* VAJRA and AWSAR initiatives are being implemented by Ministry of Sc. And Tech.

* VAJRA stands for Visiting Advanced Joint Research Faculty Scheme.

* AWSAR stands for Augmenting writing skills for Articulating Research.

* AWSAR aims to encourage popular science writing through newspapers, magazines, blogs etc.

* VAJRA is a dedicated program exclusively for overseas scientists and academics with emphasis on NRI and PIO/OCIs.

* Option B is the correct answer.

* Small bead-like structures inside the ovary of a flower are called ovules.

* Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.

* The sepals are the outermost part of the flower. These are small, leaf-shaped, green in color.

* The stamen is the male reproductive organ of the flower.

* Harrapan was situated on the bank of the Ravi River.

* It is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan.

* Harrapan civilisation was earliest known urban civilisation and also known as Indus Valley Civilisation.

Bharhut Stupa is located in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh.

* The railings of stupa and gateway are kept at Indian Museum in Kolkata.

* The Bharhut stupa railings have numerous images of the yakshas and yakshini.

* A pillar of the vedika has a depiction of a Greek warrior who wears boots and a tunic.

* Queen Maya’s dream, preceding the birth of the Buddha, is also a major theme on the railing of the Bharhut stupa.

● According to the Jain Philosophy, the term 'Jina' means the conqueror.

● Jina is the one who has conquered temporal and material existence through self-discipline and attained a transcendent and external state of bliss.

● Jina is commonly known as the Tirthankara.

● Radian per Meter is the SI unit of the Propagation Constant.

● Propagation constant is a measure of changes in a sinusoidal electromagnetic wave in terms of amplitude and phase while propagating through a medium.

* The Victoria Memorial is a large marble building in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

* It was built between 1906 and 1921.

* It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria.

* Queen Victoria was declared Empress of India in 1877, but she never visited India during her lifetime.

● Binary fission is the common method of the Asexual Reproduction in which single entity is divided into two parts and both are regenerated into separate entities.

● Some other methods of asexual reproduction are budding, fragmentation, spore formation, regeneration, etc.

● Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction which does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes.

* Pressure exerted in liquid acts in all direction.

* When the pressure in a fluid increases, the particles bump together more frequently.

* This increases the pressure on objects in the fluid.

* The pressure a fluid exerts on an object in the fluid is applied in all directions. That is because the particles that make up the fluid can move in any direction.

* Union Budget proposed Rs. 4,000 crore over five years for Deep Sea Mission under which survey exploration and conservation of sea biodiversity will be done.

* Deep Sea Mission-

* It focuses on giving a boost to exploration of India's Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf.

* It is run under ISRO.

* Other announcements under Innovation and R&D-

* Rs. 1,500 crore for proposed scheme to promote digital modes of payment

* National Language Translation Mission (NTLM) to make governance-and-policy related knowledge available in major Indian languages