Friday 31 July 2020

Readers Digest :- 31st July, 2020


 LATEST HELICOPTER AND AIRCRAFT WITH COUNTRIES

    
🧩FIGHTER AIRCRAFT


🔷 Rafale : France

🔷Mirage 2000 : France

🔷Tejas : India

🔷 Sukhoi Su-30 : Russia

🔷Sukhoi 30Mk : Russia

🔷 MiG 29 : Russia

🔷 MIG 21 : Russia

🔷 Jaguar : France & UK


 🧩 HELICOPTERS 

🔶Apache AH-64E : USA

🔶MH-60 Romeo : USA

🔶 Chinook : USA

🔶Dhruv : India

🔶Rudra : India

🔶 Cheetah : France

🔶Chetak : France

🔶Kamov : Russia

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Current Affairs :- 31st July, 2020


♦️Cabinet approved National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 by replacing NEP, 1986; HRD ministry renamed as Ministry of Education

♦️CSIR, UBA-IIT Delhi and VIBHA Signs a Tripartite MoU to Adopt CSIR Technologies for Rural Development

♦️1st five of 36 French Rafale fighter jets landed at Haryana’s Ambala Airbase

♦️Dr. Harsh Vardhan released ebook titled “Standard Treatment Guidelines for the Management of Substance Use Disorders and Behavioural Addictions”

♦️Defence Ministry of India and Indonesia agree to expand the military ties during Defence Minister Dialogue in New Delhi

♦️Cabinet approves MoU between India and Zimbabwe on Traditional System of Medicine and Homeopathy

♦️UNICEF Publishes First of its kind report on Health crisis: “The Toxic Truth: Children’s Exposure to Lead Pollution Undermines a Generation of Future Potential”

♦️Narendra Modi & Pravind Jugnauth virtually inaugurated Supreme Court building in Port Louis, Mauritius

♦️SABIC in Spain to Become World’s First Large Scale Chemical Production Plant to Completely Run on Renewable Energy

♦️BOB Financial Solutions Limited ropes Fiserv, Inc for Digital Transformation

♦️Praj Signed MoU with ARAI to Jointly Develop Advanced Biofuels Application technology

♦️‘Aditya’, India’s First Solar Powered Ferry Bags the 1st ‘Gussies’ electric boat awards – Gustave Trouvé Award

♦️DIAT Developed ‘Aashray’, the Medical Bed Isolation System to Combat COVID-19

♦️Iran Launched the Underground Ballistic Missiles During ‘Great Prophet 14’ Military Exercise

♦️Indian GM P. Harikrishna Finishes Second in Grandmaster Triathlon Tournament at Biel Chess Festival 2020

♦️England Won the Final Wisden Trophy against West Indies by 2-1

♦️Indian Domestic Player Rajat Bhatia Announces Retirement from All Forms of Cricket

♦️President of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, Somendra Nath Mitra passed away at 78

♦️World day against trafficking in persons – July 30

♦️International Day of Friendship: July 30

The Hindu Editorials :- 31st July, 2020


♣️A long road: On National Education Policy 2020

The Hindu Editorial VOCAB :- 31st July, 2020


▪️CAPITULATION (NOUN): giving in:(आत्मसर्पण)
Synonyms: submission, yielding

Antonyms: defending, finding

Example: I was overwhelmed with my brother’s capitulation to allow me to drive his car.

▪️PRECOCIOUS (ADJECTIVE):exceptionally smart:(अत्याधिक बुद्धिमान)
Synonyms: intelligent, advanced

Antonyms: moronic, imbecile

Example: She is extremely precocious girl of our college.

▪️PLACID (NOUN): calm:(नम्र)
Synonyms: serene, tranquil

Antonyms: agitated, disturbed

Example: Placid surroundings of Kashmir enthralled me deep within.

▪️DELETERIOUS (ADJECTIVE): detrimental:(क्षतिकर)
Synonyms: harmful, destroying

Antonyms: helpful, aiding

Example: Smoking is deleterious to health.

▪️STIFFEN (VERB): Make or become harder🙁ठोस बनाना)
Synonyms: tighten, solidify  

 Antonyms:  weaken, dilute

Example: The blood supply to the skin is reduced when muscles stiffen.

▪️FRET (VERB): To worry🙁चिढ़ना)
Synonyms: agonize, bother 

 Antonyms: please, delight 

 Example: She was always fretting about something or the other. 

▪️ETHEREAL (ADJECTIVE): Extremely delicate🙁हल्का)
Synonyms: light, sublime     

Antonyms: earthly, indelicate

Example: In this ethereal realm are the currentsthat make possible wireless telegrapy.

▪️CONTRITE (ADJECTIVE): Chastened🙁पश्चात्तापी)
Synonyms: repentant, sorrowful  

Antonyms: indifferent, unapologetic

Example: He was so contrite that he wrote me a letter of apology.

▪️CORNUCOPIA (NOUN):  Abundance🙁प्राचुर्य)
Synonyms: bounty, fullness   

Antonyms:  need, lack

Example: I shall come from London Town with a cornucopia of presents.

▪️FLOP (VERB): Slump🙁गिर पड़ना)
Synonyms: fall, drop    

Antonyms: succeed, achieve

Example: She flopped, exhausted, on to the sofa.