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Volume 2018, Issue No.8a, Dated: 16 August , 2018, Time:00:45:47 AM
August 16, 2018: superconductivity at ambient temperature and pressure conditions, Multiple earthquakes, Five ISRO Satellites, India anti-airfield weapon, Biofuel Flight, Melting of Glaciers in Norway.
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.
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ABSTRACT
16 Aug. 2018: World's oldest cheese discovered in the Egyptian tomb. Kerala floods. India Navy deploys 21 teams for the rescue operation, red alert issued for 8 districts.
Samsung Electronics announced that it has developed what it claims is the industry’s first 5G modem. Aug 17, 2018: NASA's Hubble captures the dazzling image with 15,000 galaxies including 12,000 forming stars. At 7:30 pm: It was in Machilipatnam that the world caught the first glimpse of light from a new material – helium: 324 dead as Kerala battles worst flood in 100 yrs, over 2 lakh in relief camps. After India’s first solar charging station, Magenta Power sets up country’s first EV charging corridor. Magenta Power has set up a new electric vehicle charging corridor, which is a network of several, charging stations at Mumbai-Pune Expressway, Lonavala. Indian Researchers Claim To Reach The Holy Grail In Physics. Last month, Dev Thapa and Anshu Pandey, chemical physicists from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, posted a paper on arXiv claiming they have succeeded in achieving “superconductivity at ambient temperature and pressure conditions.” What’s more baffling is that they did it by using a matrix of gold and silver particles. August 18, 2018, VR Lalithambika, the woman who will lead India's human spaceflight programme. On Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that India looks to carry a human into space on an Indian spacecraft from Indian soil by 2022. The mission could cost as much as Rs 10,000 crore. Lalithambika, who has won the Astronautical Society of India for excellence award in launch vehicle technology, to spearhead the programme to make India the fourth country launch a human in space. 19 August 2018: Tadipatri (Anantapur): Tadipatri municipality which is the first to ban plastic in the state has come up with another innovative idea for cleaning manholes with a robotic scavenging machine called ‘Bandicoot’ and redefined scavenging. The robot, which takes 15 minutes to clean small sewers and around 45 minutes to unclog bigger ones, was developed by Genrobotics, a company founded by nine young engineers in Thiruvananthapuram two years ago. "Dear Ratnam, I must thank you for the fountain pen you sent me. I have needed it and it seems to be a good substitute to the foreign pen. Yours sincerely, M.K. Gandhi, 16.7.1935."// Ratnam pen works now carries forward. // Swaraj, who was here to attend the 11th World Hindi Conference, called on Mauritian Prime Minister. In Oklahoma at approximately 5.30 p.M., the storm hit and knocked over the concert entrance trusses with 70-80 mile an hour winds and heavy rain. Bajrang Punia wins gold for India, beats Japan's Daichi Takatani 11-8 in men's freestyle wrestling 65 kg, ongoing 18th edition of the Asian Games on Sunday.// How Five ISRO Satellites Are Playing A Key Role In Saving Lives In Rain-Battered Kerala. Earth observation satellites Oceansat-2, Resources-2, Cartosat 2 and 2A and INSAT 3DR are sending real-time images of the flood-affected region to stations on the ground. // India successfully tests smart anti-airfield weapon. The 120-kg class smart weapon is capable of destroying ground targets using precision navigation up to a range of 100 km. Aug 20, 2018, 10:34 AM IST: Multiple quakes rock Indonesia's Lombok island, five dead. A series of quakes were recorded by seismologists throughout yesterday, the first measuring 6.3 shortly before midday which triggered landslides and sent people fleeing for cover. Multiple earthquakes including a powerful and shallow 6.9-magnitude tremor have rocked the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok. 21 Aug 2018: GVMC blames overflowing drains on residents and not the monsoon, and sanitary staff found the huge quantity of solid waste, including blankets, mattresses, plastic cups, and even suitcases while clearing the clogged drains in Visakhapatnam. Radioactive material weighing 23 kilograms of iridium-192, goes missing in Malaysia if fallen in hands of militants and be used to make a dirty bomb.// First 4D ceramics ink which is a mixture of polymers and ceramic nanoparticles and 3D printed ceramics can be stretched three times their initial length, allowing complex shapes. // Thursday when a landslide swept through Makkandur village on the banks of the rain-fed Cauvery river. It left hundreds homeless. Then came a series of landslides, taking out several villages like dominoes.// 08:40 IST: India's new bomb can target enemy bases 100 km away. Striking the airfield's runway precisely with one bomb is more economical than using traditional free-fall bombs. A look along the Beach Road a magnificent Rainbow on Tuesday 21 August 2018. Morning at 6AM at raise of the Sun in slightly drizzling rain in Visakhapatnam.// It was very hot in Visakhapatnam in the last two days 22 and 23 August 2018, and on the 23 there was a heat wave around 4PM, blowing near the beach and, in Maharanipeta down towards the beach. Also, there was no breeze even in the shore area, and whatever little breeze, it was very hot. The sitting place on the parapet wall of the beach road was also very hot at 7PM, an unusual feature. It indicates that weather change is taking place very rapidly. The Ocean was very ferocious, and waves were slashing the preventive rocks near the Maharanipeta down. It is unfortunate that the sea is not offering a relaxation space near the scandal point, and people were sitting on the steps leading to the beach area.// Full Reservoir Level 883ft.Dam capacity 215.8070TMC. Present level Srisailam on 23 August 2018, 883.30ft. Eight spill-way gates were lifted on Thursday 23, up to 10 feet. Rainfall accumulations from August 13 to 20 showed two bands of heavy rain across India. 24 August 2018: The center of Typhoon Cimaron was estimated to be about 210 km (130 miles) northwest of Wajima city in Ishikawa prefecture at 9 a.m. (0000GMT) and heading north. August 24, 2018:1012 GMT (1812 HKT): Never before seen Amazon tribe caught on drone video.
In A First In India, SpiceJet Operates Biofuel Flight From Dehradun To Delhi. 28 August 2018: Karnataka farmers reap benefits of native cows' milk. Rearing native cattle, farmers in rural Karnataka have brought about a welcome rural-urban link, benefiting economically and bringing health benefits to urban consumers. // To extract the signal, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations each combined data from the first and second runs of the Large Hadron Collider, (LHC), which involved collisions at energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV. // We are happy to be the first one to bring LED Cinema screen in India: PVR Cinemas. August 29, 2018: 1:22 AM: Puerto Rico's death toll from Hurricane Maria raised to nearly 3,000.Aug. 28 and 29, 2018: Pics of Beach Stands. Aug 29, 2018, 11:47 AM (IST); Landslide kills four in Uttarakhand, four still trapped. Heavy rains are lashing most parts of the hill state, triggering a spate of landslides. // How India’s cows can save the earth, by feeding on seaweed. Feeding seaweed as a dietary supplement to the cows dramatically reduced their emissions of methane gas. India’s 305 million cattle population is the largest in the world in 2018. // Indian peacekeepers in S Sudan impart farming training to women. Indian peacekeepers deployed with the UN Mission in South Sudan are teaching women in the town of Malakal how to grow their own nutritious food, helping scintilla in them social and entrepreneurship skills. // Destination: Sparkling vast and blue Pangong Lake off Leh evokes the feeling of oneness with nature. // Visakhapatnam district and its outskirts, and Padmanabham gets 8cm rainfall inthreehours on thursday evening, Bheeemili along with city beach received 6cm rain. This sudden burst of rain maybe attributed to the melting of glacier in Norway. // Tokyo: Astronomers have obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away, using Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). August 31, 2018: 5G spectrum auction policy has liberal terms in Germany. Germany is planning to conduct the auction for selling the 5G spectrum in early 2109. // 3:56:45 pm: UP: Woman commits suicide after police refuse to file FIR. // 4:10:24 pm Martian skies clearing, hope for Opportunity Rover: NASA: A dust storm encircling Mars, first detected May 30, cut off solar power and halted operations for the nearly 15-year-old rover. // 16:00 IST: 19 People Stranded In Flood-Hit Arunachal Pradesh Rescued By Air Force.// Today also it rained in the afternoon twice with gap of harsly half-an-hour but cleared by 5 PM.
