• International Worker’s Day is also known as the International Labour Day and May Day which is celebrated on international level to promote and encourage the international labour associations.


• It is being celebrated all across the world every year on [latex]1^{st}[/latex] May 2019 which has been declared as the traditional spring holiday in the Europe.


• It has also been declared as the national holiday in almost 80 countries of the world whereas it is being celebrated as an unofficial event in most of the countries.


• International Labor Day theme 2019 is “Sustainable Pension for all: The Role of Social Partners”.

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• The United States observes Law Day annually on [latex]1^{st}[/latex] May 2019. This day allows all Americans to reflect on the personal rights and liberties which are enjoyed and exercised daily.


• These same rights and freedoms are upheld by the laws and courts. Law Day is meant to reflect on the role of law in the foundation of the country and to recognize its importance for society.


• Law Day asks Americans to focus on every American’s rights as laid out in the fundamental documents of American democracy: the Declaration of Independence and the federal Constitution.


• The 2019 Law Day theme is — Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society —focuses on these cornerstones of representative government and calls on us to understand and protect these rights to ensure, as the U.S. Constitution proposes, “the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.”

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• Maharashtra day is also known as Maharashtra Diwas and it is celebrated to commemorate the formation of the state when it was divided from Bombay on [latex]1^{st}[/latex] May, 1960. It was divided into Maharashtra and Gujarat on the account of different languages spoken.


• After the division took place, Maharashtra was formed comprising of areas where Marathi and Konkani speaking people reside. Whereas in Gujarat it was dominated by Gujarati and Kutchi speaking people.


• The governor of Maharashtra presides over a parade and addresses a large gathering at Shivaji Park in Dadar to commemorate the formation of the day. On the same day, several annual celebrations of state’s institutions are also held on the same day.

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• President Donald Trump is proposing charging asylum seekers a fee to process their applications as he continues to try to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants seeking to cross into the U.S.


• In a presidential memorandum signed, Trump directed his attorney general and acting homeland security secretary to take additional measures to overhaul the asylum system, which he insists “is in crisis” and plagued by “rampant abuse.”

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• Venezuelan Opposition leader Juan Guaido said he had begun the “final phase” of his plan to oust President Nicolas Maduro, calling on Venezuelans and the military to back him to end Maduro's ”usurpation.”


• Mr. Guaido near the La Carlota air force base in Caracas, surrounded by a group of men in uniform.


• Venezuelan Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez tweeted that the government was confronting a small group of “military traitors” seeking to promote a coup.

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• A huge contingent of the police special force and army personnel cordoned off a 1.5 sq km area of Kattankudy on Sri Lanka’s eastern coast.


• The cordon cut off the area with Muslim residents, including radical leader Zahran Hashim’s sister Mathaniya and brother-in-law Niyaz Sharif. Police picked up Niyaz for questioning and Mathaniya left for her mother-in-law’s place. There was talk that Niyaz too was getting carried away by Islamic State’s radical propaganda, but friends weaned him away.


• Two days ago, police special task force and army personnel had quietly swept into two houses tucked away in Anwar Palli area where Zahran’s parents and another sister, Jazeera, with child, husband Nishad and small daughter Ubeida lived until they left hurriedly, three days before the deadly Easter Sunday bombings on [latex]21^{st}[/latex] April 2019.

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• Sri Lanka lifted a social media ban that was imposed after the Islamic State-claimed Easter bombings, a sign of security easing even as some of the island nation’s South Asian neighbours investigated possible activities in their countries inspired by the attack.


• President Maithripala Sirisena ended the blocking of Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and other popular sites, but asked the public to “act in a responsible manner” on social media, according to a government statement.


• The government had said it was seeking to curb the spread of misinformation when it blocked social media in the wake of the [latex]21^{st}[/latex] April 2019 bombings at churches and luxury hotels that killed 253 people.

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• A decision on whether Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammed chief asood Azhar will be listed as a global terrorist by the United Nations will be known today as the world body's Sanctions Committee holds a crucial meeting, amid indications that China could lift its hold on the proposal to blacklist Azhar.


• The Council's 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee is expected to meet here and the issue of Azhar's listing is likely to be considered. Sources said that the outcome of the meeting - whether UNSC permanent member China decides to lift its hold on the proposal to blacklist Azhar, paving the way for the UN to slap sanctions against him - will be known today.

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• Stating that Defence and offensive space technologies are being developed with various aims of spying, gaining control, deactivating service and destroying, French Envoy in India Alexandre Ziegler has supported India’s Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile test as a response to these growing threats.


• “India shared the same observation and desire to act, which is actually reflected in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of the ASAT missile test on [latex]27^{th}[/latex] March this year.


• It is obvious that it was a clear response to an assessment of growing threats in the outer space.


• And that’s an assessment that we share,” Mr. Ziegler said addressing the 5th Kalpana Chawla annual space policy dialogue organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).

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• External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the weekend and asked for a waiver for continued import of Iranian crude after the [latex]2^{nd}[/latex] May deadline imposed by the U.S. administration, a source has confirmed.


