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• The foreign secretary has urged Iran to reverse its "illegal" seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Gulf.


• Jeremy Hunt said it "raises very serious questions" about the security of British and international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.


• It comes as Iran released new footage of the capture on Friday of the Stena Impero.

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• More than 20,000 protesters have gathered in Moscow demanding free and fair elections in the Russian capital.


• Protesters are calling for opposition candidates to be allowed to register for the September polls.


• The authorities have refused to register them despite each candidate gathering the minimum 5,000 signatures needed to be eligible to run.

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• The victims, mainly prisoners from the war-era detention camps for non-Serbs near the town of Prijedor, were told they were being released in a prison exchange but instead were driven to the Koricani Cliffs in central Bosnia, lined up by the edge of the ravine and shot by Bosnian Serb forces in August 1992.


• Thousands of relatives from Bosnia and across Europe gathered in the village of Hambarine for the burial of 86 Bosniak Muslims on Saturday, 27 years after they were killed and dumped in a ravine in one of the most gruesome incidents of the Bosnian war.

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• Britain denounced the Iranian seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a ”hostile act” on Saturday, rejecting Tehran’s explanation that it had seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident.


• Friday’s action by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the global oil trade’s most important waterway has been viewed in the West as a major escalation in three months of confrontation that took Iran and the United States to the brink of war.

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• People facing possible statelessness are not the only ones feeling the National Register of Citizens (NRC) heat. The stress of the updating exercise appears to have taken a toll on the Assam government officials.


• On July 18, a State government employee named Jyotiprasad Das took to social media complaining about doing two jobs at a time for “no additional honorarium” while referring to demands for re-verification of names published in the draft NRC.

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• Ahead of external affairs minister S Jaishankar’s visit to Beijing next month to prepare the grounds for the second bilateral informal summit, China’s new envoy to India has said the two sides should narrow their differences and step up cooperation on the world stage.


• Ambassador-designate Sun Weidong, set to arrive in New Delhi on July 21, told a small group of Indian journalists in Beijing on Friday the two countries should ensure no individual issue disrupts bilateral relations. China also wants India to stand with it “against unilateralism and protectionism”, he said.

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• Income-tax authorities will keep tabs on people who don’t declare any taxable income, but splurge money on acquiring cars and homes, travelling overseas, buying jewellery and investing in financial instruments, as they seek to identify tax evaders and widen the taxpayers’ base. Their main weapon: the Aadhaar unique ID.


• Three recent decisions – making the permanent account number (PAN) interchangeable with Aadhaar, automatic issuance of PANs to people who provide their Aadhaar number in high-value transactions, and to make PANs that are not linked to Aadhaar inoperative from September 1 -- have armed the authorities to track tax cheats, officials said.

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• A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court here on Saturday granted a three-day custody of Mohammed Mansoor Khan, the owner of IMA Jewels, to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) until July 23 in connection with a multi-crore-rupee Ponzi scheme case, in which thousands of investors have allegedly been cheated.


• Khan, who had fled to Dubai, flew back to India and was arrested by ED officials after landing in New Delhi on Friday.

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• The Delhi University's 2019-20 academic session began on Saturday, with colleges holding orientation sessions and induction programmes to welcome students.


• Hansraj College principal, Dr. Rama Sharma, told students that it is their responsibility now to take forward the legacy of the college.


• The students were also introduced to the various college societies.

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• The lender’s net profit rose to Rs 5,568.16 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2019 as against Rs 4,601.44 crore a year ago.


• The Bank’s total income for the quarter ended June 30, 2019, grew 22.7 percent to Rs 32,361.8 crore from Rs 26,367 crore a year ago. Net interest income (interest earned less interest expended) for the first quarter increased by 22.9 percent to Rs 13,294.3 crore, from Rs 10,813.6 crore a year ago. Core net interest margin for the quarter was 4.3 percent.

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• Wolves beat champions Manchester City to win the pre-season Premier League Asia Trophy following a bizarre penalty shootout in China.


• Four of the first five penalties were saved or missed before keeper Rui Patricio denied City's Lukas Nmecha to give Wolves a 3-2 shootout victory.


• The game was level at 0-0 following 90 minutes of an intriguing match in which City dominated possession.

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• Four-time Asian Championships medallist Shiva Thapa won India's first gold at 2019 President's Cup boxing tournament after getting a walkover in the final in Kazakhstan on Saturday.


• Thapa, who was making his international debut in 63 kg category, was scheduled to fight Kazakhstan's Zakir Safiullin, who pulled out due to injury. Meanwhile, 19-year-old Praveen won silver in 60 kg category.

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• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Saturday approved the appointment of Ajay Bhadoo as Joint Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind.


• Bhadoo, a 1999 Gujarat batch IAS officer, is currently serving as the Vadodara Municipal Commissioner. Over the years, he has served in various capacities and held positions like Collector, Secretary to the Gujarat Chief Minister, among others.

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• Former 3 time chief minister of Delhi from Congress Sheila Dikshit passed away at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla in New Delhi due to cardiac arrest. She was 81 years old.


• Born on March 31, 1938 in Kapurthala, Punjab, she had served as the president of Delhi Congress, chief minister of Delhi for 15 years from 1998-2013 and the governor of Kerala.