Sunday 6 November 2016

WHY DELHI TURNED OUT SO FOGGY & POLLUTED AFTER DIWALI

Foggy, dirtied Wednesday morning for Delhi-NCR, yet there's slight change

Ritam Halder and Ashni Dhaor, Hindustan Times, New Delhi/Noida/Gurgaon | Updated: Nov 04, 2016 14:28 IST

Suburbanites in New Delhi, which is secured with thick exhaust cloud as contamination hits unsafe levels on Wednesday. (PTI)

Individuals in Delhi and national capital area urban communities of Noida, Ghaziabad and Gurgaon woke up to murky conditions with no sight of the sun till 11:30am.


Contamination control office authorities said the dim condition was because of brown haze - an aftereffect of contamination and in addition clean noticeable all around - however the circumstance was marginally superior to the most recent two days and even enhanced a bit interestingly since Diwali.

As per authorities from the provincial contamination control board, stubble blazing in neighboring conditions of Haryana and Punjab is additionally adding to the exhaust cloud in Delhi and the NCR.

"Post Diwali we see a significant ascent in contamination because of evident reasons (blasting of wafers). In any case, that is by all account not the only explanation behind the smoggy conditions in the city as tidy particles are additionally a noteworthy purpose for it," said Paras Nath, territorial supervisor, UP Pollution Control Board, Ghaziabad.

"Trim blazing is going ahead in neighboring states which have additionally added to exhaust cloud in the city. As the winter season is drawing closer, these particles tend to remain noticeable all around adding to the smoggy conditions," Nath included.

Starting 11am on Wednesday, PM10 (particulate matter 10 micrometers or less in distance across) achieved 743µg/m³ (microgram per cubic meter) while PM2.5 touched 561µg/m³ at Mandir Marg. At Punjabi Bagh, PM2.5 timed 887µg/m³ while at Anand Vihar it was as much as 460µg/m³.

The recommended principles of PM 2.5 and PM 10 are 60 and 100 individually and anything past that can hurt the respiratory framework as the ultra fine particulates can insert profound into the lungs furthermore enter the circulation system.

On Wednesday, the base temperature in Noida and Ghaziabad dropped to 16 degree Celsius and the most extreme was 32 degree Celsius. The meteorologist recorded the base temperature at 17 degrees Celsius, and the greatest temperature stayed around 30 degrees in Gurgaon.

In Gurgaon, the base temperature in the city has seen an estimated drop of four degrees in the previous week and occupants have begun to feel the chill noticeable all around.

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"The persistent stream of dry and cool north-westerly winds have likewise prompted to a moderate change in temperature. In any case, there will be a steady drop in night temperatures as the winter season is likewise around the bend," RK Jenamani, chief accountable for meteorological office at IGI Airport, said.

As indicated by Met office authorities, perceivability in Delhi-NCR stayed between 300 to 400 meters, which is considered remarkably poor as for the temperature that is not that low.

"As there is a block in daylight, the climate is required to stay lovely amid mornings and nighttimes," Jenamani said.

As schools and workplaces in Noida and Ghaziabad revived on Wednesday after the Diwali break, suburbanites had an intense time traveling to the working environment in the midst of the thick brown haze.

"I needed to utilize stopping lights while driving as the perceivability was perilously low. I was likewise amazingly wary while driving in the morning at 7am which additionally brought about me getting late for office," Abhishek Rathi, an inhabitant of Indirapuram, said.

Suburbanites on the National Highway in Gurgaon were additionally influenced as they needed to drive gradually to maintain a strategic distance from mischances.

"It took me over 30 minutes to achieve my office in Cyber Hub from Gurgaon's Sector 45. Typically, it takes 15 to 20 minutes on any offered day to cover this separation. The climate is not clear," Mohit Sharma, a corporate representative, said.

Firecrackers on Diwali pushed contamination in Delhi to a perilous level, the most exceedingly awful in three years. It turned the air profoundly lethal because of a fatal mixed drink of hurtful respirable poisons and gasses, overwhelming the city with a front of thick brown haze that activated wellbeing alerts.

