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Current affairs 20th July, 2020

✅Current Affairs 20 July 2020

🔶Indian Navy Conducts Naval Exercises in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

🔶Capitals of NE states to be connected through rail network by 2023

🔶India Established Individual Bilateral ‘Air Bubbles’ with France, Germany and US

🔶PM Modi delivers keynote address virtually at High-Level Segment of ECOSOC held at in New York, US

🔶Dharmendra Pradhan & Dan Brouillette co-chaired  2nd Meeting of India-US Strategic Energy Partnership (SEP) virtually

🔶UN’s Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: India Record Largest Reduction in Number of People Living in Poverty

🔶India Remains as Lower-Middle-Income Economy: World Bank Country Classifications by Income Level 2020-2021

🔶Centre’s fiscal deficit to increase to 7.6% & India’s GDP to contract by 5.3% in FY21: India Ratings and Research’s Report

🔶UN announced the Laureates of 2020 Nelson Mandela Prize: Marianna Vardinoyannis & Morissana Kouyaté

🔶South Central Railway’s Ongole Sub-Division Office Won Water Heroes Award for April 2020 from Jal Shakti Ministry

🔶Narendra Singh Tomar declared the 2019 ICAR Awards in 92nd ICAR Foundation Day

🔶PM SVANidhi app launched to provide digital interface for Lending Institutions (LIs); promotes digital access of micro-credit facilities by street vendors

🔶ICAT launched automotive technology e-portal ASPIRE

🔶Former Chelsea Forward and World Cup Winner Andre Schurrle Retires at 29

🔶FIFA World Cup 2022: to be held in Qatar at Al Bayt Stadium

🔶Civil Rights Veteran Rev. C.T. Vivian Dead at 95

🔶Nelson Mandela International Day 2020 – July 18

🔶Government of Andhra Pradesh Announces Renewable Energy Export Policy 2020

The Hindu Editorial VOCAB - 20th July, 2020


DISPARATE (ADJECTIVE):(भिन्न) 

Synonyms: discordant, diverse 


Antonyms: agreeing, alike 


Example: Alpa made disparate Logic. 


DOYEN (NOUN): (वरिष्ठ एवं प्रतिष्ठित सदस्य)

Synonyms: principal, authority 


Antonyms: pupil, student 


Example: Rupi is a doyen of this office. 


DEVIOUS (ADJECTIVE): (कपटी)

Synonyms: duplicitous, insidious 


Antonyms: honest, forthright 


Example: Prachi’s plays a devious character. 


DISENTOMB (VERB): (अन्वेषण करना)

Synonyms: resurrect, unearth 


Antonyms: entomb, bury 


Example: They disentombed the matter. 


CANARD (NOUN): (झूठी अफ़वाह)

Synonyms: exaggeration, lie 


Antonyms: truth, reality 


Example: Alpa’s story was full of canard. 


DROLL (ADJECTIVE): (मनोरंजक)

Synonyms: eccentric, whimsical 


Antonyms: common, normal 


Example: Swati is a droll girl. 


PINCH (NOUN):  (चुटकी)

Synonyms: confinement, contraction 


Antonyms: freedom, release 


Example: Harun felt pinch beneath his hair. 


RESORT (VERB): (काम मे लाना)

Synonyms: devote, exercise 


Antonyms: abstain, halt 


Example: The fish was prepared to resort to force if negotiation failed. 


PARRY (VERB):(टालना)

Synonyms: deflect, evade 


Antonyms: encounter, encounter 


Example: Sonal parried the danger somehow. 


REVELRY (NOUN): (मद्यपान का उत्सव)

Synonyms: debauchery, carousal 


Antonyms: sadness, mourning 


Example : Abhinav is involved in revelry four days.