Today’s top news: 3rd January, 2021 (GPN):

NATIONAL NEWS:

1. Karnataka Allows Shops, Other Businesses To Remain Open 24×7 :
   All shops and commercial establishments employing ten or more people in Karnataka are now allowed to operate on a 24×7 basis, the state government said on Saturday.
2. Cooking gas LPG price of non subsidised 14 Kg cylinder was on January 1 kept unchanged by the oil marketing companies though the price of 19 kg commercial LPG saw an upward revision. According to the IOC website, the new rate of 19 kg LPG cylinder in Delhi is now Rs 1349 per cylinder as against the previous price of Rs 1332. Prices have been increased by Rs 17 more per cylinder.
3. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s close aide Manik Majumdar , who handled her and Trinamool Congress’ operations at her Kalighat office for almost four decades, passed away on Saturday (January 2) morning.
4. Farmers protest updates: Will hold tractor parade in Delhi on Republic Day,
5. Puducherry has bagged the award for the ‘Best Performing Union Territory in India for Implementing the PMAY’ (Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana), an affordable housing scheme run by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
6. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Saturday (January 2, 2021) deployed 60 personnel and the Indian Air Force (IAF) sent three more helicopters to contain the spread of wildfire at the Dzukou valley on the Manipur-Nagaland border.
7. ISRO Chief K Sivan gets one-year extension as Department of Space secretary till 2022
8. The Assam government will distribute around 22,250 scooties (two-wheelers) to girl students free-of-cost to promote girls` education in the state , Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
9. IIM Indore announced the CAT 2020 result on Saturday (January 2, 2021) at 5 PM. For the candidates who appeared for the the examination which was held on November 29, the scorecards has been made available at the candidate’s portal.
   The CAT 2020 exam result was declared online at IIM’s official website – iimcat.ac.in.
10. A Mumbai-based standup comedian Munawar Faruqui, along with four other event organisers, has been arrested for allegedly insulting religious beliefs and also Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a New Year show in Indore. The incident came to light when a group of Hindutva activists attended the event to monitor it and brought the proceedings to a halt when the artiste made the allegedly unwelcome references. Munawar Faruqui was a serial offender, who in the past has often denigrated Hindu gods-goddesses at his shows.
11. Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Saturday visited several air bases located in forward areas near the Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh and took stock of India’s overall security scenario in the eastern sector.
12. Six civilians were injured in a grenade attack by terrorists in the Tral area of Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
13. Surgeon Vice Admiral Rajat Datta took over as the director general of the Armed Forces Medical Services, as India’s top military doctor.
14. BSF To Train 2 Indian Dog Breeds For Border Patrolling.
15. Former Union home minister Buta Singh died at the AIIMS on Saturday morning. He was 86.The senior Congress leader was in a coma since October last year.
16. The COVID-19 vaccination drive hasn’t begun yet but the politics around it has already started. Hours after the Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav said that he won’t get vaccinated as he can’t trust the BJP’s vaccine, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made a statement that he will happily roll up his sleeve to get a coronavirus vaccine.
17. The Meteorological Department issued a yellow weather warning for heavy snowfall in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday. The Shimla MeT Centre forecast rainfall in plains and low hills, and rain and snowfall in mid and high hills of the state from January 3 to 5 and on January 8.
18. Coronavirus Cases:10,324,539
    Deaths:149,470
    Recovered: 9,926,414

✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. After leasing two predator drones from the US, the Indian Navy is now going to urgently acquire 10 shipborne drones for enhancing its surveillance capabilities in the Indian Ocean Region, for which it has received the government approval recently.
2. Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan on terror financing charges.
3. Flights from India to UK to resume from January 6, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri clarifies
4. The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports on stranded Indian sailors onboard MV Anastasia and MV Jag Anand in Chinese waters for over 146 days and their difficulties without any rescue mission insight. It has observed that the contents of media reports, if true, amount to a violation of human rights.
5. Exercise Skyros: India-France to undertake joint exercise with Rafales this month Come January 19 and four Rafale fighters of the French Air Force will land in India to take part in joint exercises with the Indian Air Force’s Golden Arrow Squadron with was resurrected with the induction of the Rafale fighter jets in September last year.
6. Govt pushes 6 new road projects in Arunachal as tension with China continues.
7. The health ministry made an announcement saying all The passengers traveling from the united kingdom to India are going to be subjected to mandatory self-paid RT-PCR tests at the airport .

