Types of thermometers and how they work

Types of thermometers Clinical Thermometers, Laboratory Thermometers, and Digital Thermometers Clinical Thermometers These thermometers are used in hospitals, clinics, and also in the home. These thermometers will have a Kink. Kink meaning in a thermometer – It is used to prevent mercury from falling back into the bulb immediately. This is done for convenience for … Read more

Why Mercury or Alcohol is used in thermometers?

Why Mercury or Alcohol is used in Thermometer

Mercury and Alcohol are used in the thermometer because they remain in liquid form with temperature change. The best conductor of heat among liquids is mercury and also it does not stick to any surface, so it is widely used in thermometers Even a small change in temperature changes the volume of the Alcohol or … Read more

Venkatachaliah Commission

The National Commission to review the working of the constitution (NCRWC) also known as Justice Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah Commission. It was set up by a resolution of the NDA Government of India led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 22 February 2000 for suggesting possible amendments to the constitution of India.

Misuse of Article 356 of the Indian constitution

Misuse of Article 356 of the Indian constitution

Article 356 in Part XIII of the constitution provides for the proclamation of Emergency by the President in any state where there is a breakdown of constitutional machinery either based on the report of the Governor or even otherwise. The Article emphasizes the supremacy of the constitution and national unity and integrity. The state governments … Read more

Legislative relations between Centre and State Upsc

Centre-State Relations

The Centre-State Relation is all about the distribution of powers between Centre and States. The distribution of powers is the basic feature of federalism and the federal constitution. Basically, there are three areas of power distribution: Legislative Power Distribution. Executive Power Distribution Financial Power Distribution Legislative relations between Union and State There are two things … Read more

Rajamannar Committee Report and Recommendations Upsc

Rajamannar committee related to a commission set up by the Tamil Nadu government to study the state autonomy and centre-state relations by the DMK government under its Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. The Tamil Nadu government established the Rajamannar committee to analyze and provide recommendations for restructuring the centre-state relations in our constitution. The committee consisted … Read more

Punchhi Commission Recommendations Upsc

Punchhi Commission The Union Government constituted a commission in 2007, under the leadership of Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 2007. The commission also had three more members and a secretary and presented its report in 2010. It recommended that the governors of the states must have fixed tenure … Read more

Supreme Court Judgment in S.R. Bommai Case

Supreme Court Judgment in S.R. Bommai Case

Somappa Rayappa Bommai (6 June 1924 to 10 October 2007) was the 11th Chief Minister of Karnataka. He was also the HRD minister in the United Front Government from 1996 to 1998 and served with both the PM H.D.Deve Gowda and I.K.Gujral. The Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment in the S.R.Bommai Versus Union of … Read more

UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

The UN General Assembly proclaimed 2021-30, as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. It calls for the protection and revival of ecosystems around the world for the benefit of nature, animals, and humans. Definition Ecosystem restoration is the process of assisting the recovery of a degraded, damaged ecosystem. The Basic principle behind this is protecting … Read more

Decomposers in African Rainforest

Decomposers in African Rainforest include termites, slugs, scorpions, worms, and fungi. These creatures thrive on the forest floor. The organic matter that falls from the trees onto the floor is broken down into nutrients by these creatures. Important of those are termites and leaf cutter ants. Between these termites are the more dominant decomposers.

* * All the Notes in this blog, are referred from Tamil Nadu State Board Books and Samacheer Kalvi Books. Kindly check with the original Tamil Nadu state board books and Ncert Books.