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Volcanic mountains are very common along the destructive plate boundaries i.e. Oceanic-continental plate boundaries which are yet uncovered in the rock folded mountains formed due to continental –to continental plate collision.The Himalayas are also a plate-to-plate collision tectonic boundary. In this case, the Indian Plate [of the Indian Subcontinent] is colliding head-on with the Eurasian Plate. Both plates are comprised of continental lithospheric crust, so there is no appreciable distinction in density.

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Paulo Ceolho is the author of The Alchemist

The name Bharat is derived from the legendary king Bharat who was ancestor of kauravas and pandavas, son of King Dushyanta and Shakuntala.

The name India is derived from the river Sindhu which flows in the north west of the country. The Greeks used to call us Indoi meaning the people of the Indus.

Salivary glands of man are 3 pairs = 6. They are one pair of parotid glands, one pair of submaxillary or submandibular glands and one pair of sublingual glands.

Adding the corresponding numbers in first and last figures gives the corresponding number in the middle figure.

i.e, 4 + 3 = 7

13 + 2 = 15

2 + 4 = 6

9 + 1 = 10