The energy of food is measured in calories. A calorie is a unit that is used to measure energy. The Calorie you see on a food package is actually a kilocalorie, or 1,000 calories. A Calorie (kcal) is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius.

The chief of Air Staff is assisted by Vice-chief of the Air Staff, Deputy-chief of the Air Staff and Air Officer Incharge Administration.

The first batch of women pilots was commissioned on December 17, 1994.

The five permanent members of the Security Council are China, France, Russia, UK, USA. The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five states which the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council (UNSC): China, France, Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The frequency of Gamma rays is the highest. Gamma rays are the highest energy EM radiation and typically have energies greater than 100 keV, frequencies greater than 1019 Hz, and wavelengths less than 10 picometers.

Satyajit Ray received Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts in 1967. The Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s premier prize and highest honor, celebrates greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia.

The agreement according to which the UK, the USA and the former USSR cannot assist other countries in acquiring technology to develop nuclear weapons, is known as Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). The NPT non-nuclear-weapon states agree never to acquire nuclear weapons and the NPT nuclear-weapon states in exchange agree to share the benefits of peaceful nuclear technology and to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

The ‘Red Triangle’ symbol denotes family planning. An inverted Red Triangle is the symbol for family planning health and contraception services, much as the red cross is a symbol for medical services.

P.T. Usha, who came close to bagging a bronze finished fourth in 400 m hurdle in 1984 Olympics. Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha is a retired Indian track and field athlete. She has been associated with Indian athletics since 1979. She is often called the “queen of Indian track and field”.

Photophobia is abnormal intolerance of light. Photophobia is a symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light. As a medical symptom, photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical sensitivity of the eyes, though the term is sometimes additionally applied to abnormal or irrational fear of light such as heliophobia.