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• Sudan's ruling military council and main opposition coalition have signed a constitutional declaration which will pave the way for the formation of a transitional government.


• Opposition leader Ahmed Rabie and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Daglo signed the deal.


• A governing body of six civilians and five generals will oversee a three-year transition period.

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• Australian Defense Minister Linda Reynolds said that while the locations for the missile bases were not yet known, Australia would not be one of them. She said Esper made no such request, and no such request was expected from the U.S.


• Australian officials confirmed that their country will not be used as a base for any planned U.S. mid-range missiles following talks with American officials in Sydney.


• U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said at last weekend’s meetings that he wanted to deploy intermediate-range conventional missiles at various Asia-Pacific sites within months.

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• Thirty people died and dozens were wounded in two mass shootings within just 13 hours of each other in the U.S., shocking the country and prompting calls from some politicians for tighter gun control.


• The first massacre occurred on August 3 morning in the heavily Hispanic border city of El Paso, where a gunman killed 20 people at a Walmart store before surrendering to police.

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• Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday sought mediation on the Kashmir issue by US President Donald Trump, saying the situation in the state had the potential to escalate into a “regional crisis”.


• Khan’s remarks came against the backdrop of tensions along the Line of Control (LoC), with Indian officials accusing Pakistani troops of involvement in a string of attacks aimed at aiding the cross-border infiltration of terrorists.


• The premier also chaired an emergency meeting of Pakistan’s National Security Committee (NSC) to review the situation along the LoC and to discuss India’s alleged use of cluster munitions, a charge already denied by New Delhi.

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• Govt. needs to ‘break its silence’ and make a statement to settle the issue, say Nazir Ahmad Laway and Mir Mohd Fayaz.


• In a plea to the Opposition parties, two Peoples Democratic Party MPs in the Rajya Sabha have written to them seeking their support to get answers from the government in Parliament on the situation in Kashmir.


• Nazir Ahmad Laway and Mir Mohd Fayaz in a joint letter to all the Opposition parties have said that their own attempts to seek answers all of last week failed and need the Opposition’s help to amplify the issue.

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• The Congress Working Committee meeting will be held on August 10 to lay the ground work to elect the new president of the party. The meeting comes more than two months after Rahul Gandhi quit the post.


• “It has been decided to hold the next Congress Working Committee Meeting on Saturday, 10th of August, 11:00 am at AICC (All India Congress Committee),” general secretary (organization) K. C. Venugopal said in a tweet. According to sources, a draft resolution has been prepared, thanking the outgoing president Rahul Gandhi and formally accepting his resignation. This provides finality to Mr. Gandhi’s exit and ends the ongoing stalemate.

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• After an extensive election campaign by ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), opposition Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and filmmaker Seeman’s Tamil nationalist outfit Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) for the Vellore Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu that came to an end on Saturday, the constituency is voting on.


• Satyabrata Sahoo, the chief electoral officer in Tamil Nadu said on Sunday that all the preliminary work has been done to ensure safe and secure elections.

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• Minister Amit Shah will brief the two houses of Parliament about the restrictive provisions of the law invoked by the administration in Jammu and Kashmir.


• This would be the first official statement by the Centre about the situation in J&K that has been put under a security lockdown by the administration.


• Movement of several political leaders such as former chief ministers Omar Abdullah Mehbooba Mufti has been restricted by the administration which has also severely curtailed the movement of the public.

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• The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the exam schedule for the year 2020 on its official website upsc.gov.in. Every year, UPSC releases an exam calendar mentioning the important dates of notification , application and date of exam.


• One of the most important exams of UPSC, the civil services prelims exam will be held on June May 31, 2020, for which the notification will be released on February 12 and the last date to apply is March 3, 2020. The civil services main exam will commence from September 18, 2019.


• The year 2020 will begin with Engineering Services (Preliminary) Examination for which the notification will be issued on September 25, 2019, and exam will be held on January 5, 2020.

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• Chhattisgarh Professional Examination Board (CGPEB) also known as Vyapam has released the admit card for Lok Shikshan Sanchanalaya Recruitment examination for Assistant Teacher for Arts and Science group and English medium teacher on its official website at cgvyapam.choice.gov.in or vyapam.cgstate.gov.in. Candidates can download their admit card online before 11:59 pm of August 8, 2019.

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• Reserve Bank of India is expected to continue to do some heavy lifting to revitalise growth by cutting the policy repo rate by 25 basis points for the fourth time on the trot in the upcoming bi-monthly monetary policy review.


• In the 2019 calendar year so far, the repo rate has been cut thrice by 25 bps each, from 6.50 percent to 6.25 percent in February; 6.25 percent to 6 percent in April; and 6 percent to 5.75 percent in June.

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• Krunal Pandya’s all-round exploits and Rohit Sharma’s characteristically sublime half-century powered India to a series-clinching 22-run win over West Indies in the rain-affected second T20 International here on.


• Batting first, India scored a challenging 167 for five and then had West Indies in all sorts of trouble at 98 for four in the 16th over when lightening and thundershowers struck. The Duckworth-Lewis par score at that point was 120, and West Indies were 22 runs behind.

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• Former Indian cricketer Kapil Dev was conferred with Bharat Gaurav Award 2019 on the 99th foundation day of East Bengal Club, the Kolkata soccer giants, at the award ceremony held at Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata, West Bengal.


• Former India captains Manoranjan Bhattacharya and Bhaskar Ganguly were conferred with a lifetime achievement award.

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• John Flint’s tenure running HSBC Holdings Plc has come to an abrupt end, with the bank announcing early on Monday in Asia that the chief executive officer was stepping down.


• The surprise move was made to help the bank, which has seen its Hong Kong-listed shares fall about 15 per cent in the past year, meet the challenges it faces, Chairman Mark Tucker said in a statement.

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• D.A. Pennebaker, the Oscar-winning documentary maker of America, passed away at Long Island, New York, the US due to natural causes.


• Born on July 15, 1925 in Evanston, Illinois, United States, he was the recipient of honorary Academy Award/ Lifetime Oscar in 2013 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.