About Kaveri/Cauvery River: Kaveri river origins at Talakaveri, Kodagu in Karnatakaย andย flows generally south and east through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and across the southern Deccan plateau through the southeastern lowlands, emptying into theย Bay of Bengal through two principal mouths in Poompuhar, Tamilnadu. Rising in southwestern Karnataka, it flows southeast some 800 kilometers to fall intoย the […]
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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan โfor his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.โ What is autophagy? In 1963, Christian de Duve, coined the term Autophagy (meaning โself eatingโ). It is theย fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components.It was observed that, the cell destroysย its own
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Introduction During 15th and 16th century A.D. the European society witnessed tremendous changes. The beginning of Renaissance developed enquiring spirit and scientific outlook among the Europeans. The Reformation movement challenged the medieval religious set up. It was against the Orthodox Church and the abuses of the pope. It gave birth to a new religious order
Famous French philosopher Auguste Comte coined the term Sociology in the year 1839. The word โSociologyโ has been derived from two words i. e. the Latin word โSocius โ or โSocietusโ meaning society, companion or associate and the Greek word โLogosโ meaning โstudyโ or โscienceโ Hence, the etymological meaning of the term sociology is the
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The Union Government notified the constitution of the six member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) under section 45ZB of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act, 1934. Composition of MPC As per the provisions of the RBI Act, out of the six Members of MPC, three Members will be from the RBI and other three will
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