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Tehri dam is located on the river Bhagirathi.

• It is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand, India.

• It is the primary dam of the THDC India Ltd. and the Tehri hydroelectric complex.

The time taken for the earth and the solar system to complete one journey round the Milky Way.

The Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society's highest honor, recognizes those qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers—brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional scientific disciplines. The Von Hippel Award is named after Arthur von Hippel (1898-2003), who was a pioneer in the study of dielectrics, semiconductors, ferromagnetics and ferroelectrics.

Eminent Scientist and Bharat Ratna Prof C.N.R. Rao was awarded 2017 Von Hippel Award. He is first Indian and first Asian to win this honour. The award will be presented to Prof Rao for his interdisciplinary contributions to development of novel functional materials, including nanomaterials, graphene, superconductivity, 2D materials and colossal magnetoresistance at Boston in November 2017.

Madurai is one of the major cities in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu. It is the 25th most populated city in India, located on the banks of River Vaigai.

In the Indian history, Madurai was the capita of Pandyas.

It is composed of Archaean gneisses and schists

Ramdev promoted Patanjali Ayurveda and Reliance Jio have featured among the top 10 most influential brand in India, according to a study by the global research firm Ipsos.

Home grown Patanjali and Mukesh Ambani’s controlled Reliance Jio have bagged the fourth and ninth position, respectively. Interestingly, Patanjali and Reliance Jio made an impressive entry as they did not figure in the previous edition of the study.

Besides, Google has been ranked at the top slot while Microsoft and Facebook were ranked at number two and three, respectively. State Bank of India (SBI) being the only financial institution that made to the list, moved up four ranks to take the fifth position. E-commerce player Flipkart dropped three spots to take the tenth place while Amazon climbed couple of steps to take the sixth place. Other companies that made to the list include Samsung (7th) and Airtel (8th).