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• It's a historic appointment which also makes him the first indigenous Australian to sit in cabinet.


• Prime Minister Scott Morrison made the announcements as part of his revamped ministry, following a surprise election victory on [latex]18^{th}[/latex] May.


• Many indigenous Australians are celebrating the elevation of Mr Wyatt, a 66-year-old conservative MP.

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• Maithripala Sirisena urges the international community to continue to provide economic assistance and lift the travel advisories issued to tourists.


• Sri Lanka is “99%” secure, President Maithripala Sirisena told select Colombo-based diplomats, and urged countries to lift the travel ban imposed following the Easter attacks.

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• Trump's comments followed his inspection of Japan's largest warship, the Kaga, a helicopter carrier designed to carry submarine-hunting helicopters to distant waters.


• U.S. President Donald Trump expects that Japan's military will reinforce U.S. forces throughout Asia and elsewhere, he said, as the key U.S. ally upgrades the ability of its forces to operate further from its shores.

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• The 500-year-old Jesus College in the University of Cambridge has elected its first woman and first black as its Master, reflecting change in the ancient university that recently launched a study into its historical links with slavery.


• Barbados-born Sonita Alleyne, an alumna of the university, will take up the role from October 1 as the 42nd Master of the college, which was founded in 1496. A businesswoman and entrepreneur, Alleyne has held various roles, including on the BBC Trust.

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• In yet another achievement by women officers, an all-woman crew flew a medium-lift helicopter for the first time in India, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said.


• The crew, comprising Flight Lieutenant Parul Bhardwaj (Captain), Flying Officer Aman Nidhi (co-pilot) and Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal (flight engineer), flew a Mi-17 V5 helicopter for a Battle Inoculation Training Mission, taking off and landing from restricted areas at a forward air base in the South Western Air Command.

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• The National Democratic Alliance government plans ro revamp the country’s macro-economic statistical system, including barometers used to calculate growth and industrial output as well as create a new database of businesses.


• The series of updates is expected to account for changes in the economy over time and boost data, an official said, adding some of it was overdue.


• But, the exercise will invite public scrutiny, some analysts said, given that past revisions to gross domestic product (GDP) figures have been mired in disputes.

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• Officials from Pakistan and India held a meeting to discuss the modalities for a corridor linking Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur across the border.


• The meeting lasted for about two hours and a host of issues pertaining to the building of the corridor were discussed, an official said.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony will be attended by leaders from the BIMSTEC member states. The president of Kyrgyztan and the Mauritius prime minister have been invited as well.


• The BIMSTEC, or the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, member states are: Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan and India.

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• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to cut the policy repo rate by 35-50 basis points (bps) in the forthcoming monetary policy review, according to the bank’s ‘Ecowrap’ report.


• The economic research department of the State Bank of India (SBI) expects gross domestic product (GDP) growth for Q4 (January-March) FY19 at 6.1 per cent.


• Gross value added (GVA) growth could be at six per cent, or slip marginally below 6 per cent at 5.9 per cent. FY19 GDP growth will be at 6.9 per cent.

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• Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), announced that it has launched ‘Bank on Wheels’ facility in 14 of its lead districts in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, besides Vijayawada.


• The bank said the mobile van facility will enable the public, especially senior citizens, conveniently get door-step banking facility available at identified locations of the lead districts.

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• India's Rahi Sarnobat won the gold in 25m pistol event at the ISSF World Cup in Munich.


• The 28-year-old in the process also sealed a quota place for India in the event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.


• Rahi's score of 37 helped her pip Ukraine's Olena Kostevych, who was champion at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Bulgaria's Anatoanea Boneva won the bronze.

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• FIFA's appeals committee upheld a lifetime ban issued to the former head of the Brazilian football federation (CBF), Marco Polo Del Nero, for bribery and corruption.


• Del Nero, 78, was suspended from all football-related activities and fined one million Swiss francs ($1 million) in April last year by FIFA's disciplinary committee.

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• The 17-year-old shattered his own senior record of 245 points, set in Delhi earlier this year, to win the 10m air pistol gold with a score of 246.3.


• Saurabh Chaudhary continued his sensational streak in finals as he shattered the junior and senior world record winning his second International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup.

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• The architectural heritage of Orchha town in Madhya Pradesh which depict peculiar style of the Bundela dynasty have been included in UNESCO’s tentative list of world heritage sites following a proposal sent by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to the U.N. body.


• The ASI had sent a proposal to the UNESCO on April [latex]15^{th}[/latex], 2019 to include the sites in its list, an ASI official told.

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• Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) president Prem Singh Tamang, popularly known as P S Golay, took oath as the chief minister of Sikkim.


• He was administered the oath by Governor Ganga Prasad at Paljor Stadium.


• Mr Golay is not a member of the state assembly at present as he did not contest the polls.


• Hundreds of SKM supporters who were at the stadium cheered the 51-year-old party chief when he was taking the oath in Nepali language.

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• The 78-year-old incumbent had faced strong competition in the [latex]21^{st}[/latex] May election, including from his deputy.


• The result was announced after an injunction ordered by the country's high court was lifted.


• Challenger Lazarus Chakwera, who finished in second place, had sought to delay the results because of concerns over voting irregularities.

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• Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who brought order to the universe by helping discover and classify subatomic particles, has died at the age of 89.


• Gell-Mann died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His death was confirmed by the Santa Fe Institute, where he held the title of distinguished fellow, and the California Institute of Technology, where he taught for decades. The cause was not disclosed.

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