Was the Moon struck by the kind of meteorite that ended the reign of the dinosaurs on Earth?
That event 66 million years ago saw a 6-9 miles/10-15 kilometers-wide meteorite or comet strike Earth close to Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and leave a scar now known as Chicxulub crater.
Reading Comprehension Passages with Q&A
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Philosophy of Education is a label applied to the study of the
purpose, process, nature and ideals of education. It can be considered a branch
of both philosophy and education. Education can be defined as the teaching and
learning of specific skills, and the imparting of knowledge, judgment and
wisdom, and is something broader than the societal institution of education we
often speak of.
Many educationalists consider it a weak and woolly field, too far
removed from the practical applications of the real world to be useful. But
philosophers dating back to Plato and the Ancient Greeks have given the area
much thought and emphasis, and there is little doubt that their work has helped
shape the practice of education over the millennia.
Plato is the earliest important educational thinker, and education is an essential
Normally a civil suit has to travel through 17 main stages from institution of
the suit till its judgment, they are as under.
1. Institution of Suit Order 4, 6 and 7
2. Issue of Summons Order 5,
3. Filing of Written Statement Order 8 30
4. Examination of Parties Order 10 10
5. Settlement of Despute Section 89,
6. Discovery & Inspection Order 11
7. Admission Order 12
8. Production of DocumentsOrder 13
9. Framing of Issues Order 14
10. List of Witness Order 16
11. Summons to Witnesses Order 16 R 1 (4)
12. Settling Date Order 16
13. Evidence of Parties Order 18 R 4 r/w Order
17 ----
14. Exhibiting of Documents Order 18 R 4 (1)
Proviso07
15. Cross-exam by parties Order 18 R 4 (2) ----
16. Arguments Order 18 R 2 (3A) ----
17. Judgment Order 20
Out of these 17 main stages the amended code
does not speak about any time limit for Examination of Parties - Order 10,
Settlement of Disputes - Section 89, Production of Documents - Order 13,
Exhibiting of Documents - Order 18 R 4 (1) proviso and Arguments - Order 18 R 2
(3A), but in the rest of the provisions the amended code has given time limits
in the provisions itself and we cannot ignore them so easily and without any
rare and exceptional circumstances.
Now once a party has filed the suit then he has to comply all the provisions one by one within the stipulated time
President Trump escalated his claims Tuesday that California's mail-in ballots will lead to substantial voter fraud in the November general election.
'There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially
MULTAN/KANDHKOT/MUZAFFARGARH: Locusts dealt a severe blow to mango, cotton and other crops on Monday, sparking fears of a looming food shortage in case the government fails to act soon.
The locust attack took place in different areas of Multan, Rajanpur, district Muzaffargarh and Kandhkot. Mango, cotton crops and rice saplings were severely damaged by the attack.
1) Simple Future Tense-
Indicates
an action that will take place after the present time and that has no real
connection with the present time.
For example, "She will visit her ailing grandmother soon."
"He will walk home."
Note
a. the form of Simple Future Tense is- will/shall + verb
2) Future Perfect Tense-
Indicates
an action in the future that will have been completed before another time or
event in the future.
For example, "By the time we arrive, he will have studied."
1) Simple Present Tense-
Indicates
an action that is generally true or habitual. That is, it took place in the
past , continue to take place in the present, and will take place in the
future. This tense is used to denote
-a habitual action- for instance, "He walk to school."
-general truths- for instance, "The sun rises in the east",
"Honesty is the best policy."
-a future event that is part of a fixed timetable- for instance, "The
match starts at 9 o' clock."
Note
a. The form of Simple Present Tense is-
verb (infinitive without 'to' and agreeable with the subject)
2) Present Perfect Tense-
Indicates an action that has been completed sometime before the present moment, with a result
And all who knew the Princess of Wales, only remember her in the fondest of ways. Photographer Tim Rooke, who worked with the departed soul was also charmed by her undying beauty and graciousness.
During an interview with Us Weekly’s Royally Us episode, the photographer said: "Often, what we do can be very boring. It can be someone walking from a car into a doorway… What the Princess of Wales used to do, she would always just turn before she went into the building, so she’d just look at you at the last second, and it always produced great pictures.”