Different checking organizations, including Delhi Pollution Control Committee, Central Pollution Control Board and Center for Science and Environment other than Pune-based SAFAR, were consistent about the seriousness of the air quality in the Capital this Diwali.

The city of 20 million individuals, which positions among the world's top urban areas with foul air on a World Health Organization list, has been attempting to clean its air that contains a harmful mixed drink of tidy, smoke and gasses from vehicle, production line depletes and coal-terminated power stations.

Saturday 29 October 2016

NASA RELEASES MAP OF INDIA ON DIWALI NIGHT

SEE HOW INDIA LOOKS FROM SPACE ON DIWALI NIGHT

fake Image use on social media


NASA, the national space organization of the U.S., on Thursday discharged a high contrast satellite symbolism of India Diwali night 2012, advised individuals against the fake picture available for use on the online networking.

"On November 12, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite caught this evening perspective of southern Asia," NASA said discharging a photo of India on this Diwali night.
image shared by NASA


"The picture depends on information gathered by the VIIRS 'day-night band', which distinguishes light in a scope of wavelengths from green to close infrared. The picture has been lit up to make the city lights less demanding to recognize," it said.

NASA said the vast majority of the splendid zones in the symbolism discharged by it are urban communities and towns in India. "India is home to more than 1.2 billion individuals and has 30 urban areas with populaces more than 1 million," it said.

Urban communities in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan are likewise obvious close to the edges of the picture.

"A picture that cases to demonstrate the locale lit for Diwali has been circling via web-based networking media sites and the Internet as of late. Actually, it doesn't demonstrate what it claims.

That picture, in light of information from the Operational Linescan System flown on US Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites, is a shading—composite made in 2003 by NOAA researcher Chris Elvidge to highlight populace development after some time," NASA said.
images shared by generals on social media

"In that picture, white zones demonstrate city lights that were obvious preceding 1992, while blue, green, and red shades show city lights that got to be unmistakable in 1992, 1998, and 2003 separately," it said.

"As a general rule, any additional light created amid Diwali is subtle to the point that it is likely impalpable when seen from space," NASA said.





Monday 18 April 2016

SILENT VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, KERALA

            BEAUTY OF SILENT VALLEY, KERALA


LOCATION


Situated in the Kundali Hills of the Western Ghats, the Silent Valley National Park holds a profitable store of uncommon plants and herbs. The recreation center is rich in its natural life, and elephants, lion-tailed macaques and tigers are the most well-known natives of this park. A visit to this park ought to be viewed as a lifetime experience, as this is the last illustrative virgin tract of tropical evergreen woods in India. 

Despite the fact that littler in size in contrast with the other national parks in India, what makes it novel is the sylvan environment the area has alongside its high elevation tops and a few waterways that gone through it.

History of silent valley


Quiet Valley has an exceptionally significant history in contrast with the other untamed life parks in the nation. The neighborhood name for the recreation center is Sairandhrivanam (the woods in the valley) and had been a focal point of hot open deliberations and challenges in the many years of the 70's and 80's of the twentieth century. The historical backdrop of the recreation center goes path back to 1888 when the area was pronounced a held area under the Forest Act and later told as a Reserved Forest by the Government of Madras in 1914.

In the later 50% of the 1970's, Kerala State Electricity Board chose to develop a Hydel Power Project in this district and when in 1980, this locale was proclaimed as National Park, the zone of Hydel Project was excluded. This began furious talks and dissents and the Board needed to drop its arrangement. In this way, in 1984, the recreation center was again renotified as a National Park with the undertaking region included. In 1986, the Silent Valley was announced the center zone in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.

Best Time to Visit Silent Valley


The Silent Valley National Park is a substantial precipitation area with the spots in the higher elevations getting the most elevated downpour. The normal precipitation in the locale fluctuates somewhere around 2800 and 3400 mm. The recreation center gets the greater part of its precipitation amid the southwest storm from June to December. The relative moistness is impressively high amid this season with the greatest now and again going to 95%. April and May are the most blazing months while January and February are the coolest months, however very little distinction in the temperature is experienced.


