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Telecom Secretary J S Deepak was on Wednesday named India’s next Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from June this year. A 1982 batch IAS officer from Uttar Pradesh, Deepak, who is at present attending the World Mobile Congress at Barcelona, has been shifted with “immediate effect” from the telecom ministry and has been made Officer on Special Duty in the commerce department.

The geosphere is the earth's solid rock or rigid outer layer known as the crust. Without the geosphere it would not be possible for humans to live on the planet. The function of the geosphere serving as the interface between the other spheres.

Integrated circuit (IC) is a tiny device that controls electric signals in such electronic equipments as computers and T.V sets. Many integrated circuits contain thousands of electronic parts on a paper - thin chip of silicon. These parts include capacitors, diodes, all in a very small, compact space.

Based on conventionality in deriving energy, energy sources could be classified as

Conventional ::

coal, oil, hydro, nuclear, etc... sources which can be used up or exhaustible.

(and)

Non - conventional ::

solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, biogas, etc... sources which are not exhausted.

Among the given options, Geothermal energy is the alternative energy source among all the choices that are given in the question, that is exhaustible.

Rust forms when oxygen reacts with chemicals in rocks, and that is often the case with many other elements in general. Like a copper nail being exposed to the air will rust.