Top News Headlines by GKToday – 6 July 2019
July 5, 2019 July 5, 2019
NATIONAL
- Army releases song ‘Tujhe Bhulega Na Tera Hindustan’, written by lyrist Sameer, on 20th anniversary of Kargil War
- Gujarat: Congress MLAs Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh Zala resign from the Assembly
- External Affair Minister S. Jaishankar and Jugal Ji Thakor of BJP win Rajya Sabha election from Gujarat
- 1800 Bangladeshi civil servants to train at National Centre for Good Governance, Mussoorie in 2019-2025
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
- BSE Sensex: 39,513 (–395), NSE NIFTY: 11,811 (–136)
- FOREX: India’s foreign exchange reserves scale a fresh high of USD 427.678 billion in the week to June 28
- fixes price at Rs 3,443 per gram for the new series of sovereign gold bonds (SGBs) opening July 8
- Mindtree Chairman Krishnakumar Natarajan and CEO Rostow Ravanan resign after company acquired by L&T
- NCLAT approves Lakshmi Mittal-led ArcelorMittal’s ₹42,000 crore bid for the acquisition of bankrupt Essar Steel
INTERNATIONAL
- UNESCO lists Iraq’s Babylon as World Heritage Site
- Sri Lanka: Apex court stays President’s execution order against 4 drug convicts
- UAE to give free mobile phone SIM cards to tourists
- YouTube bans ‘instructional hacking and phishing’ videos citing them as harmful or dangerous content
- Italy: Volcanic eruption on the Sicilian island of Stromboli kills 1 tourist
- Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Pope Francis in Vatican City
- British Navy seizes Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar taking oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions
SPORTS
- Peru to face hosts Brazil in final of Copa America football tournament