TODAY’S TOP NEWS: 31st AUGUST, 2022 (GPN):

NATIONAL NEWS:

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1. *HAPPY GANESH CHATURTHI* 🙏💐
The fourth day of the bright and dark half of the Moon in every lunar month of the Hindu calendar is ‘chaturthi tithi’ – the day to observe Chaturthi vrat. This day is dedicated to Lord Ganesh (Ganpati).
Today is Vinayaka Chaturthi
Tithi timings on Chaturthi:
Tithi Start: August 30, 3:33 pm
Tithi End: August 31, 3:23 pm
Time To Avoid Moon Sighting- 9:29 AM to 9:21 PM

2. Anna Hazare, in a letter, tells Arvind Kejriwal that instead of promised Lokpal and anti-corruption mechanism, “you made anti-women liquor policy, You are intoxicated by power, it seems.” This is one of many scathing lines in social activist Anna Hazare’s letter to his former mentee, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

3. Torrential rain & flood batter normal life in Karnataka, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh

4. *ANDHRA PRADESH* : The Supreme Court Constitution Bench has scheduled on September 13 and 14, the hearing of cases which are challenging the constitutional validity of reservation for Economically Weaker Sections(EWS) and the reservation given for Muslims in Andhra Pradesh as a Socially and Economically Backward Class (SEBC).

5. *DELHI* : Home Minister Amit Shah has directed that forensic investigation should be made mandatory in all crimes involving punishment of more than six years in Delhi to increase the conviction rate.

6. *GOA* govt on Tuesday announced the formation of a one-member commission to conduct inquiry into the land-grabbing cases registered in the state. Justice (retd) VK Jadhav has been appointed to the commission,

7. *J&K* : Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, three (03) terrorists affiliated with proscribed Lashkar-e-Toiba terror outfit were killed in a gunfight that broke out between terrorists and security forces at Nagbal village in south Kashmir’s Shopian district,

8. *KARNATAKA* ; Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at Bengaluru’s Sidha Maidan Eidgah Maidan:

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday upheld authorities’ decision to allow Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at Hubballi’s Eidgah Maidan5. The HC said that the ground in question is under the Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation and it is used to carry out regular activities.

A bench of Justice Ashok S Kinagi held a late-night hearing and passed the order at 11.30 pm

9. *KERALA* : 10-day Onam festivities begin in state with Atham.

10. *TAMIL NADU* : Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will visit Tamil Nadu on September 5 for the launch of three projects in the state, including schools of excellence. Arvind Kejriwal took to Twitter to thank the Tamil Nadu government for inviting him and said that he was elated to join the education revolution in Tamil Nadu.

11. *MAHARASHTRA* BJP President Chandrashekhar Bawankule met Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray at the latter’s residence in Mumbai on Tuesday.

12. *MIZORAM* Cabinet has allowed the manufacturing and selling of wine that is made with locally-grown grapes

13. *NEW APPOINTMENT* : Payment gateway Razorpay appointed Arif Khan as its Chief Innovation Officer. He was formerly the Chief Digital Officer at National Payments Corporation of India

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⚖️*CRIME REPORT*⚖️
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1. *RAJASTHAN* reported the highest number of rape cases in the country in 2021 with an increase of more than 19 per cent in comparison to 2020, the National Crime Records Bureau report stated.

2. Total 31,677 rape cases registered across the country last year, 6,337 were reported in Rajasthan, followed by 2,845 in Uttar Pradesh.

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💰*FINANCE*💰
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Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister, EAC-PM today released the Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100 in New Delhi. Them document was released in the presence of Chairman EAC-PM Dr Bibek Debroy,

💃🕺××× *ENTERTAINMENT* ×××
1. Actor and controversial film critic Kamal Rashid Khan known as KRK was arrested by the Malad Police in Mumbai late Monday night over one of his controversial tweets that he posted in 2020.

