trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com Volume 2021, Issue No. 01, Dated: Jan. 1-15, 2021 Time: 12:08:03 AM
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, evening 6 PM and 6:01 PM. lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Khadi shirts, and shawls and stoles made of ‘Eri’--a variety of silk, designed a water mill that can generate 150 watts of power, cricket can be played with it employing Sanskrit descriptions, Nitin Gadkari to launch cow dung-based Vedic Paint, "Bred for the World" a German organization made possible gravity assisted water, Veteran ISRO scientist aids farmers, develops banana waste processing technology“, In Indian Himalayan about 1,748 medicinal plant species have been identified.
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Jan 01, 2021, 7:32am CST: Researchers develop new chemistry for the zinc-air battery. Researchers say that the resulting full zinc-air battery can operate stably for 320 cycles and 1600 hrs in an ambient air atmosphere. Researchers are clear that while the ZAB is a potential alternative battery technology with advantages compared to current lithium-ion batteries, the technology requires more research and optimization. Using a Zn-salt with a hydrophobic anion trifluoromethanesulfonate, the team was able to remove water from the air cathode surface, allowing a highly reversible 2e ORR reaction on the air cathode in a diluted, aqueous electrolyte.
On January 2nd, 2021 at 7.27PM Planet Earth will reach closest point Perhelion, to Sun in its annual elliptic orbit around Sun at 0.9832571AU i.e at 14,70,93,168 km from the Sun.
On July 6th, 2021 at 3.46 AM (IST) Earth will be at Aphelion at 1.0167292 AU i.e approximately 15,21,00,523 km from Sun.
refractor telescope. They are unique.
Fig.2 Quantum Teleportation with 90% accuracy.
Fig.3 Aranmula Kannadi Metal Mirrors.
Fig.4 A Watershed.
Fig.5 The innovation by a Siddappa
Fig.7 Ellora Caves in India.
Fig.8 Liquid Glass.
Fig.10. Rs 30,000 from her own pocket to get the classroom walls painted.
Fig.11 Water wheel system an Indian invention.
Fig. 12 KOI-5 Triple Solar System.
“This is what the conjunction looks like through my small 72mm refractor telescope. Notice the colorful diffraction spikes coming from the planets. They are unique in the fact that diffraction spikes can differ depending on the shape and size of the planet!”
Jan. 02 (ANI/Sputnik): 4 hours ago. Moscow [Russia]: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 7 km SW of Gedzhukh, Russia at 0105 GMT on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 42.0889 degrees north latitude and 47.9957 degrees east longitude.
Jan. 02, 2020:
Scientists Have Achieved Quantum Teleportation With 90% Accuracy Over A 44 Km Distance. For the first time ever, scientists have managed to demonstrate a sustained, long-distance teleportation of qubits made of photons (particles of light) with an accuracy greater than 90%. The qubits were teleported using single-photon detectors and off-the-shelf equipment over a 44 km long fiber-optic network. The research team managed to successfully teleport qubits on two systems: the Caltech Quantum Network and the Fermilab Quantum Network.
Jan. 02, 2020: Brexit bans EU boats from zapping fish using 'pulse trawling'. The controversial technique uses electrical signals to drive flat fish, such as sole, from the seabed into nets. There are concerns it harms the marine environment and larger species such as cod, haddock and whiting by causing their spines to break. Using an electric current to fish was banned by the EU in 1998 but since 2006 exemptions were allowed for some pulse trawling.
Jan. 03, 2020: Tens of thousands of people living in the Caribbean are on high alert as volcanoes come back to life after remaining dormant for decades. Residents of St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been told to be ready to evacuate after a volcano started spewing lava, ash, and gas. La Soufrière is the highest point in St. Vincent and is located near the northern tip of the country but has remained dormant for decades before it suddenly became active on Tuesday. The government of the country, which consists of a chain of islands where over 100,000 people live, issued an orange alert, meaning eruptions could occur with less than 24 hours' notice.
Jan. 03, 2020: Astronomers running the world’s largest initiative to look for alien life have recently picked up an “intriguing” radio wave emission from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun, The Guardian reported. There are also reasons to believe that the signal might not mean ‘aliens’. Since only the Parkes observatory has picked up the signal, which has not appeared since, it would be impossible to verify that it came from Proxima Centauri. Another possibility could be that the signal could have been caused by something behind Proxima Centauri, or by a natural phenomenon whose existence we so far do not know of.
