Manipur: School torched, 1 shot in fresh violence; classroom return chances bleak. The Manipur government’s decision to reopen schools encountered significant challenges, especially in violence-affected districts. The latest incident occurred on Saturday evening when miscreants set fire to a school building near the Churachandpur and Bishnupur border. This incident coincided with reports of gunfights between two groups in the region.
1. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast that widespread rainfall with isolated heavy rainfall is likely to continue in Northwest India including over Haryana, Chandigarh, and Delhi from 24th July to 26th July.
2. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has called upon students to become innovators and entrepreneurs and establish their own startups. Addressing the Centenary Year Convocation of Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi.
3. PM Modi will inaugurate ‘Semicon India 2023′ in Gandhinagar on 28th of July. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel will inaugurate the special exhibition on 25th July, which will be open to the public.
4. PM Modi paid his tributes to legendary freedom fighters Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Birth: 23 July 1856) and Chandra Shekhar Azad (Birth: 23 Jul 1906) on their birth anniversaries on 23 July (Sunday).
5. Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani assured that the Government will provide all the support to establish Child Care Institutions (CCIs) in regions or districts where crimes against children are high which do not have CCIs or require additional CCIs.
6. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh, and the Members of Parliament paid floral tributes to Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak on his Birth Anniversary at the Central Hall of Parliament House.
7. The redeveloped India Trade Promotion Organisation complex will be inaugurated on the 26th of this month. It will host the country’s G20 Leaders meetings at Pragati Maidan Complex.
8. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday laid the foundation stone of 108 feet tall statue of Lord Shri Ram in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh through video conferencing.
9. Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh, on Sunday visited to the cannabis cultivation field of CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu at its Chatha Farm.
10. IMD has issued an orange alert for several Maharashtra districts, including Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, till July 27 amid heavy rains in the state. A yellow alert has been issued for Thane till July 26, while a yellow alert has been issued for Mumbai on Monday.
11. Gujarat government has unveiled the Semiconductor Policy (2022-2027). This strategic initiative reflects the state’s unwavering commitment to fostering accelerated and inclusive growth within the domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing sector. Gujarat has achieved a pioneering milestone by becoming the first state in India to introduce a dedicated Semiconductor Policy.
12. Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur on Sunday felicitated Fit India Quiz 2022 State round winners in Mumbai.
13. Goods train with essential commodities leave Guwahati for Manipur: The first goods train carrying essential commodities from Assam’s Guwahati to Manipur was flagged off on Sunday. The train is bound for Khongsang railway station at Tamenglong. “This marks a new era of faster and efficient connectivity for Manipur,” said CM N Biren Singh
14. Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann said the water level of dams in the state is below the danger mark. He assessed the situation arising out of incessant rains, during a detailed meeting with officers, district administration and Bhakra Beas Management Board in Nangal town of Roopnagar district on Sunday.
15. Telangana Government has decided to provide one lakh rupees financial assistance under the Financial Assistance Scheme to the poor among the minority communities, on the lines of backward classes. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has taken a decision to this effect.
16. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will begin its scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque premises, barring the Wazukhana area at 7 am on Monday. For this purpose, the ASI team reached Lucknow on Sunday and met with the Varanasi Commissioner.
CRIME REPORT
#Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal
1. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday arrested IAS officer Ranu Sahu in Chhattisgarh under provisions of the prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) following searches conducted on her premises on Friday as part of its probe into the state’s coal levy graft case.
2. Pakistani citizen Seema Haider, who entered India in May without a visa, has filed a mercy petition with President Droupadi Murmu requesting that she, along with her four children, be allowed to stay at her “matrimonial home” in Greater Noida.
3. Anju, a 35-year-old Indian woman, has arrived in Pakistan to meet her Facebook love named Nasr Ullah in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Anju, who was born in UP and lives in Rajasthan, met Nasr Ullah online four years ago. Anju told Pakistani media she can’t live without Nasr Ullah. As per her visa, she’s allowed to stay in Pakistan for 30 days.
4. Forty-one Meitei people have reached Assam from Mizoram after an ex-militants’ group asked the community to leave the state following the viral video of two women being paraded naked in Manipur.
MISHAPS
1. Bihar: Four-year-old boy, rescued from deep borewell after 6 hours operation by a team of NDRF and SDRF in Kul village of Nalanda district.
2. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Sunday called off its search-and-rescue operation in the landslide hit Raigad district of Maharashtra. State minister Uday Samant said the decision was taken after consultation with the district administration and other concerned authorities and local residents. At least 27 people died in the incident while 57 are still missing, reports said.
FINANCE
#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.
#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal
#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
#President of the World Bank :
Ajay Banga
💰 USD ₹ 81.99
💷 GBP ₹ 105.41
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GDP rate (2023 ) : 6.15%
Inflation rate : 4.7%
Population : 141.81 cr (17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 7.8%
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1. HDFC Bank expects 17-18% loan growth during the current financial year as there is enough credit demand. Effective July 1, the parent mortgage firm HDFC Ltd merged with its subsidiary HDFC Bank making it the second biggest lender after State Bank of India.
