1. Gujarat to Reopen Schools for Class 12, Colleges from July 15. Students can attend physical classes on a voluntary basis. Attendance will not be mandatory.
2. Haryana to reopen schools for Classes 9 to 12 from July 16. No decision has been taken yet to open school for students of Classes 1 to 5.
3. Marriages and funerals will be permitted in Delhi with a limited number of attendees across all the four grades under the colour-coded action plan approved by authorities. The four colour codes in the increasing severity order – ‘Yellow’, ‘Amber’, ‘Orange’ and ‘Red’, based on positivity rate (on two consecutive days), cumulative number of new cases (over a week) and average oxygenated-bed occupancy (for a week) will designate four levels of alerts.
4. Kerala was put on alert on Friday following the outbreak of Zika virus in the state, while the Centre rushed a team of experts to monitor the situation and aid the state government in management of the cases after 13 new ones were confirmed.
5. West Bengal Senior politician Mukul Roy, who recently switched over to the ruling Trinamool Congress camp in Bengal after winning the state polls on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket, was on Friday appointed as the chairperson of the important Public Accounts Committee in the assembly by Speaker Biman Banerjee
6. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal promised govt jobs to family members of farmers who died during the agitation against the Centre’s farm laws if the coalition led by his party comes to power in the state.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh who slammed the SAD leader for “shameless” attempts to “befool” farmers by announcing poll promises that the current state government had already started executing long ago.
7. Today Defence Minister Rajnath Singh birthday (born 10 July 1951). He is the former President of BJP and previously served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee Govt.
8. A four-day brain-storming meeting of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ‘pracharaks’ (full-time workers) began in the presence of the organization’s head Mohan Bhagwat at Chitrakoot in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district.
9. Suspended IGP Paramraj Singh Umaranangal on Friday agreed to undergo Polygraph, Brain Electrical Activation Profile and Narco Analysis Test a month after the newly formed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Kotkapura police firing case.
10. Delimitation Commission says, delimitation exercise to redraw boundaries of Assembly constituencies of J&K will be completed in transparent manner. Population will be the main criteria for delimitation but priority will be also the area, geography, topography and also the communication facilities of the areas.
11. The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will soon get the approval to develop a futuristic High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS). The programme is spearheaded by the HAL in partnership with a Bengaluru based start-up.
12. The Army is in the process of procuring an unspecified number of anti-drone systems that will detect and jam the communication and navigation signals of a hostile unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) .
13. Indian Navy on Friday announced prohibition on flying of non-conventional aerial objects like drones and UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) within the 3 kms ambit of Naval Base, Naval Units and Naval assets.
14. Indian Navy has invited applications for the recruitment to the post of sailors MR for 350 vacancies (approx) in the October 2021 batch. Interested and eligible, unmarried male candidates can apply online for the post through the official website of the Indian Navy on or before July 23.
15. Indian Army will conduct a recruitment rally at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahmednagar from September 7 to 23 for selection of Soldier General Duty, Soldier Tradesman (10th pass), Soldier Tradesman (8th pass), Soldier Technical, Soldier Technical (Aviation/ Ammunition examiner), Soldier Nursing Assistant or Nursing Assistant Veterinary. The rally will be held for candidates from Ahmednagar, Beed, Latur, Osmanabad, Pune and Solapur districts.
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