BHEL commissions Rampur Hydro Electric Project in Himachal Pradesh
Government-owned power equipment manufacturer Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) commissioned 68 MW Unit at the Rampur Hydro Electric Project in Himachal Pradesh. With this, BHEL has commissioned four units of the 412 MW hydro power plant of SJVN Limited.
Rampur hydel project has been built on River Satluj in Himachal Pradesh – 120 km from Shimla. In this project BHEL contributed in supply, construction and commissioning of turbines, generators, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system (SCADA), associated station auxiliaries, Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) and other electrical and mechanical machinery.
Government-owned power equipment manufacturer Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) commissioned 68 MW Unit at the Rampur Hydro Electric Project in Himachal Pradesh. With this, BHEL has commissioned four units of the 412 MW hydro power plant of SJVN Limited.
Rampur hydel project has been built on River Satluj in Himachal Pradesh – 120 km from Shimla. In this project BHEL contributed in supply, construction and commissioning of turbines, generators, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system (SCADA), associated station auxiliaries, Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) and other electrical and mechanical machinery.
Lt Gen Amit Sharma appointed Commander-in-Chief of SFC
Lt Gen Amit Sharma (58) has been appointed as the new Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Forces Command (SFC) which guards the nuclear weapon store of the country. He takes charge from Vice Admiral S P S Cheema as the latter has moved to Kochi to head the Navy’s Southern Command based there. Previously, Sharma was the Chief of Staff of Japiur-based South Western Command of the army and had headed its elite 21 Strike Corps.
The SFC is responsible to implement the directives of the Nuclear Command Authority (NCA). It has the sole responsibility of starting the process of delivering nuclear arsenal after receiving approval from NCA.
Lt Gen Amit Sharma (58) has been appointed as the new Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Forces Command (SFC) which guards the nuclear weapon store of the country. He takes charge from Vice Admiral S P S Cheema as the latter has moved to Kochi to head the Navy’s Southern Command based there. Previously, Sharma was the Chief of Staff of Japiur-based South Western Command of the army and had headed its elite 21 Strike Corps.
The SFC is responsible to implement the directives of the Nuclear Command Authority (NCA). It has the sole responsibility of starting the process of delivering nuclear arsenal after receiving approval from NCA.
Vice-President presented with Book titled “Warrior State” authored by T V Paul
Vice President Hamid Ansari was presented with the book titled Warrior State:Pakistan in the Contemporary World written by T V Paul.
The book presents a broad perspective of Pakistan’s insecurity quandary using literature from sociology, history, religious studies, and international relations. In addition, it introduces the concept of geostrategic curse, an important view akin to resource curse and oil curse. The book offers potent tool for policymakers and researchers alike to understand this crucial yet disturbed country. T V Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Vice President Hamid Ansari was presented with the book titled Warrior State:Pakistan in the Contemporary World written by T V Paul.
The book presents a broad perspective of Pakistan’s insecurity quandary using literature from sociology, history, religious studies, and international relations. In addition, it introduces the concept of geostrategic curse, an important view akin to resource curse and oil curse. The book offers potent tool for policymakers and researchers alike to understand this crucial yet disturbed country. T V Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Rasik Ravindra elected as member of UN body on ocean issues
Indian origin scientist Rasik Ravindra has been elected as member of theUnited Nations Commissionon the Limits of Continental Shelf (CLCS) asIndia’s candidate for member of the Commission.
Rasik, an alumnus of the Jammu and Kashmir University, is one of India’s eminent scientists. He has a rich experience of over four decades in different spheres of geosciences that include geological studies in Antarctica, India andBhutan. He has been honored with many prestigious awards including the National Award for Polar Sciences and Cryosphere in the year 2013 and National Mineral Award in the year 1990. He has wide global experience and has also held coveted positions that included negotiations in policy, technical and scientific issues.
United Nations Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf (CLCS):
- The CLCS has 21 members, who are experts in the domains of geophysics, geology, or hydrography, and are elected for a term of 5 years by the nations who are party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) among their nationals. It is the UN body that is empowered to allocate new seabed territory to countries.
Indian origin scientist Rasik Ravindra has been elected as member of theUnited Nations Commissionon the Limits of Continental Shelf (CLCS) asIndia’s candidate for member of the Commission.
Rasik, an alumnus of the Jammu and Kashmir University, is one of India’s eminent scientists. He has a rich experience of over four decades in different spheres of geosciences that include geological studies in Antarctica, India andBhutan. He has been honored with many prestigious awards including the National Award for Polar Sciences and Cryosphere in the year 2013 and National Mineral Award in the year 1990. He has wide global experience and has also held coveted positions that included negotiations in policy, technical and scientific issues.
