Monday, 20 July 2020
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.
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