🏆 TENNIS GRAND SLAM WINNERS 2024

🎾 AUSTRALIAN OPEN
▪️Men’s Singles: Jannik Sinner (Italy)
▪️Women’s Singles: Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus)

🎾 FRENCH OPEN
▪️Men’s Singles: Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)
▪️Women’s Singles: Iga Swiatek (Poland)

🎾 WIMBLEDON OPEN
▪️Men’s Singles: Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)
▪️Women’s Singles: Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic)

🎾 US OPEN
▪️Men’s Singles: Jannik Sinner (Italy)
▪️Women’s Singles: Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus)

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✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 15.11.2024


1. EXACERBATE (VERB): (बदतर करना): aggravate 
Synonyms: worsen, inflame 
Antonyms: calm 
Example Sentence:The exorbitant cost of land in urban areas only exacerbated the problem. 


2. TENUOUS (ADJECTIVE): (तुच्छ): slight 
Synonyms: insubstantial, flimsy 
Antonyms: convincing 
Example Sentence: The tenuous link between interest rates and investment. 


3. LACKLUSTRE (ADJECTIVE): (निरुत्साही): uninspired 
Synonyms: uninspiring, unimaginative 
Antonyms: inspired 
Example Sentence: No excuses were made for the team's lacklustre performance. 


4. CONTENTION (NOUN): (तकरार): disagreement 
Synonyms: dispute disputation 
Antonyms: agreement 
Example Sentence: The captured territory was the main area of contention between the two countries. 


5. PLETHORA (NOUN): (बहुतायत): excess 
Synonyms: abundance, overabundance 
Antonyms: dearth 
Example Sentence: She always has a plethora of bad jokes. 


6. RETICENCE (NOUN): (अल्पभाषिता): reserve 
Synonyms: introversion, restraint 
Antonyms: expansiveness 
Example Sentence: She paused, as if hesitating to confide, until her anger overcame her reticence. 


7. SURMISE (VERB): (अंदाज़ा लगाना): guess 
Synonyms: conjecture, suspect 
Antonyms: know 
Example Sentence: I surmised that something must be wrong. 


8. FALLACIOUS (ADJECTIVE): (ग़लत): erroneous 
Synonyms: false, untrue 
Antonyms: true 
Example Sentence: His argument is based on fallacious reasoning. 


9. VEIL (VERB): (ढंक देना): covert 
Synonyms: surreptitious, hidden 
Antonyms: overt 
Example Sentence:Cold mists veiled the mountain peaks. 


10. TRASH (NOUN): (बकवास): nonsense 
Synonyms: drivel, pap 
Antonyms: logic 
Example Sentence: If they read at all, they read trash.

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🟢 Ambassador

- Shikhar Dhwan – MotoGP India
- Aditya Roy Kapur – Bisleri Limonata
- PV Sindhu – Greenday’s Better Nutrition
- PV Sindhu – Tobacco Control
- Shah Rukh Khan – Muthoot Pappachan Group
- Kareena Kapoor Khan – UNICEF India National Ambassador

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📚 RECENT BOOK

- Power Within: The Leadership Legacy of Narendra Modi’ – Dr R Balasubramaniam
- I have the Streets – R Ashwin & Sidharth Monga
- Gateways to the Sea – launched by Governor of Maharashtra Ramesh Bais
- The Adventures of Ed-a-Mamma: Ed Finds A Home – launched by Alia Bhatt
- India’s Trade Policy; The 1990’s and beyond – Arvind Panagariya

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🟢 Award

🔶 V Venkayya Epigraphy Award 2024 – V. Vedachalam
🔷Global Water Tech Award for environmental initiatives – Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
🔶Customised Gold Coins by Paris’ Grevin Museum – Shah Rukh Khan
🔷Olympic Order by IOC – Abhinav Bindra
🔶International Excellence Award – CA Arpit Jagdish Kabra (for his significant contributions to forensic auditing)

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🟢 Conventions and Protocols related to various environmental and humanitarian issues:

1. Ramsar Convention - Wetlands
2. Bonn Convention - Migratory birds
3. Vienna Convention - Ozone layer
▪️ Montreal Protocol - Ozone layer
4. Minamata Convention - Mercury
5. Geneva Protocol - Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare
6. Stockholm Convention - Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP)
7. Rotterdam Convention - Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides
8. Basel Convention - Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal

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❇️ 18 NOVEMBER

⚗ Naturopathy Day
प्राकृतिक चिकित्सा दिवस

Th24: "Naturopathy for Healthy Aging and Longevity".

