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- Turkey will sell four corvette warships to Pakistan which will be the country's largest single export deal. Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding to build four corvettes for Pakistan under the MiLGEM project last year.
- The government has doubled import duties on 328 textile products to 20% from existing rate of 10% under Section 159 of the Customs Act, 1962.
- Chennai will be hosting the 6th edition of the Covelong Point Surf festival at Kovalam on Aug 17, 2018.
- Rugby World cup 2019 is going to be hosted by Japan, for the 1st time in Asia. It will be the ninth Rugby World Cup.
- Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president has escaped an assassination attempt when the explosives detonated just above him during a speech in a military event.
- He replaced the socialist, Hugo Chavez in 2013.
- Saudi Arabia – announced that it is cutting all its diplomatic, trade and investment ties with Canada – for its interference in the Internal Affairs of Saudi Arabia.
- It has also expelled the Canadian ambassador and recalled its own envoy in Canada.
- On the occasion of Government Maternity Hospital, Egmore inaugurating the 175th year of service celebrations, C Vijayabaskar, Health Minister of Tamil Nadu inaugurated the RFIT service (Radio frequency identification tag) to prevent the newborn from stolen or lost within the hospital campus.
- Mumbai's St Xavier's College will get its first non-Christian principal in the institution's 150-year history after Rajendra Shinde assumes charge on September 1, the day when the college turns 150 years
- The principal-designate, who at present heads the Botany department of the college, will replace Baptist Agnel Menezes, the 1st Non-Jesuit principal of the College.
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