United Nations Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf (CLCS):
- The CLCS has 21 members, who are experts in the domains of geophysics, geology, or hydrography, and are elected for a term of 5 years by the nations who are party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) among their nationals. It is the UN body that is empowered to allocate new seabed territory to countries.
Maharashtra government approves proposal to bifurcate Thane district
The Maharashtra government has given nod to the proposal of bifurcation of Thane district which will make Palghar Maharashtra’s 36th district. This proposal has been pending for a long time. As per the Maharashtra cabinet’s decision, the original Thane district will continue with mainly urban areas, while the new Palghar district will have mainly tribal dominated areas under its scope.
Thane is a district in northern Maharashtra state in western India. The headquarters of the district is the city of Thane, situated at the head of the Thane Creek. Thane is also known as the City of Lakes. It has around 35 lakes. Thane comes under Mumbai Metropolitan Region. It is worth mentioning that on April 16, 1854, the G.I.P. Railway’s first train ever to run in India ran from “Boree Bunder” (now the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) to Thane (previously Thana), 34 kilometers away.
The Maharashtra government has given nod to the proposal of bifurcation of Thane district which will make Palghar Maharashtra’s 36th district. This proposal has been pending for a long time. As per the Maharashtra cabinet’s decision, the original Thane district will continue with mainly urban areas, while the new Palghar district will have mainly tribal dominated areas under its scope.
Thane is a district in northern Maharashtra state in western India. The headquarters of the district is the city of Thane, situated at the head of the Thane Creek. Thane is also known as the City of Lakes. It has around 35 lakes. Thane comes under Mumbai Metropolitan Region. It is worth mentioning that on April 16, 1854, the G.I.P. Railway’s first train ever to run in India ran from “Boree Bunder” (now the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) to Thane (previously Thana), 34 kilometers away.
Scientists locate massive underground water reservoir, ‘three times’ the size of Earth’s oceans
Researchers have found a massive reservoir of water three times the size of Earth’s oceans located hundreds of miles beneath the surface of the planet. Scientists from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexicoprovided the first ever evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States.
Though the water is not in the general liquid form — the elements for water are bound up in rock deep in the planet’s mantle — the discovery may correspond to earth’s biggest water reservoir. It is due to the presence of liquid water on the surface that makes our planet fit for human habitation, and researchers have long been trying to puzzle out just how much water may be cycling between Earth’s surface and internal reservoirs through plate tectonics.
Researchers have discovered deep pockets of magma situated about 400 miles underneath North America, a possible sign of the presence of water at these depths. The discovery indicates that water from the Earth’s surface can reach such great depths by plate tectonics, in due course causing partial melting of the rocks found deep in the mantle. Scientists are considering evidence for a whole-Earth water cycle, which may help explain the huge quantity of liquid water on the surface earth. Researchers have been in quest of this missing deep water for years. They have long conjectured that water is locked in a rocky layer of the Earth’s mantle between the lower mantle and upper mantle, at depths between 250 miles and 410 miles.
Scientists Jacobsen and Schmandt are the first to provide direct proof that there may be water in “Transition Zone” of the mantle on a regional scale. Scientists tried to produce evidence that melting may take place about 400 miles deep in the Earth. H2O trapped in mantle rocks, such as those comprising the mineral ringwoodite is the fundamental thing to the process. If just 1% of the weight of mantle rock in this zone is H2O that would be tantamount to around 3 times the amount of water in oceans on Earth’s surface.
The water which has been discovered is not in the form of liquid, ice or vapor. It is water locked inside the molecular composition of the minerals in the mantle rock. The high pressure and temperature produced by the weight of 250 miles of solid rock breaks a water molecule to form a hydroxyl radical (OH), which can bind into a mineral’s crystal structure.
The research rests on a discovery in which researchers found a piece of themineral ringwoodite inside a diamond spewed from a depth of 400 miles by a volcano in Brazil. That minuscule piece of ringwoodite — the only sample in existence from within the Earth — contained an unexpected quantity of water bound in solid form in the mineral.
Researchers have found a massive reservoir of water three times the size of Earth’s oceans located hundreds of miles beneath the surface of the planet. Scientists from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexicoprovided the first ever evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States.
Though the water is not in the general liquid form — the elements for water are bound up in rock deep in the planet’s mantle — the discovery may correspond to earth’s biggest water reservoir. It is due to the presence of liquid water on the surface that makes our planet fit for human habitation, and researchers have long been trying to puzzle out just how much water may be cycling between Earth’s surface and internal reservoirs through plate tectonics.