2. Top global private equity firm Bain Capital has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 90% of Adani Capital and Adani Housing.
3. The government has decided to exempt mergers of regional rural banks (RRBs) ordered by it from the requirement of clearance from the Competition Commission of India.
4. ICRA has reconsidered its assessment for non-bank finance companies (NBFCs), forecasting growth in the unsecured retail loans market. The agency anticipates growth of between 18% to 20%, up from its previous estimation of between 12% to 14%, with the rise driven by increased demand for loans such as personal and consumption credits, microfinance loans and small enterprise loans.
5. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently cancelled the licence of Uttar Pradesh-based United India Co-operative Bank Limited, citing lack of adequate capital and earning prospects.
6. State Bank of India (SBI) will set up a trustee company, which will be its wholly-owned subsidiary, for managing the Corporate Debt Market Development Fund (CDMDF). SBI Funds Management Ltd has been identified as the investment manager cum sponsor of the fund.
7. Financial services secretary Vivek Joshi has urged public sector banks to achieve the targets allocated to them under various schemes for financial inclusion for the current financial year at the earliest.
During a review meeting with the top management of state-owned banks and Nabard chairman, Joshi exhorted the banks to expeditiously clear the sanction and disbursement pendency of applications under PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) scheme.
8. Adani Group’s greenfield copper refinery in Gujarat’s Mundra will become operational next year in March.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
#Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi
1. Minister of Union Information and Broadcasting, Anurag Thakur introduced the Cinematograph Amendment Bill 2023 in Rajya Sabha which aims to tackle film piracy.
The new bill has also provisions to classify films on the basis of age group, instead of the current practice of ‘U’, ‘A’ or ‘UA’. The amendment seek to add new classification- “UA-7+”, UA-13+” and “UA-16+” in place of 12 years.
This new bill seeks to bring uniformity in categorization of films and content across platforms. According to bill, who are responsible for piracy and the punishment include three years of imprisonment and Rs.10 lakh penalty.
2. Commissioner Uday Mahurkar, on behalf of Save Culture Save India Foundation, has written to filmmaker Christopher Nolan, urging him to remove ‘Oppenheimer’ sex scene featuring Bhagavad Gita. Mahurkar stated that the scene makes a “scathing” attack on Hinduism.
3. The ‘Barbie’ movie becomes this year’s biggest debut in US & Canada, earns $155 million.
4. Iranian authorities have banned a film festival that put out a poster featuring an actress who was not wearing a hijab. The poster, reportedly released by the Iranian Short Film Association (ISFA), featured Iranian actress Susan Taslimi in the film ‘Death of Yazdgerd’.
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
1. Remembering the supreme sacrifices of the Indian Soldiers, the Commune of Monotone (in Italy) and Italian Military historians have unveiled “V.C Yeshwant Ghadge Sundial Memorial” at Montone (Perugia, Italy) as a tribute to the Indian troops who fought during Italian Campaign during the Second World.
2. The Delhi High Court has ordered journalists, Tarun Tejpal, Anirudh Behl, Mathew Samual and M/S Tehelka.Com, to pay Rs 2 crore as damages to retired Indian Army officer, Major General MS Ahluwalia in a defamation case.
Tehelka had conducted a sting operation in Mar 2001 stating that Ahluwalia was allegedly involved in corruption of the defence deals relating to import of new defence equipments.
(In November 2013, Former Tehelka magazine editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal was acquitted by a sessions court in Goa after being accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague inside the elevator of a luxury hotel in Goa.)
3. IAF Chief VR Chaudhari on Friday addressed officers of the 47th Higher Air Command Course (HACC) at the College of Air Warfare and highlighted the need for joint warfighting capabilities to face future challenges.
4. The Indian Air Force (IAF) has asked the French firm Dassault, the original manufacturer of the fighter, to integrate indigenous weapons on Rafale fighter jets. The move could be a big success for ‘Make in India’ in defence and also open the global market for Indian weapons.
5. Pakistan Navy has formally integrated PNS Tippu Sultan (FF-263) and PNS Shah Jahan (FFG-264) into its Surface Fleet.
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Capital: Amaravati
Bifurcation : 2 June 2014
Formation
(as a state)1 Nov 1956
Districts : 26
Language: Telugu
Governor : S. Abdul Nazeer
CM : Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (YSRCP)
State:
Bird:Rose-ringed parakeet
Flower : Jasmine
Fruit : Mango
Mammal : Blackbuck
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Vikram Samvat – 2080
Shaka Samvat – 1945
Month : Sravana 7, (Purnimanta)
Sravana 7, (Amanta) Nakshatra: Hasta (up to 10:12 pm)
Chitra
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