Sea Link is India’s longest

Themain span of the cable stayed portion of the Bandra-Worli sea link measuring 500 metres is the largest in India superseding Vidyasagar Setu in Kolkata and shares the 20th spot with Thailand’s Kanchanaphisek Bridge among the bridges with the longest span in the world.

The Sutong Bridge over the Yangtze River in China, opened June last year, has the largest span of any cable-stayed bridge at 1,088 meters. Hong Kong’s Stone cutters Bridge has the second longest span at 1,018 metres and with 890 metre the Tatara Bridge in Japan is the third longest.

Main span is the distance between the suspension towers and is the most common way to rank cable stayed bridges

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Get ready to view a total solar eclipse on July 22

A rare celestial treat — a total solar eclipse — will be seen in India in the early hours of July 22. And those planning to give it a miss will have to wait for 78 long years to catch the rare glimpse again.

It will be the third total solar eclipse to be visible in India in the past 15 years, a senior scientist said here.The next total solar eclipse will occur in 2087.

“The eclipse will start shortly after sunrise from Surat in south Gujarat and will be visible in a long band that extends up to Japan,” said Bharat Adur, director, Akashganga Centre for Astronomy, and a former senior scientist with the Nehru Planetarium.

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Joint India-Japan-United States wargames April-end

Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta will leave shortly on a visit to China, even as the Indian Navy is gearing up for the Malabar naval exercises with the US and Japan to be held at the end of this month. The Malabar exercises — which will be trilateral this year — will be held off the Japanese coast, defence sources confirmed. In another development, Admiral Mehta also met visiting US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Admiral Mehta will participate in a symposium being held in the Chinese port city of Qingdao that will be on the theme of “harmonious” seas. The symposium is being organised on the occasion of the international fleet review that will be held in Qingdao. Indian naval ships from its eastern fleet will also participate in the international fleet review at Qingdao.

The visit of Navy Chief to China comes just two months after a controversy wherein the Chinese media had accused an Indian submarine of stalking a Chinese naval destroyer vessel in the Gulf of Aden in February.

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North Korea’s rocket may be shot down by Japan

Japan may order its military to prepare to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it threatens to hit the country, media reports said on Wednesday, ahead of a meeting to discuss the plan.

The isolated Pyongyang regime has said it will launch a communications satellite over Japanese territory in early April, but the United States and its Asian allies suspect the launch is a long-range ballistic missile test.

Tokyo, which has developed a missile defence system with the United States, has warned it will shoot down any object — a missile or any debris — if it threatens to hit Japanese ter ritory. North Korea says it would regard a rocket intercept as an act of war.

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