Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: July 2, 2023

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for July 2, 2023

INDIA

  • India adds 664 animal species to its fauna database and 339 taxa to its flora.
  • The seventh edition of the two-day Mysuru Literature Festival has commenced.
  • Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla presented the Elephant Family environmental award to Kartiki Gonsalves, director of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’.
  • Union WCD Minister inaugurates Regional Symposium on Child Protection, Safety and Child Welfare.
  • The first batch of the crew recovery team of Mission Gaganyaan completed Phase-1 of training.

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

  • Merger between Housing Development Finance Corporation limited and HDFC Bank comes into effect.
  • GST collection rises 12% to ₹1.61 lakh crore in June.
  • Jet fuel or Aviation turbine fuel price raised by 1.6% on global cues.
  • Payments made using international credit cards (ICC) during overseas visits will not attract Tax Collected at Source (TCS).

WORLD

  • Twitter: Elon Musk introduces limit to viewing tweets to fix data scraping.
  • Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez reaches Kyiv to commence Spain’s EU presidency.
  • Sri Lanka gets Parliament nod for domestic debt restructuring plan.

SPORTS

  • Neeraj Chopra has won his second ‘Lausanne Diamond League’ title.
  • India storm into final of SAFF football championship defeating Lebanon 4-2.
  • Yuki Bhambri wins maiden ATP doubles title in Mallorca, Spain

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