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Aug 16, 2018, 9:00 am IST: World's oldest cheese discovered in the Egyptian tomb, and it comes with a 'killer curse'. The cheese was discovered in the tomb of Ptahmes who was the mayor of Memphis in Egypt during the 13th century BC. After dissolving the sample, the researchers purified its protein constituents and analyzed them with liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. The peptides detected by these techniques show the sample was a dairy product made from milk. The characteristics of the canvas fabric, which was suitable for containing a solid rather than a liquid substance, supported the conclusion that the dairy product was a solid cheese.
16 August 2018: MP Flash Floods: 11 Dead, Over 30 Stranded, Rescue Ops Underway. There was a sudden surge in the water around 4.30 pm, possibly due to heavy rain upstream, catching those bathing in the waterfall unawares.
Fig.2 Lakshmi Devi figure in Japan and SriSailam Dam with all gates open.
16 August 2018: MP Flash Floods: 11 Dead, Over 30 Stranded, Rescue Ops Underway. There was a sudden surge in the water around 4.30 pm, possibly due to heavy rain upstream, catching those bathing in the waterfall unawares.
Aug 16, 2018, 09:14 IST: Kerala floods: India Navy deploys 21 teams for the rescue operation, red alert issued for 8 districts. Meals and lodging arrangements for rescued people have been arranged by Defence Services Corps (DSC), NAD and the civil administration. A Medical Inspection room has also been set up with civil assistance. Rainfall in Kerala is likely to intensify and heavy to very heavy rains has been predicted in Wayanad, Kozhikode, Kannur, Kasargode, Malappuram, Palakkad, Idukki and Ernakulam Districts until Thursday. Southern Railways, Kochi metro services suspended. Due to rise in water level at Bridge, No 176 on Downline between Angamali and Aluva, The services on this bridge is suspended. Kochi Metro train operation is suspended as the water level rises in Muttom yard area.
Aug 16, 2018 22:34:54 IST:
Fig.1 disputer-cauvery-water Mettur Dam
The water level in the Mettur dam today stood at 120.29feet as against its maximum of 120 feet and the storage 93.9 tmc against the capacity of 93.4tmc. The flood alert has been sounded in 11 districts as the discharge from Mettur, Bhavanisagar and Amaravati dams were further expected to go up with Karnataka releasing 2.1 lakh cusecs from Kabini and KRS dams into Cauvery.
16 August 2018: Samsung Electronics announced that it has developed what it claims is the industry’s first 5G modem that is fully compatible with 3GPP Release 15 for 5G NR. Samsung says it successfully conducted an over-the-air (OTA) 5G NR data call test under a wireless environment utilizing a 5G base station and 5G end-user equipment prototype embedded with Exynos Modem 5100. Built on power-efficient 10-nanometer (nm) process technology, the new Exynos Modem 5100 modem also supports legacy radio access technologies designed into a single chip. The Exynos Modem 5100 features radio frequency IC (RFIC), envelope tracking (ET) and power management IC (PMIC) solutions. The Exynos Modem 5100 supports both sub-6GHz and mmWave spectrums specified in 3GPP’s 5G standard as well as legacy networks, including 2G GSM/CDMA, 3G WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, HSPA, and 4G LTE, with a single chip solution.
Fig.3a Niagara Falls India Flag Display 15 August 2018
Fig.3b th9TSFKRX4 national flag India
Fig.3c India National Flag Display 15 August 2018
August 17, 2018, 3:05 PM: After India’s first solar charging station, Magenta Power sets up country’s first EV charging corridor. Magenta Power has set up a new electric vehicle charging corridor, which is a network of several, charging stations at Mumbai-Pune Expressway, Lonavala. The company plans to extend this corridor to Bangalore and Mysore. // Over 100 killed in Kerala in just one day as flood crisis worsens. The toll for Thursday, initially put at 30, has now been revised to 106, the sources said, which takes the overall fatalities to 173 since the second spell of monsoon fury unleashed itself on August 8.
August 17, 2018, 3:36 pm:
Fig.4 non-cooperation 1922 West Bengal
Fondly known as Gandhi buri or old lady Gandhi, Matangini was born into a poor family who could not afford to get her educated and was married off to Trilochan Hazra, a 60-year-old widower, at a very young age. By the age of 18, she was already a widow and returned to her hometown. // NAIROBI: A police officer stands guard as heavy machinery demolishes the UKAY Mall in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya, August 14, 2018. For decades the Nairobi River has been besieged by the construction of buildings teetering perilously over its banks, bringing pollution, blockages, and floods to the waterway that runs through the capital. Has leveled shopping malls, a petrol station and a coffee shop in Nairobi, to the horror of business people. The effort is cheered by many in the city of more than 4 million, who have watched with dismay as apartment blocks, shopping malls and even swimming pools have popped up along the river. // 324 dead as Kerala battles worst flood in 100 yrs, over 2 lakh in relief camps. // NASA's Hubble captures the dazzling image with 15,000 galaxies including 12,000 forming stars. In one of the largest panoramic views of star birth, astronomers using the ultraviolet vision of NASA's Hubble space telescope have assembled an image that features approximately 15,000 galaxies, about 12,000 of which are forming stars. The light from distant star-forming regions in remote galaxies started out as ultraviolet, but the expansion of the universe shifted the light into infrared wavelengths.// Indian Researchers Claim To Reach The Holy Grail In Physics. Last month, Dev Thapa and Anshu Pandey, chemical physicists from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, posted a paper on arXiv claiming they have succeeded in achieving “superconductivity at ambient temperature and pressure conditions.” What’s more baffling is that they did it by using a matrix of gold and silver particles — materials that have never exhibited superconductivity even at incredibly cold temperatures. So physicists from all of the world began to take a closer look at the data as something didn’t seem right. Eight monovalent metals Sodium, Potassium, Lithium, Rubidium, Cesium, Gold, Silver, and Copper, perhaps their combinations may prove to be practical and their solid state chemistry with right perturbations should show interesting behavior. Finally, Brian Skinner, a physicist at MIT, found a strange correlation between two independent measurements in Thapa and Pandey’s arXiv paper. // It was in Machilipatnam that the world caught the first glimpse of light from a new material – helium:
Fig.5. Pioneering Discovery of Helium
There was a bright yellow line that they thought was the signature of sodium. But Pogson in Masulipatnam had some doubts if it really coincided with the signature wavelength of sodium. Lockyer confirmed Pogson’s doubt that the errant yellow line might not be due to sodium, and coined the name ‘helium’. Much later, in 1895, William Ramsay isolated an element from a radioactive material, which had the same spectral signature, and so could be identified as helium.
