Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: July 30, 2022
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for July 30, 2022
INDIA
INDIA
– Indian Air Force to retire all squadrons of MiG-21 Bison aircraft by 2025
– Rajasthan: 2 pilots killed after IAF’s MiG-21 crashes in Barmer district
– Govt. notifies new set of specified health warnings on tobacco product packs that will have to display image with text ‘Tobacco Causes Painful Death’
– Parliamentary delegation from Mozambique calls on President Droupadi Murmu
– India tops list of nations seeking blocking scribe, news co tweets: Twitter report
– West Bengal School jobs scam: Arrested Minister Partha Chatterjee stripped of cabinet portfolios, party posts
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– SC upholds strict PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) provisions and backs sweeping powers of ED (Enforcement Directorate)
– PM launches ‘India International Bullion Exchange (IIBX)’ at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) in Gandhinagar.
– Core sector output rises by 12.7% in June
– India April-June fiscal deficit widens to 21.2% of 2022-23 aim
– India receives record high FDI inflow of Rs 6,31,050 crore in 2021-22
– India’s foreign exchange reserves down by $1.152 billion to $571.560 billion in the week to July 22
– Banks’ boards must engage more to address climate concerns: RBI
– RBI eases card data storage norms; new rules allow the merchant or its payment aggregator to save card data for a maximum period of four days
– Google Maps launches Street View in India in collaboration with Tech Mahindra and Genesys International
WORLD
– International Tiger Day observed on July 29; India has over half of the world’s wild tigers – 2,226
– India votes in favour of a UNGA resolution that recognises the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right
– US Congress passes $280 bn bill to aid computer chip firms, counter China
– Tunisia referendum: Voters give President Kais Saied near unchecked power
– 7.0-magnitude earthquake kills five, injures 130 in northern Philippines
SPORTS
– Citing Kashmir, Pakistan pulls out on Chess Olympiad eve
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2022