🌿 To raise awareness about naturopathy and its role in preventing disease and maintaining health and wellbeing.

🎍 The Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) established National Naturopathy Day on November 18, 2018. The day was chosen to commemorate the day in 1945 when Mahatma Gandhi became the Chairman of the All India Nature Cure Foundation Trust.

🟢 NEWS
🔷Arogya Manthan 2023Marking 5 years Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, 2 Digital Mission

🔶 President Virtually Launches Ayushman Bhav Campaign For Universal Health Coverage

🔷GoI Introduces Ayush Visa Category For Foreign Nationals Seeking Medical Treatment In India

🔶Ministry Of Ayush And Minority Affairs Collaborate For Development Unani Medicine System

🔷Ayushmann Khurrana Joins Indian Team As Ambassador For Special Olympics Journey To Berlin

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✅ MOST IMPORTANT LIST OF REPORTS PUBLISHED BY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

💠 Democracy Index :  Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

💠 Global Liveability Ranking : Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

💠 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) : Transparency International

💠 Global Corruption Index :  Transparency International

💠 Human Capital Index : World Bank

💠 Ease of doing business index  : World Bank

💠 Global Risks Report : World Economic Forum (WEF)

💠 Global Competitiveness Index :  World Economic Forum (WEF)

💠 Global Gender Gap : World Economic Forum (WEF)

💠 Global Energy Transition Index : World Economic Forum (WEF)

💠 World Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index : World Economic Forum (WEF)

💠 World Competitiveness Index : Institute for Management Development (IMD)

💠 Environment Performance Index  : Yale University and Columbia University

💠 Global Terrorism Index : Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), Australia

💠 Global Peace Index : Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), Australia

💠 Global Hunger Index  :  US based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Germany based Welthungerhilfe and Irish NGO Concern Worldwide

💠 World Press Freedom Index : Reporters Without Borders (RWB)

💠 Global Financial Stability Report : International Monetary Fund (IMF)

💠 World Economic Outlook Report : International Monetary Fund (IMF)

💠 World Investment Report : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

💠 World Happiness Report : United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network

💠 Human Development Index (HDI) : United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

💠 World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends (WESO Trends) report :  International Labour Organisation (ILO)

💠 Climate Change Performance Index : Germanwatch

💠 Global Innovation Index : World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

💠 Global Economic Freedom Index  : Fraser Institute, Canada

💠 International Intellectual Property (IP) Index : U.S. Chamber’s Global Intellectual Property GIPC


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❇️ 19 November

🚽 World Toilet Day
विश्व शौचालय दिवस

Theme24: 'Toilets: A Place for Peace'

🧴To inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and help achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), which promises sanitation for all by 2030.

🔸This day is all about taking action to resolve the global crisis and achieve sustainable development goals.

🔹It aims for water and sanitation for everyone by 2030.

🔹Bio-vacuum toilets : Kalka-Delhi Shatabdi

🔸 1st railways install bio toilets : West central railways

🔹City got its first 'Pink Toilet' dedicated to women with facilities for sanitary napkins and baby care : Noida

🔶 Centre Launches San-Sadhan Hackathon For Divyang Accessible Toilets

🔷Ministry of Jal Shakti, under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) is organizing ‘Swachhta Run’ across rural India

Note : Day also 19th November 2022
International Men's Day
Women's Enterpreneur Day

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✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 19.11.2024


1. STIFLE (VERB): (गला घोंटना): choke
Synonyms: suffocate, asphyxiate
Antonyms: cold
Example Sentence:Those in the streets were stifled by the fumes.


