1. Marshal of IAF Arjan Singh died, at age of 98.
Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, DFC (16 April 1919 – 16 September 2017) was an Indian Air Force Officer who served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1964 to 1969. After retiring from the IAF, he served as a diplomat, politician and advisor to the Indian government.
In 2002, he became the first and only officer of the Indian Air Force to be promoted to five-star rank as Marshal of the Indian Air Force, equal to the army rank of Field Marshal. Till date he is the only Air Force officer to have been promoted to the five star rank.
Singh also served as Lieutenant Governor of Delhi from 1989 to 1990.
One of the heroes of the 1965 war with Pakistan, Arjan Singh became the chief of IAF when he was just 44. During world war II, Singh flew close support missions during the Imphal Campaign. For his role in successfully leading the squadron during combat, Singh received the Distinguished Flying cross in 1944.
On August 1 , 1964, Singh took over as the Chief of Air Staff (CAS) in the rank of Air Marshal. After his retirement in July 1969, he was appointed Ambassador to Switzerland.
2. Bird or avian malaria caused by parasites Plasmodium and Haemoproteus is one of the most common and widespread diseases in birds.
Mosquito transmit Plasmodium while biting midges (Culicoides sp.) are responsible for Haemoproteus transmissions in birds.
3. Ancient Ant
A new genus of ants from the Cretaceous period has been found in Myanmar. The ants, named Linguamyrmex vladi, are distinguished by unusual horn-like appendages indicating specialised predatory behaviour not found in modern ants. The finding was reported in Systematic Entomology.
4. Robot with skin
In a breakthrough, University of Houston researchers developed artificial skin to help a robotic hand sense warmth and cold. This is the first time a semiconductor is created in a rubber composite and which remains functional even after the material is stretched up to 50% its original size.
5. Toughening Spider Silk
By itself, spider silk is a very strong material, tougher than steel of similar thickness. Now researchers have found a way to boost its strength further. They sprayed a solution of graphene and carbon nano tubes in the spider enclosures. The spiders ingested the solution and produced silk with enhanced toughness.
6. Elimination of Mother To Child Transmission (MTCT)
MTCT is the primary route of transmission of HIV among children. Babies are infected during Pregnancy, labour, delivery or while breastfeeding. Without any interventions, the risk of transmission is 20-45 %.
Earlier, Indian health providers offered 'single dose therapy', which involved administering the antiretroviral drug, nevirapine, to pregnant HIV - positive women two hours before delivery and to new borns within 72 hours of birth.
In 2014, the country adopted the World Health Organisation's recommendation "Multi-drug therapy", which is a combination of three drugs - tenofovir, lamivudine and efavirenz (TLE). Affected woman need to take it all their lives and nevirapine syrup for six week only for their babies.
In 2015, Cuba became the first country in world to receive validation from WHO that it had eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, followed by Thailand and Belarus.
7. What is the Black Planet?
Astronomers, using the Hubble space telescope, have discovered that an exoplanet - a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun- that is formally called WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black.
Since it's discovery in 2008, it has became one of the best studied exoplanets. With a radius almost twice that of Jupiter and a year of just over one earth day , WASP-12b is categorized as a hot Jupiter.
8. Google will launch its payment app 'TEZ' on Monday. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will launch the application in New Delhi on September 18.
Abbreviations:
NFR - Northest Frontier Railway
CAS - Chief of Air Staff
IISc - Indian Institute of Science
WII - Wildlife Institute of Indian
NIRRH - National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health
MTCT - Mother To Child Transmission
NACO - National AIDS Control Organisation
WHO - World Health Organisations
Books And Author:
MGR: A Life -- R. kannan
What Happened -- Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hit Refresh -- Satya Nadella with Greg Shaw and Jull Tracie
No room for small dreams -- Shimon Peres
Towards a Safer World of Banking: Bank regulation After the Subprime Crisis -- T.T. Ram Mohan
India: Priorities for the future -- Bimal jalan
Devi, Diva or She-Devil: The Smart Carrer Woman's Survival Guide -- Sudha Menon
Remnants of a Separation: A history of the partition through Material Memory -- Aanchal Malhotra
A Life of my own -- Claire Tomalin
By itself, spider silk is a very strong material, tougher than steel of similar thickness. Now researchers have found a way to boost its strength further. They sprayed a solution of graphene and carbon nano tubes in the spider enclosures. The spiders ingested the solution and produced silk with enhanced toughness.
6. Elimination of Mother To Child Transmission (MTCT)
MTCT is the primary route of transmission of HIV among children. Babies are infected during Pregnancy, labour, delivery or while breastfeeding. Without any interventions, the risk of transmission is 20-45 %.
Earlier, Indian health providers offered 'single dose therapy', which involved administering the antiretroviral drug, nevirapine, to pregnant HIV - positive women two hours before delivery and to new borns within 72 hours of birth.
In 2014, the country adopted the World Health Organisation's recommendation "Multi-drug therapy", which is a combination of three drugs - tenofovir, lamivudine and efavirenz (TLE). Affected woman need to take it all their lives and nevirapine syrup for six week only for their babies.
In 2015, Cuba became the first country in world to receive validation from WHO that it had eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, followed by Thailand and Belarus.
7. What is the Black Planet?
Astronomers, using the Hubble space telescope, have discovered that an exoplanet - a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun- that is formally called WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black.
Since it's discovery in 2008, it has became one of the best studied exoplanets. With a radius almost twice that of Jupiter and a year of just over one earth day , WASP-12b is categorized as a hot Jupiter.
8. Google will launch its payment app 'TEZ' on Monday. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will launch the application in New Delhi on September 18.
Abbreviations:
NFR - Northest Frontier Railway
CAS - Chief of Air Staff
IISc - Indian Institute of Science
WII - Wildlife Institute of Indian
NIRRH - National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health
MTCT - Mother To Child Transmission
NACO - National AIDS Control Organisation
WHO - World Health Organisations
Books And Author:
MGR: A Life -- R. kannan
What Happened -- Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hit Refresh -- Satya Nadella with Greg Shaw and Jull Tracie
No room for small dreams -- Shimon Peres
Towards a Safer World of Banking: Bank regulation After the Subprime Crisis -- T.T. Ram Mohan
India: Priorities for the future -- Bimal jalan
Devi, Diva or She-Devil: The Smart Carrer Woman's Survival Guide -- Sudha Menon
Remnants of a Separation: A history of the partition through Material Memory -- Aanchal Malhotra
A Life of my own -- Claire Tomalin
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