Researchers have discovered deep pockets of magma situated about 400 miles underneath North America, a possible sign of the presence of water at these depths. The discovery indicates that water from the Earth’s surface can reach such great depths by plate tectonics, in due course causing partial melting of the rocks found deep in the mantle. Scientists are considering evidence for a whole-Earth water cycle, which may help explain the huge quantity of liquid water on the surface earth. Researchers have been in quest of this missing deep water for years. They have long conjectured that water is locked in a rocky layer of the Earth’s mantle between the lower mantle and upper mantle, at depths between 250 miles and 410 miles.
Scientists Jacobsen and Schmandt are the first to provide direct proof that there may be water in “Transition Zone” of the mantle on a regional scale. Scientists tried to produce evidence that melting may take place about 400 miles deep in the Earth. H2O trapped in mantle rocks, such as those comprising the mineral ringwoodite is the fundamental thing to the process. If just 1% of the weight of mantle rock in this zone is H2O that would be tantamount to around 3 times the amount of water in oceans on Earth’s surface.
The water which has been discovered is not in the form of liquid, ice or vapor. It is water locked inside the molecular composition of the minerals in the mantle rock. The high pressure and temperature produced by the weight of 250 miles of solid rock breaks a water molecule to form a hydroxyl radical (OH), which can bind into a mineral’s crystal structure.
The research rests on a discovery in which researchers found a piece of themineral ringwoodite inside a diamond spewed from a depth of 400 miles by a volcano in Brazil. That minuscule piece of ringwoodite — the only sample in existence from within the Earth — contained an unexpected quantity of water bound in solid form in the mineral.
Japan kills 30 minke whales despite ICJ order
As per a report by Japanese Fisheries Agency, Japan has continued the hunting of whales and has killed 30 minke whales off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefacture (at its north-east coast), in the first hunt since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) March 2014 order which directed Tokyo to halt killing the whales in theAntarctic.
In March 2014, the ICJ ruled that Japan’s annual expedition to the Southern Ocean was a commercial activity disguised as research.
ICJ ordered ban on Japan’s JARPA II (started in 2005) whaling programme inSothern Ocean in the Antarctic. The UN’s apex court imposed a temporary halt on Japan’s whaling programmme in Antarctic waters after hearing a case brought against Japan by Australia and environmental groups. The 16-member panel of ICJ decided that the whaling exercise of Japan is not justified. The court directed Tokyo to choose any one courses of action in this regard- either stop hunting the whales or redesign its hunting programme for scientific purposes. Japan agreed to the order of the ICJ.
Japan has exploited an ambiguity in a 1986 global moratorium that allows lethal research on the mammals. Japan sometimes also paints the demands for an end to whaling as cultural imperialism in the country.
Insufficiency in the ICJ order
Though the ICJ judgment directs Japan to stop whaling in Antarctic under JARPA II but it doesn’t make any mention on its annual hunts in the Pacific Ocean. As a result, Japan is free to continue hunting of whales in the Pacific.
As per a report by Japanese Fisheries Agency, Japan has continued the hunting of whales and has killed 30 minke whales off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefacture (at its north-east coast), in the first hunt since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) March 2014 order which directed Tokyo to halt killing the whales in theAntarctic.
In March 2014, the ICJ ruled that Japan’s annual expedition to the Southern Ocean was a commercial activity disguised as research.
ICJ ordered ban on Japan’s JARPA II (started in 2005) whaling programme inSothern Ocean in the Antarctic. The UN’s apex court imposed a temporary halt on Japan’s whaling programmme in Antarctic waters after hearing a case brought against Japan by Australia and environmental groups. The 16-member panel of ICJ decided that the whaling exercise of Japan is not justified. The court directed Tokyo to choose any one courses of action in this regard- either stop hunting the whales or redesign its hunting programme for scientific purposes. Japan agreed to the order of the ICJ.
Japan has exploited an ambiguity in a 1986 global moratorium that allows lethal research on the mammals. Japan sometimes also paints the demands for an end to whaling as cultural imperialism in the country.
Insufficiency in the ICJ order
Though the ICJ judgment directs Japan to stop whaling in Antarctic under JARPA II but it doesn’t make any mention on its annual hunts in the Pacific Ocean. As a result, Japan is free to continue hunting of whales in the Pacific.
The Netherlands lift women’s hockey World Cup
Olympic gold medal winner The Netherlands defeated Australia in the title clash at the Kyocera Stadium, Hague (The Netherlands)to win the women’shockey World Cup.
Out of 13 women’s World Cups since the launch of the event in 1974, the Netherlands have bagged the title seven times. It was a fifth successive World Cup final for the Dutch and remarkably a fourth contested between the two nations, with Australia’s 1998 victory in Utrecht being sandwiched by wins for Netherlands in 1990 and 2006.
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