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AIDS is a pandemic disease caused by the infection of (HIV), which damages the human immune system.

World AIDS Day is observed on 1 December since 1988.

Theme 2021: End Inequalities, End AIDS

Theme 2022: Equalize

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Harappa is situated along the banks of the Ravi River.

It is located in the Sahiwal district Punjab province of Pakistan.

The Harappan Civilization is also called as Indus Valley Civilization.

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The stratospheric ozone layer is Earth's “sunscreen”  protecting living things from too much ultraviolet radiation from the sun.

Oxygen layer in the atmosphere

Ozone protects us from the harmful ultraviolet radiation of the sun.

Ozone formula: O3

The ozone layer lies approximately 15-40 kilometers (10-25 miles) above the Earth's surface, in the stratosphere.

The ozone layer is depleting: Air pollution

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Abbreviation     AIIB

Formation     16 January 2016 by China

Headquarters     Beijing, China

Region served    Asia and Oceania

Membership     106 Member States

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Annalena Baerbock has been elected as the president of 80th session of the UNGA.

She is assuming office in September 2025.

She is the former foreign Minister of Germany. 

She is first woman to hold this office.

She has also become the youngest UNGA president at the age of 44.

She is replacing Philemon Yang of Cameroon.

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Of the eleven Nishan-e-Haider recipients to date, four have been from the Punjab Regiment.

1. Raja Muhammad Sarwar Bhatti

2. Major Tufail Mohammad

3. Major Raja Aziz Bhatti

4. Naik Muhammad Mahfuz

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Horse (an older or archaic term for a male horse) is to Mare (a female horse)

Fox (a male fox) is to Vixen (a female fox)

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Qalat is the largest division with regard to area.

Lahore is the largest division of Pakistan with regard to population.

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• Ozone gas is a molecule made up of three oxygen atoms, with the chemical formula O3.
• This is different from ordinary oxygen, which has the chemical formula O2.

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The 17th parallel line was the provisional demarcation line between North & South Vietnam.

It was established after the Geneva Accords in 1954 to separate the communist North and the anti-communist South.