. Daily Top 10 Headlines
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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- India’s first app for real estate brokers – ‘Wajood’ – launched
- Britain’s First Woman Sikh MP Preet Kaur Gill, Appointed Shadow Minister
- Seventh Edition Of Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav Begins In Karnataka
- Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Launches Schemes Worth Over Rs.200 Crore
- American and Japanese military forces have launched joint exercises “Iron Fist”.
- BSE Lists IRFC’s First Green Bond
- India Is The Top Borrower From AIIB In 2017
- WEF Ranks India 30th On Global Manufacturing Index
- ⭐️ Sarjubala Devi clinched gold in National Women’s Boxing Championship
- PM Modi and Israe PM Netanyahu visit Teen Murti Chowk for solemn ceremony .
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.✅ Daily Vocabulary : 5 Word
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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1. UNCOUTH (ADJECTIVE): clumsy, uncultivated
Synonyms: awkward, barbaric
Antonyms: agile, couth
Example Sentence: Manoj behaved in an uncouth manner.
2. SLAPPED (ADJECTIVE): hard hit/imposed
Synonyms: beaten, pat
Antonyms: avoided, saved
Example Sentence: He was slapped by the disaster.
3. EVAPORATE (VERB): dry, dissolve
Synonyms: absorb, vaporize
Antonyms: appear, moist
Example Sentence: The water was evaporated from the pan.
4. FINERY (NOUN): best clothing
Synonyms: apparel, suit
Antonyms: rags, tatters
Example Sentence: He was in the world’s best finery.
5. ALUMNUS (NOUN): educated/ ex-student
Synonyms: old grad, alumna
Antonyms: undergraduate, uneducated
Example Sentence: He is an intelligent alumnus.
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. Phrasal Verb of the Day
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✅ fall for (1)
✔️ Meaning:
▪️If you fall for something like a trick or a scam, you believe it's real or genuine even though it's not.
✔️ For example:
▪️fall for sth Don't fall for email scams which promise to make you a lot of money.
▪️fall for sth Lots of people fell for our April Fool's joke when we claimed that the UN was going to ban all languages except for English.
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. Idiom of the Day
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✅ give someone a hard time
✔️ Meaning:
▪️If you give someone a hard time, you bother them or make trouble for them.
✔️ For example:
▪️Some of the boys at Kenny's school started giving him a hard time and then said they wouldn't stop unless he gave them money every day.
▪️My wife's been giving me a hard time ever since I forgot our anniversary.
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.Daily_One_Government_Scheme
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✅ Biju Kanya Ratna Yojana
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▪️The Odisha Government has launched the Biju Kanya Ratna Yojana (BKRY) for the development of girls in three districts of the state.
▪️The scheme was launched by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and will be implemented in Ganjam, Dhenkanal and Angul districts on a pilot basis for three years.
✔️ Key features of scheme
▪️The objective the scheme is to improve Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) and Child Sex Ratio (CSR) in the three districts.
▪️The scheme will ensure enrolment of girls in elementary education and also track dropout girls from schools besides creating a better environment for them.
▪️It will also create awareness on gender discrimination against girls, their nutrition, health and education.
▪️It also includes provision of toilets for girls in every school, self-defence training and along with promotion of access to education.
▪️It also seeks to sensitise adolescent girls on reproductive and sexual health issues, training of elected representatives and grassroots functionaries as community champions.
▪️The CSR in Nayagarh, Angul, Dhenkanal and Ganjam districts had declined from 967 in the 1991 census to 941 in the 2011 census.
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.✅ Daily One Liner : 15 Questions
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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• This city will host World Sweet Festival (WSF-2018) - Hyderabad
• The world's largest known prime number was discovered by a volunteer for a prime-number hunting project. This prime number contains - 23 Million digits
• Person appointed as the Secretary (Economic Relations) in the External Affairs Ministry - TS Tirumurti
• These countries formally joined UNSC as the new non-permanent members - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru, and Poland
• This city will host the 2018 Karnataka International Travel Expo - Bengaluru
• France would be conferring its highest order of merit, the 'Legion of Honour', on legendary film and theatre actor - Soumitra Chattopadhyay
• This World Champion powerlifter recently passed away in a road accident - Saksham Yadav
• This country is going to extend its state of emergency for the sixth time - Turkey
• The Supreme Court ordered a stay on this HC’s order that overturned the 2014 government regulation that packets of tobacco products must carry pictorial warning covering 85 per cent of the packaging space - Karnataka HC
• This supercomputer, nation’s first and fastest was inaugurated by Union Minister of Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan on 8 January - Pratyush
• This state government has banned the use of electronic cigarettes - Bihar
• The output of this crop is expected to touch an all time high of 100 million tonnes in 2017-18 – wheat
• This state has topped the logistics index chart released by the Union Ministry for Commerce & Industry – Gujarat
• This nation sealed a 4-0 win in the ashes series by winning the final test by an innings and 123 runs - Australia
• British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed this Minister as the new Northern Ireland minister after James Brokenshire resigned due to ill health – Karen Bradley
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.Daily_One_Banking_Term
Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✔️ Trust Deed:
▪️A formal document that creates a trust. It states the purpose and terms of the name of the trustees and beneficiaries.
✔️ Underwriting :
▪️is an agreement by the underwriter to buy on a fixed date and at a fixed rate, the unsubscribed portion of shares or debentures or other issues. Underwriter gets commission for this agreement.
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.Daily One #Common_mistakes with #Confused_words
|| Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✅ Believe in, not to.
❌ Don't say: We believe to God.
✔️ Say: We believe in God.
