• World Malaria Day is celebrated every year on [latex]25^{th}[/latex] April to raise awareness about the disease malaria, how to control it and how to eradicate it completely.


• In 2008, first Malaria Day was celebrated which was developed from Africa Malaria Day which was an event observed since 2001 by the African governments.


• In the 60th session of the Wold Health Assembly in 2007, it was proposed that Africa Malaria Day can be changed to World Malaria Day.

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• The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee accused President Donald Trump of a "unprecedented, and growing pattern of obstruction" after he ordered federal employees not to comply with congressional investigations.


• The Republican president ordered officials not to obey legal requests from the Democratic-led House of Representatives, which is carrying out multiple investigations of his administration, including his tax returns, White House security clearances and the probe of Russian interference in U.S. politics.

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• A merit-based immigration proposal being put together by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner could lead to an increase in US visas for highly skilled workers, sources familiar with the effort.


• Kushner is expected to present the comprehensive plan next week to President Donald Trump, who will decide whether to adopt it as his official position or send it back for changes.

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• Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order simplifying the procedure for obtaining a Russian passport for residents of separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, prompting calls from Kiev for more international sanctions.


• Five years of war between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed forces have killed 13,000 people despite a notional ceasefire signed in 2015.


• Russia`s move is an early test for the Ukrainian president-elect, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who won a landslide victory in presidential election and has pledged to find a peaceful solution to the conflict.

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• Sudan`s Transitional Military Council has invited the opposition to a meeting in Khartoum, with the two sides at loggerheads over how long it will take to move to civilian rule after the ouster of former autocrat ruler Omar al-Bashir.


• The council and opposition umbrella group Forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change have appeared on a collision course in recent days over the demands for civilian rule.

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• A total of 210 candidates contesting in phase four of the Lok Sabha elections face criminal charges, with 158 having serious cases and 12 of them convicted cases, according to the National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).


• Five candidates have declared cases related to murder, 24 have declared cases related to attempt to murder, four have declared cases related to kidnapping, 21 have declared cases related to crime against women and 16 candidates have declared cases related to hate speech.


• The ADR has analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 928 out of 943 candidates contesting in the Lok Sabha phase four across 71 constituencies in eight states.

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• An Air India aircraft caught fire at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport. The plane was empty at the time of repair work.


• According to a video released by news agency, the fire could be seen at the tail end of the aircraft. The Boeing 777 flight, which was scheduled for San Francisco, caught fire in the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU). The fire in the flight AI-173 started during the repair of the AC.


• Taking to Twitter, Air India announced that the flight, which was scheduled to depart has been postponed. The airline apologised for the same.

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• Supreme Court proceedings on an alleged larger conspiracy to malign the Chief Justice of India in a sexual harassment complaint witnessed heated arguments with the bench taking strong exception to a lawyer’s remarks against Attorney General K K Venugopal and threatening to evict him from the courtroom.


• As lawyer Utsav Bains objected to the AG’s submission that he was withholding information and contended that Venugopal was personally targeting him, a bench of Justices Arun Mishra, R F Nariman and Deepak Gupta warned him and said that it cannot allow any lawyer to point finger at AG.

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• Two unidentified terrorists were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district.


• Acting on inputs, a cordon and search operation was launched at Bagender Mohalla in Bijbehara area by the police and the security forces.

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• A Delhi court granted exemption from personal appearance to Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and directed him to appear before it on [latex]9^{th}[/latex] May in a defamation case filed against him by NSA Ajit Doval's son Vivek.


• Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal also granted bail to The Caravan's editor-in-chief and its reporter, who appeared before the court after they were summoned as accused in the case.


• The court granted exemption to Mr Ramesh after the Congress leader moved an application and sought exemption from appearing before it.

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• Japan's SoftBank Group will invest around $1 billion in Wirecard in a convertible bond deal that could give it a 5.6% stake in the German digital payments company.


• Wirecard shares rose as much as 15.8% following the announcement. The rally lifted the firm's market value to $18.4 billion, once again surpassing that of Germany's largest lender Deutsche Bank.

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• The rupee slumped 22 paise to 70.08 against the US dollar in early trade on rising global crude prices and fresh demand for the American currency from importers.


• However, the dollar's weakness against some currencies overseas and a higher opening of the domestic equity markets capped the rupee's losses, Fresh dollar demand from banks and importers weighed on the Indian currency.

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• The RBI has directed banks to disclose loans outstanding to Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services and the provisions required to be made against the exposure, in their notes accompanying their fourth-quarter financial results.


• The RBI wants banks to disclose the total loans outstanding as well as the percentage of loans that are non-performing as per the Income Recognition and Asset Classification (IRAC) guidelines but not yet classified as NPAs.

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• PU Chitra smartly outplayed the Bahrainis defend her women’s 1500m gold medal at the Asian Athletics Championship at the Khalifa Stadium. The result meant that India finished the competition with a tally of 17 medals, including 3 gold, 7 silver medals, and 7 bronze.


• Ajay Kumar Saroj, probably inspired by Chitra, almost tried out a similar strategy in the men’s 1500m and was rewarded with a silver.


• Indian Women’s 4x400m relay team of Sarita Ben Gayakwad, Prachi, M.R. Poovamma, and V.K. Vismaya, made the country proud by winning the silver medal with the season-best timing of 3:32.21s.


