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 **Today's top News**

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1. PM Modi chaired an All Party Meet at Parliament House ahead of Monsoon session of Parliament beginning from Today(19 Jul). The Meeting was convened to seek support of political parties to ensure smooth functioning of both the Houses of Parliament. 

2. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla informed that the Monsoon Session of Parliament will take place from 19 July to 13 Aug 2021.

3. India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed the landmark of 40 crore doses: According to Health Ministry.

4. The Delhi govt has cancelled the Kanwar Yatra in the national capital. The Delhi Disaster Management Authority, It has issued an order to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infection. There will be no celebrations, processions, or gathering in the city during the Kanwar Yatra, starting from, 25th of this month. Srawan month will start from 25th Jul.

5. Congress president Sonia Gandhi on 18 Jul (Sunday) appointed Navjot Singh Sidhu as Punjab Congress chief.

6. Karnataka lockdown relaxed: Colleges, theatres, cinema halls to open, night curfew eased.

7. Twenty-five people died in house collapses triggered by landslides following the incessant overnight rain in Mumbai.

8. Haryana govt extends lockdown till July 26 with more relaxations. Timings of restaurants, bars, gyms increased; night curfew will remain in force from 11 pm to 5 am.

9. Puducherry govt postpones reopening of schools, colleges following plea from parents.

10. Odisha: The state government has decided to reopen schools for classes 10 and 12, however, it is not mandatory. Those who want to continue with online classes can do so.

11. Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma burns illegal drugs worth ₹163 cr to send message of zero-tolerance.

12. The Indian Army will close the registration portal of women military police recruitment on 20 July 2021 (Tomorrow). A total of 100 vacancies will be filled in the women military police in soldier general duty post.

Recruitment rallies are planned to be conducted at Ambala, Lucknow, Jabalpur, Belgaum, Pune and Shillong. Candidates will be allotted venue based on their home districts. Candidates who have qualified class 10 board exam with 45% marks in aggregate and are between 17 to 21.5 years of age are eligible for women military police.

✈ **INTERNATIONAL NEWS**

1. Bangladesh Navy approaches GNLU for training programme.: 

Gujarat National Law University had signed an Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Navy in May 2020 for conducting short and long duration training programmes.

2. The mortal remains of photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in Afghanistan, were brought to Delhi on 18 Jul (Sunday) evening & will be buried at the Jamia Millia Islamia graveyard, university. Danish Siddiqui, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist who worked with the news agency Reuters, was killed in Kandahar, Afghanistan on 15 Jul (Thursday) night.

🌎 **WORLD NEWS** 🌍

1. The annual five-day Haj pilgrimage began on Sunday in Saudi Arabia. Saudi authorities have restricted annual pilgrimage to 60 thousands local residents between the age of 18 & 65.

2. Death toll in flood affected Germany and Belgium rises to 180. In Belgium, the army has been sent to four of the country's 10 provinces to help with rescue and evacuations. Prime Minister Alexander De Croo declared 20th of July a national day of mourning. European leaders have blamed climate change for the floods, which have also affected Switzerland.

3. Devotees & members of civil society in Bangladesh have demanded the preservation of the historical buildings & places like Vishwavigyan Kendra related with the spiritual guru Sree Thakur Anukulchandra in Pabna.

4. Nepal’s new PM Sher Bahadur Deuba wins vote of confidence in Parliament. He the chief of Nepali Congress secures 165 votes in 275-member House of Representatives.

5. The United Kingdom govt on 18 Jul (Sunday) declared it had hit its target of offering every adult in the country a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of this month ahead of time.

🚣🚴🏇🏁🏊 **Sports:**

1. The first batch of Indian athletes for the Tokyo Olympics have landed in the Japanese capital. The boxing team, led by the legendary MC Mary Kom, badminton ace PV Sindhu, archers Atanu Das & Deepika Kumari, along with the Men’s & Women’s Indian hockey teams, reached Tokyo.

2. Indian golfers Anirban Lahiri, Udayan Mane, Aditi Ashok to represent the country at Tokyo Olympics.

3. Two South African footballers have become the first competitors to test positive for COVID-19 in the athletes’ village at Tokyo in Japan- five days before the start of the Olympic Games.

4. Indian Grandmasters R Praggnanandhaa & Adhiban Baskaran registered wins in the first game of the two-game mini-match in the second round of the FIDE chess World Cup.

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**Chhayakanta**.✒️

🇮🇳 **Facts about India** 🇮🇳

*Telangana* is a state in southern India. Its capital is Hyderabad.

There are various versions about its name and origin...Here I will give some:-  

 The name "Telangana" refers to the word TRILINGA (TRILINGA DESAM) meaning “a country of three lingas”. According to a Hindu scripts, Lord Shiva descended in the “lingam” form on three mountains, Kaleswaram, Srisailam & Draksharama which marked the boundaries of the Trilingadesam later called Telinga, Telunga or Telugu.

 A more historical reasoning is that during the reign of Nizams, the region was known as **Telugu + Angana (countryard आँगन, प्रांगण) ** to differentiate it from the areas where Marathi was spoken. Days passed and people started calling Telangana with Bhagyanagar(Now Hyderabad) has its capital. The word similar to Telangana can also be seen in a name of Malik Maqbul (14th century), who was called the Tilangani, which implies that he was from Tilangana. He was the commander of the Warangal Fort (Kataka Pāludu).

After India's independence in 1947, the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Osman Ali Khan, refused to join the Indian Union despite repeated requests from Jawaharlal Nehru & Sardar Patel. The Indian army annexed Hyderabad and the Nizam surrendered to Sardar Patel on 17th Sept, 1948 under Madras Presidency. Govt of India agreed for creation of a separate Telangana state in July, 2013 & Telangana came into effect on June 2, 2014 as ‘Telangana state’, the 29th state of Indian Union.

