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FIDE Online Olympiad: India and Russia joint winners after tech failure

After India lodged an official appeal against the result, the world chess body announced that FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich had made a decision to give gold medals to both teams. India No. 2 Grandmaster Vidit Gujarati was Captain of the Indian Team.

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FIDE Headquarters, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Govt releases Draft Health Data Management Policy for public consultation

The National Health Authority (NHA) has released the Draft Health Data Management Policy of the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) in the public domain. The NDHM was announced on the occasion of the 74th Independence Day of India.

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Indu Bhushan,Chief Executive Officer, National Health Authority.

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IIT Bombay students launch AI-powered document scanning app

AIR Scanner app does not collect any information about the user and all the documents are stored in the phone's local storage. Any cloud storage to store the documents of the users has not been used. The app guarantees complete user security.

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Ban on the Chinese app called CamScanner was recently made.

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Mustapha Adib on course to be designated Lebanon PM

An influential group of former Lebanese prime ministers has picked diplomat Mustapha Adib to head the country's next government. His designation will come on the eve of French President Emmanuel Macron's second trip to Lebanon in under a month.

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Lebanon President, Michel Aoun.

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Congress MP and Vasanth & Co founder H Vasanthakumar dies at 70

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee Working President and MP from Kanyakumari H Vasanthakumar, died. He was 70. He was the founder of Vasanth & Co, a successful chain of consumer electronics and home appliances stores.

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Vasanthakumar’s niece is BJP leader Tamilisai Soundararajan.

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IT Minister launches wireless BSNL Bharat AirFibre for rural areas in Bihar

Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurated a next-generation network telephone exchange at New Bihar Vidhan Mandal compound and Bharat Air Fibre service at Danapur Telephone Exchange in Bihar through video conferencing from New Delhi.

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Bharat AirFibre will start its subscription at Rs 349 per month.

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Lewis Hamilton wins Belgian Grand Prix, now two behind Michael Schumacher’s record

Lewis Hamilton led from start to finish at the Belgian Grand Prix to clinch his 89th career win. He was untroubled from pole position, beating his Mercedes's Valtteri Bottas by eight seconds. He extended his championship lead over Verstappen to 47 points.

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This was Hamilton’s fifth win from seven races.

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Togo first in Africa to end sleeping sickness

Togo has become the first country in Africa to eliminate human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, a disease caused by parasites transmitted through infected tsetse flies.The World Health Organization (WHO) certified. Lome is the capital of Togo.

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Togo did not report any cases in the past 10 years

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NASA maps trace causes of global mangrove habitat loss

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has created the first map of the causes of change in global mangrove habitats between 2000 and 2016. The team used high-resolution data from the joint NASA-US Geological Survey Landsat program.

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NASA Founder, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Joe Ruby, TV writer and producer who co-created Scooby-Doo, dies at 87

Joe Ruby, who helped invigorate children’s television as the co-creator of Scooby-Doo, the long-running animated franchise about a group of teenage private eyes and their chicken-hearted, snack-guzzling Great Dane, died. He was 87.

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Mr. Ruby and Spears were considered the show’s co-creators.

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Police, Central cadre under J&K Lieutenant Governor

According to the transaction of business rules, "police, public order, All India Services & anti-corruption," will fall under the executive functions of the LG, implying that the CMs or the Council of Ministers will have no say in their functioning.

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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notified new rules.

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Former Indian TT Player Nipjyoti Barua Succumbs to COVID-19

Assam's Nipjyoti Barua, who represented India in various Table Tennis championships, passed away. He played for India in the IVth Junior Asian Cup TT Championship 1989 held at New Delhi and the US Open TT 1990 held at Baltimore USA.

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Assam, Chief Minister- Sarbananda Sonowal.

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J&K: Lt Guv e-inaugurates Panel Discussion on 'COVID-19: Challenges and Effective Management'

The digital event was organized to observe the 105th Jayanthi Celebrations of Jagadguru Dr. Sri Shivaratri Rajendra Mahaswamiji, the 23rd Pontiff of the Matha in the 20th Century. He was the visionary amongst the great lineage of seers of the Matha.

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The first pontiff of the matha was Shri Narayana Theertharu.

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CISF launches 'Pension Corner' app for its retired personnel

With the help of this new digital initiative, pensioners will get connected to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) units spread across the country, and receive invitations, over SMS, on important occasions in the nearest unit.

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CISF Director General Rajesh Ranjan.

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Tharanga Paranavitana retires from international cricket

Tharanga Paranavitana, the 38-year old Sri Lanka batsman, has announced his retirement from international cricket. Known as an old-school opener, he played 32 Test matches for his country, scoring 1792 runs including two hundreds and 11 fifties.

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Paranavitana made his Test debut against Pakistan in Feb. 2009.

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"National Security Challenges: Young Scholars' Perspective", Book On National Security released

Army Chief General MM Naravane released a book titled "National Security Challenges: Young Scholars' Perspective" penned by university students. The book has been published by the Army think-tank Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS).

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Lt Gen (Dr) Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia: Director-General, CLAWS.

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Education Minister addresses inaugural session of World Urdu Conference organised by NCPUL

The Education Minister made an important announcement and said that Urdu writers and literators will be honoured with awards and honours in the name of important personalities of Urdu like Amir Khusrow, Mirza Ghalib, Agha Hashar, Ram Babu Saxena, etc.

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National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL).

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ISL Side Chennaiyin FC Appoint Csaba Laszlo As Head Coach For 2020-21 Season

He has more than two decades of coaching experience at the club and international level. The Romania-born Laszlo had coaching stints in eight countries, including two national teams -- Uganda and Lithuania. Laszlo replaced Owen Coyle.

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Chennaiyin FC co-owner Vita Dani said Laszlo.

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Rs 601.12 crore annual action plan approved for PMKSY in J&K

The Committee approved Rs. 601.12 crore annual action plan of PMKSY for the year 2020-21. It lays emphasis on various components under the schemes Per Drop More Crop (PDMC), Har Khet Ko Paani (HKKP), Integrated Watershed Management Plan (IWMP) and AIBP.

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Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP).

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Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance & Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank tie up

Tie up with the bank will provide an opportunity & onus to create awareness in the rural market about the need of having life insurance, health insurance and pension plans. The distribution tie up is for selling Life insurance, health and pension products.

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Anuj Mathur, MD & CEO, Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce.

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Noor Inayat Khan Becomes First Indian-Origin Woman To Be Honoured With Blue Plaque

She was an undercover radio operator in Nazi-captured France in 1943 working for Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE). The memorial plaque will be installed at her family home in central London, 4 Taviton Street at Bloomsbury where she lived.

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The Blue Plaque scheme was founded in 1866.

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Retired IAS Officer Utpal Singh Appointed Secretary in Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha Speaker appointed retired IAS officer Utpal Kumar Singh as a secretary on a contractual basis. He will take charge from September 1. Singh was earlier the chief secretary of Uttarakhand.

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Om Birla, current Speaker who presides over the 17th Lok Sabha.

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First newspaper for kids 'The Young Minds' launched in Assam

Two Guwahati-based women entrepreneurs have launched a newspaper specifically designed for kids, to promote creative thinking among children and inculcate in them the habit to read and write. It is the brainchild of Neelam Sethia and Neha Bajaj,

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The Young Minds, will cater to kids of 4-14 years of age.

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DEA holds Sustainable Finance Collaborative consultation with UNDP

The Collaborative saw a host of thematic discussions centered around the broad scope of Sustainable Finance architecture in India. It included dialogues on critical elements such as the barriers to deploying new and innovative financing.

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Department of Economic Affairs (DEA).