- India on Sunday recorded 11,539 fresh coronavirus infections that pushed its tally to 4,43,39,429, while the number of active cases came down to 99,879, according to Union health ministry data.
- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said mistakes in detailed project reports (DPRs) prepared by consultants were to blame for road accidents that kill more than 1.50 lakh people annually across the country.
- A woman PhD student from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune on Sunday flagged the lack of a proper sanitary pad disposal mechanism at CSIR institutes in an interaction with Union minister Jitendra Singh.
- Authorities in Balasore and Mayurbhanj districts have launched a massive evacuation drive in low-lying areas, officials said Sunday, as water in Subarnarekha and Baitarani – the two major rivers flowing through the region – breached the danger mark at many places
- Universities and higher education institutions across the country will now be allowed to create up to 25 per cent supernumerary seats for foreign students in their undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) programmes, UGC chairman Jagadesh Kumar has told PTI.
- Mobile internet services across 25 districts of Assam were suspended for four hours Sunday to prevent possible malpractices as the state government conducted written examinations for Grade IV posts in its various departments.
- With less than five months left for the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023 to commence, hockey lovers across the world are excitedly looking towards Odisha, which will host the mega sporting event.
- Not just adults, children who suffered from Covid19 are also at an increased risk of cognitive deficit, insomnia, ischaemic stroke, nerve/psychotic disorders and epilepsy or seizures even months after they were infected, a large-scale observational study of over 1.25 million patient health records has revealed.
- A boy from Odisha, Aryan Bramhin, has been selected to the Indian team for the forthcoming 9th Asian Men’s Youth Handball Championship 2022 to be held from August 20 to 31 in Manama, Bahrain.
- Veteran politician and former Gujarat Chief Minister Shankersinh Vaghela Sunday floated a new party, Praja Shakti Democratic Party. His party will contest the upcoming Assembly elections in Gujarat.
- Facing the heat in the excise policy "corruption" case, Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Sunday claimed the CBI issued a Look Out Circular against him, but agency officials denied it and said the LOCs were only against eight ''private'' persons named in the FIR.
- Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar could emerge as a "strong candidate" for Prime Minister in 2024 if opposition parties agreed to consider him for the job, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said Sunday.
- The government has firmed up a proposal to give specific names to all the AIIMS, including that in Delhi, based on regional heroes, freedom fighters, historical events or monuments of the area or their distinct geographical identity.
- The government has no plans to import wheat as it has sufficient stocks to meet the country’s requirements, official sources said. The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has enough stock for public distribution, they added.
- Five of the top-10 valued firms together lost `30,737.51 crore in market valuation last week, with Reliance Industries Limited taking the biggest hit. In the holiday-shortened week, the Sensex advanced 183.37 points or 0.30 per cent.
- Freebies are never ‘free’ and when political parties offer such schemes, they must be required to make the financing and trade-offs clear to voters, RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Member Ashima Goyal said Sunday, adding this would reduce the temptation towards “competitive populism”.
- Delhi Police on Monday heightened the security at the Singhu and Ghazipur borders on the Delhi-Meerut expressway ahead of a farmers' protest at Jantar Mantar against unemployment.
- The Finance Ministry on Sunday said United Payments Interface (UPI) is a digital public good and there is no consideration in the government to levy any charges on this.
- Litigation is like a bleeding wound and the more it is allowed to bleed, the more will the man suffer, Chief Justice of India-designate Justice Uday Umesh Lalit said on Sunday.
- Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh has sought more time to join the investigation in the case of the nude photographs registered against him, police said on Sunday.
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