TODAY’S TOP NEWS: 08 SEPTEMBER, 2020 (GPN):

NATIONAL NEWS:

1. After remaining shut for over five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, *metro train services resumed in most of the cities on Monday* on a cautious note amid a slew of measures for the safety of passengers and staff.

2. The Vice President, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu has suggested that *milk can be given either as part of breakfast or the mid-day meal.* This will improve the nutritional levels of children. Mid-Day Meal Programme was first introduced for disadvantaged children in Madras Municipal Corporation in 1925.

3. The Consumer Affairs Ministry has come out with a comprehensive set of draft guidelines on advertising. The guideline says, disclaimers in small font and which are not factual will be treated as misleading ads. The code has been drafted by the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. Disclaimers should be easily noticeable and understandable to an ordinary consumer. Disclaimers should be in “same language”, the font should be in the “same font” as the claim of the advertisement.

4. *Delhi BJP leaders, including councillors and functionaries of the three party-led municipal corporations, took out a protest march* on Monday, demanding that the AAP government release funds to the civic bodies

5. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have decided to conduct simultaneous purchase and sale of government securities under the Open Market Operation (OMO) for Rs 10,000 crore. Under the operation, the short-term securities are transitioned into long term securities. It is aims at easing the interest rates on the long-term papers.

6. *PM Modi on Monday called for ‘maximum flexibility’ in implementing the new National Education Policy (NEP)* and said it is the collective responsibility of all stakeholders to put into effect the policy in letter and spirit.

7. The NEP, which was approved by the Union Cabinet in July, replaces the 34-year-old National Policy on Education framed in 1986 and is aimed at paving the way for transformational reforms in school and higher education systems.

8. *An integrated brand identity – Vi has been announced by Vodafone and Idea which is pronounced ‘we’.* The new brand is having the tagline ‘Together for Tomorrow’.

9. *Two suspected members of the banned terrorist group Babbar Khalsa International have been arrested* following a brief exchange of fire in northwest Delhi

10. *Telangana Assembly pays homage to Pranab Mukherjee :* Telangana Assembly Speaker P Srinivas Reddy on Monday adjourned the House for Tuesday after the members unanimously passed two separate condolence motions mourning the deaths of former president.

11. *Terrorists escape cordon amid stone-pelting* : Groups of youth engaged in stone pelting and clashed with security forces near the site of a gunfight between terrorists and troops in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday even as the ultras managed to escape the cordon

12. *Kesavananda Bharati, who filed a petition in the Supreme court and the Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgement that the basic structure of the Constitution cannot be altered, died* on September 6. Shri Kesavananda Bharati was the chief pontiffof Edneer Mutt in Kasaragod district, Kerala, India.

13. *The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday arrested Deepak Kochhar, husband of former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar,* in connection with a money laundering cas

14. *Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) has been successfully flight-tested by The Defence Research and Development Organsation (DRDO).* India now has become the fourth country in the world after the US, China and Russia to do such testing that would help missiles to travel at six times the speed of sound known as the hypersonic speed. The testing would lead to development of hypersonic cruise missiles.

15. It is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft that are used in hypersonic speed flights.
It will work as a carrier vehicle for hypersonic and long-range cruise missiles. It also has several applications such as low-cost launch of small satellites. It weighs 1-metric-ton and having length of 5.6-meter (18-ft.).

16. *PM Modi congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for successfully flight testing* indigenously developed Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV), a state-of-the-art system that adds up to India’s aerospace might.

17. *The role of the Border Security Force has become more important as “our neighbouring countries” are planning against India, BSF Director General Rakesh Asthana said*, in an apparent reference to Sino-India border situation in Ladakh and frequent ceasefire violations by Pakistan.

18. Amid the ongoing border row between India and China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, the Indian and Chinese militaries on Sunday held another round of brigade commander-level talks in an attempt to calm down the escalating tensions. Though, the nearly four-hour interaction could not produce any tangible outcome.

