News Headlines : 9th July 2022

  • Vice President M.Venkaiah Naidu said that New National Education Policy is a very good step in the right direction and it should be honoured and implemented in letter and spirit.
  • Political crisis deepens in Sri Lanka; Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today announced his resignation as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka to make way for an all-party government to take over in the country.
  • The Prime Minister’s Media Division said that Prime Minister Wickremesinghe will resign after an all-party government is established and the majority is secured in Parliament. His office had said that Mr Wickremesinghe will continue as Prime Minister until then.
  • Demonstrators break into Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence asking him to step down.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Professor of Economics and Government at London School of Economics Nicholas Stern in New Delhi and discussed diverse issues.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address Natural Farming Conclave at Surat in Gujarat virtually tomorrow.
  • Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today called for developing forward-looking, world-class institutions that work on the principle of Student First- Teacher Led learning.
  • Home Minister Amit Shah chairs Northern Zonal Council meeting at Jaipur in Rajasthan.
  • Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh says, Panchayati Raj Institutions  essential messengers of Prime Minister Modi’s public welfare schemes.
  • In Jammu and Kashmir, rescue operation underway after cloudburst at Shri Amarnathji Shrine.
  • External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar visited Embassy of Japan today to convey his condolences to Ambassador Satoshi Suzuki on the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
  • Tricolour flown half-mast on day of national mourning across India as mark of respect to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
  • President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu extend greetings on eve of Eid-uz-Zuha.
  • Wimbledon Tennis: 17th seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan has clinched Women’s Singles title defeating third seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the final 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 this evening.
  • India won by 49 runs in second T20 between India and England in Birmingham.