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Light passes through the condenser to the specimen, is picked up by the objective lens, travels up the body tube and reaches the eye through the eyepiece.

The Southern Naval Command has its headquarters at Kochi in Kerala, and it is the Navy's training command.

In his study of the Mughal agrarian system, Habib argued that the Mughal State did not merely protect the exploiting classes but was itself the main instrument for taking the peasants' surplus.

The Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the 4,000 sacred verses of Tamil Vaishnavism, is the work of the twelve Alvars, gathered into one collection in the 10th century.

India's first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier, IAC-1, was built at Cochin Shipyard and commissioned into the Navy as INS Vikrant on 2 September 2022.

It binds oxygen at its iron-containing haem groups and carries some carbon dioxide on its protein chains. Each haemoglobin molecule has four polypeptide chains and four haem groups, and each haem iron can hold one oxygen molecule, forming oxyhaemoglobin in the lungs.

It is the third-highest of India's peacetime gallantry awards, given for bravery other than in the face of the enemy.

The Qutub Minar came first, then Tughlaqabad Fort, then the Bada Gumbad of the Lodi period and last the Mughal city of Fatehpur Sikri.

Ginans are the devotional hymns of the Khoja Ismailis, composed by their pirs in Indian languages and sung in their prayer halls.

They are the proteins around which DNA winds to form chromatin in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells. Histones are small basic proteins, rich in the positively charged amino acids lysine and arginine, which attract the negatively charged phosphate groups of DNA.

The OTA trains officers only for the Indian Army, so it is a single-service institution, not an inter-services one. The Officers Training Academy at Chennai trains short service commission officers, men and women, for the Army; a second OTA works at Gaya.

The Dutch traveller wrote these words about the poverty of peasants under the Mughals during the reign of Jahangir.

Hooke's law says stress is directly proportional to strain, and that holds only up to the proportional limit, where the curve is a straight line.

A constellation is a group of stars that appears to form a shape when seen from the earth, but its stars usually lie at very different distances from us.

The presentation made to the regional meeting of North Eastern tourism ministers described it as the Mission for Redistribution of Tourism Demand and Promotion of Lesser-Known Destinations, whose purpose is to promote places that are ready to receive visitors as alternatives to the crowded centres that already draw the bulk…

The structured business-to-business meetings were the commercial heart of the Mart, bringing buyers and sellers face to face so that new tourism itineraries could be designed, commercial partnerships established and products of the North Eastern states promoted.

The Ministry of Tourism organised the Mart there with the state government and the other North Eastern states, and the edition brought the event back to the town after thirteen years, the second edition having been held at the same place in 2013.

This is the vision the Indian Navy advances through deployments and port calls such as the visit of INS Tarkash to Port Louis, where joint training with the Mauritius Coast Guard, community outreach and participation in a national commemoration all serve the same purpose.

The first batch of indentured labourers from India stepped ashore at Aapravasi Ghat in Port Louis on 2 November of that year, and Mauritius has marked the date every year since; the observance in 2026 is the 192nd.

The frigate arrived there on 30 October 2026 while on an operational deployment to the Southern Indian Ocean Region, and the call is intended to strengthen naval cooperation through professional interactions, joint activities and cultural exchanges with the Mauritius Coast Guard.