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• Former Chancellor Philip Hammond has accused the PM of trying to wreck the chance of a new Brexit deal, by making demands the EU could never accept.
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• In a Times article, Mr. Hammond said a no-deal Brexit would be "a betrayal" of the 2016 referendum result.


• He said Parliament would "make its voice heard", adding that a no-deal "must not happen".

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• The drugs improved survival rates from the disease more than two other treatments being tested.


• Scientists are a step closer to being able to cure the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two experimental drugs showed survival rates of as much as 90% in a clinical trial in Congo.

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• The President is especially critical about the terms granted to China when it joined the organization, given US complaints about Chinese theft of American technology.


• President Donald Trump threatened to pull the United States out of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) if conditions are not improved.


• “We will leave if we have to,” Mr. Trump told a cheering audience of workers at a Shell chemical plant in Pennsylvania.

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• Hong Kong's airport resumed operations, rescheduling hundreds of flights that had been disrupted over the past two days as protesters clashed with riot police in a deepening crisis in the Chinese-controlled city.


• Ten weeks of increasingly violent clashes between police and pro-democracy protesters, angered by a perceived erosion of freedoms, have plunged the Asian financial hub into its worst crisis since it reverted from British to Chinese rule in 1997.

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• The earliest possible date for Assembly polls in the new Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is around March next year, officials in the Home Ministry indicated, as the Election Commission (EC) held its first meeting for the delimitation exercise, necessitated under the new Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act.


• The EC held “internal discussions” on the matter and “formal communication was awaited from the Ministry of Home Affairs”, an EC official said.

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• Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi recommended a comprehensive legislation to make the Central Bureau of Investigation functional as an efficient and impartial investigative agency.


• Delivering the 18th D.P. Kohli Memorial Lecture, Chief Justice Gogoi listed legal ambiguity, weak human resource, lack of adequate investment, accountability, and political and administrative interference as key concerns.

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• As the Election Commission held internal discussions on the delimitation of constituencies ahead of elections to the new Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, former Chief Election Commissioner and ex-officio member of the Delimitation Commission N. Gopalaswami said the increase in the number of seats was “an issue which is a political decision of Parliament”.


• After that, he said, the Delimitation Commission would start the process as per the law.

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• The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has issued a notification for junior engineers (civil, mechanical, electrical and quantity surveying and contract) recruitment examination 2019. The SSC recruitment notification is now available on the official website of SSC.


• The application process for the examination has begun and will continue until September 12, 2019. Candidates should opt only for posts for which they have the qualification and are within the prescribed age limits.

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• Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC) is accepting online application for recruitment of 3206 posts of computer engineer, engineers, librarian and skill development and industrial training department.


• The online application process has begun from August 5 and will close on August 20. The last date to pay the application fee is August 24.

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• Aditya Birla Health Insurance (ABHI), a stand-alone health insurer, has entered into a bancassurance partnership with Axis Bank, the country’s third largest private sector bank.


• Through this partnership, ABHI will offer health insurance solutions to the Axis bank’s customers across its 4,094 branches and digital channels.

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• At the end of the four rounds, Aishwarya finished with 65 points, ahead of Portugal's Rita Vieira (61 points), Sara Alvarez (56 pts), Rosa Romero (50 pts) and Margot Farre (13 pts).


• ‘Biking’ is a man’s sport, 23-year-old Aishwarya Pissay is not only defying odds but has vroomed her way into history as she became the first Indian to clinch a world title in motorsports.

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• The President of Fiji Major.General(Retd) Jioji Konrote has appointed Justice Madan Lokur from India as the new Supreme Court (SC) judge of Fiji.


• The swearing-in ceremony was conducted and the oath was administered by the president of Fiji in presence of Chief Justice Kamal Kumar and others.

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• Penguin Random House India has announced a book on the life of the actor, Sridevi titled “Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar” on her 56th birth anniversary. The book is written by author-screenwriter Satyarth Nayak.


• The book recalled the life and times(in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada cinema) of the legendary actor Sridevi will be published under the Ebury Press imprint of Penguin Random House in October 2019.

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• Additional Solicitor General (ASG) and senior advocate Amarendra Sharan passed away at the age of 69 due to a heart attack in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand.


• Sharan served as ASG in the supreme court during UPA-I (United Progressive Alliance) regime from 2004-2009. He also served as special counsel for CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) in coal block allocation scam case.