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Peggy Whitson on 24 April 2017 broke the record for most days spent in space (cumulatively) by a US astronaut. She broke the previous record set by Jeff Williams who had spent a total of 534 days in space.

– Whitson has been currently living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS), for which she was launched in November 2016 using a Russian Soyuz capsule. At the time of her launch, she had already accumulated 377 total days in space.

– Her mission was recently extended for an additional three months. Now when she will return from ISS in September 2017, she would have accumulated more than 600 days in space.

Ganeshan Neelakanta Iyer has become the first Indian to be nominated as a member of the ITTF Umpires and Referees Committee (URC). His term will be for two years and is extendable. Iyer is the only assigned competition manager of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in India. Beside this, Ganeshan has also been recommended as the Technical Commissioner from the Asian Continent to ITTF and his term will be for a period of four years. He is also the chairman of the South Asian Federation technical committee and a member of the Technical Committee of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation (CTTF).

IUPAC stands for International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

A chemical nomenclature is a set of rules to generate systematic names for chemical compounds. The nomenclature used most frequently worldwide is the one created and developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

TRIM "Trade-related Investment Measures", an agreement within the Uruguay round trade negotiations.

TRIPS "TRADE-RELATED ASPECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, is an international legal agreement between all the member nations of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

"Pure Banking, Nothing Else" - is a slogan raised by SBI -  State Bank of India.

India's largest cab aggregator Ola has partnered with Bharti Airtel to launch a range of integrated digital offerings to customers.

 As part of the partnership, Ola will integrate Airtel Payments bank to its app and Airtel will integrate Ola's mobile wallet Ola Money as a payment solution on Airtel website and MyAirtel app for mobile recharges and bill payments.

The letter “c” with a line over it is a medical abbreviation often used by doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. The symbol looks like this: c̄. The c is almost always lower-case.

This symbol actually has a very simple meaning. A c with a line over it just means “with”. This abbreviation is often used on patient charts and prescriptions, as well as information or notes written by medical professionals.