1. India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 199.69 crore mark.
2. Nationwide drive for free COVID precaution dose vaccination for people aged between 18 and 59 years begins.
3. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has convened an all-party meeting tomorrow ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament beginning Monday.
4. Indian Railways new rail line project to provide connectivity to three religious sites in Gujarat and Rajasthan. The temple town of Ambaji.
The Taranga hill in Gujarat’s Mehsana district.
The new Taranga Hill-Ambaji-Abu Road new railway line. The project, which will be completed by 2026-27, is of length 116.65 kilometers. The new line will be an alternative route for the Ahmedabad-Abu Road railway line.
5. The website of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been ranked first under the Central Ministries Portal in National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment.
*Digital Police portal of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) placed at two in the assessment under the Central Ministries Services Portal.
6. Union Health Ministry released guidelines for the management of Monkeypox disease asking international passengers to avoid close contact with sick people including those with skin lesions or genital lesions.
7. Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri virtually dedicates 166 Compressed Natural Gas, CNG, stations in across 14 states of the country.
8. BJP appointed former Uttar Pradesh BJP President Laxmikant Bajpai as the party’s chief whip in the Rajya Sabha.
9. *ARUNACHAL PRADESH* : The magistrate in Arunachal Pradesh’s capital, Itanagar, has ordered the removal of the word beef from restaurants in the city, citing religious issues.
10. *CHHATTISGARH* National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Droupadi Murmu visits Chhattisgarh to seek support for upcoming Presidential Election.
11. *DELHI* : Five persons were killed and eight others injured after a wall of under construction godown collapsed in North Delhi’s Alipur area on Friday.
12. *JHARKHAND* Three teenagers, aged between 15 and 17, died in a pond in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district on Friday, the local police said. The incident took place when the teenagers were bathing in the Nandan Pahar pond.
13. *KERALA* : High-level multi-disciplinary team, which was rushed to Kerala after state reported the country’s first case of MonkeyPox, holds consultations with State Government authorities in Thiruvananthapuram.
14. *MAHARASHTRA* CM Eknath Shinde has stated that he’ll quit politics if any of the MLAs who joined him loses the next Assembly polls. “I’m confident that all these 50 MLAs will win the elections
15. *RAJASTHAN* : District administration of Sri Ganganagar has ordered closure of all govt and private schools as the area received heavy rainfall during the last three days and low-lying areas in the city are completely inundated.
16. *TELANGANA* : State authorities send additional relief and rescue material to Bhadrachalam as flood fury in River Godavari continued to be grim.
17. *UTTAR PRADESH* ;: PM Modi will inaugurate Bundelkhand Expressway at Kaitheri village of Jalaun district in Uttar Pradesh on 16 Jul (Saturday)
It extends from NH-35 at Gonda village near Bharatkoop in Chitrakoot district to near Kudrail village in Etawah district, where it merges with the Agra-Lucknow expressway. It is 296 Kilometres, four-lane expressway, constructed at a cost of around 14 thousand 850 crore rupees,
18. The Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE highlighted that the 16th edition of the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) will be conducted in CBT (Computer Based Test) mode in twenty languages throughout the country in Dec 2022.
FINANCE:
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💷 GBP ₹94.62
BSE Sensex *53,760.78
NIFTY : 16,049.20
1. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday underlined the need to improve the effectiveness of the G20 Common Framework.
Finance Minister speaks at the third session on International Financial Architecture in Bali, Indonesia, which is hosting the third G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting.
2. Dept of Consumer Affairs launches Jagriti, a mascot for empowering consumers & generating awareness towards their rights.
3. The government is working on a ‘Right to Repair’ framework to cut down restrictive practices introduced by some manufacturers so people can get goods such as consumer durables, phones and cars fixed on their own. Farming equipment, mobile phones/tablets, consumer durables and automobiles/automobile equipment are among the sectors identified by a government committee to implement the framework.
4. The share price of private sector lender Federal Bank rose by 1.54% to ₹98.80 after it reported a 63.5% increase in net profit in the April-June quarter to ₹600.66 crore. The bank had reported a profit of ₹367 crore in the same period last year. Meanwhile, its net interest income rose by 13% to ₹1,604.5 crore.
ENTERTAINMENT:
1. Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday launched the promo of a new serial ‘Swaraj: Bharat Ke Swatantrata Sangram Ki Samagra Gatha’ in New Delhi.
2. Actor Shreyas Talpade will be a part of actress Kangana Ranaut’s upcoming film ‘Emergency’ in which she will portray late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, as per reports. Kangana has produced the film under her production house Manikarnika Films and will also be directing it.
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*CRIME REPORT
1. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has seized cash worth ₹11.88 crore from 37 bank accounts belonging to Pankaj Mishra, a close aide of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren.
2. Punjab and Haryana High Court’s Justice Anoop Chitkara on Friday recused himself from hearing the bail petition of Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia. A case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act was registered against Majithia in Dec 2021.
3. Rubaiya Sayeed, sister of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti, has identified Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik and three others as her kidnappers, officials said. Rubaiya appeared before a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Friday in a case related to her abduction by Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on December 8, 1989.
DEFENCE:
1. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launches indigenously built Y- 3023 Dunagiri, Project 17A frigate to strengthen country’s maritime security. Project 17A frigate built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders Limited (GRSE) in Kolkata.
2. The defence ministry has set up an institutional mechanism comprising an apex committee, with the defence secretary as chairman, to conduct “performance and efficiency” audit of capital procurements, logistics, inventory and maintenance of assets of the armed forces.
3. The US House of Representatives has passed by voice vote a legislative amendment that approves waiver to India against the punitive CAATSA sanctions for its purchase of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia to help deter aggressors like China.
4. Brazilian Navy delegation holds discussion with senior officers of Indian Navy
Brazilian Navy delegation holds discussion with senior officers of Indian Navy.
5. Army to take part in relief activities in flood hit areas of Telangana. A team of over 100 personnel to take part in relief and rescue operations.
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