Today's Latest News- JULY29,2024
TODAY’S NEWS
(a) PM Modi has asserted that the rising sales of Khadi and
handloom products in the country are creating new job opportunities.
(b) National Handloom
Day will be celebrated in the country on the 7th of next month.
(c) PM Modi expressed
pride on inclusion of Charaideo Maidam of Assam in the UNESCO World Heritage
Sites. The Prime Minister highlighted that it will be the 43rd site of India in
the list, and the first Cultural World Heritage site from the Northeast.
(d) Speaking about
the pressing issue of drug abuse in the country, PM Modi outlined the
government's proactive measures to combat this growing menace.
(e) PM Modi also asked listeners to participate in the Har
Ghar Tiranga campaign, with 15th August approaching. He encouraged people to
upload their selfies with the Tricolour on 'harghartiranga.com'.
2. The two day
conclave of Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled states
called Mukhyamantri Parishad concluded in New Delhi.
3. President Smt.
Droupadi Murmu has appointed new Governors in different States.
(a) Former Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Haribhau Kisanrao
Bagde has been appointed Governor of Rajasthan.
(b) Former Deputy Chief Minister of Tripura Jishnu Dev Varma
has been appointed Governor of Telangana.
(c) Former Rajya
Sabha MP from Rajasthan Om Prakash Mathur appointed as Governor of Sikkim.
(d) Former Union
Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar has been appointed as Governor of Jharkhand.
(e) Former Lok Sabha
MP from Assam Ramen Deka appointed as Governor of Chhattisgarh.
(f) Former Karnataka
Minister C H Vijayashankar has been appointed as Governor of Meghalaya.
(g) C.P.
Radhakrishnan who is presently Governor of Jharkhand has been appointed as
Governor of Maharashtra.
(h) Gulab Chand
Kataria who is currently Assam Governor has been appointed Governor of Punjab
and Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
(j) Lakshman Prasad
Acharya who is currently Sikkim Governor appointed as Governor of Assam and has
also been given additional charge as Governor of Manipur.
(k) Former IAS officer K. Kailashnathan has been appointed
Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry..
4. In Telangana,
field survey pertaining to integrated Geographic Information System (GIS)
survey of properties starting on July 30, the GHMC in a press release issued on
Saturday urged the people to keep photocopies of the documents ready and hand
it over to the surveyors who will visit their homes.
5. Political
strategist-turned-activist and founder of the Indian Political Action Committee
(I-PAC) Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj will be christened a political party on 2
October, Gandhi Jayanti. Jan Suraaj which started as a campaign in Bihar, will
be registered as a political party this year.
6. The Jawaharlal
Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) is set to develop India’s first integrated
agricultural export facility at Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai. The project,
approved by the Union Minister for Ports, Shipping, and Waterways, Shri
Sarbananda Sonowal, is valued at Rs. 284.19 crore and will cover an area of
67,422 square meters.
8. The Union Road
Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari announced the implementation of a
global navigation satellite system (GNSS)--based toll collection system at
select national highways, terminating the existing traditional toll collection
methods.
GNSS-based user fee collection system has been conducted on
the Bengaluru-Mysore section of NH-275 in Karnataka and the Panipat-Hisar
section of NH-709 in Haryana.
9. Union Minister of
State for Minority Affairs, George Kurian has said that the government is
working for the inclusive development of the minorities and it is moving
forward with the Prime Minister’s vision of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka
Vishwas and Sabka Prayaas.
10. National Testing
Agency, NTA has declared the result of the Common University Entrance Test –
CUET (UG) 2024. The entrance test was conducted for over 14.99 lakh registered
candidates.
11. The Ministry of
Education will celebrate the fourth anniversary of the implementation of the
National Education Policy 2020, NEP 2020 with Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam
ABSS, 2024 at Manekshaw Centre Auditorium in New Delhi.
12. The Union
Minister H D Kumaraswamy was hospitalised here after his nose started bleeding
during a press conference on Sunday.
13. The Gujarat high
court has issued summons to the Bharatiya Janata Party MP from the Surat Lok
Sabha constituency, Mukesh Dalal, over two petitions challenging his
uncontested victory.
14. After social
media outrage over a Budget proposal making it mandatory to get tax clearance
certificates for going abroad, the government on Sunday clarified that the
proposed amendment is not for all. Only those accused of financial
irregularities or having substantial tax arrears need such clearance.
15. The Town and
Country Planning (TCP) Department has imposed a complete ban on private
constructions in the high security zone around the Rashtrapati Niwas ‘Retreat,’
near Mashobra
LEGAL REPORT
1. The Supreme Court
will organize a Special Lok Adalat week starting today till the 3rd of next
month. This initiative commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Apex Court.
2. The National
Testing Agency (NTA) has declared the result of the Common University Entrance
Test - CUET (UG) 2024. The entrance test was conducted for over 14 lakh 99
thousand registered candidates. These candidates had applied for various
combinations of subjects across 283 Central, State, and other participating
universities and Institutions for the Academic session 2024-2025.
3. Climate activist
Soman Wangchuk announced on Sunday that he will launch a 28-day fast on
Independence Day if the government does not invite Ladakh authorities for talks
on demands for statehood and constitutional protection for the union territory.
****** MISHAPS ******
The Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has expressed anguish at the death of three Civil Services aspirants due to water logging in the basement of a coaching centre in the National Capital.
Delhi Police has registered a first information report (FIR) and formed multiple teams to probe the Rajinder Nagar coaching centre flooding incident which killed three IAS aspirants.
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FINANCE
1. The Reserve Bank
of India has imposed penalties on three payment system operators, namely Visa
Worldwide, Ola Financial Services, and Manappuram Finance, for the companies
failure to adhere to regulatory compliance.
