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District cooling system is a well known and energy efficient technology adopted across the world. India's 1st district cooling system will come up in the green city Amaravathi, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh state.

District cooling system (DCS) distributes thermal energy in the form of chilled water from a central source to multiple buildings through a network of underground pipes for use in space cooling. The cooling or heat rejection is usually provided from a central cooling plant, thus eliminating the need for separate systems in individual buildings.

Charaka Samhita was a work on Medicine.

A team of researchers at IBM has created the world’s smallest magnet using a single atom which can store one bit of data on it.

Photosynthesis takes place inside plant cells in small things called chloroplasts.

Chloroplasts contain a green substance called chlorophyll and this absorbs the light energy needed to make photosynthesis happen.

The each degree of latitude is equals to 111 kms approx (69 miles). As Earth is lightly ellipsoid in shape it changes at equator and poles from 110.5 kms to 111.7 kms respectively.

It has been said that the creation of NASA was due to the space exploration race between the US and the Soviet Union. One of the drives to the creation of NASA is the launching of Sputnik on October 4, 1957.

Since then, further explorations have been made by the agency.

Integrated circuit (IC) is a tiny device that controls electric signals in such electronic equipments as computers and T.V sets. Many integrated circuits contain thousands of electronic parts on a paper - thin chip of silicon. These parts include capacitors, diodes, all in a very small, compact space.