Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: August 5, 2022
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for August 5, 2022
INDIA
– Chief Justice of India N. V. Ramana recommends name of Justice Uday Umesh Lalit as his successor
– India and the US to conduct military exercise “Yudh Abhyas” in Uttarakhand in October
– Parliament passes Family Courts (Amendment) Bill 2022 granting statutory cover to family courts in Himachal, Nagaland
– Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022 comes into effect; authorises taking measurements of convicts and other persons for the purposes of identification and investigation in criminal matters and to preserve records
– ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held at Phnom Penh in Cambodia
– DRDO successfully test fires indigenously developed laser-guided ATGMs
– PM Modi virtually inaugurates and lays foundation stone of various projects of Shrimad Rajchandra Mission in Gujarat
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– Ice-cream parlours to attract 18% goods and services tax: CBIC (Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs)
– IOCL signs MoU with Bangladesh for emergency supply of petroleum goods
WORLD
– Nagorno-Karabakh: 3 dead in clashes between Azerbaijan and Karabakh forces
– US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reaches South Korea after visit to Taiwan
– China initiates its largest-ever military exercises encircling Taiwan
SPORTS
– Commonwealth Games in Birmingham: India’s Tulika Maan gets silver in women’s 78kg category Judo after losing to Scotland’s Sarah Adlington in final
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2022
Category: Today's News Headlines