• International Picnic Day is a made-up holiday that is celebrated annually on June [latex]18^{th}[/latex]. So, pack your picnic basket, hop into the car, or walk to a park or a picnic area and enjoy an outdoors meal by yourself or with your family and friends to celebrate this unofficial holiday.

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• Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea on Thursday for a two-day visit, state media report.


• Mr Xi will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to discuss the problems facing the Korean peninsula.


• The two-day visit will be the first by any Chinese leader to North Korea in 14 years and Mr. Xi's first since taking power in 2012.


• It comes a week before the G-20 summit in Japan, at which Mr. Xi is expected to meet US President Donald Trump.

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• Argentina is investigating what caused a massive power cut that hit nearly 50 million people.


• President Mauricio Macri called the outage "unprecedented", promising a thorough inquiry.


• Almost all of Argentina, neighboring Uruguay and some areas of Paraguay woke up to darkness.


• The disruption hit public transport while hospitals were forced to run on generators. Power had largely been restored by the end of the day.

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• Women are forced to choose between "being an MP and being a mum" because of Parliament's rules, a pregnant Labour MP has said.


• Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy said that Ipsa - the body which regulates MPs' pay - told her it does not recognize when members go on maternity leave.


• Consequently, no paid cover is available for work done outside the House of Commons.

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• Venezuela’s U.S.-backed opposition on June [latex]17^{th}[/latex] came under increasing scrutiny for a case in which two activists allegedly misappropriated funds designated to help Venezuelan security forces who deserted and crossed into Colombia.


• Opposition leader Juan Guaidó said his diplomatic representative in Colombia will provide Colombian investigators with information about an opposition probe of the case.


• Mr. Guaidó, who is trying to topple Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, says anyone found guilty of wrongdoing must be punished.

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• Ram temple in Ayodhya, the proposed citizenship amendment bill, the scrapping of Article 35A and Article 370 pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir and cow protection are among the issues that are likely to come up at the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s meeting in Hardwar on Wednesday and Thursday.


• The meeting of the Kendriya Margdarshak Mandal (KMM) of the VHP, an offshoot off the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — the ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party — is held annually in Haridwar and is attended by Hindu saints.

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• Gujarat Congress leader Pareshbhai Dhanani has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Election Commission’s decision to hold separate bypolls to two Rajya Sabha seats which fell vacant following the election of BJP president Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani to the Lok Sabha.


• Mr. Dhanani, Opposition leader in the Gujarat Assembly, contended that the conduct of election for each vacancy separately would lead to the victory of the party which commanded simple majority in the legislature.

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• Lok Sabha will elect its Speaker on Day 2 of Budget Session today.Leader of the House and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Home Minister Amit Shah were among those who took oath as Members of the 17th Lok Sabha that commenced here Monday.

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• India is projected to surpass China as the world's most populous country in the next eight years.


• As per a United Nations report, released on Monday, India is expected to add nearly 273 million people between 2019 and 2050 and remain the most populated country through the end of the current century.


• "India is expected to add nearly 273 million people between 2019 and 2050, while the population of Nigeria is projected to grow by 200 million.


• Together, these two countries could account for 23 percent of the global population increase to 2050," the report has said.

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• Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das expects a reversal of the current weaknesses in some of the indicators in the economy following the end of political uncertainty associated with the election season and continuation of economic reforms.


• “While the global economy is still to recover to the pre-crisis growth path, India has continued to exhibit robust growth, driven by consumption and investment demand in the last three years.

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• The loan was given by UCO Bank as part of consortium including State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and United Bank of India.


• The bank has a filed suit to recover the amount from the defaulter, according to the information made public by the bank on its website.

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• All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan hit his ninth ODI hundred to lead Bangladesh to a 7-wicket win over West Indies in a thrilling game in Taunton and keep his team's campaign alive in the World Cup 2019.


• Bangladesh rode on Shakib Al Hasan's unbeaten 124 off 83 balls to pull off their joint-highest successful run chase in ODIs as they reached the target of 322 in 41.3 overs.

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• Twenty-nine journalists from print and electronic media were honoured with 44th Matri Shree Media Awards for the year 2019 for their contribution towards journalism. The award ceremony was held in New Delhi.


• Namita(PTI (Press Trust of India ) Bhasha), Durga Pasad Mishra( PTI photo journalist), Agraj Pratap Singh (UNI), Jitender Kumar (Univarta), Poonam Gaur (Navbharat Times), Ravi Bhushan Dwivedi (Sandhya Times) and Kunal Kashyap (Punjab Kesari), Sandeep Ashwario Chief Cartoonist (Times of India) were among those honoured with the awards.

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• Inger Andersen, Denmark’s Economist and Environmentalist, took over as United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Executive Director, headquartered at Nairobi, Kenya, for 4 years.


• She was nominated for the post by United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres and approved by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in February 2019. She succeeded Joyce Msuya of Tanzania.

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• Egypt's former President Mohammed Morsi, ousted by the military in 2013 after one year in office, has collapsed in a courtroom and died, officials say.


• A top figure in the now-banned Islamist movement Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi had just spoken from a cage at a hearing on charges of espionage. State TV said the cause of death was a heart attack.


• Morsi, who was 67, had been in custody since his removal after mass protests.


• The Muslim Brotherhood said the death was a "full-fledged murder".

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