TODAY’S TOP NEWS, 21 NOVEMBER, 2020 (GPN):

NATIONAL NEWS:

1. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has petitioned the Supreme Court to direct tycoon Subrata Roy to pay Rs 62,600 crore ($8.43 billion) immediately, or cancel his parole if he doesn’t yield.
2. NIA conducted searches at five locations in Mallapuram and Kozhikode districts of Kerala in the Kerala Gold Smuggling Case pertaining to seizure of 30 Kg gold worth Rs. 14.82 Crores on 5th July, 2020 at Trivandrum International Airport from the baggage addressed to the UAE Consulate at Thiruvananthapuram.
3. PM Modi in a tweet asserted that security forces have thwarted the efforts of terrorists to wreak major havoc and destruction. PM Modi wrote on Twitter that security forces have once again displayed utmost bravery and it was due to their ness that a nefarious plot to target grassroots-level democratic exercises in Jammu and Kashmir was defeated.
4. In the alleged TRP scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has started a probe after filing a money laundering complaint. The ED complaint was filed after studying an FIR registered by Mumbai police in October.
5. Due to rising numbers of COVID-19 cases, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday announced night curfew from November 21 in five districts of the state. The curfew from 10 pm to 6 am will be imposed in Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Vidisha, and Ratlam districts. People engaged in essential services and factory workers have been exempted.
6. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday rejected recent reports that the state government is mulling to impose lockdown again in the view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
7. Attorney General of India KK Venugopal on Friday granted consent to lawyer Anuj Singh to initiate proceedings for criminal contempt against comedian Kunal Kamra for his objectionable tweet against the Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde.
8. Congress president Sonia Gandhi goes to Goa on medical advice, to get away from the heavy pollution in the national capital in view of her chronic chest infection.
9. Kerala-based scribe Siddique Kappan, arrested on his way to Hathras where a young Dalit woman had died after allegedly being gang-raped, was going there under the ‘garb of journalism’ with a ‘very determined design’ to create caste divide and disturb law and order situation, the Uttar Pradesh government said in the Supreme Court on Friday.
10. SBI Important Notice! Customer may face inconvenience on November 22 : Fresh in the series of SBI’s latest information or notice is that the bank’s customers might face some inconvenience while accessing INB/YONO/YONO Lite on November 22. The bank will be upgrading its internet banking platform.
11. A prominent dera follower, Manohar Lal, who is a member of 25 members committee of Dera Sacha Sauda and is father of Jatinderbir Singh Jimmy, who is an accused in a sacrilege incident, was shot dead by two unidentified persons in Bathinda on Friday.
12. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has invited protesting farmers for a meeting on Saturday, a day after seeking the Union government’s support to create a “congenial environment” for ending their prolonged agitation against the the Centre’s new farm laws.
13. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will postpone 2021 Class 10, 12 board exams, Maharashtra State Board and Gujarat State Board have announced to postpone the 10th, 12th Board Exams 2021 till May instead of February-March.
14. Haryana government has decided to close down all government and private schools on Friday amid a steady spike in coronavirus cases . As of now, the schools will remain shut till November 30.
15. Younger brother of Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan announced the decision to support BJP for Hyderabad civic polls after he met with Union Minister of state for Home G Kishan Reddy and BJP OBC Morcha’s National President K Laxman. actor-turned-politician and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan on Friday announced his party’s support to it for the coming polls to the city civic body.
16. Mastercard and United States Agency for International Development launched “Project Kirana”. The programme will enable women entrepreneurs to grow, launch and thrive. The project aims to build digital literacy and financial literacy of the women in the state. It will improve business management skills of women.
17. Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh launched a portal for defence land management system . The system will bring in transparency, speed and efficiency in dealing land management. The portal has been integrated with GIS (Geographical Information System) based tools. This will improve the decision-making process by removing unnecessary communication between the stakeholders. Defence Land encroachment is the major issue in defence land management.
18. Haryana’s Health Minister Anil Vij was on Friday administered a trial dose of potential coronavirus vaccine Covaxin, becoming the first volunteer for the phase three trial of the vaccine across the country
19. Coronavirus Cases:
    9,044,265
    Deaths: 132,541
    Recovered: 8,469,955:

✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. PM Modi and his Bhutanese counterpart Lotay Tshering jointly launched e-RuPay card Phase-II yesterday . Both the leaders had jointly launched Phase-I of the project during the State Visit of the Prime Minister to Bhutan in August last year.
2. The navies of India, the United States, Australia and Japan on Friday concluded the second phase of the Malabar naval exercise in the Arabian Sea that involved two aircraft carriers and a number of frontline warships, submarines and maritime aircraft. While the first phase of the 24th edition of the Malabar exercise was conducted in Bay of Bengal from November 3-6, the second phase was conducted in the Arabian Sea from November 17-20.
3. Canada visa applicants who have submitted online applications for family class priority—spouses, partners and children category—can enroll biometrics at the Canada Visa Applications Centres in six cities from November 25 . The cities are Delhi, Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Bengaluru.
4. Indian-origin economist, author and peer Lord Meghnad Desai has resigned as a member of the UK’s Opposition Labour Party over its failure to effectively tackle antisemitic racism within its ranks. The 80-year-old peer said he has only ever been a Labour Party supporter but was forced to take the decision to cancel his membership on Thursday after 49 years after former party leader Jeremy Corbyn was readmitted after just 19 days of suspension despite findings of “unlawful acts” by the country’s human rights watchdog.
5. India slammed Pakistan for holding elections in Gilgit-Baltistan , saying it was aimed at hiding Pakistan’s illegal occupation of its territory. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava asserted that Gilgit-Baltistan was an integral part of India since 1947.
6. India and World Bank signed 120 million USD to modernise transport sector in the state of Meghalaya. The project aims to improve 300 km of strategic road segment through climate resilient and nature-based solutions. The project will help Meghalaya to emerge as the major connecting hub of trade with border countries such as Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. The project will cater small scale industries, agriculture areas, tourism, health and education centres.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. Foreign ministers from the United States, Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand have urged the Chinese central authorities to re-consider their actions against Hong Kong’s elected legislature and immediately reinstate the Legislative Council members.
2. The Green Climate Fund has approved dollar 256 million for Bangladesh in grants and loan to meet its Green House Gas (GHG) emission reduction targets under the Paris agreement.
3. Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri may have died in Afghanistan, says report . Arab News reported that Zawahiri died in Ghazni due to asthma. He had had last appeared in a video message on the anniversary of 9/11 attacks in the US. al-Zawahiri had succeeded Osama Bin Laden as Al-Qaeda chief after he was killed in a US raid at his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011. Known to be a physician, al-Zawahiri was the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ).
4. US President Donald Trump is sending an incredibly damaging message to the international community by not conceding the election results, President-elect Joe Biden said. Major news networks have declared Biden as the winner of the November 3 presidential elections, weeks ahead of their formal certification by the respective State legislatures. Trump, however, has refused to concede. He has filed multiple lawsuits in several states challenging the election results alleging that there has been massive voters’ fraud and electoral malpractice.
5. G20 leaders asked to provide funds for COVID-19 vaccines, drugs, tests : A commitment by G20 leaders at the G20 summit in Riyadh to invest substantially in the ACT (Access to COVID-19 Tools) Accelerator`s immediate funding gap of US $4.5 billion will immediately save lives, lay the groundwork for mass procurement and delivery of COVID-19 tools around the world, and provide an exit strategy out of this global economic and human crisis.
6. A 33-year-old Indonesian man became a millionaire overnight when a meteorite worth Rs 10 crore crashed through the tin roof of his house. The man Josua Hutagalung is a coffin-maker by profession and he was working on a coffin when the meteorite crashed through the roof of his living room in Kolang. The space rock weighing 2.1kg got buried 15cm deep in the soil after crashing through the roof. The meteorite is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old and is classified as CM1/2 carbonaceous Chondrite, an extremely rare variety.
7. A town in Alaska has bid goodbye to the Sun and will see the next daylight in 2021. Formerly known as Barrow, in the town of Utqiagvik, the sun set for the last time in 2020 on November 19 for a span of over 60 days.The small town located on the north of the Arctic Circle has entered its annual phase of darkness. The occurrence is known as polar night. The phenomenon takes place during winters because of the tilt of the axis of the Earth. The polar night occurs in the northernmost and southernmost regions of the Earth when the night lasts for more than 24 hours. This occurs only inside the polar circles.
8. Boeing Co won approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to fly its 737 MAX jet again after two fatal crashes that triggered two years of regulatory scrutiny and corporate upheaval . FAA Administrator Steve Dickson signed an order lifting the 20-month flight ban, the longest in commercial aviation history,
9. South Australia declared a six-day lockdown to stamp out what the state premier described as a highly contagious outbreak of the coronavirus disease that officials linked to a returned traveller from the UK.
10. Coronavirus Cases:
    57,588,872
    Deaths: 1,371,206
    Recovered: 39,967,752
    ACTIVE CASES 16,249,914