August 18, 2018, 9:30 IST: In Kerala 80 dams opened.// The Dakshina Kannada district police along with NDRF team rescued over 200 people from landslips and flash floods in Jodupala village in Kodagu district bordering Dakshina Kannada on Friday afternoon. Heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslips at Jodupala in Kodagu district on Friday. Soon, the police and NDRF team reached the spot and evacuated those stranded. Dakshina Kannada district in-charge Minister U.T. Evacuated people were being housed in food shelters opened at two schools near Sullia as well as in Jodupala.// Aadhaar programme is like a mass surveillance system in today’s times, says Edward Snowden.//
Fig.6 VR Lalithambika: India's human
spaceflight programme
VR Lalithambika, the woman who will lead India's human spaceflight programme. On Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that India looks to carry a human into space on an Indian spacecraft from Indian soil by 2022. The mission could cost as much as Rs 10,000 crore. Lalithambika, who has won the Astronautical Society of India for excellence award in launch vehicle technology, to spearhead the programme to make India the fourth country launch a human in space. // Fast melting Arctic ice may hit Indian monsoon: The research led by Manish Tiwari and Vikash Kumar of National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, has reconstructed the warming of the Arctic over the last two centuries by examining organic productivity from sediment samples from an Arctic fjord known as Kongsfjorden in Svalbard.// Mithila paintings: How Dalit women have used art to reclaim their identity and their stories. Those engaged in art forms like gobar and godna managed to break free of their traditional professions, along with assuming ownership of their narratives. The Dusadhs capturing their oral history, such as the adventures of Raja Salhesa, and depictions of their primary deity, Rahu, in bold compositions and figures based on traditional tattoo patterns, locally called Godna. This added another distinctive new style to the region’s flourishing art scene.
19 August 2018: Tadipatri (Anantapur): Tadipatri municipality which is the first to ban plastic in the state has come up with another innovative idea for cleaning manholes with a robotic scavenging machine called ‘Bandicoot’ and redefined scavenging. The robot, which takes 15 minutes to clean small sewers and around 45 minutes to unclog bigger ones, was developed by Genrobotics, a company founded by nine young engineers in Thiruvananthapuram two years ago. The civic body has procured one machine to clean all the 2,500 manholes in the town.// At 11:11 earthquake in Fiji: 8.2-magnitude strikes Ndoi Island. An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.2 was recorded in Fiji on Sunday. Struck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly 200 miles off Fiji and almost the same distance from Tonga.//
Fig.7 Ratnam Pen Works, Rajahmundry, AP, India.
"Dear Ratnam, I must thank you for the fountain pen you sent me. I have needed it and it seems to be a good substitute to the foreign pen. Yours sincerely, M.K. Gandhi, 16.7.1935." Ratnam pen works now carries forward the legacy in Fort Gate street, Rajahmundry of Andhra Pradesh. The one with a golden nib cost around Rs.20,000/- but others in the range from Rs.250 to Rs.2.5lakh. It takes about two weeks to one month to be made. Customized pens with gold nibs carry the names on request. His son and he make 12 normal pens a day. // India and Mauritius today discussed measures to further strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation in the field of maritime security as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held talks with the country's top leadership. Swaraj, who was here to attend the 11th World Hindi Conference, called on Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and discussed bilateral ties. // 19:18 PM IST: Los Angeles: Popular band Backstreets Boys has canceled their concert in Oklahoma after high wind and rain caused a structure at the venue to collapse, injuring 14 people. At approximately 5.30 p.M., the storm hit and knocked over the concert entrance trusses with 70-80 mile an hour winds and heavy rain.// Bajrang Punia wins gold for India, beats Japan's Daichi Takatani 11-8 in men's freestyle wrestling 65 kg, ongoing 18th edition of the Asian Games on Sunday. // 5:00 pm, How Five ISRO Satellites Are Playing A Key Role In Saving Lives In Rain-Battered Kerala. Earth observation satellites Oceansat-2, Resources-2, Cartosat 2 and 2A and INSAT 3DR are sending real-time images of the flood-affected region to stations on the ground. These real-time images are helping in the identification of flood-affected pockets and assessment of the situation. // India successfully tests smart anti-airfield weapon. The 120-kg class smart weapon is capable of destroying ground targets using precision navigation up to a range of 100 km. It is capable of destroying runways, bunkers, aircraft hangers and other reinforced structures. The guided bomb is considered to be one of the world-class weapons systems, developed by state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in collaboration with the IAF and the Research Centre Imarat (RCI). The bomb, which is said to have higher precision and much cheaper compared with missiles, can be carried on IAF’s various aircraft like Jaguar and MiG.
Aug 20, 2018, 10:34 AM IST: Multiple quakes rock Indonesia's Lombok island, five dead. A series of quakes were recorded by seismologists throughout yesterday, the first measuring 6.3 shortly before midday which triggered landslides and sent people fleeing for cover. Multiple earthquakes including a powerful and shallow 6.9-magnitude tremor have rocked the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, killing at least five people and setting off fresh waves of panic. A series of quakes were recorded by seismologists throughout yesterday, the first measuring 6.3 shortly before midday which triggered landslides and sent people fleeing for cover.// 12:00 PM: LUCKNOW:
Fig.8 Lucknow Shiva devotees throng last Monday
20 Aug. of Sravan month 2018.
Hundreds of thousands of Shiva devotees thronged temples across Uttar Pradesh on the final Monday of the Hindu holy month of Shravan. Amid tight security, long serpentine queues were seen at prominent Shiva temples in the state capital, including the Mankameshwar temple on the banks of river Gomti. Similar scenes were witnessed in Kanpur, Agra, Meerut, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Moradabad, Mathura and Ghaziabad. // Goldschmidt 2018 Abstract: Magnesite formation at Earth’s surface I.M. POWER et al: Stable, radiogenic, and clumped isotope data in concert with electron microscopy demonstrate that magnesite forms by direct precipitation from aqueous solution in the shallow subsurface at low temperature (~3-10 °C). Magnesite particle size distributions indicate that its formation is nucleation limited with long induction times; while changing magnesite crystal morphology with depth suggests variable crystal growth mechanisms and formation rates (nucleation + crystal growth). We determine those rates to be in the range of 10^-17 to 10^-16 mol/cm^2/s based on field data. Furthermore, the abundance of magnesite with respect to hydromagnesite increases over time as its formation is reaction-controlled rather than transport-controlled for hydromagnesite. In microcosm experiments aimed at accelerating magnesite formation, carboxylated polystyrene microspheres caused desolvation of Mg2+ ions, minimizing the rate limitation and inducing magnesite precipitation at room temperature over 72 days. Incorporating carboxylated surfaces into mineral carbonation processes or the use of such ligands for deep geologic CO2 storage may offer novel and economically viable strategies for permanent carbon storage. // 16:14, IST: Ganga drying up in summers due to groundwater depletion: The Ganga river has witnessed an unprecedented fall in its level due to the rapid depletion in the groundwater. The decline of groundwater inflow is also impacting the health of the river.
