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Volume 2019, Issue No.4a, Dated: April, 16, 2109, Time: 10:04:55 AM
April 16, 2109: Mixed weather conditions in Andhra and Hyderabad, Rains and gales affected crops, Violent storm destroyed several homes in Mizoram-Assam, Heavy rain lashed Manipur, 22 killed in unseasonal rains, lightning in MP, NASA airborne telescope spots universe’s 1st molecule. This is the first time helium hydride has been found in the modern universe, April 22, 2019: CRPF Jawan Donates Blood to Save New Mother and Baby in Kashmir, Punasa Mamidi that grows throughout the year, 30 Apr. 2019: Visakhapatnam city in the Maharanipeta P.O. area was lit with bright Sun light but by afternoon it was reduced Sun light due to slightly covered clouds. Sea coast waves were striking the parapet wall.
Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
M.Sc. (Math. Phys.), M.Sc. (Nucl. Phys.), Ph. D. (AU), Int. Edu & Res. (Sweden 1964-65)
While returning from Sweden, spent a few days in England, Paris, Egypt and etc. countries,
Visited USA about 12 Universities, several National Laboratories and Institutes for four months.
Sept.to December 1988. and in 1989 visited Japan for about
10 days, and South Korea Conf. in Physics for a week in 1989.
[Retd. Prof of Physics; Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004]
Residential Address: 17- 11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. Mobile: 09491902867.
kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com; DOB:23-07-1940.
lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com
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ABSTRACT
16 April, 2019: Andhra Pradesh state is in the grip of heat wave. Mercury levels crossed 40C, at several places, heat wave conditions exist at East Godavari District, and 346 sunstrokes reported in Kadapa alone, almost all places in Rayalaseema recorded between 38 and 43C, Anantapur, Jagameswarapuram, Kurnool, and Tirupati recorded 42.6C, while Guntur district recorded the highest temperature of 42.93C in the state. // April 16, 11:23, 2019: Violent storm damages houses in Mizoram-Assam border, Meghalaya. More than 75 houses were damaged when a violent wind hit Mizoram on Monday morning, // Heavy rain lashed out at Manipur. // 17 April, 2019: Electricity from Snowfall: Snow based triboelectric nanogenerator or snow TENG. Tiny 3D-printed generator creates electricity from snowfall. // To date, a major stumbling block in formulating traversable wormholes has been the need for negative energy, which seemed to be inconsistent with quantum gravity. // Apr 17, 2019 14:02 IST: India, UK sign ‘step change’ defence MoU. // April 17, 2019: 21:47 IST: Widespread rains lash Punjab and Haryana, causes crop damage. The change in weather was caused by a Western Disturbance, // 18 April, 2019: 04:41 AM: Cut off from mainstream, villagers unaware of political parties, candidates. Tunia Dehuri of Banjhiamba village in Mangarajpur gram panchayat has little knowledge of elections and the hype and hoopla surrounding it. // Apr. 18, 2019:10:18:06: LIGHTNING DEATHS: 22 killed in unseasonal rains, lightning in MP. rains lashed parts of the state on Tuesday night, claiming three lives each in Indore and Shajapur, four in Dhar, two each in Kharagone, Sehore and Ratlam and one each in Alirajpur, Seoni Rajgarh, Sehore, Barwani and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh. // Apr 19, 2019: 17:39:49: NASA airborne telescope spots universe’s 1st molecule. This is the first time helium hydride has been found in the modern universe. // Apr 20, 2019 20:57 IST: BJP nominee Sambit Patra croons Telugu song to woo voters in Puri. Campaigning in Telugu-dominated Penthakata area in Puri on Friday evening. // 20 April, 2019: It rained in Visakhapatnam all sectors, from 5 PM to almost 7.30 PM heavily, with thunder and lightning, a great relief for the people from the sweltering scorching heat of the Summer. // April 21, 2019: 1:47 AM: This Indian designer’s interactive project wins an international prize in Italy. The award comes with a 10,000-euro (Rs 7.85-lakh) grant. // 22 April, 2019: Saturday night rain destroyed Banana, Boppai, Fruit acres about 16 crore Rupees loss occurred. Railway Koduru Mandal 625 acres harvest at a cost of 7 crores, and Chitveli Mandal 125 acres banana crop destroyed resulting in loss of 1 crore. Puttampeta Mandal 200 acres harvest lost resulting in 2 crores. Chitveli Obuluvaripall, 1200 acres banana crop dwindled. Srikakulam zillah Hiramandal, Patapatnam, Rajam, Tekkali, and several villages in and around, had hailstone storm, in East Godavari zillah Pitapuram the rice crop affected. // April 22, 2019: CRPF Jawan Donates Blood to Save New Mother and Baby in Kashmir, Earns Twitter's 'Salute'. // April, 22, 2019: potato prices have shot up by 85.5 per cent in the wholesale market to trade at Rs 10.20 a kg in Kolkata compared to Rs 5.50 a kg towards the end of March 2019. // April 22, 2019: Hyderabad large trees, Electric poles, and big hoardings and floodlight tower in Ebby stadium collapsed due to heavy rain and 90 km speed winds. // 23 April, 2019: DENVER: A group of undergrad students is developing a magnetic shield to defend interplanetary astronauts from the intense cosmic radiation between Earth and Mars. // April 25, 2019: 139 Mandal may witness severe heatwave this summer, and 466 more may experience it moderately, at lease 12 Mandal out of 670 in the state would experience heatwave conditions. // 26 April, 2019: It is likely that a new physics would be needed to study the expansion of the universe and what causes it to progress at the rates it does. //April 27, 2019: Water availability in 91 major reservoirs down to 26%. // Apr 27, 2019: 18:28:48: Himachal man makes incense sticks from flower waste. // 27 April, 2019: Adoni recorded 44.5C, while at 112 places higher than 42C recorded. // Apr. 28, 2019: Moon observed at Visakhapatnam at my residence, appears as unusually red, due to the blazing red Sun. // 28 April, 2019: A school drop out grafts 24 varieties on a single mango tree in his orchard spread over seven acres at Vadlamanu. Rama Gopalakrishna proud to grow on his tree the Punasa Mamidi which will grow throughout the year. // Sea at Visakhapatnam has moved forward and the waves are slashing the shore line boulders due to the incoming low-depression cyclone on the eve of 28 April, 2019 // April 29, 2019: 3:54 PM : Canada floods: Over 6,500 people evacuated near Montreal as floods worsen. Nearly 8,000 people have been forced out from their homes in Quebec. // 29 April 2019: 06:47 PM: 38 killed, 2 lakh in danger as floods destroy 35,000 homes in Mozambique after second cyclone. // Apr. 30, 2019: Using intentional co-doping and energy-transfer engineering, we show.that all three primary colours can emit due to emission originating from two different excited states of the same Eu3+ ion (~620 nm and ~545nm) mixed with near band edge emission from GaN cantered at ~430nm. // 30 April 2019: 09:29 AM: Heatwave lingers: Maximum temperature crosses 45C in Telangana. After experiencing heatwave over the last four days, highest temperature in the state peaked to 45.20C at Makloor in Nizamabad. In Greater Hyderabad limits the highest temperature recorded was 42.50C at Quthbullapur. // 30 Apr. 2019: Visakhapatnam city in the Maharanipeta P.O. area was lit with bright Sun light since morning around 9 AM and we don't see any sign of the expected cyclonic storm. //
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16 April, 2019: Vijayanagaram district, the Gummalakshmipuram recorded 45C, while Tirupati recorded 43C on Tuesday, 16 April, 2019, the northern winds flowing from Srikakulam to Nellore, the weather became extremely hot. From 8AM the Tuesday till late evening the heat wave gripped the cities. Coastal and Rayalaseema recorded about 40C. Another two days these temperatures would sustain in Andhra. In Bangalore it rained today from 5:30PM to nearly two hours with a heavy shower.
