Magnus Carlsen to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess

World number one Norway’s Magnus Carlsen earned the authority to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the World title by winning the planet Chess Candidates Tournament working in london. However, he was defeated within the fianls by Russia’s Peter Svidler , leading to tie with Vladimir Kramnik at 8.5 points but was declared winner because of more number of victories - four to Kramnik’s three. Since March 15, eight players battled underneath the double round-robin format to find the challenger to Anand on the planet championship match scheduled in October-November, 2013.

Carlsen may be the holder of the all-time high rating of 2872 - surpassing the prior best of 2851 by former World champion Gary Kasparov this past year. 

The oldest and The youngest to conquer Mt Everest

Two more person reached the summit of World's highest mountain, Mt. Everest and put into the list of many world records which are created this year.

Yuichiro Miura : 80-year-old Japanese had become the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest

• Broke the record of Nepalese climber Min Bahadur Serchan- in 2008 in the age of 77 (who had earlier broken 2003 record of Miura only, at 70 years)

Team of Six students of Lawrence School, Sanawar, Himachal beacame the earth's youngest team to summit Mt Everest

• Raghav Joneja : person in the team became the youngest Indian to achieve the summit at Fifteen years and 8 months.
• Previous record was with Arjun Vajpai of Delhi who had been 16 years and 11 months as he achieved the feat
• They - Prithvi Singh Chahal, Fateh Singh Brar, Guribadat Singh Somal, Ajay Sohal, Shubham Kaushik and Raghav Joneja (all students of sophistication X and XII )

Bio-Toilets : 1400 Coaches in various train now with Bio-Toilets

Indian railways has announced that because it started the process of integrating biotoilets in rail coaches in January 2011, it's now installed 3800 of them in a variety of trains' 1400 coaches. Commited to provide hygienic environment ,which can now said to be anything from pathetic to disgusting, India Railways has ramped up the pace of fitment of bio-toilets in coaches and it is aiming to complete work in all of the conventional coaches by 2020.

• The very first train to be fitted with bio-toilet was Gwalior-Varanasi Bundelkhand Express in January 2011.
• It is now manufacturing all new conventional passenger coaches pre -fitted with bio-toilets.
  
  
  

What exactly are Bio- Toilets :

fitted below the coach floor beneath the lavatories, these contain colonies of anaerobic bacteria which has the ability to act upon the human waste and switch them in to water and gases (methane and CO2). As the gases escape in to atmosphere remaining waste is discharged onto track after chlorination. Thus it is not the human waste that falls to the track but their by-products.

• developed jointly by Indian Railways and Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) for railway passenger coaches
• is to begin its kind in Railway Systems on the planet.
• One particular type of bacteria, utilized in the bio-toilet design, has been carefully collected and analysed by DRDO from Antarctica
• efficiency from the system has been tested for extreme climates and types of conditions like those at Siachen Glacier.The anaerobic bacteria within the bio-designer not only survive extreme heat and cold but also survives when put through commonly available disinfectants.
• The fitment of these bio-toilets in coaches is, however, technologically very challenging since it requires special technique of wielding to make sure that safety of the coach isn't compromised in any way.

Advantages over conventional toilets

• Human waste doesn't fall on the railway track thus helping to maintain hygienic codition in and around platforms/tracks
• environmentally friendly and occasional cost
• improves the working condition for that railway track staff.

Cooperation of passengers is fully necessary for the success of this initiative as throwing of things like plastic bottles, paper cups, cloth rags, sanitary napkin, nappies, plastic/poly bags, ‘Gutka’ pouches etc causes choking of those toilets and makes the toilet non functional.

Bushehr nuclear plant, Iran

A powerful earthquake struck close to Iran’s only nuclear power station, Bushehr nuclear plant, in April 2013, killing/ injuring people, destroying homes and villages. Even so the plant was found to be safe there wasn't any incident of any nuclear related accident. Russian company Atomstroyexport has produced the power plant. Reports implies that Bushehr reactor sits at the intersection of three tectonic plates.

Iran could be the only country operating a nuclear power plant that doesn't fit in with the Convention on Nuclear Safety, negotiated following a 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl which contaminated wide areas making 160,000 Ukrainians homeless. Iran sits on major fault lines and contains suffered several devastating earthquakes recently, together with a 6.6 magnitude quake in 2003 which flattened the southeastern capital of scotland- Bam and killed greater than 25,000 people. In August greater than 300 people were killed when two quakes struck the northwest.

The quake happened on National Nuclear Technology Day when Iran’s leaders celebrate the technological advances it is said will reduce the country’s reliance upon non-renewable fuels, leaving more of its abundant oil for export. Israel, Gulf Arab states and a lot of Western countries fear Tehran requires a nuclear weapons capability as well as the Islamic Republic is under international sanctions directed at forcing it to curb numerous its atomic work. Iran denies it wants nuclear arms and says its  atomic tasks are for electricity generation as well as other peaceful uses.