✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. India is finalising its deal to acquire 30 US made MQ-9 Reaper or Predator B armed drones for its military. Raksha mantri Minister Rajnath Singh-led Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) will take the final call in its meeting scheduled for next week.
2. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar & US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on 28 Jul (Wednesday) held wide-ranging talks covering the situation in Afghanistan, Indo-Pacific engagements, COVID-19 response mechanism and ways to strengthen regional security.
3. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with a representative of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in New Delhi on 28 Jul (Wednesday).
4. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on 28 Jul (Wednesday) held bilateral talks with his Belarusian counterpart Lt Gen Viktor Khrenin on the sidelines of a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Dushanbe.
5. National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday 28 Jul & had a frank & candid exchange over situation emerging in Afghanistan, Indo-Pacific & the regional and global security situation.
6. Peace Agent in the Security Council: India gets UNSC’s rotating presidency in August. Its value is a calm voice amidst conflict. on January 1 India returned to the United Nations Security Council for two years.
7. Second Oxygen express leaves India for Bangladesh amid record single day COVID deaths.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Pakistan-occupied Kashmir underwent the 11th general election recently, & Pak PM Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf emerged victorious. It has become a tradition of sorts — the party in power in Islamabad wins the election in PoK.
2. Two days after Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met the ISI chief in Beijing over concerns of Chinese killing in Pakistan, a high-level Taliban delegation led by Mullah Baradar reached Beijing.
3. Afghanistan’s delegation assured Chinese President Xi’s regime on 28 Jul (Wednesday ) that it will not use its soil as a base against another country.
4. Aviation companies, including airlines such as SpiceJet and GoAir, have been provided guaranteed support to the extent of about Rs349 crore under the government’s Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS), minister of state for civil aviation VK Singh told.
5. US not to lift travel restrictions amid concerns over rising number of coronavirus cases.
6. Sydney lockdown extended by another month as Covid cases spike
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Ch Narmada Naveen Kumar |
