U.P. Cabinet Approves Renaming of Jewar Airport After PM Modi
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The Cabinet of Uttar Pradesh has a new plan. They want to change the name of Jewar airport.
The new name will be Narendra Modi International Airport. Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India.
Jewar airport is a new airport. It is in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in India.
The government made this decision. Now people are talking about parking prices at the airport.
Not everyone is happy about the new name. The Opposition is angry about the plan.
One Opposition leader made a joke. He said Modi stopped trains, and now he has an airport named after him.
The Opposition thinks it is wrong to name the airport after the Prime Minister.
The airport will still open for flights soon. People want to know more about the plans there.
Vocabulary15 words
- Cabinet
- a group of top leaders who make big decisions for a government
- Prime Minister
- the most important leader of a country's government
- Opposition
- politicians who are not in government and often disagree with it
- approve
- to say yes to a plan
- rename
- to give something a new name
- airport
- a place where planes land and take off
- jibe
- an unkind joke about someone
- parking charge
- money you pay to leave your car somewhere
- international
- connected to many countries
- state
- a part of a country with its own government
- decision
- a choice that is made
- plan
- an idea about what to do
- government
- the people who run a country
- criticism
- saying something is bad or wrong
- leader
- a person who guides or controls a group
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1. Renaming Jewar airport after PM Modi 2. The Prime Minister of India 3. They are unhappy and made jokes about it
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The _____ of Uttar Pradesh has a new plan. They want to change the _____ of Jewar airport.
The new name will be Narendra Modi International Airport. Narendra Modi is the _____ of India.
Jewar airport is a new airport. It is in the _____ of Uttar Pradesh, in India.
The government made this _____. Now people are talking about _____ prices at the airport.
Not everyone is happy about the new name. The _____ is angry about the plan.
One Opposition leader made a _____. He said Modi stopped trains, and now he has an airport named after him.
The Opposition thinks it is wrong to _____ the airport after the Prime Minister.
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