Tourist Attraction




The vegetation of this park is tropical soggy evergreen woodland with the exceptional status of Rain Forests. The primary plants are teak, semal, amla, rosewood, and bamboo. 

On the premise of elevation, one can partition the vegetation sorts in four distinct classes. The tropical evergreen woods involve broad thick timberlands along the slopes and valleys. The sub tropical slope timberlands take the zones of higher elevation while the mild woodlands are portrayed by the irrelevant evergreen species with a thick shut covering. The prairies are for the most part restricted to the higher slants and ridges in the eastern segment. 

Fauna In Silent Valley-The recreation center has a solid fauna populace with a significant number of the imperiled species living here. Most generally seen here are elephant, tiger, lion-tailed macaque, gaur, wild pig, puma and sambar. Some different types of untamed life have additionally been recorded here including 15 types of spineless creatures, two fishes, and two creatures of land and water. 

The recreation center has an aggregate of 26 types of well evolved creatures and 120 types of avifauna, a large number of them considered jeopardized. Aside from these, there are 11 types of snakes, 19 types of creatures of land and water, and nine types of reptiles in the recreation center.

How To reach silent Valley


Via Air - Peelamamedu Airport, Coimbatore (155 km from the Silent Valley National Park). Coimbatore is the closest air terminal and there are general flights to Chennai, Kozhikode, Mumbai, and Madurai of the Indian Airlines and Jet Airways. 

By Rail - Olavakkode Railway Station, Palghat (75 km from the Silent Valley National Park). The closest railroad station is Palghat associated with every one of the metros and a large portion of the other essential urban areas of the nation by customary trains. 

By Road - Mannarghat (32 km from the Silent Valley National Park). Mannarghat is the closest essential township from where one can get transports to every one of the spots in the area like Palghat, Coimbatore and others. There are incessant transports from Palghat to the Silent Valley National Park. Transports are likewise accessible from Coimbatore to the recreation center.

Friday 15 April 2016

TEN MOST AMAZING PLACES IN INDIA BUT TOO DANGEROUS TO VISIT


Most beautiful places in India but dangerous to visit



 1. Silent Valley National Park, Kerala

most beautiful place but dangerous to visit
silent valley in national park, kerala

Because of a late Maoist assault at Silent Valley National Park in Kerala there has been an extensive decrease in the traveler convergence. The  evergreen forests of the national park is gave with untainted normal magnificence. This valley includes in most amazing places in India but unsafe to visit


2. Aksai Chin,  Kashmir

aksai chin
Aksai Chin ,jammu

Aksai Chin is a cease-fire line, one that divides the Indian-controlled condition of Jammu and Kashmir by the Chinese-controlled region. It lies more toward the east and is recognized as the Line of Actual Control (LAC). It is likewise indicated to as a standout amongst the most risky spots on the planet. 

The scandalous LAC goes through the renowned Pangong Tso Lake in Ladakh. This is most amazing place in India but too daring to visit.


3. Chambal River Basin, Madhya Pradesh

chambal river

The unmatched excellence of Chambal has been for some time ruled by some of India's most notorious bandits, who likewise appeared to have fancied the imagination of Bollywood film producers since quite a while. Notwithstanding, the peril of falling prey to the territorial dacoits is still entirely conceivable and henceforth it's typically stayed away from by voyagers. Chambal waterway is most astounding spot in India yet hazardous to visit

4. Tura, Meghalaya

tura meghalaya
scene of Tura

Tura is about dynamic tribes, beautiful scenes, spouting waterfalls, ghostly limestone holes and unfortunately enough, terrorism. This little town in Meghalaya has been the casualty of the absolute most famous terrorist associations of Northeast since a long while now making it a perilous spot for travellers.  This is most amazing places in India but dangerous to visit.

5. Phulbani, Odisha

phulbani , odisha
Phulbani ,odisha

Around 200 km far from Bhubaneswar in Odisha this splendorous little town is found bragging of enchanting waterfalls and pleasant scenes. It is somewhere else that falls in the red corridor of India influenced by Maoists. This is most miraculous place in India but unsafe to visit.

