❇️21st February

🗣 International Mother Language Day
अंतर्राष्ट्रीय मातृभाषा दिवस

Theme24 : “Multilingual education – a pillar of learning and intergenerational learning”

💠The idea to celebrate IMLD was the initiative of Bangladesh. It was approved at the 1999 UNESCO General Conference and has been observed throughout the world since 2000.

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🔷Bhashini AI Translates PM Modi’s Speech In Indian Languages

🔶15 languages are there on language panel of Indian currency note & 17 on whole note.

🔷 Adopts Resolution On Multilingualism, Mentions Hindi Language For 1st Time

🔶15 languages appear on a new Five Hundred Rupee Note, apart from Hindi & English.

🏛 United Nations Educational Scientific And Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
🔹Founded - 4 Nov 1946
🔹HQ - Paris, France
🔹DG - Audrey Azouley
🔹MC -193

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▶️SSC CGL History Questions
•Key Points {✍ ριнυ }
- Hiuen-Tsang wrote the book ‘Shi-Yu-Ki’ after visiting the Harshavardhana court.
Si-yu-ki means "Record of the Western Countries".
- Hiuen Tsang visited India during the period of emperor Harsha.
Hiuen Tsang remained at the University of Nalanda for five years.
Hiuen Tsang had been a guest to Bhaskara Varman, ruler of Kamarupa.
- Hiuen Tsang described Kannauj as a beautiful city.
- Pu Songling was a Qing dynasty Chinese writer.
- Pu Songling was the author of Strange Stories.

•Additional Information
Banabhatta:
- Banabhatta was the Asthana Kavi in the court of King Harsha Vardhana.
- Kadambari is the work of Banabhatta.
- The "Harshacharita" was also written by Banabhatta.

▶️एसएससी सीजीएल इतिहास प्रश्न
•प्रमुख बिंदु
- ह्वेन-त्सांग ने 'शी-यू-की' पुस्तक हर्षवर्द्धन के दरबार में जाकर लिखी।
सी-यू-की का अर्थ है "पश्चिमी देशों का रिकॉर्ड"।
- ह्वेन त्सांग ने सम्राट हर्ष के काल में भारत का दौरा किया था।
ह्वेन त्सांग पाँच वर्षों तक नालंदा विश्वविद्यालय में रहे।
ह्वेन त्सांग कामरूप के शासक भास्कर वर्मन के अतिथि थे।
- ह्वेन त्सांग ने कन्नौज को एक सुंदर शहर बताया।
- पु सोंगलिंग एक किंग राजवंशीय चीनी लेखक थे।
- पु सोंगलिंग स्ट्रेंज स्टोरीज़ के लेखक थे।

•अतिरिक्त जानकारी
बाणभट्ट:
- बाणभट्ट राजा हर्ष वर्धन के दरबार में अस्थाना कवि थे।
- कादम्बरी बाणभट्ट की कृति है।
- "हर्षचरित" भी बाणभट्ट द्वारा लिखा गया था।

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❇️ 22 February

👨‍🎤 World Thinking Day
विश्व चिंतन दिवस

Theme24 : "Our World, Our Thriving Future"

🔷The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) celebrates World Thinking Day on February 22 every year. The day honours sisterhood, camaraderie, and women’s empowerment while attempting to raise fund for the 10 million girl scouts and guides in over 150 nations. World Thinking Day also encourages female scouts to form enduring relationships with one another that emphasizes loyalty and respect.

🔶Celebrated since 1926, World Thinking Day is a day of international friendship. It is an opportunity to speak out on issues that affect young women and fundraise for 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 150 countries.