Jan. 03, Sunday, The Hindu, 2021:
Whole workshops destroyed, when the Pampa river flooded the artisans endured a colosal loss of around 1Crore of rupees in Kerala. Deeper thuds are heared when two bigger hammers pound the soil used to cast Aranmula Kannadi the metal mirrors, the alloy is a closely gurarded secret, made nowhere in the world. A single man polishes the mirror with water paper! After that all mirrors are down with oiled sacks. Gopalkumar aged 57, speaks fluent English, exhibited the mirrors at Los Angeles. The ubiquitous long-tailed brass casted by casters from Andhra Pradesh, but it these days it deteriorated. The deepa has two brass frames joined together, with one containing the mirror and the other a diya or a traditional lamp. When lit the nirror reflects the flame. Some 16 to 27 families are involved in the art.
Jan 03, 2021 06:53 PM (IST): Indian student’s startup wins recognition in Singapore. His software development company’s clients include Coca-Cola Company, Google and Hilton. While keeping up with his schooling for a diploma in business administration at Singapore Polytechnic, Harsh Dalal, as CEO, has built 120-employee Team Labs’ business across eight cities.
Jan. 04, 2021, 05:11 AM IST:
A watershed moment for India’s farmers. From preventing mildew before its arrival to conserving water, Fasal’s devices are helping farmers adopt new ways according to Fasal, the deployment of its IoT devices on 10,000 acres of farmland so far has saved 3 billion litres of water.
Jan 04, 2021 04:45 pm: Earthquake in Kashmir: 3.5 magnitude quake hits Bandipora. Earthquake in Kashmir: Bandipora in Jammu and Kashmir was shaken by a quake today on Monday morning. The National Center for Seismology (NCS) revealed measured the earthquake at 3.5 magnitude on the Richter scale. The earthquake in Bandipora took place at 10:58 am and that too at a depth of around 5 km.
Jan. 04, 2020: (ANI): Scientists from the Institute of Post-Led Photonics, Tokushima University develop a fluorescence 'lifetime' microscopy technique that uses frequency combs and no mechanical parts to observe dynamic biological phenomena. Fluorescence microscopy is widely used in biochemistry and life sciences because it allows scientists to directly observe cells and certain compounds in and around them. Fluorescent molecules absorb light within a specific wavelength range and then re-emit it at the longer wavelength range.
Jan. 05, 2020: Five asteroids are set to make a close approach to Earth tomorrow, on January 6. Two of the asteroids — 2016 CO247 and 2008 AF4 — are bigger than the Eiffel Tower. Even the smallest of the five asteroids, 2021 AJ, is travelling fast enough to release as much energy as the Hiroshima bomb blast if it were to crash into the planet. It’s a new year, but the life-ending threats facing the planet are still the same. Five asteroids are set to make a close approach to Earth on January 6, according to the Central for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Three of the asteroids are relatively small and pose a smaller threat to the planet if they were headed straight for it. However, the other two are bigger than the Eiffel Tower. The bigger of the two, 2008 AF4, is nearly half a kilometre wide. If it were to crash into the planet, the resulting impact would be the equivalent of 25 megatons to 50 megatons, the same as the largest nuclear bombs in existence today.
Jan. 05, 2021:
that generates 150 watts when the canal flows
near his house.
Using plastic tubs and timber, the farmer, named Siddappa, designed a water mill that can generate 150 watts of power when water flows in the canal near his house."He spent just Rs. 5,000 on the construction, and gets 150 watts of power from this water mill when water flows in the canal," Laxman said.HESCOM) denied electricity supply to his home due to it being in a remote area, according to local reports. This motivated him to build windmills to generate electricity -- a mechanism he observed from the hills of Naragund.
Jan. 06, 2021: Last year the Indian foreign secretary Harsh Shringla and Army Chief MM Naravane had jointly visited the country. The visit saw high-level assurances from India that Myanmar will be a priority when it comes to Vaccine. Shringla also handed over 3000 vials of Remdesivir as a symbol of India‘s commitment to helping Myanmar mitigate the impact of covid 19. The state counsellor highlighted that the first priority group to get the vaccine will be medical professionals and medical personnel, which will happen in the month of February.
Jan. 06, 2021: 
Fig.6. Lord Buddha used to stay here.
The Visva-Bharati University teacher said the discovery of the monastery has proved what the Chinese traveller Hieun Tsang had written in his travel account. He had mentioned that the area had numbers of monasteries and caves and that even Lord Buddha used to stay here. “This area was known as Krimila. This name is mentioned in Buddhist literature also," Kumar said. During the Pala period this area turned into a great trade point and was the administrative centre of the Pala rulers, he added.
