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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 25th June 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Being smart about Smart Cities Mission"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Being smart about Smart Cities Mission"
- Smart City - a city or town where communication and IT are used to help manage the city and its services
- Compile - to make something such as a list by bringing together information from many different places
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Agglomeration - a large group of different things
- Inclusion - the action of including someone or something in a group, arrangement, document etc
- Affordable - cheap enough for ordinary people to afford
- Aspect - a particular part, feature, or quality of something
- Inclusivity - a policy or practice that deliberately attempts to involve all types of people
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Delegate - to give a particular job, duty, right, etc. to someone else so that they do it for you
- Wisdom - the ability to make good decisions based on knowledge and experience
- For instance - for example
- Pedestrian - someone who is walking, especially in a town or city, instead of driving or riding
- Parameter - a limit that affects how something can be done
- Boost - to help something to increase, improve, or become more successful
- Transparency - an honest way of doing things that allows other people to know exactly what you are doing
- Accountable - in a position where people have the right to criticize you or ask you why something happened
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Heat map - a graphical way of showing data where the individual values contained in a matrix are shown as colours
- Compelling - interesting or exciting enough to keep your attention completely
- Low-hanging fruit - things that are easy to get, achieve, or deal with
- Nimble - able to move quickly and easily
- Ideology - a system of ideas and principles on which a political or economic theory is based
- Vibrant - lively and exciting
- Mere - only / just
- Common - a large piece of open land in a village or town where anyone can walk, play sports etc
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Karnataka Assembly resolution to arrest journalists: Whose privilege ?"
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Privilege - a special benefit that is available only to a particular person or group
- Legislature - the part of government that makes and changes laws
- Invoke - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Breach - a failure to follow a law or rule
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Sentence - a punishment given by a judge, usually involving a period of time that a person must spend in prison
- Tabloid - a newspaper with fairly small pages mostly containing stories about famous people and not much serious news
- Indefensible - impossible to defend from criticism
- Unsparing - used about the cruel behaviour of someone who does not care if they hurt people
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Constitution - a set of basic laws or principles for a country that describe the rights and duties of its citizens and the way in which it is governed
- Confer - to give something such as authority, a legal right, or an honour to someone
- Ensuring - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Undue - not necessary or reasonable
- Coercion - the use of force or threats to make someone do something
- Breach - a failure to follow a law or rule
- Ostensible - appearing to be true, or stated by someone to be true, but possibly false
- Disguise - to make something look, sound, or seem like something else
- Insulate - to protect someone from unpleasant knowledge or harmful experiences
- Codifying - to make something part of an organized system, especially an official system of laws
- Allegedly - if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
- Obstruct - to take action in order to prevent someone from doing something or to prevent something from happening
- Germane - relevant to a subject that is being discussed
- Impede - to make it more difficult for someone to do something or more difficult for something to happen
- Defame - to say or write something bad about someone that is not true and makes other people have a bad opinion of them
- Remedy - a solution to a particular problem
- Sparingly - in small quantities
- Refute - to prove that a statement is false
- Misconceived - not based on good reasons or correct understanding
- Contempt - a failure to show appropriate respect for something that other people consider to be important
- Concede - to admit that something is true
- Handing down - to say officially that someone should receive a particular punishment
- Odium - the feeling of hating someone or something
- Rescind - to state officially that something such as a law or an agreement has ended and no longer has legal authority
- Safeguard - to protect something or someone from being harmed or having problems
- Dignity - the impressive behaviour of someone who controls their emotions in a difficult situation
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