TODAY’S TOP NEWS: 29 SEPTEMBER, 2020 (GPN):

NATIONAL NEWS

1. *India paid homage to Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary.*

2. Punjab CM Amarinder Singh holds sit-in protest against farm bills at Bhagat Singh’s village at Khatkar Kalan in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar. He also paid tribute to Bhagat Singh on the latter’s birth anniversary.

3. *PD Vaghela appointed as the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).* His appointment is for a period of three years or until he attains the age of 65, whichever is earlier,.

4. *PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate six mega projects in Uttarakhand* under Namami Gange on Tuesday

5. Maharashtra govt frames SOPs for reopening of restaurants: CM Uddhav Thackeray said.

6. *Kerala man sentenced to life for joining Islamic State :* The special National Investigation Agency court also imposed a fine of Rs 2,10,000 on Subahani Haja Moideen, a Keralite, who was arrested by the NIA in 2016 following a crackdown in Tamil Nadu with the help of central security agencies and other state police.

7. The court on Friday had found him guilty under IPC Sections 120(B) (Criminal Conspiracy), Section 125 (waging war against Asiatic power in alliance with the Government of India) and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Section 20 (Punishment for being member of terrorist gang or organisation). The court had also convicted him under UAPA Section 38 (Offence relating to membership of a terrorist organisation) and 39 (Offence relating to support given to a terrorist organisation).

8. *Union Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launched a vaccine portal for COVID-19.* The portal aims to create awareness among masses.The portal will provide vaccine related information. This will include efforts made in India towards vaccine development against COVID-19.

9. *The Shimla-Kalka National Highway was blocked near Kiari Bangla, near Kandaghat* , in Solan district, at around 9pm on Monday as the road developed cracks following a landslide. The work for widening of road is under way on the stretch.

10. *Congress, which opposed the farm reform laws, has staged nationwide protests* against them on Monday in states such as Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Punjab.

11. A day after President Ram Nath Kovind granted his assent to the controversial farm Bills, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday asked states ruled by her party to negate the agriculture-related Central laws by passing their own legislations.

12. *West Bengal CM Mamata Baneerjee appoints Alapan Bandopadhyay as new chief secretary*
She is the current Additional Chief Secretary of West Bengal’s Home department.

13. *Assam’s only woman chief minister, Syeda Anwara Taimur, died on Monday in Australia at the age of 84.* According to reports, she was suffering from health complications and was staying with her son in Australia for the last few years.

14. *Post Office Scheme: National Saving Certificate* This is a plan for the post office. In this scheme you can add big money in few years. You can start investing in this scheme from 100 rupees as well an interest rate of 6.8 (Interest Rate).

15. *Defence Minister Raj Nath Singh released a new Defence Acquisition Procedure, 2020.* It has special incentives for products that are designed and developed by Indian vendors.

16. *Defence ministry clears military purchases worth Rs 2,920 crore,* : India’s defence acquisition council (DAC) on Monday cleared the decks for the purchase of military hardware worth Rs 2,290 crore, including assault rifles for frontline troops from the United States and the smart anti-airfield weapon,

17. *Surgical Strike Day:* Exactly four years ago on September 28, 2016; the Indian Army conducted its first surgical strike across the Line of Control (LoC) in retaliation to the Uri attack.

18. *An upgrade of 90 medium lift Mi-17 helicopters of the Indian Air Force (IAF) proposed in 2002 could not be achieved even after 18 years, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said* as a result of which these “helicopters were flying with limited capability, thus compromising operational preparedness during these years” and the expenditure of about ?223 crore was “not justified” with limited life left in 56 of them.

19. *Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Monday alleged that he received a death threat from Pakistan asking him to withdraw the complaint against Bollywood* amid the ongoing probe in a drug-related case.

20. *DMDK founder and Kollywood actor A Vijayakant has been admitted to the private MIOT Hospital in Chennai* after he tested positive for Coronavirus on September 22.

21. *COVID-19 IN INDIA*
TOTAL CASES 6074702
TOTAL ACTIVE 962640
RECOVERED 5016520
TOTAL DEATHS 95542

*✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS*

1. *India-Australia’s growing partnership built on military ties and concerns about China’s rise* : India has become Australia’s fifth-largest export destination (up from twelfth at the turn of the century), and Australia is now a top-20 trade partner for India.

2. *PM Modi and Denmark premier Mette Frederiksen held a Virtual Bilateral Summit on Monday.*

3. *The G20 Leaders’ Summit, to be held virtually during November 21-22* and chaired by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, will focus on protecting lives and restoring growth by tackling vulnerabilities uncovered by the Covid-19 pandemic.

