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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.

Long sightedness is a common vision condition in which nearby objects are blurry.

In this situation, the person with this condition of the eye where the curvature of the cornea is flat or the axial length of the eyeball is short. When light enters the eye, it does not focus directly on the retina, but focuses beyond the retina. This causes near images to appear out of focus and blurred.

Long sightedness is also called hyperopia, and sometimes presbyopia.

Replication of the DNA does not occur during Mitosis.

Tubes that bifurcate from the windpipe are called Bronchi.

Biogeochemical cycles are crucial to ecosystem function because ::

1. Chemical elements are available in only limited amounts and must be recycled.

2. Nutrients and other life-sustaining molecules are in limited supply and must be continually recycled.