Current Affairs – Today’s Headlines: July 8, 2021

– Narayan Rane: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

– Sarbananda Sonowal: Ports, Shipping & Waterways and AYUSH

– Virendra Kumar: Social Justice & Empowerment

– Jyotiraditya M Scindia: Civil Aviation

– Ramchandra Prasad Singh: Steel

– Ashwini Vaishnaw: Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology

– Pashupati Kumar Paras: Food Processing Industries

– Bhupender Yadav: Environment, Forest & Climate Change and Labour & Employment

– Kiren Rijiju: Law & Justice

– Raj Kumar Singh: Power and New & Renewable Energy

– Mansukh Mandaviya: Health & Family Welfare and Chemicals & Fertilizers

– Hardeep Singh Puri: Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing & Urban Affairs

– G. Kishan Reddy: Culture, Tourism and Development of North Eastern Region

– Anurag Thakur: Information & Broadcasting and Youth Affairs & Sports

– Parshottam Rupala: Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying

– Narendra Modi: Science & Technology

– Amit Shah: Cooperation

– Pankaj Choudhary: Ministry of Finance

– Anupriya Singh Patel: Commerce & Industry

– Satya Pal Singh Baghel: Law & Justice

– Rajeev Chandrasekhar: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & Information Technology

– Shobha Karandlaje: Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

– Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

– Darshana Vikram Jardosh: Textiles and Railways

– Meenakshi Lekhi: External Affairs and Culture

– Annpurna Devi: Education

– A. Narayanaswamy: Social Justice & Empowerment

– Kaushal Kishore: Housing & Urban Affairs

– Ajay Bhatt: Defence and Tourism

– B. L. Verma: Development of North Eastern Region and Cooperation

– Ajay Kumar: Home Affairs

– Devusinh Chauhan: Communications

– Bhagwanth Khuba: New & Renewable Energy and Chemicals & Fertilizers

– Kapil Moreshwar Patil: Panchayati Raj

– Pratima Bhoumik: Social Justice & Empowerment

– Subhas Sarkar: Education

– Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad: Finance

– Rajkumar Ranjan Singh: External Affairs and Education

– Bharati Pravin Pawar: Health & Family Welfare

– Bishweswar Tudu: Tribal Affairs and Jal Shakti

– Shantanu Thakur: Ports, Shipping & Waterways

– Munjapara Mahendrabhai: Women & Child Development and AYUSH

– John Barla: Minority Affairs

– L. Murugan: Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying and Information & Broadcasting

– Nisith Pramanik: Home Affairs and Youth Affairs & Sports

– Pattarat Hongtong: Thailand

– Daniela Mariana Sezonov Tane: Romania

– Nurlan Zhalgasbayev: Kazakhstan

– Firat Sunel: Turkey

– Congress leader Virbhadra Singh, former Himachal Pradesh CM & Union Minister, dies at 87 in Shimla

– Swamy Prakashananda, former head of Sivagiri Madhom (Mutt), dies at 99 in Thiruvananthapuram

– External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar calls on Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran

– Sensex closes above 53,000 for the first time ever, closes at new lifetime high of 53,054; Nifty also closes at a new lifetime high of 15,879.65

– Fitch cuts India’s GDP growth forecast for 2021-22 to 10% from 12.8% earlier

– Govt. sets up 25-member development council for cement industry under Dalmia Bharat Group CMD Puneet Dalmia

– Exports of Geographical Indications certified Bhalia wheat from Gujarat begins

– Haiti President Jovenel Moise assassinated at home in capital Port-au-Prince

– Sri Lanka issues commemorative coin marking centenary of Chinese Communist Party

– U.S. Defense Department cancels its $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing project that had been awarded to Microsoft during President Donald Trump’s rule

– Former hockey player Keshav Chandra Datt dies in Kolkata at 95, was member of gold medal winning team at 1948 (London) and 1952 (Helsinki) Olympic Games