INDIA
– Punjab: Electricity bills till 300 units to be free of cost, says CM Bhagwant Mann
– Himachal Pradesh: Electricity bills till 125 units to be free of cost, says CM Jairam Thakur
– West Bengal: Shatrughan Sinha of TMC wins Asansol Lok Sabha bypoll by a margin of more than 3 lakh votes
– West Bengal: TMC’s Babul Supriyo wins Ballygunge assembly seat in bypoll
Maharashtra: Jayshree Jadhav of Congress wins Kolhapur North Assembly bypoll
– Bihar: Amar Paswan of RJD wins Bochahan assembly seat in bypoll
– Chhattisgarh: Yashoda Verma of Congress wins Khairagarh assembly seat in bypoll
– PM Modi unveils 108 feet tall statue of Lord Hanuman at Morbi in Gujarat
– Producer-actor Manju Singh dies at 73; known for TV shows: ‘Swaraj’, ‘Ek Kahani’ and ‘Show Time’
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– Civil Aviation Ministry’s UDAN scheme selected for Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration 2020
WORLD
– US: FDA (Food and Drug Administration) authorizes first-ever breathing test for detecting Covid-19 infection
– 3 Chinese astronauts return to earth after 6-month stay at Tiangong space station
– Afghanistan: At least 30 killed in Pakistan airstrikes in Khost, Kunar provinces
– Pakistan: Social worker Bilquis Edhi of Edhi Foundation founded by her late husband Abdul Sattar Edhi, dies at 74 in Karachi
SPORTS
– Odisha: Bhubaneswar and Rourkela to host 2023 FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup
– Danish Open Swimming: Sajan Prakash wins gold in 200m butterfly, Vedaant Madhavan bags silver in 1500m freestyle
