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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.

Marketspace refers to an information and communication based electronic exchange environment. It is a relatively new concept in marketing. Since physical boundaries no longer interfere with buy/sell decisions, the world has grown into several industry specific marketspaces which are integration of marketplaces through sophisticated computer and telecommunication technologies.

Viswanathan Anand continued his excellent run bagging a bronze in the World Blitz Chess Championship following his gold winning performance in the Rapid section.

• The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships.

• The current world blitz champion is Magnus Carlsen.

Blood is a heterogeneous mixture because the blood cells are physically separate from the blood plasma. The cells have different properties than the plasma. The cells can be separated from the plasma by centrifuging, which is a physical change.