INDIA
– Maharashtra: CM Eknath Shinde wins floor test in Assembly
– Delhi Assembly passes bill to hike salaries and allowances of its members by over 66%
– AP: PM unveils 30-ft bronze statue of freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju on his 125th birth anniversary in Bhimavaram
– Gujarat: PM inaugurates Digital India Week 2022 in Gandhinagar
– PM launches ‘Digital India Bhashini’ to enable easy access to internet and digital services in vernacular languages
– India gifts 75 ambulances, 17 school buses to Nepal
– Karnataka’s Sini Shetty crowned Miss India World 2022
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– RBI launches next round of its OBICUS (order books, inventories and capacity utilisation) survey of manufacturing companies
– Hotels and restaurants can’t levy service charge by default, says CCPA (Central Consumer Protection Authority)
– Gujarat, Karnataka best states for startup ecosystem: DPIIT (Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade) rankings
– Govt completes disinvestment of Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited in Odisha to Tata Steel Long Products Limited
– Drug pricing regulator NPPA (National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority) fixes retail prices of 84 drug formulations
WORLD
– Glacier collapses in Italian Alps, killing at least six
– British theatre director Peter Brook dies aged 97; awarded Padma Shri in 2021
SPORTS
– Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz wins Formula One British Grand Prix at Silverstone
