1.A meeting between Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Sushri Shobha Karandlaje and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture & Food Industries of Moldova, Mr Vladimir Bolea was held at Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi. 

2.The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), under the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), inaugurated ‘Aviation Security Culture Week’ at its headquarters in New Delhi which will last till 5th August 2023. The theme of the ‘Aviation Security Culture Week’ is “See it, Say it, Secure it”. 

3.Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has granted in-principle approval to Air India Ltd. and Interglobe Aviation Ltd (Indigo) for import of 470 and 500 aircraft respectively. 

4.C-DOT signs consortium agreement with industry partners for ‘Collaborative Development of Disaggregated 5G Radio Access Network Solution’. 

5.TRAI and C-DoT sign MoU to establish mechanism of technical and institutional cooperation in telecommunications.

6.UGC has Developed guidelines on basic facilities and amenities for safe, secure environment for Women in HEIs. 

7.The Directorate General of Training (DGT), under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) India to upskill students in cloud computing, data annotation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), to boost their capabilities and employability.

8.Ministry of Women and Child Development organizes fourth one-day Regional Symposium on Child Protection, Child Safety, and Child Welfare at Ranchi. 

9.Draft National Deep Tech Startup Policy (NDTSP) Released for Public Consultation. 

10.As part of India’s G20 presidency, G20 EMPOWER Summit held in Gandhinagar. Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani inaugurated the summit. 

11.Union Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023 in Lok Sabha. 

12.PM Narendra Modi conferred with Lokmanya Tilak National Award in Pune. 

13.Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has injected the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into the translunar orbit. 

14.Think20 Summit under India’s G20 Presidency started in Mysuru, Karnataka. 

15.James Ferguson ‘Jim’ Skea of the United Kingdom was elected as the new chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Nairobi, Kenya. 

16. India’s Forex Reserves recently declined by $1.9 billion to $607.03 billion, its lowest level in nearly 3 months. 

17.The World Health Organization South-East Asia Region announced Bhutan and Timor-Leste have rubella free. 

18.Indian-American policy expert Nisha Biswal becomes Deputy Chief Executive Officer of US finance agency. 

19.In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha interacted with the citizens who had registered their grievances on JKIGRAMS, during “LG’s Mulaqaat” at the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar. 

20.Former Kerala speaker and senior Congress leader Vakkom Purushothaman passed away at his residence in Thiruvananthapuram.