At least 16 dead, over 100 feared trapped as landslide buries Maharashtra village.
The rescue and search operation at Irshalwadi hamlet in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, where a massive landslide buried several houses and claimed the lives of at least 16 people so far, resumed on Friday morning, an official said. The landslide occurred around 11 pm on Wednesday at the tribal village, situated on a hill slope, under Khalapur tehsil of the coastal district, around 80 km from Mumbai. Of the total 228 residents of the village, the bodies of 16 have been recovered, while 93 residents have been traced, he said.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who reached the spot early Thursday morning and oversaw rescue and relief operations throughout the day, announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the victims. Shinde said the village was not on the list of landslide-prone areas.
1. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued red alert for Telangana, Gujarat, coastal Maharashtra and Goa amid extremely heavy rainfall. Orange alert has been sounded for states including Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Chattisgarh amid very heavy rainfall.
2. ISRO has successfully tested the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System (SMPS) at ISRO Propulsion Complex in Tamil Nadu’s Mahendragiri.
3. Government said that there is no proposal to introduce a competitive examination for the selection of High Court judges..
4. Law Commission has initiated fresh consultations on the issue of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) due to the relevance and importance of the subject and various court orders on the matter.
5. The Monsoon session of Parliament begins; 31 bills to be taken up during the session.
6. Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned for the day following a ruckus over the issue of Manipur violence.
7. PM Modi has asserted that the law will take its course with all its might and no guilty will be spared in the Manipur women brutality incident.
8. The Union Cabinet has recently cleared two significant bills, namely the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023 and the Mediation Bill. These bills aim to address important aspects of press regulation and the resolution of civil or commercial disputes.
9. Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space Dr Jitendra Singh today said that nuclear power capacity has set to increase from over seven thousand Mega Watt to over 22 thousand 480 Mega Watt by 2031.
10. Union government is taking significant steps to boost research and development (R&D) in the pharma-medtech sector through its scheme called “Promotion of Research and Development and Innovation in the pharma-medtech sector.”
11. Andhra Pradesh Government has recently released millions of Gambusia fish in water bodies in order to control malaria, dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases.
12. The Haryana Government appointed nodal officials to facilitate the Ministry of Railways to ensure the timely implementation of PM Gati Shakti – National Master Plan for establishing goods sheds in every district of Haryana.
13..Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said toppers of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will be given laptops and scooty from next year. CM Chouhan also transferred an amount of ₹196.60 crore to the bank accounts of 78,641 students who scored 75% or more marks in Class 12 (Madhya Pradesh Board), with each student receiving ₹25,000.
14. The state government in Rajasthan has introduced a landmark legislation called the Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill, 2023. This progressive bill aims to provide guaranteed wages or pensions to the entire adult population of the state.
15. India’s aerospace industry is set to receive a significant boost with the establishment of a fully operational factory in Vadodara, Gujarat, by November 2024.
16. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday demanded President’s rule in BJP-ruled Manipur.
17. All seven NCP MLAs from Nagaland have expressed support to join the faction led by Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar.
18. From September this year, devotees will be able to visit the Mount Kailash, from Indian territory.
Officials said that the Border Roads Organisation has started the work on cutting of the road from KMVN Huts in Nabhidhang in Pithoragarh district to Lipulekh pass on the India-China border, which will be completed by September.
CRIME REPORT
#Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal
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1. People took out a huge protest rally in Manipur’s Churachandpur on Thursday after tribal women were paraded naked amid violence in the state. A video showed the protesters holding banners that read “Our lives are at stake, but our hope is strong”. The main accused has been arrested in this case.
2. The number of accused arrested by police in connection to the Manipur sexual assault video has gone up to four.
Social media YouTube, Twitter, Facebook remove video of Manipur women after govt order.
3. BJP’s Nighat Abbass has questioned the timing of the Manipur clip that showed women being paraded naked, saying that it can’t be a “coincidence” that the video went viral a day before the Parliament session. “How is it that something like this happens before every legislative session? Pegasus, BBC documentary, imagined transgression by China, Hindenburg report etc,” she said.
4. Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Thursday granted parole for 30 days, which is the seventh time since October 2020. He is serving a 20-year jail term in Rohtak for raping two women disciples at his ashram in Sirsa, Haryana. He has also been convicted in two murder cases.
5. Former RJD MLC, Azad Gandhi, was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in jail by the special MP/MLA court of Patna in a 2007 assault case.
6. National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a student of Aligarh Muslim University for allegedly conspiring to carry out violent terror attacks in the country on behalf of terror outfit Islamic State.
MISHAPS
1. At least nine persons, including a constable, were killed and around 10 others injured when a speeding high-end car being driven by a college student ploughed into a crowd gathered at an accident site on a bridge in Ahmedabad city on Thursday.
2. A court in Delhi has sent a woman pilot and her husband arrested for allegedly assaulting their minor domestic help in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka area to judicial custody till August 2.
FINANCE
#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.
#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal
#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
#President of the World Bank :
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Inflation rate : 4.7%
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Unemployment : 7.8%
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1. Registration for Gruha Lakshmi scheme was started from 19th July 2023, an effective scheme launched by the Karnataka Government to provide financial assistance of Rs.2000 per month to to women head of a household.
2. Adani Group will continue to use its ACC and Ambuja brands to sell cement products and has no plans to merge the two, Ajay Kapur, CEO of both companies, said.
3. The government on Thursday prohibited export of non-basmati white rice with immediate effect. ”Export policy of non-basmati white rice (semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed)…is amended from free to prohibited,” a government notification said.
4. Secretary, Department of Financial Services Dr. Vivek Joshi chaired a review meeting on Financial Inclusion schemes including PM SVANidhi with Heads of Public Sector Banks in New Delhi.
5. Tata company to invest £4 billion for building JLR battery cell gigafactory in U.K.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
#Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi
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1. Actress Sara Ali Khan has embarked on the Amarnath Yatra. A video of the actress has surfaced on the internet in which she can be seen walking with an entourage of security. The yatra started from Jammu on July 1. On the work front, Sara was last seen in ‘Zara Hatke Zara Bachke’, which also starred Vicky Kaushal.
2. Korean singer and actor Chung Lim, who was known for his role in the K-drama ‘I’m Sorry, I Love You’, passed away on Wednesday (July 19) aged 37. Lim was suffering from colon cancer.
DEFENCE
#Minister: Rajnath Singh
#Union Home : Amit Shah
#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval
#Chief of Defence Staff:
Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM
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1. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Argentina’s Ministry of Defence on Thursday signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) on productive cooperation and acquisition of Light and Medium Utility Helicopters for its armed forces.
2. Indian Navy destroyer — INS Kolkata, and frigate — INS Shivalik, alongwith the Boeing’s P-8I Poseiden maritime patrol aircraft head towards Sydney in Australia to take part in Malabar joint exercises.
The Malabar exercise are joint drills of the QUAD nations comprising India, US, Japan and Australia, where the navies engage in complex naval manoeuvres to increase jointness and co-operation between the four nations.
3. Manoj Yadava, a senior IPS officer from the Haryana cadre, has been designated as the new Director General of the Railway Protection Force (RPF).
4. DG Rakesh Pal has assumed the position of the 25th Director General of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG).
5. Indian Air Force’s Maintenance Command has developed a satellite-based real time aircraft tracking system that can get information about the location of an aircraft, a senior official said.
6. Pakistan is readying another batch of weapons to be shipped to Ukraine as Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba arrives in Pakistan.
According to a report by the Economic Times, a merchant vessel is currently berthed at Pakistan’s Karachi port where the loading of over 200 containers worth of arms and ammunition is underway.
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