16 April 2019: The Latest on a fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (all times local): 11:35 p.m. French leader vows to rebuild damaged Notre Dame. French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral and says he is seeking international help to restore the Paris landmark. Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris survives massive blaze but loses its Gothic spire. Fire services said the fire could be linked to the heavy restoration work being done at the 850-year-old cathedral.
Apr 16 2019: 09:35 AM:
Fig.1 Manipur Rain on Apr. 16, 2019.
Heavy rain lashed out at Manipur, 3 lives dead and 10 students injured. Imphal: On Monday morning, an official said Heavy rain lashed parts of Manipur claiming lives of three women. In Churanchandpur district, two women, aged 74 and 50, died after their houses collapsed during thunderstorm. Another woman vendor was killed in Kakching district, when a tree fell on her shop, the official said. At two different areas in Bishnupur district, at least ten children sustained injuries when they were on their way to school in the rain.
Apr 16, 2019: 06:21 AM IST: Water spewed from Moon during meteor showers: NASA: Providing a potential resource for future explorations, NASA on Monday revealed that water is released on the Moon during meteor showers. But when the Moon passed through one of these meteoroid streams, enough vapour was ejected for us to detect it. And then, when the event was over, the H2O or OH went away.
16 April, 2019: Andhra Pradesh state is in the grip of heat wave. Mercury levels crossed 40C, at several places, heat wave conditions exist at East Godavari District, and 346 sunstrokes reported in Kadapa alone, almost all places in Rayalaseema recorded between 38 and 43C, Anantapur, Jagameswarapuram, Kurnool, and Tirupati recorded 42.6C, while Guntur district recorded the highest temperature of 42.93C in the state. Heat wave sweeps across Kurnool with 41C, with five reported dead, streets deserted in Kurnool, Nandyal and other towns. People start feeling the heat from 9AM. Moderate heat wave predicted in 89 Mandal's, with forecast of hot climate. Maximum temperatures recorded at, Bapatla 35.5C, Nellore 39.5C, Ongole 38.8C, J'maheswarapuram 42.6C, Kavali 39.6C, Tuni 40.3C, Tirupati 41.4C, Nandigama 41C, Kadapa 43C, Kakinada 37.7C, Anantapur 42.6C, Visakhapatnam 38.8C, Kurnool 41.6C, and Arogyavaram 39C.
16 April, 2019: Students Transcend in Computer Science. The competition is growing year after year, and each school wants to take the crown for the best studies in the world with the best students in each domain. Apparently, India, China, and Russia are going down, as the USA is ruling on the computer science sector. Several specializations are offered in Computer Science, including business information systems, digital engineering systems, sound and music technology, mathematics, management, software engineering, artificial intelligence, electrical engineering, media and Internet technology and 3D animation.
April 16, 11:23, 2019: Violent storm damages houses in Mizoram-Assam border, Meghalaya. More than 75 houses were damaged when a violent wind hit Mizoram on Monday morning, officials of state Disaster Management and Rehabilitation department said. However, no casualties were reported. At least 41 houses were destroyed in Variegate in the North-eastern part of Mizoram bordering Assam. Of the 41 villages, 6 were completely destroyed by the wind, which occurred around 9 am on Monday.
17 April,2019: Sun releasing hot weather. Both in Rayalaseema and Coastal towns are experiencing the intense Sun. North coastal towns Visakhapatnam, Vijayanagaram, and Srikakulam burning like hot ovens, since the morning after 10AM people are afraid of moving out. Tuesday Srikakulam zillah Hiramandal registered 44.7C, Visakha Anandapuram recorded 43.9C, Vijayanagaram zillah Saluru registered 43.8C, On Wednesday Coastal and Rayalaseema towns registered 40C, Tirupati had 42.6C. Indeed in the evening am experiencing the hot wind from the ceiling!!!! In the next 24 hours slight rain may bring down temperatures in Coastal and Rayalaseema areas.
April 17, 2019: 21:47 IST: Widespread rains lash Punjab and Haryana, causes crop damage. The change in weather was caused by a Western Disturbance, weather officials here said. There was also report of hailstorm lashing few places in the two states. Expressing concern over the crop losses, the Punjab chief minister ordered urgent steps to ascertain the extent of the damage to crops so that due compensation could be awarded to the affected farmers at the earliest.
17 April, 2019: Electricity from Snowfall: Snow based triboelectric nanogenerator or snow TENG. Tiny 3D-printed generator creates electricity from snowfall. Snow is positively charged, and gives up electrons. Silicone, synthetic rubber like material, composed of silicon atoms and oxygen atoms, combined with carbon, hydrogen and other elements, is negatively charged. Falling snow contacts the surface of silicon, that device captures creating electricity. The device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic. Needs no batteries and it provides its own power.
17 April 2019, 12:27 IST: Scientist captures deepest radio images of Sun; A team of scientists at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune, Maharashtra have been leading an international group of researchers to understand some of these mysteries. "The sun is a surprisingly challenging radio source to study. Its emission can change within a second and can be very different, even across nearby frequencies." This work has also led to the exciting discovery of oscillations in the size of the radio-emitting region and its brightness. "These findings challenge the conventional wisdom of these oscillations arising in the local magnetised plasma and point to a new phenomenon operating deep down at the base of the solar atmosphere."
16 April, 2019: Students Transcend in Computer Science. The competition is growing year after year, and each school wants to take the crown for the best studies in the world with the best students in each domain. Apparently, India, China, and Russia are going down, as the USA is ruling on the computer science sector. Several specializations are offered in Computer Science, including business information systems, digital engineering systems, sound and music technology, mathematics, management, software engineering, artificial intelligence, electrical engineering, media and Internet technology and 3D animation.
