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China and India have catapulted to the forefront of astronomy research with their decision to join as partners in building a Hawaii telescope, which will be the world's largest.
China and India will pay a share of the construction cost, expected to top $1 billion, for the telescope
The Thirty Meter Telescope's segmented primary mirror, which will be nearly 100 feet or 30 metres long, will give it nine times the light-collecting area of the largest optical telescopes in use today. Its images will also be three times sharper.
The largest telescope in India has a 2-metre mirror, though India is building one that will be 4 metres.
The telescope, known as TMT, will be able to observe planets that orbit stars other than the Sun and enable astronomers to watch new planets and stars being formed.
European countries plans to build the European Extremely Large Telescope, which would have a 42-metre, or 138-foot, mirror.

Public health activists and women's rights groups have raised concerns over compensation-related amendments to the Drugs and Cosmetic Rules 2011
The proposed amendments pertain to the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 (rule 122 DAA) saying that compensation in case of injury or death during the clinical trial would be solely decided by the Ethics Committee.
As of now, the compensation is decided by the trial sponsors, be it a pharmaceutical company, the government or an institution, in consultation with the Ethics Committee.
The issues of conflict of interest within the Ethics Committee remain to be resolved as there could be institutional biases with the committee depending on who the Principal Investigator of the trial is.
While compensation will depend on injury or death on a case-by-case basis and this cannot be standardised, a wide variation in compensation decided by different Ethics Committees may not be desirable because trials may start migrating to the centres with relatively lenient Ethics Committees.

Jaitapur may face a threat of a high intensity earthquake as it lies close to the latitude on which Latur and Koyna in Maharashtra lie, American seismologist Roger Bilham said
Latur and Koyna have faced strong earthquakes earlier.
Meanwhile, the people of Jaitapur nuclear project-affected villages declared that they would undertake a massive ‘jail bharo' protest
there was a need to study the location of Jaitapur plateau which is raised a few metres above the sea level.