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Participants at the programme were sensitised about the use of eco-friendly clay idols and were advised to avoid immersing idols made of Plaster of Paris, or carrying harmful chemical colours, in drinking water tanks.

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research organised its awareness and cleanliness initiatives at its institutions as part of these activities, with the focus placed on cleanliness after Ganesh Visarjan, clean public spaces and responsible waste management.

At these two institutes, one in Jharkhand and the other in Maharashtra, biodegradable offerings such as flowers and other puja samagri were collected and segregated from the rest of the festival waste, and the compostable material was then processed at composting facilities to prepare organic manure.

The Rajasthan unit searched an international parcel that had come from the United States and found the hydroponic cannabis hidden in four packets inside an air circulator box.

Every article recovered in these cases, meaning the poppy straw, the opium, the hydroponic cannabis, the cash, the vehicles and the country-made pistol, was seized under the relevant provisions of this Act, and further investigation into sources, destinations and supply channels is proceeding under it.

This is the total quantity of poppy straw, known regionally as doda chura, recovered by the Rajasthan unit across the whole set of operations, alongside 9.6 kg of opium and 1.9 kg of hydroponic cannabis.

Ramanuja, born at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu in the eleventh century, taught Vishishtadvaita, or qualified non-dualism. He held that the soul, even when it becomes one with the supreme God Vishnu, keeps its own separate existence, and that the surest way to salvation is intense devotion, bhakti, to Vishnu.

Mansab means a position or rank, and Akbar used it to place every officer of the empire on a graded ladder.

All three reasons together made Magadha the strongest mahajanapada in about two hundred years. Rivers such as the Ganga and the Son gave water for the fields, made the plain fertile and served as cheap routes for moving men and goods.

Atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 1.013 into 10 to the power 5 pascal, which presses with roughly the weight of one kilogram on every square centimetre of our body, so it is very large and not negligible at all.

Phule wrote Gulamgiri, meaning slavery, in Marathi in 1873, and dedicated it to the people of America who had fought to free slaves, drawing a line between their struggle and the condition of the lower castes in India.

Biogas is produced when cattle dung, crop waste and sewage are broken down by bacteria in a closed tank without air, a process called anaerobic digestion.

Sulphur dioxide dissolves in water to give sulphurous acid, a weak acid with the formula H2SO3, by the reaction SO2 + H2O to H2SO3.

Statement A is right because Article 153 provides a Governor for each state, and the Governor is the constitutional head of the state, in whose name all executive action of the state is taken.

Milpa is the name given to shifting cultivation in Mexico and in the neighbouring parts of Central America, where maize, beans and squash are grown together on a patch cleared from the forest.

Minhaj-i-Siraj was the chronicler of the Delhi Sultanate who wrote the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri.

India does not keep separate sets of courts for central and state laws; it has one single pyramid, with the Supreme Court at the top, the High Courts below it and the district and subordinate courts at the base.

Inamgaon is a Chalcolithic farming settlement on the Ghod river in the Pune district of Maharashtra.

A magnet cannot be cut into a single north pole and a single south pole.

Loudness and frequency are two different properties of sound. Loudness depends on the amplitude of the vibration, that is how far the vibrating part moves from its rest position, while frequency is the number of vibrations made in one second and is measured in hertz.