🚣🚴🏇🏁🏊Sports:

Djokovic reaches ATP Finals semis : London’s farewell edition of the ATP Finals could still have its dream climax after world number one Novak Djokovic beat Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6(4) to seal a last-four spot on Friday. Djokovic is bidding to equal Roger Federer’s record of six ATP Finals titles

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🇮🇳Facts about India🇮🇳

A treaty agreement between China and India in 1954 is called Panchasheel. This agreement stated the five principles as:

1. Mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.
2. Mutual non-aggression.
3. Mutual non-interference in each other’s internal affairs.
4. Equality and cooperation for mutual benefit.
5. Peaceful co-existence.

😀 Thought of the day 

The struggle ends when gratitude begins

 Joke of the day 

Jyotish ladke ke haath dekhkar bola🖐🏻

“Beta tum bahut padhoge”

Ladka : Saale padh to mein 4 saal se raha hu,
ye bata paas kab hounga???

😇 GK Today

ASEAN: Association of South East Asian Nations

😳 Tell Me Why ..❓❓

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Why watch advt always shows 10.10

When we see a watch ad, we will mostly likely look at a watch showing 10:10 in their face. Almost many watch ads follow this, no matter what company it belongs to. I have been wondering why is it so. Here are the reasons people say,

1) Symmetrical Look: When the watch is at 10:10 we get a vertical symmetry in the face of the clock. But we get the same with 9:45 or8:20 or some other time. Then why is it 10:10 ?

2) Smiley Look: When we look at a watch at 10:10, we see as if the watch is smiling. It is better to have a smiling face, rather than having a crying face when the time is at 8:20. Well that is one good reason, since it enlightens peoples mind while looking at the ad.

3) Victory: When the clock is at 10:10, the hands are similar to the letter “v” which symbolises victory. May not be the actual reason, but we can say this as one of the reasons.

4) Abraham Lincoln: Many say that it is due to Abraham Lincoln died at that time and so the watches are showing 10:10. But some say that, Lincoln is shot at night at around 10:15, and died in the next day morning at around 7:22. So this ain’t the correct the reason

LEARN Sanskrit🙏🏻
उद्भ्रान्त : Upset

🤔 How it works ⁉

How Anesthesia works

There are two primary types of anesthesia drugs: those that knockout the whole body (general) and those that only numb things up locally.

Local anesthetics block the nerves that connect a particular body part or region to the brain, preventing the nerves from carrying pain signals to your brain. Examples include novocaine shots, which dentists use to numb the nerves in your mouth during a root canal, and epidurals, which allow for a (relatively) painless childbirth by blocking the nerves that originate at the base of the spinal cord and serve the pelvic region.

For serious surgeries that require a patient to be completely unaware, doctors turn to general anesthesia. This renders patients unconscious with no perception or memory of the surgery (though pain from the surgical procedure will be apparent once you wake up). It also limits the physiological responses to surgical cuts, keeping blood pressure, stress hormone release and heart rate constant during the procedure.

💁🏻‍♂️ GK TODAY

Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer . He made many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television

🛕 VEDIK GYAN

Sri Badrinath Temple Temple :. Situated close to the Alaknanda River, the abode of Lord Badrinath is located in the Chamoli district, a small town of Badrinath (Uttarakhand). This holy shrine of Lord Vishnu forms a part of the four holiest sites (Char Dhams) in Hindu religion .

Badrinath was re-established as a major pilgrimage site by Adi Shankara in the 8th century.

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

Walnuts are rich in fiber, vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, and iron that makes it a healthy dry fruit.

Control cholesterol levels – Akhrot (walnuts) control cholesterol levels and improve the functioning of your heart. They help in decreasing LDL (bad cholesterol) and improving the function of blood vessels. They also cut the risk of plaque buildup in arteries.

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