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• US President Donald Trump has cancelled a state visit to Denmark after the nation's prime minister said Greenland was not for sale to the US.


• The president was scheduled to visit on 2 September, at the invitation of Denmark's Queen Margrethe II.


• Then last week Mr. Trump suggested the US was interested in buying Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.

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• Pakistan has said it will take the Kashmir dispute to the International Court of Justice.


• The move comes after India revoked the special autonomous status of the part of Kashmir that it administers.


• Pakistan reacted to that decision by cutting trade and transport links and expelling India's ambassador.

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• Boris Johnson is set to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin later, where he is expected to reiterate his call for the backstop plan to be scrapped.


• The PM has said the arrangement to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland is "anti-democratic" and must be removed to secure a Brexit deal.


• But the EU has rejected the possibility of any changes to the backstop.

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• A Mexican judge has granted two people the right to recreational cocaine use, in the first ruling of its kind, the organisation behind the cases said.


• The court said it would allow the claimants to "possess, transport and use cocaine" but not sell it, according to Mexico United Against Crime (MUCD).


• MUCD, which seeks to end the country's "war on drugs", called the ruling a "historic step".

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• Senior advocate C.S. Vaidyanathan for Ram Lalla, Ayodhya’s infant deity, told the Supreme Court that a stone slab, which fell out of the western wall of the disputed Babri Masjid structure, had Sanskrit inscriptions dating back to the 12th century about a Lord Vishnu temple.


• Appearing before a Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Mr. Vaidyanathan said the slab and the inscriptions give credence to the version that the Babri mosque was built on the disputed land where a massive structure supported by several pillars once stood.


• He said it is believed by devotees that Lord Vishnu took human form as Rama.

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• Union Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment Ramdas Athawale said on Tuesday that reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes will continue and there will be no debate on that.


• “I want to assure the Dalits of this country that there is no question of debate or rethinking on the issue of reservation.

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• The Lok Sabha Secretariat said it has banned the use of non-reusable plastic water bottles and other plastic items within the Parliament complex with effect from Tuesday.


• All officers and staff of the Lok Sabha secretariat and other allied agencies working in the Parliament House Complex will have to stop using plastic and switch over to environment-friendly biodegradable bags and other material, the Lok Sabha secretariat said in a statement issued.

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• Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s statement that his government will consider legislative measures to address anomalies in the final list of National Register of Citizens (NRC) has led to mixed reactions in the state.


• Talking to the media in New Delhi after a meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah on the NRC process, Sonowal had said the legislative measures could be taken to address wrongful inclusions of foreigners or exclusion of genuine Indian citizens from the list, which will be published on August 31.

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• The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has declared the results of Combined Graduate Level Tier 1 (CGL Tier 1) 2018 examination August 20, 2019.


• Candidates can check their results online on the official website of SSC at ssc.nic.in by logging in using their login credentials. SSC has also released the cutoff score for each exam.

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• Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has not yet released the official notification for the recruitment of junior Hindi translator, Senior Hindi Translator and Hindi Pradhyapak Examination 2019 today on its official website at ssc.nic.in. It was earlier scheduled to be released on August 20.


• SSC in an official notice informed that the SSC JHT notification 2019 could not be released due to administrative reasons. It will be released on August 27, 2019.

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• RRB will release the admit card for its computer based test 2nd stage for junior engineer recruitment very soon.


• RRB has already released the city intimation, travel Pass and mock test link for JE CBT 2 on its regional websites.

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• Reserve Bank deputy governor MK Jain slammed banks for poor compliance with regulations, and pointed out that high value frauds and fines are a result of their lackadaisical attitude on this.


• Jain said in some cases, the lack of compliance has been “recurring”, wherein banks have also ignored RBI’s instructions to commit the same mistakes time and again.

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• The menu of options for eligible candidates eyeing the post of CEO at top-notch public sector banks just got bigger.


• The Banks Board Bureau (BBB) has added two more public sector banks — Bank of Baroda and Canara Bank — to the list of banks for which it has invited applications for the posts of Managing Director and CEO.

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• India’s H.S. Prannoy stunned London Olympics gold medallist and multiple-time world champion Lin Dan in a hard-fought match to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the World badminton championships here.


• The unseeded Indian beat the highly-decorated Chinese, seeded 11th, 21-11, 13-21, 21-7 in a second-round match that lasted an hour and two minutes.

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• The Indian team management will be fretting on possible team combinations for the first Test against the West Indies with a difficult choice between senior pros Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane if it opts for a fifth specialist bowler.


• Unless India goes with a safety-first four bowler strategy which allows both Test and ODI vice-captain to figure in the scheme of things, one among the two would be cooling heels and it could be Rahane going by his wretched form in red-ball cricket.

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• Navneeth Murali, an Indian-American teenager from New Jersey, America, has won the 2019 South Asian Spelling Bee contest and earned grand cash prize of USD 3,000.


• He ousted other competitors in the finals by spelling the word flipe, which means “to strip off by or as if by peeling”.

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• India’s largest public broadcasting agency, Prasar Bharti’s Chairman A Suryapakash stated that the agency will introduce 2 awards namely ‘Neelum Sharma Tejaswini award’ & ‘Achyutananda Sahoo Award’ in memory of Doordarshan(DD) News (Former anchor), Neelum Sharma who passed away due to cancer on August 17, 2019.


• Sharma, a strong advocate for women empowerment started her career in Doordarshan in 1995 and was associated with the channel for over 20 years.

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• Mr Conte said Mr Salvini had been "irresponsible" in creating a new political crisis for Italy for "personal and party interests".


• Mr. Salvini, the leader of the nationalist League party, had tabled a no-confidence motion against Mr. Conte.


• He also said he could no longer work with his coalition partners Five Star.


• The League and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement formed a coalition to govern just 14 months ago with Mr. Conte as an independent as prime minister.

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• The Board of Vodafone India, has appointed Ravinder Takkar, who is currently Vodafone Group’s representative in India, as the new MD(Managing Director) and CEO (Chief Executive Officer) with immediate effect. Takkar replaces CEO Balesh Sharma, who has stepped down citing personal reasons.


• This move comes immediately after Sharma was announced as the chairman of the Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) at industry association’s Annual General Body meeting held in june 2019

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• Scientists working on an audacious mission to the ocean world of Europa can proceed with the final design and construction of the spacecraft, Nasa says.


• The Europa Clipper mission will target the ice-encrusted moon of Jupiter, which is considered a prime target in the search for life beyond Earth.


• Below its icy shell, Europa is thought to hold a 170km-deep body of water.

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• Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Babulal Gaur (89) passed away on Wednesday morning. He died at a private hospital here. He had been admitted for the past two weeks due to a respiratory problem.


• State BJP media in-charge Lokendra Parashar announced Gaur’s death in the morning.


• Born in Naugler village in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh on June 2, 1930, Gaur was the only politician in Madhya Pradesh and perhaps the only one in the country, according to some BJP leaders, who won state assembly elections from the same seat 10 times in a row.