2. VOLUMINOUS (ADJECTIVE): (विशाल): capacious
Synonyms: commodious, roomy
Antonyms: tiny
Example Sentence:We have a voluminous purple cloak at home.


3. PATRONIZE (VERB): (रिआयत करना): look down on
Synonyms: talk down to, put down
Antonyms: friendly
Example Sentence:She was determined not to be put down or patronized.


4 TACTICAL (ADJECTIVE): (परिगणित): calculated
Synonyms: planned, plotted
Antonyms: unwise
Example Sentence:In a tactical retreat, she moved into a hotel with her daughters.


5. AMALGAMATE (VERB): (मिलाना): combine
Synonyms: merge, unite
Antonyms: separate
Example Sentence:She amalgamated his company with another.


6 ONEROUS (ADJECTIVE): (कष्टदायक): burdensome
Synonyms: heavy, inconvenient
Antonyms: easy
Example Sentence:She found his duties increasingly onerous.


7. DISCRETION (NOUN): (विवेक): care
Synonyms: circumspection, caution
Antonyms: indiscretion
Example Sentence:She knew she could rely on his discretion.


8. ATTENUATE (VERB): (कम करना): weaken
Synonyms: reduce, lessen
Antonyms: strengthen
Example Sentence:The filter must severely attenuate all the frequencies above 10 Hz.


9. COMBATIVE (ADJECTIVE): (जुझारू): pugnacious
Synonyms: aggressive, antagonistic
Antonyms: conciliatory
Example Sentence:He made some enemies only because of his combative style.


10. WHIP (VERB): (भागना): dash
Synonyms: rush race
Antonyms: dawdle
Example Sentence:He whipped round to face them.

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🟢Recent 2024 Grand Prix Winner

-Canadian Grand Prix 2024 – Red Bull’s Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
-Monaco Grand Prix – Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc (Monacco)
-Emilia Romagna Grand Prix – Red Bull’s Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
-Miami Grand Prix – McLaren’s Lando Norris (British)
-Chinese Grand Prix – Red Bull’s Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
-Japanese Grand Prix – Red Bull’s Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
-Australian Grand Prix – Ferrari’s Carlos Saina (Spain)
-Saudi Arabian Grand Prix – Red Bull’s Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
-Bahrain Grand Prix 2- Red Bull’s Max Verstappen (Netherlands)

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❇️ 20 NOVEMBER

👫 Universal Children's Day
विश्व बाल दिवस

Theme24:  'For every child, every right.'

👦🏻 To create awareness of the problems children face in every corner of the globe, improve the welfare of all children, and promote the education of children, health, proper care, and nourishment.

👧🏻Universal Children’s Day was first celebrated on 20th November 1959.

👦🏻 Children's day was officially declared a national holiday by the Republic of Turkey in 1920 on April 23.

🟢 NEWS

🔷 Australia To Ban Social Media For Children Under 16

🔶RPF Rescued 84,119 Children Under Operation Nanhe Farishtey

🔷Ed Finds A Home: Alia Bhatt’s Heartwarming Children’s Book

🔶LIC Launches A Non-Participating Product ‘Amritbaal’ For Children

🔷Israeli Film ‘Children Of Nobody’ Wins Golden Bengal Tiger Award

🔶A Children’s Book ‘The Little Book Of Joy’ Authored By Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu

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Top 10 Institutions in the QS World University Rankings: Asia (2025)

1. Peking University (Mainland China)

2. The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

Q3. National University of Singapore (Singapore)

4. Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

5. Fudan University (Mainland China)

6. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

7. Tsinghua University (Mainland China)

8. Zhejiang University (Mainland China)

9. Yonsei University (South Korea)

10. City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

🟢 Major Operations

- Operation Kaveri - Sudan
-Operation Dost - Turkiye
- Operation Ganga - Ukraine
-Operation Devi Shakti - Afghanistan
-Operation Polo - Hyderabad
- Operation Karuna - Myanmar
- Operation Ajay - Israel
- Operation Indravati - Haiti

❇️ 21 NOVEMBER

📺 World Television Day
विश्व टेलीविजन दिवस

Theme24 : "Television: Bridging Global Communities"

📺 To recognise the increasing impact of visual media and how it helps in shaping public opinion and decision-making around the world.

