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As per RBI, Card-less cash withdrawal, which was offered only by a few banks, will now be made available across all banks and ATMs via the Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
UPI will be used for customer authorisation and this step is expected to enhance ease of transactions and eliminate frauds.

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Washington DC as part of his five-day US visit which includes the India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue.
2+2 dialogue involves meetings between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar and their respective American counterparts. Ahead of the 2+2 dialogue between India and the US, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden.

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President Ramnath Kovind inaugurated the annual Madhavpur Mela, the five-day cultural fair, in the coastal village of Madhavpur in Gujarat.
The fair celebrates the marriage of Hindu deity Lord Krishna with Rukmini. Similar events are being organised across Gujarat and in eight Northeast states. From 2018, in association with the Union Ministry of Culture, the Gujarat government started organising events during the fair.

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Pakistan Muslim League (N) Leader Shehbaz Sharif was sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan, after a no-confidence motion was introduced against his predecessor Imran Khan.
Sharif was elected unopposed after rival candidate Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that his party will boycott the voting and staged a walkout. Shehbaz, the younger brother of former three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was elected as the country’s 23rd Prime Minister.

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India is the world’s second largest consumer of Gold, only after China. India’s gold imports rose by 33.34 per cent to ₹46.14 billion during the 2021-22 fiscal, due to high demand.
In the previous fiscal, Gold imports were worth ₹34.62 billion. The rise in gold imports during the last year contributed to the widening of the trade deficit to USD 192.41 billion, against USD 102.62 billion in 2020-21.