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About SCO Heads of Government Meeting 2024

Edition: 23rd 

Venue: Jinnah Convention Centre, Islamabad

Starting date: 15 Oct 2024

Ending date: 16 Oct 2024

Chairmanship: Pakistan  

Non-Participation: Afghanistan 

Indian Paticipataion: S. Jaishankar

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SCO, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, is an organization 

Having 10 member states with its headquarters in Beijing, China

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Ray Tomlinson, an American programmer, invented email 

When: 1971.

Where: Working for Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) on the ARPANET.

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Approval Requirement: The bill must pass with a two-thirds majority of the total membership in both the National Assembly and the Senate.

At the age of 21 years, the charter, that changed into adopted in April 1973, 

Has suffered 34 amendments; 10 times through the Acts of Parliament and 24 times through Presidential Orders

.Amendments to Date: As of late 2024, the Constitution has been amended 26 times. 

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Prabowo Subianto is the current & 8th president of Indonesia since October 2024.

He is retired military officer. 

He replaced Joko Widodo

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The Dasu Hydropower Project is located on the Indus River, 7km upstream of Dasu Town,

District Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK).

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3D printing builds objects layer by layer, which is the core idea of additive manufacturing.

Material is added progressively to create the desired shape, unlike subtractive techniques that remove material.

This technology allows complex geometries and customized designs.

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Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) proposed the wave theory of light.

He suggested that light travels in the form of waves, not particles.

Huygens’ principle explains how light waves propagate, reflect, and refract.

This theory challenged Newton’s particle theory of light.

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A covalent bond is formed when two atoms share one or more pairs of electrons.

This sharing creates a strong bond between the atoms, holding molecules together.

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Argentina,  Chile, and Colombia are all sovereign countries located on the continent of South America.

 Bulgaria is located in Southeastern Europe on the Balkan Peninsula. 

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OS/2 (Operating System/2) was initially created through a joint development agreement between IBM and Microsoft

Microsoft left the project around 1990, and development was solely continued by IBM,

Additional information 

• Windows is an operating system family developed 
• DOS developed by IBM after the split with Microsoft was OS/2.
• UNIX was originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, not IBM