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• Boris Johnson will tell EU leaders there needs to be a new Brexit deal when he makes his first trip abroad as PM later this week.


• The UK will leave the EU on 31 October with or without a deal, he will insist.


• However No 10 said there will be "very little discussion" of Brexit during the meetings in France and Germany.

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• A waiter in Paris has been shot dead by a customer who was reportedly angry because his sandwich wasn't prepared quickly enough.


• Police say a murder investigation has been launched after the incident on Friday evening in the eastern Noisy-le-Grand suburb.


• The suspect fled the scene and has not been caught.

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• Police arrested 13 people as far-right groups rallying in the north-western US city of Portland, Oregon, skirmished with left-wing counter-protesters.


• A huge police operation kept the right-wing rally separated from supporters of the antifa (anti-fascist) movement.


• Small clashes that did take place occurred as the rival factions moved away after the rally.

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• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always fashioned himself as an advocate of federalism - someone who believes in giving the country's states more independence.


• But last week's revocation of special status to Jammu and Kashmir - as the Indian state was known - and the move to split it into two union territories while imposing an unprecedented lock down there is being seen by many as a major weakening of India's federal structure.

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• Taxpayers should file their GST returns for 2017-18 by August 31 and failure to do so will attract very severe consequences, including hefty penalty, Chief Commissioner of Customs and CGST Visakhapatnam Zone, Naresh Penumaka, has said


• Though only 15 days of time was left, 80% of traders have not filed it so far. It involved a consolidated filing of the monthly returns filed by them and the date had been extended several times and would not be extended further, he said at a press conference here. They should approach the nearest Central Excise officials for hand-holding and filing the returns, he suggested.

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• Rice cultivation in Punjab, which thrived in the past due to the easy availability of water resources and free supply of electricity to farmers, is under considerable strain now.


• Vikas Vasudeva examines how over exploitation has made groundwater not only scarce but also increasingly alkaline.

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• Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will conduct the examination of central armed police force (CAPF) ACs 2019 today, August 18, 2019. The exam will be conducted all over the India including Jammu and Kashmir.


• Candidates who have not been able to download their admit cards shall reach the examination centers with valid id proofs/cards to allow them to sit in the examination.

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• Maharaja Surajmal Brij University (MSBU) has declared the results of BA, BSc first and second year exam. Candidates can check their results online at msbrijuniversity.ac.in.


• Candidates (regular and private) can check their results online by logging in using their roll number.

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• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked banks to not count failed and non-cash withdrawal transactions in the quota for free Automated Teller Machines (ATM) swipes.


• Lenders were asked not to charge customers for such transactions at the ATMs of issuer banks.

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• The Indian women’s hockey team came back twice from a goal deficit to hold world number 2 side Australia 2-2 in a hard-fought round-robin league match of the Olympic Test Event here on Sunday.


• Vandana Katariya (36th) and Gurjit Kaur (59th) scored for India to cancel out strikes from Kaitlin Nobbs (14th) and Grace Stewart (43rd) in their second match of the tournament.


• India had beaten hosts Japan 2-1 in their first match on Saturday.

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• Wrestler Bajrang Punia and Para-athlete Deepa Malik have been nominated for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna on Saturday. Meanwhile India cricketer Ravindra Jadeja has been nominated for the Arjuna Award and he is one of the 19 sports persons who have been nominated for this prestigious award.

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• Atomically thin materials developed by Stanford researchers could create heat-shields for cell phones or laptops that would protect people and temperature-sensitive components and make future electronic gadgets even more compact.


• Excess heat given off by smartphones, laptops and other electronic devices can be annoying, but beyond that, it contributes to malfunctions and, in extreme cases, can even cause lithium batteries to explode.