21 Agust, 2018: The 120-year-old bridge over Yerra kalava in Jangareddygudem was washed away by flood waters. // GVMC blames overflowing drains on residents and not monsoon, and sanitary staff found huge quantity of solid waste, including blankets, mattresses, plastic cups, and even suitcases while clearing the clogged drains in Visakhapatnam // Rainfall received during last 24 hours in cm-scale: Kukunoor 29, Velairpad 28,Tiruvuru 19, Vararamachandrapur 16. Kunavaram 15, Chintur 15, Koyyalagudem 13, and Bhimadole 13.// All 72 gates of Prakasam barrage and, released water. Excess water is being released from Doweswaram Barrage which touched 40.4 feet.// Radioactive material weighing 23 kilograms of iridium-192, goes missing in Malaysia if fallen in hands of militants and be used to make a dirty bomb.// First 4D ceramics ink which is a mixture of polymers and ceramic nanoparticles and 3D printed ceramics can be stretched three times their initial length, allowing complex shapes, the resultant elastomer-derived ceramics are mechanically robust said Professor Lu Jian, at CityU. // 08:40 IST: India's new bomb can target enemy bases 100 km away. Striking the airfield's runway precisely with one bomb is more economical than using traditional free-fall bombs.// As landslides swallowed entire villages in Karnataka’s Kodagu, some residents walked 8 km to safety. They never anticipated that the rains would destroy their homes and estates. But that is what happened last Thursday when a landslide swept through Makkandur village on the banks of the rain-fed Cauvery river. It left hundreds homeless. Then came a series of landslides, taking out several villages like dominoes. Achaiah said his village, Mukkodlu, was the second casualty. “Then it was another village called Kalur,”. Residents of this coffee plantation hub say the landslides have shifted rivers and left the land unrecognizable. “Acres and acres of land have just caved in. You cannot recognize the land anymore. The rivers have changed course because the landslides have moved the flow of water by at least half a kilometer in some places.“In Mukkodlu, about 25 houses have been lost in the landslides.” // August 21, 2018, 3:47:25 pm: the Year 1099: Kerala’s great flood of 1924 too affected same areas. Records show that thousands of people lost their lives and property, flora and fauna were destroyed and several parts of the Malabar region were submerged in water. Madikeri: Over 4,000 people are reportedly missing from Madikeri and Somwarpet Taluks of Kodagu district following the catastrophic floods that hit the district. The number of missing persons is more in Madikeri Taluk where over 13 villages have been wiped away from the district map.
Fig.9 The Malayaalam Year 1099(ME) or 1924 year
// The Malayalam year 1099 (ME), or what was 1924 in the Gregorian calendar, is often considered to be a landmark moment in Kerala’s history. // Tuesday, India fastest growing tourism market for London: India has emerged as one of the fastest growing tourism markets for London, registering a nearly 40 percent increase in Indian tourist footfalls in the British capital last year. According to the latest International Passenger Survey data released this week, Indian tourist visits rose from 273,400 in 2016 to 382,400 in 2017, marking a 39.9 percent increase. // Made-in-India thermal insoles, snow goggles, ice axes, boots, mountaineering equipment, and sleeping bags will be provided to soldiers stationed in Siachen and Doklam. Indian soldiers deployed at heights ranging from 16,000 to 20,000 feet - in Siachen and Doklam - will use the new gear at a location that is strategic to India. // Hyderabad: Four persons were killed in Telangana due to incessant rains that damaged 83 houses. Telangana has been receiving incessant rains, in varying amounts, for the last one week. Several rivulets and other water bodies are in spate following the rains. The overflowing water has affected the road network and entered houses in some places. Navipet in Nizamabad district received 21cms of rain, followed by Bodhan (19 cms), Varni (17cms), Ranjal and Nandipet (16cms) (all in Nizamabad district). //14:20 IST: Last week meteor explosion 40 times brighter than full Moon, says NASA (Video). The meteor was first seen at an altitude of about 93 km in the sky, traveling at a speed of over 86,421kph directly over Alabama, it fragmented at an altitude of 29km in the air. The post explained that the asteroid was about 2 meters in diameter and when it exploded into a fireball, it was at least 40 times as bright as the Full Moon.// 17:44 IST: Italy: Flash floods kill 11 hikers in Calabria, prosecutors open a criminal investigation. The hikers were walking in the Raganello Gorge in Pollino National Park in the region when they were hit by a torrent swollen by heavy rain.// 05:44 PM IST: Kerala receives 81.26 cubic km rainfall since June 1, over half the volume of the Dead Sea. In the space of two-and-a-half months, Kerala received enough rainfall to fill Srinagar’s Dal Lake 82 times over.
22 August 2018: Powerful quake hits Venezuela coast, damage limited. But the quake's depth - 76.5 miles (123 km) below the surface - appeared to have mitigated the damage. The tremor - one of the country's strongest ever - hit at 5.31 p.m. (2131 GMT). Along with Venezuela's picturesque palm tree-dotted northern coast, residents said the long quake was terrifying and frightened people into dashing into the streets. // Son Of Electrician Bags A Whopping Rs 70 Lakh Package With American Firm. Charging infrastructure for electric vehicles is a major challenge in India. I developed a theory. If I succeed, the cost of charging vehicles will be almost zero. But initially, my teachers didn't believe me as it was a new area of work. However, assistant professor Waqar Alam finally realized the potential of my work and guided me. I made a prototype of my research and showcased it in the Talimi Mela of Jamia.
22 August 2018: Hurricane Lane- NOAA-20-IBond
11mum;2:08AM HST
22 August 2018: Hurricane Lane- NOAA-20-IBond
11mum;2:08AM HST
Fig.9 A look along the Beach Road a magnificent
Rainbow on Tuesday 21 August 2018
Morning at 6AM at raise of the Sun in
slightly drizzling rain in Visakhapatnam
22 and 23 Aug. 2018: It was very hot in Visakhapatnam in the last two days 22 and 23 August 2018, and on the 23 there was a heat wave around 4PM, blowing near the beach and, in Maharanipeta down towards the beach. Also, there was no breeze even in the shore area, and whatever little breeze, it was very hot. The sitting place on the parapet wall of the beach road was also very hot at 7PM, an unusual feature. It indicates that weather change is taking place very rapidly. The Ocean was very ferocious, and waves were slashing the preventive rocks near the Maharanipeta down. It is unfortunate that the sea is not offering a relaxation space near the scandal point, and people were sitting on the steps leading to the beach area.
Fig.10 Srisailam
Full Reservoir Level 883ft.Dam capacity 215.8070TMC. Present level on 23 August 2018, 883.30ft. Eight spill-way gates were lifted on Thursday 23, up to 10 feet.
23 August 2018: The affidavit today also said of the state's 1,564 villages, 774 -- spanning 13 of its 14 districts -- were flooded. The deluge affected directly affected more than 54 lakh people, one-sixth of the state's population. Around 13 lakh people had to leave their homes and go to relief camps. Kerala, however, has been at loggerheads with Tamil Nadu for long over the Mullaperiyar dam, contending that it has developed leaks and needs to be decommissioned. Tamil Nadu operates the dam, located in Kerala, under an 1886 pact drawn up between the British and the Maharaja of Travancore. // 13:08: Seven students of an engineering college in Bengaluru were arrested on Wednesday and sent to judicial custody for allegedly ragging two juniors of theirs hailing from Kerala. They then opened up to him and said that the seven seniors forcibly took them to a rented house in Mangammanapalya at around 8:30 pm on August 17 and forced them to clean the house, sing and dance against their will. They were also verbally abused and were threatened to keep quiet.
