1. Parliament’s Budget Session will be held between July 22 and August 12, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said Saturday, adding, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Budget July 23.

2.Counselling for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG), 2024, is expected to start by the end of this month, official sources said. The counselling session was likely to begin in the first week of July. However, the authorities had not notified any date or schedule.

3. The state government will set up cold storage facilities in all sub-divisions soon to help out the farmers.

4. Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has despatched 1.4 lakh packaged water bottles worth `10 lakh to support the drinking water requirement during the world famous car festival in Puri.

5. Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has registered an excellent performance in many key production and techno-economic areas in the first quarter of the current fiscal from April to June, 2024-25.

6. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear July 8 a plea seeking directions to the Centre and states to provide free sanitary pads to girl students of class 6-12 and ensure separate female toilet facilities in all government-aided and residential schools.

7. The Amarnath Yatra was temporarily suspended on both routes to the cave shrine Saturday as a precautionary measure due to heavy rainfall, officials said.

8.  In a monastery beneath snow-capped mountains in northern India, the Buddhist monk entrusted with protecting the Dalai Lama and foretelling his people’s future is concerned.

9. More than 35,000 candidates Saturday took the exam for foreign medical graduates to become eligible to practice medicine in the country, the Union health ministry said.

10. Water level in different rivers in Bihar started rising at many places and the flood situation in Assam remained critical with 24.5 lakh people in 30 districts affected as torrential rain battered eastern parts India.

11. Delhi L-G V K Saxena has approved a recommendation for a probe against jailed former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in a graft case related to CCTV installation in the city, Raj Niwas officials said Saturday.

12.  At least four terrorists were killed and a soldier laid down his life in twin encounters in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday, officials said.

13. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday that he is scrapping a controversial Conservative policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda.

14. Vedanta Group chairman Anil Agarwal met Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday, and held discussions on the development projects in the state

15. As the Indian stock market keeps touching new highs amid a record bull run, over 42.4 lakh new demat accounts were opened in the month of June, the highest account opening rate since February.