• World Sports Journalists Day is celebrated on July [latex]2^{nd}[/latex], to mark the services of sports journalists for the promotion of sports.


• This day has been earmarked as the official day of celebration because of its significance as the date when the International Sports Press Association was established at the 1924 Paris Olympics.

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• Iran has breached the limit on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium set under a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a watchdog has confirmed.


• The International Atomic Energy Agency said its inspectors had verified the 300kg (660lb) cap had been exceeded.


• Iran stepped up production of enriched uranium, used to make reactor fuel but also potentially nuclear bombs, in May.

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• Two crew members and eight passengers died when the Beechcraft BE-350 King Air crashed into the unoccupied building Sunday morning at Addison Municipal Airport, north of Dallas.


• Federal investigators said that they have started analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a small plane that struck a hangar after taking off from a suburban Dallas airport, and local officials have released the names of six of the 10 people killed in the fiery crash.

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• A Moscow court jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for 10 days on Monday after finding him guilty of breaking the law when he took part in a street demonstration last month.


• The Kremlin critic was among more than 500 protesters detained by police while rallying in Moscow to call for the punishment of police officers involved in the alleged framing of a journalist.

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• President Donald Trump signed a $4.6 billion aid package on Monday to help the federal government cope with the surge of Central American immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.


• Many Democratic lawmakers were hoping for more. They wanted to provide stronger protections for how migrants are treated at holding facilities and to make it easier for lawmakers to make snap visits.

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• A five-star hotel in Shanghai was the first to receive a warning for violating the city’s new domestic garbage sorting regulations that came into effect Monday.


• The new policy makes it compulsory for people and businesses in Shanghai to sort their garbage into four types: dry waste, wet waste, hazardous and recyclable.


• The efforts are part of China’s national push to reduce waste and increase recycling, according to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, through which China hopes 46 cities will recycle more than 35 per cent of overall waste by 2020.

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• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla told Human Resources Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal not to take on the job of the Speaker.


• The ‘direction’ came after the Minister, while speaking in Parliament, gestured and allowed Supriya Sule of the Nationalist Congress Party, to seek clarification on his speech about the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill, 2019.

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• The Rajya Sabha will debate electoral reforms on Wednesday following notices given by 12 Opposition parties.


• This is one of the first synchronised effort by the Opposition to come up with a coordinated floor strategy after the recent debacle in the Lok Sabha election.


• The notices were given by the Congress, Trinamool Congress, RJD, SP, BSP, AAP, CPI, CPI(M), DMK, Kerala Congress(M), IUML and NCP. BJP MP R.K. Sinha too had given notice.

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• The Supreme Court agreed to consider on July 30 a batch of petitions to have a Constitution Bench examine the validity of a constitutional amendment providing 10% economic reservation in government jobs and educational institutions.


• A Bench led by Justice S.A. Bobde said the pleas would be taken up for hearing on July 30, a non-miscellaneous day on which the case could be heard at length.

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• District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma on Monday clarified that there was no dress code for visitors at Bada Imambada, nor was there any compulsion to cover one’s head.


• “People are free to come in whatever attire they want to and there is no compulsion on visitors to cover their head. Guards or any other employee at the historic structure have no right to deny entry to people for not covering their head,” states the clarification issue by Sharma.

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• One of India’s best known engineering colleges, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), is venturing into specialised medical education and plans to set up a super-speciality hospital and medical college in an attempt to further its own research in areas of bioengineering and bioscience, an intersection of engineering and medicine.


• The hospital and medical college, proposed to be set up with a total outlay of Rs 800 crore, if approved, is to come up on a 20-acre plot of land in Shivli area near the engineering college, a senior official of IIT-K said on Monday.

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• Airtel Payments Bank has partnered with Bharti AXA Life Insurance to offer Bharti AXA Life POS Saral Jeevan Bima Yojana --a pure life term plan--through its extensive network of banking points across the country.


• Bharti AXA Life POS (Point of Sale) Saral Jeevan Bima Yojana is a pure life term insurance plan aimed at the under-insured and uninsured segments in India.


• Both the partners will leverage the vast networks to reach deep rural pockets and serve the under-insured.

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• Sri Lanka defeated West Indies by 23 runs at Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street on Monday to register their third victory in the 2019 World Cup and move to sixth place on points table.


• Meanwhile, it was West Indies' sixth defeat in the tournament. Notably, both the teams are out of contention for a place in the semi-finals.

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• A Navaratna Company based on Odisha, The National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), has been selected for the President’s Award for Excellent CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programme.


• For introducing and implementing star rating schemes like ‘Nalco ki Ladli’, Corporate Affairs Department of the Central Government has selected the NALCO at the national level.

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• MTNL(Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited) Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) P.K. Purwar has accepted his additional post as CMD of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) for a period of three months from July 1, 2019.


• Department of Telecommunications has appointed him as CMD of BSNL till the regular CMD will be appointed to the post.


• He succeeds Anupam Shrivastava who has resigned on 30.06.2019. Pawar will handle both organizations and he will follow the directions of DoT to solve the worst financial situation facing by BSNL.

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• Director Babu Narayanan, a notable director in Malayalam film industry passed away at Thrissur, Kerala due to cancer. He was born in Kozhikode(also known as Calicut), Kerala.


• He had directed many successive films along with Director Anil-Babu. This duo was popular in 1990. They both made many popular movies like Maanthrikacheppu, Sthreedhanam, Kudumba Vishesham, Aramanaveedum Anjoorekkarum, Kaliyoonjal and Pattabhishekam. Their last movie which did together was Parayam in 2004.

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