NPCDCS under National Health Mission to ensure intervention at district level
Mar 15, 2016, at 08:26 pm
New Delhi, Mar 15 (IBNS) Union Health Minister, J P Nadda, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday said that the Central Government is implementing the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) under National Health Mission (NHM) for interventions upto the district level.
P&G discontinues manufacture and sale of Vicks Action 500 Extra
Mar 15, 2016, at 06:15 pm
Mumbai, Mar 15 (IBNS) In a letter to the National Stock Exchange on Tuesday, Procter and Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd (P&G) has informed that the company has discontinued manufacture and sale of its product Vicks Action 500 Extra following a notification from the Union government.
NASA selects proposals to build better solar technologies for Deep Space Missions
Mar 15, 2016, at 03:33 pm
Washington, Mar 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS): NASA’s Game Changing Development (GCD) program has selected four proposals to develop solar array technologies that will aid spacecraft in exploring destinations well beyond low-Earth orbit, including Mars.
ExoMars on its way to solve red planet's mysteries
Mar 15, 2016, at 03:17 pm
Washington, Mar 15 (IBNS) The first of two joint ESA–Roscosmos missions to Mars has begun a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, where it will address unsolved mysteries of the planet’s atmosphere that could indicate present-day geological – or even biological – activity.
NASA measures U.S. south heavy rainfall from space
Mar 15, 2016, at 03:07 pm
Washington, Mar 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Extremely heavy rain fell over the southern United States during the past week and data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission core satellite and others in the GPM constellation provided a look at areas with heaviest rainfall. The data showed the largest amounts of rain fell from north central Louisiana to southern Arkansas.
Dueling climate cycles may increase sea level swings
Mar 15, 2016, at 02:38 pm
Washington, Mar 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS):The tropical Pacific Ocean isn't flat like a pond. Instead, it regularly has a high side and a low side. Natural cycles such as El Niño and La Niña events cause this sea level seesaw to tip back and forth, with the ocean near Asia on one end and the ocean near the Americas on the other.
Mar 15, 2016, at 03:34 am
Kolkata, Mar 14 (IBNS) Enhancing the quality of life of patient with implanted cardiac device is now available in Kolkata with the advancement of industry’s new age technology and therapy, Remote Monitoring or Home Monitoring.
Harvard researchers design 3D material with controllable shape and size
Mar 15, 2016, at 03:32 am
New York, Mar 14 (IBNS) Harvard researchers have designed a new type of foldable material that is versatile, tunable and self actuated. It can change size, volume and shape; it can fold flat to withstand the weight of an elephant without breaking, and pop right back up to prepare for the next task.
Experiments show magnetic chips could dramatically increase computing’s energy efficiency
Mar 15, 2016, at 02:47 am
Los Angeles, Mar 14 (IBNS) In a breakthrough for energy-efficient computing, UC Berkeley engineers have shown for the first time that magnetic chips can actually operate at the lowest fundamental energy dissipation theoretically possible under the laws of thermodynamics.
Pfizer stops sale of Corex cough syrup in India after ban
Mar 14, 2016, at 08:06 pm
Mumbai, Mar 14 (IBNS) Pharmaceutical major Pfizer has stopped manufacture and sale of popular cough syrup Corex with immediate effect after a ban by the Government.
Link between gum disease and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s
Mar 14, 2016, at 02:05 pm
London, Mar 14 (Just Earth News/IBNS): A new study, jointly led by the University of Southampton and King’s College London, has found a link between gum disease and greater rates of cognitive decline in people with early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease.
4.3 earthquake hits Assam, no casualty
Mar 14, 2016, at 01:28 am
GuwahatiI, Mar 13 (IBNS) An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale hit Assam on Sunday, officials said.
Tremor felt in North Bengal, no casualty reported
Mar 13, 2016, at 05:53 am
Kolkata/Siliguri, Mar 12 (IBNS): A 3.8 magnitude earthquake hit the northern part of West Bengal on Saturday.
Satellites and Shipwrecks: Landsat satellite spots foundered ships in coastal waters
Mar 12, 2016, at 11:08 pm
Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) An estimated 3 million shipwrecks are scattered across the planet’s oceans. Most maritime mishaps take place close to shore where hazards to navigation — such as rocks, reefs, other submerged objects and vessel congestion — are abundant. While there is a romantic association of shipwrecks and buried treasure, it is desirable to know where they are located for many other practical reasons. The ships may be of historical significance or, if the hard substrate of the ship has created a reef, of ecological significance.
NASA selects scientists for Mars Rover research projects
Mar 12, 2016, at 11:01 pm
Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) NASA has selected 28 researchers as participating scientists for the Curiosity Mars rover mission, including six newcomers to the rover's science team.
