• This day is observed to build awareness and understanding how important the liver is for our body and how liver ailments can be treated.


• World Liver Day 2018 is a day aimed at spreading awareness about liver, the role it plays in our body and liver-related diseases.


• Every year, April [latex]19^{th}[/latex] is celebrated as World Liver Day across the world. Known as one of the most complicated organs of the body, liver is the second largest organ which performs an essential function in the body's digestive system.

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• The 448-page redacted document, collated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, was finally released.


• Mr Trump's legal team has described the report as a "total victory".


• But the country's top lawyer, William Barr, is facing heavy criticism of his handling of the report's release.

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• Indonesian President Joko Widodo has declared victory in election, even as his challenger continues to contest the result.


• Former general Prabowo Subianto claimed he had won and that his camp had evidence of "widespread cheating".


• Official results will not be out until May but "quick counts" by polling companies have given Mr Widodo a lead of about 10 percentage points.

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• Pakistan’s Finance Minister Asad Umar stepped down as part of a reshuffle of the Cabinet initiated by Prime Minister Imran Khan.


• “As part of a Cabinet reshuffle, PM desired that I take the Energy Minister portfolio instead of Finance. However, I have obtained his consent to not take any Cabinet position.


• I strongly believe @ImranKhanPTI is the best hope for Pakistan and inshallah will make a naya Pakistan,” Mr. Umar tweeted.

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• At least 205 people have been killed and 913 others wounded in the armed conflict between Haftar's Libyan National Army and the Libyan armed forces for the control of country's capital Tripoli.


• The World Health Organisation in Libya wrote on their official Twitter handle, "Toll for armed conflict in #Tripoli is 205 dead and 913 wounded.
  
• Medical specialists that WHO #Libya deployed to support front line hospitals are helping perform dozens of surgeries."

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• The words “chemists and druggists” appearing on the signboards of medical shops will soon have to be replaced with the word “pharmacy” following an order by the government’s top advisory body on drugs.


• Dr S Eswara Reddy, drugs controller general of India, said, “Stores are using different nomenclatures and there was a need to bring in uniformity. Globally, the word pharmacy is used and widely accepted, so we decided to do the same.”

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• The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) writ ran large in the selection of Malegaon blast-accused Pragya Thakur as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.


• Thakur, out on bail after serving nine years in jail in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blast that killed six people, has long been the poster girl of the Sangh’s Hindutva campaign and is also used to exemplify what the organisation sees as the Congress’s “witch hunt of the RSS and the Hindus”.

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• India will skip the second Belt and Road Forum being hosted by China next week to boost President Xi Jinping’s five-year-old flagship connectivity project, people familiar with developments said.


• The reasons behind the decision to decline the invitation for the second iteration of the forum are the same ones that drove a boycott of the first event in May 2017 – core concerns on sovereignty and territorial integrity and the uneven playing field created by the Chinese, the people said.

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• They lined up patiently to cast their votes in the blazing sun, 156 inmates of a mental health centre here, eager to participate in the electoral process as polling was held in 38 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu.


• The inmates, including 56 women, exercised their franchise in a booth exclusively set up for them at the Institute of Mental Hospital (IMH), Kilpauk, probably the first time such patients are voting in the country.

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• The second phase of polling in five Lok Sabha and 35 Assembly constituencies in Odisha recorded 64 per cent voter turnout, said state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Surendra Kumar.


• “Voting by nearly 64 per cent of total 76.93 lakh electorate was recorded by 5 p.m. This is a tentative figure and this is very likely to change after compilation of information from fields. The voters, who are in the queue, are still voting in some areas,” said Kumar.

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• The Reserve Bank of India has released a draft framework for setting up a regulatory sandbox (RS) or live testing of products or services by fintech firms.


• The draft framework suggested that areas that can potentially get a thrust from the RS include microfinance, innovative small savings and micro-insurance products, remittances, mobile banking and other digital payments.

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• While MasterCard has launched the same in the US and a few other developed markets, it is awaiting approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).


• With MasterCard’s ‘Tap & Go’ technology, small businesses and merchants will be able to accept contact less payments with the help of an NFC-enabled smartphone.

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• The IBBI’s Disciplinary Committee concluding that Ruia, a professional member of the Indian Institute of Insolvency Professionals of ICAI, had contravened certain provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).


• The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has also directed that Ruia should not seek or accept any process or assignment or render any services under the IBC during the period of suspension.

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• The Rohit-led team takes the second spot in the table after its emphatic 40-run victory snapped the host’s three-match winning streak.


• Mumbai Indians added a spinner to its side, Delhi Capitals put its faith in its pace attack and the visiting team came out trumps in reading the unpredictable Ferozeshah Kotla pitch, winning by 40 runs to exchange places with Capitals and go second on the points table.

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• Champion Rafael Nadal and top-ranked Novak Djokovic turned in impressive displays to reach the Monte Carlo Masters quarter-finals.


• Nadal, chasing a record-extending 12th Monte Carlo title, broke Grigor Dimitrov’s serve on four occasions to defeat the Bulgarian 6-4 6-1.


• After recovering from two break points down in his opening service game, Nadal attacked Dimitrov’s backhand with power and precision to move into a 3-1 lead.

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• Recently TIME Magazine has released 100’s most influential people list in which Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, public interest litigators Arundhati Katju


• Menaka Guruswamy who fought the legal battle for LGBTQ rights are among Indians have been named.

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• Recently, Reporters Without Borders released World Press Freedom Index 2019 in which Norway topped the index in third consecutive year and India drops down by two positions (138th rank in 2018) to be ranked 140th out of 180 countries in 2019.


• The reason for decrease in India’s rank is because of at least six Indian journalists being killed in last one year.


• Two African countries Ethiopia and Gambia have significantly improved their ranking from 150th to 110th and 122nd to 92nd respectively as compare to 2018.


• For the list World Press Freedom Index 2019 - Click Here

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• A 1987-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer Jaideep Sarkar, currently serving as India’s ambassador in Bhutan, appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of South Africa. He will succeed Ruchi Ghanashyam.


• After joining IFS service, Sarkar served in many different Indian missions in Tokyo, Seoul and Bangladesh
  
• He also served in the Finance Ministry from 1992-1996. His responsibility is to deal with economic relations with European Union member countries.

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• Sri Lanka’s 1st satellite ‘Raavana-1’ was launched into space today from NASA’s Flight Facility on Virginia’s east shore.


• ‘Raavana-1’, which marks Sri Lanka’s entry into the global space age, weights around 1.05 kg and the lifespan of the satellite is around one and a half years.

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• Nepal successfully launched its first satellite into space from the US to gather detailed geographical information of the Himalayan nation, evoking unbridled excitement among the people and scientists.


• Developed by the Nepalese scientists, NepaliSat-1 satellite was launched at 2:31 am (Nepal time) from Virginia in United States, according to Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST).

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• A former Peruvian president has died after shooting himself in the head after police arrived at his home in the capital Lima to arrest him in connection with a bribery investigation.


• Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez, was president of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He also served in Congress.

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