# World Trade organization

• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director general, world Trade organization (WTO), is looking into resolving WTO rules that are making it difficult for India to export food grains to meet shortages in other countries.
• There are specific WTO rules around the export of food by a country that had also procured food grains on a minimum support price basis.
• India has reached out to more than 20 countries regarding exporting wheat, and is targeting a record 15 million tonnes of wheat for exports this year.
• India is expected to have a surplus this year, producing more than 111 million tonnes of the crop.

# Argentina

• The government of Argentina will launch a campaign in India on Sunday demanding negotiations with the United Kingdom to settle the territorial dispute over the Islas Malvinas that are known as the Falkland islands in the United Kingdom.
• The commission for the dialogue on the question of the Malvinas islands in India will be launched by Santiago cafiero, Argentina’s minister of Foreign affairs.
• The members of the commission will include former Union Minister Suresh Prabhu, BJP leader Shajia Ilmi, Congress member Shashi tharoor and Veteran peace maker Taran Gandhi bhattacharhee.

# CBSE

• The Central board of secondary education (CBSE) has dropped chapters about the non aligned movement, cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-asian territories, the chronicles of Mughal courts and industrial revolution from the history and political science Syllabi of classes 11 and 12.
• Similarly, in the class 10 syllabus, the topic “impact of globalization on agriculture” from a chapter on food security has been dropped.
• The translated excerpts from the two poems in Urdu by Faiz ahmed faiz in the “religion, communalism and politics – communalism and secular state” section have also been excluded this year.

# France

• France on Saturday prepared to choose between Centrist president Emmanuel Macron and far right challenger Marine Le Pen to rule the country for next five years after a bitterly contested and polarising election campaign.
• Emmanuel macron is the favourite to win re-rlection in the run-off ballot on Sunday.