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India & Sierra Leone signed six agreements

India & Sierra Leone signed 6 agreements including extending a credit line of 30 million US Dollars for rice cultivation. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu & Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio committed to further strengthening bilateral relations.

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Capital of Sierra Leone-Freetown

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Chinese President Xi Jinping pledges Nepalese Rs 56 billion in aid to Nepal

Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Nepalese Rs 56 billion assistance to Kathmandu over the next two years to help Nepal’s development programmes. Nepal PM K P Sharma Oli & Xi inked 20 agreements to bolster the bilateral ties between two nations.

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Xi also pledged to upgrade the Arniko Highway in Kathmandu.

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Typhoon Hagibis hits Japan

Typhoon Hagibis ripped through Japan including Tokyo's metropolitan area, causing multiple rivers to overflow, deaths, injuries & power blackouts. It is the biggest typhoon hit in last 60 years. Most train services resumed operations due to floodwaters.

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Kanogawa Typhoon in 1958 was the strongest typhoon till today.

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Narendra Modi becomes most-followed world leader on Instagram

Narendra Modi has become the most-followed world leader on Instagram with over 30 million followers. Modi is the only world leader to reach the 30 million followers’ milestone on Instagram. He is also among the most-followed leaders on Twitter.

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Modi has his own YouTube channel as well.

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10th National Cultural Festival to be held in Madhya Pradesh

10th edition of the Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav-National Cultural Festival will take place in Madhya Pradesh. Union Ministry of Culture will organize the event & it will be held from October 14th to 21st under the 'Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat' campaign.

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The concept of the festival was conceived in the year 2015.

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Dutch Open: Lakshya Sen wins maiden BWF World Tour title

Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen clinched maiden BWF World Tour title by winning the Dutch Open men's singles at Almere in the Netherlands. Lakshya, currently ranked 72nd, had won the Belgian Open last month and reached the finals of Polish Open this year.

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He defeated Yusuke Onodera of Japan in Dutch Open.

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Simone Biles breaks record for most world medals won by any gymnast

Simone Biles broke the all-time record for most medals by any gymnast at the world championships by winning the balance beam competition at the World Gymnastics Championship in Stuttgart, Germany. It is the 24th world championship medal for Biles.

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Belarusian gymnast Vitaly Scherbo ranks second.

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Manju Rani won silver in World Women's Boxing Championship

Manju Rani clinches silver after losing to Russia's Ekaterina Paltceva in the Women's World Boxing Championships 2019.Paltceva defeated Rani 4 -1 in 48-kg category in the final match of the tournament. Rani hails from Indian state of Haryana.

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Championship took place at Ulan-Ude in Russia.

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Sporting Infrastructure Accessible to all under Fit India Movement

Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports has decided to allow national and state sports federations, leagues and clubs to organise sports events in all sporting facilities owned by the government, free of cost. It is to strengthen the Fit India Movement.

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It will be applicable from 1st November 2019.

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Medvedev defeats Zverev to clinch Shanghai Masters

Daniil Medvedev won his fourth title with a thumping 6-4, 6-1 victory over Alexander Zverev in the Shanghai Masters finals. He is now the new world number three, displacing Roger Federer. The top two are Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

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Daniil Medvedev is a Russian professional tennis player.

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14 October: World Standards Day

World Standards Day is celebrated internationally each year on 14 October. The aim of the day is to raise awareness among regulators, industry and consumers as to the importance of standardization to the global economy. ISO was formed in 1947.

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Day honours the experts who develop voluntary standards.