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
Category: Today's News Headlines