Questions

The National Survey and Mapping Organization of the country under the Department of Science & Technology is The Survey of India. It was founded by The East India Company in the year 1767, head quartered in Dehradun.

The East India Company appointed James Rennell to survey the Bengal Presidency in 1767.

Arunachal Pradesh is called The Orchid Paradise in India.

True, The luster of a metal is due to presence of free electrons. Luster means shine or soft glow. We know that metals have the quality of reflecting light from its surface.

The scientific study of rocks is called petrology, which is an essential component of geology.

Lobsters, like snails and spiders, have blue blood due to the presence of hemocyanin, which contains copper. In contrast, vertebrates and many other animals have red blood from iron-rich hemoglobin.

Direct Materials doesn't come under Fixed Cost because it vary with changes in the activity level of a business.

Fixed Cost :

A fixed cost is a cost that does not change over the short-term, even if a business experiences changes in its sales volume or other activity levels.

It is of some importance to understand the extent and nature of the fixed costs in a business, since a high fixed-cost level requires a business to maintain a high revenue level in order to avoid generating losses.

Examples of Fixed Cost are:

Insurance, Salaries, Rent, Property Taxes,...

Senior IPS officer Alok Kumar Verma, Delhi Police Commissioner was appointed as new Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation. He will have tenure of two years. He was selected by a three-member committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice J S Khehar and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge. He will take over from interim director Rakesh Asthana, who was handed the reins of the premier investigating agency after former director Anil Sinha retired on December 2, 2016.

The motto of the Supreme Court of India is "Yato Dharmastato Jayah" i.e, anytime truth wins. It was done in 1950.