📺The day commemorates the date on which the first United Nations World Television Forum was held in 1996.

📺 Television was invented by a Scottish inventor John Logie Baird in 1925.

📺 First electronic television invented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in 1927.

🟢 SSC PYQS
🔶Working principle of TV remote is based on ​Infrared waves.

🔷A television channel is characterised by : frequency of transmitted signal

🔶Television was introduced to India in 1959, with the help of UNESCO

🟢 NEWS
🔸BAFTA : British Academy of Film and Television Arts

🔷New Television Series Called “Swaraj” Being Promoted By Anurag Thakur

🔶Gaurav Dwivedi Appointed Prasar Bharati CEO

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✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 21.11.2024


1. DAWDLE (VERB): (समय नष्ट करना): linger 
Synonyms: dally, take one's time
Antonyms: hurry
Example Sentence:She mustn't dawdle—she had to make the call now.


2. WRETCHED (ADJECTIVE): (मनहूस): miserable
Synonyms: unhappy sad
Antonyms: cheerful
Example Sentence:I felt so wretched because I thought I might never see you again.


3. SHORTLY (ADVERB): (एकाएक): sharply
Synonyms: abruptly, bluntly
Antonyms: patiently
Example Sentence:Do you like cricket?’ ‘I do not,’ she said shortly.


4. BLEAK (ADJECTIVE): (निरावरण): bare
Synonyms: exposed, desolate
Antonyms: lush
Example Sentence:It was nothing but a bleak moor.


5. SUCCUMB (VERB): (अधीन होना): yield
Synonyms: give in, give way
Antonyms: resist
Example Sentence:We cannot merely give up and succumb to despair.


6. SORDID (ADJECTIVE): (नीच): sleazy
Synonyms: seedy, seamy
Antonyms: high-minded
Example Sentence:The story paints a sordid picture of bribes and scams.


7. STRINGENT (ADJECTIVE): (कठोर): strict
Synonyms: firm, rigid
Antonyms: lenient
Example Sentence:Stringent guidelines are necessary on air pollution.


8. TACIT (ADJECTIVE): (निहित): implicit
Synonyms: understood implied
Antonyms: explicit
Example Sentence:Your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement.


9. LOPSIDED (ADJECTIVE): (असममात्रिक): asymmetrical
Synonyms: unsymmetrical, uneven
Antonyms: even
Example Sentence:He showed a lopsided grin.


10. CONSTRAINT (NOUN): (बाधा): inhibition
Synonyms: uneasiness, embarrassment
Antonyms: openness
Example Sentence:They are able to talk without constraint. 

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👨‍✈️अध्यक्ष / Chairman

-राष्ट्रीय उपभोक्ता आयोग के प्रथम अध्यक्ष:- बालकृष्ण ईराड़ी
-राष्ट्रीय मानव अधिकार आयोग प्रथम अध्यक्ष:- न्यायमूर्ति रंगनाथ मिश्रा
-राष्ट्रीय महिला आयोग प्रथम अध्यक्ष:- जयंती पटनायक
-राष्ट्रीय पिछड़ा वर्ग आयोग प्रथम अध्यक्ष:- न्यायमूर्ति आर. एन. प्रसाद
-राष्ट्रीय अल्पसंख्यक आयोग प्रथम अध्यक्ष:- न्यायमूर्ति मोहम्मद सरदार अली खान

-First Chairman of National Consumer Commission:- Balkrishna Eradi
-First Chairman of National Human Rights Commission:- Justice Ranganath Mishra
-First Chairman of National Women's Commission:- Jayanti Patnaik
-First Chairman of National Backward Classes Commission:- Justice R. N. Prasad
-First Chairman of National Minority Commission:- Justice Mohammad Sardar Ali Khan

✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 22.11.2024


1. DENOUEMENT (NOUN): (उपसंहार): outcome
Synonyms: upshot, consequence
Antonyms: origin
Example Sentence:I waited by the eighteenth green to see the denouement.


