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🌄 **S̴h̴u̴b̴o̴u̴d̴h̴a̴y̴ : 31 Jul/श्रावण मास(Saturday) वर्ष ऋतू {कृष्ण पक्ष}**🙏🏻
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**Today's top News** ➣➣➣➣➣➣➣➣➣➣➣➣➣
1. Both Houses of Parliament adjourned for the day following disruptions by opposition over Pegasus snooping, farm laws
2. More than 45.60 crore COVID vaccine doses administered so far; National Covid-19 recovery rate stands at 97.38%: The Union Health Ministry Report.
3. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday visited the Bharat Biotech Limited, a Covid vaccine manufacturer in Hyderabad.
4. India has covered 92.8 per cent seeding of ration cards with Aadhaar numbers. The States and Union Territories have completed the Aadhaar seeding of about 21.91 Crore ration cards and around 71 Crore beneficiaries at the national level.
5. Assam-Mizoram border dispute: Both Assam and Mizoram claim land on the border between Assam's Cachar and Mizoram's Kolasib district. Both states accuse each other of encroachment. North east India will always be one, underlined Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, a day after Assam advised its people not to travel to the neighbouring state.
6. A video clip that has been widely shared shows a chunk of the hillside falling, taking the road with it. About 100 metres of the road slides down and vanishes in moments at Sirmaur Himachal Pradesh. There are no reports of casualties. A series of cloudbursts, flash floods and landslides reported in Himachal.
7. PM Modi assures full support for development of Karnataka during his meeting with CM Basavaraj Bommai.
8. Assam metric examination result for the year 2021 has been declared on 30 Jul. The Secondary Education Board of Assam said that 93 .10% of students have passed the examination.
9. 96.48% students cleared the Class 12 exams conducted by the Punjab School Education Board the results of which were declared on 30 Jul Friday.
10. On 28 July 21, the Kishtwar area of Jammu and Kashmir was hit by a cloud burst. The IAF has deployed its helicopters for rescue and relief operations.
11. Awareness campaign for youth to be launched in Chhattisgarh from August 12 to commemorate 75 years of Indian Independence. “Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav”.
12. Kerala recorded more than 20,000 fresh cases for fourth successive day, with the test positivity rate (TPR) rising to 13.61%.
13. Ordnance factory in Tamil Nadu launches high-tech carbine 'TriCa' :. A high-tech, low sound carbine named 'TriCa' with a range more effective than a typical sub-machine gun and small enough to be packed in the jacket of security personnel was unveiled at the Ordnance Factory in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu.
14. Terrorists hurl grenade in North Kashmir's Baramulla district, 2 CRPF jawans, 1 civilian injured.
15. The Army now wants 20 new avalanche rescue radars on a fast-track basis from abroad to ensure it can quickly locate soldiers who get buried under snow during natural calamities in high-altitude areas along the borders with China and Pakistan.
✈ **INTERNATIONAL NEWS**
1. Senior military commanders of India and China will be meeting for another round of talks today on July 31 to make yet another attempt to diffuse tensions and ‘pull back’ from the military posturing along the 832-km long Line of Actual Control (LAC) In Eastern Ladakh.
2. China has made it mandatory for every Tibetan family to send one member to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in a bid to strengthen its military deployment along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India.
3. The aircraft maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. has received two AL-55I turbojet engines delivered by Russia's United Engine Corporation (UEC).
4. *Taliban is China's new friend, because it makes for good business sense* : The US military is getting out of Afghanistan by August 31, 2021, and with barely a month to go, a Taliban delegation was already in China on July 28 holding friendly 'talks' in Tianjin.
5. India said it has consistently called upon Sri Lanka to fulfil its commitments to protect the interests of the Tamil community & supported efforts to preserve the islad nation’s character as a multi-ethnic & multi-religious society.
6. India extends international flight ban till August 31.
7. United Emirates extends suspension of flights from India until August 7.
8. The 12th edition of Indo-Russia joint military exercise INDRA 2021 will be held this year at Volgograd, Russia from 1 to 13 August. The exercise will entail conducting counter-terror operations under the United Nations(UN) mandate by a joint force against international terror groups.
9. India, Uzbekistan, Iran and Afghanistan are likely to hold a meeting under a quadrilateral framework later this year on the joint use of the Chabahar port, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
🌎 **WORLD NEWS** 🌍
1. The partnership between Pakistan and China is becoming increasingly important for regional peace and stability in the evolving security milieu, Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said.
2. Nearly 12,000 Rohingyas affected, 11 killed in flash floods & landslides in Bangladesh.
3. The govt of Bangladesh has extended the ongoing closure of all educational institutions till Aug 31 in view of the continuing COVID 19 pandemic in the country.