Rainfall accumulations from August 13 to 20 showed two bands of heavy rain across India. The first band appeared much broader and extends across the northern part of the peninsula with weekly rainfall totals ranging from over 5 inches towards the western half of the peninsula to as much as 14 inches over parts of the eastern half towards the Bay of Bengal. The first band is associated with the general monsoon circulation. The second band appeared more concentrated and intense and is closely aligned with the southwest coast of India and the Western Ghats where onshore flow was enhanced by an area of low pressure embedded within the general monsoon.
August 24, 2018; 6:42AM; 2 hours ago: Typhoon Cimaron slices through western Japan, head north. High waves triggered by Typhoon Cimaron crash against the coast of Aki, Kochi Prefecture, western Japan on August 23, 2018. The center of Typhoon Cimaron was estimated to be about 210 km (130 miles) northwest of Wajima city in Ishikawa prefecture at 9 a.m. (0000GMT) and heading north.
Aug 24, 2018, 10:54 AM IST: NASA launching laser satellite to study Earth's changing ice. Called the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), the mission is scheduled to be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on September 15.
Aug. 24, 2018: Scientists have developed novel lithium-ion batteries with components that harden on impact, preventing them from catching fire and causing injuries to users. Lithium-ion batteries commonly used in consumer electronics are notorious for bursting into flame when damaged or improperly packaged. You can't do that with a shear-thickening electrolyte because the minute you try to inject it, it solidifies.
24 August 2018: SEOUL, South Korea; A weakening typhoon is brushing by metropolitan Seoul after battering southern South Korea with heavy rain and high winds, leaving one person missing and a slew of damaged buildings, canceled flights, and power outages. South Korea's weather agency said typhoon Soulik's force has diminished as it moved northeast but was still expected to pound the country's mountainous eastern region with strong rain and winds before exiting the peninsula in the afternoon.
24 August 2018: Japan's weather agency downgraded a separate storm from typhoon strength on Friday after it crossed a swath of the western part of the country overnight.
24 August 2018: BERLIN: Three villages southwest of Berlin have been evacuated as a wildfire the size of 400 soccer fields spread Friday. More than 500 people had to leave their homes as a result of the fire in Treuenbrietzen, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) outside of Berlin.
August 24, 2018:3:04PM: Deep magnitude 7.1 quake strikes Peru. A magnitude 7.1 quake struck nearly 250km (155 miles) northwest of Puerto Maldonado, Peru, in the early hours of Friday at a depth of 610km.
August 24, 2018:1012 GMT (1812 HKT): Never before seen Amazon tribe caught on drone video. Footage released this week shows several people walking through a wide clearing made in a patch of dense jungle in the Javary River valley, near the border with Peru. Amaz Brazilian: One of the figures is carrying a spear or pole of some kind, while four or five others stand near what looks like thatched structures. None of the people spotted by the drone appear to notice their observer, which is flying high above the trees surrounding them. The foundation, known as Funai, is tasked with protecting the interests of indigenous tribes living in the Amaz Brazilian on, many of whom have seen their homes devastated by colonialism and foreign diseases, as well as ongoing logging and mining operations. "It is the only government department in the world which is dedicated to the protection of indigenous peoples who have little or no contact with national society and other tribes,"
24 August 2018: Japan's weather agency downgraded a separate storm from typhoon strength on Friday after it crossed a swath of the western part of the country overnight.
24 August 2018: BERLIN: Three villages southwest of Berlin have been evacuated as a wildfire the size of 400 soccer fields spread Friday. More than 500 people had to leave their homes as a result of the fire in Treuenbrietzen, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) outside of Berlin.
August 24, 2018:3:04PM: Deep magnitude 7.1 quake strikes Peru. A magnitude 7.1 quake struck nearly 250km (155 miles) northwest of Puerto Maldonado, Peru, in the early hours of Friday at a depth of 610km.
August 24, 2018:1012 GMT (1812 HKT): Never before seen Amazon tribe caught on drone video. Footage released this week shows several people walking through a wide clearing made in a patch of dense jungle in the Javary River valley, near the border with Peru. Amaz Brazilian: One of the figures is carrying a spear or pole of some kind, while four or five others stand near what looks like thatched structures. None of the people spotted by the drone appear to notice their observer, which is flying high above the trees surrounding them. The foundation, known as Funai, is tasked with protecting the interests of indigenous tribes living in the Amaz Brazilian on, many of whom have seen their homes devastated by colonialism and foreign diseases, as well as ongoing logging and mining operations. "It is the only government department in the world which is dedicated to the protection of indigenous peoples who have little or no contact with national society and other tribes,"
24 August 2018: It started raining in the evening at around 4PM and there was a cool breeze, While in the morning until the 3:30PM weather was extremely hot.
August 24, 2018, 6:17 pm: Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits Andaman, on Friday. The earthquake occurred at 4.19 pm and lasted for 27 seconds. The epicenter of the quake was 10 kilometers deep in the sea west of Andaman Islands. This is the second major quake to have struck the region in just less than two months. On 7 July, an earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale with an epicenter 70 km under the seabed struck about 80 km to the east of Campbell Bay of Nicobar.
Aug 24, 2018, 18:46 IST: Golden Needles tea from Arunachal sets world record, auctions at Rs 40,000 a kilo. Golden Needles tea, a specialty orthodox tea variety from the Donyi Polo Tea Estate in Arunachal Pradesh fetched a whopping Rs 40,000 a kilogram when Assam Tea Traders, one of the oldest tea traders in Guwahati, bought 1.1 kilos. On July 24, a kilo of Golden Tips tea from Manohari Tea Estate in Dibrugarh in Upper Assam sold for Rs 39,001 a kilo, setting a world record for fetching the highest price in an auction.
Aug 24, 2018, 18:46 IST: Golden Needles tea from Arunachal sets world record, auctions at Rs 40,000 a kilo. Golden Needles tea, a specialty orthodox tea variety from the Donyi Polo Tea Estate in Arunachal Pradesh fetched a whopping Rs 40,000 a kilogram when Assam Tea Traders, one of the oldest tea traders in Guwahati, bought 1.1 kilos. On July 24, a kilo of Golden Tips tea from Manohari Tea Estate in Dibrugarh in Upper Assam sold for Rs 39,001 a kilo, setting a world record for fetching the highest price in an auction.
25 August 2018:
Fig.11 The Mango tree shreds and the blooming flower of a fruit creeper.
Aug 25, 2018, 3:52 pm: India Carried The White Man’s Burden Through The Great War, And That Must Not Be Forgotten. At the age of 19, and after one year of doing what he loved the most in life, Lieutenant Roy was shot down by a German plane. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross posthumously. Lieutenant Sri Krishna Welingkar would not survive the war either. Errol Chunder Sen was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the war in a German prison. Only Harditt Singh Malik managed to get through the rest of the war in a plane. Today, their actions may not evoke much emotion in us. But in 1917, the heroism of these men was nothing short of a minor revolution. Within one year, the doors of entry to the commissioned ranks of the British army were opened to Indians, much to the distaste of, and in the face of stiff resistance from, defenders of the Raj.
25 Aug. 2018: India’s Hydropower Generation Is Affected By Climate Change.
Aug 25, 2018, 00:00 IST: New fish species found in Chilika. Bhubaneswar: Researchers have found a new variety of spiny fish from the Chilika lagoon. The fish is commonly called the Indian Hand Fish due to the resemblance of its fin rays with human fingers. Seen in hundred years ago in the Bay of Bengal.
