• The United Nations General Assembly in Resolution 55/76 decided that, from 2000, [latex]20^{th}[/latex] June would be celebrated as World Refugee Day.


• In this resolution, the General Assembly noted that 2001 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.

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• State media reported the military hit a drone, which they named as a RQ-4 Global Hawk, near Kuhmobarak in Iran's southern Hormozgan province.


• The US military has not confirmed or denied the reports.


• It comes days after the Pentagon said it was deploying 1,000 extra troops to the region in response to "hostile behavior" by Iranian forces.

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• New Zealand has launched a gun buy-back scheme in the wake of the deadly Christchurch mosque shootings.


• More than $208m New Zealand dollars (£108m, $136m), have been set aside to compensate owners of semi-automatic weapons that were banned following the attacks.


• The ban was agreed by parliament in April, weeks after the shootings.

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• The country accepted just over 28,000 refugees last year, with the United States coming in second with 22,900.


• Some 92,400 refugees were resettled globally in 2018, fewer than 7% of those awaiting resettlement worldwide.


• These figures were contained in a newly released UN Refugee Agency report looking into the global refugee trends last year.


• According to the US-based Pew Research Center, which looked at the UNHCR data, 2018 was the first time the US did not lead the world in refugee resettlement since 1980.

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• The World Meteorological Organization announced that two recent temperature readings have been accepted among the hottest recorded on Earth.


• One of the scorching marks came from the Middle East, the other from South Asia.


• It hit 129 degrees (53.9 Celsius, plus or minus 0.1 degrees uncertainty) in Mitribah, Kuwait, on July [latex]21^{st}[/latex], 2016, and 128.7 degrees (53.7 Celsius, plus or minus 0.4 degrees uncertainty) in Turbat, Pakistan, on May [latex]28^{th}[/latex], 2017.

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• The study of history and other disciplines under Humanities are set to get a new impetus following the largest-ever single donation of £150 million by an American private equity billionaire to the University of Oxford, it was announced.


• Humanities disciplines have been under pressure in recent years in an increasingly bottom-line, consumer-oriented education climate in the United Kingdom.


• Several universities have closed or scaled down departments of subjects such as philosophy and history.

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• President Ram Nath Kovind will address the joint sitting of both the houses of Parliament at the Central Hall today.


• The first session of the 17th Lok Sabha is underway with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other lawmakers taking oath as MPs.


• National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Om Birla was on Wednesday unanimously elected speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha and pledged impartial oversight of the Lower House over the next five years after an acrimonious general election.

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• Services on the Red Line from Shaheed Sthal towards Dilshad Garden were delayed for a few minutes, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said.


• “Delay in service from Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda) towards Dilshad Garden (Red Line). Normal service on all other lines,” Delhi Metro tweeted.

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• The United States has told India it is considering caps on H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, widening the two countries’ row over tariffs and trade.


• The plan to restrict the popular H-1B visa program, under which skilled foreign workers are brought to the United States each year, comes days ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to New Delhi.

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• In a bid to build a consensus on holding simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi convened the meeting of presidents of all political parties for which 40 were invited.


• 21 parties attended the meeting while three shared their views on the subject in writing.

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• The Indian government has signed agreements with Bangladesh and South Korea, under which Doordarshan India will be available in those countries.


• This was announced by Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar here.


• The move is part of a robust cultural exchange, in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Act East policy, he said.

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• Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) on Wednesday announced that it would be acquiring 51.2 per cent stake in Apollo Munich Health Insurance and would be later merging it with its general insurance arm HDFC Ergo.


• The two-stage transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals, is priced at about ₹1,347 crore. HDFC will pay about ₹73.2 per share to Apollo Hospitals for the acquisition.

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• YES Bank’s new Managing Director and CEO Ravneet Gill believes that many of the issues at the troubled private sector lender will be addressed by next quarter and that it would also finalise its capital-raising plans by then.

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• New Zealand defeated South Africa by 4 wickets in the last over to continue their unbeaten run in 2019 World Cup.


• With four victories in five matches, New Zealand are now on top of the points table, while South Africa are eighth with four defeats.


• The match witnessed New Zealand captain Kane Williamson smash his 12th ODI hundred.

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• Second Edition of the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) list of India’s top 10 states which have maximum number of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified green buildings, Maharashtra bagged the top slot with 334 LEED-certified green buildings.


• It was followed by Karnataka and Tamil Nadu with 232 and 157 buildings respectively.

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• Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan appointed as chief justice of Telangana High Court and the orders have been passed in related to it by the Union ministry of law and justice joint secretary Rajinder Kumar Kashyap.


• Currently, Chauhan is functioning as Acting Chief Justice. Governor ESL Narasimhan will administer the oath to Justice Raghavendra Singh in a day or two.

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• Luis Enrique has stood down as coach of the Spanish national team due to a serious family problem, leaving his assistant Robert Moreno in charge until Euro 2020.


• The former Barcelona manager had been absent during the last international break but had continued working from a distance and in a meeting held at his home in May, the Spanish Football Federation had decided to wait for him.

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• Veteran athletics coach N. Lingappa passed away at the age of 95 in Bengaluru, Karnataka.He is a resident of Bengaluru.


• He represented Mysore in National Games for seven years consecutively and qualified as a walker in the 1954 Manila Asian Games but the event was cancelled.


• He had trained several international athletes like D.Y. Biradar, P.C. Ponnappa (400m silver medallist at the Bangkok Asian Games in 1970), Uday Prabhu and Ashwini Nachappa.

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