Jan. 06, 2021: A recent report has shown that the reason why weathers, especially thunderstorms and desert storms, are increasingly rapidly is because of pollution created by humans, including production of aerosols. Lightning flashes are more frequent at the shipping routes, where freighters emit particles into the air, compared to the surrounding ocean. The study also observed that the most intense thunderstorms in the tropics occurred over land, where aerosols are released by both natural sources and human activities.
Jan. 06, 2021: Bill Gates applauds India's scientific innovation and vaccine-manufacturing capabilities.
Jan. 06, 2021: Daily Mail reported that since 2020, every day is taking less than 24 hours. In fact, July 19, 2020 market the shortest day ever since data collection by scientists began in the 1960s. July 19, 2020 was 1.4602 milliseconds shorter than the regular 24 hours. This goes in direct opposition of previous records, under which the planet took longer than 24 hours to complete a rotation. In July 2020, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) had announced that no ‘’leap second’’ would be added to the world’s official timekeeping in December 2020.
Jan. 06, 2020:
The curious case of the Ellora Caves. These incredibly intricate rock-hewn temples and monasteries are close to the Indian village of Ellora in Maharashtra state. There are 34 in total, a mixture of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain monuments, and elaborate carvings of deities, flowers and life-size elephants fill the space. The caves are thought to date back to between AD 600 and 1,000, and until recently it has been a mystery as to how the monuments have remained so beautifully preserved.
Jan. 06, 2021: Are primordial black holes really giant gravitinos? Astronomers don't understand the origins of the biggest black holes in the universe. These black holes appear so early in the cosmological record that we might have to invoke new physics to explain their appearance. New research proposes an intriguing origin story: the first black holes didn't come from stars but from clumps of super-exotic, super-hypothetical particles known as gravitinos that managed to survive the first chaotic years of the Big Bang. New research proposes an intriguing origin story: the first black holes didn't come from stars but from clumps of super-exotic, super-hypothetical particles known as gravitinos that managed to survive the first chaotic years of the Big Bang. Enter the gravitino, or at least one version of that hypothetical particle. And in one version, there's a particle known as the gravitino. The gravitino is the supersymmetry partner particle of the graviton, which itself is the hypothetical particle that carries the force of gravity. The existence of the gravitino is highly speculative and not based on any existing evidence. But, as we will soon see, some models of the gravitino imbue them with some very special properties that make them ripe for seeding the formation of black holes. According to a research article recently published to the preprint journal arXiv, the high-energy early universe could have had just the right conditions to populate the universe with gravitinos. Because of their unique properties (most notably, their ability to quickly gravitationally attract each other), they could quickly form microscopic black holes.
Jan. 07, 2021: On January 2, two filaments of magnetism situated in the sun's southern hemisphere had become unstable and erupted. The double blasts were huge and led to the eruption of several particles into space and now experts think these can hit our planet. According to a report by Express UK, if the CMEs do end up hitting our planet, we might see Auroras which includes the northern and southern lights. However, researchers do point out that the impact of a solar storm and irregular space weather can be more serious than the Auroras.
Jan. 07, 2021: About 11.42 lakh birds of 190 species have already visited Odisha's Chilika Lake in 2021. "Removal of 160 square km of encroachment in 2018-2019, has resulted in record arrival of annual guests." 111 of the 190 bird species that visited Chilika Lake this year were migratory birds from different countries, while 79 species were local Indian birds. Officials said most of the migratory birds fly from Russia, Mongolia, Siberia, Central and Southeast Asia, Caspian Sea, Ladakh and Himalayas every year on the onset of winter.
Jan. 07, 2021: However, researchers at IIT-Kharagpur have developed a system involving unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs (basically drones) with 5G infrastructure built-in, to help as airborne mobile telecommunication towers. Researchers have submitted a phase-I report of the UAV-5G infrastructure system with MEITY, Government of India and they plan on commercialising the system in the near future.
