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Vaper (noun) = A person who vapes, especially by using e-cigarettes

Peddle (verb) = Try to sell (something, especially small goods) bygoing from place to place

Intolerance (noun) = Unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, orbehaviour that differ from one's own (असहहष्णतुा)

Cognisable offence (noun) = It means a police officer has the authority tomake an arrest without a warrant and to start aninvestigation with or without the permission of acourt

Deleterious (adj) = Causing harm or damage (हाननकारक)Dangle (verb) = Hang or swing loosely, offer (an enticing incentive)

to someone (ििचाना)Pulmonary (adj) = Relating to the lungs (िेिड़ों सबंंधी)


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Cardiovascular (adj) = Relating to the heart and blood vessels(हृदय सबंंधी)

Earnestly (adv) = With sincere and intense conviction; seriously(जोर देकर)

Dispensation (noun) = Exemption from a rule or usual requirement(व्यवस्था)

Unitary (adj) = Forming a single or uniform entity (एकात्मक)Meagre (adj) = (of something provided or available) lacking in

quantity or quality (अल्प)Abrogation (noun) = The repeal or abolition of a law, right, or

agreement (अलभननषेध)Unprecedented (adj) = Never done or known before (अभतूपूवव)Idyll (noun) = An extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

period or situation (सखुद जीवन)


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Crumbs (exclamation) = Used to express dismay or surpriseCharade (noun) = An absurd pretence intended to create a pleasantor respectable appearance (शब्द पहेिी)


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Title: Smoke of the vaper(The ban on e-cigarettes will require rigorous implementation to beeffective)

Context:When alternatives are peddled as ‘the lesser evil’, virtue is artificiallyadded as a measure of degrees. The evil is often clear and present, asin the case of electronic cigarettes, in all forms — Electronic NicotineDelivery System (ENDS), vapes, and e-hookahs.

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➢ The Centre’s move to ban these products shows a welcomeintolerance of anything that impacts negatively on the health andwellness of the people of the country. The Cabinet recently clearedthe Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Ordinance, 2019. Now, anyproduction, import, export, sale (including online), distribution oradvertisement, and storage of e-cigarettes is a cognisable offencepunishable with imprisonment or fine, or both.

➢ E-cigarettes, which were to aid smokers kick their habit, do not burntobacco leaves. Instead these battery-operated devices produceaerosol by heating a solution containing among other things,nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive substance that may, according tostudies, function as a “tumour promoter” and aid neuro-degeneration.



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➢ Some other compounds in the aerosol are toxic substances thathave known deleterious effects, and might just be less harmful thancigarettes, not harmless.

➢ Seven deaths have been recorded in the U.S. — the largestconsumer of e-cigarettes in the world — where, New York recentlybanned the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes.

➢ As the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)outlines, these devices can only be believed to succeed if smokershave moved on to an alternative nicotine source, and then stoppedusing that too.

➢ The FCTC also records that e-cigarettes are unlikely to be harmless,and long-term use is expected to increase the risk of chronicobstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and possiblycardiovascular disease and other diseases also associated withsmoking.



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Final Words➢ The government, already on the right path, must go all out to ensure

that its ban is implemented earnestly in letter and spirit, unlike thepatchy execution of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act.It is essential to ensure this progressive ordinance does not go up insmoke.



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Descriptive Question

Q. “India's cabinet has announced a ban on the production,

import and sale of electronic cigarettes, saying they pose a

risk to health, is a welcome move, explain.

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Q.1

Who has become the first Defence Minister to fly LCA Tejas?a) Amit Shahb) Nirmala Sitharamanc) Rajnath Singh d) Venkaiah Naidu

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Q.2

Which State/UT police recently launched ‘Tatpar’ mobile app?a) Chandigarh b) Rajasthanc) Delhid) Uttar Pradesh

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Q.3

Google Assistant is now available in how many Indian languages?a) 10 b) 9c) 8d) 12

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Q.4

The Google Research India AI lab will be set up in which city?a) New Delhi b) Hyderabadc) Bengalurud) Chennai

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Q.5

Which state has announced to observe 2020 as an Artificial Intelligence Year?a) Telanganab) Madhya Pradeshc) Bihard) Uttar Pradesh

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Title: Over the hills and far, far away(Integration of the mountains with the mainstream is unlikely under aunitary dispensation that promises a ‘green bonus’)

Context:In the last week of July this year, 11 Himalayan States of India met inDehradun demanding a “green bonus”, or a payment for environmentalservices they provide to the nation.



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Unique needs➢ There was perhaps nothing exceptional about much of this, and

within a week, the meagre media attention this received wasovershadowed by the abrogation of J&K’s special status underArticle 370 and the massive clampdown on civilian life in theKashmir valley.

➢ The problem of integrating the northern mountains to the nationalmainstream is not specific to India. If one takes a look at the entiremountain zone stretching from Balochistan, through KhyberPakhtunkhwa, J&K, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Nepal,Sikkim and Gorkhaland, to Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya,Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, it iseasy to see that each of these regions has had problems when itcomes to integration of the hilly regions with the nation states thatare primarily anchored in the plains.



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Legacy of the colonial era➢ To appreciate this point, we need to move back by a couple of

centuries when the geography of the colonial state was being made.There is a long, complex and surprisingly unpredictable history tothe establishment of Pax Britannica’s border lines along India’snorthern mountains.

➢ In brief, the Himalayas successfully provided a barrier to Russiancolonial expansion but were unsuccessful in providing a trade routeinto China.

➢ By the end of the 19th century, keeping the mountains politicallyquiet and socially peaceful was both a desirable aim and a hopefuldescription.



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