April 16, 11:23, 2019: Violent storm damages houses in Mizoram-Assam border, Meghalaya. More than 75 houses were damaged when a violent wind hit Mizoram on Monday morning, officials of state Disaster Management and Rehabilitation department said. However, no casualties were reported. At least 41 houses were destroyed in Variegate in the North-eastern part of Mizoram bordering Assam. Of the 41 villages, 6 were completely destroyed by the wind, which occurred around 9 am on Monday.
17 April,2019: Sun releasing hot weather. Both in Rayalaseema and Coastal towns are experiencing the intense Sun. North coastal towns Visakhapatnam, Vijayanagaram, and Srikakulam burning like hot ovens, since the morning after 10AM people are afraid of moving out. Tuesday Srikakulam zillah Hiramandal registered 44.7C, Visakha Anandapuram recorded 43.9C, Vijayanagaram zillah Saluru registered 43.8C, On Wednesday Coastal and Rayalaseema towns registered 40C, Tirupati had 42.6C. Indeed in the evening am experiencing the hot wind from the ceiling!!!! In the next 24 hours slight rain may bring down temperatures in Coastal and Rayalaseema areas.
April 17, 2019: 21:47 IST: Widespread rains lash Punjab and Haryana, causes crop damage. The change in weather was caused by a Western Disturbance, weather officials here said. There was also report of hailstorm lashing few places in the two states. Expressing concern over the crop losses, the Punjab chief minister ordered urgent steps to ascertain the extent of the damage to crops so that due compensation could be awarded to the affected farmers at the earliest.
17 April, 2019: Electricity from Snowfall: Snow based triboelectric nanogenerator or snow TENG. Tiny 3D-printed generator creates electricity from snowfall. Snow is positively charged, and gives up electrons. Silicone, synthetic rubber like material, composed of silicon atoms and oxygen atoms, combined with carbon, hydrogen and other elements, is negatively charged. Falling snow contacts the surface of silicon, that device captures creating electricity. The device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic. Needs no batteries and it provides its own power.
Apr 17, 2019: 11:51 AM IST:
Fig.2 About 35 killed in Rajasthan, MP, Gujarat.
34 dead as rain, strong winds, thunderstorm wreak havoc in four states. Three people of a family were killed and one was seriously injured due to lightning in Jamudir Sarwar village under the Hathod police station area. Strong winds lashed four states, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. Strong winds, rain and storm destroyed mud-houses in many villages including, Kharagone, Upadi, Bada, Premnagar, Gogavan and Bhoinanda. Rains also lashed Alwar, Chaksu, Ajmer and Udaipur rains destroyed produce kept in the open outside the shops in the market.
April 17, 2019: 12:16 PM: Unseasonal rain, dust storm lash parts of Gujarat; 10 dead, several injured. Also, a portion of a tent erected for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Himmatnagar town of North Gujarat was also damaged in the dust storm.17 April 2019, 12:27 IST: Scientist captures deepest radio images of Sun; A team of scientists at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune, Maharashtra have been leading an international group of researchers to understand some of these mysteries. "The sun is a surprisingly challenging radio source to study. Its emission can change within a second and can be very different, even across nearby frequencies." This work has also led to the exciting discovery of oscillations in the size of the radio-emitting region and its brightness. "These findings challenge the conventional wisdom of these oscillations arising in the local magnetised plasma and point to a new phenomenon operating deep down at the base of the solar atmosphere."
April 17, 2019:
Fig.3 Dust cover of Indian City.
At least 30 people dead as dust storm hits several Indian states. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall in isolated parts of Gujarat and also predicted thunderstorms accompanied with gusty winds (wind speed reaching 40-50 km/h) and lightning at isolated places in Chhattisgarh, East Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Sikkim, Odisha, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu and Kerala.
17:04:2019: Travel through wormholes would be slow: Study. Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity supports the existence of wormholes that could connect extremely long distances billion light years apart, different points in time, or possibly different universes. “The real import of this work is in its relation to the black hole information problem and the connections between gravity and quantum mechanics. Although this means the direct connection between the black holes is shorter than the wormhole connection, and therefore the wormhole travel is not a shortcut, the theory gives new insights into quantum mechanics. “From the outside perspective, travel through the wormhole is equivalent to quantum teleportation using entangled black holes.” To date, a major stumbling block in formulating traversable wormholes has been the need for negative energy, which seemed to be inconsistent with quantum gravity. However, Jafferis has overcome this using quantum field theory tools. “I think it will teach us deep things about the gauge/gravity correspondence, quantum gravity, and even perhaps a new way to formulate quantum mechanics.
Apr 17, 2019 14:02 IST: India, UK sign ‘step change’ defence MoU. The defence equipment MoU was signed by Air Marshal Richard Knighton on behalf of the UK’s ministry of defence and Barun Mitra, additional secretary (defence production) in India’s ministry of defence.
April 17, 2019: 09:35 IST: Cash seized from shop in TN, cops open fire to disperse AIADMK supporters. The raiding team, comprising officials of the Election Commission-appointed surveillance squad and the income tax department, seized bundles of cash allegedly meant for distribution among voters. The officials said a number of neatly packed packets containing cash. The packets have ward numbers and number of voters written on them and Rs 300 is written on each of the packets. The raid is continuing.
Apr 18, 2019 07:34 IST: ‘Dictating who would eat what’: Mamata Banerjee stings Modi on Air India’s veg meal in economy class. Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee made the comment while addressing an election rally in Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency where parliamentary polls are to be held on April 23.
April 18, 2019: 11:28 IST: NASA scientists confirm global warming is heating up earth's surface. Satellite data shows the Earth's surface has been warming globally. Earth's surface has been warming globally over the past 15 years. The team used measurements of the 'skin' temperature of the Earth taken by a satellite-based infrared measurement system called AIRS (Atmospheric Infra-Red Sounder) from 2003 to 2017. Interestingly, our findings revealed that the surface-based data sets may be underestimating the temperature changes in the Arctic. This means the warming taking place at the poles may be happening more quickly than previously thought. 19 April, 2019: Twins born in different years hailed 'medical sensation': The conditions were very good as well due to the existing second placenta and we wanted to try to let the second child mature as long as possible in the womb. Leonie was born a total of 97 days difference with her twin sister Liana and weighed 3.7 kg (8.1 lbs) at birth. “It's also a rare case for our maternity clinic, but it was not the first time that twins were born on different days at the Holweide hospital. But the time difference of 97 days is unique for us and also special worldwide.” Local media described the births as a “medical sensation”; and according to the hospital it might well be a world record.
April 21, 2019: 1:47 AM: This Indian designer’s interactive project wins an international prize in Italy. The award comes with a 10,000-euro (Rs 7.85-lakh) grant. Sanjeev’s project, christened Lumen, was chosen for the inaugural Playable Museum Award from a field of designers from around the world who were asked to rethink the connect between people, artworks and museum through technology.