Jan. 07, 2021: Unlike humans, plants don’t have light-detector organs. However, they have a variety of receptors which detect almost all wavelengths. The research has found when these blue-light detecting cryptochromes are exposed to a photon, they trigger a physiological response.Researchers studied Arabidopsis thaliana which is considered to be a model plant. It has a small genome, grows quickly and produces many seeds which make it an ideal plant for research purposes. Using the Advanced Light Source X-ray, they were able to understand the structure of the cryptochrome-2. The X-ray facility was available at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. When the protein is exposed to blue light, certain elements within the protein undergo changes. The rearrangement process is called photo-induced oligomerization. They observed that when subjected to the blue light, the light-detecting part of the molecule becomes a tetramer, a structure made of four units. Before this part detects light, it is a single unit
Jan 7 (IANS) 2021: A 6.2-magnitude quake jolts Indonesia. Jakarta, A strong earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Gorontalo province on Thursday, The quake struck at 3.59 a.m. on Thursday with the epicentre at 71 km Bonebelago district and the depth at 131 km under the seabed. The intensity of the quake was felt at II to III MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) at Gorontalo city. The jolts were also felt in Luwuk sub-district of nearby and Marowali district of nearby Central Sulawesi province, Baroko subdistrict of South Sulawesi province and Bolangmongondow of North Sulawesi province.
Jan. 07, 2020: Today, the Aranayak Agri Producers Company Limited (AAPCL) has 5,753 members including 122 producers’ groups (PGs) made up of women farmers. Even during the stringent lockdown following the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, these women entrepreneurs procured 2004 metric tonnes (MTs) of maize from 533 women farmers spread in five blocks of Purnia and Katihar districts. “We are running it with the cooperation and coordination among over 5,000 women shareholders in five blocks of Dhamdaha, Bhawanipur, Barahara Kothi and Banmankhi—all in Purnia and Kodha in Katihar."
Jan. 08, 2021: “Kulning is a vocal technique born out of function. It happens across several regions in the Nordic countries. Norway, of course, but also historically in eastern Finland,” she told me on the drive from the train station to the farm, explaining that the musical tradition started in the stubborn soil of Scandinavia’s frozen farmlands that made kulning more necessity than art. Farmers here are migratory and herd their animals to faböds during the summer months to graze on fresh grass. Unlike many herding cultures, Scandinavia’s shepherds were mostly women that employed high-pitched animal mimicry.
Jan. 08, 2021: Philli Devi, who is known in the village as Chai Vali Chachi gave up on eating food at the age of just eleven years old, according to her father, Rati Ram. One day she went to participate in a district level tournament from Patna School in Janal, but when she came back she had suddenly stopped consuming daily meals and even drinking water. In the initial years, Philli Devi would consume bread or biscuits along with the tea but gradually she gave that up too. Moreover, she’d take the tea with milk, however, according to her brother, Bihari Lal, one day there was a slight delay in getting the milk due to some issues with the money. After a spat with the milk vendor concerning money, she decided to quit consuming tea with milk entirely, drinking just black tea. Bihari Lal also revealed that they have even consulted doctors and looked for medical help that may have been causing her to avoid food. But doctors have found no alarming problem. Her daily routine involves staying indoors, staying absorbed in prayers and drinking just one cup of tea before sunset.
Jan. 08, 2021 at 6h11m evening:
Scientists discover new state of matter: Liquid Glass. A team of scientists from Germany and the Netherlands have used a technology called confocal microscopy to discover a new state of matter, Liquid Glass, hidden inside mysterious transformations that happen between liquid and solid states of glass.
Jan. 08, 2021 15 hours ago: A 27-year-old burned 7,500 calories cycling the height of Mount Everest in under 7 hours. "I definitely didn't want any sweet stuff after that," said Gardner, who ate an Indian dish for his first post-race meal. When Sean Gardner broke the world record for Everesting - or cycling the grueling height of Mount Everest, 29,028 feet, at record speed - there was no finish-line tape to break or post-race spread of bagels and beer.
Jan. 08, 2021 6 hours ago: Earthquake in Uttarakhand with magnitude 3.3 strikes near Bageshwar. The earthquake struck at 10:04 am at a depth of 10 km from the surface on Friday morning.
Jan. 08, 2021 5:28 PM: nixi.in: The National Internet Exchange of India, NIXI has announced that it will offer a free Internationalized Domain Name, IDN in any of the preferred 22 official Indian language along with every IN domain booked by the registrant. Applicant will also get a free email in local language. This offer has been created to stimulate the adoption of Bharat IDN domain name and proliferation of local language content. This offer is valid for new .in users who register up to 31st of January. This offer is also extended to those existing in users who renew their domain in the month of January 2021.
