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• The United States said Tuesday it would curb visas for Chinese officials until Beijing ends its "repression" of Uighurs and other Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang, a day after imposing commercial restrictions.


• The one-two punch by President Donald Trump's administration marks the most forceful attempt by a foreign power to address what some rights groups call a historic crisis in Xinjiang, and comes amid a range of feuds between the United States and China.

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• It will be "very difficult" for the UK and the EU to reach a Brexit agreement before the 31 October deadline, Irish leader Leo Varadkar has said.


• He told Irish broadcaster RTE "big gaps" remained between the two sides.


• Amid claims that talks were close to collapse, he also suggested the language around the discussions had turned toxic "in some quarters".


• Mr. Varadkar and Boris Johnson are expected to meet for further Brexit talks later this week.

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• US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has condemned deadly violence during protests in Iraq and called on the country's government to "exercise maximum restraint," the State Department said.


• In a call with Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi, Pompeo "condemned the recent violence in Iraq and noted that those who violated human rights should be held accountable," the department said in a statement.

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• The United Nations has an overall annual operating budget of several billion dollars, covering everything from humanitarian work to disarmament, but right now, it's just trying to make sure its employees get paid after this month.


• How did the world body end up more than $200 million in the red.


• The answer: member states who have not paid their expected contributions, including the United States.

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• A defiant White House declared war against the impeachment investigation of Donald Trump, blasting the process as partisan, illegitimate and unconstitutional and saying neither the president nor his administration will cooperate.


• In a fiery letter, the White House threw down the gauntlet to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the chairmen of three congressional panels leading the inquiry, challenging them to proceed with their effort to oust Trump despite zero future cooperation.

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• With just two weeks to go for the Haryana Assembly polls, a number of top BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, will be campaigning in the state over the next few days.


• Amit Shah will address rallies in Kaithal, Hisar, Bhiwani and Rohtak districts today. Mr. Shah is expected to visit the state again, on October 14, when he will address rallies in Fatehabad, Panchkula, Karnal, and Gurgaon. PM Modi, who is the star campaigner of the BJP, will be addressing four rallies across Haryana over two days.

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• Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over its treatment of farmers, alleging that the Yogi Adityanath government remembers them only in advertisements.


• Her attack on the UP government came over a media report that in separate incidents, two farmers from Mahoba and Hamirpur allegedly committed suicide over debt issues.

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• A suspected Pakistani drone was spotted flying in two villages in the Indian territory along the India-Pakistan border in Hussainiwala area in Punjab late, security officials said. This was the second incident in two days. Villagers captured pictures of a drone on their mobiles.


• Its first sighting was reported in Hazarasingh Wala village at 7.20 pm and later in Tendiwala village at 10.10 pm, an official told IANS.

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• JEE Main January 2020 application process will end tomorrow. The last date to pay application fee is October 11, 2019.


• National Testing Agency (NTA), which is the organizing agency for JEE Main exam, had extended the last date for JEE Main application from September 30 to October 10. The last date will not be extended further.


• The January 2020 JEE Main exam will be the first of the two JEE Main tests which will be conducted next year.

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• In the country's most prestigious medical institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), nine MBBS seats have remained vacant despite the admission process having concluded on August 31.


• This information was revealed in an RTI query filed by Neemach-based activist Chandrashekhar Gaud on September 12.

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• State Bank of India (SBI) announced reduction in its marginal cost of funds-based lending (MCLR) rate by 10 basis points across all tenors, effective October 10.


• This is the sixth time that the country’s largest lender has cut its MCLR or minimum lending rate in the current financial year. The rate reduction is not applicable to the repo-linked loans.

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• Deutsche Bank plans to cut about half its planned 18,000 jobs in Germany as it relies on savings at the retail units to lower costs, according to people familiar with the matter.


• The lender employed about 41,700 people in its home market at the end of last year, out of a total of 91,700. Outside Germany, London will also be hit especially hard, partly because of Brexit, while the US may see a lower share of front-office cuts once the bank has exited its equities trading business, the people said, asking not to be identified because talks are ongoing.

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• As per the recently released MRF (Madras Rubber Factory) Tyres International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s Test Player Rankings” as of October 7, 2019.


• Indian batsman Rohit Sharma, who became the first cricketer to score a century in both innings of his first test as an opener, reached a career-best 17th position . He jumped from the 54th position to the 17.

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• Indian-origin Arjun Bansal (35) and Ankiti Bose (27) have made it to Fortune’s 2019 “40 Under 40 Global List”.


• Arjun is the Vice President of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software and AI Lab of the US (United States) tech company Intel.


• Ankiti is the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and co-founder of the fashion platform Zilingo.

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• Former First Lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama‘s second book titled “Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice” is set to release on November 19, 2019.


• It is published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House. The journal will be published in more than 20 countries.