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Study the article below and answer the questions included within it. This article has been sourced from the Associated Press. Women riding motorbikes in Tehran is the latest sign of Iran’s societal change Symbol of independence: A woman drives her motorbike in downtown Tehran in Iran. …
Study the article below and answer the questions included within it. This article has been sourced from The Economist magazine’s Essential India edition. Kerala can teach India a thing or two about social welfare But it also has plenty to learn about economic dynamism KERALITES …
Lives saved, livelihoods lost Odisha’s real challenge begins after the storm Sushanta Mahapatra When Cyclone Montha struck the eastern coast on October 28, 2025, it repeated a grim pattern familiar to Odisha and its neighbours—flattening fields, flooding villages, and sending thousands into shelters. Making landfall …
Gaza oscillates between calm and thunderous bomb blasts (We thankfully acknowledge the contribution of The Hindu for this story.) A Hamas official called the October 7 attack a ‘historic response’ to Israel’s bid to ‘eradicate the Palestinian cause’; he also said group was working to …
Rain fury causes massive damage in Kerala’s Idukki (This news item cited in part here appeared in The Hindu dated October 19.) Water level in Mullaperiyar dam rises overnight, prompting Tamil Nadu. to open all 13 shutters; flash floods and landslips were reported at many …
Read the following paragraphs of an op-ed piece published in The Hindu dated October 5. We thankfully acknowledge the contribution of Sri Krishnadas Rajgopal and The Hindu for this story. Why is a spectre of empty classrooms looming? What has the Supreme Court ruled on …
‘Machines don’t see gender’: India’s first female train driver on blazing the trail (This news item has been sourced from BBC dated October 4,2025.) Surekha Yadav joined the Indian Railways as an assistant train driver in 1989 “Machines don’t see gender; they see your strength,” …
Read the whole piece, and understand it. Paraphrase the first two paragraphs. Choose any one paragraph and identify the words as noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb etc. (This piece appeared in The Economist magazine. We gratefully acknowledge it.) ————————————————————————————————.————————- Last month I was part of a …
Comprehension exercise 2… The Tsunami engulfs the Andaman and Nicobar islands ————————–.————————————- Despite the hundreds of kilometers of water that separate the Andamans from the Indian mainland, many of the relief camps in Port Blair, the islands’ capital city, have the appearance of miniaturized portraits …
Comprehension exercise with answers (for vocabulary building) The following passages were sourced from ‘The Economist’. The questions and answers are at the end of the write up. Before his best race, at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958, Milkha Singh was …