Bihar to send teams for 26th National Canoe Sprint Championships 2015-2016 in Bhopal

The Bihar teams for 26th National Canoe Sprint Championships 2015-2016 to be held in in Bhopal was selected at Bhairava Talab, a historical pond, on the campus of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University here on December 13. The teams for national kayaking and canoeing championships will participate in the events in Bhopal from January 12 to 15, 2016.
This hs been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 26 December 2015.

The championship for senior men and women would be organized by MP Amateur Kayaking Canoeing Association at the Upper Lake in Bhopal in collaboration with the directorate of sports, government of Madhya Pradesh. Side by side, the national championship for junior men and women and sub-junior boys & girls would be organized by Kerala kayaking and Canoeing Association at Kollam in Kerala from January 21 to 23, 2016.
The secretary of Bihar Kayaking and Canoeing Association, a body affiliated to Indian Kayaking and Canoeing Association, has indicated that the teams have started regular practice in that pond located in front of stadium of the varsity here and hopes that his boys and girls will score better as all of them have toiled hard.

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#airpollution #WHO #mostpollutedcities According a report of WHO, the cities facing maximum pollution in India are located in the northern regions and cities in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan dominate the list. These states lie in the fog belt and air pollution is worsening the problem. Incidentally, it had been already reported that the average fog hours in the month of January in Delhi had increased by as much as eight hours since 1989 — this is a trend that can be attributed to rising pollution.
Delhi has earned the dubious tag of the most polluted city in the world. The breakup of polluted cities statewise is nine in UP, five in Punjab, four in Rajasthan. There were three cities each in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra and one city each in J&K, Bihar and Uttarakhand.
At the other end of the spectrum are five cities with the cleanest air – all of these are located in south India. Two of these were in Kerala - Kollam and Pathanamthitta, one in Karnataka - Hassan, one in Tamil Nadu - Madurai, and Pondicherry.
A total of 124 Indian data stations - mostly in cities – have been featured in the report of WHO.
A comparison between the cleanest and most polluted cities will reveal the extent of variation - Pathanamthitta, the cleanest city on the list, recorded a concentration of 10 parts per million of particles under 2.5 microns while in Delhi it was a concentration of 153 parts per million of such particles. This is more than fifteen times that of Pathanamthitta.
WHO relied on the concentration of particles in the air under 2.5 microns to determine how bad air pollution is because such tiny particles cause the most damage to health - when inhaled, they can go deep into the lungs, whereas larger particles are usually filtered out before they reach that far.