Current Affairs :- 7th August, 2020

♦️India extended US$18 mn Line of Credit to Maldives for expansion of fishing facilities at MIFCO

♦️UN’s Policy Brief: Education during COVID-19 and beyond: Around 23.8 Million Children May Drop Out of School Due to the Impacts of COVID-19

♦️Airtel Payments Bank partnered with Bharti AXA General Insurance to offer “Smart Plan Shop Package Policy”

♦️Global remittances may lose $108.6 bn in 2020: ADB

♦️FutureBrand Index 2020: Reliance Industries Ranked 2nd Biggest Brand after Apple on Top

♦️Indian Express Journalist Dipankar Ghose and PARI, a Non-Profit Journalism Website Bags Prem Bhatia award 2020

♦️‘Moothon’ and ‘Son Rise’ wins awards at 20th edition of New York Indian Film Festival

♦️Manoj Sinha appointed as Lt Governor of J&K; Succeeds Girish Chandra Murmu

♦️Ajay Tyagi, Chairman of SEBI gets Another 18 Months Extension

♦️Win Trade Fantasy Sports(WTF) appoints Suresh Raina, Harmanpreet Kaur as global brand ambassadors

♦️Oman India Joint Investment Fund II Acquired 1.63% stake in DCB Bank

♦️Indian Railways introduces OHE Inspection app for real-time monitoring

♦️Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction novelist Shirley Ann Grau died at 91

♦️Yatish Yadav’s new book ‘RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations’ offers a peek into the exploits of Indian spymasters

♦️Hiroshima Day 2020 – August 6

♦️Haryana Govt launched Mahila Evam Kishori Samman Yojana & Mukhya Mantri Doodh Uphar Yojana for state’s girls & women

♦️Chhattisgarh govt launched Shaheed Mahendra Karma Tendupatta Sangrahak Samajik Suraksha Yojana for tendu leaves collectors

♦️Punjab CM Amarinder Singh launches ‘Pride of Punjab’ partnership of State Govt, YuWaah for youth development

♦️India’s first mobile RT-PCR COVID lab was inaugurated by Karnatka’s Medical Education Minister Dr. K Sudhakar in Karnataka

♦️Sahakar Cooptube NCDC Channel launched : Narendra Singh Tomar

♦️Foundation Stone of Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur laid: Himachal Pradesh

The Hindu Editorials :- 7th August, 2020

♣️Groundbreaking: On Ram temple bhoomi pujan

♣️Cartographic challenge: On Pakistan’s new map

The Hindu Editorial VOCAB :-7th August, 2020

▪️TUTELARY (ADJECTIVE): (संरक्षी)

Synonyms: guardian, advisory 

Antonyms: careless, inattentive 

Example: He is using tutelary fabian policy in his company. 

▪️DEEMING (VERB): (मान लेना) 

Synonyms: regard, consider 

Antonyms: disregard, disbelieve 

Example: Deeming their demands inconvenient, the speaker soon found occasion to suspend the council once more. 

▪️QUANTUM (NOUN): (मात्रा)

Synonyms: sum, amount 

Antonyms: part, whole 

Example: While quantum energy could not be measured fully, the scientist continued to work on the experiment. 

▪️PRECINCT (NOUN): (प्रसीमा)

Synonyms: area, ward 

Antonyms: whole, full 

Example: I am working in this precinct. 

▪️PROCLIVITY (NOUN): (इच्छा/प्रवृत्ति)

Synonyms: penchant, predilection 

Antonyms: dislike, hate 

Example: Your proclivity towards him is getting on my nerves. 

▪️DISCOURSE (NOUN):  (संभाषण)

Synonyms: conversation, discussion 

Antonyms: silence, reticence

Example: They better understand the language of political discourse. 

▪️INTONATED (ADJECTIVE):  (आवाज से जोर देना)

Synonyms: choral, verbal 

Antonyms: modest, introverted

Example: Her intonated please was filled with sheer remorse. 

▪️PROSECUTION (NOUN):  (अनुसरण)

Synonyms: execution, undertaking 

Antonyms: disregard, oversight

Example: The news channel’s prosecution of its commercial ends. 

▪️AVENUE (NOUN):  (मार्ग)

Synonyms: course, channel 

Antonyms: takeoff, egress 

Example: The avenue continues alongside the river for half a mile. 

▪️EBONIZE (VERB):  (कजलाना)

Synonyms: blot, smudge 

Antonyms: lighten, whiten

Example: He ebonized the exact location in the map.