Record annual increase of carbon dioxide observed at Mauna Loa for 2015
Mar 12, 2016, at 10:46 pm
Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) The annual growth rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii jumped by 3.05 parts per million during 2015, the largest year-to-year increase in 56 years of research, as per US scientists.
Mar 12, 2016, at 10:33 pm
Washington DC, Mar 12 (IBNS) Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant “bite mark†on Pluto’s surface. They suspect it may be caused by a process known as sublimation—the transition of a substance from a solid to a gas. The methane ice-rich surface on Pluto may be sublimating away into the atmosphere, exposing a layer of water-ice underneath.
Astronaut Scott Kelly to retire from NASA in April
Mar 12, 2016, at 02:51 pm
Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) NASA astronaut and one-year crew member Scott Kelly will retire from the agency, effective April 1.
Water and sanitation likely to be best answer to Zika virus, say UN experts
Mar 12, 2016, at 02:44 pm
New York, Mar 12 (Just Earth News/IBNS):Improving water and sanitation services may be the best answer to addressing the outbreak of the Zika virus, according to United Nations human rights experts, who stress that such critical factors should not be in the shadow of hi-tech solutions being considered.
'World has much to learn from Japan,' UN chief says on anniversary of earthquake, tsunami
Mar 12, 2016, at 02:01 pm
New York, Mar 12 (Just Earth News/IBNS):The world has much to learn from Japan if it is to make progress on saving lives and livelihoods, and reducing disaster losses, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underlined on the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
Arts@CERN launches COLLIDE International Award
Mar 12, 2016, at 01:47 am
Geneva, Mar 11 (IBNS): Arts@CERN on Friday launched an international call for artists for the COLLIDE International Award-a new collaboration between CERN and FACT1.
Nuclear reactor in Gujarat shut down after leakage
Mar 12, 2016, at 01:16 am
New Delhi, Mar 11 (IBNS) A unit of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat has been shut down on Friday owing to hard water leakage and an emergency has been declared inside the plant though no nuclear radiation as been recorded, according to media reports.
NASA, Air Force perform rescue operations on Boeing Starliner
Mar 11, 2016, at 09:40 pm
California, Mar 11 (IBNS) NASA astronaut Suni Williams cannonballs off a Boeing CST-100 Starliner test article after NASA engineers and Air Force pararescuemen climbed aboard the spacecraft to simulate rescuing astronauts in the event of an emergency during launch or ascent.
NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Record-Breaking U.S. Astronaut
Mar 11, 2016, at 04:46 pm
Washington, Mar 11 (IBNS) On a second American record-breaking mission for 2016, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station at 5:26 p.m. EDT Friday, Mar 18, with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA Television launch coverage will begin at 4:30 p.m.
NASA Selects Instruments to Study Air Pollution, Tropical Cyclones
Mar 11, 2016, at 04:44 pm
Washington, Mar 11 (Just Earth News/IBNS) NASA has selected two proposals for new Earth science investigations that will put new instruments in low-Earth orbit to track harmful particulate air pollutants and study the development of tropical cyclones.
NASA Station leads way for improved measurements of Earth Orientation, shape
Mar 11, 2016, at 03:41 pm
Washington, Mar 11 (Just Earth News/IBNS) NASA has demonstrated the success of advanced technology for making precise measurements of Earth’s orientation and rotation – information that helps provide a foundation for navigation of all space missions and for geophysical studies of our planet.
PSLV-C32 successfully launches India's sixth Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1F
Mar 11, 2016, at 12:02 am
Sriharikota, Mar 10 (IBNS): In its thirty fourth flight (PSLV-C32), ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 1425 kg IRNSS-1F, the sixth satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) on Thursday from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
Syed Ali Geelani admitted in hospital
Mar 10, 2016, at 11:20 pm
Srinagar, Mar 10 (IBNS) Senior separatist leader and APHC chairman Syed Ali Geelani was admitted at a hospital in New Delhi after he complained of chest pain on Thursday.
India's sixth navigation satellite launched successfully
Mar 10, 2016, at 10:41 pm
Sriharikota, Mar 10 (IBNS) Indian rocket PSLV C-32 successfully put into orbit the country’s sixth navigation satellite, the 1,425-kg IRNSS-1F, around 20 minutes into flight, and at an altitude of 488.9 km, after a successful lift off from Sriharikota (Tamil Nadu) at 4pm on Thursday.
IMD indicates hailstorm or squall likely across India in next few days
Mar 10, 2016, at 07:21 pm
New Delhi, Mar 10 (IBNS) India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its bulletin on Thursday has said that thunderstorm accompanied with squall/hailstorm is likely at some places in the country over the next three or four days.