😀 **Thought of the day** 

Life is not qualified by speaking fluent english, branded clothes or a lifestyle. It measures by the number of faces who smile and respect with pure heart when they here your name.           

 **Joke of the day** 

 **पप्पू** : यार मेरे बाल बहुत झड़ रहे हैं।👶🏻

 **Frnd**🤥 : क्यों?

 **पप्पू** : चिंता से यार☹️

 **Frnd** : किस बात की चिंता है यार तुझे?🤔

 **पप्पू** : बाल झड़ने की। 🤪😜

*😳Why❓❓❓*

 **Why Horse Does Not Get Tired?** 

They are very efficient. don't have any muscles in the bottom half of their legs, just tendons and ligaments to help them move. This makes them very efficient at running longer distances at a steady quick speed (around 30 miles an hour). The stamina of horses is influenced by genetics and physical fitness. Horses generally are considered an athletic species with large hearts and lungs for their size, but some breeds have greater stamina than others. Thin skin and flat muscles, to allow rapid cooling during prolonged exercise.

 **Why Do Horses Sleep Standing Up?** 

That's because horses actually doze while on their feet and lie down for Rapid Eye Movement sleep. ... To protect themselves, horses instead doze while standing. They're able to do this through the stay apparatus, a special system of tendons and ligaments that enables a horse to lock the major joints in its legs.

**LEARN Sanskrit**🙏🏻

 **द्वन्द युद्ध** {dvand yuddh} = SINGLE COMBAT/One to One combat

 🤔 **How it works** ⁉

 **How pearls are formed**

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A natural pearl begins its life inside an oyster's shell when an intruder, such as a grain of sand or bit of floating food, slips in between one of the two shells of the oyster, a type of mollusk, and the protective layer that covers the mollusk's organs, called the mantle. ... Cultured pearls are made in the same way

Typically, an Akoya pearl will grow between 10 to 14 months before reaching a size of up to 9mm in diameter, a Tahitian pearl may grow for 18 to 24 months to reach a size of 10mm and a South Sea pearl will grow between 2 and 3 years to reach diameters of up to 15mm.

💁🏻‍♂️ **GK TODAY** 

 Important rivers of India : The Ganges, Yamuna (a tributary of Ganges), Brahmaputra, Mahanadi, Narmada, Godavari, Tapi, Krishna, Tungabhadra, Sindhu, and Kaveri. Parts of the Indus River also flow over Indian soil.  

 **BORN TODAY** 💐🙏🏻

Mangal Pandey (19 July 1827 – 8 April 1857) was an Indian soldier who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. He was a sepoy (sipahi) in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry (BNI) regiment of the British East India Company.

Pandey's reference to cartridges is usually attributed to a new type of bullet cartridge used in the Enfield P-53 rifle which was to be introduced in the Bengal Army that year. The cartridge was thought to be greased with animal fat, primarily from cows and pigs, which could not be consumed by Hindus and Muslims respectively . The cartridges had to be bitten at one end before use. The Indian troops in some regiments were of the opinion that this was an intentional act of the British, with the aim of defiling their religions.

🛕 **VEDIK GNAN** 

 **Why do we do 108 rounds(pradakshana) in temples?* or *Japa Mala has 108 or Ashtotra 108 etc…** 

Astronomically, there are 27 constellations of stars in our galaxy, and each one them has 4 directions, and 27 * 4 = 108, In other words the number 108 covers the whole galaxy.

 **Numerical scale:** The addition of digits of number 108 is 9, Indian Vedas, treats the Sun as God, and Sun has 12 signs (Zodiac signs). In Yajurved, Sun is related with Lord Brahma (the number 9), remember - 12 * 9 = 108. 

According to Indian mythology, there are 4 Yugs

Satyug - consists of 172,800 years (1+7+2+8 = 18 == (1+8 = 9)

TretaYug consists of 1296000 years (1+2+9+6 = 18 = (1+8 = 9)

DwaparYug consists of 864000 years (8+4+6) = 18 = (1+8 = 9)

Kaliyug consists of 432000 years (4+3+2) = 9

The Sudarshana Chakra (सुदर्शन चक्र) is a spinning, disk-like weapon, literally meaning "disk of auspicious vision," having 108 serrated edges used by Shri Vishnu Bhagwan.

First thing i want clear here Santana Dharma is not a religion, here **dharma** means "cosmic law and order", as applied to the teachings for mankind to leave in systematic way.

🧬 **HEALTH CARE:© HOME REMEDIES**🩺

( **Note** : These home tips followed in villages/ancient traditions, it is up to you to use it or not🙏🏻)

 *Benefits of Jaggery* *गुड़* 

Jaggery (or gur) is made from unrefined sugar, and is obtained by boiling raw, concentrated sugar cane juice till it solidifies. Although jaggery is also made from the sap of coconut and date palm, the one made from sugar cane is the one that's used most widely.

It prevents constipation by aiding digestion. It activates the digestive enzymes in our body, thus helps in proper digestion of food. That's why many people prefer eating jaggery after a meal.

Eating a piece of jaggery daily can help women combat PMS symptoms including mood swings, menstrual cramps and abdominal pain.

It acts as a detox, as it helps cleanse the liver by flushing out nasty toxins from the body. Jaggery is loaded with antioxidants and minerals like zinc and selenium, which help prevent free-radicals (responsible for early ageing). It helps boost resistance against infections, hence building stronger immunity. 

 _People who are diabetic or are following a weight loss diet should monitor their consumption of jaggery, as it can lead to weight gain and fluctuations in blood-sugar levels_ 

 *Instead of candy/Chocolate, jaggery is very good for children's health.*

**Regards**

**Chhayakanta**.✒️

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