status of Gilgit Baltistan and asked it to immediately end the illegal occupation of these areas along with rest of Jammu and Kashmir under its control. Gilgit Baltistan is a part of Jammu and Kashmir annexed by Pakistan in 1947. Our statement and position on Gilgit Baltistan have been very consistent and clear. We have said that the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir has been and will remain a part of India.
7 Dec. 2018:
Dec 07, 2018, 10:53 AM IST: Meet The First Female Anthropologist Who Has Interacted With 'Nature Worshipper' Sentinelese Tribe. What is important to note here is that she spent six years in the Andaman islands (from 1989 to 1996) and has met all the six tribes including Jarawas, Onge, Sentinelese, Nicobarese, Great Andaman, and Shompens. Dr. Madhumala was the best Ph.D. thesis awardee at Calcutta University, author of the book- Tribes of Car Nicobar along with 20 research papers and a fierce expedition in her time.
Dec 8, 2018, 1:15 am IST: NELLORE: Farmers’ associations have been appealing to paddy growers not to raise crops by taking advantage of the recent rains while pointing to lack of water in Somasila and Kandaleru dams. Stressing that it is difficult for the Irrigation Department even to address the needs of 3.21 lakh acres they had allowed to raise during the Irrigation Advisory Board meeting held in November, the Association leaders said that any additional extent would place the farmers in a piquant situation. They reminded that water is at below dead storage-level in 1,658 minor irrigation tanks as against the total 1,752 tanks. The case is the same with respect to 104 medium and 66 major irrigation (MI) tanks out of 68 MI tanks.
Dec 8, 2018, 7:09 am IST: Kalpetta: Cyclists flock to Wayanad for mountain rally.
Dec 9, 2018: 12:01 pm IST: December 7, 2018: India asks Pakistan to immediately vacate all the occupied territories including Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. India on Thursday voiced strong objection to Pakistan’s move to change the status of Gilgit Baltistan and asked it to immediately end the illegal occupation of these areas along with rest of Jammu and Kashmir under its control. Gilgit Baltistan is a part of Jammu and Kashmir annexed by Pakistan in 1947. Our statement and position on Gilgit Baltistan have been very consistent and clear. We have said that the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir has been and will remain a part of India.
7 Dec. 2018:
Fig.4 Food won't be grown in soil.
In 100 years’ time, maybe our food won’t be grown in soil. So will we have the technological know-how, and will we be able to afford the infrastructural investment to produce all our food away from natural soil within a century? Technologically we would like to think this is possible. But will we have the need? Do we have the will?Dec 07, 2018, 10:53 AM IST: Meet The First Female Anthropologist Who Has Interacted With 'Nature Worshipper' Sentinelese Tribe. What is important to note here is that she spent six years in the Andaman islands (from 1989 to 1996) and has met all the six tribes including Jarawas, Onge, Sentinelese, Nicobarese, Great Andaman, and Shompens. Dr. Madhumala was the best Ph.D. thesis awardee at Calcutta University, author of the book- Tribes of Car Nicobar along with 20 research papers and a fierce expedition in her time.
Dec 8, 2018, 1:15 am IST: NELLORE: Farmers’ associations have been appealing to paddy growers not to raise crops by taking advantage of the recent rains while pointing to lack of water in Somasila and Kandaleru dams. Stressing that it is difficult for the Irrigation Department even to address the needs of 3.21 lakh acres they had allowed to raise during the Irrigation Advisory Board meeting held in November, the Association leaders said that any additional extent would place the farmers in a piquant situation. They reminded that water is at below dead storage-level in 1,658 minor irrigation tanks as against the total 1,752 tanks. The case is the same with respect to 104 medium and 66 major irrigation (MI) tanks out of 68 MI tanks.
Dec 8, 2018, 7:09 am IST: Kalpetta: Cyclists flock to Wayanad for mountain rally.
8 December 2018: 69 days record: Indian Railways creates history, first to convert diesel locomotive into electric. The electric conversion of diesel locomotives will help Indian Railways save 50 percent of its expenditure and produce more power. In a major boost to the ambitious 100 percent electrification plan, the Indian Railways has converted one of its diesel locomotives into electric in a record 69 days.
December 09, 2018: With a rich heritage of shared endeavor, having the opportunity to bring HMS Dragon as the first Type 45 destroyer to visit India and work alongside the INS Kolkata, has been a huge honor. She will now resume her Gulf and Indian Ocean security patrol - she's expected to return to Portsmouth in Spring 2019.
