1.The newly elected BJP government has renamed Biju Patnaik Sports Award as Odisha Rajya Krida Samman. According to the guidelines, the lifetime achievement award for promoting sports will carry a cash prize of  rs3 lakh, while rs2 lakh will be awarded for outstanding performance in sports, and rs1 lakh for excellence in coaching.

2.Actor Triptii Dimri reflects on her seven-year acting career, debuting as a fun lover to her eventual shift to serious acting.

3.Retirement fund body EPFO records the highest net addition of 19.50 lakh members in May 2024, says the Labour Ministry.

4.The Editors Guild of India Saturday sought Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s support in raising issues of press freedom and right to information in Parliament and claimed the government has taken several legislative steps to regulate and control the media.

5.Aashraa Foundation was honoured with the prestigious ‘We4U 7th Social Impact Award 2024’ here Saturday.

6.An advisory body to UNESCO has recommended “favourably” for the inscription of the ‘Moidams’ -- a mound-burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam -- on the World Heritage List, a top official of the ASI said Friday.

7. Delhi Finance Minister Atishi Saturday demanded a budgetary allocation of `10,000 crore for the MCD from the Centre, alleging the civic body does not get its share in the budget.

8.The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear July 22 a plea seeking a direction to the Centre and others to confiscate the amount received by various political parties under the now-scrapped electoral bonds scheme of 2018.

9.India has flagged its concerns over high trade deficit and non-transparent subsidies of China in a meeting at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Geneva, stating those measures impact domestic industry.

10.All tourist vehicles entering Sikkim will now have to mandatorily carry a large garbage bag, according to an official order.

11.The Karnataka High Court has recalled its recent order, which stated that only viewing child pornography is not an offence under the IT Act.

12.The BJP-ruled Ujjain Municipal Corporation on Saturday directed shop owners to display their names and mobile numbers outside their establishments in the ancient city, a directive coming on the heels of a similar order by the BJP government in UP.

13.A day after doctors at Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR) in Odisha's Burla removed 70 needles from the skull of a sorcery victim, neurosurgeons retrieved another seven during a follow-up surgery on Saturday.

14.The CBI Saturday arrested one of the masterminds, a B.Tech graduate from NIT-Jamshedpur, in the NEET-UG paper leak case and two MBBS students who allegedly acted as "solvers", officials said.

15.Atul Benke, an MLA of the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party, on Saturday met NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar in Pune.