Today’s Current Affairs Headlines : 9th July 2022
Today’s Current Affairs Headlines
Find here today’s current affairs headlines for 9th July 2022 by Miliposts.
National News
- India has 18,840 new COVID-19 cases, 16,104 cured and 43 deaths in the last 24 hours.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit and worship Baba Baidyanath temple, one of the twelve Jyotirlingas.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Deoghar and Patna on July 12, inaugurate Deoghar airport and lay the foundation stone for various development projects worth over Rs 16000 crore.
- 16 people confirmed dead due to cloudburst in lower holy cave of Amarnath, rescue operation of Indian Army and others underway
- Rajnath Singh will launch 75 newly developed AI-enabled defence products.
- Monsoon session of Parliament to be held amid COVID-19 restrictions
International News
- Indian-origin former UK finance minister Rishi Sunak announced a bid to succeed Boris Johnson as Britain’s next prime minister.
- Quad leaders were condoling the passing of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, who played a key role in establishing the Indo-Pacific partnership, issued a joint statement expressing their shock over the tragic killing.
- On July 8, two weeks after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden signed an executive order protecting access to abortion.
- Russia vetoed a UN resolution on cross-border aid to Syria.
- Former Angola President Jose Eduardo dos Santos died at 79 at a hospital in Barcelona, where he was brought last month after suffering heart failure.
Corporate News
- Elon Musk sent a letter to Twitter seeking to end the USD 44 billion deal, citing a lack of information on bot accounts, and Twitter to sue for action.
- Rajendra Prasad took over as the MD of High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited.
- Zydus Lifesciences Limited launched Sitaglin & Siglin (sitagliptin) to manage type 2 diabetes in India.
Sports News
- Record-breaking Novak Djokovic reached the eighth Wimbledon final in 2022 to face Nico Kyrgios.
science and space - NASA said the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope would include unprecedented views of distant galaxies, bright nebulae and a distant giant gas planet.