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Volume 2019, Issue No.3, Dated: March 1, 2109, Time: 20:23:15 PM.
March 1, 2109: A small town in Mumbai lived by 1000 earthquakes in 4 months, Stratocumulus clouds disappear, flash floods hit Afghanistan's Kandahar, SMASH adds six new particles, AK203 rifle made in India, Cambodian Farmers Struggle Changing Climate, 5,000-Year-Old Human Skeleton, scientists claims to have reversed time, India's water crisis,Astronomers have discovered 83 quasars.
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 for four months.
Sept.to December 1988. and in 1989 visited Japan for about
10 days, and South Korea Conf. in Physics for a week in 1989.
[Retd. Prof of Physics; Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004]
Residential Address: 17- 11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. Mobile: 09491902867.
kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com; DOB:23-07-1940.
lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com
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March 1, 2019: How a small town near Mumbai has lived through over 1,000 earthquakes in four months. In Maharashtra’s Palghar district, tremors have become a frequent occurrence since November 2018. 2 March, 2019: Stratocumulus clouds to disappear soon due to alarming Global Warming. According to a recent research in Paris, Marine clouds that have been protecting us from extreme Earth conditions through reflecting sunlight back into space would soon disappear. This will happen in wake of Carbon Dioxide level increasing in the atmosphere to its extremes. 3 March, 2019: 14:38:07: 20 killed in Afghanistan flash floods. At least 20 people were killed and 10 others reported missing after flash floods hit Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Triggered by heavy rain since Friday. 3 March, 2019: 14:38:07: At least 20 people were killed and 10 others reported missing after flash floods hit Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Triggered by heavy rain since Friday 4 March, 2019: Tripurantaka is one among the numerous names of Lord Shiva. The story of this manifestation of Shiva is associated with him destroying three aerial cities of the asuras with a single arrow. Tripuri were the flying cities of demons made of Gold, Silver and Iron. Demons Tarakaksha, Maya and Vidyunmali ruled over the three cities. Mar 5, 2019: 20:41 IST: Scientists develop faster way to collect Biofuel. 16 February, 2017: SMASH is actually a bottom-up design. SMASH adds a total of six new particles to the standard model: 1. three heavy right-hand neutrinos, 2. an additional quark and 3. a so-called axion and 4. the heavy particle Rho (ρ). The latter two particles are described by a new field that passes through the entire universe. Two days 7 and 8 March it rained heavily in the night and next day on 8 it rained heavily from 4PM to 5.30PM in Visakhapatnam. 9 March, 2019: Severe Weather Outlook for Europe. SLGT risks have been issued from N Scotland across North Sea and N Germany towards Poland. Threat for severe winds and some tornado threat exists locally. Europe is divided in two halves, a large deep trough is located over N Europe while ridging dominates S Europe. A surface cyclone moves across the North Sea and S Scandinavia with cold front and wave pushed across Poland while another short wave drifts SE over the Balkan peninsula. At 06:49 PM IST: 11 state channels brought on satellite network through DD Free Dish. 05:12 pm: 4 dead, 4 missing, hundreds evacuated from landslide, flood in central Indonesia. Scores of houses and a bridge were destroyed and transport access through a main road was paralysed after the disaster. Winter Rain in Greenland is Melting its Ice, Raising Fears About Sea Level Rise. Recent satellite pictures revealed that almost 70% of the contribution made by Greenland to sea level rise has come from melted water, and not ice. Air India operates 52 flights with all-women crew. Mar 10, 2019, 07:46 AM IST: AK 203 rifle will bolster combat capabilities of soldiers, will be 100% 'Made in India'. March 11, 2019: Cambodian Farmers Struggle Against Changing Climate. “Now it is just only about 8 a.m., but it is very hot. Mar 12, 2019: 07:56 AM IST: Traces of 'enormous solar storm' that hit earth 2,600 ago found in Greenland. 13 March 2019: Not only depletion, sparse data on Himalayan springs is also a big concern. Greater awareness, understanding and a national springs’ inventory can help achieve water security for the future. 5,000-Year-Old Human Skeleton Found In Gujarat! Experts Believe It’s Harappan. March 13, 2019: 1:21PM EDT: An international team of scientists claims to have reversed time with the help of a quantum computer. By using electrons and quantum mechanics researchers claim they were able to turn back time in an experiment likened to causing a broken rack of pool balls to roll back into place. The experiment used quantum computer programs to ‘rewind’ scattered quantum bits or qubits back to their starting points. The scientists found that, working with just two qubits, time reversal was achieved with a success rate of 85%. 14 March 2019: Mercury shares its super tight orbit with a big ring of wandering dust. // Congress leader Tom Vadakkan joins BJP, says the party reaction to Pulwama attack hurt him. Vadakkan claimed he could not have stayed on with the Congress after it questioned the integrity of the armed forces. 14 March 2019: Indian astronomers discover most distant radio galaxy. A team of Indian astronomers has located a radio galaxy which is the most distant radio galaxy ever spotted. It is around 12 billion lightyears away from Earth. Mar 15, 2019: 9:08PM: Nepal: Students call upon to follow Gandhian path for peace & harmony. The participants said peace and non violence are invaluable gifts of Mahatma Gandhi to mankind. They said Gandhiji guided people all around the world to solve conflicts in a non violent way. The students said Mahatma Gandhi always believed that all religions are based on humanity and they are like different flowers from a same garden. // India's water crisis has over the last few years snowballed into a matter of national concern due to continued urbanisation and industrialisation. Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of the people on the planet. // 12:59:42 pm: Astronomers have discovered 83 quasars powered by supermassive black holes 13 billion light-years away from the Earth, from a time when the universe was less than 10 per cent of its present age.
