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Did you know that insects don’t have red blood like us? Instead their blood is either colorless or a very faint green or yellow. If you manage to squash an insect, and you see red blood, you can be sure that that red has come from the blood of some animal the insect has bitten. Read More [Source: www.harley.com/ask-harley/questions/zoology.html]: Animals …

Perhaps you already know, which blood group you belong to: A, B, AB, O, Rhesus + Rhesus + (Rhesus Positive), or Rhesus – (Rhesus Negative). But do you know what these letters and signs mean? Although all human blood looks the same when see under a microscope, we do not all have the same type of blood. Some substances, found …

Blood plays vital role in the life of our body. It is a fluid that circulates through the heart and blood vessels, supplying nutritive materials to every part of the body and carrying off waste products. It is colorless fluid, plasma, in which float myriads of corpuscles. There are of three kinds: red, white and platelets. Learn More: Blood is …

A blood donor can give about half a litre of blood. The blood is kept for transfusions to help save people’s lives. The body then makes more blood, but the donor should not give blood again for at least two months. Every year on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day.

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional organization comprising seven Member States lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal constituting a contiguous regional unity. This sub-regional organization came into being on 6 June 1997 through the Bangkok Declaration. It constitutes seven Member States: five deriving from South …

In 1907, car salesman John Hertz looked at his surplus of traded-in cars and decided to start a taxi business. Since taxis needed to stand out, the colour yellow was chosen. That was the result of a survey by the University of Chicago which concluded yellow was the easiest colour to spot. Hertz’s Chicago Yellow Cab Company was the first …

A major economic evil related to financial sector is the practice of money laundering. Money laundering involves keeping financial assets from illegal activity in a disguised manner. This money is kept without detection of the illegal activity for future use. Through money laundering, the launderer transforms the monetary proceeds derived from criminal activity into funds with an apparently legal source. …

The US has withdrawn the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits provided to India and few other developing countries. GSP withdrawal will be enforced from 5th of June 2019. GSP is an arrangement that allows concessional or zero tariff imports from developing couturiers into the US. Withdrawal of the GSP benefit is expected to adversely affect exports from India. What …

The cigarette was the last method of taking tobacco to be developed. Previously it had been smoked in pipes and cigars, inhaled as snuff (in powder form) and chewed. Tobacco itself was brought to Europe and the rest of the world when Columbus discovered America, and it was thought to have marvelous medicinal properties. No one could be said to …

India’s most worshiped and loved batsman who has been considered as one of the best batsman in cricket history holds this record as well. Sachin Tendulkar has scored 17 half centuries in Cricket World Cup history at an average of 57.93 runs per inning. The strike rate of Sachin Tendulker remained phenomenal at 88.21. Seventeen 50s in ICC Cricket World …