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• EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said it was the EU's biggest deal to date and, at a time of trade tensions between the US and China, showed that "we stand for rules-based trade".


• Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said it was "historic" and "one of the most important trade deals of all time".


• Mercosur consists of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay.

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• Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday justified his decision to hang drug offence convicts, terming it necessary to “protect the country and future generations”, despite domestic and international pressure to withdraw the decision.


• In a recent briefing with local media heads and foreign media representatives, President Sirisena announced that he had signed papers clearing the execution of four persons convicted for drug offenses.

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• Group of 20 leaders have joined their host Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in showcasing support for helping women close the gap with men in finance and other forms of economic empowerment.


• Ivanka Trump, the adviser to President Donald Trump, said Saturday that the world economy would get a boost of up to USD 28 trillion by 2025 if women were on an equal economic footing.

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• The highlight of Mr. Trump’s visit to Osaka was a meeting on Saturday with Mr. Xi that has raised hopes the world’s two largest economies might resume talks over their festering dispute over technology and China’s chronic trade surplus.


• A summit of the Group of 20 on Saturday was largely eclipsed by President Donald Trump’s talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and by Trump’s announcement via Twitter that he wants to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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• The government has reduced the interest rates on small savings schemes such as the Senior Citizen Savings Scheme, Public Provident Fund, Kisan Vikas Patra and the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, according to a notification issued on Friday.


• The rate for the five-year Senior Citizen Savings Scheme has been reduced to 8.6% from 8.7%. The five-year National Savings Certificate rate has also similarly been reduced to 7.9% from 8%. Deposits in the Public Provident Fund will now fetch an interest of 7.9% compounded annually, down from the 8% earlier.

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• The Kargil conflict of 1999 was Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s “finest hour”, former Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar said on Friday, as India commemorates 20 years of the conflict.


• “He turned a strategic tactical loss into a massive victory…. He gave full credit to the Armed Forces.

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• G20 Summit Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the presidents of Indonesia and Brazil separately on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Osaka, Japan Saturday, and discussed ways to boost bilateral ties and enhance cooperation in trade and investment.


• During his meeting with Indonesian president Joko Widodo, the prime minister discussed ways to deepen bilateral cooperation in trade and investment, defence and maritime fronts.

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• The ministry of railways has dropped plans to provide Wi-Fi facility on running trains, the Centre said on Friday.


• In a reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, railways minister Piyush Goyal said as a pilot project, the railways provided a Wi-Fi-based internet facility in Howrah-Rajdhani train through satellite communication technology.

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• Syndicate Bank is focusing on improving its information technology infrastructure in areas such as Big Data and Analytics.


• Replying to a query by a shareholder on the CapEx investment of the bank for the next two to three years at the annual general meeting (AGM) of the bank at Manipal of Udupi district, Karnataka, on Friday, Mrutyunjay Mahapatra, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, said the bank has taken initiatives around Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning and natural language processing for data-driven decision-making in the areas of loans, sales, marketing and targeted campaign management.

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• South Africa opener Hashim Amla and captain Faf du Plessis shared an unbeaten 175-run stand to help their team defeat Sri Lanka by nine wickets in the 2019 World Cup on Friday.


• South Africa are now eighth on the points table with five points from eight matches, while Sri Lanka are seventh with six points from seven matches.

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• To mark ‘India Day’ in the Houses of Parliament in London, United Kingdom (UK), Sajid Javid, Home Secretary of UK, released the ‘100 most Influential in UK-India Relations: Celebrating Women’ list.


• Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister of India, Nirmala Sitharaman, was one among the 100 most influential women driving the UK-India relationship forward.

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• Narinder Batra, President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and Fédération Internationale de Hockey (FIH) was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the IOC Session.


• He received 58 votes out of 62. With the election of 10 new members, the total number of IOC members rose to 105.

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• India successfully test-fired indigenously developed nuclear-capable missile Prithvi-II, a surface-to-surface missile, from a test range off the Odisha coast.


• Prithvi is the first missile developed by the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).

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• Noted freedom fighter, Mohammed Baji (Md Bazi) passed away Sunari Sahi in Nabarangpur district of Odisha. He was 103.


• He had taken part in Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha movement in 1940 and was active in the Sarvodaya movement after freedom.

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