Saturday 18 July 2020

The Hindu Editorial VOCAB : 18th July 2020

  1. INDUCT (VERB) 🙁भरती करना

Synonyms: invest, install 

Antonyms: close, reject 

Example: With some of the events inducting more than 500 bulls and almost twice as many tamers are seen here. 

  1. FOREFRONT (NOUN):(अग्र स्थान)

Synonyms: limelight, front 

Antonyms: background, history 

Example: The Company was earlier in the forefront of mismanagement. 

  1. SUBMISSION (NOUN):  (निवेदन)

Synonyms: appeasement, capitulation 

Antonyms: disagreement, resistance 

Example: The SC banned Triple Talak on the basis of submissions made by the Women NGO. 

  1. HUNCH (NOUN):(सहज प्रवृत्ति)

Synonyms: intuition, premonition 

Antonyms: certainty, fact 

Example: The commentators had various hunches about the outcome of the next Match. 

  1. INTENSIFY (VERB): (तीव्र करना)

Synonyms: enhance, increase 

Antonyms: diminish, hinder 

Example: The officer in Odisha is intensified by the NFSA. 

  1. DISCLOSE (VERB) 🙁प्रकट करना

Synonyms: divulge, expose 

Antonyms: cover, hide 

Example: Alpa should not disclose her rank here. 

  1. AVERSE (ADJECTIVE): (प्रतिकूल

Synonyms: hesitant, hostile 

Antonyms: kind, loving 

Example: We are quite averse to the suggestion of having year-round college. 

  1. SENILITY (NOUN): (बुढ़ापा)

Synonyms: decrepitude, dotage 

Antonyms: infancy, adolescence 

Example: Sonia is suffering from senility. 

  1. RIDICULE (NOUN): (उपहास)

Synonyms: satire, mockery 

Antonyms: seriousness, solemnity 

Example: Sweta is held up as an object of ridicule. 

  1. SUCCOUR (NOUN): (परेशानी में सहायता)

Synonyms: help, aid 

Antonyms: hindrance, obstruction. 

Example: My best friend is never hesitant to offer succour to anyone who needs it.

Current Affairs 18 July 2020


:large_orange_diamond:First online NISHTHA programme launched for 1200 Key Resources Persons of Andhra Pradesh by MHRD

:large_orange_diamond:Shipping Minister Mansukh Mandaviya virtually flagged off 1st container ship from Kolkata Port to Agartala via Chattogram port (Bangladesh)

:large_orange_diamond:NTPC signs MoU with NIIF to Explore Business Opportunities in Renewable Energy  in India

:large_orange_diamond:CBSE collaborates with IBM to integrate AI in High School Curriculum of 2020-2021

:large_orange_diamond:Harsimrat Kaur Badal virtually addressed the Digital Indo- Italian Business Mission on Food Processing’

:large_orange_diamond:ICWA-RIAC conference: India & Russia explores Active Joint Projects in Asia and Africa

:large_orange_diamond:India’s CERT and Israel’s INCD inked MoU to expand cooperation in cyber security

:large_orange_diamond:India Ranked 3rd in 2020 Global Manufacturing Risk Index; China Tops: Cushman & Wakefield

:large_orange_diamond:Global Skills Index 2020 Report: India Surges ahead the Peers in Business and Technology Skills

:large_orange_diamond:NABARD Sanctioned Rs 795 crore to West Bengal for Reconstructing Infrastructure Damaged by Cyclone Amphan

:large_orange_diamond:ICRA projects India’s GDP to contract by 9.5% in FY21 from earlier 5%

:large_orange_diamond:Oscar Winner Kate Winslet will Receive 2020 TIFF Tribute Actor Award on 45th Edition of TIFF

:large_orange_diamond:Gabon Appointed its First Woman Prime Minister: Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda

:large_orange_diamond:RBI Approves reappointment of Shyam Srinivasan as the MD & CEO of Federal Bank

:large_orange_diamond:L&T Tech Services to Acquire 100% Stake in Orchestra Tech for about Rs 187 Crore

:large_orange_diamond:IIT-M Incubated Start-up, Modulus Housing Developed a Portable Hospital Unit, ‘MediCAB’ to Treat COVID-19 Patients

:large_orange_diamond:Arjuna Awardee and Ace Para-Badminton Player Ramesh Tikaram Passed Away at 51

:large_orange_diamond:Maharashtra’s First Woman SEC Neela Satyanarayanan Dies

:large_orange_diamond:Day of International Criminal Justice 2020 – July 17

:large_orange_diamond:Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat Inaugurated ‘Smriti Van’ on Harela festival

:large_orange_diamond:2022 Dakar Youth Olympics by four years to 2026 : IOC