TODAY’S TOP NEWS:12 JULY, 2020 (GPN):

NATIONAL NEWS:

1. Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to PM Modi urging him to personally intervene and cancel final year exams of Delhi University and other central govt universities

2. The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has given its approval to ‘Itolizumab’ injection for the treatment of COVID-19 patients with restricted emergency use only in case of moderate to severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) patients.

3. Health and Wellness Centres across the country under Ayushman Bharat Yojana, in between 1st February 2020 to 30th June 2020, about 8.8 crore Indian Citizens have availed healthcare services.

4. Lockdown being re-imposed in Maharashtra: Steady rise is seen in number of Covid-19 patients in prominent cities like Pune, Thane, Kalyan and Mira- Bhayandar. Therefore many of the local administrations have decided to impose lockdown and continue with door to door testing.

5. A day after gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter, Two absconding aides of Dubey have been arrested by the ATS from Thane in Maharashtra. The accused are identified as Arvind alias Guddan Trivedi and his driver Sonu Tiwari.

6. Former Union Cabinet Minister Subramanian Swamy demands ED, CBI probe into assets of Bollywood stars Salman Khan, Aamir Khan

7. Karnataka: Complete lockdown in Bengaluru from 14-22 July as Covid-19 cases rise. Essential services as well as scheduled exams will be allowed in the city,.

8. Swapna Suresh and Sandeep Nair, key accused in the Kerala 30Kg gold smuggling case, were arrested by the National Investigation Agency from Bengaluru

9. Patidar leader Hardik Patel was appointed the new working president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee

10. Uttar Pradesh government has ordered that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) will conduct the investigation in cases related to gangster Vikas Dubey who was killed in an encounter

11. Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj to allocate portfolios to new today. In his cabinet, 28 ministers will finally get portfolios on July 12

12. Peasant leader Akhil Gogoi, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency for his alleged role in violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act last year, tested positive for novel coronavirus inside the Guwahati Central Jail.
A total of 55 inmates, including Gogoi, have tested positive at the jail, forcing the authorities to issue orders for taking samples of all the 1,069 prisoners

13. Six National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) rebels were killed in a gunfight with security forces in a jungle in Longding district of Arunachal Pradesh

14. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is set to file a money laundering case and probe alleged illegal transactions and tainted assets created by dead gangster Vikas Dubey, his family members and associates

15. The spread of COVID-19 has not been contained in India yet, and kids in India have now been contracting a new mysterious disease known as Kawasaki Syndrome.

16. The disease also called as the ‘Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome’ reportedly results in a fever and the blood vessels in the body become inflamed. The eyes also get swollen, skin gets reddish along with abdominal pain.

17. Bollywood Big-B Actor Amitabh Bachchan has been infected with coronavirus and admitted to Nanavati hospital in Mumbai.Abhishek too announced his Covid-positive status via a tweet.Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope said both are asymptomatic and stable. Jaya Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan were also tested, their results will come tomorrow.

18. Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren & his wife Kalpana Soren being tested for COVID-19. Soren has quarantined himself at his Ranchi residence since July 8 after coming in contact with Drinking and Sanitation Minister Mithilesh Thakur and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MLA Mathura Mahato, who have tested positive for COVID-19.

19. Delhi Police arrests Dawood Ibrahim’s aide Anwar Thakur with Rs 22 lakh pistol

20. COVID-19 IN INDIA
TOTAL CASES 820916
ACTIVE 283407
RECOVERED 515386
TOTAL DEATHS 22123

*✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS*

1. Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh on Friday spoke over telephone with Minister of National Defence of Korea (RoK) Jeong Kyeong-Doo. The Ministers agreed to work together to deal with the complex challenges posed by this pandemic.

2. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and United States Defence Secretary Mark Esper reviewed bilateral defence co-operation between both the countries on telephone.

3. The first parcel cargo with red chillies for export to Bangladesh was flagged off from Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. The Special Parcel Express (SPE) from Guntur station of the South Central railway is carrying 384 tonnes of parcel over the distance of 1372 kilometre from Reddipalem in Guntur to Benapole in Bangladesh.

4. US aerospace company Boeing completes delivery of 37 military helicopters to IAF; 22 Apache and 15 Chinook

5. Former United States National Security Advisor John Bolton has said that if the China-India border tensions escalate, there is no guarantee that US President Donald Trump will back India against China.

6. India and China attempt to lower weeks of border tension in eastern Ladakh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said a disengagement and de-escalation process has been agreed upon between the two countries and it is ‘very much a work in progress’.

WORLD NEWS:

1. US imposes sanctions on Chinese officials over repression of Uyghurs in Muslim-majority Xinjiang province

2. COVID-19: WHO sets up Independent panel for Pandemic Preparedness & Response; co-headed by Newzland ex-PM Helen Clark and Liberia’s ex-president Ellen Johns

3 . Italian composer Ennio Morricone passes away at 91; won Academy Award for ‘The Hateful Eight’ and honorary Oscar in 2007

4. Nepal’s COVID-19 cases jumped to 16,719 after 70 new infections were reported, while three more people succumbed to the coronavirus, taking the number of fatalities to 38,

5. The Meghalaya government has asked the BSF to ensure their personnel coming to the state from other parts of the country undergo 14-day institutional quarantine mandatorily before they could resume duty.

6. The United Nation’s cultural agency has voiced deep regret over Turkey’s decision, made without prior discussion, to convert Istanbul’s iconic sixth-century Hagia Sophia into a mosque, saying its status as a museum reflects the universal nature of its heritage and makes it a powerful symbol for dialogue.

