The nation is observing the 21st anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas on July 26, remembering its brave martyrs who sacrificed their lives to uphold and safeguard the integrity of the nation. This day commemorates the success of Operation Vijay.
Kargil war took place from May 3 to July 26, 1999.
Reserve Bank of India has signed necessary documents for extending a 400-million-dollar currency swap facility with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. This currency swap arrangement will remain available till November 2022.
Sri Lanka Capital- Colombo, Currency- Rupee.
India and European Union have renewed its Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation for the next five years till 2025. The Agreement was initially signed on 23rd November in 2001 and renewed two times in 2007 and 2015.
EU is a political and economic union of 27 member states.
TRIFED has entered a partnership with IIT Delhi for the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA), a flagship national programme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. TRIFED is responsible for implementing the Van Dhan Yojana (VDY).
Managing Director of TRIFED- Pravir Krishna.
Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan attended the Health Ministers of Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states meeting through video conferencing and said that India undertook the COVID-19 challenge with the highest level of political commitment.
Heads of State Council is the decision-making body in the SCO.
Union Minster for Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Narendra Singh Tomar said that, in view of the situation arising out of COVID-19 pandemic, an additional allocation of Rs 40, 000 Cr has also been made for the MGNREGA Scheme during this financial year.
MGNREGA was launched in 2006.
The central bank said the gross non-performing assets (GNPA) ratio of the country's scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) may increase from 8.5 percent in March 2020 to 12.5 percent by the same period next year, under the baseline scenario.
RBI projected Gross NPA by the end of FY20 as 8.5%.
Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhary has been named as the new head of Western Air Command of Indian Air Force, which looks after the country’s defence in North India, including Ladakh region. He will take over from Air Marshal B Suresh.
Western Air Command is headquartered in New Delhi.
Bureaucrat Rajesh Bhushan has been appointed health secretary as part of a minor top-level bureaucratic reshuffle. Sushil Kumar has been appointed secretary of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes under the Social Justice & Empowerment Ministry.
Rajesh Bhushan will succeed Preeti Sudan.
Haryana will host the 4th Khelo India Youth Games. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced this through video conferencing. Khelo India Youth Games is scheduled to take place after Tokyo Olympics next year.
The Games will be held at Panchkula in Haryana.
Amala Shankar, the renowned dancer died in Kolkata at the age of 101. She was awarded Banga Vibhushan by the West Bengal government in 2011 for her contributions in the field of art. Not only dance, she was a painter and writer as well.
In 2012, she received Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Ratna award.