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Women's cricket to be part of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games Federation announced that women's T20 Cricket has been confirmed for inclusion at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in 2022. 8 teams will compete across 8match days. 2022 Commonwealth Games will take place in England.

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Cricket returns to Commonwealth Games for 1st time since 1998.

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Chandrayaan-2 successfully enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory

ISRO successfully carried out a crucial process to manoeuvre India's second lunar probe out of the earth's orbit.

The space agency said as planned it carried out the manoeuvre called Trans Lunar Insertion (TLI)

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It is expected to reach the moon's orbit on August 20

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Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry launches fifth edition of Swachh Survekshan 2020

MoHUA launched the 5th edition of Swachh Survekshan 2020, which will be conducted in Jan 2020. Water PLUS Protocol was launched to provide a guideline for cities &towns to ensure that no untreated wastewater is released into the environment.

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Hardeep Singh Puri - MoS for Housing and Urban Affairs.

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Retail inflation eases marginally to 3.15% in July

As per the data released by the Central Statistics Office, Retail inflation eased marginally in July to 3.15% over the previous month despite costlier food items. The retail inflation based on Consumer Price Index was 3.18% in June & 4.17% in July 2018.

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Govt has asked RBI to keep inflation in the range of 4%.

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RBI ups cap on bank credit to NBFCs

RBI has increased the bank credit to NBFCs for on-lending to agriculture, MSEs & HFCs under priority sector lending up to a limit of 5% of bank’s total PSL on an ongoing basis. The limit for (term lending) Agriculture - ₹10 L, MSE - ₹20 L, HFCs - ₹20 L.

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Loans disbursed under the on-lending model is classified as PSL.

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Aditya Birla Health Insurance and Axis Bank ink bancassurance pact

Aditya Birla Health Insurance has entered into a bancassurance partnership with Axis Bank. Through this partnership, ABHI will offer health insurance solutions to the Axis bank’s customers across its 4,094 branches and digital channels.

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Amitabh Chaudhry is the MD and CEO of Axis Bank.

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India contributes $1 million to UN fund

India has contributed $1 mn to the UN Special Purpose Trust Fund for the Resident Coordinator System. The SPTF established to receive, consolidate, manage & account for all financial transactions of the new Resident Coordinator system in an effective way

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UN Sec Gen.: António Guterres

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IIM Kozhikode to host Women Economic Forum for entrepreneurs

The first Kerala edition of Women Economic Forum (WEF) will be held at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode. It will be organized by All Ladies League. WEF will include sessions focusing on learning, networking and business development.

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WEF - A platform for women leadership enhancement & networking.

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J&K govt to host Global Investors Summit in Srinagar

Jammu and Kashmir government will host a three-day Global Investors Summit from 12th October. The first ever summit in the state will provide J&K an opportunity to showcase its strengths, strategies and potential.

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J&K Governor: Satya Pal Malik

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India, Russia to boost ties to achieve $30 billion bilateral trade by 2025

India & Russia have called for diversifying & deepening of economic ties in priority sectors to meet the bilateral trade target of $30 bn by 2025. MoUs were signed b/w regions of the Russian Far East & 5 states of India to expand and strengthen cooperation

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In 2018-19 bilateral trade b/w the countries stood at $8.3 bn