✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman participated virtually in the G20 High-Level Tax Symposium on tax policy and Climate Change on 09 Jul. The Symposium was organised by G20 Italy, ahead of the 3rd G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting.
2. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on 09 Jul (Friday) spoke to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Gantz to congratulate him on taking office. India looks forward to working closely with Israel to deepen Defence Cooperation and Strategic Partnership.
3. Chief of Army Staff Gen MM Naravane on 08 Jul inaugurated a memorial in the Italian town of Cassino as a mark of respect to the Indian soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in World War II.
4. India on Friday made it clear to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that its “interference” in the country’s internal matters is “unnecessary”. It also warned OIC to not get used by “vested interests”, in a veiled attack on Pakistan.
5. External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar will pay a two-day official visit to Georgia starting from Fiday at the invitation of the Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Georgia David Zalkaliani
6. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on 09 Jul held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. In his statement at the Joint Press conference following the meeting, Dr Jaishankar said the time-tested and trust-based India Russia relationship remains very strong and continues to grow. He expressed appreciation for the support India got from Russia during the second wave of the COVID pandemic this year.
6. India Rail Cargo movement between India and Nepal gets a big boost. The Railways Ministry said, Cargoes in all categories of wagons that can carry freight on Indian Railways network within India can also now carry freight to and from Nepal. India and Nepal had signed a Letter of Exchange, LoE to the India-Nepal Rail Services Agreement 2004 on 28th June.
7. PM Modi has condoled the assassination of President of Haiti Jovenel Moïse and the attack on First Lady Martine Moïse.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Several parts of China have been hit by floods & mudslides after a round of torrential rains hit the country. The downpour that started in early July 2021 triggered floods and mudslides in eastern and southern China.
2. A group of 28 foreign mercenaries, including retired Colombian soldiers, assassinated Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse earlier this week Jul 2021. In the early morning of 7 July 2021, Moïse was assassinated and his wife Martine was injured during an attack on their private residence in Pétion-Ville. Claude Joseph, the interim prime minister, took control of the country following Moïse’s assassination.
3. Moise, a 53-year-old former businessman who took office in 2017, was shot dead and his wife, Martine Moise, was seriously wounded when heavily armed assassins stormed the couple’s home in the hills above Port-au-Prince.
4. Death toll in Bangladesh factory fire goes up to 52 and 25 others injured as a juice factory caught fire at Rupganj in Narayanganj near Dhaka. The fire broke out in the six-storey building late on 08 Jul (Thursday) evening. The cause of the fire is not known yet.
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