April 22, 2019: CRPF Jawan Donates Blood to Save New Mother and Baby in Kashmir, Earns Twitter's 'Salute'. A 25 -year-old woman was facing severe complications while delivering her baby and had lost a good bit of blood. However, 53rd Battalion's Gohil Shailesh decided to help out the woman by donating his own blood to meet the deficit.
April 22, 2019: 09:00 IST: Now, get ready to shell out more for potatoes. Large stocks were ruined in transit due to thunderstorm and rainfalls in the north and the north-east states, resulting in fewer kilos of potatoes at mandis. Data compiled by the Nashik-based National Horticultural Research and Development Foundation (NHRDF) showed potato prices have shot up by 85.5 per cent in the wholesale market to trade at Rs 10.20 a kg in Kolkata compared to Rs 5.50 a kg towards the end of March 2019.
Apr 22, 2019: 09.57 AM IST: TCS modernises 1.5 lakh post offices under multi-year deal with India Post. In 2013, the Mumbai-based company had announced receiving an over Rs 1,100- crore multi-year contract from the DoP for an end-to-end IT modernisation programme.
April 22, 2019: 10:59 am: AP Man Toils For 14 Years to Build Innovation That Helps Weavers Save Time & Money! Leaving behind his dreams and ambitions, Sivakumar Modha decided to trudge down the revolutionary path that would bring respite to scores of weavers across the country. Sivakumar spent the next 14 years researching and developing an electronic Jacquard Machine that would replace the conventional punch-card mechanism to an image-based system incorporated to the loom through a pen drive! “Any design can be woven into a fabric using Modha Device, which is battery-operated. A pendrive with image files needs to be connected to the machine, which is already connected to the loom. But with Modha Device incorporated to a loom, the same design can easily be created within 5-10 minutes with zero time invested for design creation,” says Sivakumar. If you wish to help him in this pursuit, you can reach out to him at 9866001678 & 7095810510 as well as mail him at president@pallesrujana.org or sivakumar.modha@gmail.com.
22 April, 2019: Saturday night rain destroyed Banana, Boppai, Fruit acres about 16 crore Rupees loss occurred. Railway Koduru Mandal 625 acres harvest at a cost of 7 crores, and Chitveli Mandal 125 acres banana crop destroyed resulting in loss of 1 crore. Puttampeta Mandal 200 acres harvest lost resulting in 2 crores. Chitveli Obuluvaripall, 1200 acres banana crop dwindled. Srikakulam zillah Hiramandal, Patapatnam, Rajam, Tekkali, and several villages in and around, had hailstone storm, in East Godavari zillah Pitapuram the rice crop affected.
April 22, 2019: Hyderabad large trees, Electric poles, and big hoardings and floodlight tower in Ebby stadium collapsed due to heavy rain and 90 km speed winds. On roads water logged. Taranaka, Old Alval, and Secunderabad military hospital large trees collapsed. Kadapa zillah Ontimitta had fierce winds on Monday evening, German Technology sheds collapsed, and Rajampeta had heavy rain. Thousand acres Banana, Boppai, and Mango trees have been affected.
22 April, 2019: A 4-yr-old boy dies in lightning strike in Oblapuram of Giddalur of Prakasam district while three others were injured and shifted to Giddalur hospital. Moderate to heavy rain accompanied by heavy winds and lightning on Monday afternoon. Tirupati also had rain that brought the temperature down on Monday.
23 April, 2019: DENVER: A group of undergrad students is developing a magnetic shield to defend interplanetary astronauts from the intense cosmic radiation between Earth and Mars. The students, from Drake University in Iowa, presented their project in the poster session Saturday (April 13) at the April meeting of the American Physical Society. Their MISSFIT (Magneto-Ionization Spacecraft Shield for Interplanetary Travel) design uses a powerful magnetic shield that, like Earth's magnetosphere, protects the planet from high-energy particles.
April 17, 2019: 09:35 IST: Cash seized from shop in TN, cops open fire to disperse AIADMK supporters. The raiding team, comprising officials of the Election Commission-appointed surveillance squad and the income tax department, seized bundles of cash allegedly meant for distribution among voters. The officials said a number of neatly packed packets containing cash. The packets have ward numbers and number of voters written on them and Rs 300 is written on each of the packets. The raid is continuing.
Apr 18, 2019 07:34 IST: ‘Dictating who would eat what’: Mamata Banerjee stings Modi on Air India’s veg meal in economy class. Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee made the comment while addressing an election rally in Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency where parliamentary polls are to be held on April 23.
Apr. 18, 2019:10:18:06: LIGHTNING DEATHS: 22 killed in unseasonal rains, lightning in MP. rains lashed parts of the state on Tuesday night, claiming three lives each in Indore and Shajapur, four in Dhar, two each in Kharagone, Sehore and Ratlam and one each in Alirajpur, Seoni Rajgarh, Sehore, Barwani and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh. Four persons, including two minors, were killed in Dhar district’s Pipalla and Dahi villages after they were hit by lightning. In Indore’s Hatod police station area, three persons, including two minors, were killed after being struck by lightning. Three others were killed in separate incidents in Shajapur when thunderstorm and lightning hit them. Two persons each were killed in Ratlam and Sehore districts after being struck by lightning.
18 April, 2019: 04:41 AM: Cut off from mainstream, villagers unaware of political parties, candidates. Tunia Dehuri of Banjhiamba village in Mangarajpur gram panchayat has little knowledge of elections and the hype and hoopla surrounding it. CUTTACK: Tunia Dehuri of Banjhiamba village in Mangarajpur gram panchayat has little knowledge of elections and the hype and hoopla surrounding it. The 65-year-old woman is among the 150 tribals residing in the village, which is cut-off from the mainstream. For the villagers, Dalijoda forest is their country and they have no inkling of what lies beyond. Banjhiamba comes under Athagarh Assembly segment which will go to polls in the third phase on April 23.April 18, 2019: 11:28 IST: NASA scientists confirm global warming is heating up earth's surface. Satellite data shows the Earth's surface has been warming globally. Earth's surface has been warming globally over the past 15 years. The team used measurements of the 'skin' temperature of the Earth taken by a satellite-based infrared measurement system called AIRS (Atmospheric Infra-Red Sounder) from 2003 to 2017. Interestingly, our findings revealed that the surface-based data sets may be underestimating the temperature changes in the Arctic. This means the warming taking place at the poles may be happening more quickly than previously thought. 19 April, 2019: Twins born in different years hailed 'medical sensation': The conditions were very good as well due to the existing second placenta and we wanted to try to let the second child mature as long as possible in the womb. Leonie was born a total of 97 days difference with her twin sister Liana and weighed 3.7 kg (8.1 lbs) at birth. “It's also a rare case for our maternity clinic, but it was not the first time that twins were born on different days at the Holweide hospital. But the time difference of 97 days is unique for us and also special worldwide.” Local media described the births as a “medical sensation”; and according to the hospital it might well be a world record.
