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1. Veterans say SC remarks on Nupur Sharma are “not in sync with the judicial ethos”

Many former HC judges, as many as 77 bureaucrats, and 25 veteran army officers have written to the Chief Justice of India, calling observations on Nupur Sharma, not in sync with judicial ethos.

2. SpiceJet’s 7th technical malfunction in 17 days

A Kandla-Mumbai SpiceJet flight made a priority landing at Mumbai after its windshield cracked mid-air. Earlier yesterday, a Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight from Dubai made an emergency landing at Karachi following a technical fault. 

3. Twitter on a legal battle with Center

Twitter has moved the Karnataka HC seeking judicial review of orders from Meity seeking removal or blocking of certain content. 

4. PM Modi wishes Lalu Prasad Yadav a speedy recovery

The former chief minister of Bihar and RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav suffered a fracture in the shoulder after he fell from the stairs at his residence. PM Modi spoke to Tejashwi Yadav and enquired about his health. 

5. Boris Johnson’s government on the brink of collapse

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Secretary of state for health and social care Sajid Javid resigned from the ruling Conservative party government in the UK, bringing a new challenge to PM Boris Johnson’s leadership. 

6. NIA arrests 5th suspect in Udaipur case

The fifth suspect in the Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal murder case, Mohammad Moshin, was taken into custody after he was produced before the special NIA court in Jaipur, Rajashthan.

7. ED raids at Vivo

Chinese Smartphone maker Vivo’s premises across 44 locations in India was raided by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

8. A dad-daughter bond in the sky

Creating history in India’s defense aviation, Veteran fighter pilot Air Commodore Sanjay Sharma and his daughter Flying Officer Ananya Sharma veered in the same formation of Hawk-132 fighter jets at Indian Airforce (IAF) Bidar station. It is the first time in IAF that a Dad-daughter duo is flying together as fellow wingmen.

9. Drug trial makes Indian-origin woman cancer-free

Jasmin David of Fallowfield, diagnosed with an aggressive triple-negative form of breast cancer and given just months to live, got completely cured of cancer after she took an NHS drug trial in the UK. The two-year drug trial was conducted at NIHR Manchester Clinical Research Facility.  

10. Monkeypox cases cross the 5000 mark, 85# from Europe

WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said that the number of confirmed Monkeypox cases has gone up to 5,322, with 85% of them in Europe. She added that infections are reported from 53 countries.

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