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Mohammed Ali Jinnah was the founder and first governor-general (1947–48) of Pakistan

Mohammad Ali Jinnah was Born: on December 25, 1876, in Karachi

Mohammed Ali Jinnah died on September 11, 1948, in Karachi, Pakistan.

Spouse: Rattanbai Jinnah (m. 1918–1929), Emibai Jinnah (m. 1892–1893)

Siblings: Fatima Jinnah, Shireen Jinnah, Maryam Bai Jinnah, Ahmad Ali Jinnah, Bunde Ali Jinnah, Rahmat Ali Jinnah

Children: Dina Wadia

Parents: Poonja Jinnah, Mithibai Jinnah

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• The Swadeshi Movement was launched in 1905, in response to the partition of Bengal by the British.
• It was a campaign to boycott British goods and promote Indian industries.

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 "Occasionally, a metro reaches the earth."

The verb "reaches" is in the present tense and matches the subject ("a metro") and the adverb "occasionally," indicating an action that happens from time to time.

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The annual ‘Earth Hour’ was observed in Pakistan on 25 March 2023 night under the theme “Give an Hour for Earth”.

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• Days and nights are equal throughout the globe when the sun is above the Equator.

• This event is known as the equinox.

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concept?: why 

• As the sun's rays fall directly on the equator first, the equator receives equal day and night throughout the year because it does not tilt in relation to the sun's location.
  

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Alaska is no stranger to earthquakes. In fact, it's the most seismically-active state in the US, experts say. The state also experienced the second-largest earthquake to ever hit the US -- a 9.2-magnitude in 1964

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About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered

and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water.

Additional Information:

Out of the total water on the Earth, only 2.5% of the water is the freshwater

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The seismic velocity increases gradually with the depth of the mantle as the pressure increases with depth  and therefore the density increases.

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3 % of Earth's water is fresh.

2.5% of the earth's freshwater is unavailable:

locked up in glaciers,

polar ice caps,

atmosphere,

and soil;

lies too far under the earth's surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.

0.5% of the earth's water is available in freshwater.

ND27-7-2023