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Comprehension Exercise – 29 Creative Writing – 84 Read the article and answer the questions that follow Article sourced from ‘TIME’ Justice is 7 years old. She’s besotted with Frozen’s Princess Elsa and knows all the words to the film’s hit song “Let It Go.” Every … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 28 Creative Writing – 83 Comprehension Exercise for school students [CBSE, BSE, ICSE) Write-up Walking in one of Panaji’s local markets one warm afternoon earlier this year, I found the shops shuttered all along the street. I was in search of a … Read more
Current Affairs – 4 Ebola in Congo Ebola virus disease (EVD) is an infectious disease that spreads through contamination with a patient’s body fluids like blood, semen, or a lactating woman’s milk. It starts with high fever, sore throat, muscular pain, vomiting and diarrhea. One out … Read more
Current Affairs 3 OIC, the Uighurs (also spelt as Oyghurs), and Kashmir – How OIC cowers before the Chinese for commercial gains OIC is the acronym for Organization of Islamic Cooperation. It is a body of some 57 Islamic countries, who strive to plead for … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 27 Creative Writing – 82 Study the article and answer the questions that follow A visit to Hampi: Contrast between Goa and Hampi through a tourist’s eyes [BBC] Ancient Vijayanagara, a crumbling 16th-century metropolis, is a stark contrast to the decadence of … Read more
Current Affairs – 2 The International Court of Justice ruling in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case On July 17, 2019, the ICJ in The Hague in Netherlands pronounced its verdict in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. The government of India had approached the Court to seek relief … Read more
Current Affairs – 1 China’s Economy Juggernaut is Slowing Down — Making sense of it. The Chinese leader, Deng Xioping, set his country on a path of radical economic reforms in December 1978. The bold steps began to bear fruit by early 1980. The reforms … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 26 Creative Writing – 81 Read the article below and answer the questions that appear after each paragraph Why India’s young girls’ enrollment in schools is not proceeding apace? [TIME] Neha Lal wipes her eyes with the back of her hand carefully. … Read more
On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain About the author .. In our childhoods, almost all of us read ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ with great delight. In fact, for most of us reading these books … Read more
The Address by Marga Minco Complete Explanation for the short story included in the CBSE/NCERT Class 11 syllabus About the background of the story It’s a moving story dealing with the annihilation of a whole Jewish family barring a daughter who escaped death because she … Read more