In August, 1996 at Kolar(near Bangalore), India made successful test flights of Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) named Nishant. The DRDO Nishant was an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed by India’s ADE (Aeronautical Development Establishment), a branch of DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) for the Indian Armed Forces.

IDA stands for International Development Agency. The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. It was established in 1960 to complement the existing International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) by lending to developing countries which suffer from the lowest gross national income, from troubled creditworthiness, or from the lowest per capita income.

Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984. On 31 October 1984, Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was killed by her Sikh bodyguards. The assassination sparked four days of riots that left more than 8,000 Indian Sikhs dead in revenge attacks.

India’s first nuclear blast at Pokhran in Rajasthan took place in 1974. The bomb was detonated on the army base Pokhran Test Range (PTR), in Rajasthan, by the Indian Army under the supervision of several key Indian generals.

Basketball is a team sport where two teams, usually consisting of five players on each team, play against each other on a rectangular court.

Hundred year war was fought between France and England during the late Middle Ages. It lasted 116 years from 1337 to 1453. The war started because Charles IV of France died in 1328 without an immediate male heir (i.e., a son or younger brother).

In Butter and paraffin wax, the two substances forming the pair are chemically most dissimilar. Butter is an unsaturated compound or an olefin in contrast to wax which is a saturated compound. So butter will show more reactivity for reactants. As such, they show different chemical nature.

India’s Integrated Missiles Development Programme was started in 1982-83 under the chairmanship of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. On 8 January 2008, the DRDO formally announced the successful completion of the IGMDP.

INS Agrani (Petty Officers’ School) is situated at Coimbatore. Indian Naval Station Agrani is a leadership training establishment of the Indian Navy, it comes under the Eastern Naval Command and conducts courses for middle level sailors. This station was commissioned in 1965.

Hybridization is cross-fertilization between two varieties. Hybridization refers to the natural or deliberate pollination between two plants. It occurs all the time in the wild as many plants are cross-pollinated and when the pollen from one plant lands on the stigma of another plant, and if fertilization is successful in producing seed, then hybridization has occurred.