December 09, 2018: With a rich heritage of shared endeavor, having the opportunity to bring HMS Dragon as the first Type 45 destroyer to visit India and work alongside the INS Kolkata, has been a huge honor. She will now resume her Gulf and Indian Ocean security patrol - she's expected to return to Portsmouth in Spring 2019.
Fig.5 Ozone layer recovered
Recovery of the ozone layer has been up to 3% per decade since the start of the 21st century.9 Dec. 2018:
Fig.6 Samudrala Sunil BA (History) student's collection.
In Peddapalli villages Bugga, Gunjapadugu, Begumpet, areas ancient man dwelled in Bhagulla Gunta. Several artifacts recovered there found by a young boy Samudrala Sunil who studied only BA(History) in 2013, from Begumpet. For four years he collected a lot of material from Dhullikatta, Koti-Lingala, Peddabonkuru, Anthargam, Bugga, Ramgundem, Gautham Nagar, Madani mandal, Gunjapadugu, Kasipeta, and Ramagiri Khilla and has collected several work-units, from Bugga Ramalingeswaea temple area. Gouthaminagar and Vempadu several work-units were available to him. Hazipur caves decorated with drawings, Peddadevunu caves burial sites are outstanding pieces of evidence of the ancient man and his culture. He needs support from Government.December 09, 2018 10:02 IST:
Fig.7. The brightest comet of 2018.
The brightest comet of 2018, officially called the 46P/Wirtanen, will be closest to earth from next week onwards, say reports. It is already visible in the night sky. It is zooming past us earth-dwellers from a distance of 11.5 million km away or 30 times the distance from the moon. Which means for us it appears to be lingering across the sky, more clearly, between December 14 and December 18. It will be brightest on December 16. The comet also called the Christmas comet, will be visible along with its halo of light. It will be as big as the full moon. It will, however, look like a fuzzy patch. The comet can be seen if you are using binoculars and away from the city lights. As per NASA, the comet is closer to us than it ever was in the last 400 years. The next time it will be as close as this year will be in the next 20 years.
Dec 10, 2018, 7:59 am IST: IMF chief economist lauds Modi govt for 'very solid' growth, GST. 'India under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has carried out some really fundamental reforms,' IMF chief said.
Fig.8 primitive tribal families of Jharkhand.
Dec 10, 2018: 07:41 IST: Mumbai: 150-year-old Chira Bazaar market to finally be razed. About 90 fisherwomen will stage a protest inside the market today to oppose the move to demolish the 150-year-old Chira Bazaar market.
December 10, 2018, 09:00 IST:
Jharkhand government to extend benefits to 67,000 primitive tribal families. Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar said the tribals' villages will have water tanks, drinking water supply through pipelines and solar lights, besides 625 houses under the 'Birsa Awas Yozana'.
December 10, 2018: 07:12 IST: Trains, Flights Canceled As Snowstorm Hits Areas South Of Washington, DC. Significant snowfall was expected in areas from southwestern Virginia through western and central North Carolina and into northwestern South Carolina. Dec 10, 2018: 07:41 IST: Mumbai: 150-year-old Chira Bazaar market to finally be razed. About 90 fisherwomen will stage a protest inside the market today to oppose the move to demolish the 150-year-old Chira Bazaar market.
Dec 10, 2018, 18:24 PM IST: Urjit Patel resigns as RBI Governor. Patel was appointed the 24th Governor of the RBI on September 2016 for a three-year term.
10 Dec 2018: India successfully test-fires nuclear-capable Agni-5 missile, 2nd test in 6-months. Agni-5 is a three-stage missile and is 17 meters tall and 2 meters wide. It is capable of carrying 1.5 tons of nuclear warheads. India has in its armory the Agni missile series, Agni-1 with a range of 700 km, Agni-2 with a range of 2,000 km, Agni-3 and Agni-4 with 2,500 km to more than 3,500 km range. The missile is programmed in such a way that after reaching the peak of its trajectory, it turns towards the earth to continue its journey to the target with an increased speed, due to the earth's gravitational pull, and its path precisely directed by the advanced onboard computer and inertial navigation system. As the missile enters the earth's atmosphere, its temperature increases.