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It drizzled in the evening of March 1, 2019, at the beach resort of Visakhapatnam, for about an hour around 6.45PM.
Mar 01, 2019: Modi will also lay the foundation stone for restoring rail connectivity between Rameswaram and Dhanushkodi, where the railway station was submerged in a 1964 cyclone. With the town submerged as well, the place was almost abandoned since. Except for the tourists, who visited Dhanushkodi to see the remnants of the abandoned township.
March 1, 2019: How a small town near Mumbai has lived through over 1,000 earthquakes in four months. In Maharashtra’s Palghar district, tremors have become a frequent occurrence since November 2018. Their magnitude has ranged between 1.6 and 3.9 on the Richter scale – typically, one can feel it beyond 1 or 1.5, seismologists said. Dhundalwadi village, some 60 km from Palghar city, has been identified as the epicentre. Around 250 houses out of the nearly 600 surveyed by village officials in the area were found to be damaged. Four months on, tired of waiting for the tremors to stop, some schools have constructed makeshift tents for their boarders and moved their beds there. But if the vessels clank and the furniture shakes, rush to safety! There are other signs, too. For instance, if colonies of ants rush out of their nests in a hurry, a tremor is around the corner, say villagers. Needless to say, none of these is foolproofly. On January 28 placed accelerometers in and around Dhundalwadi, a device used to measure tremors, has noticed that the quakes are typically originating from a depth of 12-13km beneath the earth’s surface. The Indian plate is moving in the north-east direction and is colliding with the other plates, leading to the jolts. Therefore, these are tectonic in nature.
2 March 2019: Delhi experienced its coldest March night in 40 years, with the minimum temperature being recorded at 6.8C for the second consecutive day on Friday as an unusually longer winter stretched on.
2 March 2019 09:13 AM:
Fig.1 Stratocumulus clouds to disappear soon.
Stratocumulus clouds to disappear soon due to alarming Global Warming. According to a recent research in Paris, Marine clouds that have been protecting us from extreme Earth conditions through reflecting sunlight back into space would soon disappear. This will happen in wake of Carbon Dioxide level increasing in the atmosphere to its extremes.
2 March 2019 09:55:16 AM: Planet Nine is 5 to 10 times bigger than Earth; claim researchers.
March 2, 2019 - 15:20: Temperatures in 4 Kerala districts to rise by 8ºC next week, a hot summer on cards. With the mercury levels expected to rise, the state disaster management authority has listed necessary measures for people to follow during the summer.
2 March 2019 11:08 AM: Climate Change: Rise in ocean temperatures threatening world’s fish stocks. It is very strange to accept the fact that the number of fishes being pulled down out of the ocean have fallen by nearly 5% as the fish stocks are tremendously affected by the rise in sea temperatures.
3 March 2019 04:45 AM: Thames River Festival: Kerala’s snakeboat to set sail to Britain. The Thames River Festival is held annually from September 1-30.
3 March, 2019: 14:38:07: At least 20 people were killed and 10 others reported missing after flash floods hit Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Triggered by heavy rain since Friday, the floods have also destroyed homes and swept away vehicles.
3 March, 2019: Last Sunday's tornadoes in Lee County, Alabama, were spawned by a late-winter "supercell" thunderstorm, ripping through homes and businesses with cyclonic winds of up to 170 miles (274 km) per hour. On Friday, President Donald Trump visited the area and met with survivors, volunteers, and first responders.
March 3, 2019: Multipurpose piezoelectric nanogenerator fabricted by Sumanta Kumar Karan from IIT Kharagpur with co-author Sandip Miti. They claim device is higly sensitive such s touching, bending and air-flow. They used vitman B2, to stabilize beta-phase of the piezoelectric polymer PVDF (polyvinylene diflouride) published in Nano Energy. Prof. Khatau said when made into thin film converts biomechanical energy to 0.15 volts, when placd on throat when person speaking gives 0.5volts, gargling gives 1.6 volts, swaloowing yields 0.29 volts. Pressedby heel yields 58 volts, placed under runningcargives 79 volts. Commercializing the technoloy s their aim.