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out Monday whether he can be extradited from the UK to the US to face espionage charges over the publication of secret American military documents.
2. The Australian Government recently announced certain changes to its National Anthem “Advance Australia Fair”.
3. Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday approved the release of Rs 2.35 crore to purchase the ancestral houses of legendary Bollywood actors Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor located in the heart of this city and declared as the national heritages.
4. Japan’s military unit to make pilot-less fighter planes to counter China
   With an eye on China and visualising the future of warfare, Japan has begun to develop a remote-controlled fighter aircraft which will be ready for deployment in 2035. Nikkei Asia is reporting that the 15-year project has acquired urgency to counter China’s cascading advancement of hi-tech weaponry
5. Coronavirus Cases:
   84,649,345
   Deaths: 1,839,554
   Recovered: 59,838,067

🚣🚴🏇🏁🏊Sports:

1. BCCI President Saurav Ganguly today complained of chest pain, after which he has been admitted to the Woodland Hospital in Kolkata . Now the latest update is that Saurav Ganguly is out of danger, his condition is said to be stable now.
2. Issuing a statement on the alleged bio-bubble breach by Team India players, Cricket Australia has said that 5 players from the touring party have been ‘separated’ from the squad and have been placed under isolation. These players are Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Prithvi Shaw and Navdeep Saini. While the aforementioned players have been allowed to train, the BCCI and Cricket Australia have launched an investigation into the matter.

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🇮🇳Facts about India🇮🇳

Karnataka : The region was popularly referred to as ‘Karnata desa’ in Indian history. The other accepted derivative comes from the Kannada words karu and nādu meaning elevated land, or from the Kannada words kal and nādu meaning rock country, referring to the rocky terrain of the state. Another etymological derivative of the name comes from lear or black—a reference to the black cotton soil of the region. Mysore state was renamed Karnataka in 1973.

😀Thought of the day

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Joke of the day

Laughing At Your Own Mistakes, Can Lengthen Your Life.”-Shakespear

“Laughing At ur Wife’s Mistakes,Can Shorten ur Life.” -Shakespear wife

😇GK Today💤

ICICI – Industrial Credit Investment Corporation of India

😳Why..❓❓

Why Sunday is called Holiday?
According to the Bible, God created the earth and everything in six days and rested the seventh day i.e sabbath. British rule in India, which followed the christian religion, made it a mandatory leave on sunday. Even after they left, the rules stuck by . Hence sunday is a holiday .

When India was under British rule, the mill workers in India had to figure hard for all seven days of every week. They didn’t get any holiday or any quite leave to urge rest. … Sunday is that the day of the Hindu deity ‘Khandoba’. Hence Sunday should be declared as a holiday”.

LEARN Sanskrit🙏🏻

Gold सुवर्णम्, कनकम्, हिरण्यम्

🤔 How it works ⁉

How does a pressure cooker works

The pressure cooker was invented in the seventeenth century by the physicist Denis Papin, and works by expelling air from the vessel, and trapping the steam produced from the boiling liquid inside. This raises the internal pressures and permits high cooking temperatures. A pressure cooker works on a simple principle: Steam pressure. A sealed pot, with a lot of steam inside, builds up high pressure, which helps food cook faster.

💁🏻‍♂️ GK TODAY

National Sports day is being celebrated on the birthday of Indian Hockey Player Major Dhyan Chand. 29 Aug.

🛕 VEDIC GYAN

Crow . A crow as the vehicle of Shani Dev indicates lot of tensions in the life of the person. There are problems not only in the professional life, but the family life also is affected negatively. Tensions at home might disturb the peace of the person’s mind, and the person might have to face many problems at work.

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

To stop a nosebleed : sit down and firmly pinch the soft part of your nose, just above your nostrils, for at least 10-15 minutes. lean forward and breathe through your mouth – this will drain blood into your nose instead of down the back of your throat.

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