Moily had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the fuel conservation drive to cut down consumption by 3 percent and import cheaper oil from Iran, which faces UN saction, to save ?5,600 crore or $8.5 billion. Among the many austerity measures, shutting down petrol pumps for a 12-hour curfew was one of them for which the minister has received several criticism from Opposition to Industrialists.

Writing for Sky and Telescope magazine, Alan MacRobert said: "On the evening of Friday, October 18th, the full Moon will glide across the pale outer fringe (penumbra) of Earth's shadow.

"Obama neglected to even mention it. I consider it not to be even on the agenda," Holman told The Hill.

Storage capacity

Backing up the importance of this work, the university quotes Ji-Guang Zhang, a laboratory fellow in battery technology at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, calling it "original and high-quality work" that "demonstrates a very unique approach to preparing high-capacity electrodes for ."