🔸Who's birthday celebrating as Thinking Day?
- Lord Robert Baden-Powell

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🏝 KERALA

🔷Capital: Thiruvananthapuram
🔶Chief Minister: Pinarayi Vijayan
🔷Governor: Arif Mohammad Khan
🔶Formation: 1 November 1956
🔷Districts: 14
🔶Population: 3.46 crores
🔷State animal : Indian Elephant
🔶Nickname: Spice Garden of India
🔷Highest in sex ratio – 1084: 1000
🔶Dance: Kathakali, Mohiniyattam,
🔷State Bird : Great hornbill
🔶Eravikulam and Periyar National Park is located in Kerala.
🔷The Chera dynasty was the first prominent kingdom based in Kerala.
🔶It has nearly 600km of Arabian Sea shoreline.
🔷It is a state on India’s tropical Malabar Coast.

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❇️24th February

👮‍♀ Central Excise Day
केंद्रीय उत्पाद शुल्क दिवस

🔸 To instill a sense of oneness & sincerity in service amongst officers of the Excise department, & to help public to ensure better tax compliance.

🔸Day marks the establishment of Central Excise & Salt Act which was enacted on 24th February 1944

🟢 About Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs(CBIC)

▪️Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs(CBIC) is the nodal national agency responsible for administering Customs, GST, Central Excise, Service Tax & Narcotics in India.

▪️A part of the Department of Revenue under the Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India

▪️With the enactment of the Finance Act, 2018, Central Board of Excise & Customs(CBEC) was renamed as Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs(CBIC)

▪️Change was necessitated due to enactment of the Goods & Services Tax (GST) which has consolidated the multiple Indirect Taxes into one tax.

🏢CBIC Chairman
▪️Sanjay Agarwal

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✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 24.02.2024


1. RECUMBENT (NOUN): (समतल): flat 
Synonyms: lying, horizontal 
Antonyms: erect, standing 
Example Sentence: They are not recumbent, and the hair falling from the head is curled. 


2. INCUMBENT (ADJECTIVE): (पदधारी): present 
Synonyms: current, existing 
Antonyms: past, future 
Example Sentence: The incumbent President was defeated. 


3. SHUN (VERB): (टालना): avoid 
Synonyms: evade, eshew 
Antonyms: accept, welcome 
Example Sentence: He shunned fashionable society. 


4. AMELIORATE (VERB): (सुधार होना): improve 
Synonyms: enhance, better 
Antonyms: worsen 
Example Sentence: The reform did much to ameliorate living standards. 


5. OUTRAGE (NOUN): (उल्लंघन करना): violate 
Synonyms: infuriate, enrage 
Antonyms: Compliment 
Example Sentence: The public were outraged at the brutality involved. 


6. AIDE (NOUN): (सहयोगी): assistant 
Synonyms: helper, adviser 
Antonyms: boss 
Example Sentence: The presidential aide was just 23. 


7. DETAIN (VERB): (ज़ब्त करना): hold 
Synonyms: seize, confine 
Antonyms: release 
Example Sentence: Customs officers may detain all the goods. 


8. SCRAMBLE (VERB): (अव्यवस्थित करना): disarrange 
Synonyms: muddle, confuse 
Antonyms: organize, align 
Example Sentence: Maybe the alcohol scrambled his brains. 


9. EXEMPT (VERB): (छूट देना): spared 
Synonyms: free from, not liable to 
Antonyms: liable to, subject to 
Example Sentence: These patients are exempt from charges. 


10. DWINDLE (VERB): (क्षीण होना): diminish 
Synonyms: decrease, reduce 
Antonyms: increase, flourish 
Example Sentence: Traffic has dwindled to a trickle. 

