Total lunar eclipse on March 3 to be visible from most parts of India
The eclipse that will begin in the evening on March 3 will be visible in the region covering eastern Asia, Australia, Pacific Ocean and Americas.
The eclipse that will begin in the evening on March 3 will be visible in the region covering eastern Asia, Australia, Pacific Ocean and Americas.
The minister described this as one of the first major steps in the direction of realising the Blue Economy through India’s vast ocean resources, as envisaged and repeatedly emphasised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Union minister said his priority would be to execute the Deep Ocean Mission, a flagship scheme of the prime minister for the exploration of polymetallic nodules containing rich minerals.
The low pace of surface wind blowing in the capital is very much responsible for the deterioration in the air quality, said the officials said.
By the end of the century, the temperatures of the warmest day and the coldest night are projected to rise by approximately 4.7 degrees Celsius and 5.5 degrees Celsius, respectively, according to the report.
The clarification came a day after a medium-intensity earthquake of magnitude 3.4 hit the city. Its epicentre was near Wazirpur in the northeast of the capital.
The date for the onset of monsoon in Kerala remains the same and will arrive on June 1. The date for Chennai will be June 4, Panjim June 7, Hyderabad June 8, Pune June 10 and Mumbai June 11.
Some long-term holistic solution needs to be launched to tackle air pollution before it becomes a national issue.
The 'very severe' cyclonic storm was expected to hit Gujarat coast on Thursday but changed its course in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.
The Ministry of Earth Sciences said on Thursday that isolated to very heavy rainfall are likely to hit most parts in J-K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, West Uttar Pradesh, West and East Rajasthan.
