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Supreme Court collegium has selected senior advocate Indu Malhotra as the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge of the apex court.

Along with Malhotra, Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice KM Joseph has also been promoted as a Supreme Court justice.

Malhotra holds the distinction of being only the second woman in Supreme Court’s history to be designated as a senior advocate in 2007.

In all, Malhotra is going to be the seventh woman judge since independence to make it to the Supreme Court.

At present, Justice R Banumathi is the lone woman judge in the apex court.

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.

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Charaka Samhita was a work on Medicine.

In the aggregate expenditures model, it is assumed that investment does not change when real GDP changes.

• The aggregate expenditure is the sum of all the expenditures undertaken in the economy by the factors during a specific time period.

• The aggregate expenditure determines the total amount that firms and households plan to spend on goods and services at each level of income.

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.

The Sahara is the largest non-polar desert in the world. The Sahara is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

The desert covers large sections of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. It covers 9 million square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), amounting to 31% of Africa.

Its borders include the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Red Sea to the east.