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• The US is currently undergoing a review of its assistance to Pakistan which is expected to be finalised soon.


• The relations between Pakistan and the US nose dived after US President Donald Trump last year accused Islamabad of giving nothing to Washington but "lies and deceit" and providing "safe haven" to terrorists.

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• China said that trade talks with the U.S. are "moving forward" after nine rounds of consultations aimed at ending a standoff that has shaken the world economic outlook.


• The latest discussions had achieved "new substantial progress," Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a daily news briefing.


• Lu said "We also feel that the consultation is moving forward. We hope that the two sides can continue to work together to properly address each other's concerns on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit".

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• President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan with an iron fist for 30 years, was over thrown in a coup by the armed forces which announced a two-year period of military rule to be followed by elections.


• Defence Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf said Mr. Bashir, 75, was under arrest in a ”safe place” and a military council was now running the country.

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• India is concerned about the “threats” it faces in space, the Pentagon has said, defending the country for acquiring anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test capabilities.


• India achieved a historic feat by shooting down its own low-orbit satellite with a ground-to-space missile, making the country a space power.


• The test made India the fourth country in the world after the US, Russia and China to have the ASAT capabilities.

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• India and Sweden inked a pact that will deal a range of challenges around smart cities and clean technologies among others. The programme co- sponsored by Indian Department of Science and Technologies (DST) and Swedish agency Vinnova.


• Vinnova donate to Swedish participants upto 2,500,000 Swedish Krona (around Rs. 1.87 crore).From Indian side, provide upto 50% per project to the Indian partners.


• Triple helix model of innovation that include participation of industry, academia and government is implemented in this project.

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• Former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram demanded the resignation of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad after the Supreme Court rejected the government plea on ‘stolen documents.’


• “The order of the Supreme Court in the Rafale Review Petition case is a huge rebuff to the central government which raised the specious plea of ‘stolen documents’. “We demand the resignation of the Defence and Law Ministers who authorised the plea of stolen documents.”

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• India’s population grew at an average annual rate of 1.2 per cent between 2010 and 2019 to 1.36 billion, more than double the annual growth rate of China, according to a report by the United Nations Population Fund. India’s population in 2019 stood at 1.36 billion, growing from 942.2 million in 1994 and 541.5 million in 1969.


• India’s population grew at average annual rate of 1.2 per cent between 2010 and 2019, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency said in the State of World Population 2019 report.


• In comparison, China’s population stood at 1.42 billion in 2019, growing from 1.23 billion in 1994 and 803.6 million in 1969.

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• The veterans objected to politicians "taking credit" for military operations, political posters with pictures of soldiers, especially of Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman.


• The veterans also expressed concern over Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath referring to the armed forces as "Modiji ki Sena".

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• Violence broke out during elections in Andhra Pradesh as clashes between TDP and rival YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) left two persons dead and scores wounded.


• The acrimonious electoral battle between chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and YSRCP leader Jaganmohan Reddy, as the state held simultaneous assembly and Lok Sabha polls, was marred by allegations of rigging, kidnapping of a candidate, damages to electronic voting machines (EVMs) and violations of the model code of conduct.

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• RBL Bank has partnered with CreditVidya to enhance the lender’s customer experience (by offering them relevant credit products) and construct customised offerings for over 15 lakh customers.


• RBL bank had first partnered with CreditVidya in 2018 for instant and automated verification of employment details of salaried card applicants.


• RBL Bank will leverage CreditVidya’s big data underwriting platform across its credit card and mobile banking apps.


• CreditVidya helps lenders, wallets assess risk of customers, leverages alternative data, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for credit scoring for the facilitation of institutional credit for the underserved.

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• SBI Card, the credit card arm of State Bank of India (SBI), is changing its business model as the distinctions between a card company, banks and fintechs blur.


• The card company, which is also backed by private equity fund Carlyle, is diversifying its funding from banks beyond SBI to tap the local bond market as it seeks diversification after the exit of GE Capital more than a year ago.

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• Andre Russell’s extra-terrestrial effort with the bat may have propelled Kolkata Knight Riders to three out of its four wins in the Indian Premier League so far, but the two-time champion side will be keen to use its untapped resources in its forthcoming matches.


• The burly West Indian has grown in stature because of his explosive batting. Russell has emerged as the highest run-getter for his team and has hit the maximum sixes (25), most runs in an over (27) and is the only one to have a 200-plus strike rate (212.39).

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• The Indian trio of P V Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth continued their impressive run and progressed to the singles quarterfinals of the $355,000Singapore Open in Singapore.


• The fourth-seeded Sindhu, a Rio Games silver medallist, took 39 minutes to get the better of world number 22 Mia Blichfeldt 21-13 21-19, her second straight win over the Danish shuttler, who had clinched the Spain Masters earlier this year.

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• The Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana may enter in the Guinness World Records for the maximum number of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) of M3 version used in the polling booth.


• Total of 12 EVMs in each polling station was linked to one control unit in each of the 1,778 polling centers.


• It became the first constituency in the country to witness polling with EVMs for a large number of candidates (185 candidates).


• This new version of EVMs was developed by the Electronics Corp of India Ltd (ECIL) and Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL).


• The Nizamabad constituency has a little over 15.53 lakh voters including 3.73 lakh farmers.


• This new M3 version EVMs, came after 2013, with a maximum capacity of 384 candidates including NOTA have additional features like Tamper Detection and Self Diagnostics.

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• Digital Sukoon founder, Sudhanshu Kumar was honoured with the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Nobel Award by International Human Rights Council at Hotel Sea Princess Juhu Mumbai.


• Among the awardee, Digital Sukoon was the Best Digital Agency of the Year 2019 to receive the award.

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• In a bureaucratic reshuffle, the Centre has appointed Gargi Kaul, a 1984-batch officer of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS), as Secretary, Defence Finance. Kaul was earlier Financial Advisor, Defence Services in the Defence Ministry.


• In the MEA, Jerath was replaced by 1990-batch IAS officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre Raj Kumar Goyal, who was appointed as Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor.

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• Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise confirmed Jean-Michel Lapin as the country’s new prime minister, just weeks after the Chamber of Deputies censured his predecessor’s six-month-old government.


• Lapin is the third head of government under president Moise, who has led the Caribbean island nation since February 2017.

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• Google has launched a new open platform named ‘Anthos’ to run and manage apps from anywhere. It lets users run applications on the public cloud or on existing on-premise hardware investments.


• It helps the users to manage workloads running on third-party clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.


• Google also announced “Anthos Migrate” in beta, which auto-migrates virtual machines from on-premises, or other clouds directly into Kunernetes Engine with minimal effect.


• VMware,Dell EMC,HPE,Intel and Lenovo have committed to deliver Anthos.

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• Veteran communist leader and former parliamentarian Drupad Borgohain passed away at the age of 78 at a private hospital in Dibrugarh, Assam after fighting a prolonged battle with cancer.


• He was born on 7th November 1941 in Sivasagar, Assam.


• He was a Rajya Sabha member between 1998 and 2004 and served as a legislator from Nazira constituency from 2006-2011 in the Assam assembly.


• Also, He served as the secretary of the Assam state council of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and elected as the president of Assam state council of All India Kisan Sabha.

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