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• The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) recalls that, to date, Roma remain the most deprived ethnic group of Europe.


• Across Europe, the fundamental rights of Roma are still being violated on a regular basis. Repetitious cases of racist violence and hate speech targeting Roma are reported frequently.


• Roma are also subject to discrimination in accessing employment, education, health care, and public and social services.

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• Switzerland is proposing bigger capital cushions for the country’s top banks that could force UBS Group and Credit Suisse Group to set aside an additional 24 billion Swiss francs ($24 billion) in reserves.


• The Finance Ministry is weighing an amendment to capital adequacy rules to try to ensure that the parent companies of systemically important banks are sufficiently well capitalized in the event of a crisis, the government said in a statement.


• It cited concern about the impact of possible interest-rate rises on real-estate loans.

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• President Paul Kagame said that Rwandans had become a family again, 25 years after more than 8,00,000 people were slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world.


• Mr. Kagame lit a remembrance flame at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where more than 2,50,000 victims are believed to be buried, mainly from the minority Tutsi people, as the country began its annual 100 days of mourning that coincide with the length of the slaughter.

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• The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and former President Mohamed Nasheed seemed poised for a big win in Saturday’s parliamentary elections, provisional results indicated.


• According to local media reports, based on updates from the counting centres, the MDP was likely to secure nearly 60 out of the 87 seats at the people’s Majlis or Parliament, signalling the party’s consolidation of power in the legislature, six months after it led a coalition to victory in the presidential poll.

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• US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called for an immediate halt to the fighting and called for talks.


• Rebel forces under Gen Khalifa Haftar have advanced from the east with the aim of taking Tripoli.


• Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj has accused him of attempting a coup and says rebels will be met with force.

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• Vaishnavi feared it was the end of her education. But it was her father’s dream that she become a doctor. She had won the best-student award in the seventh standard at her high school in Wardha.


• Vaishnavi Divakar Bhomle, 20, was in the ninth standard when her father, a farmer of cotton in the village of Ashta in Maharashtra’s Wardha district, committed suicide in 2014.


• He owed Rs 1 lakh to a finance company

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• Prime Minister Modi will also receive the King Zayed medal in recognition of his “pivotal role” in strengthening ties between two nations.


• With 115 Lok Sabha seats — the most in any phase in this summer’s parliamentary elections — including all 26 from his home state Gujarat set to go to the polls on April [latex]23^{rd}[/latex]


• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to take a call this week on whether he inaugurates the first Hindu Temple in Abu Dhabi by video, or in person on April.

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• India and the U.K. prepare to commemorate 100 years of the Jallianwala tragedy, there is a remote chance that Britain might offer an apology.


• During a visit to Amritsar in February 2013, the then British Prime Minister David Cameron described the Jallianwala Bagh massacre as a “deeply shameful event in British history,” insisting that “we must never forget what happened there”.


• However, he stopped short of offering an apology for the events of April [latex]13^{th[latex], 1919, when hundreds were killed and more than 1,200 injured after British troops led by Reginald Dyer opened fire on a peaceful gathering.

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• The MEA spokesperson’s statement came hours after Mr. Qureshi said in a press conference in Multan that Pakistan has “reliable intelligence” that India is planning to attack Pakistan again between April [latex]16^{th}[/latex] and [latex]20^{th}[/latex].


• In a strongly worded statement, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the comments by the Pakistani Foreign Minister were aimed at whipping up war hysteria in the region.

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• This comes as Election Commission had said that the verification of 50% of VVPAT slips would delay the declaration of election results by '5.2 days'


• Leaders of 21 opposition parties have told the Supreme Court they do not mind a delay of six days in declaration of Lok Sabha election results for counting of 50 per cent of VVPAT slips, saying it is not a "serious delay" if it ensures integrity of the electoral process.

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• The sale of Punjab National Bank's 13 per cent stake in PNB Housing Finance is credit positive as it will strengthen the bank’s capital, Moody's said.


• Last month state-run Punjab National Bank announced that it will sell 13 per cent stake in PNB Housing Finance for Rs 1,850 crore (USD 270 million) to global private equity firm General Atlantic Group and alternative investment firm Varde Partners.

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• The All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) has urged RBI Governor Shakthikanta Das to not allow the proposed merger of Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) with Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (IHFL).


• The central bank should instead merge LVB with one of the public sector banks, AIBEA General Secretary CH Venkatachalam said in a letter to the RBI Governor.

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• New category permits a franchise to retain a youngster who has completed two seasons with the squad


• Retained players and fresh faces will be the focus of attention at the ProKabaddi League season-7 player auction.


• Patna Pirates, the most successful franchise, showed the way by retaining four Elite players around whom the squad will be formed when fresh talent is recruited.

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• Virat Kohli has been leading Royal Challengers Bangalore for past six seasons but the star-studded unit has massively underachieved.


• Virat Kohli, the Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper, said that he has no more excuses to give after his team slumped to a record-equalling sixth straight defeat in the Indian Premier League

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• Tata Steel bagged the ‘Global Slag Company of the Year’ award at the 14th Global Slag Conference and Exhibition 2019, for its innovative practices in the development of new applications for Steel by-products (Slag).


• The conference was held recently in Aachen, Germany, and is one of the largest global annual slag events, attended by major steelmakers, steel mill service providers & associated companies.

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• The US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who enforced some of President Trump's controversial border policies, has resigned.


• Ms Nielsen called it "an honour of a lifetime" to work in the department.


• President Trump tweeted she would be temporarily replaced by Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan.


• Ms Nielsen was responsible for implementing the proposed border wall and the separation of migrant families.

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• South African Born biologist, Sydney Brenner passed away at the age of 92.


• Brenner made contributions to work on the nature of genetic code and other areas of molecular biology.


• He Shared a Nobel Prize in 2002 in Physiology with Bob Horvitz and John Sulston for developing a tiny transparent worm into a test bed for biological discoveries.