TITBITS:
1. Bangladesh protest: Students are protesting the
Hasina government's abolition of a 30% job quota for descendants of 1971 war
participants, which the High Court reinstated and the Supreme Court suspended,
with the next hearing on August 7, after the Prime Minister called them
"Razakars."
2. The Union government is considering a proposal
to bolster India’s newest state-owned infrastructure bank, the National Bank for Financing
Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID).
3. After India surprised the world with its
impressive 8.2% GDP growth in 2023-24, international agencies have become more
optimistic about the country’s growth prospects in FY25.
4. The Directorate General of Health Services
(DGHS) under the health ministry will shortly issue an advisory on protein
supplements after multiple instances of kidney and cardiac problems in many
people who consume them to build a muscular body
5. Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurates
Asia’s first health research related "Pre-clinical Network facility"
under Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
6. India’s first jan aushadhi Kendra in overseas-
Mauritius
7. Recently
uncontacted indigeneous mascho tribe was found at amazon (peru-south America)