4 March, 2019: Tripurantaka is one among the numerous names of Lord Shiva. The story of this manifestation of Shiva is associated with him destroying three aerial cities of the asuras with a single arrow. Tripuri were the flying cities of demons made of Gold, Silver and Iron. Demons Tarakaksha, Maya and Vidyunmali ruled over the three cities.
March 4, 2019 17:30 IST: India’s armed forces are in alarming shape: New York Times. The US paper calls Indian military 'vintage' with 68% of its equipment so old.
March 4, 2019: Medha Narvekar Appointed as Vice President of The University Of Pennsylvania.
4 Mar 2019: Bombs penetrated buildings, exploded inside: Here's what happened at Balakot.
Mar 5, 2019: 20:41 IST: Scientists develop faster way to collect Biofuel. The micro-organisms growing in ponds, lakes, and rivers are actually lipids which are fatty acid molecules containing oil that can be extracted to power diesel engines. When extracted, the lipids are called biocrude. Due to this, organisms such as microalgae become an attractive form of biomass, organic matter that can be used as a sustainable fuel source.
February 16, 2017:
3 March, 2019: Last Sunday's tornadoes in Lee County, Alabama, were spawned by a late-winter "supercell" thunderstorm, ripping through homes and businesses with cyclonic winds of up to 170 miles (274 km) per hour. On Friday, President Donald Trump visited the area and met with survivors, volunteers, and first responders.
March 3, 2019: Multipurpose piezoelectric nanogenerator fabricted by Sumanta Kumar Karan from IIT Kharagpur with co-author Sandip Miti. They claim device is higly sensitive such s touching, bending and air-flow. They used vitman B2, to stabilize beta-phase of the piezoelectric polymer PVDF (polyvinylene diflouride) published in Nano Energy. Prof. Khatau said when made into thin film converts biomechanical energy to 0.15 volts, when placd on throat when person speaking gives 0.5volts, gargling gives 1.6 volts, swaloowing yields 0.29 volts. Pressedby heel yields 58 volts, placed under runningcargives 79 volts. Commercializing the technoloy s their aim.
Mar 4, 2019: 8:10AM: Tornadoes kill at least 14 in United States of America. In United States, at least 14 people were killed and dozens more were injured when powerful tornadoes swept through eastern Alabama. The severe storms destroyed mobile homes, snapped trees and left a trial of destruction and weather warnings extending into Georgia, Florida and South Carolina.
4 March 2019 09:27:15 AM: On Rajdhani Express' 50th anniversary, passengers pampered with delicacies. On the occasion of its golden jubilee, passengers were surprised with Indian delicacies like fish fry or vegetable cutlets and ‘rosogollas’ apart from ice cream for dessert. Brand new linen and disposable napkins with greetings of “50 Years of Rajdhani Express” were distributed among the passengers.4 March, 2019: Tripurantaka is one among the numerous names of Lord Shiva. The story of this manifestation of Shiva is associated with him destroying three aerial cities of the asuras with a single arrow. Tripuri were the flying cities of demons made of Gold, Silver and Iron. Demons Tarakaksha, Maya and Vidyunmali ruled over the three cities.
March 4, 2019 17:30 IST: India’s armed forces are in alarming shape: New York Times. The US paper calls Indian military 'vintage' with 68% of its equipment so old.
March 4, 2019: Medha Narvekar Appointed as Vice President of The University Of Pennsylvania.
4 Mar 2019: Bombs penetrated buildings, exploded inside: Here's what happened at Balakot.
Mar 5, 2019: 20:41 IST: Scientists develop faster way to collect Biofuel. The micro-organisms growing in ponds, lakes, and rivers are actually lipids which are fatty acid molecules containing oil that can be extracted to power diesel engines. When extracted, the lipids are called biocrude. Due to this, organisms such as microalgae become an attractive form of biomass, organic matter that can be used as a sustainable fuel source.
February 16, 2017:
Fig.2 SMASH THEORY 3+1+1+1=6 new particles.
SMASH is actually a bottom-up design. SMASH adds a total of six new particles to the standard model: 1. three heavy right-hand neutrinos, 2. an additional quark and 3. a so-called axion and 4. the heavy particle Rho (ρ). The latter two particles are described by a new field that passes through the entire universe. With these extensions, the researchers can solve five problems: The Axion is a candidate for Dark Matter, which is more than five times as frequent as the familiar matter described by the standard model, according to astrophysical observations in the universe; The heavy neutrinos explain the mass of the already known, very light neutrinos, and the Rho, in conjunction with the Higgs particle, causes the so-called inflation, in which the very young universe, which has hitherto been unexplained, has suddenly expanded by at least a hundred quadrillion times. In addition, SMASH gives explanations of why there is so much more matter in our universe than antimaterial, although in the Big Bang both must have arisen in the same quantity and why, with the strong force, one of the fundamental interactions, no violation of the so-called CP symmetry is observed can be. Overall, a complete, consistent picture of the history of the universe from inflation to today is emerging. And unlike many older models, you can calculate the most important values very precisely, for example the time when the universe re-heats after inflation.
