RBI to issue new Rs 20, Rs 50 notes; old notes to remain legal tenders

The RBI has also announced that Rs 20 and Rs 50 notes issued in the past will continue to be legal.

The Reserve Bank of India today announced that it will issue new notes of Rs 20 and Rs 50 soon. The announcement came in the wake of the ongoing cash crunch following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's  decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes on the midnight of November 8.

The new Rs 20 notes will have the inset letter 'L' in both number panels. The RBI has also announced that Rs 20 and Rs 50 notes issued in the past will continue to be legal.

The Rs 50 note will also be released in Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005. The RBI in a release said that design and security feature on these bank notes will be similar to the bank notes of Rs 20 denomination. The notes will also have ascending font on numerals in both panels without intaglio print that was issued earlier in Mahatma Gandhi-2005 series.

The announcement comes as a breather for citizens who were grappling with shortage of cash and limited denominations ever since the demonetisation drive.

While the nation has been gripped in chaos since demonetisation, the State Bank of India has announced that its ATMs will soon dispense Rs 50 and Rs 20 notes. 

At least 100 killed as train derails in India

A train in northern India has derailed, killing at least 100 people and injuring dozens more, police officials have said.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the express train travelling between the cities of Patna and Indore came off the tracks near Kanpur city.
Fourteen carriages left the tracks, railway officials said.

Two senior police officials in Kanpur said their teams have pulled out at least 100 bodies from the badly damaged carriages.
"Still many more passengers are trapped," a senior railway official in New Delhi said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences on Twitter.
"Anguished beyond words on the loss of lives due to the derailing of the Patna-Indore express. My thoughts are with the bereaved families," he wrote.

Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu said the government would immediately investigate the causes of the derailment and promised accountability with the "strictest possible action".
India's railway system is the world's fourth largest, ferrying more than 20 million people each day, but it has a poor safety record, with thousands of people dying in accidents every year.
The nation suffers frequent train derailments, sometimes with tragic consequences, including another train accident in Uttar Pradesh in March last year that killed 39 people.

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Aamir Khan Refused Josh Because of Shah Rukh Khan's Role

 

Filmmaker Mansoor Khan said actor Aamir Khan refused to do Josh because of Shah Rukh Khan's role in the 2000 film.

The filmmaker, who directed Aamir in 1988 hit romantic , drama Qayamat Se Qaya,at Tak added that he still thinks that Aamir and Shah Rukh were the perfect casting for the film.

"I still think Aamir and Shah Rukh were the perfect casting for the film. However, Aamir refused to play that role. That's his choice," he said.

He added Aamir wanted to chsnge his image also. He no longer wanted to play that lover boy or the romantic guy. The second reason is the character Max (played by Shah Rukh) is a very charismatic character. Everybody wanted to play Max."

Mansoor talked about the hit film, which also features Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Chandrachur Singh, at a panel discussion of 18th Mumbai Film Festival with Star on Saturday.

He also shared that even Kajol wanted to play SRK's character.

"When I offered Kajol the role of Shah Rukh's sister in the film, she listened to the script and said she wanted to do Max," he added.

he hunt for the elusive Planet Nine could soon provide an answer to solar system mystery

 

THE hunt for the elusive Planet Nine could be over within 16 months, according to one of the scientists who first predicted its existence.

The mammoth celestial body has so far escaped our detection but the currently hypothetical planet which is believed to sit at the edge of our solar system certainly seems to make its presence known.
The scientists who first suggested its existence earlier this year believe they’ve found further proof of the influence it yields over its cosmic neighbours.
Researchers the University of Technology California claim Planet Nine is responsible for causing the solar system to “wobble” due to its massive size.
Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown first discovered the planet’s existence through mathematical modelling and computer simulations. They presented their evidence in January but the world has not yet been able to observe the planet directly.
Even though its believed to be 10 times the size of Earth, it has likely escaped the gaze of telescopes because it is so far away from the Sun.
This week the pair of scientists, along with fellow astronomer Elizabeth Bailey, stoked the flames of speculation by presenting a study at the annual meeting of planetary scientists of the American Astronomical Society claiming the mysterious planet is responsible for the perceived tilt of the sun.
We’ve known that the sun’s rotational axis is tilted for about 200 years, but scientists have never understood exactly why.
Bailey, Batygin and Brown believe a large planet lurking in the depths of the solar system is responsible and the latest addition to their theory was published this week by the Astrophysical Journal.
“Because Planet Nine is so massive and has an orbit tilted compared to the other planets, the solar system has no choice but to slowly twist out of alignment,” lead author Elizabeth Bailey said in a statement.

 

The sun rotates on a different axis to all the other planets. Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter all share a common plane but for some reason it is tilted by about six degrees in relation to the sun — causing our perception that the sun is tilted.
It’s a quirk that has long troubled scientists.
“It’s such a deep-rooted mystery and so difficult to explain that people just don’t talk about it,” said Mr Brown. “If you ask yourself where the sun is tilted in real life there’s where we predict it should be,” he added
He believes it’s a matter of time until we have visual confirmation of Planet Nine saying he is “pretty sure” we’ll track it down within about 16 months.
“I think that there’ll be enough people looking for it that … somebody’s actually going to track this down,” he said.
At the “next one of these (conferences) we’ll be talking about finding Planet Nine instead of just looking for it,” he added.
For now, researchers are left to speculating over the mind boggling measurements associated with the elusive space body.
Thought to be roughly 10 times the mass of planet Earth, scientists believe it lies hundreds of astronomical units from the sun. One astronomical unit is the mean distance between the earth and the sun which equates to 149.6 million kilometres.
They also think it would take the planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the sun.