NATIONAL NEWS

All party delegation to 32 Nations

• Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju has announced that seven All-Party delegations (59 MPs) will engage with 32 countries and the EU headquarters in Brussels under Operation Sindoor, reflecting India’s collective resolve against terrorism.

The Role of Cooperation in Building Viksit Bharat

• Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah addressed Mega Sammelan on “The Role of Cooperation in Building Viksit Bharat” which was organized by Gujarat State Cooperative Union in Ahmedabad Gujarat.

Aqua Park in Tripura

• Union Minister for Fisheries Rajeev Ranjan Singh virtually laid the foundation stone Integrated Aqua Park at Kailashahar in Unakoti district of Tripura.

Related Facts

‘Manasvi’ Mentorship

• The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi hosted a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Mentorship Programme for High School Girls named ‘Manasvi’ in New Delhi.
• The objective of the programme is to improve the skewed gender ratio in STEM and imbue the girls with the right set of skills and mindset to encourage them to pursue careers in STEM.

Sagar Mein Samman’ (SMS)

• Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) Sarbananda Sonowal unveiled the ‘Sagar Mein Samman’ (SMS), a policy initiative of the Government of India to create a future-ready, gender-equitable maritime workforce with the ultimate aim to increase participation of women in the maritime sector.

National Soil Spectral Library (NSSL)

• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, along with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, inaugurated the National Soil Spectral Library (NSSL), which is a pioneering initiative in digital agriculture, developed collaboratively by the Nagpur-based National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSSLUP) and ICAR.
• With this launch, Maharashtra becomes the first state to have its soil map.

Maharashtra

STATE SPECIAL NEWS

Abhijit Banerjee joins Vision Board of Telangana

• Development economist and Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee has joined the Vision Board of TelanganaRising as advisor following invitation by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy.

Telangana

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Lord Hanuman’s 16-feet tall statue in Guyana

• In Guyana, a towering 16-foot statue of Lord Hanuman has been installed at the Essequibo Coast of Sparta, at the Seeta Ram Radhey Shyam Mandir as a symbol of faith, friendship and firm resolve.

Guyana

EAM Jaishankar tour of 3 nation

• External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is on a six-day visit to Netherlands, Denmark and Germany to meet the leadership of these three countries and also hold discussions with his counterparts on the entire gamut of bilateral relations and regional and global matters of mutual interest.

Pope Leo XIV’s Inauguration at Vatican

• Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha, Harivansh led India’s official delegation to the solemn ceremony of the inauguration of the Pontificate of Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City.

Vatican City

ECONOMY & BANKING

India Limits Bangladeshi Imports

• The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) announced Restriction of readymade garment imports from Bangladesh to only two seaports Nhava Sheva and Kolkata which is a reciprocal measure to Bangladesh imposing similar trade restrictions on Indian yarn and rice.

Bangladesh

Adani Partners with Sparton

• Gautam Adani’s group has signed a deal with a US undersea warfare company Sparton to develop electronic sensors and navigation systems that could be used for anti-submarine warfare.

PERSON IN NEWS

Saroj Ghose

• Saroj Ghose, the founding Director-General of the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) and the father of India’s science museum movement, passed away at 89.

K.L. Rahul

• K.L. Rahul became the fastest Indian to 8,000 runs in T20s (by innings), reaching the mark in his 224th visit to the crease and beat Virat Kohli’s record (243) and first batter to score hundreds for three IPL teams (DC, LSG and PBKS).

AWARDS & HONOURS

Sansad Ratna Award 2025

• Seventeen MPs, including Bhartruhari Mahtab and Ravi Kishan, and two Parliamentary Standing Committees, have been selected for the Sansad Ratna Award 2025.
• The awards, instituted by the Prime Point Foundation, are given to MPs for their contribution to Parliament.

ENVIRONMENT + SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Panel to probe PSLV-C61 glitch

• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has formed a committee to investigate the incident in which a PSLV rocket failed to place the Earth observation satellite, EOS-09, into its intended orbit.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

CAQM Lifts GRAP Stage I in Delhi-NCR

• The Commission for Air Quality Management Areas (CAQM) revoked Stage I of the extant schedule of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) in the entire Delhi-NCR.

GRAP

World’s First Human Bladder Transplant

• A team of US surgeons led by Dr Inderbir Gill and Dr Nima Nassiri has performed the world’s first in-human bladder transplant

DEFENCE NEWS

NCC expedition team scales Mt Everest

• The National Cadet Corps (NCC) comprised 10 NCC cadets successfully scaled world’s highest peak of Mount Everest and unfurled the Tricolour and the NCC Flag.

17th edition of LIMA 2025

• Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth led an Indian delegation at the 17th edition of Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA 2025), at Langkawi, Malaysia

SPORTS

BCCI withdraw from two major Asian Cricket Council (ACC) tournaments

• The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to withdraw from two major Asian Cricket Council (ACC) tournaments following tensions between India and Pakistan.
• The Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup, scheduled for next month in Sri Lanka and the Men’s Asia Cup, which India was set to host in September.

India won SAFF U-19 Football Title

• India clinched the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Under-19 Championship 2025, beating Bangladesh in the final at the Yupia Outdoor Stadium in Yupia, Arunachal Pradesh.