March 6, 2019 07:00 IST:Heat wave warning in AP for next 48 hours. Reportedly the heat wave condition will now intensify as dry weather is prevailing across the state, where some parts of north coastal Andhra may witness thunderstorm activity. Notwithstanding this, temperatures will go up and humidity will also intensify. Further as days go by coastal Andhra Pradesh will experience heat wave conditions.
March 6, 2019: 17:46 [IST]: Dams in Maharashtra have only 32.88 per cent water stock of their total storage capacity as of now, almost 14 per cent less compared to last year. The situation is particularly worrisome in Aurangabad division (falling under the arid Marathwada region) where currently the water stock is just seven per cent against 42.67 per cent around the same time last year.
6 March 2019:
March 6, 2019: 17:46 [IST]: Dams in Maharashtra have only 32.88 per cent water stock of their total storage capacity as of now, almost 14 per cent less compared to last year. The situation is particularly worrisome in Aurangabad division (falling under the arid Marathwada region) where currently the water stock is just seven per cent against 42.67 per cent around the same time last year.
6 March 2019:
Fig.3a large lightning
Dramatic lightning show over Los Angeles (USA). BBC News .
March 7, 2019: It rained in the night at Visakhapatnam.
March 07, 2019 08:27 IST: Hayabusa2 lands on asteroid Ryugu: The images, released Tuesday, show sand and rocks flying up after the probe fired a bullet into the asteroid to collect samples. Sand and rocks ranging from several millimetres to tens of centimetres in size were sent flying by the bullet's impact and the firing of the probe's engine. Due to the asteroid's slight gravity, these are seen hovering in space for a long time.
March 08, 2019: From evening 4PM it rained heavily with thunder and continued till about 5.30 PM.
Mar 8, 2019: 20:11 IS: Researchers may have found the weight of the Milky Way. According to the latest measurements, the Milky Way may weigh about 1.5 trillion solar mass(where one solar mass is the mass of our sun). However, only a small percentage of this is contributed by the approximately 200 billion stars in the Milky Way and includes a 4 million solar mass supermassive black hole at the center. Most of the remaining mass is locked up in dark matter, an invisible and mysterious substance that acts like scaffolding throughout the universe and keeps the stars in their galaxies. The milky way’s mass of 1.5 trillion solar masses is comparatively normal for a galaxy of its brightness. 
Fig.3b china news
Fig.4 On the pencil head Venkatesh has sculptured Trisula
in March 2019
Fig.5 An amazing lightning captured March 2019.
9 March, 2019: Severe Weather Outlook for Europe. SLGT risks have been issued from N Scotland across North Sea and N Germany towards Poland. Threat for severe winds and some tornado threat exists locally. Europe is divided in two halves, a large deep trough is located over N Europe while ridging dominates S Europe. A surface cyclone moves across the North Sea and S Scandinavia with cold front and wave pushed across Poland while another short wave drifts SE over the Balkan peninsula.
9 March, 2019: SLGT risks have been issued from N Scotland across North Sea and N Germany towards Poland. Threat for severe winds and some tornado threat exists locally.
9 Mar 2019: 06:49 PM IST: 11 state channels brought on satellite network through DD Free Dish. It is for the first time that the states of Chhattisgarh, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Uttarakhand have got their own DD channel on a satellite network through DD Free Dish.
9 Mar 2019: 05:12 pm: 4 dead, 4 missing, hundreds evacuated from landslide, flood in central Indonesia. Scores of houses and a bridge were destroyed and transport access through a main road was paralysed after the disaster.
Mar 9, 2019: 16:45 IST: Forest department to plant 53,000 trees in Pune district with help from pvt companies. While, Morde foods pvt ltd will be planting a total of 10,000 trees on 10 hectares investing ₹46 lakh in this project, Cummins India Foundation will be undertaking tree plantation on 20 hectares where 13,000 trees will be planted.
9 Mar 2019: 06:49 PM IST: 11 state channels brought on satellite network through DD Free Dish. It is for the first time that the states of Chhattisgarh, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Uttarakhand have got their own DD channel on a satellite network through DD Free Dish.
9 Mar 2019: 05:12 pm: 4 dead, 4 missing, hundreds evacuated from landslide, flood in central Indonesia. Scores of houses and a bridge were destroyed and transport access through a main road was paralysed after the disaster.
Mar 9, 2019: 16:45 IST: Forest department to plant 53,000 trees in Pune district with help from pvt companies. While, Morde foods pvt ltd will be planting a total of 10,000 trees on 10 hectares investing ₹46 lakh in this project, Cummins India Foundation will be undertaking tree plantation on 20 hectares where 13,000 trees will be planted.
