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• Khaleda Zia Significance: First woman to lead the government of Bangladesh.
• Political Party: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)
• Terms as PM: 1991–1996, 2001–2006

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The yeast used in baking bread is a single-celled fungus,

Specifically, a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 

It's a living microorganism that ferments sugars in dough, producing gases that cause bread to expand.

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• Area: ~2,330,000 km²
• Location: Covers Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Yemen, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar

• 1. Sahara – 9,200,000 km²
• 3. Gobi – 1,295,000 km²
• 4. Kalahari – 900,000 km²

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The 38th parallel is a name given to the latitude 38° N, which demarcates North Korea and South Korea.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO 38th parallel 

The line was demarcated by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam

It was established at the end of World War II.

It is the symbol of the Cold War.

It is a circle of latitude 38 degrees north of the equator.

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• The epic novel War and Peace was written by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
• It was published completely in 1869 
• Describes Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars

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Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

Radius: 6,371 km

Mass: 5.972 × 10^24 kg

Distance from Sun: 149.6 million km

Density: 5.51 g/cm³

Orbital period: 365 days

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Akhori Dam is located near Akhori Village in Attock District of Punjab.

Situated on Nandna Kas, a tributary of the Haro River.

Purpose: Water storage, hydropower generation, and flood control. 

It has been proposed by the former Pakistan Muslim League (Q)'s Government.

Developed by WAPDA as part of its Water Vision 2025, 

It will also host a 600 MW hydropower plant

Length 5.16 km

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"KHAKI SHADOWS" is written by General Khalid Mahmud Arif.

Originally published: 2001

This book describes the powerful role of the army in the politics of Pakistan from its earliest years through the late 1990s.

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In 1979,  Dr. Abdul Salam won the Nobel Prize for physics.

He was the second Muslim and first Pakistani scientist to get the Nobel Prize.

He won 12 Awards with his wife.

1. Copley Medal: 1990
2. Royal Medal: 1978
3. Hughes Medal: 1964
4. Pride of Performance: 1958
5. Nishan-e-Imtiaz
6. Adams Prize: 1958
7. Lomonosov Gold Medal: 1983
8. Atoms for Peace Award
9. Gold Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Physics: 1981
10. Smith's Prize for Essay: 1950
11. Jožef Stefan Medal: 1980
12. Cristoforo Colombo Prize: 1992

Additional information 

As of 2018, there have been two Pakistanis who have won the Nobel Prize.

• First was Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam
• Second was Malala Yousafzai