19. *Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut took to social media to thank Union Home Minister Amit Shah for providing Y-grade security* to her amid the ongoing exchange of verbal attack between the actor and Maharashtra state government along with Shiv Sena.

20. *The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) questioned actress Rhea Chakraborty for around eight hours* on Monday, the second consecutive day of her interrogation, and said it was getting ‘her cooperation’ in the drugs case probe linked to the death of her live-in partner and actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

21. *COVID-19 IN INDIA*
TOTAL CASES 4204613
TOTAL ACTIVE 882542
RECOVERED 3250429
TOTAL DEATHS 71642

*✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS*

1. *An incident of firing took place on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh sector* where troops of India and China have been engaged in a stand-off for over three months. India and China are engaged in a standoff since April-May over the transgressions by the Chinese Army in multiple areas including Finger area, Galwan valley, Hot springs and Kongrung Nala.

2. Ahead of his expected talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Moscow, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said the state of the border with China cannot be de-linked from the state of the overall relationship with the neighbouring country. The external affairs minister also described the situation in eastern Ladakh as ‘very serious’ which he said calls for ‘very very deep conversation’ between the two sides at a political level.

3. The Arunachal Pradesh police on Monday said the whereabouts of the *five youths from a village in the northeastern state on the India-China border allegedly abducted by China’s People’s Liberation Army(PLA) are not yet known.*

4. *CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev, on Monday, confirmed that clinical trials of Sputnik V – Russia’s COVID vaccine – will be held in September* across India and other countries. Earlier, the RDIF had also affirmed that it is in close dialogue with the Indian government to manufacture the vaccine at a large level.

5. *The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is going to organise the first World Solar Technology Summit (WSTS) on September 8, 2020.* In the virtual summit, around 26,000 participants have registered from 149 countries. The summit will focus on bringing the light on affordable and sustainable clean energy.

6. The ISA comprises 121 sunshine countries lying between the two tropics that is tropic of cancer and tropic of Capricorn. The organisation is headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana. This alliance was initiated by India and it was proposed at the Paris Climate change Conference of 2015. The countries work with an objective of efficient use of solar energy so as to reduce dependence of other fuels.

7. *Education Ministers of G 20 nations have resolved to work together and share best practices in the area of education* so that member countries can ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all, even in times of COVID crisis.

*WORLD NEWS*

1. *Liberation war fighter and a prominent public figure of Bangladesh Ziauddin Tariq Ali passed away in Dhaka* on Monday. He was admitted to a specialised hospital in Dhaka after getting infected with Corona two weeks back.

2. *Typhoon Haishen drew closer to Japan’s southern mainland* , prompting authorities to recommend evacuation and warn of potentially record rainfall, unprecedented wind, high tides and large ocean swells.

3. *Russia starts manufacturing space suits for Gaganyaan astronauts:* Russian research and development Enterprise ‘Zvezda’ has started manufacturing space suits for the Indian astronauts, who are likely to be part of India’s first manned space mission ‘Gaganyaan’, a Russian organisation

4. *WORLD COVID CASES*

CONFIRMED 2,32,60,775
DEATHS 8,05,765

* SPORTS:*

1. American tennis star Serena Williams progressed to the quarter-finals of the US Open on Monday.

2. Williams beat Maria Sakkari of Greece 6-3, 6-7 6-3 to advance to the quarter-finals of the tournament.

3. Barcelona captain Lionel Messi reported for training, on Monday, for the first time since requesting to leave the club last month. Messi had failed to turn up to the club’s tests for COVID-19 eight days ago and been absent from all subsequent sessions ahead of the new campaign after giving the club an official notice that he wished to leave.

4. The French Open will allow a maximum of 11,500 spectators per day to adhere to strict health protocols and curb the spread of COVID-19 when the Grand Slam begins later this month, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) said

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*Silver ₹68,100@ Kg*
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* FACTS ABOUT INDIA*

In terms of length, Ganga is the longest river (within India). But when considering discharge (water flow), Brahmaputra is the LARGEST.