Jan. 09, 2021: Assam to give khadi clothes to government employees in January. Nearly 80,000 khadi shirts, shawls and stoles would be required to be knitted in the first phase to give as gifts to grade IV employees.Provided by Hindustan Times Nearly 80,000 khadi shirts, shawls and stoles would be required to be knitted in the first phase to give as gifts to grade IV employees. (Diwakar Prasad/ Hindustan Times). The Assam government has decided to gift khadi clothes to state employees as a mark of respect to Mahatma Gandhi. The government has decided to provide khadi shirts, and shawls and stoles made of ‘Eri’--a variety of silk produced in Assam-- to grade IV employees in a phased manner starting this month.
Jan. 09, 2021: Bermuda Triangle hit headlines again recently when a boat with 20 people onboard went missing on December 28, 2020. The boat left Bimini in the Bahamas and was to arrive in Lake Worth in Florida on 29th. Something went wrong, the boat travelled around Bermuda Triangle and went missing. US Coast Guard searched 17,000 square miles of the sea before suspending search. This incident put spotlight on mysterious Bermuda Triangle again. Who can we blame for disappearances over decades?
Jan. 09 2021 an hour ago: Creating History! All-women Air India cockpit crew to fly inaugural San Francisco-Bengaluru flight on Saturday, The Air India flight will fly on Saturday over the North Pole, taking the Atlantic route to reach Bengaluru. All women cockpit crew consisting of Capt Zoya Aggarwal, Capt Papagari Thanmai, Capt Akansha Sonaware & Capt Shivani Manhas will operate the historic inaugural flight between Bengaluru & San Francisco. The inaugural flight AI176 will depart from San Francisco in the USA at 8.30 pm (local time) on Saturday and it will land at the Kempegowda International Airport at 3.45 am (local time) on Monday.
Jan. 09, 2021 07:05 PM IST: Magnitude 3.3 earthquake hits Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi, second in 24 hours. Bageshwar district reported an earthquake of the same magnitude on Friday morning. The earthquake on Saturday took place around 11.27 am and was located 10 km beneath the surface of the earth. This is the second time earthquake tremors were felt in Uttarakhand in the last 24 hours as Bageshwar district reported an earthquake of the same magnitude on Friday morning.
Jan. 09, 2021 19:39 IST: Donald Trump’s Twitter account suspension dangerous precedent, say BJP leaders. Pitching for regulating such firms, Mr. Surya said dissent is fundamental to democracy and the government welcomes it, but only constitutional authorities can decide on its reasonability. Lately, big tech companies have themselves assumed this role, he said, adding, “Time for us to regulate big tech companies.” Mr. Surya, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, said Facebook and Twitter serve as platforms for expression and they should not curtail people’s will.
Jan. 10, 2021: Yellow clouds billowing tens of thousands of light years upwards from the centre of the Milky Way which baffled astrophysicists for more than 70 years may finally have an explanation. The teams agree however there was a massive explosion at the centre of the galaxy around 15milllion to 20million years ago which we can still see today.
Jan. 10, 2021:
Fig.9 Japanese secret battle for stress and anxiety.
This uncovered Japanese secret battles stress & anxiety. The practitioner handed Dennis special feet patches that he said were made from various herbs — a century-old ailment the Japanese had been using to stabilize blood flow in the feet and help reduce the number of toxins accumulated there. After all, he said, the feet is where the first chakra is — it’s your connection with the Earth, and if you do not take good care of it, you’re going to lose this connection.
Jan. 10, 2020: White winter in Kashmir. A look at the increase in tourist footfall. July 186, August 284, September 848, October 2697, November 6327 and December 13,237.
Jan. 10, 2021: Quantum Technology several areas in which this technology can be applied includes quantum communications (particularly in free space as well in fibre front strectching to 150 km), quantum encryption and quantum metrology.
Jan. 10, 2021: 8 hours ago:
Teacher Gets School's Leaky Roof Fixed And Pays To Have Classroom Walls Painted. But then a teacher came to the rescue. As per a report in The New Indian Express, N Poonkodi, headmistress of the school in Karukakollai village of Denkanikottai Taluk, spent Rs 1 lakh rupees which the government had allocated to fix the leak. She also shelled out Rs 30,000 from her own pocket to get the classroom walls painted.
Jan. 10, 2021 at 10.15 GMT: Ginger root and meteorite dust: the Steiner ‘Covid cures’ offered in Germany. Followers of the “spiritual scientist” and self-proclaimed clairvoyant Rudolf Steiner advocate such therapies to fight the coronavirus because of a supposed “anxiety-relieving effect on the soul and the body” and ability to “strengthen the inner relationship to light”.
