Current Affairs – Today’s Headlines: July 12, 2021

– IT rules compliance: Twitter appoints Vinay Prakash as resident grievance officer for India

– Uttar Pradesh: CM Yogi Adityanath unveils new population policy 2021-30

– Uttarakhand: India’s first cryptogamic (non-seed-bearing plants) garden inaugurated at Deoban in Chakrata town of ‘s Dehradun district

– Assam govt. to set up “department of indigenous faith and culture”

– Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurates country’s first private Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant in Nagpur; set up by Baidyanath Ayurvedic Group

– Afghanistan: India evacuates diplomats, security personnel from Kandahar as Taliban captures new areas

– G20 Finance Ministers approve global corporate tax rate of at least 15% during two-day talks in Venice

– Cuba develops three-shot Soberana 2, world’s first conjugate vaccine for COVID-19

– Conjugate vaccines can be stored in regular refrigeration settings of 2–8 degree Celsius

– Cambridge University chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman declared winners of 2020 Millennium Technology Prize for their development of revolutionary sequencing techniques

– Virgin Galactic space tourism company founder Richard Branson conducts space flight along with four other crewmates including Indian-origin woman Sirisha Bandla

– Ethiopia: PM Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity party wins parliamentary election

– World Population Day celebrated on July 11; theme: “Rights and Choices are the Answer: Whether baby boom or bust, the solution to shifting fertility rates lies in prioritising all people’s reproductive health and rights”

– Argentina beats Brazil 1-0 in final at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro

– Argentina’s captain Lionel Messi finishes as tournament’s joint top goalscorer with Peru’s Luis Díaz with four goals

– Messi elected joint best player along with Brazil’s Neymar

– Italy win 2020 UEFA European Football Championship by defeating England 3-2 in penalty shoot-out in the final played at Wembley Stadium in London

– Czech Republic’s Patrik Schick and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo were top scorers 5 goals each

– Italy’s goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was Best player of the tournament

– Men’s Singles: Serbia’s Novak Djokovic

– Women’s Singles: Ashleigh Barty

– Men’s Doubles: Croatia’s Nikola Mektić and Mate Pavić

– Women’s Doubles: Chinese Taipei’s Hsieh Su-wei & Elise Mertens of Belgium

– Mixed Doubles: United Kingdom’s Neal Skupski and Desirae Krawczyk of US

– Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France wins Croatia Grand Chess Tour at Zagreb