National Tourism Award : The Fatehpur Sikri group of monuments in Agra has bagged the prestigious National Tourism Award 2011-12 for “the best maintained and disabled-friendly monument”. The award was given away in New Delhi on March 18, 2013, by Hon’ble President Mr. Pranab Mukherjee.
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Malayalam poetess, Sugathakumari has been chosen for the prestigious Saraswati Samman 2012 for her poetry collection ‘Manalezhuthu’ (The Writing on the Sand). The award is given annually to an outstanding literary work written in any Indian language during the last 10 years. The award, constituted by K.K. Birla Foundation carries a cash reward of Rs.10 lakh, citation, and plaque.
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Amazing Body of Facts : The human body consists of 100 trillion cells approximately which is basic unit of life. These cells are organised biologically to eventually form the whole body. Following are the body of facts that will never cease to amaze
1. There are 300,000 million capillaries in a human lung. If they are joined end to end, it will cover the distance between Delhi and Chennai.
2. For every 500 gm of fat gained, our body makes 11 km of blood vessels. It puts a lot of strain on our heart because it has to work harder to pump blood to these newly created extra vessels. Our body re-absorbs the unnecessary vessels if it loses fat.
3. An adult human body is made up of 7 octillion atoms. It is equal to 7xl02, the number of atoms (1 octillion = 1000 trillion).
4. A normal human cell consists of 23 pairs of chromosomes in its nucleus, which is a molecule of DNA. Chromosome 1 is the biggest and contains 10 billion atoms. It is the largest storehouse of information that is encoded in the molecule.
CTS : Cheque Truncation System According to a report released on March 18, 2013, the Reserve Bank of India has asked banks to stop collecting fresh post-dated cheques or equated monthly instalment cheques in any centre where electronic clearing service (ECS) facility is available. The directions are part of the central bank’s latest directive on cheque truncation system which extends the validity of cheques issued in the old format until July 31, 2013. Cheque Truncation System (CTS) refers to RBI’s plan to discontinue routing paper cheques all the way from the drawee’s bank branch to the issuers branch. RBI had originally set March 31, 2013, as the deadline until which cheques issued in the old format would be valid.
Lightning occurs when a massive electrical discharge takes place between two oppositely charged clouds. It may also occur when this discharge is between the ground and a charged cloud.The charges develop in thunder clouds due to the friction of water droplets with air as the droplets move up and down with the rising and descending air currents within the cloud. During a bolt of lightning, thousands of amperes of electricity flows through the air in a fraction of a second. This rapidly heats up die air along its path which expands very fast producing shock waves which we hear as thunder. Although the lightning and thunder are produced at the same instant, we hear the thunder later because light (3,00,000 km per second) travels faster than sound (343.2 metres per second).
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