Jan. 10, 2021 5:13:06 PM IST: DRDO develops multiple products to help Indian army battle extreme cold in deployment. the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed multiple products such the Him-Taapak heating devices and snow melters to help the soldiers fight the enemy in form of the extremely low temperatures. The Him Tapak space heating device (Bukhari) has been developed for the Indian Army deployed in Eastern Ladakh, Siachen and high altitude areas and it has placed an order of more than Rs 420 crores for these appliances. It has also developed a 'flexible water bottle' and 'Solar Snow Melter' to address the issue of drinking water problems in freezing temperatures.
Jan. 10, 2021 10:59AM PST: Super magnetic neutron star spins faster than any discovered before. There’s a strange type of neutron star called a magnetar; rarely spotted and only vaguely understood. To date, only 30 of these objects have been discovered, but recently a 31st was identified — and it turns out to be even more unusual than its brethren.Magnetar J1818.0-1607 is both the youngest known magnetar, at only 500 years old, and is also spinning faster than any magnetar discovered before, rotating every 1.4 seconds.
Jan. 11, 2021: A massive 66ft-deep sinkhole opened up in an Italian hospital parking lot, forcing the evacuation of a COVID-19 ward.The Italian Fire Brigade Provincial Commander said the collapse could have been caused by an infiltration of water underground from the recent heavy rains. Several cars were swallowed by the hole which is 22,000 feet across and 66 feet deep.
Jan. 11, 2021:
In a bid to irrigate his farmland, a farmer in Mayurbhanj, Odisha has devised ingenious irrigation to water his crops using a water wheel system. According to reports, Mahur Tipiria of Badamatalia village under Sukruli block in Mayurbhanj district constructed the device.
Jan. 11, 2021: President of the Republic of Suriname, Chandrikapersad Santokhi, will be the chief guest at India's Republic Day parade on January 26, sources in the PMO told News18 on Sunday, days after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelled his visit to India. Sources confirmed that Santokhi, who is of Indian origin, will be attending the Rajpath parade.
Jan. 11, 2021: Kottigehara: Unseasonal rain showers in Karnataka destroyed Coffee, paddy and arecanut growers. Expecting 2oo bags of coffee this year but rain destroyed 150 bags and only 50 bags survived but the loss is to the tune of Rs. 6 lakh. Like him hundreds of farmers have lost their cropsin the four-five days heavy untimely rains. Mudigere faced the losses in last two years. Out of 15 quintals he is expecting only three pr four quintals of paddy. Drenched arecanut prices also fell down.
Jan.11, 2021: Cricket played in Sanskrit way in Bhopal. Priests took up bat and ball in the Maharshi Cup tournament and all the players were in dhoti mundu so were the empires in dhoti. All the players are either Pujaries or Sanskrit students. They achieved translation of terms into Sanskrit a big task achieved elegently. It played out at Bhopal's Ankur Stadium. It almost took an year to make it happen. Even modern games like cricket can be played with it employing Sanskrit descriptions.
Jan. 11, 2021: Quake resistant buildings in Gujarat date to 1500 years ago. Structural researchers visited the houses in Ahmedabad and ancient Vadnagar, and found dating back to 2nd and 5th centuries were earthquake resistant. At intervals of about 120 cm horizontal timbers were placed in such a way so that one set was at the level of door and windowlintels, another mid-way between two and one at the floor-ceiling level that helps the building withstand the earthquake jolts.
Jan. 11, 2021: 4 hours ago: Nitin Gadkari to launch cow dung-based Vedic Paint. The Times of India logoNitin Gadkari to launch cow dung-based Vedic Paint.“Khadi Prakritik Paint” is a first-of-its-kind product, with anti-fungal, anti-bacterial properties. Based on cow dung as its main ingredient, the paint is cost-effective and odorless, and has been certified by Bureau of Indian Standards. Union minister Nitin Gadkari will be launching an innovative new paint developed by Khadi and Village Industries Commission on Tuesday. Khadi Prakritik Paint is available in two forms – distemper paint and plastic emulsion paint. The project was conceptualized by KVIC in March 2020, and later developed by Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute, Jaipur (a KVIC unit). The KVIC said the paint is free from heavy metals like lead, mercury, chromium, arsenic, cadmium and others.
