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Lok Sabha passes Anti-Trafficking Bill

LS passed Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection & Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018. Bill lays down stringent punishment of 10 years to life imprisonment for aggravated forms of trafficking & proposes to establish National Anti-Trafficking Bureau (NATB).

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Minister of Women and Child Development: Maneka Gandhi

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Mahila Shakti Kendra Scheme to empower rural women through community participation

Govt approved a scheme-Mahila Shakti Kendra for implementation upto 2019-20 to empower rural women through community participation. Scheme is implemented with cost sharing ratio of 60:40 between centre & states (except NE & Special Category States-90:10).

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Min. of State for Women & Child Development: Dr. Virendra Kumar

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Narendra Modi meets South African President, discusses ways to boost bilateral ties

PM Modi met S.African President and signed 3 MoUs on cooperation in exploration & use of outer space for peaceful purposes, setting up of Gandhi-Mandela Centre of specialisation for artisan skills & agricultural research & education.

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South Africa Capital: Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein

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SBI, PNB, BoB may introduce performance-linked pay for senior management

State Bank of India (SBI), Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Bank of Baroda (BoB) are planning to introduce performance-linked salary structure for the senior management- a first-of-its-kind move among public sector banks (PSBs).

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Bank Bureau Board Chairman: Shri Bhanu Pratap Sharma

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6th India-UK Science & Innovation Council (SIC) Meeting

6th India-UK SIC meeting held in New Delhi. Range of issues on S&T cooperation between two countries like need to establish Cyber Physical System- AI, digital Economy, health technologies, cyber security etc were discussed.

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Min of S&T, Min of Earth Sciences & MoEFCC: Dr. Harsh Vardhan

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NTT to set up 2 India data centres

Netmagic, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) & major cloud & managed IT services provider in India has launched 2new high density & hyperscale data centers in Mumbai & Bangalore with 2750 &1500 rack capacity respectively.

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Netmagic owner: Japanese telecom NTT Com
MD & CEO: Sharad Sanghi

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Two Indians among Ramon Magsaysay Award winners

2 Indians, Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk are among 6 winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award. The awards declared are regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize. The others award winners are from Cambodia, East Timor, Philippines and Vietnam

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Ramon Magsaysay Award- Asia's highest honour, Established: 1957.

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Atal Innovation Mission, MyGov launch ‘Innovative India Platform’

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and citizen engagement platform MyGov have launched the online portal ‘Innovate India Platform’. Through the portal, users can view, comment, share, and rate the innovations crowdsourced on the #InnovateIndia platform.

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NITI Aayog CEO: Mr Amitabh Kant
MyGov CEO: Arvind Gupta

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Women's Hockey World Cup: India lose 0-1 to Ireland

In the Women's Hockey World Cup, India suffered a 0-1 loss to Ireland in their second Pool B match at the Lee Valley Hockey Center in London. Ireland secured their quarter-final berth in the tournament. Anna O'Flanagan was the lone goal scorer in the match

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Women's Hockey World Cup founded in 1974

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Europe launches Galileo navigation satellites amid Brexit row

Europe launched four more Galileo satellites taking the number in orbit to 26 and moving a step closer to having its own navigation system. The Galileo system will eventually have a total of 30 satellites, weighing about 700 kg each.

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EU consist of 28 countries Hq: City of Brussels, Belgium