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• A UN envoy condemned Gaza`s ruling Hamas group for what he called its campaign of arrests and violence in confronting street protests over the past few days against high prices.


• Hundreds of people have taken to the streets across the enclave in "We want to live" demonstrations. Human rights officials said dozens of people have been detained or hurt.

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• A suspect in the New Zealand terror attack that killed 49 people talked about "invasion" from India, China and Turkey, calling these countries "potential nation enemies in the East".


• "The invaders must be removed from European soil. If they're not of our people, but live in our lands, they must be removed.

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• The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur will adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate programme to help students gain cloud computing skills including hands-on experience in artificial intelligence (AI).


• It will be introduced to provide AWS Cloud Computing experience and AI-enablement for all our students, irrespective of their branch of study.


• The programme offers a robust set of no-cost tools, resources and AWS Promotional Credits for students and educators to boost their cloud skills and experience.


• As part of AWS Educate, the students will gain access to 12 Cloud Career Pathways covering topics that are in demand by employers, such as machine learning, cybersecurity, and software development, each with over 30 hours of content.


• Upon completion, learners will be eligible to receive an AWS Educate Certificate of Completion or an AWS Educate Badge.

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• The Election Commission launched a mobile application that will help poll observers to submit reports timely. Over 1800 IAS, IPS and IRS officials, officials of Central services will be deployed as observers in the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2019 and State Assembly elections.


• They will get all the important notifications, alerts, and urgent messages through the “Observer App”. It will help them get their deployment status, download their ID card and update their profile.

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• Air Asia Group Chief Executive Officer Tony Fernandes has quit Facebook following the live-streaming of terror attack on two mosques in New Zealand's Christchurch.


• He tweeted that "The amount of hate that goes on in social media sometimes outweighs the good".

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• Indian scientists have developed a common framework for the assessment of climate change vulnerability in all the states in the Himalayan region. The assessment shows that the vulnerability index is the highest for Assam (0.72) and Mizoram (0.71).


• Sikkim is the least vulnerable state with the index being 0.42. Professor NH Ravindranath from IISc, Bangalore, stated that the framework can be applied to states in the rest of the country as well, with suitable modifications.

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• The State Bank of India has launched a new service called ‘YONO Cash’ for its customers using which customers can withdraw money from ATMs without using debit cards.


• This facility is available over 16,500 of its ATMs through the You Only Need One (YONO), mobile app platform for the first time in the country. The ATMs enabled for this service will be called as YONO Cash Point.


• Customers can initiate the cash withdrawal process on the YONO app and set a six-digit YONO Cash pin for the transaction. Also, they will get a six digit reference number for the transaction on their registered mobile number via SMS, which has to be used within 30 minutes at the nearest YONO cash point.


• Transactions using YONO will be secured with two-factor authentication and will also eliminate the risk of skimming and cloning, at the same time it also maximizes convenience and enhances the banking experience for its customers.

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• The Reserve Bank of India has declared some guidelines to stop misuse of price-sensitive information by the participants in markets for financial instruments.


• RBI mentioned that Market participants, either acting independently or in collusion, shall not undertake any action with the intention to manipulate the calculation of a benchmark rate or a reference rate.


• In addition, no market participant would carry out a transaction or initiate any action with the sole or dominant intention of influencing a benchmark rate or a reference rate.


• For, regulatory action on market abuse, the RBI said market participants indulging in any such activity are liable to be denied access to markets in one or more instruments for a period that may not exceed one month at a time.


• All these directions, the RBI added, would exclude transactions executed through the recognized stock exchanges. In addition, the directions would not apply to banks and the central government in furtherance of monetary policy, fiscal policy or other public policy objectives.

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• National record holder Irfan KT became the first Indian from athletics to qualify for 2020 Tokyo Olympics.


• Irfan achieved the feat after finishing fourth in the 20-km event of Asian Race Walking Championships in Japan's Nomi. The 29-year-old clocked 1 hour 20 minutes and 57 seconds to better the Olympics qualification standard of 1 hour and 21 minutes.

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• Afghanistan defeated Ireland by seven wickets at Dehradun's Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium to clinch their first Test victory.


• Afghanistan, who lost their maiden Test match against India last year, were playing their second Test


• Afghanistan's 25-year-old batsman Rahmat Shah, who scored 98 and 76 in the first and second innings respectively, was named Man of the Match.

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• Swati Shingade of Pune, has bagged the first prize of DD Mahila Kisan Award for 2018-19.


• A Surya Prakash, the Chairman Prasar Bharati, gave this award to Ms Swati Shingade at a grand finale event organized by DD Kisan Channel in New Delhi.


• The Kisan Channel has provided a platform to the women farmers and the main purpose of the channel is to make aware the people about the various schemes of the government.

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• President Ram Nath Kovind awarded the ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar‘ to the renowned Kathak dancer Seema Mehta for her contribution towards women empowerment over the last 15 years at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi as part of the Women’s Day celebrations.


• She began her journey in Kathak and set up her dance school in Mumbai in 2010.


• She is the Director of ‘Chhandam Nritya Bharati‘ in Mumbai and was actively involved in promotion of Kathak dance form.

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• antosh Jha (Indian Foreign Service:1993 cadre), presently Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India, Washington, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan.


• He will be succeeding Mr. Vinod Kumar.

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• Ms. Padmaja has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Fiji.


• At Present, Ms. Padmaja working as Deputy Director General of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).

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• Senior journalist and environmental activist Darryl D’Monte died at a hospital in Mumbai after a brief illness at the age of 74 years.


• In a career spanning several decades, he served as the resident editor of Mumbai editions of The Times of India and The Indian Express.


• Besides journalism, he had a keen interest in environmental issues and took some initiatives for the cause.

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