• June [latex]3^{rd}[/latex] people across the globe will celebrate World Bicycle Day.


• This will be the second year when it will be celebrated after the UN General Assembly declared it last year to acknowledge the uniqueness, longevity and the importance of the bicycle which is a simple, affordable, reliable and an environmental friendly mode of transportation.

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• US President Donald Trump will arrive in the UK morning for a three-day official state visit.


• Air Force One is expected to land at London Stansted Airport at 09:00 BST.


• The Queen will host a state banquet at Buckingham Palace evening for the president and the First Lady Melania Trump.


• Protests are planned across the UK during the visit - including rallies in London, Manchester, Belfast, Birmingham and Nottingham.

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• A North Korean official who was reported to be in a labour camp attended a weekend concert alongside Kim Jong-un, state media said.


• Kim Yong-chol was widely reported to have been sent to a re-education camp as punishment.


• North Korean media showed him apparently at a musical performance with other officials.


• A list of attendees identified him as present, though in footage his face is partly obscured by his hands.

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• Singapore's air force sent two fighter jets to escort an incoming passenger plane over of a bomb threat which turned out to be a hoax, say officials.


• There were 144 passengers on board Scoot flight TR385 from Cebu in the Philippines on Sunday when police were alerted to a security threat.


• A 13-year-old unidentified male passenger was allegedly behind the hoax, according to local media outlets.

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• Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on Mexico over immigration as a top aide warned that the US president is “deadly serious” about imposing tariffs on imports from the southern neighbor.


• The attacks came despite efforts at conciliation by Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who said that “the president of Mexico wants to keep being a friend of President Donald Trump; but above all, we Mexicans are friends of the American people.”

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• The gunfight erupted when militants ambused a patrol party of the Army at Moolu Chitragam area early in the morning.


• Two militants are believed to have been killed in an exchange of fire with the security forces in south Kashmir's Shopian.


• An official said the gunfight erupted when militants ambused a patrol party of the Army at Moolu Chitragam area early in the morning.

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• The Pakistan High Commission’s Iftar event in Delhi also saw Indian guests complaining about harassment by personnel belonging to Indian agencies.


• India “strongly protested” after guests at an Iftar event organised on Saturday by its mission in Islamabad complained of harassment by Pakistani security agencies.


• “Guests faced unprecedented harassment and intimidation at the hands of security agencies.


• A concerted campaign was launched by Pakistan’s security agencies in the days preceding the Iftar function to reach out to invitees to actively dissuade them from attending the event,” said a statement issued by the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.

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• Udantashtari, Mahatma, Bullet Bharat, Vidyut, Ashwamedha, Pawan Putra, Chetak, and Vayu Putra —these are among the names suggested by social media users for India’s first bullet train.


• The suggestions were received after National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), which is executing the project, invited the public to suggest names for the train through the citizen engagement platform – mygov.in.

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• A severe heatwave continued to sweep India’s northern plains as 10 places in the region figured on the list of 15 hottest places in the world.


• Rajasthan’s Churu and Sri Ganganagar, where the mercury shot up to 48.9 and 48.6 degree Celsius, were the hottest places in the world followed by Jacobabad (48 degree Celsius) in Pakistan, according to El Dorado Weather website.


• Uttar Pradesh’s Banda (47.4 degree Celsius) and Narnual (47.2 degree Celsius) in Haryana also featured on the list.

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• With benign inflation, central bank will have to do this to push sagging growth, say experts.


• With GDP growth slowing down to a 20-quarter low in the January-March 2019 period and retail inflation well within the median 4 per cent mark, the likelihood of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cutting its policy repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) has increased substantially, say experts.


• This, they say, is necessary to support growth.

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• Bangladesh opened their 2019 World Cup campaign with a 21-run victory against South Africa at London's Kennington Oval.


• South Africa, who will next face India, have lost their first two matches at the 2019 World Cup.


• The match witnessed Bangladesh score their highest ever total in ODI cricket (330/6).

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• The World Health Organization has selected the Rajasthan government’s Medical & Health Department for its award this year in recognition of its achievements in the field of tobacco control.


• The department’s Additional Chief Secretary, Rohit Kumar Singh, will receive the award at a function to mark World No Tobacco Day in New Delhi.


• The Health Department of the State is the only government body in the country which will be awarded for its tobacco-free initiatives.

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• SpiceJet chief Ajay Singh was elected to the board of the IATA, less than 3 months after the airline joined the global grouping.


• The new board of the global airlines' grouping would be chaired by Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr, who took charge after the conclusion of the IATA annual general meeting.

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