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India’s space agency on Feb 15th, 2017 launched a record 104 satellites from a single rocket as it crossed another milestone in its low-cost space-exploration program. The satellites from seven countries were carried by the Indian Space Research Organization’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on its 38th consecutive successful flight. On board was a 714kg satellite for earth observation and more than 100 smaller satellites weighing less than 10kg each. Three were Indian-owned, 96 were from US companies, and the rest belonged to companies based in Israel, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. Most were owned by Planet Labs Inc, a US-based Earth-imaging company. 

There are two types of sociological theories:

1. Macro and

2. Micro.

Macro theories focus on the society as a whole and aim at establishing the general characteristics of the society. It is basically looking at the society as a whole and looking at a bigger picture. It aims to answer three basic questions:

1) What holds the societies together?

2) What are the sources of conflict in a society?

3) How do societies change?

There are two branches of macro-sociological theories: consensus and conflict, with the main representative being functionalist and marxist respectively.

Micro theories on the other hand, focus on the individuals who make up the society unlike macro theory which looks at the society as a whole. Micro theories are small scale. Consider it a magnifying glass, when you look through it, you 'zoom' in to the society and see the individuals who have made up that particular society.

Symbolic interactionism is the sociological perspective which is most closely linked to microsociology.

The process of conversion of sugar to alcohol is called Fermentation in which sugar is coverted to alcohol with the help of yeast.

• Project-based Organizations are those whose operations consist primarily of projects.


• Non Project-based organizations often may lack management systems designed to support project needs efficiently and effectively.

A primary key is a special relational database table column or combination of columns designated to uniquely identify all table records. That is, A primary key is a column or set of columns in a table that uniquely identifies tuples (rows) in that table.

A primary key, also called a Primary Keyword.

Main Features Primary key are ::

It must contain a unique value for each row of data.

It cannot contain null values.

Tropical cyclones are also known as 'typhoons' in china, and Willy Willies in Australia.

Small Industries and Development Bank of India (SIDBI) announced a plan to promote micro-enterprises in 115 aspirational districts across the country. It has tied up with Common Service Centre (CSC).