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Jaipur Makes It To UNESCO World Heritage Site List: Game of Thrones Saga Unfolds On A Tapestry
Jaipur Makes It To UNESCO World Heritage Site List: Game of Thrones Saga Unfolds On A Tapestry
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DELHI THE HINDU
SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2019
IN BRIEF
Jaipur makes it to UNESCO Southeast coast of India
World Heritage Site list prone to heat waves: study
Pink City among other sites worldwide chosen for the honour IITM-Pune model can forecast extreme events in real time
Royal baby Archie gets
a private christening Special Correspondent R. Prasad
LONDON JAIPUR CHENNAI
Britain’s Prince Harry and Jaipur, celebrated for its grid Researchers at Pune’s Indian
wife Meghan Markle, the planbased architecture and Institute of Tropical Meteo
Duke and Duchess of Sussex, buildings of pink façades, on rology (IITM) have found
held a private ceremony at
Saturday entered the list of that the southeast coast and
Windsor Castle on Saturday
the UNESCO World Heritage the northwest region of In
for the christening of their
Sites. It was among the seven dia have become more vul
twomonthold son. Archie
Harrison Mountbatten
sites worldwide to have nerable to heat wave condi
Windsor, born on May 6, was made it to the list. tions, which lasts for about
baptised in front of close The decision was taken by eight days, in recent years.
family and friends in a private the World Heritage Commit The observations came
chapel at the Castle. PTI tee at the UNESCO’s 43rd during the development of
session under way at Baku, an extended range predic
Azerbaijan. The committee, tion model by the research Advance warning: The extended range prediction model can
comprising representatives ers which can now predict predict heat waves with 70% accuracy. SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
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of 21 State Parties to the heat waves two to three
World Heritage Convention, weeks in advance of an ex conditions two weeks in ad between 1981 and 2018, the
examined the Walled City’s treme event. vance with 70% probability. researchers identifi ed 22
nomination. The shortrange forecast heat wave events in the
The International Council ‘70% accuracy’ twothree days before the northwest region, and 14 in
AI-powered tool to help on Monuments and Sites had The system can predict heat onset of heat wave condition the southeast coastal region.
identify galaxy clusters inspected the city in 2018. It waves with 70% accuracy, a can provide more reliable in In addition, the researchers
LONDON took into account the archi considerable improvement formation about the time found nine events in a new
Researchers have developed tecture of streets with colon as no real time prediction and location of the heat region called northwest
an Artificial Intelligence nades, which intersect the was possible earlier. The wave condition,” said Dr. southeast — when heat wave
powered tool that has been centre, creating large public model has been successfully Susmitha Joseph from IITM spells in northeast and
trained to “look” at colour squares called chaupar. The transferred to the India Me and coauthor of a paper pu southeast regions have at
images and identify galaxy uniform façades of markets, teorological Department blished in the journal Scien least one day overlap.
clusters quickly. The “Deep residences and temples in (IMD), which has been using tifi c Reports. The researchers verifi ed
CEE” model is based on the main streets had also im it since 2017 and was used to “The heat wave forecast the model using three select
neural networks, which are pressed the council. predict heat waves this year. starts from March 1 till the events in all the three heat
designed to mimic the way a Rajasthan Chief Minister Based on observation da monsoon covers the whole wave regions. The model
human brain learns to Ashok Gehlot congratulated ta available from 1981 to 2017 country,” Dr. Joseph said. verifi ed the onset, duration
recognise objects by the residents on the capital Artistic trove: (Clockwise from top) A view of Jaipur’s Hawa Mahal, which was built in 1799 by and modelrun data availa and end phase of heat wave
activating specific neurons getting the World Heritage Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh; the ancient city of Babylon near Hilla, Iraq; and the Ananda ble from 2003, researchers Specifi c conditions events by the fi rst three and
when visualising distinctive Buddhist temple in Bagan, Myanmar. R.V. MOORTHY/AFP/REUTERS
status and said it would add *
found that places in north A heat wave day is identifi ed last three consecutive days
patterns and colours.
to the glory of the city. “It west India and southeast when the maximum temper and the total length of the
will boost tourism, benefi t mun burial mounds (Bah China, to its World Heritage the country’s tourism sector. coastal regions are prone to ature is above 44° Celsius (C) event.
