🏝 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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- 1901: Nobel Prize
- 1917: Pulitzer Prize
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❇️ 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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❇️ 28th February

🧬 National Science Day
राष्ट्रीय विज्ञान दिवस

Theme24 : “Indigenous Technologies for Viksit Bharat"

🔮 The first National Science Day was celebrated on February 28, 1987.

🔮 On this day, world renowned scientist CV Raman discovered the 'Raman Effect' in 1928. He won the Nobel prize in Physics in 1930 for the historic discovery.

🔮 The purpose behind the day is to encourage the youth to develop interest in science & realize its importance.

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🔶Prof. Adrian Cruise Receives ‘Order Of The British Empire’ For Space Science Leadership

🔷Ministry Of Mines Unveils Portal For Innovative Geoscience Exploration

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🔷CM Manohar Lal has inaugurated the 'Rekhi Center of Excellence for the Science of Happiness' in Kurukshetra University

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✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 28.02.2024

1. VIGILANCE (ADJECTIVE): (जागरूकता): surveillance 
Synonyms: attentiveness, attention 
Antonyms: inattentiveness 
Example Sentence: Security duties that demand long hours of vigilance. 


2. EXORBITANT (ADJECTIVE): (अत्यधिक): extortionate 
Synonyms: excessive, sky-high 
Antonyms: reasonable 
Example Sentence: Some hotels charge exorbitant rates for phone calls. 


3. CONCRETE (ADJECTIVE): (ठोस): definite 
Synonyms: specific, firm 
Antonyms: vague 
Example Sentence: I haven't got any concrete proof of the killing. 


4. DISBURSE (VERB): (व्यय करना): pay out 
Synonyms: lay out, spend 
Antonyms: claim 
Example Sentence: $67 million of the pledged aid had already been disbursed. 


5. INTRUSIVE (ADJECTIVE): (हस्तक्षेप करने वाले): intruding 
Synonyms: invasive, obtrusive 
Antonyms: low-key 
Example Sentence: The reporter asked an intrusive question. 


6. REPARATION (NOUN): (मरम्मत): amends 
Synonyms: restitution, redress 
Antonyms: impairment 
Example Sentence: The courts required a convicted offender to make financial reparation to his victim. 


7. PREVALENCE (NOUN): (प्रसार): currency 
Synonyms: generality, pervasiveness 
Antonyms: uncommonness 
Example Sentence: The prevalence of sunlight led to a restriction of the windows. 


8. DISCREET (ADJECTIVE): (विचारशील): careful 
Synonyms: circumspect, cautious 
Antonyms: indiscreet 
Example Sentence: We made some discreet inquiries. 


9. DEFUSE (VERB): (शांत करना): reduce 
Synonyms: lessen, diminish 
Antonyms: heighten 
Example Sentence: The scheme taught officers how to defuse potentially explosive situations. 


10. DIFFUSE (ADJECTIVE): (बिखरा हुआ): diffused 
Synonyms: scattered, dispersed 
Antonyms: concentrated 
Example Sentence: The diffuse community which centred on the church. 

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❇️ 29th FEBRUARY

🗓 Leap Year ( अधिवर्ष )

🔷 Leap years occur every four years to account for the extra time it takes the Earth to orbit the sun.

🔸A leap year has 366 days instead of the usual 365 days.

🔹The extra day in a leap year is added as February 29th.

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✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 29.02.2024


1. STEEP (ADJECTIVE): (आकस्मिक): sharp 
Synonyms: sudden, precipitate 
Antonyms: gradual 
Example Sentence: The steep rise in unemployment. 


2. SLUMP (VERB): (गिरना): flop 
Synonyms: flump, collapse 
Antonyms: stand up 
Example Sentence: She slumped against the cushions. 


3. KEEN (ADJECTIVE): (उत्साही): eager 
Synonyms: anxious, impatient 
Antonyms: apathetic
Example Sentence: My friend is a keen gardener. 


4. INDIGENOUS (ADJECTIVE): (स्वदेशी): native 
Synonyms: aboriginal, local 
Antonyms: expatriate 
Example Sentence: We met indigenous people of Siberia. 


5. GARNER (VERB): (संचित करना): gather 
Synonyms: collect, accumulate 
Antonyms: disperse 
Example Sentence: The police struggled to garner sufficient evidence. 


6. DIFFUSE (ADJECTIVE): (तितर-बितर) : verbose 
Synonyms: wordy, prolix 
Antonyms: succinct 
Example Sentence: The second argument between us was more diffuse. 


7. DISSENT (NOUN): (मतभेद): disagreement 
Synonyms: difference of opinion, argument 
Antonyms: agreement 
Example Sentence: There was no dissent from this view. 


8. INQUISITIVE (ADJECTIVE): (जिज्ञासु): curious 
Synonyms: intrigued, interested 
Antonyms: uninterested 
Example Sentence: I do not like to seem inquisitive to anyone. 


9. DISINTERESTED (ADJECTIVE): (निष्पक्ष): unbiased 
Synonyms: unprejudiced, impartial 
Antonyms: biased 
Example Sentence: A banker is under an obligation to give disinterested advice. 


10. MODERATE (ADJECTIVE): (मध्यम): average 
Synonyms: modest, medium 
Antonyms: great 
Example Sentence: Both of us walked at a moderate pace only. 

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