9 Mar, 2019: Winter Rain in Greenland is Melting its Ice, Raising Fears About Sea Level Rise. Recent satellite pictures revealed that almost 70% of the contribution made by Greenland to sea level rise has come from melted water, and not ice. With global warming, each year, Greenland’s 1.7 million square km ice sheet excises 270 billion tons of ice that goes into the oceans and seas. Between 1992 and 2011, the global sea level has been raised roughly by 7.5 mm by the lost ice of Greenland. Roughly half of the ice that was lost in the period occurred at the ice sheet’s edge and in the form of icebergs cleaving from the glaciers. But the trend has changed now and recent satellite pictures reveal that almost 70% of the contribution made by Greenland to sea level rise has come from melted water, and not ice. Meltwater that comes from surface melting dominated Greenland’s ice lost in 2011, doubling Greenland’s contribution to sea level rise. Global warming has accelerated this process and over the last 30 years, the average air temperature of the ice sheet has gone up by as much as 1.8C in summer and up to 3C in winter.
9 March, 2019: Air India operates 52 flights with all-women crew.
9 March, 2019: Severe thunderstorms are expected to strike parts of the Midwest and southern United States on Saturday afternoon and evening, bringing damaging winds, hail and the threat of tornadoes.
Mar 10, 2019, 07:46 AM IST: AK 203 rifle will bolster combat capabilities of soldiers, will be 100% 'Made in India'. Defence Minister Nirmala Seetharaman said that the AK 203 is "a successor of the historic AK 47 which continues to be in service in many militaries across the world."
March 11, 2019:. Cambodian Farmers Struggle Against Changing Climate. Rice production falls. Farmers in this district have complained that production of rice in both rainy and dry seasons has declined. Another farmer, says he believes the temperature is rising and the rains are no longer as regular as they once were. “Now it is just only about 8 a.m., but it is very hot.
12 March 2019: The blobs begin thousands of miles below Earth's surface, where the planet's rocky lower mantle meets the molten outer core. One blob lurks deep below the Pacific Ocean, the other beneath Africa and parts of the Atlantic. Both are massive, stabbing up about halfway through the mantle and measuring as long as continents. According to Duncombe, each blob stretches about 100 times higher than Mount Everest.
12 March 2019: 4:36 PM: Lok Sabha elections 2019: CM Mamata Banerjee says TMC to field 41 percent women, terms it proud moment.
March 12, 2019: 6:41 pm: Patna Girl Builds Biogas Plants in Villages, Provides Electricity to Poor Farmers! It was the prevalence of many social and environmental issues that drove this young woman on an extraordinary path towards social development. That was a devastating eye-opener for me. The two weeks that I was there, I observed no households had toilets neither did they have any proper power supply. Which meant, the women had to cook food before nightfall as their farmer husbands finished their farming activities by that time. One thing that had particularly affected me was that these families consumed their meals cold because they had to finish preparing dinner while there was still natural light.
Mar 12, 2019: 07:56 AM IST: Traces of 'enormous solar storm' that hit earth 2,600 ago found in Greenland. The team of scientists, which examined the chemicals preserved in Greenland ice sheet, concluded that the storm was nearly 10 times stronger than anything detected in past 70 years of modern measurements. The team made this observation after studying a band of radioactive elements, unleashed by a storm that struck the planet in 660 BC, preserved in the ice nearly half a kilometre beneath the surface.
March 12, 2019: 11:56 IST: Novel quantum sensor to help improve communication, remote sensing. The device will help long-range 3D imaging and monitoring of cancer treatments. The researchers created an array of tapered nanowires that turn incoming photons into electric current that can be amplified and detected. This device uses Indium Phosphide (InP) nanowires. Changing the material to Indium Gallium Arsenide (InGaAs), for example, can extend the bandwidth even further towards telecommunications wavelengths while maintaining performance.
The drums trapped the gas and began to rise, as the pressure inside them increased. This gas was then extracted from the drums with the help of pipes which were connected to the stove, and a valve could tap it as per the requirement.
March 13, 2019: 4:34 pm: The system was praised by local media that termed it ‘gutter gas’. It helped Ramu Tea-stall earn four times its previous income without a dependence on LPG. The six-unit system was set up at the cost of Rs 5,000 and extracted 200 litres of gas. While some customers were sceptic about the use of gutter gas, the business only grew when the taste or quality of the tea wasn’t compromised. Moreover, it was a sustainable way of turning waste into wealth.
28/02/2019: From Japan to Bhutan: improving resilience against earthquakes. .Two-thirds of all dwellings across Bhutan are built with stone or packed earth. For that reason, the kingdom, with the help of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is conducting stress tests on buildings. In this edition of Global Japan, we look at how Japanese scientists are working with their local colleagues in the Himalayan country to reinforce and retrofit traditional architecture to better withstand the next ''big one.''
13/03/2019 - 08:55: Royal Mint unveils new 50p 'black hole' coin in honour of Stephen Hawking's work. Stephen Hawking's legacy is being honoured by the Royal Mint with a new 50 pence piece.
14 March 2019: Mercury shares its super tight orbit with a big ring of wandering dust. And a cloud of as-yet-undiscovered asteroids likely gave rise to a similar halo in Venus' neighborhood, another new paper concludes. "It's not every day you get to discover something new in the inner solar system."
