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  • Supermoon 2020: Difference Between A Regular Full Moon And Supermoon

    As per NASA, the Moon will appear full for nearly three days, from Friday to Monday, with Supermoon sight expected on Sunday.

    Source: NDTV

    New Delhi: The world is witnessing the first Full Moon of 2020 this weekend – with the best views expected on Sunday.

    As per NASA, the full moon will appear for nearly three days, from Friday to Monday, with Supermoon sight expected on Sunday.

    While most people are aware of the full moon phenomenon, the term Supermoon could be new to many people.

    So, let’s understand what is a Supermoon and how it is different from a full moon.

    A full moon occurs when the moon lines up on the opposite side of earth from the sun. On a full moon night, the moon is visible in its complete form, or fully illuminated from the earth.

    The Supermoon phenomenon is almost similar to the full moon phenomenon, with a slight difference.

    The moon never orbits earth in a perfect circle. Instead, it travels in an ellipse which brings it closer to and farther to earth.

    In scientific terms, the farthest point in during the ellipse is known as apogee, while the closest point is known as perigee.

    A Supermoon only occurs when the moon occurs at or near the perigee.

    The moon looks slightly larger and brighter than a typical full moon on this day – that’s what the term “supermoon” refers to.

    When will be the Supermoon visible in India?

    According to NASA, the Supermoon will appear on February 9 at 2:33am EST.  The data provided by Norwegian site TimeandDate.com indicates that the full moon phase will occur at 1:03pm IST on Sunday. This means that the first supermoon of 2020 will only appear partially for stargazers in India sometime in the evening.

    (This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

  • Teacher Jailed For Stealing Jewellery From Student’s Home In Maharashtra

    The teacher stole the ornaments from her student’s room by diverting her mother ‘s attention of her mother, while her friend kept watch.

    Source: NDTV

    Nagpur: A 36-year-old tuition teacher and her friend were arrested for allegedly stealing gold ornaments from her student’s house in Maharashtra’s Nagpur, the police said on Saturday. 

    The police have recovered the stolen jewellery and a mobile phone collectively worth Rs 1.50 lakh from their possession, he said. 

    “The teacher stole the ornaments from the bedroom of her student by diverting the attention of her mother, while her friend kept watch,” a police officer said. 

    (This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

  • Huge Meteor Explodes In The Sky Above Derby. Watch

    “The whole horizon was lit up and there was no sound.”

    A man’s doorbell camera captured an exploding meteor in Derby, UK. According to Metro News, Gary Rogers received a text from his smart doorbell alerting him to suspicious activity outside his home. The 52-year-old was shocked when he realised that the suspicious activity was actually a celestial light show in the night sky.

    The doorbell camera footage shows the meteor streaking across the sky before exploding into a fireball.

    “I was in bed and was about to go to sleep when my phone pinged. I couldn’t believe it,” said Mr Rogers to Metro News.

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    “I’ve seen shooting stars before but never a meteor. I thought it’s definitely not a firework, it was too bright for that. The whole horizon was lit up and there was no sound,” the Derby resident added.

    According to BBC, experts at the National Space Centre in Leicester said the natural phenomenon captured was probably a bolide – a large meteor and often extremely bright meteor which explodes in the atmosphere.

    Rob Dawes, chairman of nearby Sherwood Observatory, said: “Mr Rogers was very lucky to get such a nice bright one. But you’d be surprised how many of these do come into the atmosphere at any time of year.”

    (This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

  • AAP Alleges “Unauthorised Movement” Of Voting Machines In Delhi

    The AAP leader said it is a “big incident” which has come to the fore and they would apprise the Election Commission about it.

    Source: NDTV

    New Delhi [India]: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday claimed that it received information that officials were trying to take away electronic voting machines (EVMs) in an “unauthorised manner”.
    “Manish Sisodia, Gopal Rai, Prashant Kishor and I had a meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Information has been received that officials are trying to take away EVMs at several places in an unauthorised manner. The EVMs which should have been sealed and have gone straight to strongrooms. How are these machines with the officials?,” AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said while speaking to ANI.

    Showing a video on his cell phone of poll officers alighting from a DTC bus with EVMs in their hands, Mr Singh said: “This is from Babarpur, Shanti Vidya Niketan. Here people have caught an official with EVMs. Similar information has come from Vishwas Nagar in Shahdara (east Delhi).”

    The AAP leader said it is a “big incident” which has come to the fore and they would apprise the Election Commission about it.

    “Arrangements should be made so that our workers and MLAs could be outside strongroom so as to see that it is not tampered with,” he said.

    (This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

  • Tigers Must Be Punished For Eating Cows Like Humans: Goa MLA

    A tigress and three of her cubs were killed by five locals in Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary last month.

    SOURCE: NDTV

    Tigers Must Be Punished For Eating Cows Like Humans: Goa MLA
    A tigress and three cubs were killed by five locals in Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary last month. (File)

    Panaji: Even as the issue of tiger killings was discussed in the Assembly on Wednesday, NCP MLA Churchill Alemao said tigers should be “punished” for eating cows when humans are punished for the same.

    A tigress and three of her cubs were killed by five locals in Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary last month.

    The issue was raised by Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat through a calling attention motion on the floor of the House during the Assembly session on Wednesday.

