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• The front page headlines in Vedomosti, RBC, and Kommersant read "We are Ivan Golunov", referring to the investigative journalist.


• Mr Golunov was charged over the weekend with trying to illegally sell drugs. His lawyer said the drugs were planted.


• The journalist was reportedly beaten up during his arrest last week.

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• The top US diplomat for Africa is going to Sudan this week amid the unrest there, the state department says.


• Tibor Nagy, the US assistant secretary for Africa, will "call for a cessation of attacks against civilians".


• Workers have staged a national strike, which began on Sunday, to pressurise the ruling military government to make way for civilian rule.

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• U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced that he would visit New Delhi at the end of the month as he previewed comments that he is expected to make at an India Ideas U.S. India Business Council event, ‘the India Ideas Summit: Connecting Cities and States’ which will be held on Wednesday and Thursday this week.


• “I’ll be visiting India, an important part of President Trump’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific,” Mr. Pompeo told reporters at a State Department briefing on Monday.

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• Pakistan’s debt had risen from PKR 6,000 billion to PKR 30,000 billion. “Our nation has suffered due to this.


• Our annual tax collection is around PKR 4,000 billion. Half of it goes to loan repayments that ‘they’ [previous governments] took.”


• Indicating that Pakistan cannot run on the money that is then left over, he added that the country has the capacity to collect PKR 10,000 billion every year.

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• In a sweeping action aimed at removing corrupt officials from service, President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday forcibly ordered the retirement of 12 senior officials of the Ministry of Finance.


• “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (j) of rule 56 of the Fundamental Rules, the President of India has retired 12 Officers of the Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) in public interest with immediate effect from the afternoon of June [latex]11^{th}[/latex], 2019 on completing 50 years of age,” the Finance Ministry said on Monday.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, the External Affairs Ministry said here.


• “We are happy to confirm bilateral meetings with Russia and China. There are also similar requests from others,” said A. Gitesh Sarma, Secretary in charge of Western affairs in the Ministry.


• Uzbekistan President Sooronbay Jeenbekov is also scheduled to hold a bilateral discussion with Mr. Modi.

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• The new external affairs minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, apparently plans to run a tight ship in South Block – crisp and businesslike, and shorn of any pomp, show or ceremony of the past, according to people familiar with the matter.


• It has been only 10 days since Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised politicians and bureaucrats by appointing the career diplomat as external affairs minister, and Jaishankar is understood to have told foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale and four other secretaries to concentrate on their work at headquarters, without accompanying him on official trips abroad.

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• Secretaries to the Government of India have been tasked with creating a five-year road map for each Ministry with well-defined targets.


• In their first meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday after his re-election, Secretaries to the Government of India have been tasked with creating a five-year road map for each Ministry with well-defined targets.


• The meeting, which took place at the Prime Minister’s residence, was also attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Dr. Jitendra Singh.

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• Jana Small Finance Bank is looking to grow its loan book by 25-30 per cent this fiscal, on the back of growth in affordable housing, MSME, and gold loans.


• The bank, which commenced commercial operations in March 2018, witnessed an almost flat growth in its loan book in FY19. As on March [latex]31^{st}[/latex], 2019, its loan book stood at ₹6,500 crore.


• According to Ajay Kanwal, MD and CEO, the bank is likely to have a loan book of close to ₹8,500 crore by March 2020.

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• It’s a case of once bitten, twice shy for a large number of insurers and fund managers who no longer choose to blindly invest in AAA-rated corporate paper, but delve beyond the numbers into the management profile of the companies they invest in.


• After the default by Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) last year, insurers, who are big buyers of NBFC paper, no longer blindly trust ratings and have beefed up their internal investment analysis wings.

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• South Africa got their first point of the World Cup after their game against the West Indies was abandoned due to persistent rain here on Monday.


• South Africa were 29 for two in the eighth over when rain stopped play at the Hampshire Bowl and intermittent showers meant no play was possible for the rest of the game.


• Both teams shared a point each for the called-off game, giving South Africa their first point of the tournament after three back-to-back losses against England, Bangladesh and India.


• The West Indies, who beat Pakistan before losing to Australia, have three points from as many games.

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• Portugal beats Netherlands 1-0 in the final to win the first edition of the UEFA Nations League.
  
• Valencia winger Gonçalo Guedes scored the final's only goal in 60th minute, assisted by Manchester City playmaker Bernardo Silva.


• The Netherlands were looking to add to their own single honor, the 1988 European championship, but struggled to create chances.


• A header from Memphis Depay sent straight at Rui Patricio at the end of the game was their best opportunity to level.

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• Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg (16), has won the Amnesty International’s, “Ambassador of conscience” for fighting against the peril of global warming.


• It celebrates individuals and groups who have furthered the cause of human rights by showing exceptional courage standing up to injustice and who have used their talents to inspire others.

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• Ex-President of United States of America (USA), Jimmy Carter (94) has won the inaugural George H. W. Bush Award.


• He was awarded in recognition of his contributions to relations between the U.S. and China.


• He will receive award at a private award ceremony which is scheduled on June 12 at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

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• Delhi based Merchant service and UPI payments app, BharatPe has recently appointed Abhishek Singh as its Chief Marketing officer.


• Abhishek Singh played an important role in building World’s largest furniture retailer IKEA’s India setup in August 2018 at Hyderabad,Telangana.


• It has established operations in 13 cities, serving over 8 Lakh merchants across Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Indore, Bhopal, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Mysore, and Visakhapatnam.

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• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved the extension in service to Shri Pradeep Kumar Sinha, a 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS)officer of Uttar Pradesh, as Cabinet Secretary for a further period of three months beyond 12.06.2019 or until further orders, whichever is earlier.


• He was appointed in 2015 for two years.


• This was his third extension. He became the longest-serving bureaucrat in the post in the last seven decades.

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• Tamil screenwriter, comedian, and playwright, Crazy Mohan passed away in Chennai on Monday aged 66.


• He suffered a heart attack on Monday afternoon and was taken to Kauvery Hospital in Chennai, where efforts to revive him failed.


• The first feature film he worked on was K Balachander's 'Poikkal Kudhirai' for which he wrote the dialogues.

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