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Pandemic

A pandemic is a large-scale epidemic of an infectious disease that spreads across multiple countries or continents, affecting substantial numbers of people. Unlike endemic diseases, which remain consistently...

December 29, 2016

Paracel Islands

The Paracel Islands—also known as the Xisha Islands in Chinese and the Hoàng Sa or Hồng Sa Archipelago in Vietnamese—form a strategically significant and politically contested group of...

December 29, 2016

Particle physics

Particle physics—often termed high-energy physics—is the branch of physics concerned with the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and with the fundamental interactions governing their behaviour. While nuclear...

December 29, 2016

Patanjali

Patanjali is a collective name attributed to one or more influential authors, mystics, and philosophers active in ancient India. Across the Sanskrit literary and intellectual traditions, several significant...

December 29, 2016

Patriot Act

The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 was a landmark piece of United States federal legislation enacted in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the subsequent...

December 29, 2016

Pauli exclusion principle

The Pauli exclusion principle is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics that governs the behaviour of fermions—particles with half-integer spin. First proposed in 1925 by Austrian physicist Wolfgang...

December 29, 2016

Peace of Westphalia

The Peace of Westphalia refers to a pair of treaties concluded in 1648 that brought an end to the Thirty Years’ War in the Holy Roman Empire and...

December 29, 2016

27th meeting of Southern Zonal Council held at Thiruvananthapuram

The 27th meeting of the Southern Zonal Council held at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala was chaired by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The Southern Zonal Council consists of Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana,...

December 29, 2016

Government invites comments for creating new Financial Redressal Agency

The Union Government has invited public comments on a report for the creation of a Financial Redressal Agency (FRA). The report also calls for a new financial consumer...

December 29, 2016

Government launches IVRS platform to tackle call drops

The Union Government has launched Integrated Voice Response System (IVRS) system in a bid to tackle the call drop menace. The system was launched at multiple locations including...

December 29, 2016

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