Aug 26, 2018, 12:20 am: Thiruvananthapuram: Survivors of Kerala’s worst floods in a century on Saturday set aside their misery, even if only temporarily, to celebrate Onam in numerous relief camps across the state, relishing the traditional Onam sadya or lunch. The second day of the harvest festival, called Thiru Onam, fell on Saturday. Camp officers ensured availability of vegetables and other commodities after men and women in the camps insisted they would cook the sadya themselves instead of accepting what was being offered by NGOs and clubs. Not all the 26 dishes that constitute the sadya could be readied, but people appeared to be happy with what they could prepare.
26 August 2018 06:04 AM: Dozens injured as strong 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Iran. Iran sits on top of two major tectonic plates and sees frequent seismic activity. The shallow quake hit 26 km (16 miles) southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province.
Aug 26, 2018, 17:55 PM IST: The famous RK Studios built by Raj Kapoor up for sale, confirms Rishi Kapoor. The report also says that the decision to put the property for sale has been taken unanimously by the members of the family.
Aug 27, 2018, 11:26 AM IST: Incessant rain causes flood situation in Uttarakhand.
25 Aug. 2018: India’s Hydropower Generation Is Affected By Climate Change.
Aug 25, 2018, 00:00 IST: New fish species found in Chilika. Bhubaneswar: Researchers have found a new variety of spiny fish from the Chilika lagoon. The fish is commonly called the Indian Hand Fish due to the resemblance of its fin rays with human fingers. Seen in hundred years ago in the Bay of Bengal.
Aug 26, 2018, 12:20 am: Thiruvananthapuram: Survivors of Kerala’s worst floods in a century on Saturday set aside their misery, even if only temporarily, to celebrate Onam in numerous relief camps across the state, relishing the traditional Onam sadya or lunch. The second day of the harvest festival, called Thiru Onam, fell on Saturday. Camp officers ensured availability of vegetables and other commodities after men and women in the camps insisted they would cook the sadya themselves instead of accepting what was being offered by NGOs and clubs. Not all the 26 dishes that constitute the sadya could be readied, but people appeared to be happy with what they could prepare.
26 August 2018 06:04 AM: Dozens injured as strong 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Iran. Iran sits on top of two major tectonic plates and sees frequent seismic activity. The shallow quake hit 26 km (16 miles) southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province.
Fig.12 Biodome Construct in Norway.
Gravity and Gravitation: The main difference between gravity and gravitation is that gravitation describes the attractive force between any two masses while gravity specifically describes the resultant force with which an object is attracted towards the Earth. Gravitation refers to the attractive force between two masses in general. Gravity refers to the resultant force between a mass and Earth. The resultant force also accounts for other forces present in the system, for instance, the force on the mass due to the Earth’s rotation.
13 Aug. 2018: MIT News Office: Feynmann world-class physicist, bongo player, and writer of letters, once spent an evening trying to break spaghetti into two pieces by bending it at both ends. After hours spent in the kitchen and a great deal of pasta having been wasted, he and his friend Danny Hillis admitted defeat. Even worse, they had no solution for why the spaghetti always broke into at least three pieces. The answer, according to a new MIT study, is yes -- with a twist. In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report that they have found a way to break spaghetti in two, by both bending and twisting the dry noodles. The team found that if a stick is twisted past a certain critical degree, then slowly bent in half, it will, against all odds, break in two.if a 10-inch-long spaghetti stick is first twisted by about 270 degrees and then bent, it will snap in two, mainly due to two effects. The snap-back, in which the stick will spring back in the opposite direction from which it was bent, is weakened in the presence of twist. And, the twist-back, where the stick will essentially unwind to its original straightened configuration, releases energy from the rod, preventing additional fractures. The twist wave travels faster than the bending wave, dissipating energy so that additional critical stress accumulations, which might cause subsequent fractures, do not occur.
Aug 26, 2018: A new asteroid namely 2016 NH23 which is estimated to stretch between 230ft and 525ft is coming towards Earth at a speed of 20,000 mph. It has been reported that the giant asteroid is close enough to Earth that it can be put on NASA’s ‘potentially hazard asteroid’ watch list. This asteroid will approach close to our planet on 29th Aug. According to reports, it will pass within 0.03377 astronomical units which means about three million miles of Earth.Aug 26, 2018, 17:55 PM IST: The famous RK Studios built by Raj Kapoor up for sale, confirms Rishi Kapoor. The report also says that the decision to put the property for sale has been taken unanimously by the members of the family.
Aug 27, 2018, 11:26 AM IST: Incessant rain causes flood situation in Uttarakhand.
August 27, 2018: AsianScientist: Scientists in South Korea, led by Professor In Su-Il of DGIST placed graphene on reduced titanium dioxide in a stable and efficient way to develop a photocatalyst that can convert carbon dioxide into methane (CH4) or ethane (C2H6). The researchers demonstrated that the volume of hydrocarbon fuel generated by their system is 259 µmol/g and 77 µmol/g of methane and ethane, respectively. The conversion rate of their photocatalyst was shown to be 5.2 percent for methane and 2.7 percent for ethane, higher than that of conventional reduced titanium dioxide photocatalysts. The researchers noted that their catalyst material could solve global warming problems and energy resource depletion issues by selectively producing higher levels of hydrocarbon materials using sunlight.
27 August 2018: In A First In India, SpiceJet Operates Biofuel Flight From Dehradun To Delhi. The biofuel is made partially of renewable sources such as non-edible oils, bio-degradable components of industrial and municipal waste and agricultural residues. The biofuel for the flight was developed by Dehradun based Indian Institute of Petroleum and was tested rigorously before the flight. Spicejet’s biofuel is a mix of oil extracted from seeds of Jatrophas plant and aviation turbine fuel and nearly 500 farmer families in Chhattisgarh are involved in the production of the partially refined biofuel used on this flight.
27 August 2018: Government allows commercial operation of drones in India from December; adopts all-digital process.
28 August 2018: An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck eastern Indonesia’s Timor region on Tuesday. The shallow quake hit at a depth of around eight km, 99 km southeast of Kupang. Witnesses said that the powerful quake lasted a few seconds.
28 August 2018: When it rains in India, be it in any state, chaos is inevitable. From clogged roads to now, leaky airport roofs, people can always expect the worst. In Assam gave way to a leaky roof in the state's airport and the passenger lounge was literally 'pouring rain'. Videos of the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati show how badly it was pouring indoors. Heavy rains throughout Monday evening lead to water retention on the airport's roof.
28 August 2018: Karnataka farmers reap benefits of native cows' milk. Rearing native cattle, farmers in rural Karnataka have brought about a welcome rural-urban link, benefiting economically and bringing health benefits to urban consumers.
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27 August 2018: Government allows commercial operation of drones in India from December; adopts all-digital process.
28 August 2018: An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck eastern Indonesia’s Timor region on Tuesday. The shallow quake hit at a depth of around eight km, 99 km southeast of Kupang. Witnesses said that the powerful quake lasted a few seconds.
28 August 2018: When it rains in India, be it in any state, chaos is inevitable. From clogged roads to now, leaky airport roofs, people can always expect the worst. In Assam gave way to a leaky roof in the state's airport and the passenger lounge was literally 'pouring rain'. Videos of the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati show how badly it was pouring indoors. Heavy rains throughout Monday evening lead to water retention on the airport's roof.