Apr 19, 2019: 17:39:49: NASA airborne telescope spots universe’s 1st molecule. This is the first time helium hydride has been found in the modern universe. Scientists discovered the molecule in our own galaxy using NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), as the aircraft flew high above the Earth’s surface and pointed its sensitive instruments out into the cosmos. Scientists believe that around 100,000 years after the big bang, helium and hydrogen combined to make a molecule called helium hydride for the first time.
Apr 20, 2019 20:57 IST: BJP nominee Sambit Patra croons Telugu song to woo voters in Puri. Campaigning in Telugu-dominated Penthakata area in Puri on Friday evening, Patra started crooning ‘Telusa Manasa’. Patra also sang another number “Bangaru Kodipetta” from the superhit movie Magadheera much to the surprise of the Telugu youth in the audience.
20 April, 2019: Plant 9 o' clock flowers and enjoy their charming bloom during summer. Gardening hobbyists love to plant Portulaca Grandiflora in pots or soil which blooms around nine 'o clock. The flowers are striking shades of colours and pleasant to the eyes. The shape looks charming and grabs the attention of the on-lookers. In India, this fast growing flowering plant is called 'nau bajiya pool ' or '9 o'clock flower'. A few variations in the flower's colour are available. Moreover, the flowers can be plain or variegated.
Apr 20, 2019 20:57 IST: BJP nominee Sambit Patra croons Telugu song to woo voters in Puri. Campaigning in Telugu-dominated Penthakata area in Puri on Friday evening, Patra started crooning ‘Telusa Manasa’. Patra also sang another number “Bangaru Kodipetta” from the superhit movie Magadheera much to the surprise of the Telugu youth in the audience.
20 April, 2019: Plant 9 o' clock flowers and enjoy their charming bloom during summer. Gardening hobbyists love to plant Portulaca Grandiflora in pots or soil which blooms around nine 'o clock. The flowers are striking shades of colours and pleasant to the eyes. The shape looks charming and grabs the attention of the on-lookers. In India, this fast growing flowering plant is called 'nau bajiya pool ' or '9 o'clock flower'. A few variations in the flower's colour are available. Moreover, the flowers can be plain or variegated.
Fig.4 Heavy Rain with lightning lashed in Visakhapatnam.
It rained in Visakhapatnam all sectors, from 5 PM to almost 7.30 PM heavily, with thunder and lightning, a great relief for the people from the sweltering scorching heat of the Summer. Four persons struck by lightning in Guntur. Two persons were killed in Prakasam district by lightning. In Pendurthi, 35 year old person died due to lightning strike. Heavy rain struck Palanadu region with intense gales. 66 farmers lost their crop, in 61.45 hectares, due to rain which was 11% above normal. Ramamurthy informs that there is no rain in Vijayawada. April 21, 2019: 1:47 AM: This Indian designer’s interactive project wins an international prize in Italy. The award comes with a 10,000-euro (Rs 7.85-lakh) grant. Sanjeev’s project, christened Lumen, was chosen for the inaugural Playable Museum Award from a field of designers from around the world who were asked to rethink the connect between people, artworks and museum through technology.
April 22, 2019: 09:00 IST: Now, get ready to shell out more for potatoes. Large stocks were ruined in transit due to thunderstorm and rainfalls in the north and the north-east states, resulting in fewer kilos of potatoes at mandis. Data compiled by the Nashik-based National Horticultural Research and Development Foundation (NHRDF) showed potato prices have shot up by 85.5 per cent in the wholesale market to trade at Rs 10.20 a kg in Kolkata compared to Rs 5.50 a kg towards the end of March 2019.
Apr 22, 2019: 09.57 AM IST: TCS modernises 1.5 lakh post offices under multi-year deal with India Post. In 2013, the Mumbai-based company had announced receiving an over Rs 1,100- crore multi-year contract from the DoP for an end-to-end IT modernisation programme.
April 22, 2019: 10:59 am: AP Man Toils For 14 Years to Build Innovation That Helps Weavers Save Time & Money! Leaving behind his dreams and ambitions, Sivakumar Modha decided to trudge down the revolutionary path that would bring respite to scores of weavers across the country. Sivakumar spent the next 14 years researching and developing an electronic Jacquard Machine that would replace the conventional punch-card mechanism to an image-based system incorporated to the loom through a pen drive! “Any design can be woven into a fabric using Modha Device, which is battery-operated. A pendrive with image files needs to be connected to the machine, which is already connected to the loom. But with Modha Device incorporated to a loom, the same design can easily be created within 5-10 minutes with zero time invested for design creation,” says Sivakumar. If you wish to help him in this pursuit, you can reach out to him at 9866001678 & 7095810510 as well as mail him at president@pallesrujana.org or sivakumar.modha@gmail.com.
22 April, 2019: Saturday night rain destroyed Banana, Boppai, Fruit acres about 16 crore Rupees loss occurred. Railway Koduru Mandal 625 acres harvest at a cost of 7 crores, and Chitveli Mandal 125 acres banana crop destroyed resulting in loss of 1 crore. Puttampeta Mandal 200 acres harvest lost resulting in 2 crores. Chitveli Obuluvaripall, 1200 acres banana crop dwindled. Srikakulam zillah Hiramandal, Patapatnam, Rajam, Tekkali, and several villages in and around, had hailstone storm, in East Godavari zillah Pitapuram the rice crop affected.
April 22, 2019: Hyderabad large trees, Electric poles, and big hoardings and floodlight tower in Ebby stadium collapsed due to heavy rain and 90 km speed winds. On roads water logged. Taranaka, Old Alval, and Secunderabad military hospital large trees collapsed. Kadapa zillah Ontimitta had fierce winds on Monday evening, German Technology sheds collapsed, and Rajampeta had heavy rain. Thousand acres Banana, Boppai, and Mango trees have been affected.
22 April, 2019: A 4-yr-old boy dies in lightning strike in Oblapuram of Giddalur of Prakasam district while three others were injured and shifted to Giddalur hospital. Moderate to heavy rain accompanied by heavy winds and lightning on Monday afternoon. Tirupati also had rain that brought the temperature down on Monday.
23 April, 2019: DENVER: A group of undergrad students is developing a magnetic shield to defend interplanetary astronauts from the intense cosmic radiation between Earth and Mars. The students, from Drake University in Iowa, presented their project in the poster session Saturday (April 13) at the April meeting of the American Physical Society. Their MISSFIT (Magneto-Ionization Spacecraft Shield for Interplanetary Travel) design uses a powerful magnetic shield that, like Earth's magnetosphere, protects the planet from high-energy particles.
April 24, 2019: Krishna Zillah nearly 200 meters, the sea has advanced with waves of six-to-seven meters high thrashing the shores at Palakayithippa, Koduru. People ran to the Dolphins bungalow for protecting themselves.