He was apprehended at the Mumbai airport after he arrived from Dubai. A court then remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days

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🛰️⚓⚔️*DEFENCE*
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1. The 13th edition of India-US Joint Special Forces Exercise Vajra Prahar recently concluded in Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh. Earlier, its 12th edition was held in October 2021 at Joint Base Lewis Mc Cord in Washington, USA.

Vajra Prahar’ is an Indo-US Special Forces joint training exercise that began alternately in 2010 in India and the US.

The aim of the exercise is to boost military ties between the two countries by enhancing reciprocity and mutual exchange of strategies between the Special Forces

2. Exercise Pitch Black is scheduled to be organised between 19 Aug 22 to 08 Sep 22. This is a biennial, multi-national exercise Of hosted by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

Almost 2,500 personnel from over 17 countries and 100 aircraft will engage in both Offensive Counter Air (OCA) and Defensive Counter Air (DCA) combat drills.

3. The Indian Coast Guard recently conducted its biennial National Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise SAREX 22 off the Chennai coast.

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✈️*INTERNATIONAL NEWS* ××××××××××××××××××××××××

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be visiting the United Arab Emirates for co-chairing the 14th India-UAE Joint Commission Meeting and the third India-UAE Strategic Dialogue with Foreign Minister of the UAE Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Earlier, both leaders had also held a virtual summit in February this year during which India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was signed.

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🌎 *WORLD NEWS* 🌍
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1. Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a colonial-era law which banned homosexual conduct in St. Kitts and Nevis.

2. Pakistan is currently battling its worst monsoon floods in a decade, which has killed more than 1,100 people, caused more than USD 10 billion in damages and submerged nearly a third of the country.

3. Nearly a dozen Dongfeng ballistic missiles flew over Taiwan earlier this month as China conducted its largest-ever military exercises in the nearby strait as a response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting Taipei.

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🚣🚴🏇🏊 *SPORTS*
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1. Rajiv Gandhi Rural Olympic Games start in more than 11,000 panchayats in Rajasthan

2. US Open tennis, the fourth and final Grand Slam of the year, started in New York on 29 Aug.
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🇮🇳 *FACTS ABOUT INDIA* 🇮🇳
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The name Assam is derived from the word asama, meaning “peerless” in the now extinct Ahom language. The neighbouring states of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Meghalaya were once part of Assam. It is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
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*😀Thought of the day*
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All our dreams can come true if we have to pursue them. =======================
* *JOKE OF THE DAY* 
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*Papa** : Son, what happened to your result?

*Pappu* : Papa got 80% now.

*Papa* : But 40% is written on the mark sheet?

*Pappu:* The remaining 40% will come directly to the account when the Aadhar card is linked.🤪😀
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*😳WHY❓❓❓*
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*why can’t governments just print money in normal times to pay for their policies?**

The short answer is inflation. Historically, when countries have simply printed money it leads to periods of rising prices — there’s too many resources chasing too few goods.

In Zimbabwe during the 2000s, monthly inflation reached as high as 80 billion percent, according to some estimates. The local currency was eventually abandoned in favour of the US dollar.

In a famous instance known as “hyperinflation” in Germany during the 1920s, citizens were pictured taking wheelbarrows full of cash to shops to pay for basic goods.
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*LEARN Sanskrit*🙏🏻
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साध्वोः शीघ्रं मैत्री भवति।* (Good people become friends quickly.)
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🤔 *HOW IT WORKS* ⁉ =======================
A satellite dish is a parabolic surface combined with a central feed horn. The controller transmits a signal through the feed horn which is then focused into a beam by the dish. The television data is then relayed through that beam, from the satellite in space to your television at home.

The dish on the receiving end can’t transmit information; it can only receive it. The receiving dish works in the exact opposite way of the transmitter. When a beam hits the curved dish, the parabola shape reflects the radio signal inward onto a particular point, just like a concave mirror focuses light onto a particular point. the point is the dish’s feed horn, which passes the signal on to the receiving equipment.

