TODAY’S TOP NEWS: 13 JULY, 2020 (GPN):

NATIONAL NEWS:

1. Several non-final year students of Christ University in Bengaluru have voiced protests over the University’s decision to hold the semester-end examinations, which had been postponed in March due to the lockdown, on July 13. The exams will be held online, a decision that the students say was taken without consulting them.

2. Kerala gold smuggling case: Accused Swapna Suresh, Sandeep Nair remanded to 30 day custody, underwent the mandatory COVID-19 test and would be sent to coronavirus care facilities

3. Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari is self-isolating after the developments. Around 100 Raj Bhavan staff members took the COVID-19 test and 18 Test Coronavirus Positive

4. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is expected to declare the 10th and 12th results anytime before July 15. After the results are declared, students will be able to check their results online on various official websites, IVRS telephone numbers and mobile apps. cbse.nic.in,
www.results.nic.in or www.cbseresults.nic.in.
Moreover, the schools will automatically get the results of their students on the registered Email IDs.

5. Congress party MLA Pradyumna Singh Lodhi in Madhya Pradesh joined the BJP, ahead of the state assembly bypolls on 24 seats.

6. Punjab, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Delhi have announced reservations against the plan citing the Covid-19 situation. With six states expressing reservations against conducting final year examinations in universities in view of the Covid-19 situation, the HRD ministry has asserted that the guidelines issued by the UGC have to be followed mandatorily and academic evaluation of students is crucial to ensure credibility and career opportunities.

7. Last week, the University Grants Commission (UGC) in its revised guidelines directed the higher education institutions that final year examinations would be conducted in the month of September 2020, instead of July 2020, as per its guidelines announced in April.

8. The Union Home Minister, Amit Shah planted a sapling of the ‘peepal’ tree at the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Campus in Gurugram on Sunday to mark launch of the CAPFs nationwide tree plantation drive undertaken by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs)

9. Senior Kashmiri separatist leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai was arrested in Srinagar. Mr Sehrai, 76, was tipped to be the new leader of the Hurriyat Conference, the biggest separatist amalgam in Kashmir, after lifetime chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani resigned last month.

10. Gujarat woman constable Sunita Yadav, Who Stopped Prakash Kanani, son of Varachha Road MLA and Minister of State for Health Kumar Kanani, and his friends amid Lockdown Transferred. An alleged audio is going viral on social media in which he allegedly threatens her that he will “make you stand at the same place for 365 days”.The undeterred constable then replied that she was not their slave. Surat Commissioner of Police RB Brahmbhatt on Saturday ordered an inquiry into the incident.

11. An unidentified terrorist was on Sunday killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir,

12. Starting a new norm of police seeking protection from police, an arrested sub-inspector on Sunday moved the Supreme Court apprehending danger from encounter specialists in UP Police, who killed gangster Vikas Dubey and five of his associates within a week of the killing of eight policemen in Bikru village on July 3.

13. Accused of being Dubey’s mole who tipped him off about an impending police raid that led to heavy firing by the gangster and his associates, resulting in the death of the cops, the sub-inspector of Chaubeypur police station, K K Sharma, and his wife Vinita Sirohi requested the SC for a CBI probe into the July 3 incident on the ground that the deaths of colleagues would make the probe by UP Police biased.

14. Govt. links FASTags with vehicle registration portal as this will be done automatically. The Centre has completed an integration process between the electronic toll system and the vehicle registration portal to ensure FASTags don’t become redundant. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has written to all States and Union Territories about the integration between the Vaahan system for registration of vehicles as well as the National Electronic Toll Collection programme for FASTags.

15. Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister and Congress leader Sachin Pilot will not attend the Congress Legislative Party meeting scheduled to be held on Monday at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s residence.The crisis in Rajasthan Congress intensified with Gehlot and his deputy Sachin Pilot at loggerheads

16. A controversy has erupted after a teacher at a private school Ghatshila in East Singhbhum allegedly asked kindergarten students to memorise the national anthems of Pakistan and Bangladesh by sending source links on whatsapp during online classes, prompting the administration to launch a probe amid accusations that she had an “anti-national mindset”,

17. J-K reopens tourism sector, to allow those coming by air from July 14. JK Administration issues SOPs, guidelines; all tourists to be tested for Covid-19; pre-booking of hotels, taxis mandatory

18. Tanusri Dasgupta, the creative head of Ekta Kapoor’s production house Balaji Telefilms, has tested positive for Covid-19

19. The death toll due to Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday mounted to 934 after 21 more people succumbed to the disease, while 1,384 fresh infections pushed the tally to 36,476

20. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has instructed his ministerial colleagues, MPs and MLAs to visit flood affected areas of the state and to take stock of the rescue and relief works

21. The Karnataka government announced a lockdown in Bengaluru between July 14 and 22. The decision came in the backdrop of the increasing number of patients contracting COVID-19, with Bengaluru alone having 12,793 active cases.

22. Right-wing organisation Hindu Samhati leader Tapan Ghosh, 67, who had tested COVID-19 positive, was died.

23. COVID CASES IN INDIA

CONFIRMED 8,49,553
DEATHS 22,674

✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS:

1. India and China are in talks to fix dates for talks between senior military commanders of the two countries. The commanders will discuss the second, and more complex, phase of de-escalation and disengagement of their troops in eastern Ladakh

2. Amid the ongoing dispute with China over boundary issue, the Indian Army is going to place another order of 72,000 Sig 716 assault rifles from the United States.

WORLD NEWS:

1. Thailand to begin its covid-19 vaccine human trials in September

2. The clinical trials of the world’s first vaccine for the novel Coronavirus has been completed by Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University in Russia.

3. US President Donald Trump, who had declined to wear a mask in public, was spotted wearing it as the COVID-19 death toll in the country surpassed 1, 34,000.

4. Pakistan has restored the bank accounts of top five leaders of defunct Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) and Lashkar -e-Taiba (LeT), including its chief and Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.

5. Landslides kill 15 people in Myagdi district, Nepal; 37 dead in last 48 hours

6. Facebook Inc is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network ahead of elections in the United States in November,

7. Turkey’s govt. converts Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum back into a mosque after a favourable court ruling. Hagia Sophia was a church built under under Byzantine Emperor Justinian in 6th century. Modern Turkey’s government converted the mosque into a museum in 1934.

8. Singapore: Ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) of PM Lee Hsien Loong returns to power in general elections

9. WORLD COVID CASES
CONFIRMED 1,16,62,574
DEATHS 5,39,058

SPORTS:

1. Speculations about BCCI president Sourav Ganguly becoming the next ICC president have been rife ever since former ICC chairman and countryman Shashank Manohar decided to go against a third term in the office. The speculations gained momentum after former cricketers like David Gower and Graeme Smith hailed Sourav Ganguly’s leadership qualities and backed him for the position at the world body.

2. THE WISDEN TROPHY, 2020, 1ST TEST

England 204 (67.3) ,
313 (111.2)
West Indies beat England by 4 wickets
West Indies 318 (102.0) , 200/6 (64.2)

3. Wimbledon tennis tournament organisers will pay $12.5 million prize money to 620 players despite cancellation

4. Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju will hold discussions with sports ministers of all States and Union Territories from Tuesday to figure a way forward as sporting activities begin to resume amid the gradual lifting of the COVID-19 lockdown.

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FACTS ABOUT INDIA:

Prithviraja III (1178-1192) popularly known as Prithviraj Chauhan was a king from the Chahamana (Chauhan) dynasty. He ruled Sapadalaksha, the traditional Chahamana territor. He also repulsed the early invasions by Muhammad of Ghor, a ruler of the Muslim Ghurid dynasty. However, in 1192 CE, the Ghurids defeated Prithviraj at the Second battle of Tarain, and executed him shortly after. After Prithviraj’s death, the Ghurids appointed his son Govindaraja on the throne of Ajmer as their vassal. In 1192 CE, Prithviraj’s younger brother Hariraja dethroned Govindaraja, and recaptured a part of his ancestral kingdom.

