The Average Variable Cost Curve is ‘U’ shaped.

The Current Account balance is the sum of the balance of merchandise trade, services and net transfers received from the rest of the world.

Octopus is an animal of class-Cephalopoda and phylum Mollusca. The shell is absent. It is found at bottom of the sea. It kills its prey with poisonous saliva. It can change its colour.

AIDS is a viral disease. In this disease the immune system weakens and the body becomes prone to different type of infection by pathogens. Sweating at night, swollen lymph nodes, loss of memory and loss of weight are also symptoms of AIDS.

Navies of India and Oman conducted exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ off the coast of Oman. The Indian Navy’s guided missile stealth frigate, INS Trikand, offshore patrol vessel, INS Sumitra, and Maritime Patrol Aircraft, (MPA) Dornier, participated in the 13th Edition of the exercise.
The Indian Navy (IN) – Royal Navy of Oman (RNO) bilateral exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ (Sea Breeze) had three phases: harbour phase, sea phase and debrief

Manju, a lance naik in the Indian Army, created history by becoming the first woman soldier skydiver.
She jumped off the ALH Dhruv chopper (Advanced Light Helicopter) from a height of 10,000 feet. Lance Naik Manju is from the Corps of Military Police. She was trained by the skydiving training team of the Indian Army’s Adventure Wing.

As per a recent a study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods and heatwaves is projected to rise manifold in India in the future due to climate change.
The research team studied the period from 1951 to 2020 to quantify India’s risk of sequential extremes. The study found that the risk will increase under the warming climate and variability in the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are planning a mission to bring the first samples of Mars material back to Earth for detailed study.
The Mars Perseverance rover is the first leg of this international interplanetary team, to collect and cache samples on Mars. Mars Sample Return is a mission to return Martian samples collected by the Mars Perseverance rover to Earth.

The Indo-German Week of the Young Researchers 2022 was jointly organised by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) India, and German Research Foundation (DFG).
30 promising young researchers from India and Germany will discuss and interact closely on contemporary matters in chemical sciences. The main goal of the conclave is to promote collaboration among early and mid-career researchers and scientists.

Biosphere reserves are established under UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) Programme.