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Nasa telescopes capture image of galaxy resembling eye

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> The three telescopes were able to create the image of the galaxy NGC 4151 showing gas interacting with the growing black hole at its centre. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> The white spot which looks like the eye’s pupil is the black hole and the red circumference is hydrogen. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> The blue is created by X-rays which scientists are studying to understand how such black holes interact with the gas around them. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> NGC 4151 is one of the nearest galaxies which contains an actively growing black hole. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> It offers one of the best chances of studying the interaction between an active supermassive black hole and the surrounding gas of its host galaxy 
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Nasa telescopes capture image of galaxy resembling eye

The three telescopes were able to create the image of the galaxy NGC 4151 showing gas interacting with the growing black hole at its cent...

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NASA PROBE SNAPS AMAZING PHOTOSF SATURN MOONS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning shots of three of Saturn’s moons, showcasing the diversity and beauty of the ringed planet’s natural satellites. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> The Cassini probe recently beamed home photos of Titan, Dione and Enceladus, three of Saturn’s six largest moons. The giant planet has 62 known satellites, but most of them are small, rocky moonlets too small to be rounded by their own gravity. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> Titan is the ringed planet’s largest satellite; at 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers) wide, it’s nearly 1.5 times bigger than Earth’s moon.   
 
 <ul><li> Titan has a thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere that shrouds the frigid body in a soupy brown haze. Complex organic molecules — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it — swirl about in this atmosphere. 
 
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<li> The huge moon also has a hydrocarbon-based weather system, with methane rain falling from the sky and pooling in liquid-methane lakes. Astrobiologists speculate that Titan may be one of the best places in the solar system to search for life beyond Earth. 
 
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<li> Dione, an icy, pockmarked globe 698 miles (1,123 km) across. The moon’s leading hemisphere is heavily cratered, while its trailing one sports an intricate web of ice cliffs. 
 
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<li>  At 319 miles (513 km) across, Enceladus is Saturn’s sixth-largest moon — but it may be the gas giant’s most intriguing satellite. 
 
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<li> Icy geysers erupt from Enceladus’ south polar region, fueled by a powerful interior heat source of mysterious origin. And scientists think an ocean of salty, liquid water lurks beneath the moon’s icy crust, making Enceladus another key target in the search for alien life in our solar system. 
 
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<li> Cassini launched in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004. It has been studying the ringed planet and its many moons ever since, and will continue to do for years to come. Last year, NASA extended the probe’s mission to at least 2017. 
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NASA PROBE SNAPS AMAZING PHOTOSF SATURN MOONS

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning shots of three of Saturn’s moons, showcasing the diversity and beauty of the ringed plane...

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Centre plans to borrow Rs.40,000 cr more now

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> The Central Government is looking at borrowing around Rs.40,000 crore more to make up for the shortfall in revenue receipts and poor disinvestment realisation in the current fiscal. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> The government may borrow Rs.30,000-40,000 crore to plug a shortfall in receipts in the current fiscal 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> If approved, it would be the second additional borrowing. As per the revised target, gross market borrowing for the current fiscal is pegged at Rs.4.70 lakh crore. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> Earlier this week, a top Finance Ministry official had admitted that the government was finding it difficult to meet the direct tax target due to industrial slowdown and might go in for larger market borrowings. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> In September, the government had announced an additional market borrowing of Rs.52,800 crore on top of Rs.4.17 lakh crore planned in the budget. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> Besides, slowdown in the economic activities due to domestic and global factors, the government's subsidy bill on petroleum and fertilizers is likely to increase further 
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Centre plans to borrow Rs.40,000 cr more now

The Central Government is looking at borrowing around Rs.40,000 crore more to make up for the shortfall in revenue receipts and poor disi...

