Wednesday, October 9, 2013

DLF sells 33 MW wind mills in Rajasthan for Rs 67 crore

Country's largest realty firm DLF has completed the sale process of 33MW wind turbines project in Rajasthan to Violet Green Power for Rs 67.44 crore. 

In early April, DLF announced that its arm DLF Home Developers Ltd (DHDL) had signed a definitive business transfer agreement with Violet Power Green Pvt Ltd to sell the 33MW wind turbines at Rajasthan for Rs 52.20 crore. 

Rajasthan among major states with lowest death rate

Rajasthan is among the states with lowest death rates and highest birth rates among major states. 

A decent place to live in, the state's death rate (6.6) is not as high as in 11 other major states. Delhi (4.2) has lowest death rate, while Jammu and Kashmir (5.4), Haryana (6.4), Maharashtra (6.3) and West Bengal (6.3) are the states with lower death rate than Rajasthan. However, Gujarat,Bihar and Rajasthan have equal death rates, the Sample Registration System, registrar general, India shows which was released last month. It shows figures of 2012. 

Though Rajasthan is continuously witnessing a dip in birth rate every year but it is still among the four states with the highest birth rates. However, the urban area of the state comes second in India with highest birth rate. Besides, Rajasthan the death rate is 6.6, which placed it at 12th position in the bigger states category, with highest death rates.

Birth rate means total number of births per 1,000 each year. The birth rate in Rajasthan is 25.9, while Bihar has the highest birth rate (27.7), Uttar Pradesh (27.4) and Madhya Pradesh has 26.6, the Sample Registration System, registrar general, India shows released last month, showing figures of 2012. 

From 2011 to 2012, birth rate in Rajasthan was on the decline. In 2011, the birth rate in the state was 26.2 but it came down to 25.9 in 2012 with a decline of 0.3 points. It was 26.7 in 2010. 

Source - TOI

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"
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Source - nobleprize.org