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Microsoft has acquired Flipgrid, an education start-up with an app that lets students record and share videos on specific topics with their classmates.

Microsoft is making Flipgrid free of charge.

While dew , fog and mist are formed due to condensation of vapour into water drops, hail falls from the clouds in the form of hard pellets of ice.

A Telephone or an Alarm...

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.

The phalanges or a phalanx are/is digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates. In primates, the thumbs and big toes have two phalanges while the other digits have three phalanges. The phalanges are classed as long bones.