2. GRIM (ADJECTIVE): (अरूचिकर): stern
Synonyms: forbidding, uninviting
Antonyms: amiable
Example Sentence:He gave a grim expression to me.


3. ABROGATION (NOUN): (निराकरण): repudiation
Synonyms: revocation, repeal
Antonyms: institution
Example Sentence:The abrogation of the bogus constitution was very necessary.


4. DEBILITATE (VERB): (दुर्बल करना): weaken
Synonyms: enfeeble, enervate
Antonyms: strengthen
Example Sentence:Hard drugs destroy families and debilitate communities.


5. ADVERSARY (NOUN): (प्रतिद्वंद्वी): opponent
Synonyms: rival, enemy
Antonyms: ally
Example Sentence:I beat his old adversary in the quarter-finals.


6. BENIGN (ADJECTIVE): (सौम्य): kindly
Synonyms: kind, warm-hearted
Antonyms: unfriendly
Example Sentence:His mannerisms are firm yet benign.


7. RECALCITRANT (ADJECTIVE): (अक्खड़): uncooperative
Synonyms: intractable, unmanageable
Antonyms: amenable
Example Sentence:It is a class of recalcitrant ten-year-olds.


8. BREAKTHROUGH (ADJECTIVE): (उन्नत): advance
Synonyms: development, step forward
Antonyms: setback
Example Sentence:It was a major breakthrough in DNA research.


9. DECEPTIVE (ADJECTIVE): (भ्रामक): misleading
Synonyms: illusory, illusive
Antonyms: honest
Example Sentence:He put the question with deceptive casualness.


10. BOHEMIAN (ADJECTIVE): (अपरंपरागत): unconventional
Synonyms: nonconformist, unorthodox
Antonyms: conventional
Example Sentence:As an artist, you live a bohemian lifestyle. 

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👸🏻73rd Miss Universe : Victoria Kjaer Theilvig

• Formation - June 28, 1952
• Headquarters - New York, USA
• Host - San Salvador (Jose Adolfo Pineda Arena)

🔶Miss Universe 2023
- Winner: Shennis Palacios
- Runner-up: Antonia Porzilde (Thailand)
- 2nd Runner-up: Moraya Wilson (Australia)

🔷Indian Miss Universe
- Lara Dutta (2000)
- Sushmita Sen (1994)
- Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu (2021)

🔶Other Info
- Bonnie Gabrielle (USA) Miss Universe 2022
- Shweta Sharda from India in the Top 20
- 90 countries participated in the competition
- Annual budget: 10 crores, organized by the Beauty Pageant Organization

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🗄 TYPES OF ATM ( Automated Teller Machine )

🖨 White Label ATMs (WLAs): ATMs set up, owned and operated by non-banks (i.e NBFCs) are WLAs. Non-bank ATM operators are authorised under the Payment & Settlement Systems Act, 2007 by RBI.

🖨 Green Label ATMs – ATMs for agricultural transactions.

🖨 Orange label ATMs – ATMs used for share transactions.

🖨 Pink Label ATMs – ATMs that are meant only for women (ease their banking).

🖨 Yellow Label ATMs – ATMs meant for E-commerce facility.

🖨 Brown Label ATMs – ATMs that are outsourced by a bank to a third party (based on the concept of sharing the cost).

🖨 Biometric ATMs – These are ATMs that use security features like fingerprint scanner and eye scanner of the customer to access the bank details.

🖨 Onsite ATMs – ATMs that are located inside the bank’s premises.

🖨 Offsite ATMs- ATMs that are located in various places except inside the bank’s premises.