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• The Kurds in Syria say the Syrian government has agreed to send its army to the northern border to try to halt Turkey's offensive against them.


• Syrian state media earlier reported that government forces had been deployed to the north.


• It follows the US decision to pull all its remaining troops from the area over the "untenable" situation there.

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• More than 110,000 people are taking part in search and rescue operations after Typhoon Hagibis struck Japan.


• The typhoon - the worst storm to hit the country in decades - has left at least 31 dead, with 15 missings.


• Typhoon Hagibis also caused the cancellation of three Rugby World Cup matches but the key match between Japan and Scotland went ahead.

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• Singapore's central bank eased monetary policy for the first time in three years, as widely expected, with the city-state's bellwether economy narrowly dodging recession.


• Singapore - which is due to hold an election within months - has like other trade-reliant Asian economies been hit hard by the escalating U.S.-China trade war and a broader global slowdown.

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• Britain and the European Union said a lot more work would be needed to secure an agreement on Britain's departure form the bloc.


• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his cabinet a last-minute deal was still possible as the two sides pressed on with intensive talks to try to avoid a disorderly Brexit on Oct. 31, the date set for Britain's departure.


• "The Prime Minister said there was a way forward for a deal that could secure all our interests ... but that there is still a significant amount of work to get there and we must remain prepared to leave (without a deal) on October 31," a spokeswoman from Johnson's office said.

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• French President Emmanuel Macron will hold an emergency defense cabinet meeting to discuss options regarding the Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria, the French presidency said in a statement.


• France is one of Washington's main partners in the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS (Islamic State) and has called for an urgent meeting of the countries in the coalition.

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• The American military was unable to carry out a plan to transfer about five dozen "high value" ISIS (Islamic State) detainees out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons, The New York Times (NYT) reported.


• Citing two American officials, the US-based newspaper reported that the detainees could not be taken out before the Pentagon decided to move its forces out of northern Syria.

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• Ahead of the state elections in Haryana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address an election rally in Ballabhgarh.


• This will be the first of the four rallies the Prime Minister is scheduled to address this week in the state.


• He will be in Thanesar, Kurukshetra, and Dadri on October 15 while the last rally before the state elections will be held in the Jat-dominated Hissar on October 18.

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• Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said that giving votes to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) "will mean a nuclear bomb has been automatically dropped on Pakistan".


• Mr. Maurya who was campaigning for BJP candidate Narendra Mehta in Mira Bhayander constituency in Thane said, "If people press the lotus symbol, it will mean a nuclear bomb has been automatically dropped on Pakistan.

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• Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu termed terrorism as one of the major challenges confronting the world today and said nations which aid and abet terror should be isolated.


• "Terrorism is one of the major challenges confronting the world today. All the nations must intensify their collective efforts and strive to eliminate the menace of terrorism and also isolate nations which aid and abet terrorism.


• India has borne the brunt of cross border terrorism over decades," the Vice President said in a press statement during his visit to Sierra Leone.

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• The King of The Netherlands Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima arrived in India on Sunday for a five-day state visit.


• The Royal couple was given a traditional welcome at the airport in New Delhi where several officials lined up to receive them.


• This is Willem-Alexander's first state visit to India following his ascension to the throne in 2013.

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• Passengers on board the Varanasi-Delhi Vande Bharat Express were stranded inside the train for around an hour without fan, air conditioning and lights when its auxiliary converter failed, officials said.


• The train's AC stopped working 10 minutes before reaching Allahabad station at 4:50 pm. The defect was rectified, cooling ensured and it left at around 6.00 pm, they said.


• During this time, the train was stranded at Allahabad.

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• The hearing in the politically sensitive Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute at Ayodhya will enter into the crucial final leg when the Supreme Court resumes proceedings on the 38th day after the week-long Dussehra break.


• A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, which started the day-to-day proceedings on August 6 after mediation proceedings failed to find an amicable solution to the vexatious dispute, has revised the deadline for wrapping up the proceedings and has fixed it on October 17.