11 Dec. 2018: 11:10AM: NASA probe finds signs of water on nearby asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered ingredients for water on a relatively nearby skyscraper-sized asteroid, a rocky acorn-shaped object that may hold clues to the origins of life on Earth, scientists said on Monday. OSIRIS-REx, which flew last week within a scant 12 miles (19 km) of the asteroid Bennu some 1.4 million miles (2.25 million km) from Earth, found traces of hydrogen and oxygen molecules, part of the recipe for water and thus the potential for life, embedded in the asteroid's rocky surface. The probe, on a mission to return samples from the asteroid to Earth for study, was launched in 2016. Bennu, roughly a third of a mile wide (500 meters), orbits the sun at roughly the same distance as Earth. There is concern among scientists about the possibility of Bennu impacting Earth late in the 22 century.
11 Dec. 2018: 11:10AM: NASA probe finds signs of water on nearby asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered ingredients for water on a relatively nearby skyscraper-sized asteroid, a rocky acorn-shaped object that may hold clues to the origins of life on Earth, scientists said on Monday. OSIRIS-REx, which flew last week within a scant 12 miles (19 km) of the asteroid Bennu some 1.4 million miles (2.25 million km) from Earth, found traces of hydrogen and oxygen molecules, part of the recipe for water and thus the potential for life, embedded in the asteroid's rocky surface. The probe, on a mission to return samples from the asteroid to Earth for study, was launched in 2016. Bennu, roughly a third of a mile wide (500 meters), orbits the sun at roughly the same distance as Earth. There is concern among scientists about the possibility of Bennu impacting Earth late in the 22 century.
Fig.9: 10 Dec. 2018: Visakhapatnam Beach has moved back into the
Ocean revealing the amazing coast.
Fig.10 The Breaking Records journey of two
Voyagers breaking the record of Solar Heliosphere.
13 Dec. 2018:
Fig 11. Geminid Meteor Showers Dec. 4 to 16 annually.
The Geminids meteor shower, one of the most spectacular of the year, runs from December 4 to 16 annually. In 2018, it will peak before dawn on Friday, December 14, when up to 120 meteors per hour are possible to see under dark sky conditions. Geminids meteors are often bright, intensely colored, and slower moving than average because they are produced by particles dropped by an asteroid designated 3200 Phaethon. The best time to watch for Geminids will be sunset on Wednesday until dawn on Thursday morning. At about 2 a.m. local time, the sky overhead will be plowing into the densest part of the debris field. The early-setting crescent moon on the peak night will provide a dark sky for meteor-watchers.
12 Dec. 2018: UK news Last night: Theresa May wins confidence vote but 117 MPs go against her. The UK prime minister won a vote of confidence in her leadership by a result of 200-117. She now can’t be challenged for a year.
13 December 2018: Manipur honors women who revolted against British rule. On December 12, 1939, they had protested against some British officers in the Imphal Telegraph office. In retaliation, the Assam Rifles troopers bayoneted several women. IMPHAL: The Manipur government on Wednesday paid floral tributes to the intrepid women crusaders who had revolted against the British rule in 1939, officials said. The women had raised their voice against unpaid forced labor and free export of the Manipuri rice which left the people on the verge of starvation. Men should also encourage them to take an active part in the lawmaking bodies.
December 13, 2018: US F-35s to be deployed on Japanese warships to counter the Chinese aggression.
Dec 13, 2018, 22:05 IST: Vietnam flood: 13 killed after heavy rains batter coastal regions. The victims were reported in five provinces of Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, and Binh Dinh, reports Xinhua news agency.
Dec 13, 2018, 14:36 IST: Rs 100 crore allocated for installing black box-type systems in trains. He said that 26 locomotives (23 diesel and three electric) have already been fitted with LCAVR and CVVRS devices.
Dec 14, 2018, 12.14 PM IST: World’s second-biggest money manager says non-US markets to give more returns. It said India, the UK, Japan, and European nations are in the middle stage of economic expansion, while the US, Australia, China, and Canada are in the late stage of expansion.
December 14, 2018, 11:45, IST: ISRO to build fourth stage rockets that remain functional months after launch. ISRO plans on making good use of the space debris.
14 December 2018 06:17 PM: Hyderabad rains break century-old record, highest rain in December ever. The state capital recorded 47 mm of rain in a span of 24 hours till 8:30 am on Friday. These unexpected rains were the result of a trough that was running from Chhattisgarh to South Interior Karnataka across Telangana. However, the trough has now weakened, which would now lead to dry weather conditions over the city.
December 14, 2018: 6:48 pm: On Thursday, offshore patrol vessel INS Sunayna spotted a suspicious fishing vessel around 20 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Indian Navy ship makes second arms seizure off Somalia coast in six days.
