Fire accident in MP: The fire at Satpura Bawan in Bhopal could have destroyed documents related to several departments. The fire was doused after 14 hours with the aid of the IAF and the Army.
An earthquake with 5.4 magnitude hits J&K: An earthquake with Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda as the epicenter and an intensity of 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred after 1.30 pm this afternoon. Tremors were felt in Chandigarh and Delhi-NCR regions.
Major evacuation underway in Gujarat: Gujarat administration has canceled 69 trains, moved as many as 21000 people from its coastal districts to temporary shelters, and kept NDRF and SDRF teams ready as Cyclore Biparjoy could make landfall near Kutch.
Furnace explosion in Tata factory: A blast furnace explosion at Tata Steel’s hot rolled coil factory in the Dhenkanal district of Odisha has injured 19 people.
Dorsey says Indian government threatened shutdown and raids: Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, has claimed in an interview that India threatened shutdown and raids if the microblogging platform did not heed a government request to pull down posts and restrict accounts critical of the government during the farmer’s protest 2020-21.
ED searches the premises of TN Minister Senthil Balaji: ED officials accompanied by paramilitary personnel searched places linked to Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji. Chief minister MK Stalin lashed out at the center calling the raids “politically motivated.”
ISRO to launch Chandrayaan 3 next month: Chandrayaan -3 is set to go live between July 12 and 19, said Chairman of ISRO S Somanath while inaugurating a workshop and space exhibition at Kothavara St Xavier’s College in Kottayam district Kerala.
Two terrorists gunned down in Kashmir: A joint operation by Army and Kupwara Police in the Dobanar Machhal area along the LOC in J&K has neutralized two terrorists. Kashmir Police said the search is still underway.
Shakti scheme in Karnataka could face opposition from Private bus owners: Private bus operators in Karnataka are mulling a strike over the implementation of the Shakti scheme by the state government. Many already face losses after the state announced free travel for women in ordinary state-run buses.
Hoax bomb threat in Bengaluru tech park: Around 500 employees were evacuated from Ecospace Business Park in Bellandur after a private firm in the tech park received a hoax bomb threat around 2 pm.