28 August 2018: Karnataka farmers reap benefits of native cows' milk. Rearing native cattle, farmers in rural Karnataka have brought about a welcome rural-urban link, benefiting economically and bringing health benefits to urban consumers.
August 29, 2018: 1:22 AM: Puerto Rico's death toll from Hurricane Maria raised to nearly 3,000. Puerto Rico’s official death toll from Hurricane Maria, the most powerful storm to hit the Caribbean island in almost a century, was raised on Tuesday from 64, a number widely discounted as far too low, to nearly 3,000.
Aug 28, 201817: 43:47: Her tour of South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya -- May's first to the continent since becoming premier in 2016 -- will be seen as an effort to stamp her authority on her embattled premiership. "As we prepare to leave the European Union, now is the time for the UK to deepen and strengthen its global partnerships," May said in a statement. "Africa stands right on the cusp of playing a transformative role in the global economy," she added.
August 28, 2018, 16:53 IST: We are happy to be the first one to bring LED Cinema screen in India: PVR Cinemas. There is only so much we can do as exhibitors when it comes to building the infrastructure. But the heart and soul of cinema is the screen, sound, and technology. So we are very happy that we came up with this technology.
28 August 2018:
28 August 2018:
Fig.13 Detection of decay of Boson into a pair of
Bottom Quarks.
To extract the signal, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations each combined data from the first and second runs of the Large Hadron Collider, (LHC), which involved collisions at energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV. They then applied complex analysis methods to the data. The upshot was the detection of the decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of bottom quarks with a significance that exceeds 5 standard deviations. Furthermore, the collaborations measured a rate for the decay that is consistent with the Standard Model prediction, within the current precision of the measurement. This made the new experiment all the more important as physicists would then know with the results whether the Standard Model, which provides quarks with mass, should be used or whether physicists needed to look at a completely new kind of physics.
29 August 2018, 08:21 AM: New Delhi: Largest mass extinction the result of Ozone Depletion. Ozone layer destruction may have contributed to the largest mass extinction in the history of Earth, known as the End-Permian Extinction, a study has found. The event, known as the Great Dying, occurred around 250 million years ago when a massive volcanic eruption in Siberia sent nearly 90 percent of all life right into extinction. The scale of this extinction was so incredible that scientists have often wondered what made the Siberian Flood Basalts so much more deadly than other similar eruptions, from the Centre for Petrographic and Geochemical Research in France.Visakhapatnam Bech Image and Elsewhere:
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Visakhapatnam Beach
Aug 29, 2018, 11:47 AM (IST); Landslide kills four in Uttarakhand, four still trapped. Heavy rains are lashing most parts of the hill state, triggering a spate of landslides. The landslide damaged a house and five shops, burying eight people under it. While five persons are still trapped under the rubble, three bodies have been taken out.
29 August 2018: Wednesday, Indian peacekeepers in S Sudan impart farming training to women. Indian peacekeepers deployed with the UN Mission in South Sudan are teaching women in the town of Malakal how to grow their own nutritious food, helping scintilla in them social and entrepreneurship skills.
29 August 2018: Destination: Sparkling vast and blue Pangong Lake off Leh evokes the feeling of oneness with nature. The lake had a constant source of water from the Surrounding Group of Glaciers and Snow Capped Mountains. He admired the tingling Sensations of the Freshness and Cool Breeze flowing in from the lake in his Facebook post adding that about 35 km of this amazing lake is under Indian occupation.
August 29, 2018: How India’s cows can save the earth, by feeding on seaweed. Feeding seaweed as a dietary supplement to the cows dramatically reduced their emissions of methane gas. India’s 305 million cattle population is the largest in the world in 2018 followed by that of Brazil (233 million) and China (97 million). They blended the dried seaweed with molasses to produce a shiny, viscous meal that the cows evidently found tasty. An open-air device measured the methane in the cows’ exhaled breath as they ate. The three-month study found that spiking the cows’ regular diet with Asparagopsis, reduced their methane production by 58 percent.
Aug 29, 2018, 16:52 IST: ESO releases stunning images of Milky Way nebula in infrared 7,500 light years from Earth. Carina Nebula is about 7,500 light-years away in the Carina constellation. Here, stars are born and die almost constantly and as a result, Carina Nebula is an interesting, dynamic and ever-evolving region in the night sky.
29 August 2018: Destination: Sparkling vast and blue Pangong Lake off Leh evokes the feeling of oneness with nature. The lake had a constant source of water from the Surrounding Group of Glaciers and Snow Capped Mountains. He admired the tingling Sensations of the Freshness and Cool Breeze flowing in from the lake in his Facebook post adding that about 35 km of this amazing lake is under Indian occupation.
August 29, 2018: How India’s cows can save the earth, by feeding on seaweed. Feeding seaweed as a dietary supplement to the cows dramatically reduced their emissions of methane gas. India’s 305 million cattle population is the largest in the world in 2018 followed by that of Brazil (233 million) and China (97 million). They blended the dried seaweed with molasses to produce a shiny, viscous meal that the cows evidently found tasty. An open-air device measured the methane in the cows’ exhaled breath as they ate. The three-month study found that spiking the cows’ regular diet with Asparagopsis, reduced their methane production by 58 percent.
Aug 29, 2018, 16:52 IST: ESO releases stunning images of Milky Way nebula in infrared 7,500 light years from Earth. Carina Nebula is about 7,500 light-years away in the Carina constellation. Here, stars are born and die almost constantly and as a result, Carina Nebula is an interesting, dynamic and ever-evolving region in the night sky.
August 29, 2018 15:08 IST: World's Smallest Medical Robot Hits Guinness Book Of World Records. Creation of Soutik Betal, the robot measures 120 nanometer and has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for its negligible size.
30 August 2018, 8:23 IST: Heavy rains have taken the life of at least twelve people and thousands of people migrated from their home due to incessant rains in some parts of Nagaland in the past one month. Maybe due to the melting of ice in Norway.The heavy downpour was begun from the late July due to which havoc in the state. Reportedly, 12 people have lost their lives and over 3000 families have been displaced in around 400 villages.
August 30, 2018: Why the World Hindu Congress in Chicago, to be the Largest Gathering of Hindu Leaders to Date, is Important. Hindu Dharma, Hindu Think Tank, Swami Vivekananda,WHC 2018, World Hindu Congress. When about 2,500 delegates of the 2nd World Hindu Congress (WHC) will assemble in Lombard, a southwest suburb of the historic city of Chicago, to commemorate the 125 anniversary of Swamiji’s speech at the Parliament of Religions, they will be representing the Bharat today that is very different from what Swamiji had come to represent.
Aug 30, 2018, 8:21AM: UP: Flood threat looms large over many areas in the western part. In Uttar Pradesh, flood threat looms large over many areas in the western part after heavy rains and water coming from hills of Uttarakhand. Tarai and eastern parts are still reeling under the flood fury. At least 10 people lost their life in rain related incidents in last 36 hours.
30 August 2018, 8:23 IST: Heavy rains have taken the life of at least twelve people and thousands of people migrated from their home due to incessant rains in some parts of Nagaland in the past one month. Maybe due to the melting of ice in Norway.The heavy downpour was begun from the late July due to which havoc in the state. Reportedly, 12 people have lost their lives and over 3000 families have been displaced in around 400 villages.
