Wednesday 19 August 2020
Current Affairs :- 19th August, 2020
♦️Centre extended Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme (PCGS) 2.0 by 3 months till Nov 11, 2020
♦️Manduadih Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh to be renamed as ‘Banaras’: MHA
♦️President gives Nod for Renaming of HRD Ministry to Ministry of Education
♦️India, UAE hold 13th Session of the India-UAE Joint Commission Meeting on Trade, Economic and Technical Cooperation
♦️India ranked 1st in number of organic farmers and 9th in terms of area under organic farming: MoA&FW
♦️Dr Harsh Vardhan addressed CII Public Health Conference; India Healthcare Week (Aug 17-21, 2020) launched7UAE-Israel agreed for peace agreement namely “Abraham Accord”
♦️Muthoot Finance Partnered with Kotak Mahindra General Insurance to Offer COVID-19 Insurance Cover Against Gold Loan
♦️Flipkart signs MoU with IIT Patna for Industry Focused Research
♦️Akshay Kumar Ranked 6th, the only Indian Actor in the List, Dwayne Johnson tops: Forbes’ list of ‘The Highest-Paid Actors 2020’
♦️Satya Pal Malik Appointed as Governor of Meghalaya; Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari given Additional Charge of Goa
♦️Rakesh Asthana IPS, appointed as the Director General of the Border Security Force
♦️DBS Bank India Ltd Appointed Prashant Joshi as MD and Head of National Distribution
♦️Cricketer Rohit Sharma Appointed Oakley’s Brand Ambassador in India
♦️MoTA: Launched Tribal Health & Nutrition Portal – “Swasthya” and Opened National Overseas Portal & National Tribal Fellowship Portal
♦️Nitin Gadkari Launched VedKrishi.com an Online Farm to Fork Service Promoted by Farmers
♦️England Cricketer Laura Marsh announces retirement
♦️Hindustani Classical Vocalist & Padma Awardee Pandit Jasraj Passed Away at 90
♦️British Tennis Great Angela Buxton dies at 85
♦️Computer scientist Russell Kirsch, who invented pixel, passes away at 91
♦️Andhra CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Launches UPI-based Payment facilities in Village, Ward Secretariats
♦️Anil Mukim, Gujarat Chief Secretary gets 6 Month Extension
♦️Gujarat Names Two Flyover of Ahmedabad After Late Arun Jaitley & Sushma Swaraj
♦️Jharkhand introduced new State Logo at Ranchi
♦️Dream11 wins IPL title sponsorship rights
♦️Soumya Swaminathan honoured with Tamil Nadu CM’s special award
The Hindu Editorial VOCAB :- 19th August, 2020
▪️UNTENABLE (ADJECTIVE): (असमर्थनीय)
Synonyms: illogical, unsound
Antonyms: logical realistic
Example: I am being perplexed so as why he is making such untenable comments.
▪️DELIVERABLE (NOUN): (प्रदेय)
Synonyms: product, result
Antonyms: input, admission
Example: From that time he has been adding steadily to his deliverable and his reputation.
▪️ AGGRIEVE (VERB): (दु:ख देना)
Synonyms: oppress, abuse
Antonyms: assist, back
Example: Her sharply penetrating cuss words aggrieved me a lot.
▪️SERMONIZE (VERB): (उपदेश देना)
Synonyms: preachify, teach
Antonyms: mislead, misguide
Example: The saint was sermonizing the people of Canada.
▪️RUPTURE (NOUN): (फूटन)
Synonyms: break, fissure
Antonyms: closing, closure
Example: As soon as each understood the other’s full intention, there would be a rupture.
▪️MULISHNESS (NOUN): (हठ)
Synonyms: obstinacy, bullheadedness
Antonyms: irresolution, dubiety
Example: He is buying everything by showing his heights of mulishness.
▪️OSTRACIZE (VERB): (बहिष्कार करना)
Synonyms: expel, exclude
Antonyms: accept, embrace
Example: Silpa was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers.
▪️DOMINEERING (ADJECTIVE): (निरंकुश)
Synonyms: tyrannical, despotic
Antonyms: yielding, submissive
Example: She let her career overtake the relationship, and she’s become too controlling and domineering.
▪️QUIXOTIC (ADJECTIVE): (विलक्षण)
Synonyms: impractical, dreamy
Antonyms: realistic, sensible
Example: It was clearly a quixotic case against the defendant.
▪️LEGATEE (NOUN): (वसीयतदार):
Synonyms: partner, keeper
Antonyms: leaser, renter
Example: Abhinav sees himself as a legatee of his father, Rajesh, not his great-grandfather Akhilesh.
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