Hockey India named Graham Reid as the new chief coach of the India men's hockey team. The 54-year-old will join the team in Bengaluru shortly for the on-going National Camp at Sports Authority of India. He has succeeded Harendra Singh.

 The underlying rocks which contain minerals and make up the bulk of the soil are called the parent rocks. Parent rocks influence the colour, texture, chemical properties, minerals content and permeability of the soil.

Mantle is the widest section of the Earth. Its thickness is approximately 2,900 km. Mantle is mainly made up of semi-molten rock known as magma.

Ovaries are the female sex organs that make eggs and female hormones. They are a pair of female reproductive glands in which the ova, or eggs, are formed and are located in the pelvis, one on each side of the uterus.

Phylum Chordata are the most familiar phylum in the animal kingdom as it includes all animals that possess, nerve cord, notochord, and other well-developed organ system.

Penganga River is one of the tributaries of Godavari River. It flows along the northern boundary of the Nanded district. Wardha is the tributary of River Godavari.  It originates from the Mutai plateau of the Satpuda range and flows along the entire northern and western border of the Wardha district. Wainganga is the tributary of River Godavari. It receives numerous tributaries on either bank and drains the western, central and eastern regions of the Chandrapur and Nagpur district.

Liquefied petroleum gas or liquid petroleum gas also referred to as simply propane or butane, are flammable mixtures of hydrocarbon gases used as fuel in heating appliances, cooking equipment, and vehicles. When heated, it usually burns out with a blue coloured flame.

Acetic acid (CH3COOH), also called ethanoic acid is the most important of the carboxylic acids. Industrially, acetic acid is used in the preparation of metal acetates, used in some printing processes; vinyl acetate, employed in the production of plastics; cellulose acetate, used in making photographic films and textiles; and volatile organic esters widely used as solvents for resins, paints, and lacquers.

PRISMA (Precursore Iperspettrale della Missione Applicativa) is an Earth observation system by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) with innovative electro-optical instrumentation which combines a hyperspectral sensor with a panchromatic, medium-resolution camera. It is a follow-on project for the cancelled HypSEO mission.

Karen Uhlenbeck, a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University in the US, is the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Abel Prize in mathematics.