14 March, 2019: Congress leader Tom Vadakkan joins BJP, says the party reaction to Pulwama attack hurt him. Vadakkan claimed he could not have stayed on with the Congress after it questioned the integrity of the armed forces. It hurt me deeply when you question the integrity of the armed forces. It’s not about the ideology, it’s about love for the nation.
14 March, 2019: 05:25 PM: Cyclone Idai to strike Beira city of Mozambique on March 15. The storm is expected to make landfall early Friday i.e. March 15, in areas just north of the coastal city of Beira, already flooded from recent heavy rains. Idai underwent rapid intensification during the last 24 hours, and became equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane. It moved westwards with a speed of about 10 km/h accompanied with strong winds of 200 km/h gusting up to 240 km/h. Currently, Idai is retaining its strength and is travelling as a Cat 3 hurricane. It is cantered at 19.7˚s latitude and 37.9˚E longitude, which is about 200 km northwest of Europa Island.
March 14, 2019: 4:21 PM: The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), which represents 70 million traders, said it would burn Chinese goods on March 19 to “teach a lesson” to China. “The time has come when China should suffer due to its proximity with Pakistan,” CAIT said in a statement. “The CAIT has launched a national campaign to boycott Chinese goods among the trading community of the country, calling the traders not to sell or buy Chinese goods.”
14 March 2019: Indian astronomers discover most distant radio galaxy. A team of Indian astronomers has located a radio galaxy which is the most distant radio galaxy ever spotted. It is around 12 billion lightyears away from Earth. The team used the Giant Meter wave Radio Telescope (GMRT) which is located near Pune, Maharashtra. It comprises of thirty parabolic radio telescopes that are of 45-meter in diameter.
March 11, 2019:. Cambodian Farmers Struggle Against Changing Climate. Rice production falls. Farmers in this district have complained that production of rice in both rainy and dry seasons has declined. Another farmer, says he believes the temperature is rising and the rains are no longer as regular as they once were. “Now it is just only about 8 a.m., but it is very hot.
12 March 2019: The blobs begin thousands of miles below Earth's surface, where the planet's rocky lower mantle meets the molten outer core. One blob lurks deep below the Pacific Ocean, the other beneath Africa and parts of the Atlantic. Both are massive, stabbing up about halfway through the mantle and measuring as long as continents. According to Duncombe, each blob stretches about 100 times higher than Mount Everest.
12 March 2019: 4:36 PM: Lok Sabha elections 2019: CM Mamata Banerjee says TMC to field 41 percent women, terms it proud moment.
March 12, 2019: 6:41 pm: Patna Girl Builds Biogas Plants in Villages, Provides Electricity to Poor Farmers! It was the prevalence of many social and environmental issues that drove this young woman on an extraordinary path towards social development. That was a devastating eye-opener for me. The two weeks that I was there, I observed no households had toilets neither did they have any proper power supply. Which meant, the women had to cook food before nightfall as their farmer husbands finished their farming activities by that time. One thing that had particularly affected me was that these families consumed their meals cold because they had to finish preparing dinner while there was still natural light.
Mar 12, 2019: 07:56 AM IST: Traces of 'enormous solar storm' that hit earth 2,600 ago found in Greenland. The team of scientists, which examined the chemicals preserved in Greenland ice sheet, concluded that the storm was nearly 10 times stronger than anything detected in past 70 years of modern measurements. The team made this observation after studying a band of radioactive elements, unleashed by a storm that struck the planet in 660 BC, preserved in the ice nearly half a kilometre beneath the surface.
March 12, 2019: 11:56 IST: Novel quantum sensor to help improve communication, remote sensing. The device will help long-range 3D imaging and monitoring of cancer treatments. The researchers created an array of tapered nanowires that turn incoming photons into electric current that can be amplified and detected. This device uses Indium Phosphide (InP) nanowires. Changing the material to Indium Gallium Arsenide (InGaAs), for example, can extend the bandwidth even further towards telecommunications wavelengths while maintaining performance.
The drums trapped the gas and began to rise, as the pressure inside them increased. This gas was then extracted from the drums with the help of pipes which were connected to the stove, and a valve could tap it as per the requirement.
March 13, 2019: 4:34 pm: The system was praised by local media that termed it ‘gutter gas’. It helped Ramu Tea-stall earn four times its previous income without a dependence on LPG. The six-unit system was set up at the cost of Rs 5,000 and extracted 200 litres of gas. While some customers were sceptic about the use of gutter gas, the business only grew when the taste or quality of the tea wasn’t compromised. Moreover, it was a sustainable way of turning waste into wealth.
