Top News Headlines by GKToday – 7 July 2019
NATIONAL
- PM visits Virtual Experiential Museum at Man Mahal in Varanasi
- PM unveils statue of former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri at Varanasi airport
- Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards-2019 presented in New Delhi by Vice-President
- Karnataka: JD(S)-Congress govt under threat as 11 MLAs submit resignation
- Former AP CM N. Bhaskara Rao joins BJP
- Uttarakhand: Asia’s first Six Sigma Institute of Mountain Medicines and High-Altitude Rescue to be set up at Rudraprayag
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
- Petrol and diesel prices hiked by Rs 2.4 per litre after excise and cess hikes in Budget
INTERNATIONAL
- International Day of Cooperatives celebrated on July 6 with its theme as ‘COOPS 4 DECENT WORK’
- USA: Earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale shakes southern California
- Artist Leon Kossoff, who painted post-war London, dies at 92
- UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee meeting in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku from June 30 to July 10
WORLD HERITGAE LIST ADDITIONS
- The walled city of Jaipur
- Iran’s Hyrcanian forests
- Bahrain’s Dilmun Burial Mounds
- German city of Augsburg for its water management system
SPORTS
- Jasprit Bumrah completes 100 wickets in ODI in his 57th match, 2nd fastest Indian after Mohammad Shami
- Rohit Sharma becomes 1st batsman to score five centuries in a single World Cup