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In the annual World University Rankings released by Times Higher Education, the Indian Institute of Science of India has reached 251-300 band from last year's 201-250 band, while Oxford and Cambridge universities are on the top in the Global 1000 list.

The launch of the first rocket from TERLS or Thumba Equatorial Rocket  Launching Centre.

Diamond is the hardest substance available on Earth.

Diamond is the hardest substance available on Earth due to the giant molecular structure of diamond in which each carbon atom is covalently bonded to four other carbon atoms. A covalent bond is very strong and requires a large amount of energy to break itself, and diamond has many covalent bonds.

PFD's : Personal Flotation Devices (life jackets).

It is a legal requirement for a PFD to

1. Must be in good, serviceable condition 

2. PFDs must be properly sized for the intended wearer.

3. Sizing for PFDs is based on body weight and chest size.

The largest desert in Asia is called the Gobi Desert. It covers an area of 500,000 square miles stretching from southern Mongolia to northern China.

The clotting of blood is a chain reaction initiated by the enzyme thrombokinase produced by the platelets. This causes prothrombin to be converted into thrombin in the presence of Ca++ion.

Thrombin combines with fibrinogen  to produce fibrin threads which entangles the corpuscles to form the clot.