Delhi: 2 injured as air ambulance makes emergency landing in Najafgarh area
Two people were injured after a chartered air ambulance made an emergency crash landing in the Najafgarh area of South West Delhi on 24 May. The two injured have been taken to the Rao Tula Ram Memorial Hospital.
According to initial reports, the air ambulance - which was flying from Patna to Delhi - crashed due to engine failure. Seven people were reportedly on board the aircraft, which belongs to Alchemist Airways. Fire tenders and disaster management team have already been rushed to the spot. The exact nature of the crash landing of air ambulance has not been ascertained yet.
BJP's Sarbananda Sonowal to take oath as Assam chief minister today
The stage is set for the swearing-in ceremony of Assam's first-ever Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, on 24 May.
The swearing-in function, to be held at Guwahati's Khanapara field, will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, chief ministers of BJP-ruled states and Union Cabinet ministers as well as a number of diplomats from SAARC countries.
Along with Sonowal, Himanta Biswa Sarma and 11 other lawmakers are likely to take oath of office. BJP's alliance partners in the Assembly polls, the AGP and the BPF, will also get berths in the Sonowal cabinet.
Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat questioned by CBI
On 24 May, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat was questioned by the CBI, as part of a probe surrounding the sting operation which purportedly shows him offering bribes.
Rawat, accompanied by some supporters, and an MLA, arrived at the CBI headquarters at 11am.
The CBI had last week rejected the state government's notification withdrawing the nod for probing the case, which was given during President's rule. The Uttarakhand high court also did not stay the CBI probe as requested by Rawat. CBI had said the notification was rejected after taking legal opinion, which said there was no ground for its withdrawal and it was "not legally tenable".
Karunanidhi's son, MK Stalin now leader of Opposition in Tamil Nadu Assembly
DMK chief Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin was elected as the leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, on 24 May. Additionally, Durai Murugan has been appointed as the deputy leader of the party.
MK Stalin was earlier the DMK's treasurer and now he will lead the party with a team of 89 members, the highest seats an Opposition party has ever obtained in the history of Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
This comes a day after DMK chief M Karunanidhi slammed the newly-elected Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J Jayalalithaa for insulting the Opposition party at the swearing-in ceremony.
Dawood will be nabbed soon and brought back to India, says Rajnath Singh
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said that India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim will be nabbed soon and brought to India.
The Union Minister, however, has not mentioned any specific time duration for this. "Dawood will be nabbed soon. He will be brought back to India on any condition. He is an international terrorist. There is need to take the help of international agencies to nab him," Singh told a news channel.
"All the relevant documents against Dawood have been given to Pakistan," he added.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had previously reiterated that it will continue to pursue Pakistan to handover Dawood after a television channel claimed that it has tracked his location.
Irrigation dept problems leave parched Latur without Jaldoot Express for 3 days
The Jaldoot Express, which has been providing drought-hit Latur with water, has not run for three days because of a drastic drop in the level of the Krishna river.
According to Krishnat Patil, operational manager of Pune division of Central Railways, there was not enough water to fill Jaldoot's 50 wagons. "Our jackwell has no water as the Krishna river level has dropped down," he said.
Jaldoot supplies Latur with 25 lakh litres of water a day, according to The Indian Express.
Delhi: Self-proclaimed RSS men attack artists painting Urdu couplet on wall
An artist duo commissioned by the Delhi government to paint poetry on the walls of the city was attacked by a mob on Thursday for using Urdu.
The artists, Akhlaq Ahmad and a Frenchman, Swen Simon, were painting an Urdu couplet on a wall, when a crowd gathered, shouting slogans like "Jai Shri Ram" and calling the artists "Lahoris".
Ahmad said the crowd forced him to paint the words 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' and 'Narendra Modi' over the Urdu couplet.
The poetry on the walls project is part of the Delhi government's initiative, #MyDilliStory, according to The Telegraph.
Assam: Ulfa opposes land allotment to Ramdev, gives new BJP govt its first political test
The allotment of 3,800 hectares of land to yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali Trust by Assam's Bodoland People's Front has given the new BJP government that will be sworn in today its first political issue to tackle.
Ramdev will be in Guwahati today to watch the new government being sworn in.
The allotment of land to Patanjali has been opposed by the Ulfa and the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS).
On Monday, Ulfa chairman Dr Abhijit Asom said in a statement that Ramdev had an ulterior motive in seeking such a large tract of land, according to The Economic Times.
Italy moves SC for permission to repatriate second marine
The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear Italy's plea seeking the court's approval to allow an Italian marine, held in Delhi since 2012 for killing two Indian fishermen, to go home on humanitarian grounds while the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea decides which country has the jurisdiction to try them.
A second marine held for the same matter was permitted by the Supreme Court to go home on medical grounds last year.
The two Italian marines are accused of killing two Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala, according to The Economic Times.
Students injured in clash at Banaras Hindu University
Two groups of students at Banaras Hindu University clashed on Sunday, leading to injuries for six of them.
According to Rajesh Singh, spokesperson for the BHU, on Sunday, some students of the arts faculty, who were playing at a ground outside the Chanakya hostel, were asked by Law faculty students not to disturb them.
This led to an argument and what Singh called a minor clash, in which there were no injuries, says The Indian Express.
