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Monday, July 6, 2020

PRACTISE LISTENING TO NEWS IN ENGLISH 06072020

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WEEKLY ANALYSIS

HeadLines 06.07.2020 #318, Monday

COVID-19: 7-day triple lockdown in Tvm; secretariat to be closed.
1.Kerala reports 225 COVID-19 cases on Sun; 126 recoveries.
2.India overtakes Russia to become country with third highest confirmed cases.
3.Police stop film artistes' meet in COVID containment zone in Kochi, no decision on pay cut.
4.Kerala Ordinance makes masks compulsory; Rs 10,000 fine and 2 years in jail for violation.
5.30 kg gold sent in diplomatic baggage seized in Kerala; Misuse of immunity by syndicate suspected: Customs.
6.Govt blocks 40 websites of banned pro-Khalistan group Sikhs For Justice.
7.It takes 18 months to develop good vaccine: Ex-ICMR chief.
8.Taj Mahal to reopen with social distancing, masks.
9.Families mourn as Myanmar jade mine disaster kills more than 170.
10.WHO halts hydroxychloroquine, HIV drugs in COVID trials after failure to reduce death.
11. DuckDuckGo is back online for users in India after brief blockade.

Headlines Vocab

1. Syndicate 
/ˈsɪndɪkət/
 സംയുക്തസമിതി
​a group of people or companies who work together and help each other in order to achieve a particular aim
"a crime syndicate "

2. Diplomatic baggage
-also known as a diplomatic pouch, is a container with certain legal protections used for carrying official correspondence or other items between a diplomatic mission and its home government or other diplomatic, consular, or otherwise official entity.

3. immunity 
/ɪˈmjuːnəti/
ഒഴിവാക്കല്‍
the state of being avoided from something
"The spies were all granted immunity from prosecution."

4. DuckDuckGo - The privacy-focused search engine was blocked in India earlier this week by many ISPs.

Today's headlines are from
Madhyamam, Manorama, TNIE Matrubhoomi, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Al-Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, CNN

For additional reading

https://www.facebook.com/109209820702164/posts/152215273068285/

Headlines Vocab by Lalji Daniel,MGHSS Pathanapuram,

 extracted and organised by Nishad Abdulkareem,GHSS Cherthala South

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