AIrAsia's Missing aircraft QZ8501 's tail upturns

Tail of a missing AirAsia jet has been found upturned on the sea bed about 30 km (20 miles) from the plane's last known location, Indonesia's search and rescue agency said on Wednesday, indicating the crucial black box recorders may be nearby. Flight QZ8501 vanished from radar screens over the northern Java Sea on Dec. 28, less than half-way into a two-hour flight from Indonesia's second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore.

There were no survivors among the 162 people on board. "We've found the tail that has been our main target," Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, head of the search and rescue agency, told a news conference in Jakarta.

The tail was identified by divers after it was spotted by an underwater machine using a sonar scan, Soelistyo said. He displayed underwater photographs showing partial lettering on the sunken object compared with a picture of an intact Airbus A320-200 in AirAsia livery.



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Google doodle celebrates India Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan's one month in Mars orbit)

Google has put a special doodle for India celebrating Mangalyaan's one month in Mars orbit. The doodle which is static, unlike a few dynamic ones that Google puts out on some occasions, shows the Mangalyaan in outer space with a portion of the red planet in the background.


Mars Orbiter Mission also known as Mangalyaan, which was blasted off into space on November 5 last year, entered the Mars orbit on September 24. It has been one of the biggest scientific achievements for India, putting ISRO, India's space agency, in the select group of four space agencies that have successfully sent a probe to Mars orbit after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency. It is also the first nation to reach Mars orbit on its first attempt, and the first Asian nation to do so.


PM Narendra Modi - "History has been created today. We have achieved the near impossible. I congratulate all ISRO scientists and all my fellow Indians on this historic achievement," he said on the day Mangalyaan entered the Mars orbit. "The odds were stacked against us. Of the 51 missions attempted across the world so far, a mere 21 had succeeded. But we have prevailed."

Mangalyaan had sent several pictures of the planet. One of the images, which showed the red planet in its entirety, was widely shared and used across the world. Getting inspired from it, NASA in the US, made a Twitter account @MarsOrbiter - through which it shares the mission related news.


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Global Handwashing Day celebrated on 15th October

Every year on 15th October Global Handwashing Day (GHD) is celebrated in-order to motivate people aroung the world to wash their hands with soap or handwash.
It is dedicated for propagating the benefit of  hand-wash for preventing disease.





According to reports even simple behavioural change like hand-wash can reduce the child mortality rate.






 In 2013 approximately 340,000 children (i.e approx. 1,000 a day) under five years of age died from dairrheal diseases caused due to lack of clean water, sanitation and basic hygiene- by WHO & UNICEF

So the Campaign purely work so as to reduce Child mortality rate over the world.



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India successfully launches "IRNSS 1c" satellite

On 16th October,2014. Thursday India moved closer towards its goal of having its own satellite navigation system by launching successfully the IRNSS 1c from Shriharikota at 1:32am. The satellite weighted 1425 Kg was successfully placed in the orbit in just 20 minutes after the launch by using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C26(PSLV-C26)

IRNSS-1C is the third out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS) series of satellites after IRNSS-1A and IRNSS-1B.


Applications of IRNSS:

• Terrestrial, Aerial and Marine Navigation
• Disaster Management
• Vehicle tracking and fleet management
• Integration with mobile phones
• Precise Timing
• Mapping and Geodetic data capture
• Terrestrial navigation aid for hikers and travellers
• Visual and voice navigation for drivers

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IRNSS 1C is part of the series of seven satellites Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

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Mark Zuckerberg visits India to lauch his new portal Internet.org

Mark Zuckerberg visits India, three months after the visit of Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook Sheryl Kara Sandberg. Zuckerberg is the 3rd high-profile head of a US-based IT firm to visit India in the last few weeks, after Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft and Jeff Bezos of Amazon.

On his two days visit to India Mark met PM Modi and Ravi Sankar Prasad (IT Minister).

Zuckerberg was in Delhi in order to lauch his new portal Internet.org which aims at providing connectivity to 2/3 of the world's population who don't have connectivity to internet. Internet.org is partnership between some tech firms, NGO's and Expert who aims at providing internet facilities to the world.


Through Internet.org Mark aims at providing connectivity to over 5 billion people in next 5 years.



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Lamborghini's first gasoline-electric hybrid : Asterion LPI 910-4

Lamborghini is a company which rarely rolls out concept cars and here's one of it.

Lamborghini Asterion LPI 910-4:

• Asterion in Greek mythology means a Man-bull.
• LP stands for longitudinal posterior, which tells that its a mid-engined supercar like the other contemporary Racing Bulls.
• 910 is the metric horsepower it packs. 
• And 4 tells you it's all-wheel drive.

It is Lamborghini's first gasoline-electric hybrid. In fact, a plug-in hybrid, which can travel 31 miles on electricity alone. The power-train combines the 5.2-liter V10 and seven-speed DSG from the Huracán equivalent to 610 metric horsepower and a trio of electric motors equivalent to another 300 metric horsepower for a total output up to 910. It rolls from 0-62 MPH (0 to 100 km/h) in 3 seconds and to a top speed of 200 MPH (320 km/h) per hour and up to 78 MPH (125 km/h) in electric mode.

Which makes it the most powerful Lamborghini, putting it in league with the McLaren P1 and LaFerrari. 



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