NATIONAL NEWS:

1. PM Modi to inaugurate three key projects in Gujarat on 24th October via video conferencing. The ‘ Kisan Suryodaya Yojana’ for the farmers of Gujarat. He will inaugurate the Paediatric Heart Hospital attached with U.N Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre and a Mobile Application for tele-cardiology at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. He will also inaugurate the Ropeway at Girnar on the occasion.
2. Kisan Suryodaya Yojana : To provide day-time power supply for irrigation, the Gujarat Government under Chief Minister Shri Vijay Rupani had recently announced the ‘Kisan Suryodaya Yojana’. Under this scheme, farmers will be able to avail power supply from 5 AM to 9 PM. The state government has allocated a budget of Rs.3500 crore for installing transmission infrastructure under this scheme by 2023. 234 ‘66-Kilowatt’ transmission lines.
3. Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh addresses 1st ever Ministerial Meetingof G-20 Anti-Corruption Working Group : Dr Jitendra Singh referred to the India’s Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, which the Modi government amended after 30 years in 2018 to introduce a number of new provisions including criminalizing the act of giving bribe also in addition to taking bribe and at the same time putting in place an effective deterrence for such actions by individuals as well as corporate entities.
4. India is celebrating the 12th anniversary of Chandrayaan-1, India’s first mission to the moon 22 Oct 2008. 12 years ago on this day, the mission was launched successfully by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. Chandrayaan-1 was the first Indian lunar probe under Chandrayaan program. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation.
5. Banks can deploy on-tap TLTRO (targeted long-term repo operations) funds in agriculture, retail and MSMEs: RBI said.
6. Union of Housing and Urban affairs minister Shri Hardeep Singh Puri launched the e-Dharti Geo Portal . The portal will integrate map and lease plans in the Management Information System. It will make the system Geographic Information System enabled, GIS enabled.
7. Third phase of National Supercomputing Mission to begin in Jan 2021, aim: to raise computing speed to 45 petaflops. One petaflops is equal to 1,000 teraflops, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 FLOPS. … Petaflops are rarely used to measure a single computer’s performance, since only the fastest supercomputers run at more than one petaflops.
8. CBSE introduces “Facial Recognition System” for accessing digital documents : to download their digital academic documents of class X and XII.This computer application matches human face from a digital image already stored in the database .The computer and the human interact to map the facial features.
9. Punjab assembly passes bills negating Centre’s farm laws; sale/purchase below MSP (minimum support price) illegal
10. Election Commission constituted a committee under Harish Kumar, the former director general investigation and the election commission Secretary General Umesh Sinha. The two- member committee will examine the expenditure limit of candidates contesting in Lok Sabha and Assembly Elections.
11. State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has won seven out of the 11 oil and gas exploration blocks offered for bidding in the latest licensing round , upstream regulator Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) said. The government had offered 11 blocks for exploration and production of oil and gas in the fifth bid round under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OLAP).
12. The political temperature in Bihar is set to go up substantially as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi take a direct plunge in electioneering Friday , addressing a series of rallies for their respective alliances in the state
13. Amid the ongoing TRP scam probe by the Mumbai police, sources report on Thursday, that 3-4 names have been discussed to allegedly replace the Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh . Singh has requested more time from the government to allegedly find evidence against Republic TV, as per sources. Sources have reported that a meeting is taking place between top leaders of the Maharashtra government, with Deputy CM Ajit Pawar on teleconference, as he has tested COVID positive.
14. JEE-Main to be conducted in more languages: Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank said
15. The Tamil Nadu State government is to implement the smart blackboard scheme in more than 80,000 Government schools. This is to ensure better teaching environment. The smart blackboard scheme aims to use audio visual teaching material that can be integrated along with digital classrooms. It will create materials that can be fed into computer screens using pen drives.
16. Actor Saif Ali Khan dismisses reports of him buying back his ancestral home Pataudi Palace , calls Rs 800 crore price tag ‘a massive exaggeration’. He didn’t have to buy it back from the Neemrana group.
17. Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik Chakraborty’s judicial custody was extended until Nov 3 by the special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act court after rejecting his bail plea on Tuesday (October 20). Showik and several others were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with the drug case that emerged from actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death.
18. The Police Commemoration Day is observed on October 21 every year to pay respects to the 10 policemen who were killed by Chinese troops in an ambush at Hot Springs area near Ladakh on October 21, 1959.
19. Indian Naval Ship Kavaratti is commissioned into the Indian Navy . The INS Kavaratti is one of the four indigenously built anti-submarine Warfare stealth corvettes under project 28. The project 28 is also called Kamorta class Corvettes. The length of the Corbett is 109 metres. The ship displaces 2500 tons. It can retain 180 sailors and 13 officers. They are propelled by twelve diesel engines.
20. Under the plan of the project four corvettes were commissioned into the Indian Navy. Accordingly, INS Kamorta was commissioned in 2014, INS Kadmatt in 2016, INS Kiltan in 2017. Now INS Kavaratti is being commissioned in 2020. All these four Indian Navy ships have been named after the islands and Lakshadweep archipelago.
21. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will celebrate Dussehra with Army soldiers in a high-altitude border area in Sikkim and perform ‘Shastra Puja’ (worship of weapons) on the occasion on Sunday,
22. The anti-tank missile Nag successfully passed the final trials of DRDO. The missile is to enter production. The Nag missile was fired from the Nag Missile Carrier. Nag missiles are the third generation anti-tank guided missile with top attack capabilities. The range of Nag missile is between 4 and 7 kilometres. In 2018, the Ministry of Defence cleared acquisition of 300 Nag missiles and 25 Nag Misile Carriers. A Nag carrier is a modified BMP infantry combat vehicle.
23. Coronavirus Cases:
    7,756,206
    Deaths: 117,277
    Recovered: 6,941,238

✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. The Indo-Nepal border was reopened on Thursday but Nepal government has decided to keep the border closed and has deployed police at the border. After remaining closed for around 7 months due to coronavoirus COVID-19 pandemic, The decision sends a clear message that Nepal government led by Prime Minister KP Oli is not in favour of opening border with India and Kathmandu is not interested in normalising ties with India.
2. Covaxin, an indigenously developed vaccine candidate by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has got clearance for phase three trials in India. On October 2, the pharma company had applied to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) asking its permission to conduct Phase 3 trials for its vaccine candidate.
3. The ISI is planning a major terror strike on the lines of Pathankot in Rajasthan, an Intelligence Bureau official told. The job has been entrusted to the Jaish-e-Mohammad,
4. Chief of Naval Staff reviews operational readiness at Sea : Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command, Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar, arrived at Karwar Naval Base where he interacted with personnel and emphasised key issues of repairs, maintenance, spares support and op-logistics for afloat units to sharpen their war-fighting capabilities. He also reiterated aspects of cyber-security, force protection against terrorist attacks, asymmetric warfare and exhorted all personnel to maintain highest-level of alertness.
5. India is closing in on an agreement with the United States that will give it access to satellite data for better accuracy of missiles and drones, government and industry officials said, The two sides are expected to announce the pact during the visit next week of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper for talks in New Delhi with Indian counterparts Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Rajnath Singh.
6. Royal Enfield will finally be launching the Meteor 350 motorcycle in India on November 6, 2020. The Royal Enfield Meteor 350 will be an all-new motorcycle offering from the brand, which will replace the legendary Thunderbird line-up.
7. Govt allows all foreign nationals to travel to India except on tourist visa

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx collects sample from surface of asteroid Bennu : as it hurtles through space some 205 million miles from Earth. The spacecraft successfully touched the asteroid Bennu on Tuesday at 6:11 pm EDT and collected a 2-oz (57-g) sample of its surface.
2. Launched atop an Atlas/Centaur booster from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on September 8, 2016 at 7:05 pm EDT, the robotic OSIRIS-REx probe spent four years matching orbits to rendezvous with Bennu before making a detailed survey of the body’s surface to find a safe area of scientific interest.Bennu is 205 million miles (330 million km) from Earth,
3. Italy calls MoU with China on the latter’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) a mistake : The Italian government is ready to join the New Silk Roads project, but the president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China warns that foreign firms’ success in the Chinese market is not decided by memorandum of understandings. The problem of transparency
4. The U.S. State Department has designated the U.S. operations of six China-based media companies as foreign missions. The designations restrict the operations of Yicai Global, Jiefang Daily, Xinmin Evening News, Social Sciences in China Press, Beijing Review, and Economic Daily in the United States but don’t affect what they can publish in US.
5. Several parts of Bangladesh are experiencing rain as the depression over the central part of the Bay of Bengal intensified and moved north-northwards.
6. Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris turned 56 on Tuesday , with the party’s presidential nominee Joe Biden greeting her on the big day, saying they would celebrate her next birthday at the White House. If elected, she would be the first-ever woman vice president of the United States.
7. Donald Trump and Joe Biden will meet for one final presidential debate on Thursday before the November 3 elections. Recent polls have shown Trump trailing behind Biden, especially in key states, though by a narrow margin.
8. Two people were killed after a suspected gas explosion that led to a building collapse in Southall, the west London suburb with a large Punjabi-origin Indian diaspora population
9. Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University had died but added that the trial would continue. The university earlier confirmed the volunteer was Brazilian but gave no further personal details.
10. Coronavirus Cases:
    41,734,887
    Deaths: 1,139,647
    Recovered: 31,059,565
    ACTIVE CASES 9,535,675

