1. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu remembered brave revolutionary and iconic patriot, Shaheed Udham Singh on his martyrdom day. Shaheed Udham Singh has considered death as a great honour for the sake of motherland. Udham Singh (26 December 1899 – 31 July 1940) was an Indian revolutionary belonging to the Ghadar Party, best known for his assassination in London of Michael O’Dwyer, the former lieutenant governor of the Punjab in India, on 13 March 1940. The assassination was done in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919, for which O’Dwyer was responsible.
2. According to the report of Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Under the Ayushman Bharat scheme, 10 cr families have been covered in the country. Presently 50 cr people are eligible for free treatment of up to an amount of Five lakh rupees under the scheme.
3. PM Modi interacts with IPS probationers at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy. PM told to remember the Mantra of ‘Nation First-Always First’.
4. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on 31 Jul (Saturday) informed that the chief secretaries of Assam and Nagaland held a meeting and agreed to withdraw security forces from disputed border locations.
5. The founder of the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune, businessman Cyrus Poonawalla has been named the winner of the prestigious National Lokmanya Tilak Award 2021.
6. The Income Tax Department has detected unaccounted transactions of more than Rs 400 crore after it raided a north India-based ‘pan masala’ manufacturing group, searches were carried out Thursday on 31 premises — Kanpur, Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad and Kolkata — of the group, also involved in the real estate business.
7. Pro-Khalistan group Sikhs for Justice has purportedly issued a threat that Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur will not be allowed to hoist the national flag in the hill state.
8. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy to very heavy and extremely heavy rainfall in some states from Saturday, 31 July. East Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and East Uttar Pradesh.
9. Kerala reports over 20K COVID cases, Kerala Health Minister Veena George urged people to follow COVID-19 protocol and be extra cautious. Also to avoid crowds during Onam.
9. Maharashtra Health Department said, “The first case of Zika virus reported in Maharashtra. A 50-year-old woman patient was found in Purandar tehsil in Pune district.
10. Former Union Minister and BJP leader Babul Supriyo said on 31 Jul (Saturday) that he has decided to quit politics and will be resigning as an MP of West Bengal.
11. The Punjab government on 31 Jul (Saturday) allowed the reopening of schools for all classes from 02 Aug (Monday) as it further relaxed restrictions in view of declining COVID-19 cases.
12. CBSE announces class XII results ; Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE examination 2021 results announced on 30 Jul. Girls have done better than boys by 0.54%.
The girls registered a pass percentage of 99.67 and boys 99.13%. A total of 12,96,318 students passed out of the total over 13 lakh.
13. Security forces on 31 Jul (Saturday) killed two Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists, including a top Pakistani ultra belonging to the family of the group’s chief Masood Azhar and involved in the planning of the 2019 Pulwama attack, in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district,
14. India’s flagship military exhibition, DefExpo, will be held at Gandhinagar in Gujarat in March 2022, with a focus on projecting the country as an emerging defence manufacturing hub.
15. Vice Admiral SN Ghormade took charge as the vice chief of the Indian Navy from Vice Admiral G Ashok Kumar who is set to retired on 31 Jul (Saturday) who retired after 39 years of service.
16. Two CRPF jawans and a civilian was injured when suspected militants hurled a grenade on CRPF party at Khanpora Bridge in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on 30 Jul.
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