• Dutee Chand shocked 2018 Asian Games gold medallist from Bahrain – Edidiong Odiong – to win a bronze medal.


• As a result of the 4 medals, India finished its campaign at the Asian Athletics Championships with 17 medals.

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• PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and Sameer Verma won their opening matches of Asia Badminton Championships to enter the pre-quarterfinal round in Wuhan, China on [latex]24^{th}[/latex] April.


• However, Kidambi Srikanth suffered an early exit after losing 16-21, 20-22 to Indonesian shuttler Shesar Rhustavito in the first round of men's singles.


• Sindhu cruised through her World No 13 Japanese opponent Sayaka Takahashi 21-14, 21-7. In Round 16 she will face Choirunnisa of Indonesia. While Sindhu won her match in just 28 minutes, Saina's match lasted for 61 minutes as her Chinese opponent Han Yue gave her a tough fight throughout.


• The Olympic bronze medallist lost the first set quite easily but showed her resilience and came back strongly to win the remaining two games and eventually the match 12-21, 21-11, 21-17. She will be up against World No 36 Korea's Kim Ga Eun in the next round.

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• Navdeep Saini's fabulous penultimate over kept Royal Challengers Bangalore afloat as they beat Kings XI Punjab by 17 runs in an Indian Premier League encounter.


• AB de Villiers' unbeaten 82 off 44 balls took RCB to a healthy 202 for 4 and things could have gone awry with young Nicholas Pooran (46 off 28 balls) hitting five sixes at the rear before Saini sealed it in the 19th over. Kings XI Punjab finished at 185 for 7 as RCB are now on eight points with three games left.

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• Benny Antony, Joint Managing Director, the Kochi-based Arjuna Natural Ltd, has been conferred with the National Intellectual Property Award for 2019 in the category of Top Individual for Patents and Commercialization.


• He is the inventor of BCM-95, the world’s leading patented turmeric extract formulation, with over 80 international patents to his credit.


• Antony was also conferred with the ‘WIPO Medal for Inventors’ jointly by Intellectual Property Office India and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

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• Amit Jain, Uber’s Asia-Pacific region (APAC) Head, announced his resignation at the end of May 2019 after four-year service to spend time with his family.


• Uber’s head of Europe, Middle East and Africa, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty will take over the additional charge of APAC.


• In June 2015, he had joined Uber as India head and become APAC chief in May 2018.

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• Karnam Sekar, Dena Bank’s former Managing Director has been newly appointed as the new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indian Overseas Bank. He would take up the position from [latex]1^{st}[/latex] July, 2019.


• He has been working as an officer on special duty and Whole Time Director in IOB (Indian Overseas Bank) from [latex]1^{st}[/latex] April till the time of taking over charge from R Subramaniakumar who was the erstwhile CEO and MD.


• R Subramaniakumar had initiated measures to uplift IOB from loses due to high Non-Performing Assets.


• Earlier his stint in Dena Bank, Sekar was the Deputy Managing Director and Chief Credit Officer at State Bank of India (SBI).

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• The president of Wipro’s banking financial services and insurance (BFSI) business unit, Shaji Farooq has resigned from the company after 5 years due to health reasons. He will precede Angan Guha, who will take over as senior VP and global head of the BFSI unit from 1st July.


• He was inducted into Wipro’s core decision-making frame – the Group Executive Council which made up of a core workforce of Wipro leaders who power the long-term imaginative and prescient of the $8 billion IT corporate.


• He also played a key position in Wipro being an empanelled IT dealer to compete other IT companies like Infosys and Accenture.

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• Shri. Rajendra Kumar Nayak has been appointed as the 52nd Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA). Nayak, who is from the Indian Defence Accounts Service of 1983 batch, will succeed Smt. Madhulika P Sukul.


• He has experience in handling Finance, Personnel, Pay & Budget matters of the Ministry of Defence.


• Nayak has held important assignments in the Defence Accounts Department and on deputation in the Government of India during over 35 years of his career span.


• Prior to charging as the CGDA, he was working Additional Controller General of Defence Accounts in Defence Accounts Department, Ministry of Defence.

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• Researchers at the Lund University Diabetes Centre, Sweden, have discovered how lifestyle affects genes and disease development in a human body in a new study called ‘Epigenetic Mechanisms’.


• The details of the study were published in journal Cell Metabolism.


• Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in genes which can be influenced by several factors including age, environment, and particular disease state.


• Epigenetic mechanisms control the activity of different genes and play an important role in disease development. Variations in genetic material (DNA), age, exercise, and diet also have an impact on this variation.


• The categories which were considered in the latest epigenetics findings are The significance of diet, Physical activity, Aging, The significance of genes, Is the epigenome heritable?, How can epigenetics contribute to novel treatments.

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• Luxembourg’s Grand Duke Jean passed away at the age of 98 due to pulmonary infection.


• He was born on 5th January 1921 at Berg Castle, Luxembourg.


• In 1942 he received military training at Sandhurst in Britain and in 1944 he served as a guard at Buckingham Palace before joining Allied forces in Normandy.


• In 1963, he became the sixth Grand Duke of Luxembourg, held the position nearly 36 years and abdicated in 2000 in favour of his son Henri.

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