4. *The Indian and Japanese navies on Saturday (September 26, 2020) began their three-day-long maritime exercise that took place in the North Arabian Sea.* The fourth edition of the Japan India Maritime Exercise (JIMEX) between the Indian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) saw them carry out extensive Maritime Ops.

*WORLD NEWS*

1. *Every year, World Rabies Day is celebrated on September 28* by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control. The day is marked on death anniversary of Louis Pasteur who developed the first rabies vaccine. The day aims to create awareness about the impact of rabies on animals and humans.

2. *China’s Yunnan province gets a suspected case of Bubonic plague* after Inner Mongolia recorded two deaths due to deadly disease. Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium, ‘Yersinia pestis’. Infected rats are a key source of the disease, which also transmits to humans typically through bites from infected fleas. People can also get infected through direct contact with an infected animal, through inhalation and in the case of pneumonic plague, person to person.

3. *A space start-up in China is all set to send out the world’s first mining robot into space* to identify and extract resources.

4. *Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan Armenia and Azerbaijan escalated sharply on Monday* in and around the mountain territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and at least 30 people were killed in the second day of heavy clashes.

Forces of the two ex-Soviet neighbours pounded each other with rockets and artillery in the fiercest explosion of the decades-old conflict in more than a quarter of a century.

5. *Majority Christian Armenia and mainly Muslim Azerbaijan first clashed in the 1980s over Nagorno-Karabakh* , a breakaway region that is inside Azerbaijan but mostly populated and run by ethnic Armenians. The fighting has revived concern over stability in the South Caucasus, a corridor for pipelines carrying oil and gas to world markets.

* SPORTS:*

1. *IPL 2020* : Bangalore back to winning ways as they beat Mumbai in a high-octane Super Over.

2. Mumbai Indians who looked down and out at one stage tied RCB’s total of 201 thanks to phenomenal counter-attack from Ishan Kishan (99 off 58 balls; 4×2, 6×9) and Keiron Pollard (60 from 24 balls; 4×3, 6×5).

In the Super Over, Navdeep Saini was the hero for RCB, as he contained Mumbai to a paltry 7/1. Bumrah, in reply, brought his side close but with RCB needing 6 from 3 balls

3. *Football Delhi in its Executive Committee meeting on 27 September decided to start a virtual skill competition for various age group from October 2020.*

4. *Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) had an online meeting on Monday to discuss financial proposals of over Rs. 1.5 crores of athletes* in six sports Shooting, Badminton, Boxing, Para Sports, Weightlifting and Hockey who are part of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS).

5. *Indian wrestler Labhanshu Sharma has planned a bus journey from Rishikesh to London.* Labhanshu said the journey will cover a distance of 21,000 km and will travel through 20 countries. He said only 20 passengers will be taken on this journey and it is planned to begin in June 2021.

6. *IPL MATCH Tuesday, 29th September 2020*

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* FACTS ABOUT INDIA*

Father of Indian Green Revolution …………..
Dr.M.S. Swaminathan. The Green Revolution in India refers to a period when Indian agriculture was converted into an industrial system due to the adoption of modern methods and technology such as the use of high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, tractors, irrigation facilities, pesticides, and fertilizers. the Green Revolution within India commenced in 1965 .

* THOUGHT OF THE DAY*

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.

JOKES OF THE DAY*

1)Friend : Kya Daru Pine se khaansi jati hai

*Pappu* : Kyu nai jayegi
Jab mera ghar, khet, paisa sab kuch chala gaya to teri khansi kya cheej hai

2) blonde is overweight, so her doctor puts her on a diet.

“I want you to eat regularly for two days, then skip a day, and repeat the procedure for two weeks. The next time I see you, you’ll have lost at least five pounds.”

When the blonde returns, she’s lost nearly 20 pounds.

“Wow, that’s amazing!” the doctor says.

“Did you follow my instructions?”

The blonde nods…

“I’ll tell you, I’d thought I was going to drop dead that third day.”

“From hunger, you mean?” said the doctor.

“No, from skipping,” replied the blonde.

3) young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, “This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.”

The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, “Which do you want, son?”

The boy takes the quarters and leaves.

“What did I tell you?” said the barber. “That kid never learns!”

Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store.

“Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?”

The boy licked his cone and replied, “Because the day I take the dollar, the game’s over !”

4) MORE INTELLIGENT MORE HILARIOUS: toothpaste factory had a problem: they sometimes shipped empty boxes, without the tube inside. This was due to the way the production line was set up, and people with experience in designing production lines will tell you how difficult it is to have everything happen with timings so precise that every single unit coming out of it is perfect 100% of the time. Small variations in the environment (which can’t be controlled in a cost-effective fashion) mean you must have quality assurance checks smartly distributed across the line so that customers all the way down to the supermarket don’t get pissed off and buy another product instead.

