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Chhattisgarh cops deploy first ever anti-Naxal women's commando unit

The Chhattisgarh police for the 1st time has inducted women commandos in the District Reserve Guard, it's frontline anti-Naxal force. The 30 women squad called, 'Danteshwari Ladake', was inducted in the state's Naxal-hit Dantewada district

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'Danteshwari Ladake’ implies fighters of Goddess Danteshwari

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Banks must turn towards global trade-finance instruments: RBI

Acc. To RBI, Banks need to expand their global banking relationship and shift towards globally accepted trade finance instruments instead of indigenous instruments (such as LoU/ LoC).

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LoC-Letter of Credit
LoU-Letter of Undertaking

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Singapore passes ‘fake news’ law despite fierce criticism

Singapore’s parliament passed laws targeting “fake news” that will allow authorities to order social media sites to put warnings next to posts, the former consider false, and even get them taken down. Such companies can face judicial action.

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Singapore dollar ( SGD) is the official currency of Singapore.

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Australian airlines, Qantas operated world’s first zero-waste flight

Qantas has operated world’s 1st zero waste commercial flight named QF739 from Sydney to Adelaide which disposed all waste through compost/recycle. It planned to eliminate 100 million single-use plastics by the end of 2020 & to reduce 75% of waste by 2021.

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Qantas Domestic CEO-Andrew David

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Amul to sponsor Afghanistan in Cricket World Cup 2019

Amul will be the principal sponsor of Afghanistan cricket team in the coming ICC World Cup.

This is the third time that Amul is sponsoring a cricket team in the World Cup.It had associated with New Zealand and Holland teams in earlier World Cup tournaments

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ICC World Cup 2019- to be hosted by England and Wales.

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Former SC Judge Former SC Judge KS Radhakrishnan appointed member of Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal

K S Radhakrishnan, former Supreme Court Judge, has been appointed as a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal, London. He will render his services as a member of the Tribunal for a period of four years from 2019-2023.

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He has served as CJIs of Gujarat and J&K Highcourts.

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"ElectionGuard”, an open source software unveiled by Microsoft for secure voting

To help nations ensure secure voting, Microsoft unveiled "ElectionGuard".It will enable end-to-end verification of elections, open results to 3rd party organisations for validation, and allow individual voters to confirm their votes were correctly counted.

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Microsoft CEO-Satya Nadela

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Indian Army is commemorating ‘2019’ as the ‘Year of Next of Kin’

Indian Army is observing 2019, as the ‘Year of Next of Kin’ & plans to reach out to relatives of battle casualties, ex-servicemen & serving soldiers to inform them of entitled financial benefits, welfare schemes & help resolve pension related issues.

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Chief of Indian Army- General Bipin Rawat

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Ind-Ra follows ICRA, downgrades Yes Bank

IndiaRatings & Research (Ind-Ra), rating agency followed its peer ICRA-NSE and downgraded YES Bank which could increase the bank’s cost of market borrowings and will add pressure on it to raise equity which may have to be done at a discount .

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NSE- National Stock Exchange

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Renowned Sikh historian and first chronicler of partition Kirpal Singh passes away at 95

Renowned Sikh historian & the first chronicler of India's partition Kirpal Singh passed away at the age of 95 in Chandigarh.

His last work was aimed at “fixing the responsibility” of the Indo-Pak partition tragedy.

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Chandigarh is the capital of Punjab and Haryana.