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• Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said she will not scrap a controversial plan to allow extradition to China, despite mass protests.


• Hundreds of thousands of people rallied against the bill which critics fear allows China to target political opponents in the city.


• Speaking to reporters, she insisted the law was necessary and said human rights safeguards were in place.

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• Boris Johnson has pledged to cut income tax bills for people earning more than £50,000 a year if he wins the race to succeed Theresa May as prime minister.


• The former foreign secretary told the Telegraph he would use money currently set aside for a no-deal Brexit to raise the 40% tax rate threshold to £80,000.


• His promise came as Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd said she believed Jeremy Hunt should be prime minister.

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• Dozens of Grenfell survivors and relatives are taking legal action in the US against three firms they blame for the fire, the BBC has been told.


• The lawsuit will target the cladding maker Arconic, insulation maker Celotex and fridge supplier Whirlpool.


• A successful action in the US could cost the firms involved tens of millions of dollars in damages.

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• Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse protesters setting up barricades in Khartoum.


• Four people have been killed on the first day of a strike, according to doctors aligned to the opposition.


• Campaigners have called for ongoing civil disobedience from Sunday to make it as difficult as possible for the military to govern Sudan.

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• Moldova's pro-Russian President Igor Dodon has been stripped of his duties, escalating a political crisis stemming from inconclusive general elections.


• The move came after his party agreed a coalition cabinet with a pro-European Union block, welcomed by the EU.


• Outgoing PM Pavel Filip's party challenged the deal and the Constitutional Court intervened to appoint him as interim president.


• Mr Filip then announced the dissolution of parliament and new elections.


• Parliament, however, has refused to accept his order, saying the country's state institutions had been seized.

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• French minister of state for foreign affairs Jean Baptiste Lemoyne will make an official visit to India to deepen the bilateral strategic partnership in order to build a more stable world order.


• Lemoyne is the first French minister to visit New Delhi after the formation of the new Indian government and the trip will “acknowledge the reinforcement of the Indo-French relationship and will lay the groundwork for” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to France for the G7 Summit in Biarritz in August, said a statement from the French embassy.


• During his visit, Lemoyne will call on external affairs minister S Jaishankar. “The meeting will focus on the further deepening of the Indo-French strategic partnership and its contribution to a more stable and sustainable world governance,” the statement said.

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• India’s mountaineering foundation has launched a ground expedition on a notoriously dangerous Himalayan mountain to retrieve the bodies of five climbers believed to be from a missing team of international climbers.


• The foundation spokesman Amit Chaudhary says a fully equipped 12-member team hopes to reach the area where the bodies have been spotted by.


• Helicopter missions have failed to reach the area at an altitude of 5,000 meters (16,404 feet) due to strong turbulence.


• Veteran British mountaineer Martin Moran led the team of four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian on the expedition on Nanda Devi East.

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• Thirty-six new four-bedroom duplex flats, each complete with a modular kitchen and an office area, are waiting for newly elected MPs in North Avenue in Lutyens’ Delhi.


• The flats, which offer a view of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, will be handed over to the Lok Sabha Secretariat by June-end, a senior government official says.


• The official says these low-rise buildings are equipped with solar panels, LED lights, basement parking for two cars each and modern amenities.

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• Global sportswear giant Adidas aims at eliminating the use of virgin plastics in its products by 2024 — with a little help from a Maharashtra-based firm — the only one of its kind in the country to produce yarn out of discarded PET bottles.


• At its first factory set up in Nashik five years ago, Polygenta Technology Limited deploys an unique technology to break down used PET (short for Polyethylene Terephthalate) bottles and convert them into polyester filament yarn.


• The firm, with a capacity to convert 30 tonnes of PET bottles into yarn a day, plans to scale up capacity to around 100 tonnes a day in the next two years to meet demand from the likes of Adidas — one of its first clients.

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• Moody’s Investors Service said the Reserve Bank’s new prudential framework for stressed asset resolution is ‘credit positive’, but flagged the slower-than-expected progress of resolution under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code as a key hurdle.


• The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) revised framework for the resolution of stressed assets is credit positive, because it brings back the focus on the need for the timely resolution of such assets, and the buildup of loan loss provisioning against those assets, Moody’s Investors Service VP Financial Institutions Group Alka Anbarasu said.

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• The RBI has issued a discussion paper on proposed guidelines for compensation in private banks which also specifies minimum variable pay component and clawback arrangements, among others


• The performance of chiefs of public and private sector banks should be closely monitored by the Board of Directors either through a sub-committee or an external peer group review, according to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das.

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• India defeated Australia by 36 runs at The Oval in London to register their second straight victory in the 2019 World Cup and end Australia's 10-ODI winning streak.


• India became the third team after England and West Indies to register at least 50 victories against Australia in ODI cricket.


• The match witnessed Shikhar Dhawan smash his 17th ODI hundred.

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• Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan added yet another feather on his cap as he became only the third Indian batsman to notch up at least three ICC World Cup centuries after former cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly.


• The 33-year-old achieved the feat when he struck his 17th one-day internationals (ODI) century during his side's second group stage match of the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup 2019 against Australian at The Oval in London.

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• Indian opener and centurion from their last game, Rohit Sharma has completed 2000 ODI runs against Australia during the league match of World Cup 2019 between the 2 teams at The Oval.


• Rohit surpassed his senior and Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar's record in the process, with the latter having taken 40 innings to complete the milestone, that too against Australia.


• West Indian great Vivian Richards, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni round up the top 5 on the list of players who took the fewest innings to 2000 ODI runs

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• The government of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has removed Parvez Ahmed as chairman cum managing director of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank.


• The government also appointed executive president R K Chibber as interim chief. The decision has come after the state vigilance department raided J&K Bank’s headquarters in Srinagar.

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• India’s World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh has decided to call time on his international and first-class career.


• The legendary cricketer who gave his everything to win the World Cup for his country in 2011 was not part of the Indian team since June 2017.


• There were indications of him bringing curtains down on his career on Sunday itself and Yuvraj confirmed it today in a press conference in Mumbai.

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• Veteran actor and playwright Girish Karnad passed away in Bengaluru on Monday at the age of 81, after suffering from prolonged illness.


• A Jnanpith Award winner, Karnad was also a recipient of the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. He made his acting and screenplay debut in 1970 with the Kannada film 'Samskara'.

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