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PARAM Shivay was commissioned in 2019 at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, and it was the first supercomputer assembled within India under the National Supercomputing Mission.

The National Housing Bank is one of the central nodal agencies through which the Centre passes the interest subsidy of the Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) down to the lenders.

Alexander and Porus fought the Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE on the banks of the Jhelum, the river the Greeks called Hydaspes and the Rig Veda calls Vitasta.

The Sino-Indian War was fought between 20 October and 21 November 1962, when China attacked across the Himalayan frontier. The fighting ran in two separate theatres, Aksai Chin in Ladakh in the west and the North East Frontier Agency, today Arunachal Pradesh, in the east.

It is the micro-finance scheme under which women borrow small sums at a concessional rate of interest, so the rebate in interest is built into the scheme itself.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics broke up in 1991: a failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in August that year destroyed the centre's authority, the republics declared independence one after another, and on 25 December 1991 Gorbachev resigned.

NATO is the military alliance of European and North American states, formed by the North Atlantic Treaty signed at Washington on 4 April 1949 by twelve founding members, and its membership has grown in rounds since then.

YONO, short for You Only Need One, is the State Bank of India's digital banking app, launched in November 2017.

Justice M. Fathima Beevi, from Kerala, became the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India in 1989, nearly forty years after the Court was set up.

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was elected the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha in 1952 and served until his death in 1956.

A pyrometer measures very high temperatures, such as those of furnaces, kilns and molten metal, without touching the hot object.

Quartzite is formed when sandstone, a sedimentary rock, is changed by great heat and pressure deep inside the earth.

In a food chain each step at which energy is transferred is a trophic level, and secondary consumers stand at the third step.

Gandhi withdrew the movement because it had turned violent, against his principle of non-violence. On 5 February 1922 at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district, a crowd of protesters set fire to a police station after the police fired on them, and 22 policemen died.

The Asian Development Bank has its headquarters in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, in the Philippines. It was set up in 1966 to fund development in Asia and the Pacific, and India was one of its founding members.

The Brihadisvara (Brihadeeswarar) Temple at Thanjavur was built by Rajaraja Chola I and completed around 1010 CE, which is why it is also called Rajarajeswaram or the Big Temple.

The Reserve Bank of India started working on 1 April 1935 under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, following the recommendation of the Hilton Young Commission of 1926.

Indira Point on Great Nicobar Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the southernmost point of Indian territory, at about 6 degrees 45 minutes north latitude.

The UN Security Council has 15 members: 5 permanent members and 10 non-permanent members. The permanent five are the USA, the UK, France, Russia and China, and only they hold the veto.

The Constitution (First Amendment) Act was passed by the provisional Parliament in June 1951, barely seventeen months after the Constitution came into force.