6. Haflong, Assam

haflong assam
narrow road in Haflong, Assam
Haflong is arranged at just 84 kms far from Silchar which is one more visit destination of India. The eye-getting green slopes and valleys with quick bending water streams are best thing to watch in Haflong. Haflong is likewise distinguished as White Ant Hill of India.This place is an charming town in the heart of NC Mountains in Assam, Haflong faces major difficulty in its tourism sector by activists of various terrorist groups. This is most marvellous places in India but dangerous to visit.


7. Bastar, Chattisgarh

bastar, chattishgarh
Waterfall in Bastar


Home of the Indian Niagara Falls, Chitrakoot, Bastar is a locale in Chhattisgarh with wild Naxalite exercises. The whole locale is weighed down with spots of charming common magnificence however sadly it's additionally one of the essential spots falling in the red corridor.  This  is most amazing place of india but dangerous to visit.

8. Barren Islands, Andaman

most amazing place in india but dangerous to visit
volcano in Barren island


The main dynamic spring of gushing lava in India is situated in the Barren Island of Andaman and Nicobar. You can see super hot magma and smoke emitting from the mouth of the well of lava for a separation inside the security of a little ship. Be that as it may, nobody is permitted to get any nearer to the slope because of security reasons. This is most wonderful place of India but dangerous to visit.
9. Nicobar Islands
most beautiful place but dangerous to visit
Nicobar Island



Unlike the Andamans, the Nicobar Islands are intact and primeval. The forests are lavish and the seashores are dreamlike beyond enlightenment. However, outsiders would require passes to move in the Islands and no tourist is allowed to go in the familial belts unless for some special purposes like research. And even for that one will have to go through difficult procedures. This is most astonishing place of India but dangerous to visit.

10. Manas National Park, Assam

most beautiful place but dangerous to visit
A road in manas national park


You may think that its difficult to trust that an exceedingly advanced untamed life asylum is additionally a spot where terrorist exercises have occurred however it's valid. In 2011, 6 WWF authorities have been abducted by Bodo activists from Manas National Park. Government is as yet making a decent attempt to keep peace and advance tourism of the natural life asylum which is without a doubt a standout amongst the most lovely woodland hold in India.This is most beautiful place of India but dangerous to visit.