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• JEE Main 2020 form correction facility will be open from October 14 to 20, 2019. The appliction form correction procedure can be done through the official website hosted by National Testing Agency or NTA, at jeemain.nta.nic.in.


• The registered candidates may visit the official website and verify their details entered for the first edition of JEE Main exam scheduled to be held in January next year.


• To make corrections, candidates will have to pay an additional fee online. The JEE Main application form' data correction facility is a onetime facility.

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• The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has directed engineering colleges and other technical institutes in the country to draft a "conflict of interest" policy for start-ups established by faculty members to ensure their regular duties do not suffer.


• The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry's technical education regulator had recently come up with a policy for students' start-ups in technical institutes.


• However, there is no policy defining the dos and don'ts for the faculty members involved in start-ups on campuses.

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• The online and offline re-registration for January, 2020 session of Indira Gandhi National Open University or IGNOU would be commencing from October 14, 2019 for all programmes.


• The varsity also said in a statement that the last date of submission of re-registration forms for January, 2020 session shall be 30th November, 2019.


• The last date for submission of Assignments for December 2019 term-end examination has been extended from the present date, (i.e. September 30, 2019) to October 31, 2019.

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• Amidst calls for increasing the deposit insurance cover after the crisis at Punjab and Maharasthra Bank, official data reveals that the cap was hiked more than two decades ago and this is in fact, the most extended break in the revision of the cover.

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• With three state-run lenders Punjab National Bank (PNB), United Bank of India (UBI) and Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) heading for an amalgamation, an outside expert may be engaged to decide the logo of the merged entity, an official said.


• The proposed merger, expected to be effective from April 1 next year, will lead to the creation of the country’s second-largest lender after State Bank of India, with a total business volume of about ₹18 lakh crore.

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• World Bank in its report, “South Asia Economic Focus, Fall 2019 : Making (De)centralization Work”, has lowered India’s growth forecast to 6 % for 2019 (down from 7.5 %) for the second consecutive year ,after a wide decline in the initial quarters.


• In 2018, India’s GDP (Gross domestic product) growth stood at 6.8 %, down from 7.2 % in 2017.

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• Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen won the first BWF World Tour Super 100 title of his career by winning the Dutch Open.


• The 18-year-old is set to register a jump into the top-50 in the men's singles world rankings when the rankings are updated next. The 18-year-old defeated Yusuke Onodera of Japan in the final that lasted 63 minutes.

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• American teenager Coco Gauff won her first WTA title by beating Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 to capture the Upper Austria Ladies.


• With this, the 15-year-old became the youngest American woman to win a tour singles title since 1991. Gauff is set to become world number 71 as a result of this win.

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• A post-graduate student from Mangaluru, Apeksha Kottary, has entered the India Book of Records for making the longest gift item, an explosion box, designed on the theme ''Incredible India''.


• Ms. Kottary is a home tutor and currently, she is pursuing her master's from Besant Evening College in Mangaluru. She has made over 35 varieties of unique gift items so far.

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• Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their work in fighting global poverty, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.


• French-American Duflo becomes only the second female economics winner in the prize's 50-year history, as well as the youngest at 46. She shared the award equally with Indian-born American Banerjee.

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• ‘Spirit of Kerala’, a short film based on a boat race from Kerala directed by Arun Joseph, won the People’s Choice Award 2019 at My Rode Reel Film Competition 2019 which is the world’s largest short film competition. The winners shared in a prize money worth over $1,000,000.

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• A distinguished academician, diplomat, author and foreign policy expert, Phunchok Stobdan’s new book “The Great Game in the Buddhist Himalayas: India and China’s Quest for Strategic Dominance”, published by Penguin Random House India,describes the several unknown insights into the India-China, India-Tibet and China-Tibet relationships.


• The author describes the dalai Lama factor which caused the Buddhist Himalayas to be in a state of flux, especially in the current India-China relationship.