4. Pakistan's National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf met with his American counterpart Jake Sullivan in Washington during which the two leaders discussed the urgent need for reduction in violence and a "negotiated" political settlement in Afghanistan.
5. Solar Eclipse 2021. After 10 June 2021, the 2nd and last solar eclipse is falling on 4 December 2021.
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🚣🚴🏇🏁 *SPORTS:*
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*Tokyo Olympics 2020*
1. In Boxing Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) made medal-clinching quarter-final victory,
2. Indian Men’s hockey reached quarter-finals, beat Japan to finish second in Pool A.
India beat Ireland 1-0 in women's Pool A match.
3. Ace shuttler P V Sindhu beat Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi 21-13, 22-20 in women's singles quarter-finals. Entry into Semis.
4. SHOOTING
Manu Bhaker placed finish 15th and Rahi Sarnobat 32nd in women's 25m Pistol Qualification after the Rapid round; failed to advance to the final.
*TOKYO OLYMPICS SCHEDULE : 8 DAY* : 31 Jul
*ATHLETICS*
6:00 AM: Women's Discus Throw Qualification - Group A (Seema Punia)
*GOLF*
6:00 AM: Men's Individual Stroke Play Round 3 (Anirban Lahiri, Udayan Mane)
*ARCHERY*
7:18 AM: Men's Individual 1/8 Eliminations (Atanu Das vs Takaharu Furukawa of Japan)
*ATHLETICS*
7:25 AM: Women's Discus Throw Qualification - Group B (Kamalpreet Kaur)
*BOXING*
7:30 AM: Men's Fly (48-52kg) - Round of 16 (Amit Panghal vs Yuberjen Herney Martinez Rivas of Colombia)
*SHOOTING*
8:30 AM: 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women's Qualification (Tejaswini Sawant, Anjum Moudgil)
*SAILING*
8:35 AM: Men's Skiff - 49er - Race 10 (Ganapathy Kelapanda-Varun Thakkar)
Followed by Race 11, Race 12
*HOCKEY*
8:45 AM: Women's Pool A (India vs South Africa)
*SHOOTING*
12:30 PM: 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women's Final (Subject to qualification)
*BADMINTON*
3:20 PM: Women's Singles Semi-final (PV Sindhu vs Tai Tzu-Ying of Chinese Taipei)
*BOXING*
3:36 PM: Women's Middle (69-75kg) Quarterfinal 4 (Pooja Rani vs Qian Li of China)
*ATHLETICS*
3:40 PM: Men's Long Jump Qualification - Gro,up B (Sreeshankar)
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*MEDAL TALLY*
G. S. B. Ttl
1 China 19 10 11 40
2 Japan. 17 4 7 28
3 US. 14 16 11 41
4 ROC. 10 14 10 34
5 Australia 9 2 11 22
India in 51 Position
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Patna (Bihar)
CM: Sh. Nitish Kumar
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Chhaya kanta
🇮🇳 **Facts about India** 🇮🇳
*Patna* also known as Pataliputra is the capital of Bihar. Ancient Patna, known as Pataliputra, was the capital of the Magadha Empire under the Haryanka, Nanda, Mauryan, Sunga, Gupta and Pala. Pataliputra was a seat of learning and fine arts. Its population during the Maurya period.
The Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain pilgrim centres of Vaishali, Rajgir, Nalanda, Gaya, Bodhgaya, and Pawapuri are nearby and Patna is also a sacred city for Sikhs as the last Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, was born here.
*😀Thought of the day*
A great thinker was asked, "What is the meaning of life?" He replied "Life itself has no meaning, it is an opportunity to creat a meaning."
*Joke of the day*
पप्पू की नए ऑफिस में नौकरी लग गई...
मां ने पूछा - बेटा कैसा चल रहा है तेरे ऑफिस का काम?
*पप्पू* - मां मैं बहुत जिम्मेदार हूं!
*मां* - अच्छा, वो कैसे?
*पप्पू* - ऑफिस में जब भी कोई काम बिगड़ता है तो
सारे लोग कहते हैं कि इसके लिए मैं ही जिम्मेदार हूं...!!!
*😳Why❓❓❓*
*Why do people vomit while travelling in hills?*
Vomiting is caused by repeated movements when travelling, like going over bumps in a car or moving up and down in a boat. The inner ear sends different signals to our brain from those your eyes are seeing. These confusing messages cause us to feel unwell and began to vomit..Usually due to ‘motion sickness” where the inner ear is giving one set of sensations to the brain and the eyes are giving another
following tips to avoid vomting
Close the eyes and breathe slowly
The smell of Ginger, lemon, Orange can minimise the sense of vomting
Look straight ahead at a fixed point
Distract thoughts by talking, listening to music or singing songs
*LEARN Sanskrit*🙏🏻
*पुरषार्थ* ( Purusharth) : Efforts, Hard work, Daring, courage
🤔 *How it works* ⁉
*How does a dog can detect various smells.* 🐶🦮🐕🐩
Dogs are born to sniff. The area of the canine brain that is devoted to analysing scent is 40 times greater than that of the human and dogs can identify smells at least 1,000 times better than we can. When a dog sniffs, air is taken in and passes through the olfactory epithelium (nasal skin cells). These calls are also found in a special organ that dogs (and cats) possess, called the Jacobsen’s or vomeronasal organ. This organ is thought to be important in the detection of pheromones (body scents), perhaps giving the dog its tremendous ability to identify and recognise animals and people.
