by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 13, 2020 | News in Brief
As per the finance ministry from September 21, 2020, importers need to furnish proof of 35 per cent value addition in goods from the country of origin to claim duty concession under free trade agreements FTAs), without which they will not get benefits. A provision on...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 13, 2020 | News in Brief
On September 17, 2020, Armand Duplantis, aged 20, pole-vaulted into history, creating a new world record in Paul-vaulting. He surpassed the outdoor world record of Sergey Bubka that has stood since 1994. Duplantis, the American-born Swede known as “Mondo”, sailed over...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 13, 2020 | News in Brief
Andrew Davidson, a Scottish physician of the time, in a research paper in 1867 suggested that the disease, a psychological one, was associated with religious superstitions and rigid cultural imagination of the time. Strasbourg was driven by beliefs like in the power...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 13, 2020 | News in Brief
In the 15th and 16th centuries, very little was known about psychological disorders. One such misunderstood phenomena was the dancing plague that struck many people in medieval Europe. On July 14, 1518, in Strasbourg, France, a woman named Frau Troffea stepped out of...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 13, 2020 | News in Brief
As per a report by the National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland on September 14, 2020, an enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, measuring approximately 42.3 square miles, has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, indicating the evidence of rapid...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 30, 2020 | News in Brief
Norwegian public broadcaster NRK in September 2020 reported that the wreckage of the last of the big German World War II warship. The Karlsruhe, was found on June 30, 2020. Sunk by a British submarine in 1940, it was discovered around 20 km off Kristiansand, Norway,...