🚣🚴🏇🏁🏊 SPORTS:

1. IPL 2020

Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, 40th Match

RR – 154/6 (20)
SRH – 156/2 (18.1)

Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 8 wkts

2. 41st Match Oct 23,
   Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians
   at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
   19:30 IST / 14:00 GMT
3. Indian Men’s Wrestling camp for Freestyle and Greco-Roman is currently in progress at the Sports Authority of India NCOE, Sonepat. : The camp had commenced on September 1 and the wrestlers had to complete a 14 day quarantine before starting their training.
4. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju met the members of the Indian Judo team at his residence ahead of their departure to Hungary for the Budapest Grand Slam which contributes to the Olympic qualification, to be held between October 23 and October 25.
5. SAI to arrange for travel for trainees to return to various training centres, as training begins to resume across the country. With an eye to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, sporting activities are being resumed in SAI training centres across the country from November 1.

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🇮🇳Facts about India🇮🇳

Bhāskara-I was a 7th-century mathematician, who very bv the first to write numbers in the Hindu decimal system with a circle for the zero, and who gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata’s work

😀 THOUGHT OF THE DAY 

Have faith in yourself – all power is in you. Even the poison of a snake is powerless, if you can firmly deny it.”

 JOKES OF THE DAY 

1)Class rooms r like train mast jokes for student
1st 2 benches r executive coaches-reserved for VIP
middle 2 r genral compartment
n last 2 r sleeper class….So which class you travelled in childhood, Don’t misinterpret….In India it’s reverse in adulthood….The Back Benchers travel in VIP and Chartered Business Class as they have turned politicians and the front benchers in Executive and Business Class as they have turned the sofisticated top management guys and it is always the middle class who suffer and still travel in general and economy class and are used (exploited) by front and back benchers…..Please don’t laugh see practically in next joke how the middle class are exploited.

2)एक राजा को मलाई रबड़ी खाने का शौक था। उसे रात में सोने से पहले मलाई रबड़ी खाए बिना नीद नहीं आती थी। इसके लिए राजा ने सुनिश्चित किया कि खजांची (जो राज्य के धन का लेखा जोखा रखता है) एक नौकर को रोजाना चार आने दे मलाई लाने के लिए।

यह क्रम कई दिनों तक चलता रहा। कुछ समय बाद खजांची को शक हुआ कि कहीं नौकर चार आने की मलाई में गड़बड़ तो नहीं कर रहा। उसने चुपचाप नौकर पर नजर रखनी शुरू कर दी। खजांची ने पाया कि नौकर केवल तीन आने की मलाई लाता है और एक आना बचा लेता है। अपनी चोरी पकड़ी जाने पर नौकर ने खजांची को एक आने की रिश्वत देना शुरू कर दिया।

अब राजा को दो आने की मलाई रबड़ी मिलती जिसे वह चार आने की समझ कर खाता। कुछ दिन बाद राजा को शक हुआ कि मलाई की मात्रा में कमी हो रही है। राजा ने अपने खास मंत्री को अपनी शंका बतलाई और असलियत पता करने को कहा। मंत्री ने पूछताछ शुरू की। खजांची ने एक आने का प्रस्ताव मंत्री को दे दिया।

अब हालात ये हुए कि नौकर को केवल दो आने मिलते जिसमें से एक आना नौकर रख लेता और केवल एक आने की मलाई रबड़ी राजा के लिए ले जाता। कुछ दिन बीते। इधर हलवाई जिसकी दुकान से रोजाना मलाई रबड़ी जाती थी उसे संदेह हुआ कि पहले चार आने की मलाई जाती थी अब घटते घटते एक आने की रह गई।

हलवाई ने नौकर को पूछना शुरू किया और राजा को बतलाने की धमकी दी। नौकर ने पूरी बात खजांची को बतलाई और खजांची ने मंत्री को। अंत में यह तय हुआ कि एक आना हलवाई को भी दे दिया जाए।

अब समस्या यह हुई कि मलाई कहां से आएगी और राजा को क्या बताया जाएगा। इसकी जिम्मेदारी मंत्री ने ले ली। इस घटना के बाद पहली बार ऐसा हुआ कि राजा को मलाई की प्रतीक्षा करते नींद आ गयी। इसी समय मंत्री ने राजा की मूछों पर सफेद चाक(खड़िया) का घोल लगा दिया।

अगले दिन राजा ने उठते ही नौकर को बुलाया तो मंत्री और खजांची भी दौड़े आए। राजा ने पूछा , “कल मलाई क्यों नही लाऐ ?”

