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| 1 | Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa wins first post-Mugabe election | HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former spy chief installed after Robert Mugabe’s removal in a coup in November, was elected on Thursday after a poll marred by the deaths of six people in an army crackdown on opposition protests. After two days of claims and counterclaims, the 75-year-old Mnangagwa secured a comfortable victory, polling 2.46 million votes against 2.15 million for 40-year-old opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. The election, the first since the army’s removal of 94-year-old Mugabe, passed off relatively smoothly but its aftermath revealed the deep rifts in Zimbabwean society and the instinctive heavy-handedness of the security forces. On Wednesday, troops backed by armoured vehicles and a military helicopter were sent in to crush demonstrations by stone-throwing opposition supporters who said Mnangagwa’s ZANU-PF party had rigged the elections. Six people were killed as soldiers, some with their faces obscured by camouflage masks, opened fire with automatic weapons. |
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| 2 | Over 43,000 villages lack mobile services: Taking stock of wireless connectivity across India in six charts | Over 43,000 inhabited villages in India are without mobile phone services, Telecom minister Manoj Sinha said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The number of inhabited villages without mobile services stood at 43,088 as on 27 "Wireless technologies inter-alia include 2G, 3G and 4G technology. 2G mobile network covers 97 Firstpost decodes the state of wireless connectivity in the country, across urban agglomerations and in the hinterland.
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| 3 | WPP sells stakes in Rediffusion JV; to fully acquire mobile ad agency Madhouse |
As part of this, GroupM, the world’s leading media investment group, will move to full ownership of the mobile marketing agency Madhouse, from its current 50% interest. Madhouse has offices in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore and its clients include some of India’s leading brands. Mobile marketing and media consumption |
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| 4 | US Congress passes bill to slash Pakistan's defence aid to $150 million | Amidst tensions in bilateral ties, the US Congress has passed a defence spending bill capping its security-related aid to Pakistan at USD 150 million, significantly below the historic level of more than USD one billion per year. The National Defense Authorisation Act-2019 (NDAA-19), however, removes certain conditions – like action against Haqqani Network The Senate passed the conference report on NDAA-19 by 87 to 10 votes yesterday afternoon. The House of Representatives had passed the conference report last week. It now heads to the White House for President Donald Trump's assent. "The legislation reduces the total amount of funds provided for reimbursement to Pakistan to USD 150 million. This is a significant reduction from the USD 700 million that was authorised through Coalition Support Fund (CSF) last year," Anish Goel, who was part of Barack Obama's White House National Security Council, told PTI. |
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| 5 | Indian-Origin Professor Wins Fields Medal, The "Nobel of Mathematics" | Akshay Venkatesh, a renowned Indian-Australian mathematician, is one of four winners of mathematics' prestigious Fields medal, known as the Nobel prize for math. The Fields medals are awarded every four years to the most promising mathematicians under the age of 40. New Delhi-born Akshay Venkatesh, 36, who is currently teaching at Stanford University, has won the Fields Medal for his "profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects in mathematics." |
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| 6 | France adopts tough new law on asylum, immigration | France's parliament Wednesday signed into law a controversial asylum and immigration bill despite opposition on the left which decried an effort to limit arrivals while the far right saw the measure as not going far enough. The bill is designed to accelerate asylum procedures by cutting the maximum processing time to 90 days after entering France from 120 currently. The text was adopted on a final reading by 100 votes in favour to 25 against with 11 abstentions. The As well as slimming down the time taken to overcome administrative hurdles the text cuts to six months, from 11, the time limit to make an asylum claim while facilitating both the expulsion of those rejected and the acceptance of those whose bid succeeds. "We are giving ourselves the means of preserving a right to asylum which, had nothing been done, could rapidly have been called into question as one fears may happen in a number of European countries," Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told parliament. |
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| 7 | Rajasthan becomes 1st Indian state to implement biofuel policy | Rajasthan has become the first Indian state to implement the national policy on biofuels unveiled by the centre in May this year. High-power Biofuel Authority approved this implementation. Soon, the State Government will release Biofuel Rules for 2018. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BIOFUEL NATIONAL POLICY:
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| 8 | Neeraj Chopra wins javelin gold at Savo Games | Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra won gold with an impressive performance, beating his Chinese Taipei rival Chao-Tsun Cheng at the recently concluded Savo Games in Finland on Sunday. Neeraj, the reigning Commonwealth Games gold medallist and Asian season leader, threw 85.69m in the event held at Lapinlahti, Finland, where he is undergoing training as part of preparations for the upcoming Asian Games. Cheng managed 82.52m to take the second place. 23-year-old Cheng is the only Asian to have thrown the javelin beyond 90m. He threw 91.36m during the World University Games in Taipei last year to shatter the previous Asian record of 89.15m set by Zhao Qinggang of China at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon. But this season, his best so far has been Neeraj is leading the Asian charts so far this season, ahead of Cheng and Ahmed Bader Magour of Qatar ( |
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01-Aug-2018 | News in Details |
| 9 | India and China resolved Doklam through 'diplomatic maturity without losing ground': Sushma Swaraj | On Wednesday, a Special Border Personnel Meeting between India and China held at Nathu La (Sikkim) to celebrate |
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| 10 | US designates three Pakistanis linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba as global terrorists; Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil specially designated | Washington: The US has designated three Pakistanis linked to the LeT, the outfit responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack, as global terrorists to shut down the militant group's financial network and curtail its ability to raise funds to carry out violent terrorist attacks. LeT commander Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil was named as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the Department of State. Separately, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action on Tuesday to disrupt the LeT's fundraising and support networks by designating two of the group's financial facilitators, Hameed ul Hassan and Abdul Jabbar, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). A longtime member of the US designated Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and Lashkar e-Taiba (LeT), Dakhil was an operational leader for LeT's attacks in India between 1997 and 2001. |
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