13 March, 2019: From cosmic dust to the origin of our solar system. Dust rings discovered near Mercury and Venus’s orbits could be studied to understand the origin of planets. Cosmic dust or star dust has been floating all across space — either as scattered particles or in condensed rings. The rings usually form when dust grains are pulled into a planet’s orbit due to its gravitational force. “interplanetary dust could deliver tiny organisms from far-off worlds to Earth, or send Earth-based organisms to other planets.” Instead, they discovered a haze of cosmic dust near Mercury’s orbit — forming a ring that is around 9.3 million miles wide. “People thought that Mercury, unlike Earth or Venus, is too small and too close to the Sun to capture a dust ring. They expected that the solar wind and magnetic forces from the Sun would blow any excess dust at Mercury’s orbit away.”
March 13, 2019: 11:05 [IST]: SBI Launches Doorstep Services For Senior Citizens Over 70 Years Old. The State Bank of India (SBI) has launched priced doorstep banking services for senior citizens over 75 years of age and also for customers who are differently abled, infirm or visually impaired. This facility will, however, be made available for those living within the 5 km radius of selected SBI branches. A fee of Rs 100 will be charged per financial transaction while non-financial transactions will cost Rs 60.
13 March 2019: Not only depletion, sparse data on Himalayan springs is also a big concern. Greater awareness, understanding and a national springs’ inventory can help achieve water security for the future. Fortunately, work to rejuvenate springs has been done in some areas in Himalayas over the past few years. But experts like Chopra opine that there is a need to generate data on all the Himalayan springs to start serious work on their rejuvenation. “Today our lack of knowledge about springs is akin to our lack of knowledge on glaciers a decade ago. We know a lot about Himalayan glaciers which was not the case in 2007-08, but we know almost nothing about springs,” Mukherji said. This, she said, is an area which needs much research as it is crucial for water security in future. Mukherji further said that springs in Himalayan forests are depleting because of a variety of reasons. “Climate change may be one of them, but infrastructure development like road construction and hydro-power development are the major reasons behind the depletion. Seismic activities may be also contributing to it,” she said.
13 March 2019: 07:48 PM: IIT Madras Study, Pollution destroying rice, wheat crops every year. A study led by (IIT-Madras has revealed that about 22 million tonnes (21 percent of India’s yield) of wheat and 6.5 million tonnes of rice (6 percent of India’s yield) are being destroyed each year due to surface ozone. Moreover, the states of Punjab and Haryana have borne losses pf 16% wheat and 11% rice. The plant damaging pollutant has caused an economic loss of 1.5 billion US dollars for rice while 5 billion USD for wheat. Chemical reactions between primary pollutants such as oxides of nitrogen and volatile organic compounds in the presence of sunlight result in the generation of surface ozone.
13 March 2019: 5,000-Year-Old Human Skeleton Found In Gujarat! Experts Believe It’s Harappan. The site is 300m x 300m in size and the experts found a human skeleton, they’ve estimated is around 5,000 years old. Their findings have succeeded in lending even more credence to the belief that a populous settlement once existed on this very spot. They believe the findings originate from the Harappan Civilization. Studies of the potteries, as well as rock blocks, will enhance our knowledge about the different techniques employed and the raw material used to make them.
March 13, 2019: 1:21PM EDT: An international team of scientists claims to have reversed time with the help of a quantum computer. By using electrons and quantum mechanics researchers claim they were able to turn back time in an experiment likened to causing a broken rack of pool balls to roll back into place. The experiment used quantum computer programs to ‘rewind’ scattered quantum bits or qubits back to their starting points. The scientists found that, working with just two qubits, time reversal was achieved with a success rate of 85%13 March 2019: Not only depletion, sparse data on Himalayan springs is also a big concern. Greater awareness, understanding and a national springs’ inventory can help achieve water security for the future. Fortunately, work to rejuvenate springs has been done in some areas in Himalayas over the past few years. But experts like Chopra opine that there is a need to generate data on all the Himalayan springs to start serious work on their rejuvenation. “Today our lack of knowledge about springs is akin to our lack of knowledge on glaciers a decade ago. We know a lot about Himalayan glaciers which was not the case in 2007-08, but we know almost nothing about springs,” Mukherji said. This, she said, is an area which needs much research as it is crucial for water security in future. Mukherji further said that springs in Himalayan forests are depleting because of a variety of reasons. “Climate change may be one of them, but infrastructure development like road construction and hydro-power development are the major reasons behind the depletion. Seismic activities may be also contributing to it,” she said.
13 March 2019: 07:48 PM: IIT Madras Study, Pollution destroying rice, wheat crops every year. A study led by (IIT-Madras has revealed that about 22 million tonnes (21 percent of India’s yield) of wheat and 6.5 million tonnes of rice (6 percent of India’s yield) are being destroyed each year due to surface ozone. Moreover, the states of Punjab and Haryana have borne losses pf 16% wheat and 11% rice. The plant damaging pollutant has caused an economic loss of 1.5 billion US dollars for rice while 5 billion USD for wheat. Chemical reactions between primary pollutants such as oxides of nitrogen and volatile organic compounds in the presence of sunlight result in the generation of surface ozone.
