2021 July 29
Today’s top News Headlines
1. Basavaraj S Bommai takes oath as Chief Minister of Karnataka
2. Union Cabinet cleared the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation Bill 2021.
3. Parliament has passed the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill 2021 with Rajya Sabha approving it today amid din. The Lok Sabha has already passed the Bill. The Bill seeks to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
4. PM Modi will address policy makers in the domain of education and skill development, students, teachers, across the country on 29th July 2021, via video conferencing, to mark the completion of one year of reforms under the National Education Policy 2020.
5. Centre has asked States and Union Territories to issue strict directions to the district and all other local authorities concerned, to take necessary measures for management of COVID-19.
6. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee meets Sonia Gandhi; declares that Congress chief wants Opposition unity
7. Reports says that the number of mobile towers has been increased to 6.63 lakh from 4.15 lakh July 2021.
8. Assam, Mizoram to withdraw own forces; CRPF to take over till a solution. Central paramilitary force will be posted along National Highway-306, said a home ministry
9. A cloudburst has been reported near the Holy Amarnath shrine in Kashmir on Wednesday. Authorities claimed that no loss of life or injury has occurred due to the incident yet.
10. Death toll of the last week’s rain-related incidents in Maharashtra rose to 213 on 28 Jul (Wednesday) with the worst-hit Raigad district alone. Rescue operations continues.
11. Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and her husband business man Raj Kundra, Fined Rs 3 Lakh by SEBI for Flouting Insider Trading Rules. No bail to Kundra
12. Today birthday of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt or Sanjay Balraj Dutt (born 29 July 1959) is an Indian actor & film producer who works in Hindi films. He has acted in 187 films.
13. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on 28 Jul (Wednesday) demanded the removal of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor as the head of the Parliamentary panel on Information Technology, alleging that he was using his position in a discriminatory manner
14. UP CM Yogi Adityanath will virtually inaugurate the Indigenisation Summit on Defence & Aerospace (ISDA 2021), an aim to provide a boost to the micro, small & medium enterprises (MSME) sector in the state & nurture it as a potential supplier to India’s booming defence sector.
15. The Indian Army has launched a recuse operation after a cloudburst in the Gulabgarh area of Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir on (28 Jul) Wednesday morning.
16. Dr. G Satheesh Reddy Secretary DDR&D and Chairman DRDO said that under the new DRDO policy, Transfer of Technology and patents including life science, missile technology has been provided to entrepreneurs free of cost to boost the defence manufacturing process in the country.
17. No consensus yet on structure of theatre commands, discussions, tweaks to continue::
The three Services — Army, Navy and Air Force — are jointly working to reach a consensus on the exact structure of the theatre commands, a concept that the PM Modi government is firm on and will be the biggest defence reform that the forces will see.
18. Indian Army Recruitment Rally for Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh
*Post: Sepoy Pharma*
Rally dates: September 16 to September 30
Rally Place: New Amritsar Military Station (NAMS) Khasa Cantonment, Amritsar.
Registration: Online registration is mandatory and is open till August 31.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. India is finalising its deal to acquire 30 US made MQ-9 Reaper or Predator B armed drones for its military. Raksha mantri Minister Rajnath Singh-led Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) will take the final call in its meeting scheduled for next week.
2. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar & US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on 28 Jul (Wednesday) held wide-ranging talks covering the situation in Afghanistan, Indo-Pacific engagements, COVID-19 response mechanism and ways to strengthen regional security.
3. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with a representative of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in New Delhi on 28 Jul (Wednesday).
4. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on 28 Jul (Wednesday) held bilateral talks with his Belarusian counterpart Lt Gen Viktor Khrenin on the sidelines of a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Dushanbe.
5. National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday 28 Jul & had a frank & candid exchange over situation emerging in Afghanistan, Indo-Pacific & the regional and global security situation.
6. Peace Agent in the Security Council: India gets UNSC’s rotating presidency in August. Its value is a calm voice amidst conflict. on January 1 India returned to the United Nations Security Council for two years.
7. Second Oxygen express leaves India for Bangladesh amid record single day COVID deaths
MORE WORLD NEWS
1. Pakistan-occupied Kashmir underwent the 11th general election recently, & Pak PM Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf emerged victorious. It has become a tradition of sorts — the party in power in Islamabad wins the election in PoK.
2. Two days after Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met the ISI chief in Beijing over concerns of Chinese killing in Pakistan, a high-level Taliban delegation led by Mullah Baradar reached Beijing.
3. Afghanistan’s delegation assured Chinese President Xi’s regime on 28 Jul (Wednesday ) that it will not use its soil as a base against another country.
4. Aviation companies, including airlines such as SpiceJet and GoAir, have been provided guaranteed support to the extent of about Rs349 crore under the government’s Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS), minister of state for civil aviation VK Singh told.
5. US not to lift travel restrictions amid concerns over rising number of coronavirus cases.
6. Sydney lockdown extended by another month as Covid cases spike
SPORTS:
*TOKYO OLYMPICS 2021*
Medals
1. Japan. 13 4 5 22
2. China. 12 6 9 27
3. USA. 11 11 9 31
4. ROC. 7 10 6 23
India in 43rd position with 01 Silver
(Source: Newspapers)