# Taiwan-China US house Speaker and veteran democratic politician Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday evening, marking the most highest level political visit from the US to Taiwan in 25 years. China condemned the visit as a “major political provocation” and said it would launch “targeted military operations” as counter measures. Ms. Pelosi on […]

# 5G auction India’s biggest ever auction of telecom spectrum received a record ₹1.5 lakh crore of bids. Reliance jio has bid almost half of all the airwaves sold with bids totalling ₹88078 crores. Gautam Adani’s group ₹212 crore rupees for 400 MHz or less than 1% of all spectrum sold, in a band that […]

# HAL Hindustan Aeronautics limited has received the letter of intent from the services for the manufacture of 12 Light utility helicopters (LUH), which have been designed and developed indigenously. The army is in the negotiations for acquiring 11 more Apache AH – 64E attack helicopters from US. In addition, the request for quotation (RFQ) […]

# Chess olympiad Prime minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the FIDE 44th chess olympiad in Chennai on Thursday. Record 186 nations are participating and there will be never before simultaneous live broadcast from around 700 boards. USA is the strongest contender for gold with four of its five players among the top 14 in the world. […]

# Money laundering act The supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the core amendments made to the prevention of money laundering act, which gives the government and Enforcement Directorate powers of summons, arrests and raids and makes bails nearly impossible. In this act, the burden of proof of innocence is on the accused instead of the […]

# Supreme Court The supreme Court on July 26 orally asked the centre to find out from the finance commission if there is a way to curb political parties from promising and distributing “irrational freebies” during election campaigns. The hearing came on a writ petition filed by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini kumar Upadhyay, who […]

# Draupadi Murmu Draupadi Murmu took the oath of office as the 15th president of India on Monday and created history by becoming the first tribal head of state and second woman to occupy the country’s highest constitutional post. She took her oath of office in Hindi and in the name of God to “preserve, […]

# Monkeypox Delhi confirmed its first case of monkeypox on Sunday, a day after the infection was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization. The health ministry confirmed that a 34 year old man from Delhi was isolated at lok nayak hospital with monkeypox symptoms. The national Institute of […]

# West Bengal The enforcement Directorate on Saturday arrested West Bengal Industry and commerce minister and senior Trinamool congress leader Partha chatterjee in connection with irregularities in recruitment to the West Bengal school service commission. Partha chatterjee had been the state education minister from 2014 to 2021, when the alleged irregularities occurred. On Friday, the […]

# Srilanka Senior politician and staunch rajapaksha loyalist Dinesh Gunawardana on Friday became the third prime minister to lead Srilanka in the last three months. Earlier Ranil wickramasinghe was elected the president of Srilanka. The cabinet of the previous government will continue untill an all party government is formed. # National film awards Tamil movie […]