Tuesday 12 April 2016

SOMNATH TEMPLE PHOTOS

INCREDIBLE BEAUTY  OF SOMNATH TEMPLE



TOP VIEW OF SOMNATH TEMPLE
TOP VIEW OF SOMNATH TEMPLE , GUJRAT

SOMNATH TEMPLE FRONT
BEAUTIFUL SOMNATH TEMPLE FRONT VIEW

BEAUTFUL SOMNATH TEMPLE

INSIDE VIEW OF SOMNATH TEMPLE
INSIDE VIEW OF SOMNATH TEMPLE 



SOMNATH TEMPLE
INSIDE FRONT VIEW OF SOMNATH TEMPLE


SCULPTURE OF SOMNATH TEMPLE
SCULPTURE OF SOMNATH TEMPLE


SCUPLTURE ON THE WALL



RUIN PARTS OF SOMNATH TEMPLE AFTER DEMOLITION  1669 A.D


SOMNATH TEMPLE BEFORE 1947



SOMNATH TEMPLE
SCULPTURE OF RUIN SOMNATH TEMPLE






WAR OF MEHMUD GAZNI 




SOMNATH TEMPLE
RUIN SCULPTURE OF SOMNATH TEMPLE




SOMNATH TEMPLE
RUIN PART OF SOMNATH TEMPLE



SOMNATH TEMPLE
INTERNAL VIEW OF SOMNATH TEMPLE




SOMNATH TEMPLE
AARTI I IN SOMNATH TEMPLE



SOMNATH TEMPLE
GOLD'S IN SOMNATH TEMPLE



SOMNATH TEMPLE
BASE OF SHIVLINGA IN GOLD 



SOMNATH TEMPLE
GOLD SHIVLINGA



SOMNATH TEMPLE
FRONT VIEW OF SOMNATH TEMPLE





SOMNATH TEMPLE
NIGHTVIEW OF SOMNATH TEMPLE


SOMNATH TEMPLE
NIGHT VIEW OF SOMNATH TEMPLE
SOMNATH TEMPLE
NARENDRA MODI COMING OUTSIDE SOMNATH TEMPLE
























INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SOMNATH TEMPLE

‘Satyayug’ to ‘Kaliyug’: History of Somnath Temple

Ancient writings say Somnath temple was first worked by Raja Somraj in gold in the Satyayug, then by Raavan in silver in Tretayug, in sandle wood by Krishna in Dwaparyug, lastly in stone by Bhimdev Solanki in Kaliyug. Archeological discoveries show the Somnath Temple was reconstructed no less than three times before Mahmud Ghaznavi's strike in 1026. It was later assaulted thrice more.

SOMNATH TEMPLE
RUIN PARTS OF SOMNATH TEMPLE



Somnath Temple is known as "The Shrine Eternal". This fabulous temple has been crushed and remade a few times by Islamic lords and Hindu rulers separately. Most as of late it was revamped in November 1947, when Vallabhbhai Patel went to the range for the joining of Junagadh and mooted an arrangement for reclamation. After Patel's passing, the reconstruction of Somnath Temple was proceeded under Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, another priest of the Government of India

SOMNATH TEMPLE
SHIV LINGA IN SOMNATH TEMPLE

The Shiva linga in Somnath Temple is accepted to be one of the 12 jyotirlingas in India, where Shiva showed up as a red hot section of light. The jyotirlingas are taken as the preeminent, unified reality out of which Shiva incompletely shows up



SOMNATH TEMPLE
SOMNATH TEMPLE  FRONT VIEW


The site of Somnath Temple has been a journey site from old times by virtue of being a triveni sangam (the joining of three waterways — Kapila, Hiran and the legendary Sarasvati River). Soma, the Moon god, is accepted to have lost his radiance because of a condemnation, and he showered in the Sarasvati River at this site to recapture it. The outcome is the waxing and winding down of the moon, most likely a reference to the waxing and disappearing of the tides at this ocean shore area. The name of the town Prabhas, which means shine, and the option names Someshvar and Somanath ("ruler of the moon" or "moon god") emerge from this custom.

Declaration of the Gates' of Somnath Temple Incident amid the British raj

In 1842, Edward Law, first Earl of Ellenborough issued his renowned Proclamation of the Gates, in which he requested the British armed force in Afghanistan to return by means of Ghazni and take back to India the sandalwood doors from the tomb of Mahmud of Ghazni in Ghazni, Afghanistan. These were accepted to have been taken by Mahmud from Somnath. There was a level headed discussion in the House of Commons in London in 1843 on the topic of the doors of the Somanath Temple.After much crossfire between the British Government and the resistance, the entryways were evacuated and acquired back triumph. Be that as it may, on landing, they were observed to be imitations of the original.[30] They were put in a store-room in the Agra Fort where despite everything they deceive the present day. 

In the nineteenth century novel The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, the jewel of the title is ventured to have been stolen from the temple at Somnath and, as per the historian Romila Thapar, mirrors the hobby stirred in Britain by the gates.

SOMNATH TEMPLE OUTER VIEW


Remaking of the Somnath Temple


Before freedom, Prabhas Patan was a piece of the royal condition of Junagadh, whose ruler had agreed to Pakistan in 1947. After Indiarefused to acknowledge his choice, the state was made a piece of India and Deputy Prime Minister Patel came to Junagadh on 12 November 1947 to coordinate the adjustment of the state by the Indian Army and in the meantime requested the reconstruction of the Somanath temple.

Monday 11 April 2016

Why Khajuraho's Temples full of sexually explicit sculptures?

 Khajuraho Temple Of Love

This to an incredible degree preservationist country was once home to the world's first sex exoposition and the arousing workmanship on show is possibly more dazzling now than when it was made.