The central element in the feed horn is the low noise blockdown converter, or LNB. The LNB amplifies the radio signal bouncing off the dish and filters out the noise (radio signals not carrying programming). The LNB passes the amplified, filtered signal to the satellite receiver inside the viewer’s house.
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💁🏻‍♂‍ *GK TODAY*
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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN)

The UN Charter gives the Security Council primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security.

The Council may convene at any time, whenever peace is threatened. In contrast to the decisions made by the General Assembly, all Member States

Formation: 24 Oct 1945
Member : 15 countries.
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*BORN TODAY* 🐣💐
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*Javagal Srinath* (born 31 August 1969) is a former Indian cricketer. He is considered among India’s finest fast bowlers, and is the first Indian fast bowler to take more than 300 wickets in One Day Internationals. Srinath was a frontline fast bowler for the Indian cricket team until his retirement, and the second Indian pace bowler (after Kapil Dev) to take 200 Test wickets.
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🙏🏻 *IDIOMS & PHRASES*
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Yes, by All Means – हाँ जरूर.
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*ANTONYMS*
*Censure* × Praise
*SYNONYMS*
*Censure**: Rebuke

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🛕 *VEDIK GYAN*
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*According to Shiva Purna. Reason behind the birth of Ganesha*

One day Goddess Parvati was at home on Mt.Kailash preparing for a bath, she prepared a baby boy with the turmeric paste and breathed life into it, she created Ganesha, declaring him to be her own loyal son.

Later she told Ganesha to guard at entrance gate and she went for bath, In due course, Lord Shiva came home, only to find this strange boy telling him he couldn’t enter his own house! This surprised Lord Shiva. Seeing that this was no ordinary boy, the usually peaceful Shiva decided he would have to fight him, and in his divine fury severed Ganesha’s head, killing him instantly. When Parvati learned of this, she was so enraged and insulted that she decided to destroy the entire Creation! Lord Brahma, being the Creator, naturally had his issues with this, and pleaded that she reconsider her drastic plan. She said she would, but only if two conditions were met: one, that Ganesha be brought back to life, and two, that he be forever worshipped before all the other gods.

Shiva, having cooled down by this time, and realizing his mistake, agreed to Parvati’s conditions. He sent Brahma out with orders to bring back the head of the first creature he crosses that is laying with its head facing North. Brahma soon returned with the head of a strong and powerful elephant, which Shiva placed onto Ganesha’s body. Breathing new life into him, he declared Ganesha to be his own son as well and gave him the status of being foremost among the gods, and leader of all the ganas (classes of beings), Ganapati.

*People refrain from looking at the moon on Ganesha Chaturthi to avoid Mithya Dosha. What is Mithya Dosha? Mitha Dosha is a curse that could falsely implicate a person of stealing something*

When Lord Ganesha was returning home along with his Vahana ( a mooshak or a mouse) on a moonlit night on Chaturthi in the Bhadrapada month, the Moon God poked fun at the Lord’s round belly and his vahana. … Hence, he said that sighting the moon on Chaturthi would be as good as a curse.

According to Puranam, it is said, If anyone sees the moon on Ganesh Chaturthi by mistake they will undergo false blame put on them and they will be inviting insult. According to one legend, once Lord Krishna visited the moon on Ganesh Chaturthi, he was falsely accused of stealing the Syamantaka gem.
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🧬 *HEALTH CARE: HOME REMEDIES*🩺
( *Note* : These home tips followed in villages/ancient traditions, it is up to you to use it or not🙏🏻) =======================
Garlic has anti-microbial properties that help kill germs and bacteria, which are responsible for causing damage to the scalp, further inhibiting hair growth. Raw garlic is known to be rich in vitamin C content that is great for promoting hair-health. It also boosts collagen production that helps stimulate hair growth.
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*Regards*

Sachin Murdeshwar.✒️

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