Apr 24, 2019: At least 16 dead as 2 earthquakes shake Philippines. At least 16 people have died and dozens have been injured as a powerful earthquake hit northern Philippines. Several buildings were collapsed that caused most of the causalities. According to media reports, the 6.1-magnitude quake damaged many houses, concrete roads, bridges, Roman Catholic churches and an international airport terminal at Clark Freeport, a former American air base in Pampanga. As the search operation was going on, fresh tremors shook Philippines again. Fortunately, those tremors were not so powerful and didn't cause any further damage. (AFP).
Apr. 24, 2019:
April 25, 2019: 139 mandals may witness severe heatwave this summer, and 466 more may experience it moderately, at lease 12 mandals out of 670 in the state would experience heatwave conditions. More thaan 50% of the severe heat wave prone mandals are identified in Krishna(ore than 27 mandals), Prakasam (25 mandals) and Guntur (20 mandals) Districts. Srikakulam out of 38 about 3 districts, Vizianagaram 54/4, Visakhapatnam 43/2, East Godavari 64/12, Guntur 57/20, Kurnool 54/6, Kadapa 51/4, and Anatpur 63/2, and Chittoor 56/6 heatwave conditions would prevail. Maximum day temperatures from 4.5C to 6.4C excess is considered as heatwave. It could be more than these in this summer months of May till June 8.
26 April 2019: Rare radioactive decay captured by dark matter detector. This detection is an important step towards knowing the constituents of dark matter, which makes up 27 per cent of the Universe. Scientists have found the first direct evidence of a rare radioactive decay reaction, known as the two neutrino double electron capture, according to a research paper published in the journal Nature on April 24. (Late Professor Ramamurthi Sripada from Andhra University, Nuclear Physics Department, has studied two neutrino double capture). The observation was made in the decay of xenon 124 nuclei, which were part of the XENON1T dark matter detector experiment, to tellurium 124. This detection is an important step towards knowing the constituents of dark matter, which makes up 27 per cent of the Universe.
Apr 24, 2019: At least 16 dead as 2 earthquakes shake Philippines. At least 16 people have died and dozens have been injured as a powerful earthquake hit northern Philippines. Several buildings were collapsed that caused most of the causalities. According to media reports, the 6.1-magnitude quake damaged many houses, concrete roads, bridges, Roman Catholic churches and an international airport terminal at Clark Freeport, a former American air base in Pampanga. As the search operation was going on, fresh tremors shook Philippines again. Fortunately, those tremors were not so powerful and didn't cause any further damage. (AFP).
Apr. 24, 2019:
April 25, 2019: 17:34 IST: Japan seeks to join WTO dispute consultations over India's import duties on ICT products. The other countries which have requested are Canada, Thailand, the US, Singapore and Chinese Taipei.
Apr. 25, 2019: Life May Have Evolved Before Earth Finished Forming. The first organisms may have evolved before the rocky planets formed. Elkins-Tanton said this basic idea grew out of a course she taught at ASU in the fall of 2016. At the beginning of the semester, she asked the students to consider whether life could have arisen on small bodies. Over the next few months, the students, Elkins-Tanton and her co-author on the newly presented work, Stephen West, explored this possibility, as well as a number of other questions that stemmed from that core question. Life as we know it requires three main ingredients: liquid water, organic molecules and an energy source. Planetesimals, which formed within 1.5 million years of the solar system's birth, likely featured all three, Elkins-Tanton said. For example, more than 35 different amino acids have been identified in the Murchison meteorite, an ancient space rock that fell to Earth in southern Australia in 1969.
April 26, 2019 6:07 PM: Storm Kenneth kills 3 in Mozambique, more destruction ahead. Mozambique continues to suffer as another storm Kenneth has throttled the region once again. Only five weeks before storm Idai had caused massive damage over the nation. The nation had not forgotten and gotten over after Idai that Kenneth rampaged the nation once again. Cyclone Kenneth throttled the northern parts of Mozambique with winds of 220 kmph and also claimed three lives in Comoros.Apr. 25, 2019: Life May Have Evolved Before Earth Finished Forming. The first organisms may have evolved before the rocky planets formed. Elkins-Tanton said this basic idea grew out of a course she taught at ASU in the fall of 2016. At the beginning of the semester, she asked the students to consider whether life could have arisen on small bodies. Over the next few months, the students, Elkins-Tanton and her co-author on the newly presented work, Stephen West, explored this possibility, as well as a number of other questions that stemmed from that core question. Life as we know it requires three main ingredients: liquid water, organic molecules and an energy source. Planetesimals, which formed within 1.5 million years of the solar system's birth, likely featured all three, Elkins-Tanton said. For example, more than 35 different amino acids have been identified in the Murchison meteorite, an ancient space rock that fell to Earth in southern Australia in 1969.
26 April, 2019 7:40 pm IST:
Fig.4a Three steps to Hubble Constant.
The universe is expanding 9% faster than expected, but it’s unclear why? New research done using the Hubble Space Telescope has not been able to explain why the universe is expanding faster, but scientists have 3 theories. The previous value of the Hubble Constant — 67 km/sec/Mpc — had a margin error of 2.2 per cent. The new observation has tightened this margin to 1.9 per cent and has come up with a more certain value of 74 km/sec/Mpc, which is a whopping 9 per cent faster. One is that the hypothesised, mysterious dark energy, which is thought to have existed since the time of the Big Bang, is actually pushing matter away. Another idea is that there might be a new subatomic particle that researchers are still aren’t aware of, which travels near the speed of light. These particles make up the hypothesised ‘dark radiation’. A third explanation is that the dark and invisible matter that is not comprised of protons, neutrons, and electrons — of which all known matter in the universe is made — likely interacts more strongly with regular matter. It is likely that a new physics would be needed to study the expansion of the universe and what causes it to progress at the rates it does.
April 26, 2019: 6:41 PM: Disappearing Green Cover: India Lost Tree Covers Of Almost 16 Lakh Hectare In Last 17 Years. To support this claim, a new study – Global Forest Watch released by the World Resources Institute (WRI) on April 25 said that India has almost lost 16 lakh hectare of tree cover between the time period of 2001 and 2018. The report further claimed that this is equivalent to almost four times the geographical area of Goa.26 April 2019: Rare radioactive decay captured by dark matter detector. This detection is an important step towards knowing the constituents of dark matter, which makes up 27 per cent of the Universe. Scientists have found the first direct evidence of a rare radioactive decay reaction, known as the two neutrino double electron capture, according to a research paper published in the journal Nature on April 24. (Late Professor Ramamurthi Sripada from Andhra University, Nuclear Physics Department, has studied two neutrino double capture). The observation was made in the decay of xenon 124 nuclei, which were part of the XENON1T dark matter detector experiment, to tellurium 124. This detection is an important step towards knowing the constituents of dark matter, which makes up 27 per cent of the Universe.