Katie Miller, the spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence who tested positive for the coronavirus, announced she has returned to work after three negative results and that she is
Paul Edward Patton (born May 26, 1937) is an American politician who served as the 59th governor of Kentucky from 1995 to 2003. Because of a 1992 amendment to the Kentucky Constitution, he was the first governor eligible to run for a second term in office since James Garrard in 1800. Since 2013, he has been the chancellor of the University of Pikeville in Pikeville, Kentucky after serving as its president from 2010 to 2013. He also served as chairman of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education from 2009 to 2011.
After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1959, Patton became wealthy operating coal mines for 20 years. He sold most of his coal interests in the late 1970s and
1) Simple Past Tense-
Indicates
an action took place before the present moment and that has no real connection
with the present time.
For example, "He danced in the function." (The action took place in
the past, is finished and is completely unrelated to the present)
"He flew to London yesterday."
Note
a. The verb 'flew'
is an irregular verb which does not take 'ed' in the past tense like regular
verbs.
b. The form of Simple Past Tense is
- verb + ed
2) Past Perfect Tense-
Indicates
an action in the past that had been completed before another time or event in
the past.
For example, "He had exercised before it started to rain."
"He had slept before I came back from the market."
Note
a. The form of Past Perfect Tense is-
had + verb (past participle form or the 3rd form of the verb)
3) Past Continuous Tense-
Indicates
an action going on at some time in the past or an action in the past that is
longer in duration than another action in the past.
For example, "It was getting darker."
"The light went out while theywere reading."
Note
a. The form of Past Continuous Tense is-
was/were + verb + ing
4) Past Perfect Continuous
Tense-
Indicates
an action in the past that took place before another time or event in the past
and continued during the second event/time point in the past.
For example, "At that time, he had been writing a novel for two months."
"He had been exercising when I called."
Note
a. The form of Past Perfect Continuous
Tense is- had + been + verb + ing
Private industries have helped drop the cost of launching rockets, satellites and other equipment into space to historic lows. That has boosted interest in developing space – both for mining raw materials such as silicon for solar panels and oxygen for rocket fuel, as well as potentially relocating polluting industries off the Earth. But the rules are not clear about who would profit if, for instance, a U.S. company like SpaceX colonized Mars or established a moon base. 
At the moment, no company – or nation – is yet ready to claim or take advantage of private property in space. But the US$350 billion space industry could change quickly. Several companies are already planning to explore the moon to find raw
AMMAN: Saudi Arabia said on Thursday that it rejected Israel’s pledge to annex parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The Foreign Ministry stressed the Kingdom’s “condemnation of any unilateral decisions and any violation of legitimate international decisions.” It said it opposed anything that hinders the peace process to achieve stability in the region. The Kingdom continued to “support the Palestinians and their choices, as well as their right to establish their own independent state.” Israel’s new coalition government is
With the inclusion of battery energy storage into new building codes and safety standards, it’s obvious just how mainstream storage is today.Electrochemical batteries have been around for more than 100 years and solar photovoltaic (PV) panels have been in use for half a century. During the early days of solar, users deployed PV panels to charge batteries in places far from a power line or gas station. Those batteries powered things like satellites, weather stations and remote homes. Around the turn of the century, people began connecting PV systems directly to the electrical grid.
At first, the grid connection was for purely scientific or ideological reasons, and, as regions
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane traveling from Lahore to Karachi has crashed close to Karachi airport, the civil aviation agency says. The Airbus A320 was carrying 107 passengers and crew from Lahore. 
An Airbus A320 carrying nearly 100 passengers has crashed into a residential area near Karachi in Pakistan, the country's civil aviation agency says. "The plane crashed in Karachi. We are trying to confirm the number of passengers but initially it is 99 passengers and eight crew members," said Abdul Sattar Khokhar, the spokesman for the aviation authority. A spokesperson for the state-run Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Abdul Sattar told the newspaper Dawn that the flight was carrying 90 passengers and 8 crew members and had been due to land in the southern city from Lahore. The respected daily said a rescue operation was underway and emergency workers had arrived at the scene. There were no immediate reports on the number of casualties.
