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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.

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.

High frequency sound attacks the tympanic memberane and makes it defective. 120 decibles is too high a pitch to be heard and therefore it impairs the hearing ability.

Electricity generated from coal and oil is termed as 'Thermal Power'.

A nitrogenous base, or nitrogen-containing base, is an organic molecule with a nitrogen atom that has the chemical properties of a base. The main biological function of a nitrogenous base is to bond nucleic acids together. A nitrogenous base owes its basic properties to the lone pair of electrons of a nitrogen atom.

In DNA, four bases have been found. They are

1. Adenine (A),

2. Guanine (G),

3. Cytosine (C) and

4. Thymine (T).

The first three of these bases are found in RNA also but the fourth which is Uracil (U) is absent in it.

RNA contains cytosine and uracil as pyrimidine bases while DNA has cytosine and thymine.

Sr. No             Minister                         Portfolio

 1.           Shri Narendra Modi         Prime Minister and also in-charge of:

                                                           – Ministry of Personnel
                                                            – Public Grievances and Pensions
                                                            – Department of Atomic Energy
                                                            – Department of Space

  All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

  2.           Shri Raj Nath Singh         Minister of Home Affairs

  3.           Smt. Sushma Swaraj       Minister of External Affairs

  4.           Shri Arun Jaitley            -  Minister of Finance

                                                    – Minister of Corporate Affair

 5.           Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari   – Minister of Road Transport & Highway

                                                      – Minister of shipping 

                                                      – Minister of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

 6.           Suresh Prabhu                     Minister of Commerce & Industry

 7.           D.V Sadananda Gowda        Minister of Statistics & Programme Implementation

 8.           Sushri Uma Bharati             Minister of Drinking Water & Sanitation

 9.           Nirmala Sitharaman            Minister of Defence

 10.         Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi          Minister of Minority Affairs

 11.         Shri Ramvilas Paswan         Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

 12.         Maneka Sanjay Gandhi       Minister of Women & Child Development

 13.         Shri Ananth Kumar          – Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers
                                                    – Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

 14.         Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad    – Minister of Law & Justice                                                                                                    – Minister of Electronics & Information Technology         

 15.         Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda      Minister of Health & Family Welfare

16.         Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati     Minister of Civil Aviation

17.         Shri. Anant Geete                      Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises     

18.         Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal         Minister of Food Processing Industries

19.         Shri Narendra Singh Tomar         – Minister of Rural Development
                                                             – Minister of Panchayati Raj
                                                            – Minister of Drinking Water & Sanitation

20.         Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh      Minister of Steel

21.         Shri Jual Oram                              Minister of Tribal Affairs

22.         Shri Radha Mohan Singh                Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare          

23.         Shri Thawar Chand Gehlot              Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment

24.         Smt. Smriti Irani                           – Minister of Textiles
                                                                – Minister of Information & Broadcasting            

25.         Dr Harsh Vardhan                         – Minister of Science & Technology
                                                                – Minister of Earth Sciences
                                                               – Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change

26.          Prakash Javadekar                        Human Resource Development

27.          Piyush Goyal                                 – Minister of Railways

                                                                – Minster of Coal

28.         Dharmendra Pradhan                     – Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas

                                                               – Minister of Skill Development & Enterprise