Recommendation 1 from ‘The Guardian’
Article Name:Death is tobacco companies’ business
By: Tanya Gold
You can’t blame tobacco firms for resisting plain packaging. But what’s the government’s excuse?
Summary:
The article is a description as how the Queen’s speech on Wednesday pulled on an anti-smoking legislation which would have forced the tobacco companies to use only plain packets, and chopped their one remaining marketing strategy entirely dedicated to cutting the new smokers off at the knees. It would have caused the potential smokers to see a dull and unfashionable box.
Learn Words from the article:
Confection: the process of preparing something
Thwart: to oppose successfully
Misogyny: hatred of women
Recommendation 2 from ‘The Hindu’
Article Name:When it rains, it pours
By: Editorial
The government in the past four years has been to lurch from scam to scam, crisis to crisis
Summary:
The article is a description as how the government, Congress and the team Manmohan has been to lurch from scam to scam in the last four years with each new day bringing fresh allegations against one or the other minister.
Learn Words from the article:
Lurch: an instance of swaying abruptly
Morph: a species that occurs in two or more forms
Nonchalance: lack of concern
Recommendation 3 from ‘The Indian Express’
Article Name:Jurassic baby dinosaur discovered in China
By: PTI
Scientists have discovered the fossilized skeleton of dinosaur representing a new meat-eating species
Summary:
The author states that the scientists have discovered the fossilized skeleton of a baby dinosaur representing a new meat-eating species that roamed 161 million years ago during the late Jurassic period. The discovery was made by James Clark, the Ronald B Weintraub Professor of Biology, in the Department of Biological Sciences of GW’s Columbian College of Arts and sciences.
Learn Words from the article:
Theropod:member of the family of carnivorous dinosaurs.
Mandible: bone of the lower jaw.