• “Both sides discussed issues relevant to bilateral ties including the waiver for energy from Iran,” said a source about a telephone discussion between Ms. Swaraj and Mr. Pompeo .

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• Ministry of Defence (MoD) is expecting to raise a Defence Cyber Agency (DCA) by May to tackle non-civilian cyber issues arise from China and pakistan, including safeguarding critical infrastructure. Rear Admiral Mohit Gupta, Senior Navy officer will be the first head of this agency, headquartered in New Delhi.


• As per the clearance given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018, two more agencies are under construction namely, Defence Space Agency and Special Operations Division.


• Aware of cyber power is a risky element of India’s comprehensive deterrence capability, the base has set up a task force headed by Lt. Gen. Davinder Kumar (Retired) to suggest a road map for cyber deterrence in the armed forces.

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• Congress General Secretary for UP-East Priyanka Gandhi Breaking her silence over reasons for not contesting Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


• She said she had the "responsibility of looking after 41 seats and could not focus on just one". "She didn't pull out.


• She took the advice of all senior leaders of our party and the advice of my colleagues in Uttar Pradesh and they firmly felt that I have a responsibility of looking after 41 seats," she told new persons in Amethi from where her brother and Congress president Rahul Gandhi is seeking re-election.

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• Samajwadi Party's candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Rampur, Azam Khan was banned by Election Commission from campaigning for two days for violating the Model Code of Conduct.


• Khan has been banned for "making communal remarks" and "threatening" poll authorities. Earlier this month, he was banned from campaigning for three days over "khaki underwear" remark against BJP candidate Jaya Prada.

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• The Election Commission ruled that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at Wardha in Maharashtra on April [latex]1^{st}[/latex] 2019 did not violate the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and the Representation of the People Act provisions.


• The decision came after Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and two Election Commissioners thoroughly examined a detailed report received from the State Chief Electoral Officer on the impugned comments.

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• PNB MD Sunil Mehta has said the lender recovered ₹4,000 crore from sale of stressed assets between January-March.


• The bank expects to recover ₹3,100 crore through sale of non-core assets in the first quarter of FY20.


• PNB is looking to monetise its non-core assets after it was hit by ₹14,000-crore fraud involving diamantaire Nirav Modi in February 2018.

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• Private lender Kotak Mahindra Bank reported a 25% rise in its March quarter profit at ₹1,408 crore, compared to ₹1,124 crore in the year-ago period.


• The rise was driven by strong loan growth of 21%, with the lender's advances crossing ₹2 lakh crore. The bank's net interest income jumped 18% to ₹3,048 crore, from ₹2,580 crore a year earlier.

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• Markets regulator SEBI has directed National Stock Exchange (NSE) to pay ₹625 crore for lapses in checking on brokers gaining unfair access through co-location servers placed at the site of exchange.


• NSE has also been prohibited from accessing the securities market for six months. SEBI has further found NSE's ex-Managing Directors, Ravi Narain and Chitra Ramkrishna, guilty in the case.

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• Currently, Mumbai Indians are on third position with 14 points from 12 games, while the Sunrisers Hyderabad are in the fourth spot with 12 points from as many matches.


• Their batting mainstay, Australian David Warner no longer available, Sunrisers Hyderabad face a formidable task when they square off against Mumbai Indians in a crucial IPL match on Thursday.


• The match is important for both sides as a victory will bolster their play-off chances while a defeat would bring them one step closer to the exit door.


• Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Capitals have already sealed their play-off spots, while the other two slots are yet to be decided.

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• In match 49 of VIVO Indian Premier League (IPL 2019), leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal took a memorable hat-trick, helping Rajasthan Royals limit Royal Challengers Bangalore to 62 for seven in a five overs a side shootout at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.


• While chasing par total of 63 run, Rajasthan had an decent start with Sanju Samson and Liam Livingstone collecting 40 runs in first 3 overs.


• In the 2nd ball of 4th over, Yuzvendra Chahal dismissed Sanju Samson and the same time rain came again and match has been abanadoned with both RCB and RR-- shared one point each.


• Now, Royal Challengers are officially out of the IPL 2019 play-off race whereas Rajasthan hopes pinned on results of remaining 7 league matches.

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• Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) secretary MP Singh has announced that India will bid for the 32-team 2024 World Championships, adding "time has come for India" to host a high profile event.


• India had last hosted the World Championships in 1987. Notably, team championships take place on even years and individual championships on odd years.

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• Ajax closed in on a first Champions League final for 23 years as Donny van de Beek’s early goal beat an injury-hit Tottenham 1-0 in the first leg of their semi-final.


• Van de Beek’s opener on 15 minutes was just reward for the Dutch side’s first-half dominance as Tottenham badly missed the presence of the injured Harry Kane and suspended Son Heung-min.


• Tottenham improved after the break despite another injury blow as Jan Vertonghen had to be helped down the tunnel after a sickening head knock, but lacked the inspiration needed to get back on level terms without their two top scorers.


• And Ajax could easily have had an even greater lead to take back to the Johan Cruyff Arena for the second leg next week when David Neres hit the post 10 minutes from time.