However, according to Professor Devenkra Kumar Sharma, dean of the law faculty, eight to 10 students were injured after 30 people entered the hostel and beat up the law students.
Communal clash in Gujarat town leaves 3 policemen injured
A minor argument in Gujarat's Petlad town led to a communal clash on Monday in which six people, including three policemen, were injured.
The police used 24 teargas shells to disperse a mob of about 200 people who were stoning each other and damaging vehicles in a communally sensitive area of the town.
Anand superintendent of police Saurabh Singh said that a house was also ransacked.
Though the situation was brought under control, the police have deployed at least 100 personnel in the area, according to ABPLive.
Evidence of 5,000-year-old beer recipe found in China
Back in 2004, archaeologists excavated two pits in northern China that looked a lot like home brewing operations. Constructed between 3400 and 2900 BC by the Yangshao culture, each pit contained the remnants of a stove and assorted funnels, pots and amphorae.
Now, Jiajing Wang of Stanford University and colleagues report that the pottery shards contain residue and other evidence of starches, chemicals and plant minerals from specific fermented grains. The ancient beer recipe included broom corn millet, barley, Job's tears and tubers - that probably gave the beer a sweet flavor, the team wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The findings predate the earliest evidence of barley in China by around 1,000 years. Beer may have been consumed at social gatherings, and brewing, not agriculture, spurred the introduction of barley to China, sciencenews.org reported.
The center of Earth is younger than the outer surface
Our home planet is young at heart. According to new calculations, Earth's centre is more than two years younger than its surface.In Einstein's general theory of relativity, massive objects warp the fabric of spacetime, creating a gravitational pull and slowing time nearby. So a clock placed at Earth's centre will tick ever-so-slightly slower than a clock at its surface. Such time shifts are determined by the gravitational potential, a measure of the amount of work it would take to move an object from one place to another. Since climbing up from Earth's centre would be a struggle against gravity, clocks down deep would run slow relative to surface timepieces, a report in sciencenews.org said.Over the 4.5 billion years of Earth's history, the gradual shaving off of fractions of a second adds up to a core that's 2.5 years younger than the planet's crust, researchers estimate in the May European Journal of Physics. Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman had suggested in the 1960s that the core was younger, but only by a few days.The new calculation neglects geological processes, which have a larger impact on the planet's age. For example, Earth's core probably formed earlier than its crust. Instead, says study author Ulrik Uggerhøj of Aarhus University in Denmark, the calculation serves as an illustration of gravity's influence on time - very close to home.
For baby sea turtles, it helps to have a lot of siblings
Sea turtles do not have an easy start to life. After hatching, they have to break out of their shell, dig their way out from beneath the sand, then make a mad dash across the beach to the water where they may or may not find food and safety - hopefully without getting snapped up by a predator. All of this requires a bit of luck and a lot of energy. And the energy a hatchling expends on breaking out of the nest is energy that can't be used on surviving the rest of the journey.Now, a new study has quantified the amount of energy a baby sea turtle uses to dig itself to the surface. Having lots of siblings - and, thus, lots of help - can really be a time and energy saver, researchers have reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology. That also implies that the conservation technique of dividing clutches may instead make hatchlings worse off.Figuring out the energy expenditure of baby sea turtles took some trial and error, a report in sciencenews.org said. For the final experiment, the scientists buried clutches of eggs just about to hatch beneath 40 centimeters of beach sand in a chamber with opaque walls.
China, no country for academics?
Political scientists and law experts are flee to America as Beijing's grip on freedoms in China intensifies under President Xi Jinping.Many academics feel there is no longer a place for them in President Jinping's increasingly repressive China, the Guardian has reported.As Chinese activist and scholar Teng Biao sat at home on the east coast of America, more than 13,000 km away his wife and nine-year-old daughter were preparing to embark on the most dangerous journey of their lives."My wife didn't tell my daughter what was going on," said Teng, who had himself fled China seven months earlier to escape the most severe period of political repression since the days following the Tiananmen massacre in 1989."She said it was going to be a special holiday. She told her they were going on an adventure."One year after their dramatic escape through southeast Asia, Teng's family has been reunited in New Jersey and is part of a fast-growing community of exiled activists and academics who feel there is no longer a place for them in Xi Jinping's increasingly repressive China.Until about 12 months ago China's top universities "remained islands of relative freedom", said Cohen, who has studied the Asian country for nearly six decades.
EgyptAir Flight 804 'did not swerve' before crash
A French ship joined the international effort to hunt for the black boxes and other wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, searching for clues to what brought the plane down, as Greek and Egyptian authorities disagreed on what happened to the plane during the crucial final minutes before it crashed into the Mediterranean, killing all 66 people on board.Five days after the air disaster, questions remain over what happened to the doomed jet before it disappeared off radar at around 2.45 a.m. local time Thursday.The latest advice from Egypt contradicts statements from the Greek defence minister, who said the plane swerved wildly and dropped to 10,000 feet before it fell off the radar.Egyptian authorities said they believe terrorism is a more likely explanation than equipment failure, and some aviation experts have said the erratic flight reported by the Greek defence minister suggests a bomb blast or a struggle in the cockpit. But so far no hard evidence has emerged, a report in the Independent said.
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