the local economy and help rain); the Budj Bim cultural List, praising the regions for The German city of Augs heat wave conditions. Places or when the three following For northwest region, the
to improve the infrastruc landscape (Australia); the ar their “remarkable” burg was also granted World in these two regions expe conditions are observed — heat wave event of June 211,
ture,” he said. chaeological ruins of Liangz biodiversity. Heritage status for its over rience heat waves for more when the region is facing un 2014 which caused more
The fortifi ed city was hu (China); the Ombilin coal 800yearold water manage than eight days during sum usually hot temperature, than 1,500 deaths was used.
founded in 1727 by the Kach mining site of Sawahlunto Buddhist city of Bagan ment system boasting an mer. when the temperature is The model was able to cap
waha Rajput ruler of Amber, (Indonesia); the MozuFurui Myanmar’s ancient capital of aquaduct, water towers, or Rajasthan, Punjab, Harya more than 36° C and when ture the onset even a week in
Sawai Jai Singh II. The city chi Kofun group of ancient Bagan, nearly a quarter of a nate fountains, canals and na, Chandigarh, Delhi, west the departure from the nor advance but not the intensi
Scotland Yard questions was established on the mounded tombs ( Japan); century after the complex of hundreds of bridges. Madhya Pradesh, west and mal temperature is more ty.
Spacey over abuse claims plains and built according to and the Plains of Jars con Buddhist temples was fi rst On Friday, the sprawling east Uttar Pradesh, Chhattis than 3.5° C. It was able to correctly
LONDON
a grid plan interpreted in the taining the megalithic jar nominated for listing, has Mesopotamian metropolis of garh, Orissa and Vidarbha, “While the IMD considers predict the duration and end
A British police team is in the
light of Vedic architecture. sites in Xiengkhouang (Lao been included in the list. Babylon made it to the list af parts of Gangetic West Ben 45° C the maximum temper of the heat wave event but
U.S. to interview Kevin
Spacey about sexual assault
The city’s urban planning People’s Democratic The latest recognition for ter three decades of lobbying gal in central India and coas ature to classify it as a heat not the precise location
allegations. The Metropolitan shows an intermingling of Republic). Myanmar site, which in eff orts by Iraq. Iceland’s Vat tal Andhra Pradesh and Te wave, we used 44° C because about three weeks in ad
Police is investigating six ideas from ancient Hindu, The committee also voted cludes more than 3,500 stu najokull National Park, Eu langana experience heat we were using gridded da vance.
allegations against the former modern Mughal and western to add Iran’s Hyrcanian for pas, temples, monasteries rope’s largest with a land waves for more than six days ta,” said Dr. A.K. Sahai from For the southeast region
House of Cards star, who ran cultures. ests and Migratory Bird and other structures built scape of “fi re and ice,” also in a year. IITM, Pune and correspond the heat wave even of May
London’s Old Vic Theatre The six other cultural sites Sanctuaries along the Coast between the 11th and 13th cen found a place in the list. “The extended range fo ing author of the paper. 1522, 2008 was taken for
between 2004 and 2015. AP added to the list are the Dil of Yellow SeaBohai, Gulf of turies, is expected to boost (With inputs from AFP) recast can predict heat wave Based on the new criteria, testing.
Elephant kingdom
Project aims to control population of elephant, wild boar, monkey and blue bull named ‘Jamil’
Shiv Sahay Singh maximum number of causal ciplinary eff ort over a long Second one to wash ashore in a month
Kolkata ities every year. According to period of time, he said.
The Ministry of Environ reply tabled in Parliament “It depends on the goal, Agence France-Presse
ment, Forest and Climate on June 28, 2019, nearly 494 whether one wants to com Bangkok
Change (MOEFCC) has persons were killed by ele pletely seize reproduction in A second orphan baby du
launched a project for un phants last year alone. Bet a population or you want to gong, also known as a sea
dertaking ‘immunocontra ween 2014 and March 2019, delay reproduction so that cow, found stranded on a
ceptive measures’ for popu 2,398 people died in ele the population growth rate southern Thai beach has
lation management of four phant attack in the country, comes down. So that instead been named ‘Jamil’, mean
species of wild animals — ele with West Bengal accounting of an elephant producing a ing a “handsome sea
phant, wild boar, monkey The project will begin in for maximum number of calf every three or four years prince” by one of the coun
and blue bull (Nilgai). Uttarakhand and then be such deaths . you want the elephant to try’s princesses, offi cials Southern Thailand’s waters
“We have launched the extended to other States. Raman Sukumar, a well produce a calf in seven or said on Saturday. are home to about 250
project and the Finance Mi known elephant expert and eight years. That requires Southern Thailand’s wa vulnerable mammals. AFP *