Mohammad Ghori tried to invade india 17 times. 16 times he was defeated by Indian kings and was allowed to go back.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

Happiness always looks small. If you hold it in your hand. But when you learn to share you’ll realize how big & precious it.

JOKE OF THE DAY:

*टीचर* – बच्चों *बॉडीगार्ड* कौन होता है। और हमे क्या सीख मिली?

*पप्पू* – सर बॉडीगॉर्ड सलमान खान है। हमें यही सीख मिली कि लड़कियों का भरोसा नहीं है..वो बॉडीगार्ड से भी सेट हो सकती हैं।

TELL ME WHY❓❓❓:

Why people prefer Paan after meals in Indian Traditional

Paan has many variations. Slaked lime (chuna) paste is commonly added to bind the leaves. The betel leaf used to make paan has not only traditional uses but also health benefits.

According to Ayurveda, chewing paan after meals eases digestion as it increases secretion of digestive juices, reduces bloating of stomach, relieves constipation and destroys intestinal parasites

A typical paan contains coconut powder, gulkand (sweetened rose petals), cloves, saunf (fennel), and red katha paste. Other variants contain tobacco and areca nut, both of which are harmful and carcinogenic in nature and hence, should be avoided.

FAT BURNING: Since betel leaves are the main ingredient of paan, their chemical composition is helpful in fat loss. This is because eating paan can lead to increase in metabolic rate and hence, lead to weight loss

Betel leaves are nutrient packed with riboflavin, calcium, vitamin C and carotene. The components of paan such as rose petals, cloves, coconut powder and saunf are individually nutritionally strong and together make a healthy combination which can be consumed post-dinner or lunch. However, maintain a gap of at least 30 minutes between paan and your meal

LEARN SANSKRIT:

*वसति* : staying, dwelling, house, residence

HOW IT WORKS: ⁉

*How thunder occurs in sky* ⚡⛈️️

Heavier, negatively charged particles sink to the bottom of the cloud. When the positive and negative charges grow large enough, a giant spark – lightning – occurs between the two charges within the cloud. … Most lightning happens inside a cloud, but sometimes it happens between the cloud and the ground.

Thunder is caused by lightning. When a lightning bolt travels from the cloud to the ground it actually opens up a little hole in the air, called a channel. Once then light is gone the air collapses back in and creates a sound wave that we hear as thunder

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*VETO POWER COUNTRIES*
The United Nations Security Council “veto power” refers to the power of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) to veto any “substantive” resolution.

What is the full form of *veto power?* A veto (Latin for “I forbid”) is the power (used by an officer of the state, for example) to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.

VEDIK GYAN:

*Facts Behind Lord Shiva Third Eye*

According to Shiva Purana, once, Lord Shiva was sitting fully engaged in meditation. Goddess Parvati, his consort came there and playfully covered both his eyes with her hands. … With his divine power, Siva created a third eye in the centre of his forehead. Fire emerged from his third eye and he restored light in the universe

He is also referred as Tryambaka for the third eye, placed on his forehead. It is the eye of wisdom, free from “Maya”, the illusion, and duality of life. It looks beyond the obvious with clear perception, and shows one what is true. Lord Shiva’s third eye is also famous for emitting flames that destroy evil.

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

Betel leaves are used as a stimulant, an antiseptic, and a breath-freshener,

Analgesic: Betel leaf is an excellent analgesic that offers instant relief from pain. It can be used in alleviating pain caused due to cuts, bruises, rashes. Make a paste with tender betel leaves and apply on the affected area. Betel leaf juice provides relief from internal pains in the body.

Reduces respiratory issues: Betel leaf widely helps in treating issues related to cough and cold. It is an excellent cure for those suffering from chest, lung congestion and asthma. Apply some mustard oil on the leaf, warm it and place it on the chest to cure congestion. You can also boil few leaves in water, add cardamom, cloves and cinnamon in two cups of water. Reduce it to 1 cup and consume this concoction two to three times a day for an excellent relief from congestion and breathing issues.

Cures headache: If you are suffering from a severe headache, betel leaves can come to your rescue. The leaves have cooling properties which provide instant relief from the ache when applied externally.

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