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• The government has delivered its new Brexit proposals to the EU, including plans to replace the Irish backstop.


• The plan, outlined in a seven-page document, would see Northern Ireland stay in the European single market for goods, but leave the customs union - resulting in new customs checks.


• The Northern Ireland Assembly would get to approve the arrangements first and vote every four years on keeping them.

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• Prince William and Kate Middleton, who are getting ready to kick off their royal tour to Pakistan, recently revealed that they are looking forward to trying out different dishes in the country.


• The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge celebrated Pakistani culture during their recent visit to the Aga Khan Centre in London where they met key figures in the community, including musicians, chefs, and artists, reported People.

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• Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed environmental activist Greta Thunberg as a kind but poorly informed teenager manipulated into making unrealistic demands in her United Nations speech last month.


• "Go and explain to developing countries why they should continue living in poverty and not be like Sweden," Putin told an energy conference, adding it was deplorable that Thunberg was being used by some groups - which he did not name - to achieve their own goals.

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• Spontaneous rallies have broken out in Hong Kong as anger mounts over police shooting a teenage protester and later defending it as "lawful and reasonable".


• A large crowd of demonstrators, including office workers in shirts and suits, gathered in a park and marched through the city's commercial district in an unsanctioned rally, chanting anti-police and anti-government slogans.

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• North Korea has said that its test-firing of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile in the waters off its east coast was successful.


• The test-firing was North Korea’s first of a submarine-launched missile in three years, which occurred ahead of a restart of nuclear negotiations between North Korea and the United States this weekend.


• The report did not elaborate on whether the missile was fired from a submarine, a barge or other underwater launch platforms.

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• Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit India on a four-day official visit during which she would hold talks with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and the two sides are likely to sign nearly a dozen agreements.


• This would be Ms. Hasina's first visit to New Delhi since parliamentary elections were held in Bangladesh and India.


• Ms. Hasina and PM Modi will hold bilateral talks on October 5. She will also be the chief guest at the India Economic Summit which is being organized by the World Economic Forum on October 3 and 4.

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• Senior Indian lawyer Harish Salve endorsed Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's decision to revoke the special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 as a means of correcting a "mistake".


• He described Pakistan's reaction to the move as a sign of "complete bankruptcy" because Kashmir is an integral part of India where they were "squatting".

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• The National Basketball Association brought to India the first-ever Floating Basketball Court in the Arabian Sea near Bandra Worli Sealink.


• There were some sports enthusiasts enjoying the floating court and were accompanied by NBA legend Jason Williams.


• Giving tips to youngsters, Mr. Williams said they just got to work hard as kids from all over the world are getting better at the game.

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• Union Home Minister Amit Shah flagged off the Vande Bharat Express at the New Delhi Railway Station.


• The new engine-less and semi-high speed train, which will run from New Delhi to Shri Vaishno Devi Katra (SVDK), will reduce the travel time to 8 hours from the present 12 hours.

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• India’s Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has built an alternative road through which its troops can enter the Doklam valley — the site of a 73-day military standoff between India and China in 2017 — where the Chumbi valley of China, Bhutan and India converge, a development that has the potential to alter the military dynamics in the region.


• In 2017, the Indian Army was forced to move to the trijunction through a single road in the absence of an alternative, delaying the deployment of troops in Doklam. The alternative road will enable access to the area through two points, easing the logistic difficulties, reducing time and making the process of deployment smoother.

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• Professional Examination Board, Madhya Pradesh, has released the MP TET answer key for the High School Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) held for English paper.


• The MP TET answer keys have been released on the official portal of Professional Examination Board, peb.mp.gov.in.


• The keys have been released now for the re-exam held on September 29, 2019 in the morning shift. The Madhya Pradesh MP TET result for other papers was declared in the last week of August.

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• In a clarification regarding certain announcement is being circulated on social media platforms that the CA exams will be held in December instead of November 2019, the ICAI, the Chartered Accountant (CA) exam regulator, said there is no postponement of exams scheduled in November 2019.


• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) release also said the exams slated for November 2019 will commence from November 1, 2019 as per schedule announced earlier.

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• Newly appointed Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) K S Dhatwalia on Wednesday called on Union minister Jitendra Singh and discussed with him the possibility of introducing additional courses, as well as those in different languages, in the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Jammu.


• During the meeting, Mr Singh conveyed to Mr Dhatwalia, who also holds the additional charge of the Director-General of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), the Modi government's resolve to give fresh impetus and push to the growth and development of the new Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, which will come into existence after October 31.

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• The recent drop in private sector lender YES Bank’s stock price does not reflect the bank’s performance and it remains on solid financial footing, said Chief Executive (CEO) Ravneet Gill.


• “The operating metrics of the bank, the performance of the bank is absolutely sound,” Gill said.

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• Punjab National Bank (PNB) has convened an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of its shareholders on November 4 to consider approval of the amalgamation of Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) and United Bank of India (UBI) with itself.


• This EGM, which was to be held on October 22, had recently been deferred. It has now been decided to hold the EGM on November 4 at the bank’s head office, sources said.

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• Luis Suarez scored two classy goals to inspire Barcelona to a 2-1 comeback win over Inter Milan in the Champions League and inflict a first defeat on Antonio Conte since he took charge of the Italians.

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• Opener Mayank Agarwal notched-up his maiden Test century in his first innings at home during the Test series opener against South Africa, 3 October.


• The 28-year-old batsman got to the three-figure mark off 204 balls, which included 13 boundaries and two sixes at Visakhapatnam.

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• Pune-based singer Manjushree Oak will perform non-stop for 13 hours in 122 Indian languages, in an attempt to set a Guinness Record.


• The announcement about the show, 'Amrutvaani', was made by veteran music composer Pt Hridaynath Mangeshkar, who is also Manjushree's guru.


• Manjushree already holds records in the India Book of Records and the Asia Book of Records.

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• As per the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), Government of India (GoI), P K Gupta has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of NBCC(National Buildings Construction Corporation) Limited till September 30, 2023. He succeeds Shri Shiv Das Meena.


• Prior to this appointment, Gupta serving as Executive Director of engineering services company RITES(Rail India Technical and Economic Service) Limited.

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• The government has appointed economist Surjit S Bhalla as the Executive Director(ED) for India on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).


• Surjit succeeds former Reserve Bank of India(RBI) deputy governor Subir Gokarn, who passed away recently in July 2019 due to illness.

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• Following a conflict of interest complaint , India’s 1983 World Cup-winning captain , Kapil Dev has resigned as the chairman of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) days after Shanta Rangaswamy stepped down from the 3-member committee.


• CAC also stars Anshuman Gaekwad in addition to Kapil and Shanta. The trio were named in the CAC after Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and V.V.S. Laxman refused to be part of the process for selecting India’s women’s coach in 2018.

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• American-Austrian film producer Eric Pleskow, the Hollywood tycoon, passed away at the age of 95 in United States(US) due to old age ailments. He was the president of the film company United Artists from 1973 to 1978 and then as co-founder of Orion Pictures where many films under these film companies won Oscar awards.


• Born in April 24, 1924 in Vienna, the capital of Austria, Eric’s famous films include ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, ‘Rocky’, ‘Amadeus’, ‘Platoon’, ‘Dances with Wolves’ and ‘The Silence of the Lambs’.