🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS | 03 JULY 2023

  • Australia Win 2nd Test Against England, Lead Ashes 2-0; Aussies Booed At Lord's After Jonny Bairstow's Controversial Run-Out

● Max Verstappen Wins Austrian Grand Prix To Complete 'Classy' Spielberg Sweep

● Railways' Report On Odisha Train Tragedy Points To "Human Error; CBI probing the possibility of a criminal conspiracy

● NCP Ajit Pawar switches side with 9 MLAs., joins Shinde Govt as Deputy CM, Fadnavis may be shifted to Union Govt

● White House open to studying how to block sunlight to save the Earth from climate change

● Manipur To Relax Curfew In Parts Of Imphal From 5 am To 6 pm; Manipur Guv Urges Women to Restrain from Blocking Roads During Security Ops; 3 killed in Bishnupur, CM Biren rushes to spot

● Rashtriya Raksha University gets approval to set up centre for studying Chinese army; The Unveristy focused on Internal Security to hire Ex Indian Army personnel knowing Madarin as Head

● Share Of Loans Bearing Over 9% Interest Rate Hits 56.1% In March; Oil Prices Settle Higher Despite 4th Consecutive Quarterly Loss, Economic Concerns; Gold Prices Decline in Q3 Amid Likely US Rate Hike, Moderate Inflation

● Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Construction in High Speed: 3 River Bridges Built in a Month

● Dreaded Gangsters in North India Prisons to be Shifted to Andaman-Nicobar Jail; MHA Gives Nod

● Gadkari Says 70% Work of India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway Complete; India’s first regional train service - RAPIDX - to kick off on 17-km stretch this month

● GST: Over 12k Fake Entities; Biometric Authentication Soon, Tighter Return Filing; Banks' net interest margin jumps 46 basis points to 3.3% in March quarter, Bank of Baroda plans to divest up to 49 pc in credit card arm

● World Bank OKs $1.5bn for India's low carbon energy sectorCentre mulls floating LNG storages at major ports; PTC India likely to clock 20% growth in power trading in FY24; Diesel sales decline 3.7% in June, petrol sales up 3.4%

● Fierce Fighting On": Ukraine Says Russian Troops Advancing In 4 Areas; Kyiv Targeted In Overnight Drone Attack, First In 12 Days; Russian Troops Advance in Eastern Part

● Teenagers Arrested In Switzerland After Violence Inspired By France Riots; Stones were thrown and show windows were smashed in Lausanne last evening, with a sneaker store particularly affected

● Dublin Airport Authority said that as a result of a recent cyberattack, data relating to some employees' pay and benefits was compromised

● Stop, Do Not Riot": Grandmother Of French Teen Whose Killing Sparked Protests as the home of mayor of a Paris suburb attacked with a burning car; Hundreds More Arrested, Scores Of Buildings Set On Fire

 ● A previously undiscovered octopus nursery has been found by marine scientists almost two miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Coasta Rica

● Biden would travel to Europe later this month for meetings in Britain, Lithuania and Finland; King Charles will meet Biden at Windsor Castle; EU Trip to Boost NATO Against Russia as War in Ukraine Drags

● Pakistan won vital breathing space from a potential debt default thanks to a draft agreement with IMF but political stability will prove key to the economy in coming months

● UK Police Have New Expanded Powers to Crack Down on Protests; Austria Seizes Weapons, Swastika Flags After Raid On Right-Wing Biker Gang 

● Severe Flooding Hits US City of Chicago: Cars Trapped, NASCAR Race Cancelled; US Braces for Intense Heatwave, Excessive Heat Warnings Persist

● Kansas Shooting Hospitalizes 9 Victims Including 7 People Shot and 2 Trampled, Police Say

● Today’s Word - Necation - An Act Of Killing

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● Government's Ambitious Plan: National Maritime Heritage Complex in Lothal, Gujarat

● सोर्ट ट्रिक : सामान्य ज्ञान