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• Asian Road Para-Cycling Championships 2019 was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from April 23 to April 28, 2019, and a total of twenty-eight countries took part. Indian para cyclists won a silver and two bronze medals.


• Divij Shah has clinched his third consecutive silver medal in the C5 category.


• GurlalSingh, Asian Para Games bronze medallist, became the only Indian cyclist (able-bodied or otherwise) to win a medal at the Asian Games level grabbed a bronze in the C4 section.


• SudhakarMarathe, a Hand cyclist from Maharashtra has claimed a bronze for India in H5 category.


• The entire team went under rigorous training at the Aditya Mehta Foundation Academy(AMF) academy in Hyderabad under the guidance of coach K. Dattatreya and physiotherapist AshaShaikh.

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• Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela added another feather to her already illustrious cap, securing world number one position in the 10m Air Rifle rankings today.


• Apurvi shot a world record score of 252.9 to clinch gold at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup 2019 in February this year. She is among the six Indian shooters to earn the Olympics quota for the Tokyo Games. In the 2018 Asian Games, Apurvi had won a bronze medal in the 10m Mixed Rifle event.


• The Jaipur-born shooter took Twitter to share her joy on achieving the feat, saying, “World Number 1 Touched a milestone in my shooting career today”.

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• Life insurance company, MetLife has been named in Forbes’ inaugural Blockchain 50 List for its Vitana experiment, world’s first, automated insurance solution using blockchain technology was launched in August 2019 by LumenLab, MetLife’s Asia innovation center in Singapore.


• Forbe’sblockchain list the first-ever ranking of the top 50 organizations that are leading the pack in regard to adapting decentralized ledgers to their business.


• Vitana Solution offers pregnant women financial protection in case of gestational diabetes– a condition affecting up to one in five expectant mothers in Singapore.


• Vitana securely connects to customers’ electronic medical records via their mobile device to dispense a policy within minutes.If the customer’s consultant reports a positive diagnosis in her medical records, Vitana will trigger an automatic payout, without the customer needing to make a claim.


• Vitana was developed within the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) regulatory sandbox, together with SwissRe,Cognizant and Vault Dragon.


• SwissRe helped drive product design and reinsure the risk.


• Cognizant provided technology and blockchain expertise.


• Vault Dragon an electronic medical records provider supported on-the-ground implementation with forward-thinking doctors and clinics.

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• England national team player and Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling has been named as the Football Writers’ Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year 2019. He topped the poll of the 400-strong FWA membership as a clear winner with 62 percent of the votes, more than 100 votes ahead of Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk.


• Manchester City Forward Raheem Sterlingi. England and Manchester City’s player Nikita Parris won the FWA’s Women’s footballer of the year 2019 award.


• With this win, Sterling became the first Manchester City player to win the football’s oldest individual award.


• Sterling earned praise for his courageous stance against racism in the game.


• Argentine footballer and Manchester City player Sergio Aguero got the third highest number of votes.


• Harry Kane (Tottenham), Eden Hazard (Chelsea), AlexandreLacazette (Arsenal), Bernardo Silva and David Silva (Manchester City) were among the others who gained votes from FWA members.

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• Air India has appointed Captain Arvind Kathpalia, who was removed as Operations Director last November after failing two breath analyser tests before a New Delhi-London flight, as Regional Director (Northern Region).


• DGCA had suspended Kathpalia's flying licence for three years. He was previously suspended for three months in 2017 for refusing to take pre and post flight breath analyser tests.

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• U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller and oversaw his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and related questions, handed in his resignation.


• Mr. Rosenstein was expected to resign after the Mueller probe concluded and after William Barr, the new attorney general had assumed office, so his letter does not come as a surprise.


• The resignation will be effective [latex]11^{th}[/latex] May, and brings a controversial, sometimes drama-filled term that began in April 2017 to a close.


• Mr. Rosenstein has been seen as wanting to balance the interests of many stakeholders, while doing his job, and had earned criticism from all quarters.

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• Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito formally ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne today, a day after his father abdicated from the world’s oldest monarchy and ushered in a new imperial era.


• Naruhito officially became emperor at the stroke of midnight but the process was formalised with a brief ritual on Wednesday morning that was off-limits to female royals even his wife Masako.


• The emperor entered the Imperial Palace’s Pine Room in formal Western clothing, including a heavy gold chain of office, accompanied by male family members including his brother Akishino.

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• Spanish astronomers have reported that a meteorite collided with the Moon at 61,000 kmph, making a 10-15 metres wide crater during the [latex]21^{st}[/latex] January lunar eclipse.


• A bright flash visible to the naked eye was reported by amateur astronomers as the total phase began. The impact flash lasted 0.28 seconds and is the first ever filmed during a lunar eclipse.

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• Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton, who was the first African American and the youngest-ever film-maker to be nominated for the best director Oscar, passed away at the age of 51 after suffering from hypertension.


• He was born on 6th January 1968 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.


• In 1991, He released the Boyz n the Hood film in 1991 which reflected his own background growing up in South Central Los Angeles.


• He was nominated for best director and best original screenplay Oscars at the age of 24.

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