1. Govt Approves 27% Reservation for OBC, 10% for Economically Weaker Section in All India Quota Medical College Admissions.
2. India is likely to launch its 3rd lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 in the third quarter of next year because the Covid-19 pandemic has delayed the fabrication of the spacecraft, Union minister of state for the department of space Jitendra Singh told.
3. IndiGo will start direct flights between Jabalpur and Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Indore from August 20.
4. PM Modi on 29 Jul (Thursday) launched a website dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the occasion of the first anniversary of the National Education Policy 2020 and said that the website would make our youth future-oriented.
5. COVID-19: Complete lockdown in Kerala from 31 July to 01 Aug . The average daily cases being reported in the state are above 17,443
6. The Assam govt on Thursday issued an 👍🏼advisory asking its citizens to refrain from travelling to Mizoram as border tensions between the two states. Six Assam Police personnel and a civilian were killed and over 50 others including a superintendent of police were injured when the Mizoram Police opened fire on a team of Assam officials Monday.
7. ASSAM’S BORDER DISPUTES : The chief secretaries and police chiefs of Assam and Mizoram at a meeting called by the Union Home Ministry in Delhi agreed to the deployment of a neutral central armed police force along National Hghway 306, headed by a senior central police officer to keep peace along the border of the two states.
8. Basic reason for dispute is land encroachment near Hailakandi district, Cachar & Karimganj and sharing of border between two states.
Mizoram shares about 164.6 km long border with Assam. The hill state Mizoram was part of Assam until 1972 when it was carved out as a Union Territory. It became the 23rd state of India on 20 February 1987 with Aizwal as it’s capital. Now Zoramthanga is the CM of Mizoram.
9. In Kerala a Major Fire Breaks Out at Poultry Feed Manufacturing Unit in Palakkad; 30 Injured.
10. The Delhi Assembly on 29 Jul (Thursday) passed a resolution urging the Centre to immediately withdraw the appointment of Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police commissioner.
11. Himachal Pradesh High Court says that a Pregnant women need bail, not jail, high court allowed the petition of a pregnant woman accused in a Narcotic Drugs case.
Justice Anoop Chitkara also said that temporary bail or suspension of sentence, extending to a year after delivery, must be allowed even when the offences are very grave and accusations very severe.
12. Indian Railways Introduces New Rules for Booking Train Tickets Online: new rule of the Indian Railways is applicable for passengers who have not booked tickets for a long time due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Such users will have to first undergo the verification process before they buy tickets from the IRCTC portal.
Passengers cannot skip this process by any means. However, those who have booked tickets regularly will not have to go through the drill.
13. Birthday of Bollywood actor Sonu Sood (born 30 July 1973). He is an Indian film actor, model, and producer who acts predominantly in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Punjabi films.
14. India has so far received 26 Rafale aircraft out of the 36 it has ordered from Dassault Aviation, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said .
15. The Eurofighter Typhoon will soon be equipped with a new electronic warfare system, SPEAR-EW, capable of neutralizing the “most sophisticated air defenses”.
Multinational defense company MBDA is now working on a new electronic warfare version of the SPEAR weapon system.
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