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Big Bubble Theory

Solar System was born in a shell made of material flung off a giant star called a Wolf-Rayet star. They burn the hottest of all stars,producing tonnes of elements which are flung off the surface in an intense stellar wind. As the Wolf-Rayet star sheds its mass,the stellar wind ploughs through the material around it,forming a bubble structure with a dense shell. The shell of such a bubble is a good place to produce stars because dust and gas become trapped inside where they can condense into stars. The researchers estimate that 1% to 16% of all sun like stars could be formed in such stellar nurseries. Study addresses a nagging cosmic mystery about the presence of two elements in our solar system compared to the rest of the galaxy. Meteorites left over from the early solar system suggests there was a lot of aluminium-26.In addition,studies increasingly suggest the solar system had less of the isotrope iron-60.According to prevailing theory solar system was formed billions of years...

Dineshwar Sharma

The Centre's Special Representative for Kashmir.

Cubism

This refers to a defining movement in early 20th art,pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The name is based on Henri Matise and Louis Vauxcelles's remark that Georges Braque's painting,Houses at L'Estaque,looked like it was composed of cubes. Cubism rejected the single point perspective that had been in vogue since the Renaissance as well as the need for art to faithfully portray the real world as it was.Instead it celebrated thetwo dimensional nature of the canvas,representing an object from multiple perspectives using planes. Cubism evolved in two stages-analytical cubism and synthetic cubism.  

Kerela CM Pinarayi Vijayan

Paradesi Synagogue

One of Kochi's oldest monuments,located in Mattancherry's Jew Town built in 1568.It hosted a Tefillin ceremony in preparation for Bar Mitzvah,a religious celebration that marks a Jewish boy's initiation into the rights and obligations of adulthood. Kippah :Jewish scullcap Tallit :The traditional prayer shawl. Torah :Religious Text

Kuvempu

Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa, popularly known by the nickname Kuvempu or as K. V. Puttappa, was an Indian Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Critic and Thinker. He is widely regarded as the greatest Kannada Poet of the 20th century. " The House of Kanooru " " Malegalalli madumagalu"(The Bride in the mountains) He is conferred the  Jnanpith Award ,  Padma Bhushan ,  Padma Vibhushan  and  Karnataka Ratna.

REITs and InvITs

REIT:Real Estate Investment Trusts InvIT:Infrastructure Investment Trusts These are listed on stock exchanges.They can issue Debt Securities. According to Securities and Exchange Board of India(SEBI),Debt Securities means non-convertible debt securities which create or acknowledge indebtedness and include debentures,bonds and such other securities of a corporate or a Trust registered with SEBI as InvIT and REITs.However it excludes bonds issued by the government,security receipts and securitised debt instruments.

Jammu & Kashmir

Governor N N Vohra CM Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed

Bihar Governor Satyapal Malik

Chinki Yadav

Junior National Record in 25m pistol.

Mirza Ghalib

Ghalib born Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, on 27 December 1797 – died 15 February 1869, was a prominent Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen-names of Ghalib and Asad. "पूछते हैं वो कि ग़ालिब कौन है ?कोई बतलाओ के  हम बतलाएँ क्या ?" " Hum ko maloom hai Jannat ki haqeeqat Lekin,Dil Ke Khush Rakhne ko 'Ghalib',Ye khayal Accha hai" "Ishq ne 'Ghalib' nikamma kar diya,varna ham bhi aadmi the kam ke" "Hazaron khwaahishein aisi ki har khwaaish pe dam nikle,bahut nikle mere armaan,lekin phir bhi kam nikle" "Umr bhar 'Ghalib' wahi galti karta raha,Dhool chehre pe thi aur Aaina saaf karta raha" "Dil-e-nadan tujhe hua kya hai,aakhir is dard ki dawa kya hai?"

Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani;Dy CM Nitin Patel

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte

Meghalaya

Governor Ganga Prasad  CM Mukul Sangma

Tripura CM Manik Sarkar

Aunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu

Himachal Pradesh CM Jairam Thakur

Sudden Stop

The term's origin is attributed to the 1995 paper "Currency Crises and Collapses" authored by Rudiger Dornbusch and others. This refers to the abrupt stop in the flow of foreign capital into an economy,which imperils its ability to pay for its external trade and financial needs.The sudden stop usually comes in the aftermath of a financial or economic crisis that causes investors to turn cautious about investing in an economy,which in turn further aggravates the severity of the ongoing crisis.It is emerging market economies that have generally been the victims of sudden stops when foreign investors as a whole abruptly stop the supply of capital.

Urban Air Pollution

Urban air pollution refers largely to the mixture of gases and small particles in the lowest hundred or so metres,a result of human activity associated with vehicles,road dust,domestic cooking and heating,power plants and other industries nearby,diesel generator sets,and the open burning of waste. Pollution gases are mostly colourless and odourless and include carbon monoxide,oxides of sulphur and nitrogen,ozone,and volatile organic compounds.

Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution

 SIXTH SCHEDULE                                                    [Articles 244(2) and 275(1)]  Provisions as to the Administration of Tribal Areas in the States of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram 1. Autonomous districts and autonomous regions. — (1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, the tribal areas in each item of Parts I, II and IIA and in Part III of the table appended to paragraph 20 of this Schedule shall be an autonomous district. (2) If there are different Scheduled Tribes in an autonomous district, the Governor may, by public notification, divide the area or areas inhabited by them into autonomous regions.  (3) The Governor may, by public notification,—  (a) include any area in any of the Parts of the said table,  (b) exclude any area from any of the Parts of the said table,  (c) ...