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• Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has warned anti-government protesters not to push the city into an "abyss", in an emotional press conference.


• Ms. Lam warned that Hong Kong had "reached [a] dangerous situation" and that violence would push it "down a path of no return".


• She was met with hostility as she dodged questions by reporters, who repeatedly shouted and cut her off.

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• Ebola may soon be a "preventable and treatable" disease after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival rates, scientists have said.


• Four drugs were trialed on patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is a major outbreak of the virus.


• Two of those were considerably more effective in treating the disease, the study found.

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• Bill Cosby, 82, is serving a three- to 10-year prison term for drugging and molesting a woman at his home in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.


• The three-judge panel asked why Cosby’s top-shelf lawyers didn’t follow the norm and get an immunity agreement in writing, and approved by a judge when accuser Andrea Constand first came forward in 2005.

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• Main mosques in Srinagar remain out of bounds; stone-pelting in some areas.


• The Kashmir Valley remained under a lockdown on the occasion of Id on Monday as severe restrictions on the movement of people and traffic continued.


• Shaswati Das, a journalist with a business newspaper who returned from Srinagar, said all main mosques remained out of bounds and heavy stone-pelting was reported in some areas.

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• An IndiGo flight with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on board had to be aborted at the last minute due to a ‘serious error’, reports new agency ANI.


• IndiGo flight 6E 636 from Nagpur to Delhi returned to taxiway from runway, after the aircraft detected serious error and the pilot decided to abort the take-off.

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• As Sonia Gandhi takes charge as the interim president of the Congress, the revival of the party organisation in four poll-bound states is likely to be her top priority, a senior leader said.


• While Delhi is scheduled to elect a new assembly next year, there is speculation that the national capital will go to the polls along with Maharashtra, Haryana, and Jharkhand later this year.

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• The Bihar government will soon go in for massive recruitment in the seriously understaffed police, which will include 24,000 constables, 4,500 sub-inspectors and 2,000 drivers.


• Announcing this while talking to media persons, DGP Gupteshwar Pandey said the officials did a good job, right from the constable to the SP-level, would also be honored. “We have identified 400 such officials for felicitation to recognize their good work and send a positive message across the force,”

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• Haryana School Shiksha Pariyojna Parishad (HSSPP) has released the admit card for Assistant Block Resource Coordinators (ABRC) and Block Resource Persons (BRP) exam on its official website.


• The recruitment exam for ABRC will be conducted on August 17, 2019, and for BRP it will be conducted on August 18.

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• Reliance Industries (RIL), the oil-to-telecom conglomerate, made a slew of announcements at its 42nd annual general meeting (AGM).


• Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of the group first announced that Saudi Aramco will acquire a 20 per cent stake the group's oil to chemicals (O2C) business at an enterprise value of $75 billion.


• Further, the company announced that it aims to become debt-free company in the next 18 months and plans to list Reliance Jio and its retail business in the next five years.

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• The government could explore the public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement for public sector banks, by inducting a private sector bank as a strategic partner in the former in a transparent manner.


• In an annexure to a document prepared by the Finance Ministry, Uday Kotak, MD and CEO, Kotak Mahindra Bank, suggested that the strategic partner could hold a 26 per cent stake in the PSB and the government could cap its holding at below 40 per cent, with the aggregate holding of the two entities being below 65 per cent.

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• Indian junior shuttlers won 6 medals- 3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze at the Bulgarian Junior International Championships 2019 held at Sport Hall “Vasil Levski”,Pazardzhik, Bulgaria from August 8-11, 2019. It was organised by the Badminton World Federation (BWF).


• In the women’s single’s category, India’s Samiya Imad Faruqui won gold by defeating Anastasiia Shapovalova of Russia by 9-21, 21-12, 22-20 points.

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• Ahead of the Independence day celebrations(15 August,2019), thousands of people including those belonging to 35 social organizations across the state, and students from various schools unfurled a 15-km long national flag by forming a human chain from Amapara Chowk to Pt Ravishankar Shukla University in Raipur ,Chhattisgarh.


• As per the public relations department of Chattisgarh state government, the event, organized by Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam Foundation, entered the Champions Book of World Records for the longest tricolor.

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• Former director of the National Institute of Immunology (NII), Delhi, MsChandrimaShaha is all set to become the first woman president of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) from January 1, 2020.


• she was the vice-captain of West Bengal’s first women’s cricket team and also the first woman cricket commentator for All India Radio (AIR)

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• The book ‘Listening,Learning and Leading’ marking Shri Venkaiah Naidu’s two years of service as vice president was launched by Union Home minister Amit Shah at kalaivanarArrangam, Chennai.


• Achievements during vice president’s tenure in these two years were discussed. Amit Shah especially noted about Venkaiah Naidu’s 19countries visit in these two years of which some countries like Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Malta have been the first ones to have ever been visited by an Indian vice president.