December 14, 2018: 4:19 PM: MIT scientists invent a new method to shrink 3D objects to the nanoscale. The scientists at MIT have invented a way to develop nanoscale 3D objects of nearly any shape, which could be used in many fields; from optics to medicine to robotics.
December 14, 2018: 8:13 pm: Furniture & Kitchenware Made From Rice Husk? IIT Kharagpur Students Say It’s Possible. A team of four students from the premier Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT) Kharagpur, displayed a model that highlights the potential of rice husk to produce furniture and pen bodies.
December 15, 2018: Beach Dust-Sand has flown up about 1000 feet and landed in the house due to the 30-40 miles/hr wind that blew over the houses in Official Colony, Maharanipeta.P.O., Visakhapatnam-530002 on the 14 Dec. 2018. It lasted just a few hours in the afternoon from 2PM to 5PM. This is the first time observation is made since the ocean at Visakhapatnam has considerably retreated by about 500 feet into the sea. Last fifteen days the Ocean has retreated exposing the beach sand on the coast.
Visakhapatnam Beach Very Breeze on 15 Dec. 2018
13 December 2018: Manipur honors women who revolted against British rule. On December 12, 1939, they had protested against some British officers in the Imphal Telegraph office. In retaliation, the Assam Rifles troopers bayoneted several women. IMPHAL: The Manipur government on Wednesday paid floral tributes to the intrepid women crusaders who had revolted against the British rule in 1939, officials said. The women had raised their voice against unpaid forced labor and free export of the Manipuri rice which left the people on the verge of starvation. Men should also encourage them to take an active part in the lawmaking bodies.
December 13, 2018: US F-35s to be deployed on Japanese warships to counter the Chinese aggression.
Dec 13, 2018, 22:05 IST: Vietnam flood: 13 killed after heavy rains batter coastal regions. The victims were reported in five provinces of Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, and Binh Dinh, reports Xinhua news agency.
Dec 13, 2018, 14:36 IST: Rs 100 crore allocated for installing black box-type systems in trains. He said that 26 locomotives (23 diesel and three electric) have already been fitted with LCAVR and CVVRS devices.
Dec 14, 2018, 12.14 PM IST: World’s second-biggest money manager says non-US markets to give more returns. It said India, the UK, Japan, and European nations are in the middle stage of economic expansion, while the US, Australia, China, and Canada are in the late stage of expansion.
December 14, 2018, 11:45, IST: ISRO to build fourth stage rockets that remain functional months after launch. ISRO plans on making good use of the space debris.
14 December 2018 06:17 PM: Hyderabad rains break century-old record, highest rain in December ever. The state capital recorded 47 mm of rain in a span of 24 hours till 8:30 am on Friday. These unexpected rains were the result of a trough that was running from Chhattisgarh to South Interior Karnataka across Telangana. However, the trough has now weakened, which would now lead to dry weather conditions over the city.
December 14, 2018: 6:48 pm: On Thursday, offshore patrol vessel INS Sunayna spotted a suspicious fishing vessel around 20 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Indian Navy ship makes second arms seizure off Somalia coast in six days.
December 14, 2018: 4:19 PM: MIT scientists invent a new method to shrink 3D objects to the nanoscale. The scientists at MIT have invented a way to develop nanoscale 3D objects of nearly any shape, which could be used in many fields; from optics to medicine to robotics.
December 14, 2018: 8:13 pm: Furniture & Kitchenware Made From Rice Husk? IIT Kharagpur Students Say It’s Possible. A team of four students from the premier Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT) Kharagpur, displayed a model that highlights the potential of rice husk to produce furniture and pen bodies.
December 15, 2018: Beach Dust-Sand has flown up about 1000 feet and landed in the house due to the 30-40 miles/hr wind that blew over the houses in Official Colony, Maharanipeta.P.O., Visakhapatnam-530002 on the 14 Dec. 2018. It lasted just a few hours in the afternoon from 2PM to 5PM. This is the first time observation is made since the ocean at Visakhapatnam has considerably retreated by about 500 feet into the sea. Last fifteen days the Ocean has retreated exposing the beach sand on the coast.
Visakhapatnam Beach Very Breeze on 15 Dec. 2018
Fig 12. Far away moved beach at
Visakhapatnam on 15 December 2018.
The waves of the sea were very mild and shallow, but very turbid due to the onset cyclone to strike on 16 and 17 Dec. 2018.
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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