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• Chinese President Xi Jinping has met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a time of warming ties between the two nations.


• Relations have historically been strained, but concerns over US trade policy and North Korea's nuclear program have shifted them closer.


• The two leaders met on the sidelines of the forthcoming G20 summit in Japan.


• "I want to open up a new age of Japan-China relations hand in hand with President Xi," Mr. Abe told reporters.

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• Democratic White House front-runners Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are offering starkly diverging visions for America in a TV debate.


• Mr. Biden, a moderate, and Mr. Sanders, an ultraliberal, are battling for the soul of the party as it ponders how best to take on President Donald Trump.


• Eight other candidates are vying on the stage in Miami, Florida, to impress voters ahead of next year's election.

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• Speaking at the informal BRICS leaders’ meeting in Osaka, Mr. Modi said that there is a need to stop all the mediums of support to terrorism and racism.


• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that terrorism is the biggest threat to humanity which not only kills innocents but also severely affects the economic development and social stability.

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• A day after the first wave of 10 Democrats debated, the second 10 faced each other and the nation for the first time in a prime-time confrontation that gave many voters their first peek inside the Democratic Party’s unruly 2020 presidential campaign.


• Fiery liberal Bernie Sanders slapped back at his party’s centrist candidates on Thursday night in a raucous presidential debate that underscored deep ideological divisions that are starting to shape the party’s winding search for a nominee to take on President Donald Trump.

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• The Bharatiya Janata Party has got an additional 2 acres of land for its national office on Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg in New Delhi.


• Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry notified the land-use change for the plot in question this week.


• In the ‘Masterplan for Delhi-2021’, the plot had been earmarked for residential use. Now, the land-use has been changed to “public and semi-public facilities,” the note said.

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• Congress high command has not made any efforts to approach DMK leadership to take the proposal forward.


• The chance of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s election to the Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu is more or less ruled out as the Congress high command has not made any efforts to approach the DMK leadership to take the proposal forward.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, on the global economy, fugitive economic offenders and disaster management, and announced that President Ram Nath Kovind would participate in the coronation ceremony of Emperor Naruhito in October.


• It was the first meeting between the two leaders since the start of Japan’s Reiwa era and Mr. Modi’s re-election.

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• The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2019 will be taken up for consideration and passing in Lok Sabha today.


• The bill is aimed at providing relief to persons in Jammu and Kashmir residing in areas adjoining the international border.

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• The rate of unemployment among Christian men in rural as well as urban areas is higher than those from other religions across the country, the Centre informed Parliament on Thursday.


• Minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi presented the data in the Lok Sabha in reply to a question posed by Trinamool Congress member Prasun Banerjee. Banerjee asked the government whether, after the Sachar Committee, it has any updated data on the unemployment rate prevailing minority communities.

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• India’s financial system remains stable against the backdrop of improving resilience of the banking sector, even though the emerging trends in global economic as also geopolitical environment pose challenges, the Reserve Bank of India said on Thursday.


• Releasing the 19th issue of the Financial Stability Report (FSR), the central bank also said that with the bulk of the legacy non-performing assets (NPAs) already recognized in the books of the banks, the NPA cycle seems to have turned around.

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• Axis Bank is considering raising at least $1.3 billion through a share sale to institutional investors, according to the sources, as the private lender seeks to bolster capital ratios and expand lending capacity.


• India’s third-largest private sector lender is talking to potential advisers about the fundraising, according to the people.

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• India registered their biggest ever victory (by runs) against West Indies in World Cup history by defeating them by 125 runs in 2019 World Cup on Thursday.


• India's previous biggest victory against West Indies in World Cup (80 runs) had come in the 2011 edition. West Indies had last defeated India in a World Cup match in the 1992 edition.

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• Virat Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara's record to become the fastest to score 20,000 international runs, a target he reached when he scored 37 runs in the World Cup 2019 match against the West Indies on Thursday.


• The Indian skipper took only 417 innings to achieve the record -- 131 in Tests, 224 in ODIs and 62 in T20Is.


• Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara's previous best came off 453 innings each. Virat Kohli has now registered 11,124 runs in ODIs, and has 6,613 Test runs and 2,263 in T20Is.

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• West Indies batsman Chris Gayle says he has reversed his one-day international retirement - and may even play a Test for the first time in five years.


• The opener, 39, said in February he would retire from one-day international cricket after the World Cup.


• He has scored 10,345 ODI runs - second only to Brian Lara for West Indies - and 25 centuries.

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• Somerset and former England opener Marcus Trescothick has announced that he will retire from professional cricket at the end of the current English domestic season.


• The 43-year-old had made his first-class debut in 1993 for Somerset against Lancashire. He has scored over 26,234 runs in first-class cricket and 12,229 runs in List A cricket so far.

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• Apple has announced that chief design officer Jony Ive will depart the company this year to form an independent design company which will count Apple among its primary clients.


• "Jony is a singular figure in design world and his role in Apple's revival cannot be overstated," CEO Tim Cook said. The announcement wiped around $9 billion from Apple's market cap.

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• Harvard has unveiled a new bee-like robot RoboBee X-Wing, which is only one-quarter the weight of a paper clip and is the first version to not require an electricity cable.


• It uses solar cells, however, researchers revealed it requires light three times the Sun's intensity to generate enough power. The team is creating a 25% larger version of it.

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• Meenakshi Lekhi, a women politician (MP of Bharatiya Janata Party and spokesperson) has written her debut novel titled ‘The New Delhi Conspiracy’.


• The novel talks about undercurrents of Delhi’s political landscape and attempts to lay bare what is influencing the course of the nation’s political trajectory.

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• Jharna Dhara Chowdhury, Eminent social activist and secretary of the Gandhi Ashram Trust in Jayag, Noakhali, Bangladesh passed away due to old age complications. She was 81.


• She was honored with Padma Shri in 2013, Jamnalal Bajaj award in 1998 and Ekushey Award, the highest civilian honor in Bangladesh in 2015.

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