* THOUGHT OF THE DAY*

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

JOKES OF THE DAY:

रिया चक्रवर्ती और सैनिटाइज़र की हालत एक जैसी है!
पहले कोई नहीं जानता था, अब सब हाथ धोकर पीछे पड़े हैं!

1) When a physician was examining a new patient’s extraordinarily ruddy (reddish)complexion,

Patient said, “High blood pressure, Doc. It comes from my family.”

Doctor:”Your mother’s side or your father’s?” the doctor asked.

“Neither,” he replied. “It’s from my wife’s family.”

Doctor:”Oh, come now,” the doctor said. “How could your wife’s family give you high blood pressure?”

He sighed, “You oughta meet’em sometime, Doc!” They don’t let me stay normal give me Boils and Chills, either way I run in a frenzy of rage.

2) There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning than any other two-letter word, and that is “UP.”

It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we waken in the morning, why do we wake UP. At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?

Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends, we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special, and this is confusing. A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP. To be knowledgeable of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, UP takes UP almost 1/4th the page and definitions add UP to about thirty.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn’t rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I’ll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so I’ll shut UP….If in beginning or in midway or at the end seeing UP ‘Uttar-Pradesh’ came in your mind you are an Indian and if somewhere ‘United Progressive’ Alliance striked you than you are either Rahul or 100% supporter of Congress.

3)I was on vacation in Las Vegas, playing the slot machines. It was my first time in a casino, and I wasn’t sure how any of the machines operated.

“Excuse me.” I said to a casino employee. “How does this work?”
The worker showed me how to insert a bill, hit the spin button, and operate the release handle.

“And where does the money come out?” I asked.

He smiled and pointed to a far off Machine and said, “Usually the money come out from the ATM.” and Goes in here, Unusually if U are extraordinary lucky it comes out here.

4) डॉक्टर: इसके पहले आपको कभी स्पॉण्डिलाइटिस से कोई समस्या हुई थी?
संता: हाँ, कई साल पहले!
डॉक्टर: कब… कैसी समस्या आई थी?
संता: स्कूल में, जब टीचर ने इसकी स्पेलिंग पूछी थी!

5) ज़िन्दगी में खुश रहने के लिए सामने वाले की सारी बकवास सुन लो और फिर मन में कहो,
“पागल साला, टाइम ख़राब कर दिया!”

6) समुंद्र मंथन सा लग रहा है ये साल, इतना विष निकल रहा है तो अमृत भी ज़रूर निकलेगा!

7) Modi: कट गयी पतंग हम डोर देखते रह गए;
गिर गयी जीडीपी हम मोर देखते रह गए!

8) उस बेचारे के ऊपर क्या बीती होगी जिसने जुगाड़ करके इसी हफ्ते PUBG खेलने के लिए मोबाइल खरीदा था!
मेरी तो सोच कर हँसी नहीं रुक पा रही!

9) Rahul: चैनल का नाम तो नहीं लूंगा लेकिन इतना घटिया चैनल “आज तक” नहीं देखा!

रिया की मासूम-मासूम सी बातें सुनकर मुझे लग रहा है कि इसे मेरे कंधों की जरूरत है!
लेकिन डर ये भी है कि फिर मैं खुद चार के कंधों पर न हो जाऊं!

ढिंढोरा तो नहीं पीटना चाहता लेकिन …
“नीट” (Neat) की परीक्षा मैंने कई बार पास की है।

*LEARN SANSKRIT*

*I* : अहं (aham)
*We* : वयम् (vayam)

TELL ME WHY* ⁉

*Scientific Reason: Why do most of the Indians draw Rangoli in front of their houses*⁉

There is a separate field of science called Cymatics which deals with the relationship between vibrations and the geometric patterns corresponding to it.

The Cymatic patterns look nothing like the rangoli patterns.

