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• A Hong Kong police officer fired a gunshot during protests, the first time a live round has been used since demonstrations broke out in June.


• Images show several other officers also pointed guns at protesters who charged at them with sticks and poles.


• In another first, police deployed water cannon against protesters earlier in the day.


• The protests began in the city's Tsuen Wan district and then spread to the district of Tsim Sha Tsui.

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• Israel has struck Iranian military sites in Syria to prevent what it said was a pending drone strike by Iran.


• Israel's military rarely acknowledges operations in Syria, but it claimed on Saturday its strikes had prevented an attack on Israel "using killer drones".


• PM Benjamin Netanyahu hailed his military's "major operational effort".


• Israel is believed to have carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since civil war broke out there in 2011, to try to prevent Iran from gaining a foothold.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a “good” meeting with his British counterpart Boris Johnson here on Sunday and they discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in areas like trade, investment, defence and education.


• Mr. Modi met Mr. Johnson on the sidelines of the G7 summit. The Prime Minister arrived in Biarritz from Manama, the capital of Bahrain after concluding the first-ever prime ministerial visit to the Gulf nation.

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• Iran's foreign minister flew into the French resort hosting a G7 summit on August 25, an unexpected twist to a meeting already troubled by differences between U.S. President Donald Trump and Western allies over a raft of issues, including Iran.


• Mohammad Javad Zarif was holding talks with his French counterpart to assess what conditions could lead to a de-escalation of tension between Tehran and Washington, a French official said.

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• The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has constituted an Advisory Board for Banking Frauds (ABBF) headed by former Vigilance Commissioner T.M. Bhasin to examine bank fraud of over ₹50 crore and recommend action.


• The panel in its previous avatar was called the Advisory Board on Bank, Commercial and Financial Frauds.

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• The Supreme Court has slammed the Centre for harassing a 90-year-old freedom fighter by filing repeated appeals in higher courts, often at the last minute, to deny him a freedom fighter’s pension.


• The government had challenged a Delhi High Court order directing the Centre to pay Dev Narayan Mishra his freedom fighter pension.

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• PM Narendra Modi and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres are in Biarritz to attend the G-7 Summit. Modi arrived in Biarritz from Bahrain after concluding his three-nation tour to France, the UAE and Bahrain.


• Modi met Guterres on the sidelines of the G-7 Summit being held in this picturesque southwestern seaside French town. The prime minister arrived in Biarritz from Manama, the capital of Bahrain after concluding the first-ever prime ministerial visit to the Gulf nation.

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• Srinagar on Sunday woke up to find its state flag missing from the top of civil secretariat, the development comes 20 days after scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status.


• The rectangular flag - red background with three white vertical stripes alongside a white plow in the middle with the handle facing the stripes - fluttered next to the Indian national flag on the secretariat for more than six decades.

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• National Testing Agency (NTA) has already released the schedule for JEE Main exam 2020 on its official website nta.ac.in.


• According to the schedule, the online application process for JEE Main exam 2020 will begin on September 2, 2019. The full information bulleting for JEE Main will be released soon on jeemain.nic.in.


• The last date to apply for JEE Main 2020 exam is September 30, 2019. Candidates will be able to download they admit cards from December 6, 2019.

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• IBPS PO Recruitment 2019: If you have not yet applied for the huge vacancies for probationary officers under IBPS 2019 recruitment, you have just two days left to do so.


• The online application process for Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is ending on August 27, 2019.


• With just a few days left for the application link to be deactivated, candidates should apply for the 4336 vacancies of probationary officers (PO)/ management trainees very soon.

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• Delay in the resolution of the bank’s bad loans can weigh on the weak capital base.


• It was a nerve-wracking week for investors of YES Bank. The stock has fallen by over 20 per cent, as irregularities and unauthorised transactions at CG Power and Industrial Solution, came to light.

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• The state-run power company NTPC has introduced the work-from-home policy. In its initial phase, only 18 ‘Officer’ Grade employees, across 10 cities, have been ordered to work-from-home.


• The initiative has been introduced ostensibly for optimizing the manpower of Commercial Department and Inspection Offices.

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• India’s golden girl of the moment P.V. Sindhu says she played the best and most consistent badminton in recent times in the World championships.


• In an exclusive chat with The Hindu after being crowned women’s singles champion in Basel (Switzerland), Sindhu said she was fully prepared for the final and was in a much better frame of mind.

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• Playing his 10th Test, Bumrah also became the fastest bowler to take 50 Test wickets.


• India inflicted a humiliating 318-run defeat on the West Indies in the first Test as Jasprit Bumrah dismantled the hosts with a five-wicket haul after Ajinkya Rahane found his first century.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi late on Saturday was conferred with "The King Hamad Order of the Renaissance" during his meeting with King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on various bilateral and regional issues. This is the first time when an Indian Prime Minister has visited the Gulf nation.


• "I humbly accept The King Hamad Order of the Renaissance. This is a recognition of India's strong friendship with Bahrain, which goes back hundreds of years and is expanding rapidly in the 21st century," Modi said in a tweet after receiving the award.

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• Algeria's culture minister has resigned, after the deaths of five young music fans in a stampede at a packed concert by a popular rapper.


• Meriem Merdaci's resignation follows public outrage over Thursday's stampede in the capital, Algiers.


• Thousands had gathered at a stadium to see Abderraouf Derradji, better known as Soolking, perform when a stampede broke out at one of the entrances.

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• Word’s 11th richest person (As on June 2019) with a net worth of $42 billion (about £34billion), an American philanthropist & co-owner of Koch Industries, David Hamilton Koch, aged 79, passed away in Southampton, United States. He struggled with prostate cancer.


• Koch Industries was known for refining crude oil, making fertilizer, producing Dixie cups and Quilted Northern toilet paper. He was born on May 3, 1940 in Wichita, Kansas, US.