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• Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, who is embroiled in a huge financial scandal, has suggested that she may seek to become the country's president.


• Ms. Dos Santos pointedly declined four times to rule out running for the presidency.


• Her father José Eduardo dos Santos ruled Angola for 38 years. Prosecutors are seeking to recover $1bn (£760m) Ms. Dos Santos and her associates are alleged to owe the state.

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• The 100 lawmakers of the US Senate were sworn in on Thursday as jurors for the impending impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.


• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts administered the oath to the senators to "do impartial justice".


• In the coming weeks, the senators will decide whether Mr. Trump should be removed from office over charges brought by the House of Representatives.

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• The US Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a new North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a second back-to-back trade win just as his impeachment trial was beginning in Washington.


• After a brief debate, lawmakers voted 89-10 in favor of a bill allowing the US-Mexico-Canada agreement to take effect, overhauling trade relations among the three countries.

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• U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Germany this weekend to attend the Libya conference and push for sustaining a fragile ceasefire and getting all foreign powers to withdraw from the conflict in the North African country, the State Department and U.S officials said.


• Germany hosts a summit bringing together foreign powers and the Libyan rival camps backed by them to try to end the war over Tripoli and resume talks on a power-sharing deal.

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• Congress is set to announce today its list of candidates for the upcoming Delhi polls. The candidates were finalised after a meeting of the Congress Election Committee late, the party's Delhi unit president Subash Chopra said.


• "We have discussed most of the seats and the list will be out soon," Mr. Chopra told ANI.

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• The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Jammu and Kashmir arrested Hilal Rather, son of National Conference leader and former finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather, in a bank fraud case involving Rs 177 core.


• "Hilal Rather was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Jammu today in a case related to the alleged misappropriation of crores of rupees from the term loans running into Rs 177 crores sanctioned by Jammu and Kashmir Bank for his ambitious township project known as Paradise Avenue at Narwal Bala Jammu in the year 2012," an ACB spokesman said.

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• More than 30,000 displaced Bru tribals from Mizoram, who have been living as refugees in Tripura since 1997, will permanently settle in Tripura, according to an agreement that was signed.


• The deal was signed by representatives of Bru, the central, Tripura and Mizoram governments in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah at North Block in New Delhi.

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• Institute of Chartered Accountants of India on Thursday declared the result of CA final exam (old and new course) . Candidates can check their results on icaiexam.icai.org.


• Direct link for ICAI CA Final (Old) Examination Results - Merit List, November 2019


• Direct link for ICAI CA Final (New) Examination Results - Merit List, November 2019


• ICAI said that the CA final exam results will be declared by. ICAI is also sending results on SMS to the candidates who have registered for the facility.

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• CBSE Class 10 board exams 2020 will be held from February 15 to March 20. The Science exam will be conducted on March 4.


• Students generally find the science exam difficult as it contains three different sections – Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.


• It becomes hard to score when one focuses on only a particular science section. If you want to score good marks in Science, you will have to focus on all the sections equally.

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• Market regulator SEBI absolved former NSE CEO, Ravi Narain and 8 others in the co-location case wherein brokers were alleged to have received preferential access to the trading systems of the bourse.


• The order exonerated top NSE executives including Mr. Narain, former Senior Vice President, Operations, R. Nandakumar, and former CTO N. Muralidharan from the "allegations charged...considering the facts and circumstances of the case".

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• A few precocious talents, hardworking teenagers and a chunky lot which might fall by the wayside in times to come will form an eclectic 16-team mix in the melting pot called ICC Under-19 World Cup starting.


• Defending champions India will be overwhelming favourites to win the junior global meet for the fifth time with at least six players, including skipper Priyam Garg having played senior cricket (first-class, List A or T20). Not to forget four players Yashasvi Jaiswal, Garg, Ravi Bishnoi, Kartik Tyagi who have already landed fat contracts in the IPL.

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• PV Sindhu suffered a 21-16, 16-21, 19-21 loss to Japan's Sayaka Takahashi to crash out of the Indonesia Masters super 500 badminton tournament in the women's singles second round.


• Sayaka Takahashi had earlier handed Saina Nehwal a shock defeat in the opening round.


• PV Sindhu, who came to face Sayaka Takahashi after a straight games victory over Aya Ohori, clinched the first game in the second round with much ease.

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• India's "high power" communication satellite GSAT-30, aimed at providing high-quality television, telecommunications and broadcasting services, was successfully launched onboard Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in the early hours of Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.


• Blasting off from the Ariane Launch Complex in Kourou, a French territory located in the northeastern coast of South America at 2:35 am, European space consortium Arianespace's Ariane 5 vehicle-injected GSAT-30 into the orbit in a flawless flight lasting about 38 minutes.