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An excise or excise tax or excise duty is a type of tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). It is a tax on the production of a good. This tax is now known as the Central Value Added Tax (CENVAT).

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Rocket specialist K. Sivan has been appointed as new Chairman of India's space agency ISRO for a three-year term. He replaces current ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar, whose term ends January 14, 2018.

• He is currently Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Trivandrum.

• His expertise gave ISRO ability to send 104 satellites in a single mission.

It takes 248 yrs for Pluto to orbit the Sun.

Sodium chloride:

The solubility rules tell you that all halides are soluble with the exception of those formed with siver, mercury, and lead ions. Since this is not the case here, sodium chloride will be soluble.

Silver nitrate:

It is soluble because all nitrates are soluble, without exception.

Potassium sulfate:

It is soluble because all sulfates are soluble with the exception of those formed with silver, calcium, barium, mercury, lead, and strontium ions.

Copper (II) hydroxyde:

It is insoluble because all hydroxides are insoluble with the exception of those formed with alkali metal ions and barium.

Incorporation is a legal process that enables the formation of a local government and divides a state into separate counties with their own leaders.

The different counties become self governing entities under the laws of the state in which they fall and are given the authority to function as independent units but within the jurisdiction of the state laws.