Understanding how important that was, the CEO of the toothpaste factory got the top people in the company together and they decided to start a new project, in which they would hire an external engineering consultant to solve their empty boxes problem, as the in-house engineering department was already too stretched to take on any extra effort.

The project followed the usual process: budget and project sponsor allocated, RFP, third-parties selected, and six months (and $8 million) later they had a fantastic solution – on time, on budget, high quality and everyone in the project had a great time. They solved the problem by using high-tech precision scales that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box would weigh less than it should. The line would stop, and someone had to walk over and yank the defective box out of it, pressing another button when done to re-start the line.

A while later, the CEO decides to have a look at the ROI of the project: amazing results! No empty boxes ever shipped out of the factory after the scales were put in place. Very few customer complaints, and they were gaining market share.

“That’s some money well spent!” he says to himself, before looking closely at the other statistics in the report. It turns out the number of defects picked up by the scales was 0 after three weeks of production use. It should’ve been picking up at least a dozen a day, so maybe there was something wrong with the report. He filed a bug against it, and after some investigation, the engineers come back saying the report was actually correct. The scales really weren’t picking up any defects, because all boxes that got to that point in the conveyor belt were good.

Puzzled, the CEO travels down to the factory, and walks up to the part of the line where the precision scales were installed. A few feet before the scale, there was a $20 desk fan, blowing the empty boxes out of the belt and into a bin.

“Oh, that,” says one of the workers. “One of the guys put it there ’cause he was tired of walking over every time the bell rang.”

5)  Chicken Vocabulary

1.Whos the father of chicken?
Chicken ka bab.

2. Who is the mother of chicken?
Chicken Kima.

3. How do you tell a chicken to call you on your mobile?
Kalmi chicken

4. What happens when a chicken takes bath?
Chicken showerma.

5. Chicken in trouble?
Chicken soup.

6. Chicken getting injection?
Chicken teeka.

7. Chicken doing flattery?
Butter chicken.

8. Chicken on a winter night?
Chilly chicken.

9. Chicken at retirement?
Chicken 65.

*‍♂️ *GK TODAY*

Bengali Tiger : Bipin Chandra Pal

Maratha Kesari : Bal GangadharTilak

Punjab Lion : Lala Lajpat Rai

*TELL ME WHY…❓❓*

*Why should one not sleep under the trees at night.*

During the day, in presence of sunlight, the plants use up the CO2 and release O2 in the process of photosynthesis. But during night, plants won’t perform photosynthesis so they are unable to use the CO2 and this further leads to increase in the proportion of CO2 in the air. During night the trees breathe in oxygen and release CO2. If one sleeps under the trees, the amount of increased CO2 in the air around will certainly affect the health. So it is inadvisable to sleep under trees during night.

*LEARN SANSKRIT*

*हरितः* Green

*HOW IT WORKS* ⁉

*How a weight machine works*

Scales people use to weigh themselves often work this way. You stand on a platform and your weight, pushing down, compresses a pressure sensor called a piezoelectric transducer. This is a kind of crystal that makes an electric current when you squeeze it: the harder you push, the more current it makes.

*Digital scales use* a . A system of levers translates your weight standing on a scale into a bending force on a calibrated metal block, and the strain gauge measures how much it bends, producing a voltage proportional to the force. There may be two or even four strain gauges that measure the difference in strain between the two sides, to compensate for temperature dependence (the resistance of the gauge can change with temperature as well as with strain). The voltage is converted to numbers in an , Analog to digital convertor. manipulated in a small dedicated computer to set the zero and scale, and displayed on an LCD display.

*VEDIK GYAN*

There are 1 Maha Purana, 17 Mukhya Puranas (Major Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas), with over 400,000 verses. The first version of various Puranas were likely to be composed between 3rd- and 10th-century CE. The Puranas do not enjoy the authority of a scripture in Hinduism, but are considered as Smritis.

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

*Best foods for eye health*

*Fish oil* can reverse dry eye,

*Nuts* are also rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Nuts also contain a high level of vitamin E, which can protect the eye from age-related damage.

*Leafy green* vegetables are rich in both lutein and zeaxanthin and are also a good source of eye-friendly vitamin C.

*Carrots* are rich in both Vitamin A and beta carotene. Beta carotene gives carrots their orange color.

*Sweet potatoes* are rich in beta carotene. They are also a good source of the antioxidant vitamin E.

*Drinking plenty* of water can prevent dehydration, which may reduce the symptoms of dry eyes.

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