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• Lessons in all Sudanese schools have been suspended indefinitely amid mass demonstrations over the shooting dead of schoolchildren at a rally.


• The ruling military authorities ordered schools nationwide to close their doors from Wednesday, the state news agency said.


• Protesting students gathered in cities including the capital Khartoum following the killings on Monday.

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• North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, according to South Korea's military, the second such launch in a week.


• The two missiles were launched from the Wonsan area early on Wednesday.


• Last week's launch was the first such provocation since US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in June.


• The North called that launch a "solemn warning" to Seoul over its planned military exercises with Washington.

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• Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls have clashed in a televised US debate that laid bare the party's deep divisions over how best to win in 2020.


• Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, the most liberal candidates in the crowded field, were under attack from their more moderate colleagues.


• The three women and seven men on stage in Michigan debated healthcare, border policy and how to defeat Donald Trump.

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• China is planning to spend $150 billion on 5G wireless technology in the next six years — a move to jump-start automated manufacturing and enable Beijing to emerge as a world leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI).


• China’s heavy investment in 5G has huge implications as it could sharpen Beijing’s competitive edge, vis-à-vis the U.S., the world’s largest economy.

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• The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in its first ever audit of the Goods and Services Tax, has said the government had failed to try out the system before its rollout, leading to inadequate compliance mechanisms, and lower tax revenues. The report was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.


• The report pointed out that the keystone of the tax system, the invoice matching system, had not yet been put in place even two years after the GST rollout.

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• One soldier was killed in a fierce exchange of fire on the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri as Pakistan resorted to “unprovoked” ceasefire violation in Pir Panchal Valley’s Rajouri district and the Kashmir Valley and two Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants, including a ‘commander’, were killed in an encounter in Anantnag.


• A Jammu-based Army spokesman identified the soldier killed as Naik Krishan Lal. “The Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation along the LoC in Sunderbani Sector in Rajouri.

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• IndiGo is set to launch daily direct flights between Kolkata and Hanoi from October 3, making the Vietnamese capital the fifth Southeast Asian destination on the airline’s network, the low-cost carrier announced.


• The flight to Hanoi (6E 1398) will take off from Kolkata at 12.40 pm and the return flight (6E 1399) will reach the city at 5.55 pm, it said.


• William Boulter, the chief commercial officer of IndiGo, said, “It is truly a very special moment for all of us at IndiGo as Kolkata will be connected with Hanoi on its network for the first time.

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• Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan stressed that the overall purpose of the legislation was to ease the process of addressing grievances of consumers.


• The Lok Sabha passed the Consumer Protection Bill, 2019, which promises to strengthen the rights of consumers and provides a mechanism for redressal of complaints regarding defects in goods and deficiency in services.


• Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan stressed that the overall purpose of the legislation was to ease the process of addressing grievances of consumers.


• Apart from setting up of authorities for timely and effective administration and settlement of consumer disputes, the new bill also seeks to bring in e-commerce under their jurisdiction and hold celebrities accountable for false and misleading advertisements of products that they endorse.


• The Bill, replacing the earlier Consumer Protection Act, 1986, was passed after all the amendments moved by Opposition were negated.

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• The SSC GD Constable Admit Card 2019 has been released for PET/PST of Constable (GD) in CAPFs, NIA, SSF and Rifleman (GD) in Assam Rifles exam 2018. Staff Selection Commission (SSC) will conduct the PET/PST of Constable (GD) in CAPFs, NIA, SSF and Rifleman (GD) in Assam Rifles exam 2018 tentatively in August-September 2019


• Candidates who have qualified for the PST can download they are admitted card by visiting the official site of CRPF at crpf.gov.in.

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• The Central Board of Secondary Education has declared the result of Central Teachers’ Eligibility Test (CTET) July 2019 examination. CTET 2019 was held in 104 cities across India on July 7 in which approximately 14 lakh candidates appeared.


• The result has been declared in a record time of 23 days after the end of the examination. In this exam, 3.52 lakh candidates have been declared qualified.


