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PM Narendra Modi speaks with Arnab Goswami

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Follows the transcript of PM Modi's Interview! ARNAB: Prime Minister Modi, thank you very much for this interview. Thank you very much. PM MODI: My greetings to all the people. ARNAB: This is your first one to one interview to a private news channel since you became Prime Minister. And if I am not mistaken, this is the first ever interview with a sitting Prime Minister of India to a private television news channel in the country. So I would first like to thank you and am very grateful for the opportunity. PM MODI: The world of the media has grown so big that everybody has to attach themselves to it. ARNAB: I am very grateful and our viewers will be very grateful also Mr. Modi because they want to hear your views on a range of subjects. Mr Prime Minister I would like to start by taking you back to 20th May 2014. The results came on May 16th. Four days later, you gave a historic speech in the Central Hall of Parliament and you were speaking to the members of Parl...

Element 117 in Periodic Table Confirmed

This was one my favorite during my 10th Standard. Use to memorize the entire stuff from T2B. Later it got diminished as the years passed by. I could still recollect how we wasted the salts, strong acids, weak acids in the Chemistry Lab without the knowledge of the Lab Assistants. The periodic table has been extended, with the announcement of the confirmation of the yet to be named element 117. In 2010 a US Russian collaboration announced they had produced atoms of an element with 117 protons, filling a gap that appeared when 118 was made four years earlier. However International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) insists on corroboration by two independent teams before it allows new elements to be added to the Periodic Table, although a temporary name of Ununseptium is in use until confirmation has been made. It has taken four years, but this appears to have finally arrived. “Making element 117 is at the absolute boundary of what is possible right now,” says Professor David Hi...