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1.Nepal’s former Chief Justice Sushila Karki Friday took oath as the country’s first woman prime minister.
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2.The Supreme Court Thursday raised pointed questions over the selective imposition of the fi recracker ban in the Delhi-NCR region, saying if clean air was a right for “elite” residents of the national capital, the same must extend to citizens across the country.
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3.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to embark on a three-day visit from September 13 to Mizoram, Manipur, Assam, West Bengal and Bihar to launch multi-crore infrastructure projects.
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4.Three members of a family have been found dead under suspicious circumstances in Assam's Darrang district.
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5.Demolition of the more-than-century-old Elphinstone Road Over Bridge (ROB), a crucial east-west link in central Mumbai, began on Friday evening to facilitate its reconstruction.
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6.India on Friday voted in favour of a resolution in the UN General Assembly that endorses the 'New York Declaration' on peaceful settlement of the Palestine issue and implementation of the two-state solution
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7.More than 172 years after the British introduced railways to India, Aizawl, the capital city of the northeastern state of Mizoram, is set to get this mode of transportation and will join the vast Indian railways network.
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8.Odisha Vigilance sleuths Friday arrested Aswini Kumar Panda, OAS, Tehsildar of Bamra, who was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs15,000 from a complainant for converting agricultural land to homestead land in a mutation case.
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9.Bali Yatra, the largest open-air trade fair in Asia, will now be called ‘Historic Bali Yatra Cuttack’ and this year it will be held in the Silver City from November 5 to 12, district Collector Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde said Friday.
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10. Prolonged delay in disposal of regular and anticipatory bail pleas amounts to a denial of justice, the Supreme Court (SC) said Friday and directed high courts (HCs) to decide such applications within two months from the date of filing.
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11.Acting on the Supreme Court’s directive, the Ajmer Development Authority (ADA) started removing the structures that were declared encroachments on the wetland. The Supreme Court had ordered the removal of these constructions six months ago.
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12.The Arunachal Pradesh government has approved the mining lease of Namchik-Namphuk coal mines in Kharsang in Changlang district.
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13.The Supreme Court has banned clicking photos, creating social media reels and videography within its main premises, declared as a high security zone.
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14.Over one fifth of 5,204 sitting MPs, MLAs and MLCs analysed have dynastic backgrounds with their representation highest in Lok Sabha at 31 per cent, according to poll rights body ADR.
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15. The Supreme Court Friday ordered the disbursal of `5,000 crore of over `24,000 crore deposited by Sahara Group with market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India to repay dues of the depositors of the Sahara Group of Cooperative Societies.
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16.The Election Commission Friday told its officials handling social media in the states to hit back at misinformation with facts. They were told to keep countering misleading information with facts.
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17.Poland rejected Friday a suggestion by Donald Trump that Russian drone incursions into its airspace could have been a mistake, a rare contradiction of the US president from one of Washington’s closest European allies.
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18.An early eagle and a late birdie coupled with smart course management drawn from his experience of almost two decades saw Gaganjeet Bhullar card a 2-under 70 fi nal round and become the fi rst IGPL Invitational champion here Friday.
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19.Jaismine Lamboria cruised into the fi nal while Minakshi assured India of a fourth medal in the ongoing World Boxing Championships but the men's campaign ended without a podium fi nish for the fi rst time in 12 years here Friday.
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20.Grandmaster Nihal Sarin played out a quick and effortless draw with Matthias Bluebaum on Germany to share the lead with the German on six points after the end of the eighth round of FIDE Grand Swiss here.