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🟢Famous Awards & Establishment Year

- 1901: Nobel Prize
- 1917: Pulitzer Prize
- 1929: Oscar Award
- 1952: Kalinga Prize
- 1954: Bharat Ratna
- 1954: National Film Awards
- 1955: Sahitya Akademi Award
- 1957: Ramon Magsaysay Award
- 1958: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
- 1961: Jnanpith Award
- 1961: Arjuna Award
- 1969: Dronacharya Award
- 1969: Padma Bhushan Award
- 1985: Dadasaheb Phalke Award
- 1991: Saraswati Samman
- 1992: Vyasa Samman
- 1992: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
- 1995: Gandhi Peace Prize

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- Lactic Acid - Sour Milk, Muscles
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- International Energy Agency (IEA) – Paris, France
- International Energy Forum (IEF) – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) – Vienna, Austria
- Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) – Geneva, Switzerland
- World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) – Madrid, Spain
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- Paypal – California, United States
- SpaceX – Hawthorne, California, United States
- Facebook – California, United States

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- Airbus – Leiden, Netherlands

❇️ 27 February

🤝 World NGO Day
विश्व एनजीओ दिवस

Theme24: "Building a Sustainable Future: The Role of NGOs in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"

🧰 World NGO Day aims to inspire people to become more actively involved within NGOs (Charities, NPOs, CSOs) and encourage a greater symbiosis between NGOs and both the public and private sector.

🧰 The celebration was embarked in the UN in 2014, but after then World NGO Day was officially recognised and declared by the 12 member countries of the IX Baltic Sea NGO Forum of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in 2010.

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🔶Int. Gender Equality Prize 2023 by Finland: Afghanistan NGO

🔷Tapoban, an NGO from Assam Honoured With Children’s Champion Award

🔶Pratham NGO Won Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2021

🔷BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee): Best NGO in the world

🏢 UNITED NATIONS (UN)
▪️Founded - 24 OCT, 1945
▪️HQ - New York,US
▪️S.G - Antonio Guterres (Portugal)
▪️MC - 193

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✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 27.02.2024


1. TROUNCED (VERB): (फजीहत करना) :defeat heavily in a contest. 
Synonyms: overcome, beat 
Antonyms: surrender, preserve 
Example Sentence: Sima felt that it was not possible to trounce Ram in the game. 


2. REPOSE (VERB): (आराम करना): lie down 
Synonyms: relax, stretch out 
Antonyms: work, stress, activity 
Example Sentence: When you start your banking preparation, you need to sit in repose and try to empty your mind of all thoughts. 


3. LUCRATIVE (ADJECTIVE): (लाभदायक) :producing a great deal of profit. 
Synonyms: profitable, bankable 
Antonyms: worthless, unsuccessful 
Example Sentence: Saima has a lucrative business selling designer clothes. 


4. CONVOLUTED (ADJECTIVE): (लपेटा हुआ, जटिल): extremely complicated to follow. 
Synonyms: complex, tangled 
Antonyms: simple, straightforward. 
Example Sentence: His explanations are very convoluted. 


5. CLINCH (VERB): (बंधा हुआ): confirm or settle 
Synonyms: secure, finalize 
Antonyms: delay, disprove 
Example Sentence: Lecturer clinched the documents for me. 


6. PROVINCE (NOUN): (प्रांत): country, realm
Synonyms: shire, region, territory, domain
Antonyms: avocation, recreation
Example Sentence: Anu is too provincial to buy foreign products.


7. IRREFUTABLE (ADJECTIVE): (अखंडनीय): impossible to deny or disprove
Synonyms: impregnable, apodictic
Antonyms: unreliable, reckless
Example Sentence: This book is irrefutable for me.


8. PALATABLE (ADJECTIVE): (स्वादिष्ट) :of food or drink pleasant to taste
Synonyms: appetizing, luscious
Antonyms: unpleasant, insipid
Example Sentence: The dish was not tasty but look more palatable.


9. INTANGIBLE (ADJECTIVE): (न छुने योग्य):unable to be touched
Synonyms: impalpable, phantom, abstract 
Antonyms: real, physical, actual
Example Sentence: We felt an intangible presence in the auditorium. 


10. BRUISE (VERB): (कुचलन, चोट): hurt (someone's feelings).
Synonyms: upset, offend, peeve
Antonyms: compliment, adorn
Example Sentence: The bruise on his leg was deep purple and was easily visible.

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