13 March 2019: 5,000-Year-Old Human Skeleton Found In Gujarat! Experts Believe It’s Harappan. The site is 300m x 300m in size and the experts found a human skeleton, they’ve estimated is around 5,000 years old. Their findings have succeeded in lending even more credence to the belief that a populous settlement once existed on this very spot. They believe the findings originate from the Harappan Civilization. Studies of the potteries, as well as rock blocks, will enhance our knowledge about the different techniques employed and the raw material used to make them.
28/02/2019: From Japan to Bhutan: improving resilience against earthquakes. .Two-thirds of all dwellings across Bhutan are built with stone or packed earth. For that reason, the kingdom, with the help of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is conducting stress tests on buildings. In this edition of Global Japan, we look at how Japanese scientists are working with their local colleagues in the Himalayan country to reinforce and retrofit traditional architecture to better withstand the next ''big one.''
13/03/2019 - 08:55: Royal Mint unveils new 50p 'black hole' coin in honour of Stephen Hawking's work. Stephen Hawking's legacy is being honoured by the Royal Mint with a new 50 pence piece.
14 March 2019: Mercury shares its super tight orbit with a big ring of wandering dust. And a cloud of as-yet-undiscovered asteroids likely gave rise to a similar halo in Venus' neighborhood, another new paper concludes. "It's not every day you get to discover something new in the inner solar system."
14 March, 2019: Congress leader Tom Vadakkan joins BJP, says the party reaction to Pulwama attack hurt him. Vadakkan claimed he could not have stayed on with the Congress after it questioned the integrity of the armed forces. It hurt me deeply when you question the integrity of the armed forces. It’s not about the ideology, it’s about love for the nation.
14 March, 2019: 05:25 PM: Cyclone Idai to strike Beira city of Mozambique on March 15. The storm is expected to make landfall early Friday i.e. March 15, in areas just north of the coastal city of Beira, already flooded from recent heavy rains. Idai underwent rapid intensification during the last 24 hours, and became equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane. It moved westwards with a speed of about 10 km/h accompanied with strong winds of 200 km/h gusting up to 240 km/h. Currently, Idai is retaining its strength and is travelling as a Cat 3 hurricane. It is cantered at 19.7˚s latitude and 37.9˚E longitude, which is about 200 km northwest of Europa Island.
March 14, 2019: 4:21 PM: The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), which represents 70 million traders, said it would burn Chinese goods on March 19 to “teach a lesson” to China. “The time has come when China should suffer due to its proximity with Pakistan,” CAIT said in a statement. “The CAIT has launched a national campaign to boycott Chinese goods among the trading community of the country, calling the traders not to sell or buy Chinese goods.”
14 March 2019: Indian astronomers discover most distant radio galaxy. A team of Indian astronomers has located a radio galaxy which is the most distant radio galaxy ever spotted. It is around 12 billion lightyears away from Earth. The team used the Giant Meter wave Radio Telescope (GMRT) which is located near Pune, Maharashtra. It comprises of thirty parabolic radio telescopes that are of 45-meter in diameter.
Mar 15, 2019: 9:08PM: Nepal: Students call upon to follow Gandhian path for peace & harmony. The participants said peace and non violence are invaluable gifts of Mahatma Gandhi to mankind. They said Gandhiji guided people all around the world to solve conflicts in a non violent way. The students said Mahatma Gandhi always believed that all religions are based on humanity and they are like different flowers from a same garden.
15 Mar 2019: India's water crisis has over the last few years snowballed into a matter of national concern due to continued urbanisation and industrialisation. Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of the people on the planet.
March 15, 2019: 12:59:42 pm: Astronomers have discovered 83 quasars powered by supermassive black holes 13 billion light-years away from the Earth, from a time when the universe was less than 10 per cent of its present age. Supermassive black holes, found at the centers of galaxies, can be millions or even billions of times more massive than the Sun. While they are prevalent today, it is unclear when they first formed, and how many existed in the distant early universe. A supermassive black hole becomes visible when gas accretes onto it, causing it to shine as a “quasar.” Previous studies have been sensitive only to the very rare, most luminous quasars, and thus the most massive black holes. The new discoveries probe the population of fainter quasars, powered by black holes with masses comparable to most black holes seen in the present-day universe.
15 Mar 2019: India's water crisis has over the last few years snowballed into a matter of national concern due to continued urbanisation and industrialisation. Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of the people on the planet.
March 15, 2019: 12:59:42 pm: Astronomers have discovered 83 quasars powered by supermassive black holes 13 billion light-years away from the Earth, from a time when the universe was less than 10 per cent of its present age. Supermassive black holes, found at the centers of galaxies, can be millions or even billions of times more massive than the Sun. While they are prevalent today, it is unclear when they first formed, and how many existed in the distant early universe. A supermassive black hole becomes visible when gas accretes onto it, causing it to shine as a “quasar.” Previous studies have been sensitive only to the very rare, most luminous quasars, and thus the most massive black holes. The new discoveries probe the population of fainter quasars, powered by black holes with masses comparable to most black holes seen in the present-day universe.
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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