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| 1 | India, Rwanda review bilateral ties, sign 8 MoUs | New Delhi: India and Rwanda reviewed their entire gamut of bilateral ties and signed eight agreements across different sectors during the course of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to the East African nation, the External Affairs Ministry said on Tuesday. “During the talks, both leaders reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral cooperation and expressed satisfaction at the excellent relations between Rwanda and India in the overall context of Strategic Partnership,” the ministry said in a statement following delegation-level talks chaired by Modi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali on Monday. Ties between India and Rwanda were elevated to that of a Strategic Partnerhsip in January last year. According to the statement, Modi highlighted the fact that Rwanda would house the first of the 18 new resident Indian missions to be opened in Africa in 2018 and this underlined the importance attached by India to its relations with Rwanda. Stating that India and Rwanda were looking forward to further elevate their ties, Modi, while addressing the media with Kagame following Monday’s talks, said: “This (opening the new mission) will not only facilitate close communication among our governments, it will also help in consular, passport, visa and other facilities.” Agreements in the area of trade, defence, dairy cooperation, agriculture, culture, leather and allied sectors and two lines of credit worth $200 million for expansion of the special economic zone and irrigation scheme were signed. “Prime Minister appreciated the effective utilisation of $400 million lines of credit extended to Rwanda in the last few years,” the ministry statement said. In his address, Modi appreciated the steps for peace that have been adopted in Rwanda following the mass genocide in that country in 1994. Around 500,000 to one million people were killed in the mass genocide against the Tutsi people by the majority Hutu government of that time. “For us, it is a matter pride that India is a trusted development partner of Rwanda,” Modi said. “We have been helping Rwanda in capacity building, infrastructure development and ICT,” he said. According to the ministry statement, Modi complemented President Kagame for the important role played by him as African Union Chair in finalising the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement that has been signed by 44 countries as of March 21, 2018. “He expressed hope that his leadership will guide the African Union in furthering economic integration of the continent,” it stated. “He indicated India’s willingness to continue to strengthen relations with African Union.” Following the talks, Modi also interacted with the Indian community in Rwanda and invited them to visit India for the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to be held in January 2019. Members of the Indian community of neighbouring states had also travelled for this interaction with the Prime Minister. On Tuesday, the second and concluding day of his visit, Modi visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial honouring the memory of the 1994 genocide victims and laid a wreath there. Thereafter, he visited the Rwera model village and gifted 200 diary cows to the villagers as part of the Rwandan government’s Girinka programme for economic development. Girinka was initiated by President Kagame in response to the alarmingly high rate of childhood malnutrition and as a way to accelerate poverty reduction and integrate livestock and crop farming. Speaking on the occasion, Modi appreciated the Girinka programme, and Kagame’s initiative in this regard. According to the External Affairs Ministry, he said people in India too would be pleasantly surprised to see the cow being given such importance as a means of economic empowerment in villages, in faraway Rwanda. The Prime Minister also announced gifting of 100,000 books of the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) books, setting up of the Entrepreneurship Development Centre in Kigali which would provide training to youth of Rwanda for enhancing their skills in a variety of sectors, fully funded 25 slots for short-term training in the field of dairy production and processing, contribution of $10,000 each to the Kigali Genocide Memorial and the Imbuto Foundation run by the First Lady of Rwanda towards the education of the girl child. |
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| 2 | Olympic Medalists to Now Receive Rs 20,000 Pension Per Month | Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore announced that the rate of pension for sportspersons who have won medals in international competitions and have retired from active sports, has been doubled from April 1. In a written reply in Lok Sabha on Thursday, Rathore said at present the government gives lifelong pension to 588 players under the scheme of ‘Pension to Meritorious Sportspersons.' According to the revised rates, Olympic and Para Olympic medallists will get a sum of Rs 20,000 per month each, while gold medallists at World Cups and World Championships in Olympic and Asian Games disciplines will receive Rs 16,000 per month. |
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| 3 | Tokyo introduces mascots for 2020 Olympic Games | Japan has named its official mascots for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The two futuristic creatures, christened Miraitowa and Someity, were picked by schoolkids across the country. |
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| 4 | Fakhar Zaman is the quickest to 1000 runs in ODIs | Pakistan's Fakhar Zaman has just become the fastest man to reach 1000 runs in one-day internationals, shaving the earlier mark by a whopping three innings. He started the fifth and final ODI with 980 runs in 17 innings against his That beat the record of 21 innings, held jointly by five batsmen – Zaman’s countrymate Babar Azam the last one to join the club – by three innings, with Zaman getting there in 18 innings.
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| 5 | Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies at 57 | Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city’s vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died. He was 57. Gold died of pancreatic cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center on Saturday evening, according to his wife, Times arts and entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa. The disease was diagnosed in early July. One of the most widely admired voices of Los Angeles, Gold wrote about restaurants for four decades and became indelibly linked with the city in which he was born and raised. |
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| 6 | Justice Tahira Safdar to be first woman chief justice of a Pakistani high court | Justice Syeda Tahira Safdar will be the Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court, Pakistan’s top judge announced on Monday, paving way for her to become the first woman chief justice of any court in the conservative Muslim-majority nation. “Madam Tahira Safdar will be the next chief justice of BHC,” Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar said today at a book launch in Lahore, where he was invited as the chief guest, the Express Tribune reported. Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai is scheduled to retire on on August 31. Justice Tahira will replace Justice Meskanzai. She will work as the chief justice of the BHC till October 5 next year. |
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| 7 | India, Rwanda sign eight agreements following delegation-level talks between PM Modi & Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali | India and Rwanda signed eight agreements last night following delegation-level talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali. |
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| 8 | Indian sprinter Muhammed Anas Yahiya breaks own national record in 400m | Star sprinter Muhammed Anas Yahiya once again entered the record books on Saturday as he broke his own national record to win the 400 metres race at the Cena Noveho Mesta nad Metuji Anas set a time of 45.24 seconds to break his own record of 45.31 seconds which he had set during the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast earlier this year. |
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| 9 | Trump warns Iran to never, ever threaten the US again or it will suffer the consequences | WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday (July 22) not to threaten the United States or face the consequences, hours after Rouhani told Trump that hostile policies towards Teheran could lead to "the mother of all wars". In a late night Twitter message directed at Rouhani, Trump wrote: "NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!" |
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| 10 | ISI asked Chief Justice of Pakistan to ensure Nawaz Sharif stays in jail till election: Islamabad HC judge | Lahore: A Pakistani high court judge on Sunday alleged that the country's powerful ISI spy agency is pressuring the chief justice and other judges to get favourable verdicts in different cases, including against ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Speaking at the Rawalpindi Bar Association, Islamabad High Court judge Justice Shaukat Siddiqui openly lashed out at the "Today, the judiciary and media have come in the control of ' He said, "In different cases, the ISI forms benches of its choice to get desired results. The ISI had asked the chief justice to make sure that Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz should not come out of jail before the 25 July election. It also had asked him not to include me in the bench hearing the appeal of Nawaz Sharif and his daughter in the Avenfield case. The chief justice told ISI that he would make a bench of its choice." The bench deferred the Sharifs' appeal case after polls. Both Sharif and Maryam are serving ten and seven-year terms, respectively, in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi in the Avenfield corruption case. |
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