नौकर ने खजांची और मंत्री की ओर देखा। मंत्री बोला, “हुजर यह लाया था, आप सो गए थे इसलिए मैने आपको सोते में ही खिला दी। देखिए अभी तक आपकी मूछों में भी लगी है।”

यह कहकर उसने राजा को आईना दिखाया। मूछों पर लगी सफेदी को देखकर राजा को विश्वास हो गया कि उसने मलाई खाई थी।

अब यह रोज का क्रम हो गया, खजाने से चार आने निकलते और बंट जाते। राजा के मुंह पर सफेदी लग जाती।

बचपन की सुनी यह कहानी आज के समय में भी सामयिक है। आप कल्पना करें कि आम जनता राजा है, मंत्री हमारे नेता हैं और अधिकारी व ठेकेदार क्रमश: खजांची और हलवाई हैं। पैसा भले कामों के लिए निकल रहा है और आम आदमी को चूना दिखाकर संतुष्ट किया जा रहा है।

3) मरे हुए व्यक्ति के मुँह में क्या डालना चाहिए? बिड़ला सीमेन्ट, क्योंकि इस सीमेन्ट में जान है।

13 का घनमूल क्या है?
सुरूर, क्योंकि 13…13…13… = सुरूर

जो लड़की कभी नही हँसती उसे क्या कहेंगे?
“हसी-ना”

जिसका दिल टूट जाता उसका GK कमजोर होता है?
क्योंकि, जब दिल ही टूट गया तो GK क्या करेगा।

अगर 2 पीपल के पेड़ को रस्सी से बाँध दिया जाये तो उस रस्सी को क्या कहेंगे?
नोकिया – कनेक्टिगं पीपल

इसी तरह के और फ़ोकट के ज्ञान के लिए हमारे साथ बने रहिए। हम आपको ऐसे ही ज्ञान गंगा में डुबकी लगवाते रहेगें।

4)Each evening bird-lover Tom stood in his backyard, hooting like an owl. One night, an owl called back to him. For a year, the man and his feathered friend hooted back and forth. He even kept a log of the “conversation.”

Just as he thought he was on the verge of a breakthrough in interspecies communication, his wife had a chat with her next-door neighbor.

“My husband spends his nights… calling out to owls,” she said.

“That’s odd,” the neighbor replied. “So does my husband.

😳TELL ME WHY❓❓❓

What is the reason for The Ancient Practice Of Sprinkling Water Around Food Meant!

This ancient practise is believed to have started by sages in olden times, who spent most of their lives living in forest areas or in raw houses, where the floors weren’t concrete on which they sat and ate food. Moreover, the food was mostly served on banana plantains. The food was prone to be exposed to the muddy floor making it unhealthy; which is why water was sprinkled around the plates to settle the mud or dust particles down. Dirt contains bacteria that may contribute to allergic reactions and other health problems.

Another reason may be that sprinkling water was also a great way to keep insects and pests at bay, especially at night when there is barely any light. It is said that ants or any insect cannot cross or tread upon water.

LEARN SANSKRIT🙏🏻

आगच्छथः To come

💁🏻‍♂️ GK TODAY

The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km 2(77,000 sq mi) and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. It is the world’s 18th largest desert, and the world’s 9th largest subtropical desert.

🤔 HOW IT WORKS ⁉️

How Tape Recorders Work

In the audio realm, magnetic tape (in the form of compact cassettes) is a popular way of distributing music.

The tape itself is actually very simple. It consists of a thin plastic base material, and bonded to this base is a coating of ferric oxide powder. The oxide is normally mixed with a binder to attach it to the plastic, and it also includes some sort of dry lubricant to avoid wearing out the recorder.
Iron oxide (FeO) is the red rust we commonly see. Ferric oxide (Fe2O3) is another oxide of iron. Maghemite or gamma ferric oxide are common names for the substance.

This oxide is a ferromagnetic material, meaning that if you expose it to a magnetic field it is permanently magnetized by the field. That ability gives magnetic tape two of its most appealing features:

You can record anything you want instantly and the tape will remember what you recorded for playback at any time.
You can erase the tape and record something else on it any time you like. These two features are what make tapes and disks so popular — they are instant and they are easily changed.

🛕 VEDIK GYAN

Vishwamitra : Sage or rishi, who used Rama to kill troubling demons. Initially he was a Lodh king in ancient India. he is also credited as the author of most of Mandala 3 of the Rigveda, including Gayatri Mantra. His daughter was Shakuntala (from Menaka) from where Mahabharat story begins and also Sushruta (father of plastic surgery)

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

GINGER TEA FOR COUGH
The primary indication that our body gives us when any infection of flu is contracted is through a sore throat. At this time, grate some ginger and add it to a pan of boiling water. Once it boils, add the honey into it and squeeze half a lemon and you are good to go. This is beneficial for both sore throats and cough.

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