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* Gelatine is used to make capsule shells in the pharmaceutical industry.
* Capsules are of two types- Hard shell capsules and soft shell capsules. Both of these type of capsules are made from aqueous solutions of gelling agents generally gelatine.
* Glycerin or sorbitol are also added to decrease the hardness of capsule.
* In July 2020, the NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), in partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wadhwani Foundation has launched AIM iCREST.
* This is a first of its kind initiative for advancing innovation at scale in India.
* It is a major initiative to encourage and enable progress in the incubator ecosystem across the country.
* Under the initiative, the AIM's incubators are set to be upscaled and provided requisite support to foster the incubation enterprise economy, that will help them to significantly enhance their performance.
* Sir James Chadwick was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932.
* He also played a vital role in the atomic theory.
* Neutrons are located in the centre of an atom, in the nucleus along with the protons. They have neither a positive nor negative charge.
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