Union minister Piyush Goyal to be Leader of House in Rajya Sabha .
AP govt increases income limit for issuance of OBC certificate from Rs. 6 lakh to Rs. 8 lakh .
US Senate passes legislation to ban import of products from China’s Xinjiang region .
Don’t register cases under repealed Section 66A of IT Act related to posting online comments: Centre to states .
Sedition law: ‘Do we still need it 75 years after Independence’, Supreme Court asks Centre .
CII organises ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat — Self-Reliance for Renewable Energy Manufacturing’ conference .
Maharashtra announces incentives up to Rs 20 lakh for electric vehicles from two-wheelers to buses BHIM-UPI IN BHUTAN .
Sher Bahadur Deuba of Nepali Congress party takes oath as Nepal’s PM for record fifth time .
Serum Institute of India to produce Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine; signs agreement with RDIF (Russian Direct Investment Fund) .
UN’s WFP (World Food Programme) partners with Rajasthan to improve Targeted Public Distribution System .
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore resigns .
North Eastern Institute of Folk Medicine (NEIFM) at Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh renamed as North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda and Folk Medicine Research (NEIAFMR).
Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) is a payment app that lets users make transactions using Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
Rajnath Singh launches Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered grievance management application developed by Ministry of Defence with the cooperation of IIT-Kanpur .
AP govt announces 10% reservations in admissions into educational institutions and appointments in the posts and services for EWS (Economically Weaker Sections) .
Cabinet approves continuation of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) for Development of Infrastructure Facilities for Judiciary for further five years till March 2026 .
United Arab Emirates formally opens its embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv .
PM Modi, Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih review bilateral cooperation .
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Finance Minister of Bhutan Lyonpo Namgay Tshering jointly launch BHIM–UPI in Bhutan .
RBI bars Mastercard from onboarding new customers in India from July 22 due to non-compliance with guidelines on local data storage .
Wholesale inflation eases to 12.07% in June despite spike in fuel price .
Banks get time till March 2022 to implement lockable cassettes swap system for ATMs .
Cabinet approves MoU between India and Denmark for cooperation in health and medicine .
Global rating agency Standard and Poor’s affirms India’s sovereign rating at ‘BBB-’, keeps outlook stable .
Zika virus cluster identified in Thiruvananthapuram, steps being taken to exterminate mosquitoes .
Cabinet approves continuation of the National Ayush Mission as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for another five years till 2026 .
Pakistani President (2013-18) Mamnoon Hussain dies in Karachi at 80, born in Agra in 1940 .
Cabinet extends RoSCTL (Rebate of State and Central taxes and Levies) scheme for textile exporters till March 2024 .
United Arab Emirates becomes first Gulf nation to open an embassy in Israel, at Tel Aviv .
EAM S. Jaishankar calls on Afghan President on the sidelines of Tashkent Connectivity Conference in Uzbekistan .
Punjab waives off of Rs 590 cr of loans of labourers, landless farmers .
Centre hikes dearness allowance (DA) for employees, dearness relief for pensioners to 28% .
Cabinet approves Extension of term of the Commission constituted under Article 340 of the Constitution to examine the issue of Sub-categorization within Other Backward Classes in the Central List .
PM inaugurates and dedicates PRASHAD (Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage Augmentation Drive) projects in Varanasi (UP) .
Google fined $593 mn by French antitrust agency over news content issue .
Pakistan: Senate passes bill criminalising torture, custodial deaths .
Centre proposes simpler drone rules; number of forms to be filled to seek authorisation for operating drones to be reduced from 25 to six .
Cabinet approves scheme to promote India-owned ships; a subsidy of Rs 1,624 crore over five years will be given to domestic shipping companies in global tenders floated by Ministries and central PSEs .
Govt. grants basic duty exemption on import of raw materials for COVID test kits till Sept 30 .
World Youth Skills Day celebrated on July 15; theme: ‘Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic’ .
World Plastic Surgery Day observed on July 15, adopted from National Plastic Surgery Day in India observed on the same day .
Centre releases Rs 75,000 crore to states as GST compensation .
MSME Minister Narayan Rane launches new Khadi products .
Trade margin on oximeter, nebuliser, digital thermometer capped at 70% by NPPA (National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority) .
RBI cancels licence of Dr Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar Urban Co-op Bank, Latur .
UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) releases first draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030 .
Bhutan is first country to adopt BHIM UPI QR-based payments of NPCI (National Payment Corporation of India) .
India’s merchandise trade deficit in April-June at USD 30.75 billion .
Khadi Babywear & Unique Handmade Paper “Use & Throw” Slippers .
NTPC to set up India’s single largest solar park of 4750 MW capacity at Rann of Kutch in Gujarat .
16th CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India and Africa Project Partnership held .
Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL), a subsidiary of central government’s Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), ties up with AP govt. for providing 25,000 electric two-wheelers to its employees. .
India seeks equitable global agreement to end harmful fish subsidies, tells WTO that limiting S&DT (Special & Differential Treatment) is unfair .
Former cricketer Yashpal Sharma, member of Indian team that won 1983 World Cup, dies at 66 .
‘Peace in border areas essential’: EAM S. Jaishankar tells Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Dushanbe .
Minister for Tourism G. Kishan Reddy chairs the BRICS Tourism Ministers’ meeting