27 April, 2019: Watch: Women in this Maharashtra settlement lower themselves on ropes into a well to collect water. Barde-Chi-Wadi is at a distance of less than two kilometres from the upper Vaitarna Damr. In a video posted on twitter, women from Barde-Chi-Wadi can be seen lowering themselves on ropes into a well to fetch water for their daily usage in the summer months. The well is about 60 feet deep, according to a report in The Indian Express.
April 27, 2019: Sea condition is likely to be rough off the coasts of Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh from April 29 to May 1. The weather department has forecast heavy rainfall over isolated places in Kerala on April 29 and April 30. Light to moderate rainfall is also likely over a few places in coastal areas of northern Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh on April 30 and May 1.
Apr 27, 2019: 06.00 PM: About 62 families own a surprisingly large chunk of US land, and much of it has been passed down since the 19th century. A relatively small number of American families own a surprisingly large amount of the nation's land, and most of those families have enjoyed their holdings for generations. Based on The Land Report's figures, the top 100 landowners in the US collectively own about 41.3 million acres, an area larger than that of the state of Georgia. The 62 multi-generation families owned 21.6 million of those acres, or about 52% of the total.
April 27, 2019: Water availability in 91 major reservoirs down to 26%. However, the situation is better this year, Ministry said, as the storage was 37.31 BCM during the corresponding period last year. The average of last 10 years live storage is 41.074 BCM. The total live storage capacity of these 91 reservoirs is 161.99 BCM which is about 63 per cent of the live storage capacity of 257.812 BCM which is estimated to have been created in the country.
Apr 27, 2019: 18:28:48: Himachal man makes incense sticks from flower waste. The objective was to use flowers from temples and utilise them to make organic incense sticks. Through this, we also wanted to provide an alternative to the disposal of flowers in open areas and drains.
Fig.5a Fig.5b Fig. 5cApril 27, 2019: Sea condition is likely to be rough off the coasts of Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh from April 29 to May 1. The weather department has forecast heavy rainfall over isolated places in Kerala on April 29 and April 30. Light to moderate rainfall is also likely over a few places in coastal areas of northern Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh on April 30 and May 1.
Apr 27, 2019: 06.00 PM: About 62 families own a surprisingly large chunk of US land, and much of it has been passed down since the 19th century. A relatively small number of American families own a surprisingly large amount of the nation's land, and most of those families have enjoyed their holdings for generations. Based on The Land Report's figures, the top 100 landowners in the US collectively own about 41.3 million acres, an area larger than that of the state of Georgia. The 62 multi-generation families owned 21.6 million of those acres, or about 52% of the total.
April 27, 2019: Water availability in 91 major reservoirs down to 26%. However, the situation is better this year, Ministry said, as the storage was 37.31 BCM during the corresponding period last year. The average of last 10 years live storage is 41.074 BCM. The total live storage capacity of these 91 reservoirs is 161.99 BCM which is about 63 per cent of the live storage capacity of 257.812 BCM which is estimated to have been created in the country.
Apr 27, 2019: 18:28:48: Himachal man makes incense sticks from flower waste. The objective was to use flowers from temples and utilise them to make organic incense sticks. Through this, we also wanted to provide an alternative to the disposal of flowers in open areas and drains.
Fig.5d
Fig 5. Four pictures of moon and its spectra
taken at 4 06AM on 28 April 2019
Moon observed at Visakhapatnam at my residence, appears as unusually red, due to the blazing red Sun. The spectrum recorded shows bright red and seen in the Microsoft my camera it is much more red but somewhat degraded in the photorecording. The moving clouds, due to the onset of low-depression in the Bay of Bengal and, the moist weather haven't affected the photoshoot. 28 April, 2019: A school drop out grafts 24 varieties on a single mango tree in his orchard spread over seven acres at Vadlamanu. Rama Gopalakrishna proud to grow on his tree the Punasa Mamidi which will grow throughout the year.
27 Apr. 2019: 27 April, 2019: Adoni recorded 44.5C, while at 112 places higher than 42C recorded and another two to three days this would continue. Due to mist in the air, the people are suffocating. Till 6.30PM the hot winds are blowing. On Saturday evening around 6PM the temperature was 40.9C in Anantapur.
27 Apr. 2019: On Saturday though it was hot till 2PM the sudden formation of cumulonimbus clouds produced gales, accompanied by thunders and lightning with rainfall at several places at Narsipatnam, Golgonda, Kotavuratla, Makavarpalem, Ravikamatham, Bucchaipeta, Hukumpeta, Dumbrigunta Mandal with 80km speed gales struck many electric poles that have fallen down, many houses top protecting layers have blown away, resulting in loss of Banana, Mango, Sugar cane crops have fallen down. Since electric wires were struck several places had no electric supply. Internet and Cell services got disturbed since 3PM.
28 April, 2019: Sea at Visakhapatnam has moved forward and the waves are slashing the shore line boulders due to the incoming low-depression cyclone. Cyclone Fani likely to turn 'very severe', But after traveling for 750 km in the same direction, it is likely to change its pattern and will curve in the northeast direction towards Bangladesh or Myanmar, The earlier forecast about very heavy rainfall lashing coastal Tamil Nadu is not likely to happen.
April 29, 2019: Cyclone Fani expected to escalate into an extremely severe storm. As on Monday morning, the cyclone was located just over 800km in the southeast from Chennai. A high alert has been issued in the coastal areas of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. Cyclone Fani is expected to escalate into an extremely severe storm and would move towards the north-west in India’s eastern coast until May 1. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Odisha have been warned to brace for extreme weather conditions including strong winds, heavy rainfall, and rough seas.
April 29, 2019: 3,000 kg garbage collected from Mt Everest region. since the beginning of the Nepal government-backed Sagarmatha Cleaning Campaign on April 14.
April 29, 2019: 3:54 PM : Canada floods: Over 6,500 people evacuated near Montreal as floods worsen. Nearly 8,000 people have been forced out from their homes in Quebec. Hundreds of policemen, firefighters and soldiers helped evacuate nearly 2,600 homes in the area. The barrier protecting Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, just west of Montreal, collapsed on Saturday night, causing flow of water of up to 1.5 metres to crash through the area.
29 April 2019: 06:47 PM: 38 killed, 2 lakh in danger as floods destroy 35,000 homes in Mozambique after second cyclone. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) described it as the strongest cyclone to ever lash the continent and predicted further heavy rain over the coming days.
April 29, 2019: 11:34 IST: Coffee compound peps up solar cells performance. Coffee can help make traditional silicon solar cells more efficient. The research, published 25 in the journal Joule, may enable this cost-effective renewable energy technology to compete on the market with silicon solar cells. They added caffeine to the perovskite layer of forty solar cells and used infrared spectroscopy (which uses infrared radiation to identify chemical compounds) to determine that the caffeine had successfully bonded with the material. Conducting further infrared spectroscopy tests, they observed that the carbonyl groups (a carbon atom double bonded to an oxygen) in caffeine interacted with lead ions in the layer to create a "molecular lock." This interaction increased the minimum amount of energy required for the perovskite film to react, boosting the solar cell efficiency from 17 per cent to over 20 per cent.
