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Agni-IV test-flight a ‘stupendous success'
- The test-flight of Agni-IV, India's most advanced long-range missile was “a stupendous success” on Tuesday, with the missile covering a range of more than 3,000 km in 20 minutes of fluent flight.
- This was the longest range mission flown by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) so far.
- Agni-IV, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, was earlier called Agni-II Prime. The first flight of Agni-II Prime in December 2010 was a failure.
- As the Sun shone on the tiny Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast, Agni-IV lifted off majestically
- carried an 800-kg payload of conventional explosives. However, it is designed to carry a 1,000-kg payload.
- Agni-IV “has opened a new era” for India in the class of long-range missiles to carry strategic [nuclear] warheads for the armed forces and “provides a fantastic deterrence,”
- “Strategically, it can cover the whole area on the other side of the border [China],”
- Dr. Saraswat, who is also the DRDO Director-General, said: “I will say that India does not need any foreign assistance for surface-to-surface missiles of this class.”
“Anaemia is per se not a disease at all''
- There is a general notion that anaemia is due to iron deficiency and this could be remedied by taking iron-rich medicines and good quantity of greens.
- Caution ought to be taken that if the iron level exceeds the permitted limit it might result in poor health conditions.
- There are several causes for anaemia and before properly diagnosing the symptoms it is not advisable to take to self-medication
- Anaemia was defined as a low level of haemoglobin in red blood cell. Three major causes of anaemia were iron deficiency, malaria and helminthes infections.
- Anaemia was a manifestation of a disease and not a disease per se.
