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• Uganda's capital Kampala has passed a law to ban giving money or food to children living on the streets.


• Kampala's Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, said the law aimed to curb the commercial and sexual exploitation of children.


• According to government estimates, as many as 15,000 children live on the streets in Kampala, aged from seven up to the age of 17.

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• Fifty children have been rescued and nine people arrested after an Interpol investigation into an international paedophile ring.


• The arrests were made in Thailand, Australia and the US and more are expected, Interpol said.


• The investigation began in 2017 and focused on a hidden "dark web" site with 63,000 users worldwide.

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• EU citizens living in the UK have told of their anger after they were unable to vote in the European elections.


• The Electoral Commission said the "very short notice" from the government about the UK's participation in the elections had an impact on the process.


• EU citizens can vote in the country they live in by registering to vote and completing a UC1 form.

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• A majority in Brazil's Supreme Court has voted in favour of making homophobia and transphobia crimes.


• Six out of 11 judges voted to consider discrimination against gays and transgender people equivalent to racism.


• The decision will give the community, which suffers constant attacks, real protection, activists say.


• At least 141 LGBT people have been killed in Brazil this year, according to rights group Grupo Gay da Bahia.

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• In the first such move to bring in uniform standards of patient care to battle cancer, the National Health Authority (NHA) and National Cancer Grid (NCG) have signed an MoU under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).


• “The main objective of this collaboration includes developing uniform standards of patient care for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer; providing specialised training and education in oncology, and facilitating collaborative basic, translational and clinical research in cancer,” said a senior NHA official

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• Former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar approached the Supreme Court fearing his imminent arrest by the CBI in connection with the Saradha scam probe.


• On May [latex]17^{th}[/latex], the court had given him seven days’ protection, till May [latex]24^{th}[/latex], to approach a competent court in West Bengal for legal relief, like anticipatory bail against arrest.

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• Narendra Modi has scored a resounding victory in the Indian general election, securing a second five-year term.


• Elections were held on 542 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats and a party or alliance needs 272 seats to form government.


• The NDA had won 352 Seats. It was the first time in more than three decades that a single party won majority on its own.

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• With his clean sweep of both the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has gained a special status in national politics.


• YSRCP’s stunning performance has not only given Jagan the coveted CM’s post, but the party also did exceedingly well in the Lok Sabha polls. Jagan will take oath as CM in Tirupati on May [latex]30^{th}[/latex].

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• Global financial services firm UBS Securities, in a report, has stated that while many investors are concerned about the ongoing financial tightness led by the NBFC sector and its impact on discretionary consumption that could further slow down the overall economic growth, it is not a “systemic risk”.


• UBS’s NBFC analyst highlighted that delayed monetary transmission and subdued mutual fund flows could result in a further slowing of the NBFC sector, but large players with strong parents and track records are better positioned, compared to the smaller players in the segment.

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• The Reserve Bank of India, said it will allow large modern currency chests to increase the service charges on cash deposited by non-chest bank branches from the existing rate of ₹5 per packet of 100 pieces to a higher rate subject to a maximum of ₹8 per packet.


• For this, only a currency chest (CC) that fulfils the minimum standards will be eligible to be classified as a large modern CC, the RBI said in a circular to all banks.

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• World champion Mary Kom overcame some stiff resistance to beat promising Nikhat Zareen in a split decision to enter the women’s 51kg category final, while the men pugilists dominated the ring by making it an all-Indian gold-medal clash in seven categories in the India Open in Guwahati.


• In the most-anticipated bout of the day, 22-year-old former world junior champion Nikhat of Telangana was at her aggressive best against her ‘idol’ Mary Kom who was happy to play the waiting game before taking the upper hand in the third round to win 4-1.

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• Bhawana Kanth, was one among the first batch of women ghter pilots of the IAF, who joined in July 2016. She flew the first solo on MiG-21 Bison in March 2018.


• She became the first female ghter pilot after successfully completing day operational syllabus on MiG-21 Bison aircraft.

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• N. Chandrababu Naidu, who has a few records, including being the longest serving Chief Minister in Andhra Pradesh, finds himself at the crossroads as his Telugu Desam Party (TDP) faced a rout in the Assembly as well as Lok Sabha polls, dashing his hopes of emerging kingmaker at the national level.


• The first Assembly elections of the residual Andhra Pradesh five years after the bifurcation was held on April [latex]11^{th}[/latex].

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• A Falcon-9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida late, packed with 60 satellites capable of giving users on the ground high-speed connections to the internet.


• Entrepreneur Elon Musk's firm aims eventually to loft nearly 12,000 spacecraft for its "Starlink" network.


• SpaceX is one of several commercial outfits with permission to fly an internet mega-constellation.

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• Seventh King of Malaysia Sultan Ahmad Shah Sultan Abu Bakar passed away at the age of 88 in National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


• He was born in 1930 in Istana Manggal Tunggal, Pekan, Pahang, Federated Malay States, British Malaya.


• He was a football player and held Presidency of the Malaysian Football Association (FAM) from 1984 until 2014, Presidency of Asian Football Confederation (AFC) from 1994 until 2002 and Asean Football Federation (AFF) 2011.

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