2. The Government has
approved setting up of 7 (Seven) PM Mega Integrated Textile Region. Apparel (PM
MITRA) Parks in Greenfield/Brownfield sites (including a Greenfield project in
Virudhanagar Tamil Nadu) with world class infrastructure including plug and
play facility with an outlay of Rs. 4,445 cr for a period of seven years upto
2027-28.
3. Centre Clears
Urban Flood Management Projects Worth ₹2,514.36 cr Of 5 States.
Approved six project proposals in the states of Telangana,
Gujarat, Karnataka, West Bengal and Maharashtra at a total cost of Rs. 2514.36
crore for Urban Flood Management in six metro cities, namely Mumbai, Kolkata,
Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
1. Akshay Kumar's
'Sarfira' becomes his 7th disaster in two years, actor's films reportedly incur
losses of over Rs 1000 crore : The
Khiladi of Bollywood, who has dominated the industry by giving back-to-back
money spinners, has been going through a rough patch as his recent films
including Bachchhan Paandey, Samrat Prithviraj, Raksha Bandhan, Mission
Raniganj, Ram Setu, Selfiee, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan and the latest one Sarfira
bombed at the box office.
DEFENCE
1. Eastern Navy
Commander Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar visited INS Karanj, the third
submarine of the Scorpene class in the Indian Navy, on Friday.
2. The Maldives
National Defence Force (MNDF) has resumed the use of India-donated helicopters
and Dornier aircraft to transport patients. The Indian helicopters are operated
jointly by the Indian army and the MNDF and are used to airlift medical
patients in Maldives.
3. Contingents from
India, China, Australia, Japan, U.S., U.K. are among the participants from 23
countries at Khaan Quest; the exercise prepares armed forces to conduct joint
peacekeeping operations. Indian Army contingent participate in the ongoing 21st
edition of the multinational joint military exercise Khaan Quest 2024.
4. Russian President
Vladimir Putin greeted Indian Navy personnel onboard Indian Naval Ship (INS)
Tabar, which is participating in Russia's Navy Day celebrations.
5. The defence
ministry is working on developing a light tank for the Indian Army for
deployment at high-altitude area of the country, with a prototype already
built, the Parliament was informed on Friday. Minister of State for Defence
Sanjay Seth gave the information in a written response to a query on project
'Zorawar'.
✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. International
Tiger Day will be celebrated across the world.
International Tiger Day seeks to rally collective efforts, garner public
support, and promote sustainable initiatives to ensure the future of tigers.
2. External Affairs
Minister S Jaishankar met the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday in
Tokyo ahead of the Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting. Jaishankar said that they
had a wide ranging discussion on regional and global issues. They had a wide
ranging discussion on regional and global issues.
🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
1. At least nine
people, including two women, have been killed and several seriously injured in
a stampede during musician Mike Kalambayi’s concert held at Kinshasa, in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2. The Turkish
parliament has approved a motion to deploy elements of the Turkish Armed Forces
to Somalia, including to its maritime jurisdiction areas. The Turkish forces
will be stationed in Somalia for two years to assist with security efforts
against terrorism and other threats.
3. A rocket attack on
a football stadium in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights resulted in the deaths
of at least 12 people on Friday. Israeli authorities blamed Hezbollah for the
attack and promised to impose a severe response on the Iran-backed Lebanese
group.
4. Former US
President and Republican Party’s nominee for upcoming Presidential elections
Donald Trump has pledged to turn America into the crypto capital of the planet
and the Bitcoin superpower of the world if elected.
5. An astrologer who
correctly predicted the day Joe Biden would end his re-election campaign now
has predicted who will be the next United States President. Dubbed as the
"internet's most notorious astrologer", Amy Tripp said according to
the stars, the next President could be Donald Trump.
6. 14 members of the
Baloch Yakjehti Committee who were en route to attend a rally in Gwadar on
Saturday were injured after they came under fire at Mastung. The Baloch Yakhjeti Committee, which called
for the protest march, claimed that several of its cadre are critical after
security forces fired at their convoy.
7. A US-based
organisation called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow
Taiwan to compete under its own name instead of "Chinese Taipei".
🚣🚴🏇🏊 SPORTS
1. WOMENS ASIA CUP
T20, 2024 : Jul 19 - Jul 28
Sri Lanka Women have won their maiden T20 Asia Cup, beating
India by 8 wickets in the final at Dambulla.
28 Jul 2024 (Sunday),
Final • Dambulla, Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium
India-women
INDW: 165-6 (20)
Vs
Sri-Lanka-women
SLW: 167-2 (18.4)
Sri Lanka Women won by 8 wkts
2. OLYMPIC GAMES
PARIS 2024 (26 JULY 2024 – 11 AUGUST 2024)
Ace Indian Shooter Manu Bhaker opened medals tally for India
at the Paris Olympics with a bronze in Women's 10 meter air pistol event
yesterday. Manu became the first Indian woman ever to win an Olympic medal in
Shooting competition.
India's last shooting medals at the Olympics came in 2012 in
London, where Vijay Kumar won bronze in the rapid-fire pistol event and Gagan
Narang clinched bronze in the 10m air rifle competition.
3. President Droupadi
Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi
congratulated the Indian shooter for opening India's medal tally. The President
in her message said, India is proud of Manu Bhaker as her feat is going to
inspire many sportspersons, especially women.
4. Indian shuttler HS
Prannoy outclassed Fabian Roth of Germany in straight games to win his first
Men's singles match of Group K. Prannoy beat Roth 21-18, 21-12.
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