Jan. 12, 2021: While the concept of ed-tech platforms entirely replacing the physical classroom-based learning seems unlikely for the foreseeable future, it is certain that ed-tech platforms will further elevate India's ed-tech sector's standing on a global level. Without a shadow of a doubt, digitization in education has offered a substantial boost to the online learning market. The needle is shifting towards online learning and India's ed-tech ecosystem will witness substantial growth and thrive in the near future.
Jan. 12, 2021: Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Jammu and Kashmir. An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale hit Jammu & Kashmir at 7.32 pm on Monday (January 11), In Kishtwar and Udhampur districts, people came out of their homes during the earthquake. It created panic among the people. Several tremors have occured in the state over the past four months.The earthquake occured at a shallow depth of 10 km near Doda in the state and the epicentre is said to be Kishtwar. Shallow earthquakes are felt more strongly than deeper ones as they are closer to the surface.
Jan. 12, 2021: "Bred for the World" a German organization apart from local organizations in a novel initiative a gravity based irrigation system has been set up in a 33-acre cluster belonging to 51 tribal families in Logili village in Visakhapatnam. The techology was earlier used only for drinking water, but now extended to irrigation slated to earn Rs. 80,000 to one lakh a year per acre. Project costed Rs.18 lakh primarily financed by the German firm. They can grow at least two crops per year by crop rotation. A check dam was constructed across the flow on a sheet rock to a 31-acre cluster. Round the year farmers can get water.
Jan. 13, 2021: The galaxy officially called “A2261-BCG” seems to have lost its black hole. Scientists now believe that the black hole might be floating through space, marking the first such instance ever recorded. The first ever “recoiling” black hole may now be floating through the universe. Scientists posit that this implies that a powerful force emanating from somewhere in the galaxy may be behind the ejection of this supermassive black hole. The power of the force would have been strong enough to push the black hole far away!
Jan. 13, 2021: A 30-year-old unnamed man with bipolar disorder injected himself with "magic" mushrooms, which contain the psychedelic drug psilocybin, in a failed attempt at a trip. Psychedelic mushrooms are meant to be eaten or drank, not injected. The mushrooms grew in the man's bloodstream and caused his body to go into organ failure. He's still being treated to this day with antifungals and antibiotics.
Jan. 13, 2021: Faith: Music in Temples with instruments during invocatary prayers, are specified in the Pancharatra Agamas. Jallari for Vishnu, Kahala for Saraswati, mardala for Chandra, Tantri for Gandharvas, Harsva maradala for Bhu Devi, pataha for Lakshmi, and Kaamsya for Brahma. When Deity being decorated worship through Dance, Veena and Flute is required. Nine Talas are mandated for Beri: 1. Addhava in the South, Malla in the Spohvaana,2. Pakdshi, 3. Yushmat, 4. Mama, 5. Pamchama 6. Indra, 7. Kumuda, 8. Viswaksena and 9. Maatraadeena. All Devatas come to witness Brahmotsavam. Paadma Samhit says Sama Tala played in East, Paddhave in the South, Malla in the South West etc.
Jan 13, 2021; 7 hrs ago: Leopard Attacks Woman In West Bengal Tea Garden, She Fights It Off With Her Bare Hands. Leela Oraon fought unarmed after the animal jumped on top of her as she worked in Bhatkhawa Tea Garden. After 10 minutes, the big cat made a run for it. Sources said that she was taken to Lilabari Grameen Hospital by the other workers. "The woman is undergoing treatment. She is better now. We salute her courage."
Jan. 13. 2021: wionnewsweb@gmail.com: Veteran ISRO scientist aids farmers, develops banana waste processing technology“The raw fibre can be processed into garments, the powder content from the fibre can be used to add nutritional value to Maida, the banana stem can be processed to extract a health drink or even ethanol-based organic fertilizers. There are even plans to fabricate composite materials that find wide-ranging use in the automobile, aerospace and renewable energy(windmills) sector”.
Jan. 14, 2021: 50 archaeological sites found in Prayagraj: dnawebdesk@gmail.com (DNA Web Desk): agoNearly 50 sites of archaeological importance have been marked and documented, from where, a large number of archaeological remains from Chalcolithic period (around 3,000 to 2,000 BC when copper was the dominant metal) to the Mughal period and later, have been found." These remains consist of various types of potteries, terracotta and semi-precious stones, microlith (1cm to 8cm long stone tools), beads and tools of stone and iron and materials made of bone and ivory are important.
