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The world’s largest tropical rainforest Amazon rain forests are called "Lungs of the Earth". It is so called because it produces 20% of the Earth's oxygen, and is also a vast carbon sink, absorbs more than 1 billion tons of atmospheric carbon which is emitted by the burning of fossil fuels annually.

Kandla is Tidal port, Kolkata Haldia is  a  riverine  port,  Tuticorin  is  a river  port,  Marmagao  is  in  Goa,  is situated   on   estuary   on   eastern coast of India. Delta formation and estuary    formation    take    place mostly  on  western  coast  and  Goa is in western coast. 

The Government has launched PowerTex India, a comprehensive scheme for powerloom sector development, simultaneously at over 45 locations in the country.

Launching the scheme in Bhiwandi, Thane district, Maharashtra, the Union Textiles Minister, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani said that Bhiwandi will be known for resurgence in Powerloom sector. Recalling that the powerloom sector alone employs over 44 lakh people, the Minister said that the scheme will especially benefit small powerloom weavers.

The first session of Indian National Congress was held from 28–31 December 1885, in Mumbai and was attended by 72 delegates. Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee was the first president of the Indian National Congress (INC), a voice of Indian opinion to the British government.

Siphon is a tube bent to form two legs of unequal length by which a liquid can be transferred from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of it.

Siphon will fail to work if, the level of the liquid in the two vessels are at the same height.