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The Ancient University of Nalanda had been founded by the Gupta Dynasty in the 4th century. It was founded during the reign of Kumaragupta. It was located in the historical city of Rajgir in Bihar.

Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn. It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practised in neonatal intensive care units.

Jog Falls is a waterfall on the Sharavati river located in the Western Ghats near Sagar Taluk of Shimoga District, Karnataka. It is a segmented waterfall which depends on rain and season becomes a plunge waterfall. Jog Falls is created by the Sharavati dropping 253 m, making it the third-highest waterfall in India after the Nohkalikai Falls with a drop of 335 m in Meghalaya and Dudhsagar Waterfalls with a drop of 310 m in Goa.

The full form of ATM is “Automated teller Machine”. It is an electro-mechanical machine that is used for making financial transactions from a bank account.

A planimeter is a measuring instrument used to determine the area of an arbitrary two-dimensional shape. This Eidograph is a mechanical plotting instrument used to redraw maps at a smaller or larger scale. A pantograph is an instrument for duplicating a motion or copying a geometric shape to a reduced or enlarged scale. An opisometer is an instrument for measuring the lengths of arbitrary curved lines.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

Sikh Guru Hargobind Singh called himself the 'Sachcha Badshah'. He was the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He had become Guru at the young age of eleven, after the execution of his father, Guru Arjan, by the Mughal emperor Jahangir.

ISRO was founded on August 15, 1969. It is the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bengaluru. It operates under the Department of Space which is directly overseen by the Prime Minister of India. Dr. Vikram A Sarabhai is considered the founding father of space programmes in India.

Sriharikota Range is a rocket launch centre operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is located in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. Sriharikota Range was renamed in 2002 after ISRO's former chairman Satish Dhawan.

As per the census of India 2011, the most densely populated State in India is Bihar (1,106) followed by West Bengal (1,028) and Kerala (860). National Capital Region area of Delhi possesses the highest population density among the states of India having a statistic of 11,297 per square kilometre, the state of Arunachal Pradesh has the lowest record of population density having just 17 per square kilometre.