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Several Budget proposals, including the reintroduction of the tax on long-term capital gains (LTCG) exceeding 1 lakh from the sale of shares, will kick in from 01st April 2018, the beginning of the 2018-19 financial year. 

Swayangsiddha which means self-reliance is the scheme that has been started by the West Bengal police in all districts in an attempt to combat human trafficking.

Fermentation is the chemical breakdown of a substance by bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms, typically involving effervescence and the giving off of heat.

The two most common types of fermentation are

(1) alcoholic fermentation (and) 

(2) lactic acid fermentation.

(1) Alcoholic fermentation : the type of fermentation in which ethyl alcohol is the main end product .This is very common in yeast (unicellular fungus) and also seen in some bacteria. Yeast cells release enzymes called zymase complex which bring about the fermentation. The reactions are similar to anaerobic respiration.

(2) Lactic acid fermentation : The type of fermentation in which lactic acid is the end product.

It is carried out by some bacteria (e.g. lactic acid bacteria), and also by animals (muscle glycolysis in animals, under oxygen deficiency, results in the formation of lactic acid this is whay we experience in muscle cramps, or "Charley horse").

China has built an 'artificial sun' that reaches 100million °C, 6 times temperature of Sun’s core.

A mountain is what has roots that nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, Yet it never grows.

The Egyptian scripts is known as Hieroglyphic which means 'sacred writing' . It consisted of 24 signs, each of which stood for a single consonant. Vowels were not written. Later the Egyptian started using symbols for ideas and the total number of signs rose to about 500. The writers, who constituted an important section of society , wrote with reed pens on the leaves of a plant called 'Papyrus' from which we get the word 'paper'.