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Deadlock is a situation where a group of processes are all blocked and none of them can become unblocked until one of the other becomes unblocked. The simplest deadlock is two processes each of which is waiting for a message from the other.

Airtel Payments Bank is the first payment bank in India. A payments bank is a new category of banks conceptualized by the Reserve Bank of India, which operates at a smaller scale than an actual bank and doesn't involve any credit risk. It can carry out most banking operations but can't advance loans or issue credit cards.

The RBI as of date has given licences to 11 payments bank of which six are currently operational. These include

1. Aditya Birla Payments Bank,
2. Airtel Payments Bank,
3. India Post Payments Bank,
4. Fino Payments Bank,
5. Jio Payments Bank (and)
6. Paytm Payments Bank.

A floppy disk contains both circular tracks and sectors in it.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development has launched #Childline1098 childline contest to spread awareness on human trafficking. 

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.

The WCD Ministry has invited people to share images of the logo of Childline 1098, the nationwide emergency helpline for children in distress, that they spot at unique locations and send it with a tagline to win a cash price, in a bid to spread awareness on trafficking.

The contest has been organised to mark 'World Day against Trafficking in Persons' on July 30.

The Childline has been operating at 450 locations, including 76 key railway stations, across the country.

The founder and also first Chairman of the ISRO is Vikram Sarabhai.

In humans all reproduction is sexual. It involves joining together haploid gamete cells from each parent with half the normal number of chromosomes to make a new cell containing both parents' genetic material. This is a diploid zygote. The cells from each parent that combine to form the zygote are called gametes.

Meiosis produces haploid gametes from a diploid parental cell.