• Out of these 3.52 Lacs candidates, 2.15 Lacs qualified in Paper -1(for teaching in grades 1 to 5 in Primary school), and 1.37 Lacs qualified in Paper-2 (for teaching in grades 6 to 8 in upper primary school).

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• In a stock exchange notice, the housing finance company said the current default amount was ₹25.06 crore towards interest on the aforesaid NCDs. Six investors were holding the NCDs as on date of default (July 29).


• As per the notice, the gross principal amount is ₹274 crore.

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• On the face of it, the near doubling of net profit, stable bad loans, and healthy growth in domestic loans for Axis Bank in the latest June quarter offers comfort to investors.


• After the deterioration in the bank’s asset quality between FY16 and FY18, the gradual improvement over the past four to five quarters has been heartening.

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• Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya won't be eligible to compete in 800m at this year's world track and field championships after a Swiss court reversed a June ruling that had allowed Semenya to compete.


• The ruling had suspended a regulation imposed by IAAF regarding testosterone levels pending her appeal. The 28-year-old has refused to take medication to be in compliance.

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• Two domestic players — Akshay Dullarwar of Vidarbha and Divya Gajraj of Rjasthan — were handed backdated suspensions along with Prithvi Shaw for a doping violation in the 2018-19 domestic season.


• Akshay Dullarwar of Vidarbha was found to have inadvertently ingested Desacetyl Deflazacort, a metabolite of Deflazacort, which is a Glucocorticoid that is prohibited In-Competition in the WADA Prohibited List of Substances, for treatment of an infection. The urine sample was collected as part of the BCCI’s anti-doping testing program during the Men’s Under-23 One-day match on 10 March 2019 in Hyderabad.

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• The Registrar of Geographical Indications(GI), Chennai has awarded a GI certificate registering the sweetmeat as ”Odisha Rasagola” to the state of Odisha which will be valid till Feb 22, 2028.


• In 2017, West Bengal had secured the GI tag for ”Banglar Rosogolla” after a tug of war with Odisha since 2015 over the origin of the sweet.

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• Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lalji Tandon was sworn in as the 28th Governor of Madhya Pradesh.


• He was administered oath by the Madhya Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Ravi Shankar Jha at a function in Raj Bhawan, Bhopal in the presence of Chief Minister Kamal Nath, state ministers and bureaucrats.

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• Jagdeep Dhankhar, a former Lok Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) from Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan and a noted Supreme Court lawyer, was sworn in as the 28th governor of West Bengal at the Raj Bhavan, Kolkata in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, state ministers, including urban development minister Firhad Hakim and finance minister Amit Mitra, and other dignitaries.


• He was administered oath by the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court TBN Radhakrishnan. He succeeded Keshari Nath Tripathy.

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• A seven-time Member of Parliament (MP) from Chhattisgarh’s Raipur and former Union minister, Ramesh Bais, aged 71, was sworn in as the 18th Governor of Tripura in the presence of Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and senior officials of the administration.


• He was administered oath by the Chief Justice of Tripura High Court Justice Sanjay Karol at a function in Old Raj Bhawan, Agartala. He succeeds Kaptan Singh Solanki.

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• Cafè Coffee Day Founder VG Siddhartha's body has been found on the banks of river Netravati in Mangaluru after he went missing on Monday. Siddhartha had asked his car driver to drop him at a bridge across the river.


• Earlier, a letter by Siddhartha surfaced online, wherein he wrote, "I fought for a long time but today I gave up."

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• Eminent economist and former RBI deputy governor Subir Gokarn passed away on July 31.


• “I share this with a heavy heart...Subir Gokarn, my friend and colleague, passed away a few hours back,” Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) member Shamika Ravi said in a tweet.


• In November 2015, Gokarn was appointed as an executive director on the board of the IMF. He was appointed the deputy governor of the RBI in 2009 for a term of three years and had the distinction of being the youngest deputy governor at that time. He was also associated with Brooking’s India.