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                                                    BADMINTON Badminton :-   is a racquet sport played using  racquets  to hit a  shuttlecock  across a  net . Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side). Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the opposing side's half of the court.Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net. Play ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor or if a fault has been called by the umpire, service judge, or (in their absence) the opposing side. The shuttlecock is a feathered or (in informal matches) plastic projectile which flies differently from the balls used in many other sports. In part

                                                              GST Goods and Services Tax (GST) :-   is an  indirect tax  which was introduced in India on 1 July 2017 and was applicable throughout India which replaced multiple cascading taxes levied by the  central  and  state  governments. It was introduced as  The Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act 2017 , following the passage of Constitution 122nd Amendment Bill. The GST is governed by a GST Council and its Chairman is the  Finance Minister of India . Under GST, goods and services are taxed at the following rates, 0%, 5%, 12% ,18% and 28%. There is a special rate of 0.25% on rough precious and semi-precious stones and 3% on gold.  In addition a  cess  of 15% or other rates on top of 28% GST applies on few items like aerated drinks, luxury cars and tobacco products. GST was initially proposed to replace a slew of indirect taxes with a unified tax and was therefore set to dramatically reshape the country's 2 tril

                                             INDIAN LANGUAGES                       LANGUAGES OF INDIA :-   Languages spoken in  India  belong to several  language families , the major ones being the  Indo-Aryan languages  spoken by 75% of Indians and the  Dravidian languages  spoken by 20% of Indians. Other languages belong to the  Austroasiatic ,  Sino-Tibetan ,  Tai-Kadai , and a few other minor language families and  isolates . India (780) has the world's second highest number of languages, after  Papua New Guinea  (839).                     Article 343 of the Indian constitution states that the  official language  of the Union government shall become  Hindi  in  Devanagari script instead of the extant  English , but is superseded by English subsequently too as mentioned in section 3 of the same constitutional article that is put to effect by  The Official Languages Act, 1963 . The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union were supposed to become

                                    MADIA GOND COMMUNITY                    Madia Gonds :-   Madia  are one of the  endogamous  Gond tribes living in  Chandrapur District  and  Gadchiroli District  of  Maharashtra  State, and  Bastar division  of  Chhattisgad  State  India . They have been granted the status of a  Primitive tribal group  by the Government of India under its  affirmative action  or  reservation  programme. The Madia Gonds are strongly affected by  Naxal activities. The Madia Gond use the self designation Madia, and call the area where they live Madia  Desh . They speak the Madia dialect of  Gondi . The shifting agriculture of madia is known as jhoom. A study mentions living  megalithic  practices amongst the Madia Gonds. One of the findings of The Bench Mark Survey done in 1997–1998: 91.08 percent of Madia Gond families lived  Below Poverty Line .                     Madias today are doctors,  teachers, government employees and naxalites. Performance of school g

                                                  MOVIE REVIEW                     Dangal :-  biographical   sports   drama film  directed by  Nitesh Tiwari . Produced by  Walt Disney Pictures ,  Aamir Khan Productions  and  UTV Motion Pictures , it stars  Aamir Khan  as  Mahavir Singh Phogat , an  amateur wrestler , who trains his daughters  Geeta Phogat  and  Babita Kumari  to be world-class wrestlers, both of who go on to win medals at the  2010 Commonwealth Games . Babita won a  silver medal  at the Games, in the 51 kg class and gold at the  2014 Glasgow Games  in the  55 kg class . In 2012, Geeta became the first Indian female wrestler to qualify for the  Olympics . Mahavir's efforts inspired dozens of Indian women to take to wrestling.  Fatima Sana Shaikh  and Sanya Malhotra play the older selves of the sisters while  Sakshi Tanwar  plays their mother and  Aparshakti Khurana , their cousin.  The development of the film began in early 2013 when Tiwari began writing the

                                    PARIS ENVIRONMENT SUMMIT   Paris Environment :- Paris climate accord or Paris climate agreement, is an agreement within the  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change  (UNFCCC) dealing with  greenhouse gas emissions mitigation ,  adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. The language of the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 196 parties at the  21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC  in  Paris  and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015. As of August 2017, 195 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement, 160 of which have ratified it. In the Paris Agreement, each country determines, plans and regularly reports its own contribution it should make in order to mitigate  global warming . There is no mechanism to force a country to set a specific target by a specific date, but each target should go beyond previously set targets.In 2017, U.S. President  Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw the United St

                     SAHITYA AKADEMI     Sahitya Akademi :-   India 's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of  literature  in the  languages of India . Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government and situated at Rabindra Bhavan near  Mandi House  in  Delhi . The Sahitya Akademi organises national and regional workshops and seminars; provides research and travel grants to authors; publishes books and journals, including the Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature; and presents the annual  Sahitya Akademi Award  of Rs. 100,000 (approx. USD 1,500 ( as in year 2013) in each of the 24 languages it supports, as well as the  Sahitya Akademi Fellowship  for lifetime achievement. The Sahitya Akademi Library is one of the largest multi-lingual libraries in India, with a rich collection of books on literature and allied subjects. Also it publishes two bimonthly literary journals -  Indian Literature  in Eng

                                                            BULL Bull :- is a harvest sport race that take place in the village of  Anandapally , southern  Kerala  during the post harvest season. A pair of yoked  bulls  are sent charging down a football field-sized  paddy field  soaked in ankle deep water, while their handlers boarded on a wooden plank, hang onto the tail or onto a harness and slide through the mud. The fields are freshly ploughed as the bulls are raced by their handlers.                 Bull surfing competitions are common in Kerala where local clubs or landlords offer trophies and cash prizes for races with different categories for speed and style. A pair of  oxen  is usually managed by a participating unit formed by a handler (the surfing member) and a team of people to assist him. Usually 30 to 50 of these units participate in the race that goes on from morning until dusk. Just like the professional jockeys, these participants are well trained and are expert

                                                       TRIPLE TALAQ   Triple Talaq  also known as talaq-e-biddat, instant divorce and talaq-e-mughallazah irrevocable divorce, is a form of  Islamic divorce  which has been used by  Muslims in India . It allows any Muslim man to legally divorce his wife by stating the word talaq the Arabic word for "divorce" three times in oral, written, or more recently electronic form. The use and status of triple talaq in India has been a subject of controversy and debate. Those questioning the practice have raised issues of justice, gender equality, human rights and secularism. The debate has involved the  Government of India  and the  Supreme Court of India , and is connected to the debate about a  uniform civil code  in India. On 22 August 2017, the Indian Supreme Court deemed instant triple talaq talaq-e-biddat unconstitutional. Three judges of the five-judge panel decided that the practice of instant triple talaq was unconstitutio