Rangoli is not just an art but actually a science of vibration pattern which was discovered by Indians thousands of years ago and been made a part of the culture for spiritual, aesthetic & scientific purposes. The reason a rangoli is drawn at the entrance of a house is because of its calming effect on a visitor who is just about to enter into the house. It manifests into vibrations (brainwaves) in the visitor’s mind, putting him at ease, making him comfortable and happy.

Other reason is in ancient times , our ancestor used make rangoli with rice flours in front of house so that ants and other insects eat and will use stay outside the house and do not enter house(reports say ants die after eating rice) so other creatures like snakes, lizards, frogs etc never get into the house…

*HOW IT WORKS* ⁉

*How SILVER Forms*

Within the Earth, silver is formed from sulfur compounds. In the Earth’s crust, the temperature is very hot (approximately 200 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, depending on how close you are to the planet’s mantle). The salt water that exists within the crust concentrates into a brine solution where silver remains dissolved.

Silver is sometimes encountered in pure form. It also is mined from the minerals acanthite (silver sulfide) and stephanite. Silver also is found in the common minerals chlorargyrite (silver chloride) and polybasite. Silver is mined in many countries, but most comes from the USA, Canada, Mexico, Peru and Bolivia.

Silver is found in lead, zinc, gold and copper ore deposits. The most important ore mineral of silver is argentite (Ag2S, silver sulfide). Silver is commonly extracted from ore by smelting or chemical leaching.

‍♂️ *GK TODAY*

*Gold mines in India*

*Hatti Gold Mines* Karnataka

*Kolar Gold Fields* Karnataka

*Sonbhadra Mine* Uttar Pradesh

*VEDIK GYAN*

The most shocking fact about Konarak sun temple. The temple which is around 800 years old, but never ever happened worship in the temple. 1200 workers (stone carving workers) worked for 12year to build the Konarak sun temple with chief architect Bishu Maharana. Temple which total area covered across 12 acres on the command of king narsimbhadeva 1. The Konarak temple which was in the carcass of a chariot was built of stone which was brought from hills of kadamgiri and Uday Giri about 100 kilometers away from kinaro.

It was a great engineering masterpiece where the entire structure was built of stone and they were interlocked by metals. The entire metal skeleton was held together by a huge magnet which was more than 5 tons in weight. The ancient story said that the idol of the sun god was made of astadhatu (an alloy of 8 metals) this was suspended in mid-air balance by the magnet.

The temple was completed in time except for the crown stone which is dadhinauti. There was some problems occurring while the workers were trying to install dadhi nanti and it used to fall down all hence they were not able to complete the work. King became angry that they not completed the work in time, he decided to behead the 1200 workers along with the chief architect Bishu maharana.

He was depressed and sat down, suddenly he saw a young boy around 12-year-old coming in search of him. the boy’s name was *dharma pada.* The boy came and told bishu maharana that he was his son bishu maharana was shocked because he had never seen his son since his son was 12 years old and all this while he was there busy in the work of the temple. The 12-year-old boy dharmapada surprise everyone by giving idea for installing the *dadhi nathi* and the problem in hand was solved.

But everybody started discussing that if king narsimbhadeva 1 gets to know that a 12-year-old boy was the person responsible for this success of the work rather than the 1200 experienced workers than anyway the king would kill them all.
So the dharmapada decided to sacrifice his life by kampung from the top of the temple in the chandrabhava river and save the 1200 workers from getting beheaded.

Since that time the temple become unholy with the death of dharmapada. Sun god never worshipped there. The myth says that Dharmapada was an avatar of the sun god who comes to break the ego of the king.

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

*Cinnamon (Dhalchini) is a highly delicious spice.*

The antioxidants in cinnamon have anti-inflammatory effects, which may help lower your risk of disease. Cinnamon may improve some key risk factors for heart disease, including cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure.

*PLZ FOLLOW GOVT. NORMS, MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCE, KEEP YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY SAFE ENDS