India has been a traditionalist country for the last couple of hundred years, influenced by the strictness of a couple of social occasions, including Islamic administration , British overlords and the country's own specific Brahmin religious station. Nevertheless, India was not for the most part like this. Sexual principles were fundamentally more liberal before the thirteenth Century, giving proportional centrality to the material and the other common. Sex was taught as a subject in formal direction, and Kamasutra, the world's first sex work, was created in out of date India between the fourth Century BCE and the second Century.

To be sure, if you look precisely, recaps of these more liberal times can be seen the country over. They're genuinely cut in stone as erotic contemplations on the lower dividers of the thirteenth Century Sun Temple at Konark in the east Indian state of Orissa. Exposure is recognizable in the pieces and models of brilliant women at Maharashtra's Buddhist rock-cut monkish openings, Ajanta (second Century BCE) and Ellora (fifth to tenth Centuries).


 India's most reasonable example of sexual temple workmanship 


Regardless, the best-spared and most sensible example of suggestive haven craftsmanship can be found in the local location of Khajurahoin the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Its pleasingly cut Hindu asylums were broadcasted an Unesco World Heritage site in 1986. Worked by the Chandela family some place around 950 and 1050, only 22 of the 85 one of a kind asylums remain.



When I entered the 6sqkm site late one tempest evening, the sandstone shone a glimmering gold. Neighborhood women accumulate fresh blooms and adheres for their supplications to God, while visitors perambulated the outer halls, growing at the flooding and included assumes that secured each and every piece of the dividers. There were pictures of perfect creatures and goddesses, warriors and entertainers, animals and winged creatures. It could have been a scene from any haven in India.

Regardless, on closer review, a substantial bit of these carvings were of a genuinely suggestive nature, highlighting men, women and animals. There were representations of trios, bashes and brutishness. Despite the way that I understood what's in store, I was still stunned shapely women and male winding their bodies in endless sexual positions, right close by models of divine animals smiling blissfully . Regardless of the way that two or three stones were cut and a couple of limbs broken, the carvings were remarkably impeccable, considering that the asylums are more than 1,000 years old.

There are distinctive speculations about the nearness of such sensible sexy model. One of the all the more interesting ones proposes that consequent to Chandela masters were admirers of Tantric guidelines, which coordinate the concordance between the male and female qualities, they propelled their trust in the asylums they made.

Diverse theories need to do with the piece of havens themselves in those times: they were considered spots of learning furthermore adore – especially of the better expressions, including the art of lovemaking. Additionally, some trust that the representation of sexual activities in asylums was seen as a guarantee of something better since it addressed new beginnings and new life.

That isolated, Hinduism has usually considered sex a key some bit of life, which could be the reason the carvings are placidly united between others that delineate activities as contrasted as solicitation to God and war. The way that they are changed in plain view and not disguised in a dinky corner seems to prescribe that their producers inferred for them to be seen by all.

Isolation helped these realistic sculpture survive 

Unusually, there's no inspiration driving why these excessive havens were worked at Khajuraho, since there's no unmistakable record of whether there was even a kingdom around there. The survival of these reasonable figure can likely be credited to their separation for a long time in the district's once-thick woodlands, just rediscovered by Englishman Captain TS Burt in 1838. Without a doubt, Burt himself must be influenced by his Indian orderlies to make the experience; he didn't consider anything interest would be found at the remote spot. These captivated asylums have similarly made sense of how to avoid the fury of India's moral police, who starting late banned or pummeled an extent of social old rarities, going from Salman Rushdie's books to MF Hussain's gems.


Nevertheless, what I discovered fundamentally more interesting than the sensible carvings and the history behind them was the way that entire families were cautiously soaked in the associate's talk as he separated the spicier carvings high on the dividers of the brilliant Kandariya Mahadeva asylum. No eyebrows were raised, no embarrassed looks were exchanged, no twitters escaped energetic lips. Possibly the craftsmanship is unobjectionable when crouched within a religious setting – anyway I cleared out away assuming that Khajuraho holds within its dividers a greater lesson on flexibility for India.