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New DoNER project on climate change

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> Ministry of Development of North East Region (DoNER) has initiated the Climate Change Adaptation North Easter Region (CCANER) Project in partnership with the German Development Cooperation and the State Governments of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Sikkim to strengthen the rural livelihood resilience and also to teach adaptability to the impacts of climate variability and change. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> The German Development Cooperation would focus on capacity development of the people, institutions, and organizations of these three North East States, an official source said. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> The Meghalaya Government has finalized in March this year the Draft State Climate Change Action Plan (SAPCC) to understand the importance of climate issues and its impact on inclusive growth, the official sources said, adding that the Draft Plan was the output of various inter and intra working groups constituted by the Government and in consultation with regional and national experts. 
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New DoNER project on climate change

Ministry of Development of North East Region (DoNER) has initiated the Climate Change Adaptation North Easter Region (CCANER) Project in ...

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Hyderabad in race to host ICANN Conference

Hyderabad in race to host ICANN Conference

Hyderabad, the emerging hub of the IT industry in India, is in the race to host the Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers (...

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Jamaican opposition party wins election

Jamaican opposition party wins election

An election dominated by the economy has swept Jamaica's opposition, and its first female prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, back...

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Samoa celebrates New Year a day earlier!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">  Samoa, a tiny nation in the South Pacific and its neighbour Tokelau have already embraced the New Year, a day earlier than the rest of the world, to align closely with their major trading partners in Australasia.  
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;">  Samoa has fast-forwarded to 31 December, missing out 30 December. Samoa has announced this decision in May in a bid to improve ties with major trade partners Australia and New Zealand.    
    
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> The change comes 119 years after Samoa moved in the opposite direction. Then, it transferred to the same side of the International Date Line as the United States, in an effort to aid trade.  
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> Samoan Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sailele Malielegaoi  
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> Samoa is located approximately halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and has a population of 180,000 people. Local time up to now has been 21 hours behind Sydney. From 31 December it will be three hours ahead.  
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> Tokelau is a tiny New Zealand-administered territory of three islands. It lies to the north of Fiji, approximately half-way between Hawaii and the Australian coast. 
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Samoa celebrates New Year a day earlier!

Samoa, a tiny nation in the South Pacific and its neighbour Tokelau have already embraced the New Year, a day earlier than the rest of t...

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New island born in Red Sea after volcanic activity

New island born in Red Sea after volcanic activity

A new island is forming in the Red Sea in the Zubair archipelago resulting from a volcanic activity as lava is cooled by the surrounding ...

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Joint convention promotes Indo-Pak peace process

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> Promoting peace between India and Pakistan through people-to-people contact is the focus of an ongoing joint convention 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> The three-day conference, which kicked off yesterday, was organised by social organisation 'Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD)'. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> Established in 1993 to promote peace between India and Pakistan, the Forum has so far held seven joint conventions, the last one being organised at New Delhi in February 2005. 
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Joint convention promotes Indo-Pak peace process

Promoting peace between India and Pakistan through people-to-people contact is the focus of an ongoing joint convention The three-day...

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China plans for more space missions

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"> Gearing up to land a rover on moon and send manned spaceflights to built space station, China on Thursday said it will push forward its exploration of planets, asteroids and solar system in order to achieve self sufficiency. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;">  China will launch lunar mission to land a rover on moon for carrying out a survey of its surface in the next five years and conduct studies for a human lunar landing. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> The lunar probe projects have achieved milestone breakthroughs since 2006, with the successful launching of two lunar probes, the Chang'e-1 in 2007 and Chang'e-2 on October 1, 2010 to orbit moon.  
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> China will launch space laboratories, manned spaceship and space freighters, make breakthroughs in and master space station key technologies, including astronauts' medium-term stay, regenerative life support and propellant refueling. 
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> It will enhance the reliability and adaptability of launch vehicles in service, develop new-generation launch vehicles and their upper stages, and implement the first flight of the Long March-5, Long March-6 and Long March-7 launch vehicles.  
 
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<li style="text-align: justify;"> On the Satellite front, China has developed Fengyun (wind and cloud), Haiyang (ocean), Ziyuan (resources), Yaogan (remote-sensing) and Tianhui (space mapping) satellite series, plus a constellation of small satellites for environmental and disaster monitoring and forecasting 
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China plans for more space missions

Gearing up to land a rover on moon and send manned spaceflights to built space station, China on Thursday said it will push forward its e...

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