Current Affairs Today Headlines: 21 July 2022

Find here Today's Current Affairs News Headlines by Jagran Josh for 20 July 2022.

Jul 21, 2022, 10:28 IST
Current Affairs Today Headlines: 21 July 2022
Current Affairs Today Headlines: 21 July 2022

National News

  • Counting of votes for 15th Presidential election to begin at 11 am on July 21, 2022. 
  • Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann admitted to the hospital. 
  • World Health Organization (WHO) confirms 14,000 cases of monkeypox worldwide, with 5 deaths reported in Africa.
  • Tripura CM Manik Saha tested positive for Covid-19.
  • Telangana requests Centre to provide Rs 1,000 crore as immediate assistance towards flood relief. 
  • Karnataka to bring a new policy to ensure power supply to every poor household of the state.

International News 

  • Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed a total of 604 cases of monkeypox in the country as of July 20. 
  • Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss through to the final stage of the UK PM race, Penny Mordaunt knocked out. 
  • US President Joe Biden to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping by the end of the month amid simmering tensions between over Taiwan and trade.
  • Ranil Wickremesinghe to be sworn in as Sri Lanka's new President today. 
  • US President Joe Biden announces modest climate actions; pledges more to come.
    James Webb Space Telescope may have found earliest known galaxy in the universe that existed 13.5 billion years ago.
  • Russian gas deliveries expected to resume at previous level after maintenance ends Thursday.
  • The UK government gives go-ahead to the new Sizewell C nuclear power station in eastern England. 

Corporate 

  • Wipro's revenue from operations rises 18 percent year-on-year to Rs 21,528.6 cr in June quarter.

Sports News

  • India's CWG-bound sprinter S Dhanalakshmi and triple jumper Aishwarya Babu fail dope test.
  • Postponed Asian Games to be held in 2023 in China from September 23 to October 8. 
  • World 100m champion Kerley out of world relays with injury.

Environment News

  • Human food waste a threat to polar bears. 
  • Fewer manatee deaths have been recorded so far this year in Florida compared to the record-setting numbers in 2021.
  • Spain has reported over 679 people in the first eight days from July 10-17 of the second heatwave. 

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