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The Andhra
Pradesh government has pitched for locating the new capital between Vijayawada and Guntur. The government’s viewpoint was conveyed on
Tuesday to K. Sivaramakrishnan,
who is heading the committee constituted by the Union Government to identify a
suitable place for the new capital. Andhra Pradesh Municipal Administration
Minister P. Narayana along with State Government’s Special Representative in
Delhi, K. Ram Mohan Rao held discussions on the issues relating to the new
capital with Mr. Sivaramakrishnan.
Ø The Global
Maize Programme, an initiative
of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre, is intensively
pursuing the development of heat-stress resilient, high-yielding and
nutritionally enriched maize varieties in order to face the challenges of
global warming and meet the global demand for maize. With the financial
assistance of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the
CIMMYT has undertaken ‘Heat Stress Resilient Maize’ for South Asia, a five-year
project, for developing heat tolerant and high-yielding maize varieties
specifically suitable for South Asian climatic conditions. The project has
commenced in 2012 and will end in 2017,”. Various public institutions from
South Asia had collaborated in the project. The UAS, Purdue University in the
U.S., the Bihar Agriculture University in Sabour, Bhagalpur, the Maize and
Millets Research Institute of Pakistan, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research
Institute, and National Maize Research Institute of Nepal were involved in the
project. Four Indian private seed companies too collaborated.
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Using NASA’s
Kepler spacecraft, researchers have discovered an exoplanet with the longest
known year. The newly discovered Kepler-421b circles
its star in 704 days. It is the longest period of revolution known yet for a
planet outside of our solar system.
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