    “What is the punishment for a tiger when he eats a cow? When a human being eats cow, he is punished,” he said. As far as wildlife is concerned, tigers are important but as far as human beings are concerned, cows are important,” Alemao said.

    The human angle in the entire episode should not be ignored, the MLA added.

    Responding to the calling attention motion, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said locals had killed the tigers as the wild cats had attacked their livestock.

    A compensation would be paid within three or four days to farmers who have lost their cattle to animal attacks, he added.

    (This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

  • ‘We all know what happened in Gorakhpur’: Arvind Kejriwal hits back at Yogi Adityanath during public meeting in Delhi’s Vishwas Nagar

    SOURCE: FIRST POST

    Speaking at a public rally in Vishwas Nagar ahead of the Delhi Assembly Elections, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday hit out at Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, telling him to focus on the schools and hospitals in his state.

    ” The Uttar Pradesh chief minister has been saying that the schools and hospitals in Delhi are not upto the mark, the quality of education is not good. But the people of Delhi are saying that it is definitely better than that in his state,” ANI reported Kejriwal as saying.

    Taking at dig at Yogi Adityanath over his criticism of the schools in Delhi, Kejriwal said, “First take care of schools and hospitals in your state. We all know the condition. We all know what happened in Gorakhpur.”

    He also alleged that the development of Vishwas Nagar Assembly constituency suffered because the BJP MLA did not let the AAP government work in the area. The constituency in East Delhi was one of the three Assembly seats that the BJP won in the last assembly polls.

    The sitting BJP MLA OP Sharma has not let the AAP government build mohalla clinics in the area and install CCTV cameras, Kejriwal alleged. He also spoke about the AAP government’s scheme under which tenants in Delhi will be able to avail power subsidy.

    “I have directed Deepak Singla (the AAP candidate for Vishwas Nagar) to help tenants get the benefit of the scheme.”

    “The area has suffered a lot as the BJP MLA did not let the AAP government do work in the Assembly constituency. If the AAP wins, I will personally ensure that the area is developed,” the AAP chief said.

    The Delhi Assembly elections will be held on 8 February.

    With inputs from agencies

    (This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

  • Delhi’s Air Quality Drops To “Very Poor” As AQI Crosses 300 Mark

    Source: NDTV

    The maximum temperature in the capital will be 22 degrees Celsius and the minimum will be 6 degrees Celsius today.

    New Delhi: After a brief improvement in the air quality of the national capital, the pollution level is down to the “very poor” category with the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) docking at 309 this morning.
    The AQI in the area around Delhi University was recorded 313 at 9 am today which falls under the “very poor” category. Chandni Chowk, Pusa Road, and Mathura Road had an AQI of 451, 248 and 359 respectively.

    An AQI between 0-50 is considered good, 51-100 is satisfactory, 101-200 moderate, 201-300 poor, 301-400 very poor and 401-500 is marked as severe/hazardous.

    The maximum temperature in the capital will be 22 degrees Celsius and the minimum will be 6 degrees Celsius.

    (This is story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

  • Army chopper crash-lands in Reasi district, both pilots safe

    Jammu; February 3, 2020; 15:36 IST

    An Indian Army chopper made an emergency crash-landing in Reasi district in Jammu and Kashmir after it developed a technical snag.

    Source: India Today

    The Cheetah helicopters have been in service with the armed forces since 1976 when these were first inducted. (File photo: Reuters)

    An Indian Army Cheetah chopper made an emergency crash-landing in Reasi district in Jammu and Kashmir after it developed a technical snag.

    The Cheetah chopper crashed near Reasi district in Jammu around 11:15 am.

    Both pilots of the chopper are safe.

    More details are awaited.

    (This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

  • Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency

    Source: CNN

    The World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, after an emergency committee reconvened in Geneva.

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  • UP man severs wife’s head, goes to police station, sings National Anthem

    A man in UP’s Barabanki murdered his wife, severed his wife’s head and walked to the police station and sang National Anthem before he was arrested.

    Source: India Today

    HIGHLIGHTS

    • A man severed his wife’s head in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki on Saturday
    • The husband then reached a police station holding his wife’s head in his hand
    • The brutal incident happened at Jahangirabad police station area’s Bahadurpur village

    As shocking as it may sound but a man severed his wife’s head in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki and reached a police station holding his wife’s head in his hand on Saturday.

    The brutal incident happened at Jahangirabad police station area’s Bahadurpur village. A domestic fight lead to the cruel incident when the man severed his wife’s head, walked all the way to the police station holding the wife’s head in his hand.

    Stranger than fiction, when the police tried to take over the wife’s severed head from the man, he immediately started singing the National Anthem and chanted ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’.

    After a few minutes of tussle between the accused man and the police, the cops were able to take the severed head from his possession.

    The incident has kicked off a wave of fear and terror in the area.

    Accused man Akhilesh Rawat murdered his wife first and then severed her head, according to the police. He then went to the police station with the severed head where he was arrested.

    Superintendent of Police (SP) Arvind Chaturvedi said that it was a case of domestic dispute. He said that Akhilesh murdered his wife, severed her head and came to the police station with the head.

    A case has been registered and further investigation is underway.