April 30, 2019: 07:00 IST: A home ministry statement said the cyclone is expected to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm by Tuesday. Furthermore according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), its landfall over Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh is ruled out and the possibility of landfall in Odisha is under continuous watch. As of Monday evening, Fani was about 770 km east-south-east of Chennai.
April 30, 2019: 10:40 IST: New Technique Could Enable Colour Tuning In LED Bulbs. We demonstrate that this can be achieved by a single LED. We show that is possible to attain red, green and blue emissions originating from just one GaN LED-structure that uses doping with a single type of rare earth ion, Europium (Eu). Using intentional co-doping and energy-transfer engineering, we show that all three primary colours can emit due to emission originating from two different excited states of the same Eu3+ ion (~620 nm and ~545nm) mixed with near band edge emission from GaN cantered at ~430nm. The intensity ratios of these transitions can be controlled by choosing the current injection conditions such as injection current density and duty cycle under pulsed current injection.
30 Apr. 2019: Visakhapatnam city in the Maharanipeta P.O. area was lit with bright Sun light since morning around 9 AM and we don't see any sign of the expected cyclonic storm but by afternoon it was reduced Sun light due to slightly covered clouds.
30 Apr. 2019:
27 Apr. 2019: 27 April, 2019: Adoni recorded 44.5C, while at 112 places higher than 42C recorded and another two to three days this would continue. Due to mist in the air, the people are suffocating. Till 6.30PM the hot winds are blowing. On Saturday evening around 6PM the temperature was 40.9C in Anantapur.
27 Apr. 2019: On Saturday though it was hot till 2PM the sudden formation of cumulonimbus clouds produced gales, accompanied by thunders and lightning with rainfall at several places at Narsipatnam, Golgonda, Kotavuratla, Makavarpalem, Ravikamatham, Bucchaipeta, Hukumpeta, Dumbrigunta Mandal with 80km speed gales struck many electric poles that have fallen down, many houses top protecting layers have blown away, resulting in loss of Banana, Mango, Sugar cane crops have fallen down. Since electric wires were struck several places had no electric supply. Internet and Cell services got disturbed since 3PM.
28 April, 2019: Sea at Visakhapatnam has moved forward and the waves are slashing the shore line boulders due to the incoming low-depression cyclone. Cyclone Fani likely to turn 'very severe', But after traveling for 750 km in the same direction, it is likely to change its pattern and will curve in the northeast direction towards Bangladesh or Myanmar, The earlier forecast about very heavy rainfall lashing coastal Tamil Nadu is not likely to happen.
April 29, 2019: Cyclone Fani expected to escalate into an extremely severe storm. As on Monday morning, the cyclone was located just over 800km in the southeast from Chennai. A high alert has been issued in the coastal areas of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. Cyclone Fani is expected to escalate into an extremely severe storm and would move towards the north-west in India’s eastern coast until May 1. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Odisha have been warned to brace for extreme weather conditions including strong winds, heavy rainfall, and rough seas.
April 29, 2019: 3,000 kg garbage collected from Mt Everest region. since the beginning of the Nepal government-backed Sagarmatha Cleaning Campaign on April 14.
April 29, 2019: 3:54 PM : Canada floods: Over 6,500 people evacuated near Montreal as floods worsen. Nearly 8,000 people have been forced out from their homes in Quebec. Hundreds of policemen, firefighters and soldiers helped evacuate nearly 2,600 homes in the area. The barrier protecting Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, just west of Montreal, collapsed on Saturday night, causing flow of water of up to 1.5 metres to crash through the area.
29 April 2019: 06:47 PM: 38 killed, 2 lakh in danger as floods destroy 35,000 homes in Mozambique after second cyclone. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) described it as the strongest cyclone to ever lash the continent and predicted further heavy rain over the coming days.
April 29, 2019: 11:34 IST: Coffee compound peps up solar cells performance. Coffee can help make traditional silicon solar cells more efficient. The research, published 25 in the journal Joule, may enable this cost-effective renewable energy technology to compete on the market with silicon solar cells. They added caffeine to the perovskite layer of forty solar cells and used infrared spectroscopy (which uses infrared radiation to identify chemical compounds) to determine that the caffeine had successfully bonded with the material. Conducting further infrared spectroscopy tests, they observed that the carbonyl groups (a carbon atom double bonded to an oxygen) in caffeine interacted with lead ions in the layer to create a "molecular lock." This interaction increased the minimum amount of energy required for the perovskite film to react, boosting the solar cell efficiency from 17 per cent to over 20 per cent.
April 30, 2019: 07:00 IST: A home ministry statement said the cyclone is expected to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm by Tuesday. Furthermore according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), its landfall over Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh is ruled out and the possibility of landfall in Odisha is under continuous watch. As of Monday evening, Fani was about 770 km east-south-east of Chennai.
Fig.6 The storm FANI likely to hit
Odisha coast on 3 May 2019.
Apr 30, 2019: 17:08 IST: Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani likely to hit Odisha coast between Gopalpur and Chandbali, south of Puri on 3 May with wind speed of 175-185 km/h gusting up to 205 km/h.
30 April 2019: 09:29 AM: Heatwave lingers: Maximum temperature crosses 45C in Telangana. After experiencing heatwave over the last four days, highest temperature in the state peaked to 45.20C at Makloor in Nizamabad. In Greater Hyderabad limits the highest temperature recorded was 42.50C at Quthbullapur.April 30, 2019: 10:40 IST: New Technique Could Enable Colour Tuning In LED Bulbs. We demonstrate that this can be achieved by a single LED. We show that is possible to attain red, green and blue emissions originating from just one GaN LED-structure that uses doping with a single type of rare earth ion, Europium (Eu). Using intentional co-doping and energy-transfer engineering, we show that all three primary colours can emit due to emission originating from two different excited states of the same Eu3+ ion (~620 nm and ~545nm) mixed with near band edge emission from GaN cantered at ~430nm. The intensity ratios of these transitions can be controlled by choosing the current injection conditions such as injection current density and duty cycle under pulsed current injection.
30 Apr. 2019: Visakhapatnam city in the Maharanipeta P.O. area was lit with bright Sun light since morning around 9 AM and we don't see any sign of the expected cyclonic storm but by afternoon it was reduced Sun light due to slightly covered clouds.
30 Apr. 2019:
Fig7a Waves slashing the parapet wall at the
beach shore in Vizag on 30 April 2019 around 7:10PM
Fig7b Waves reaching the parapet wall at the
beach shore in Vizag on 30 April 2019 around 7:30PM.
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.
