Current Affairs Today Headlines: 13 July 2022

Jul 13, 2022, 11:06 IST

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Current Affairs Today Headlines: 13 July 2022
Current Affairs Today Headlines: 13 July 2022

National News

  • India denies facilitating travel of Gotabaya Rajapaksa out of Sri Lanka.
  • India reports 16,906  fresh cases, 15,447 recoveries and 45 deaths in the last 24 hours, active cases stand at 1,32,457. 
  • Kanwar Yatra' is going to take place this year after 2019. 
  • Election Commission starts distribution of ballot boxes, papers for Presidential polls.
  • All schools in Manipur closed till July 24 amid surge in new COVID-19 cases.
  • IRCTC takes disciplinary action against 61 employees for irregular attendance.
  • India is the fastest-growing economy in the world with 8.2 percent growth rate in 2022. 
  • DCGI approves India's first qHPV vaccine to treat cervical cancer.
  • India supports UNSC resolutions giving extension for Syria cross-border aid.
  • ICMR releases book, mobile app for updating, guiding physicians about common conditions.

Sports News

  • India beat England by 10 wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match ODI series.
  • England all out at 110 against India at Kennington Oval, London, posts its lowest total against India.
  • Virat Kohli yet to recover from groin injury, likely to miss 2nd ODI against England. 

  • Mohammed Shami becomes fastest Indian to take 150 ODI wickets.

International News

  • COVID pandemic is nowhere near over, says WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. 
  • UNDP report on 'Cost-of-Living Crisis in Developing Countries' shows inflation will have only a negligible impact on poverty in India.
  • Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, wife used military aircraft to reach Maldives.
  • NASA releases next wave of images from James Webb Space Telescope
  • The "buck supermoon" on July 13 will be the brightest moon of the year due to its closeness to Earth.
  • Residents of Pulau Pari, an Indonesian island threatened by rising sea levels, are suing cement giant Holcim over its carbon dioxide emissions, a Swiss charity said
  • Eight candidates to run for UK Prime Minister bid, health minister Sajid Javid withdraws.
  • Russia and Ukraine to hold talks with UN and Turkish officials to break impasse over grain exports.
  • Covid-19 pandemic 'nowhere near over',  30 percent increase in COVID cases in past two weeks, says warns WHO.
  • Squid Game' becomes first non-English show to earn Emmy nomination. 

  • Britain's Queen Elizabeth II awarded the George Cross to the state-run National Health Service (NHS) for its work over the past 74 years and praised its Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Corporate News

  • Twitter asks Delaware court to hold Elon Musk to his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform.

Environment News

  • An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude occurred at 1621 km east of Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands.
  • Residents of the Indonesian island Pulau Pari threatened by rising sea levels are suing cement giant Holcim over its carbon dioxide emissions.

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