Today’s Headlines: July 19, 2021
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for July 19, 2021
INDIA
– 326 sedition cases filed in India between 2014-19; only 6 convictions: Home Ministry data
– Successful trial of movement of train between Jaynagar in India and Kurtha in Nepal undertaken on 34.5 km-long rail section
– Lower stunting among children with mothers who had access to midday meal scheme: Nature Communications Study
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– GST payable only on profit earned from resale of gold jewellery: Karnataka Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR)
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
– ‘Titane’ (French) wins Palme d’or (Best Film) award
– Grand Prix, regarded as the festival’s runners-up prize, was shared by two films — Iranian Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’ and Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s ‘Compartment No. 6’
– Leos Carax won the Best Director Award for the pop-opera musical ‘Annette’
– Camera d’or for the best first film screened in Cannes this year went to the coming-of-age drama ‘Murina’
– Best Actor prize won by Caleb Landry Jones for his lead performance in ‘Nitram’
– Best Actress prize bagged by Norwegian Renate Reinsve for her performance in ‘The Worst Persona in the World’
WORLD
– Nelson Mandela International Day observed on July 18; marks birth anniversary of the former South African president
– Nepal: New PM Sher Bahadur Deuba wins vote of confidence in Parliament
SPORTS
– Viswanathan Anand wins Sparkassen Trophy chess tournament at Dortmund, Germany
– Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of UK wins Formula One British Grand Prix at Silverstone
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