Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: July 15, 2022
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for July 15, 2022
INDIA
– PM Modi participates in the first Leaders’ Summit of I2U2 (India, Israel, UAE and USA) virtually
– UN Deputy Secretary-General commends India localising monitoring of sustainable development goals
– Lok Sabha Secretariat releases list of ‘unparliamentary’ words such as ‘Jumlajeevi’, ‘tanashah’, ‘Dictator’, ‘black’ and ‘Khalistani’
– Proportion of unmarried persons 15-29 years age bracket at 23% in 2019: Govt
– Women and Child Development Ministry issues guidelines for Mission Shakti Scheme that has been launched for the safety, security and empowerment of women
– Free Covid booster doses for all adults for next 75 days from July 15 at govt clinics
– Mustafizur Rahman appointed as Bangladesh’s next High Commissioner to India
– Academic and activist Avdhash Kaushal dies at 87 in Dehradun; awarded Padma Shri in 1987
– Meeting of BIMSTEC Expert Group on Cyber Security Cooperation being held in New Delhi on July 14-15
– London Indian Film Festival: Filmmakers Aparna Sen and Nandita Das awarded Icon Award
– India’s first monkeypox case reported in Kollam district of Kerala
– Maharashtra: CM Eknath Shinde restores Emergency pension scheme scrapped by Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– Centre extends scheme for Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies till March 2024
– Govt directs e-commerce platforms to sell Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani drugs only after customers upload valid medical prescriptions
– India’s wholesale price-based inflation declines to 15.18% in June
– Brijendra K Syngal, former Chairman of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) & known as ‘Father of Indian Internet’, dies at 82
– Infosys to acquire Denmark-based BASE life science for 110 million euros
WORLD
– Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry to allow transit of Russian goods to Kaliningrad
– Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emails his resignation letter to parliamentary speaker
– Haiti: At least 89 people dead in gang violence in capital Port-au-Prince
SPORTS
– India top ISSF Shooting World Cup medal tally at Changwon in South Korea; Arjun Babuta, Shahu Tushar Mane and Paarth Makhija win gold in the 10-metre air rifle team event
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2022