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India's nominee to International Court of Justice (ICJ) Dalveer Bhandari (70) was re-elected to fifth and the last seat of World court. Bhandari received 183-193 votes in United Nations General Assembly and secured all 15 votes in UN Security Council (UNSC). He was elected after Britain withdrew its candidate from the election. This is the first time since the ICJ was established in 1945 that there will be no British judge in ICJ. Bhandari is fourth Indian judge to be elected to ICJ after B.N. Rau, Nagendra Singh and RS Pathak.

The act of formally approving something is known as Ratification.

DNA is copied during a process called Transcription. It is the first step of gene expression, in which a particular segment of DNA is copied into RNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase.

The size of the pupil of the automatically adjusts itself according to the intensity of light passing through it; if the intensity is more, the size is less, if less, it is more. So in our case the pupil should dilate i.e , increase in size to be able to see in the dark. This switchover takes some time. But here the entry into the dark room is immediate. So the eye has no time to adjust itself and hence is not able to see at all for a while. 

American financial magazine Barron's has listed the name of HDFC Bank Managing Director Aditya Puri’s name in its list of world’s 30 best CEOs. He holds the 23rd position in the list beating social media giant Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg who is listed on the 30th spot.

Top five most popular games world wide are :

Game name              -      Estimated  fans     -    Popular Regions

1. Soccer / Football      -      3.5 Billion    -     Europe, Africa, Asia, America

2. Cricket                    -      2.5 Billion     -    Asia, Australia, UK

3. Basketball               -      2.2 Billion     -    US, Canada, China and Philippines

4. Field Hockey           -       2 Billion       -     Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia

5. Tennis                    -       1 Billion       -     Europe, Americas, and Asia.