Each dog nose is unique, with its own distinct nostril shape and pattern of ridges and dimples. A canine nose print is as unique as a human fingerprint. Dogs can distinguish the scent of individuals, both dogs and people. They can tell the difference between individual family members, even identical twins, purely by smell.
When dogs sniff people they are gaining all sorts of information about us. They know if we are familiar or a stranger. They know which scents we have attracted while we’ve been away. They know if we are experiencing changes in hormones, such as those that occur during pregnancy. They may even know if we are experiencing illness or simply are in a bad mood.
Detection dogs are able to recognize and discern a scent, even when that scent has been masked by another odor. This is because dogs smell in layers, allowing them to detect individual ingredients. A detection dog or sniffer dog is a dog that is trained to use its senses to detect substances such as explosives, illegal drugs, wildlife scat, currency, blood, and contraband electronics such as illicit mobile phones. The sense most used by detection dogs is smell. Hunting dogs that search for game, and search dogs that work to find missing humans are generally not considered detection dogs. There is some overlap, as in the case of cadaver dogs, trained to search for human remains.
💁🏻♂️ *GK TODAY*
Modern civil Aviation in India traces back to 18 February 1911, when the first commercial civil aviation flight took off from Allahabad for Naini over a distance of 6 miles (9.7 km).
The airline was founded by J. R. D. Tata as Tata Airlines in 1932; Tata himself flew its first single-engine de Havilland Puss Moth, carrying air mail from Karachi to Bombay's Juhu aerodrome and later continuing to Madras (currently Chennai). After World War II, it became a public limited company and was renamed as Air India.
*BORN TODAY* 🐣💐
Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known by his pen name *Munshi Premchand* was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindi-Urdu literature. Munshi being an honorary prefix.
🛕 *VEDIK GNAN*
*Valmiki* was born as *Agni Sharma* to a Brahmin named Pracheta (also known as Sumali) of Bhrigu gotra. According to legend he once met the great sage Narada and had a discourse with him on his duties. Moved by Narada's words, Agni Sharma began to perform penance and chanted the word "Mara" which meant "die". As he performed his penance for several years, the word became "Rama", the name of Lord Vishnu. Huge anthills formed around Agni Sharma and this earned him the name of Valmiki. Agni Sharma, rechristened as Valmiki, learnt the scriptures from Narada and became the foremost of ascetics, revered by everyone.
There also exist some legends about *Valmiki having been a robber before turning into a rishi.* The Nagara Khanda of the *Skanda Purana* in its section on the creation of Mukhara Tirtha mentions that Valmiki was born a Brahmin, with the name of Lohajangha and was a devoted son to his parents. He had a beautiful wife and both of them were faithful to each other. Once, when there was no rain in the region of Anarta, for twelve long years, Lohajangha, for the sake of his hungry family, started robbing people that he found in the forest. In the course of this life he met the seven sages or the Saptarishi and tried to rob them as well. But the learned sages felt pity on him and showed him the folly of his ways. One of them, Pulaha gave him a Mantra to meditate upon and the Brahmin turned thief got so engrossed in its recitation that ant-hills came up around his body. When the sages returned and heard the sound of the mantra coming from the ant-hill, they blessed him and said, "Since you achieved great Siddhi seated within a *Valmīka (an anthill),* you will become well-known in the world as Vālmīki.
He is revered as Ādi Kavi, the first poet, author of Ramayana, the first epic poem. Ramayana, originally written by Valmiki, consists of 24,000 shlokas and seven cantos (kaṇḍas) Ramayana is composed of about 480,002 words
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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🙏🏻)
*Curry leaves*🌿 are loaded with this vitamin and thus eating these leaves in your daily diet may help in keeping your eyes in a healthy state.
These leaves work in two ways in making you look slender. Firstly, these leaves help the body get rid of toxins and secondly, help in burning the stubborn body fat.
Consumption of curry leaves on a regular basis help in stimulating the insulin-producing cells. These cells help in keeping the blood sugar levels under check.
The digestive enzymes present in curry leaves are helpful in keeping the digestive health on track, and the laxative properties prove to be effective in regulating the bowels.
**Regards**
Chhaya kanta