1. Both the houses of Parliament The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha continued to face disruptions over Pegasus snooping, farm laws and other issues for the fifth consecutive day yesterday.
2. The country celebrated 22nd anniversary of the Kargil War. Each year, a two-day event is held at the Kargil War Memorial located in Drass, in which the soldiers who participated in the war and families of those martyred gather together to pay homage.
3. The Union Govt has decided to set up a National Centre of Excellence for Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics for creating a world-class talent pool in India to cater to the Indian as well as global industry. Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur said.
4. PM Modi to address nation on 29th July on completion of one year of transformational reforms under National Education Policy. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said.
5. NDRF teams & Army continue rescue & relief work in flood hit Maharashtra. Search and Rescue operations continue at six landslide locations in Raigad, Ratnagiri and Satara districts and teams have retrieved 90 dead bodies from the sites. Search is going on for remaining 33 missing persons.
6. The death toll in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra rose to 192 on 26 Jul (Monday) after the recovery of 28 more bodies, most of them in Raigad.
7. Six Assam cops killed, 50 injured in clashes at border with Mizoram. Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to the chief ministers of Assam and Mizoram, Himanta Biswa Sarma and Zoramthanga respectively, and urged them to ensure peace along the disputed border and find an amicable settlement.
8. Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has announced his resignation. He will remain caretaker Chief Minister as his party decides on a replacement; sources say a decision could take two or three days.
9. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee arrived in Delhi on 27 Jul (Monday) on her first visit to the national capital since assuming office for a third term and is likely to meet PM Modi today.
10. A four-time chief minister, BS Yediyurappa announced his decision to step down on a day the BJP celebrated the second year of his government in Bengaluru.
11. Income Tax Return E Filing Last Date ITR Last Date 2021-22: The Statement of Income paid or credited by an investment fund to its unit holder in Form No. 64C for the Previous Year 2020-21, required to be furnished on or before 31 July 2021.
12. Income Tax Return (ITR) Filing last date has been extended from July 31, 2021 to to September 30, 2021. The central government had announced that the deadline for filing ITR for Financial Year 2020-21 was extended due to prevalent Covid pandemic situation.
13. The launch of the first uncrewed mission planned in December, as part of the human spaceflight programme ‘Gaganyaan’, will be delayed due to the COVID-19-induced disruption in delivery of hardware elements for the ambitious venture, Indian Space Research Organisation confirmed.
14. Union Govt has said that there is no proposal of privatization of Defence Public Sector Undertaking, DPSUs and Ordinance Factory Board, OFB which are under the administrative control of Department of Defence Production.
15. Weeks after the Jammu drone attack, the Centre has instructed all security agencies to be extra vigilant about any flying objects ahead of the Independence Day celebrations on August 15.
16. Mumbai Crime Branch seizes businessman Raj Kundra’s and his wife Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty bank accounts in Kanpur
17. The recent landslide in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, which claimed young Ayurvedic doctor Deepa Sharma’s life, was once a contestant in the Amitabh Bachchan hosted quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati.
She had participated in season 7 & had reportedly won Rs 6,40,000 on the quiz show.
18. Today birthday of Uddhav Bal Thackeray (born 27 July 1960) serving as the 19th & current Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
19. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will release the class 10th result soon at cbseresults. nic. in. Though, the board is yet to confirm the result date and time, it is confirmed that it will release the result by July 31.
20. India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC), is getting ready to go for sea trials soon and is expected to be commissioned into the Eastern Naval Command in 2022 as INS Vikrant. It is a Rs 24,000-crore project
21. Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman G Sateesh Reddy inspected the ongoing construction work of the Missile Testing Range at Gullalamoda village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh.
22. CDS Gen Rawat installs Victory Flame at Kargil War Memorial in Dras.
Paying homage to Kargil heroes on the occasion of 22nd Vijay Diwas, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat installed the Victory Flame at the Kargil War Memorial in Dras. The Victory Flame Swarnim Vijay Mashaal marks India’s victory in the 1971 war.
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