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. Important_Of_Todays
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✔️ Kanjiramattom Nercha
✔️ Madurai Float Festival
✔️ Mumbai Festival
✔️ Indian Army Day
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*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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- India’s first app for real estate brokers – ‘Wajood’ – launched
- Britain’s First Woman Sikh MP Preet Kaur Gill, Appointed Shadow Minister
- Seventh Edition Of Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav Begins In Karnataka
- Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Launches Schemes Worth Over Rs.200 Crore
- American and Japanese military forces have launched joint exercises “Iron Fist”.
- BSE Lists IRFC’s First Green Bond
- India Is The Top Borrower From AIIB In 2017
- WEF Ranks India 30th On Global Manufacturing Index
- ⭐️ Sarjubala Devi clinched gold in National Women’s Boxing Championship
- PM Modi and Israe PM Netanyahu visit Teen Murti Chowk for solemn ceremony .
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.✅ Daily Vocabulary : 5 Word
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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1. UNCOUTH (ADJECTIVE): clumsy, uncultivated
Synonyms: awkward, barbaric
Antonyms: agile, couth
Example Sentence: Manoj behaved in an uncouth manner.
2. SLAPPED (ADJECTIVE): hard hit/imposed
Synonyms: beaten, pat
Antonyms: avoided, saved
Example Sentence: He was slapped by the disaster.
3. EVAPORATE (VERB): dry, dissolve
Synonyms: absorb, vaporize
Antonyms: appear, moist
Example Sentence: The water was evaporated from the pan.
4. FINERY (NOUN): best clothing
Synonyms: apparel, suit
Antonyms: rags, tatters
Example Sentence: He was in the world’s best finery.
5. ALUMNUS (NOUN): educated/ ex-student
Synonyms: old grad, alumna
Antonyms: undergraduate, uneducated
Example Sentence: He is an intelligent alumnus.
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. Phrasal Verb of the Day
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✅ fall for (1)
✔️ Meaning:
▪️If you fall for something like a trick or a scam, you believe it's real or genuine even though it's not.
✔️ For example:
▪️fall for sth Don't fall for email scams which promise to make you a lot of money.
▪️fall for sth Lots of people fell for our April Fool's joke when we claimed that the UN was going to ban all languages except for English.
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. Idiom of the Day
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✅ give someone a hard time
✔️ Meaning:
▪️If you give someone a hard time, you bother them or make trouble for them.
✔️ For example:
▪️Some of the boys at Kenny's school started giving him a hard time and then said they wouldn't stop unless he gave them money every day.
▪️My wife's been giving me a hard time ever since I forgot our anniversary.
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.Daily_One_Government_Scheme
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✅ Biju Kanya Ratna Yojana
===========
▪️The Odisha Government has launched the Biju Kanya Ratna Yojana (BKRY) for the development of girls in three districts of the state.
▪️The scheme was launched by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and will be implemented in Ganjam, Dhenkanal and Angul districts on a pilot basis for three years.
✔️ Key features of scheme
▪️The objective the scheme is to improve Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) and Child Sex Ratio (CSR) in the three districts.
▪️The scheme will ensure enrolment of girls in elementary education and also track dropout girls from schools besides creating a better environment for them.
▪️It will also create awareness on gender discrimination against girls, their nutrition, health and education.
▪️It also includes provision of toilets for girls in every school, self-defence training and along with promotion of access to education.
▪️It also seeks to sensitise adolescent girls on reproductive and sexual health issues, training of elected representatives and grassroots functionaries as community champions.
▪️The CSR in Nayagarh, Angul, Dhenkanal and Ganjam districts had declined from 967 in the 1991 census to 941 in the 2011 census.
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.✅ Daily One Liner : 15 Questions
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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• This city will host World Sweet Festival (WSF-2018) - Hyderabad
• The world's largest known prime number was discovered by a volunteer for a prime-number hunting project. This prime number contains - 23 Million digits
• Person appointed as the Secretary (Economic Relations) in the External Affairs Ministry - TS Tirumurti
• These countries formally joined UNSC as the new non-permanent members - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru, and Poland
• This city will host the 2018 Karnataka International Travel Expo - Bengaluru
• France would be conferring its highest order of merit, the 'Legion of Honour', on legendary film and theatre actor - Soumitra Chattopadhyay
• This World Champion powerlifter recently passed away in a road accident - Saksham Yadav
• This country is going to extend its state of emergency for the sixth time - Turkey
• The Supreme Court ordered a stay on this HC’s order that overturned the 2014 government regulation that packets of tobacco products must carry pictorial warning covering 85 per cent of the packaging space - Karnataka HC
• This supercomputer, nation’s first and fastest was inaugurated by Union Minister of Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan on 8 January - Pratyush
• This state government has banned the use of electronic cigarettes - Bihar
• The output of this crop is expected to touch an all time high of 100 million tonnes in 2017-18 – wheat
• This state has topped the logistics index chart released by the Union Ministry for Commerce & Industry – Gujarat
• This nation sealed a 4-0 win in the ashes series by winning the final test by an innings and 123 runs - Australia
• British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed this Minister as the new Northern Ireland minister after James Brokenshire resigned due to ill health – Karen Bradley
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.Daily_One_Banking_Term
Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✔️ Trust Deed:
▪️A formal document that creates a trust. It states the purpose and terms of the name of the trustees and beneficiaries.
✔️ Underwriting :
▪️is an agreement by the underwriter to buy on a fixed date and at a fixed rate, the unsubscribed portion of shares or debentures or other issues. Underwriter gets commission for this agreement.
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.Daily One #Common_mistakes with #Confused_words
|| Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✅ Believe in, not to.
❌ Don't say: We believe to God.
✔️ Say: We believe in God.
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. Important_Of_Todays
*🗞GN || Monday, 15 Jan 2018*
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✔️ Kanjiramattom Nercha
✔️ Madurai Float Festival
✔️ Mumbai Festival
✔️ Indian Army Day
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