7. The ancient Hagia Sophia was founded around 1,500 years ago as a cathedral and is widely regarded as the foremost example of Byzantine Christian architecture in the world.

SPORTS:

1. Mohd Mushtaque Ahmed resigns as Hockey India President. Hockey India Executive Board held an Emergent Executive Board meeting naming Manipur’s Gyanendro Ningombam as the Officiating President of Hockey India.

2. THE WISDEN TROPHY, 2020, 1ST TEST Day 4: England reach 284/8 in second innings, lead West Indies by 170 runs at stumps.

3. England 204 (67.3) , 284/8 (104.0)
England lead by 170 runs
West Indies 318 (102.0)

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FACTS ABOUT INDIA:

*Bengaluru* The grateful king named the place “benda-kaal-uru” (meaning ‘Town of Boiled Beans’) got its name after an old woman served cooked pulses to a lost and hungry Hoysala king. In 1537 the feudal lord Kempegowda built a mud fort here, but it remained something of a backwater until 1759, when the city was gifted to Hyder Ali by the Mysore maharaja.

In 1809 the British Cantonment was established, and in 1831 the British moved their regional administrative base from Srirangapatnam to Bengaluru, renaming the city Bangalore in the process. In 1905 it became the first city in India to have electric street lights. Since the 1940s it has been home to Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), India’s first aircraft manufacturing company. Today the city is best known as a hub for software and electronics development, and business process outsourcing.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

Positive thinkers have a solution for every problem. Negative thinkers have a problem for every solution.
“STAY POSITIVE”

JOKE OF THE DAY:

*टीचर* – बताओ इंसान के बच्चों और जानवरों के बच्चों में क्या फर्क है…⁉️

*पप्पू* – बड़े होकर गधे का बच्चा गधा बनता है और उल्लू का बच्चा उल्लू बनता है
पर इंसान का बच्चा बड़ा होकर गधा भी बन सकता है और उल्लू भी…

TELL ME WHY❓❓:

*Why is earthing necessary in electrical systems?* ➿

The process of transferring the immediate discharge of the electrical energy directly to the earth by the help of the low resistance wire is known as the electrical earthing.

The earthing is essential because of the following reasons

The earthing protects the personnel from the short circuit current. The earthing provides the easiest path to the flow of short circuit current even after the failure of the insulation. The earthing protects the apparatus and personnel from the high voltage surges and lightning discharge. When the fault occurs the fault current from the equipment flows through the earthing system to the earth and thereby protect the equipment from the fault current.

LEARN SANSKRIT:

*निश्चित* : Definitely

HOW IT WORKS: ⁉

*What is ‘Black Box’ ?How it works?*

Black Box is also known as the ‘Flight Data Recorder’ introduced in 1939. Initially it was painted in black colour. It is in fact now bright orange to aid in their recovery after accidents. The Black Box or Flight Data Recorder of an Airplane is an instrument which records all the activities of the airplane during its flight. A black box flight recorder is heavily protected recording device, similar to a hard disk or a memory card. The black box records all relevant flight data, in addition to conversation in the cockpit.The “black box” is made up of two separate pieces of equipment: the flight data recorder (FDR) and a cockpit voice recorder (CVR). . “Black boxes” are most commonly installed in the rear of the aircraft where they are more likely to survive the impact of a crash.

Black boxes aren’t indestructible, but they’re certainly tough. They have to be able to survive:

Impact of up to 3400Gs
Exposure to fire of 1100°C for up to 30 minutes
Immersion up to 20′000 feet.

‍♂️ GK TODAY:

*BRICS* association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
*Estb* : 2009 & in 2015 South Africa was included.

VEDIK GYAN:

*Symbolic representation of Lord Brahma,* The Creator according to Santana Dharma.

His four faces symbolize the four Vedas, namely,
the Rigveda,
the Yajurveda,
the Samaveda and
the Atharvaveda.

His four hands reflect the four aspects of human nature,
*Mind, Intellect, Ego, and Conditioned Consciousness.*

His four hands are shown holding a variety of objects such as Rosary, a water pot, a book ( the Vedas ),a Lotus.

*Water pot* : It represents that the whole Universe evolves out of water

The *Vedas* have evolved from Brahma’s four faces, so Lord Brahma holds the book in his hands.

*Lotus* : Lord Brahma has evolved from the Lotus that sprouted from Lord Vishnu’s navel, (represents a baby in the mother womb connect with her navel)

Brahma holds a *Rosary( beaded Mala),* which he uses to keep track of the Universe’s time.

Lord Brahma is often seen riding a *swan* , his sacred vehicle for which he travels upon. The swan is a supposed to symbolize grace.

HEALTH CARE: HOME REMEDIES:
( *Note* : These home tips followed in villages/ancient traditions, it is up to you to use it or not)

*How to Get Rid of Dandruff*

Dandruff is a scalp condition which is caused by a fungus, Malassezia, which feeds on sebum (the oily matter secreted by the sebaceous glands on our scalp) and the dead skin cells which occur naturally due to formation of new skin.

Start Washing Your Hair More Often

1. Boil some Neem leaves in water and afterwards dilute by adding some water and have a head bath.

2. Aloevera : Applying aloevera thick paste to scalp and have a bath afterwards.

3. Lemongrass oil has antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties that may help reduce dandruff symptoms.

4. Using of Reetha Soap Nuts to hairs thrice in a week.

PLZ FOLLOW GOVT. NORMS, MAINT SOCIAL DISTANCE, KEEP YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY SAFEENDS