Jan. 14, 2021:
The KOI-5 star system consists of three stars, labeled A, B, and C in this diagram. Star A and B orbit each other every 30 years. Star C orbits stars A and B every 400 years. The system hosts one known planet, called KOI-5Ab, which was discovered and characterized using data from NASA's Kepler and TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) missions, as well as ground-based telescopes.
Jan 13 (IANS), 2021 New Delhi: A low-intensity earthquake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale hit the national capital region late evening on Wednesday. The earthquake, with a depth of five km, hit Ghaziabad area in Uttar Pradesh at 19:03 pm.
Jan. 13, 2021: The source of a huge flare that swept through our solar system has been pinpointed by scientists. The discovery could help the understanding of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe. Earth is hit by mild and short gamma-ray bursts regularly, on most days. But more rarely there are vast explosions, like the newly examined GRB 200415A, which bring with them a lashing of energy more powerful than our own Sun.
Jan. 14, 2021: The recent IIT study, now published in the journal Physical Review Letters (PRL), highlights the importance of all three species of the neutrinos from the supernovae. In contrast, all the other models take only two of these neutrinos in account. The paper focuses on supernovae, a super explosion marking the death of a massive star that sends shockwaves to massive distances. Supernovae release particles that eventually make up most of the matter around the universe. The study of supernovae and the role of neutrinos can thus help us understand much about the universe. "These 'fast' conversions are nonlinear in nature and are not confronted in any other neutrino sources but supernovae. We for the first time did a non-linear simulation of fast conversion with 'all' the three neutrino flavors in supernovae."
Jan. 14, 2021: On July 19, 2020, it was 1.4602 milliseconds shorter than the full 24 hours, according to a report in The Telegraph. It is not an alarming thing as such as the planet's rotation varies due to ocean currents, atmospheric pressure, and movement of the core. Now, It takes about 86,400 secs to rotate around its axis.
Jan. 15, 2021: 7 hours ago: 112 medicinal plants in Himalayas 'threatened', but conservation plans in place for just 5. In the Indian Himalayan region, one of 36 global biodiversity hotspots, 1,748 medicinal plant species have been identified. But with increased commercial collection, unmonitored trade, habitat loss and unsustainable harvesting, 112 plant species are now threatened, the first extensive study across Indian Himalayan states has found. And of these, conservation plans are in place for just five. "There is very little data about the population status of medicinal plants. The extraction of high-value medicinal plants has not always been managed well. Besides, local and indigenous communities depend on the ecosystem for medicines, fuel and fodder.”
Jan. 15, 2021: an hour ago: Indonesia earthquake: 35 die, buildings topple as 6.2-magnitude tremors rock West Sulawesi. "Nine people died in Majene district, and 26 others in Mamuju district, bringing the total death toll to 35." In addition, 637 people were injured and around 15,000 others were displaced at 10 evacuation posts, The earthquake also damaged around 300 houses, hotels, government buildings, hospitals and minimarkets besides cutting off electricity, communications, and roads. The earthquake struck at 2.28 am, with the epicenter at 6 km northeast of Majene, and a depth of 10 km.
Jan. 15, 2021: 02:24 4 hours ago: Act of kindness: Mirzapur SP gives the jacket off his back to old man shivering in cold.
Jan. 15, 2021: 3 hrs ago: Scientists from Stanford University in the United States have developed a quantum version of Archimedes' screw and have published their findings in this month’s Science Journal. The paper titled "Topological pumping of a 1D dipolar gas into strongly correlated prethermal states" describes how the quantum version of Archimedes’ screw hauls fragile collections of gas atoms to higher and higher energy states without collapsing. An Archimedes’ screw or an Egyptian screw is a machine that is used for transferring water from a low-lying water-body into irrigation ditches. The abstract of the paper mentions that the scientists created a non-thermal state in a Bosonic one-dimensional (1D) quantum gas of dysprosium by stabilizing a super-Tonks-Girardeau gas against collapse and thermalization with repulsive long-range dipolar interactions. Benjamin said that when the research was in its initial stages, his expectation for the system was that the stability of the gas would only shift a little. However, as their experiments made progress, they found a dramatic, complete stabilization of the gases which, Benjamin says, was beyond his wildest conception.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author is indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) for stimulating encouragement to publish my articles on Science & Technology. He is also grateful to Late Mrs. Peramma Rangadhama Rao for her admiration and support for the publication of my articles. She told me that the Meteorides that fall on the Earth carry with them the human life ingrediants. When her son Dr K V N Rao (Ill) had been to USA, she expected a possible trip to visit USA (not materialized) and always observed the 4th July, the day of US independence.
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