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Indian Olympic Association (IOA) chooses P.V. Sindhu as the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent for the opening ceremony of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

The opening ceremony will be held on April 4, 2018.

The upper house of the parliament is the Rajya Sabha and is a permanent body.

Secondary pollutants include ozone, which is formed when hydrocarbons (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) combine in the presence of sunlight.

Whereas Primary pollutant are those pollutants that are directly emitted from their sources, like CO2, CO, SO2 as these gases are directly emitted form burning of fossil fuels.

Acid rain, which is formed when sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides react with water, sulfuric acid etc.

Hence, Acidrain is a secondary air pollutant.

India was re-elected as member of executive board of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Executive board is UNESCO's top decision-making body. The election was held at 39th session of General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, France. 

UNESCO is UN association that helps safeguard historical and cultural sites around the world. It is special multi-nation organization, framed in 1945 and situated in France. It promotes literacy and sex education as well as improving gender equality in countries around world. The General Conference determines policies and main lines of work of organisation. Its duty is to set programmes and budget of UNESCO. It also elects members of executive board and appoints, every four years, director-general.

A computer program is a set of instructions i.e algorithm that are to be executed to complete a task.

The US state California's  economy has surpassed that of the UK to become the world’s fifth largest, according to new federal data released.

With a GDP of $2.7 trillion, California is now only behind the US, China, Japan and Germany.