August 30, 2018: Why the World Hindu Congress in Chicago, to be the Largest Gathering of Hindu Leaders to Date, is Important. Hindu Dharma, Hindu Think Tank, Swami Vivekananda,WHC 2018, World Hindu Congress. When about 2,500 delegates of the 2nd World Hindu Congress (WHC) will assemble in Lombard, a southwest suburb of the historic city of Chicago, to commemorate the 125 anniversary of Swamiji’s speech at the Parliament of Religions, they will be representing the Bharat today that is very different from what Swamiji had come to represent.
Aug 30, 2018, 8:21AM: UP: Flood threat looms large over many areas in the western part. In Uttar Pradesh, flood threat looms large over many areas in the western part after heavy rains and water coming from hills of Uttarakhand. Tarai and eastern parts are still reeling under the flood fury. At least 10 people lost their life in rain related incidents in last 36 hours.
Aug 30, 2018, 9:28 pm IST: China issues flood alert in India as river Tsangpo swells. Itanagar/New Delhi: China has alerted India about the rising water in river Tsangpo, called Siang in Arunachal Pradesh and Brahmaputra in Assam, leading to possibility of floods in downstream areas, Arunachal Pradesh MP Ninong Ering said on Thursday. Tsangpo broke a 150-year record with swollen waters and hence China has shared the information with India.9020 cumec of water was discharged into Tsangpo/Brahmaputra river as observed at various stations yesterday.
August 30, 2018 20:58 IST: Water spotted at Jupiter's Great Red Spot, says NASA. The data collected will supplement the information NASA's Juno spacecraft is gathering. The spacecraft circles the planet from north to south once every 53 days.
30 August, 2018: How a melting glacier in Norway is influencing the monsoon in India. Indian researchers have analysed sediments in an Arctic fjord.
30 August, 2018: Visakhapatnam district and its outskirts, and Padmanabham gets 8cm rainfall inthreehours on thursday evening, Bheeemili along with city beach received 6cm rain. This sudden burst of rain maybe attributed to the melting of glacier in Norway.
August 30, 2018, 23:57:IST: Thursday, China issues flood alert in Brahmaputra; Arunachal cautions people, Assam takes precautions. China has alerted India about the rising water in river Tsangpo, called Siang in Arunachal Pradesh and Brahmaputra in Assam, leading to possibility of floods in downstream areas, Arunachal Pradesh MP Ninong Ering said. The situation seems grim in North East India as over 12 have died so far in Nagaland due to landslides and flash floods. Assam and Arunachal Pradesh remain on high alert due to heavy rainfall in upper riparian China.
August 30, 2018: NASA’ New Horizons captures Ultima Thule from 107 million miles away.it is reaching towards a Kuiper belt object called Ultima Thule. On August 16, New Horizons spacecraft used its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) to capture a photo of Ultima Thule located at about 107 million miles away from the spacecraft and sent it to the scientists on Earth. The Kuiper belt object which is officially known as 2014 MU69 or 486958 or say, Ultima Thule,
August 30, 2018, 3:04 pm: Monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away spotted. Tokyo: Astronomers have obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away, using Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The Monster galaxy, called as COSMOS-AzTEC-1, was found to form new stars 1000 times faster than our Milky Way Galaxy.
August 31, 2018: 5G spectrum auction policy has liberal terms in Germany. Germany is planning to conduct the auction for selling the 5G spectrum in early 2019. Three big mobile phone operators will be starting roll out of fifth-generation services in 2019 and beyond.
August 31, 2018 3:56:45 pm: UP: Woman commits suicide after police refuse to file FIR. A senior police official said three policemen, including police station in-charge and sub-inspectors, were suspended in this connection. The accused was also arrested.
August 31, 2018 4:10:24 pm Martian skies clearing, hope for Opportunity Rover: NASA: A dust storm encircling Mars, first detected May 30, cut off solar power and halted operations for the nearly 15-year-old rover.
August 31, 2018 16:00 IST: 19 People Stranded In Flood-Hit Arunachal Pradesh Rescued By Air Force. The rescue operation by the IAF followed a request by the East Siang district administration to evacuate the people stranded at Jampani under Sille-Oyan circle.
August 30, 2018 20:58 IST: Water spotted at Jupiter's Great Red Spot, says NASA. The data collected will supplement the information NASA's Juno spacecraft is gathering. The spacecraft circles the planet from north to south once every 53 days.
30 August, 2018: How a melting glacier in Norway is influencing the monsoon in India. Indian researchers have analysed sediments in an Arctic fjord.
30 August, 2018: Visakhapatnam district and its outskirts, and Padmanabham gets 8cm rainfall inthreehours on thursday evening, Bheeemili along with city beach received 6cm rain. This sudden burst of rain maybe attributed to the melting of glacier in Norway.
August 30, 2018, 23:57:IST: Thursday, China issues flood alert in Brahmaputra; Arunachal cautions people, Assam takes precautions. China has alerted India about the rising water in river Tsangpo, called Siang in Arunachal Pradesh and Brahmaputra in Assam, leading to possibility of floods in downstream areas, Arunachal Pradesh MP Ninong Ering said. The situation seems grim in North East India as over 12 have died so far in Nagaland due to landslides and flash floods. Assam and Arunachal Pradesh remain on high alert due to heavy rainfall in upper riparian China.
August 30, 2018: NASA’ New Horizons captures Ultima Thule from 107 million miles away.it is reaching towards a Kuiper belt object called Ultima Thule. On August 16, New Horizons spacecraft used its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) to capture a photo of Ultima Thule located at about 107 million miles away from the spacecraft and sent it to the scientists on Earth. The Kuiper belt object which is officially known as 2014 MU69 or 486958 or say, Ultima Thule,
August 30, 2018, 3:04 pm: Monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away spotted. Tokyo: Astronomers have obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away, using Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The Monster galaxy, called as COSMOS-AzTEC-1, was found to form new stars 1000 times faster than our Milky Way Galaxy.
August 31, 2018: 5G spectrum auction policy has liberal terms in Germany. Germany is planning to conduct the auction for selling the 5G spectrum in early 2019. Three big mobile phone operators will be starting roll out of fifth-generation services in 2019 and beyond.
August 31, 2018 3:56:45 pm: UP: Woman commits suicide after police refuse to file FIR. A senior police official said three policemen, including police station in-charge and sub-inspectors, were suspended in this connection. The accused was also arrested.
August 31, 2018 4:10:24 pm Martian skies clearing, hope for Opportunity Rover: NASA: A dust storm encircling Mars, first detected May 30, cut off solar power and halted operations for the nearly 15-year-old rover.
August 31, 2018 16:00 IST: 19 People Stranded In Flood-Hit Arunachal Pradesh Rescued By Air Force. The rescue operation by the IAF followed a request by the East Siang district administration to evacuate the people stranded at Jampani under Sille-Oyan circle.
31 August, 2018: Today also it rained in the afternoon twice with gap of harsly half-an-hour but cleared by 5 PM.
Acknowledgment:
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. She first told me to watch the bright meteors splashing on earth and said they carry with them the new life to be born on earth eventually. The brighter the meteors the vivid and intelligent people would be born. The recent finding of water on Mars interior, on the Moon, and on Asteroids supports the speculation of life worldwide distributed randomly! It would be a good idea to capture the livingness in Asteroids and revive the late life!!! Maybe the Japanese and US astronauts would be able to take up this idea! *******************************
