Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: July 31, 2022

– PM addresses first All India District Legal Services Authorities Meet in New Delhi; urges judiciary to speed up the release of undertrials

– Home Minister Amit Shah opens conference on drug trafficking and national security in Chandigarh

– Over 30,000 kg of drugs were burnt and disposed of by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) teams in Delhi, Chennai, Guwahati and Kolkata.

– External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar attends Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at Tashkent in Uzbekistan

– Pranay Kumar Verma appointed India’s next High Commissioner to Bangladesh

– 1999 Kargil war: Point 5140 named as ‘Gun Hill’ to honour supreme sacrifice of gunners in ‘Operation Vijay’

– Actor Rasik Dave, known for Hindi and Gujarati films and TV shows, dies at 65

– EPFO launches face authentication for pensioners to submit digital life certificates

– PM launches National Solar rooftop portal to enable online tracking of the process of installation of rooftop solar plants

– PM launches Power Ministry’s flagship Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme that aims at improving the operational efficiencies and financial sustainability of the Distribution Companies (DISCOMs)

– World Day against Trafficking in Persons observed on July 30

– International Day of Friendship celebrated on July 30

– United States, Japan to launch new semiconductor research hub

– Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham: Mirabai Chanu bags India’s first gold in women’s 49kg weightlifting

– India beat West Indies by 68 runs in first T20 at Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago