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• Sudan's main opposition group says security forces raided its office and blocked a press conference on the eve of mass protests against military rule.


• The "million-strong march" is in opposition to the military council's refusal to hand control to civilians following Omar al-Bashir's removal.


• The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) said in a tweet that it "condemns this repressive behavior".

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• Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Madrid on Saturday to oppose the newly elected conservative mayor's decision to reverse car pollution restrictions.


• The People's Party-run city hall has provoked an outcry by suspending a ban on most petrol and diesel cars in Madrid's center.


• The policy aimed to ensure the city complied with the EU's clean air rules.

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• US President Donald Trump is visiting the heavily fortified zone dividing the two Koreas for a brief greeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.


• The unprecedented meeting at the demilitarised zone (DMZ) comes after Mr. Trump tweeted what he said was a spontaneous invitation to Mr. Kim.


• South Korea's president said they would have a "handshake for peace".


• The North has not yet commented. The expected meeting raises hopes for a revival of stalled nuclear talks.

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• A group of Sikh activists has launched an online petition asking Indian-American Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris to apologise to the community for allegedly defending a discriminatory policy in 2011.


• In a statement, the Sikh activists alleged that during her tenure as California’s Attorney General, Harris defended a policy that prohibited state prison guards from keeping beards for religious reasons, even though exceptions were given for medical reasons.

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• Jammu & Kashmir’s former head of State and senior Congress leader Karan Singh said many provisions in the Constitution were temporary in nature and even the reservation for Scheduled Castes was temporary and originally meant for the initial 10 years.


• Home Minister Amit Shah said in the Lok Sabha on Friday that Article 370, which extends special status to J&K, was “temporary” and not permanent in nature.

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• Introducing the second edition of his radio programme Mann ki Baat on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged the citizens to resort to conservation of water, saying that there is a pressing need to make water conservation a mass movement in the country akin to Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan.


• This was the first ‘Mann ki Baat’ programme in Modi’s second consecutive term as the Prime Minister after he led the party to a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls of 2019.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for a combined strategy to crack down on fugitive economic offenders found resonance with leaders of G20 states, with a joint statement on Saturday reaffirming their commitment to deny safe haven to such individuals.


• India also resisted pressure to join the Osaka declaration on the digital economy, a movement launched by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for global rule-making for a free flow of data across borders.

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• The country’s national carrier Air India has lost Rs 720 crore in the four months through 27 February as Pakistan continues with the ban on its eastern airspace for Indian airlines.


• Since February, Air India has been losing approximately Rs 6 crore on a daily basis due to the cancellations of flights on some routes and re-routing of some other flights as a result of the ban, said an official spokesperson of the carrier.

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• The bank’s supervisory board to meet on July 7 to discuss extensive overhaul.


• Deutsche Bank's supervisory board will meet on July 7 to discuss a major restructuring that may result in as many as 20,000 job cuts, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

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• Table-toppers Australia handed New Zealand their second straight defeat in the 2019 World Cup after beating them by 86 runs on Saturday.


• The victory was Australia's eighth against New Zealand in 11 World Cup matches. The match witnessed fast bowler Trent Boult become the first New Zealand bowler to take a hat-trick in World Cup.

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• The Indian cricket team look to secure their spot in the ICC World Cup 2019 semi-finals when they take on hosts England in Birmingham.


• India are currently in the second spot with 11 points with a net run rate of+1.160 while England are struggling at the fifth spot with 8 points and a net run rate of +1.051.


• With an unbeaten record in six encounters so far, Kohli’s men are all but through to the semi-finals but a win against England will further tighten their grip at the top and in the process oust the hosts from the global event.

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• An Indian engineer, Nitesh Kumar Jangir, from Bangalore has won the Commonwealth Secretary-General’s Innovation for Sustainable Development Award 2019 in the “People” category in London, UK (United Kingdom)for the creation low-cost neonatal breathing device named “Saans” for saving the lives of newborn babies.

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• Former Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar authored a book named as “A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief” released. The book is published by Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.
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• The book talks about his distinguished career in the Indian Navy during the Kargil War and Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee when Operation Parakram was launched after the terror attack on the Indian Parliament.

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• Famous Telugu story writer, Abburi Chaya Devi passed away due to cardiac arrest. She was 86. She hails from Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh.


• She was born on 13 October 1933, has served as a council member of Kendra Sahitya Academy during the time period of 1998 to 2002.

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