Union Cabinet has approved continuation of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) - Housing for All Mission up to 31st December 2024. Financial assistance is being provided for the completion of already sanctioned over 122 lakh houses till 31st March 2022. The scheme is one of the major flagship programmes being implemented by Central Government to provide all-weather pucca houses to all eligible beneficiaries in the urban areas of the country through States, Union Territories, and Central Nodal Agencies.

The continuation of the scheme based on the request of States and UTs upto 31st December 2024 will help in completion of already sanctioned houses under Beneficiary Led Construction, Affordable Housing in Partnership, and In-situ Slum Redevelopment verticals. Central Assistance approved since 2015 is two lakh three thousand crore rupees against 20 thousand crore rupees in 2004-2014.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today noted people's enthusiastic participation in Har Ghar Tiranga Abhiyan. In a tweet, Mr Modi said, this spirit symbolizes the country's unity and integrity. He said, this spirit will take India to a new height in the Amritkaal.

He also shared a video where he interacted with youngsters on Rakshabandhan and gave them the Tricolor. Mr Modi said, it was an unforgettable Raksha Bandhan for him. The Prime Minister said, every Indian has a special bond with the Tiranga.  

On the occasion of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Maharshi Aurobindo and the 75th Year of  Independence, the Union Ministry of Culture is commemorating the life and philosophy of Shri Aurobindo by undertaking Spiritual Programmes in 75 prisons across the nation from today till 15th of this month.

The purpose of these programmes is to transform the lives of prison inmates through inculcation of the philosophy of Shri Aurobindo and by the practice of Yoga and Meditation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that there is a need for the transformation of life of inmates in jails through self-thinking and realization and prisons all across the country should organize programmes on the life of Maharishi Aurobindo so as to enable the inmates to embark upon a new journey of life.

The 13th Edition of the Indo-US Joint Special Forces exercise “Ex Vajra Prahar 2022” commenced at the Special Forces Training School at Bakloh of Himachal Pradesh yesterday. The Vajra Prahar series of joint exercise aims to share best practices and experiences in areas such as joint mission planning and operational tactics as also to improve inter-operability between the Special Forces of both the Nations. This annual exercise is hosted alternatively between India and the United States. The 12th edition was conducted at Joint Base Lewis Mcchord, Washington (USA) in October last year.

The Ministry of Defence in a statement said, this joint exercise is a significant step in strengthening the traditional bond of friendship between the special forces of both Nations as well as improve bilateral defence cooperation between India and the USA.

National Testing Agency has declared the final scores for Joint Entrance Examination- JEE (Main) - 2022 for  Paper -1 (B.E. and B.Tech.).

A total of 24 candidates have scored 100 percentile in the examination. National Testing Agency had  conducted the JEE  (Main) - 2022 for Paper- 1 in two sessions in Computer-Based Test  mode. The first session was conducted in June while the second one in the month of July. The examination was conducted at 622 Examination Centres in 440 cities including 17 cities outside India.

The examination was conducted in 13 languages namely Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. NTA has said that on account of using unfair means, results of five candidates have been withheld. NTA Score and Result for Paper 2-A (B.Arch.) and Paper 2-B (B. Planning) will be declared separately.

Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will e-launch the onboarding of cooperatives on the GeM portal in New Delhi today. With this, all eligible cooperatives will be able to start placing orders on the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal. National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) has compiled a list of cooperatives with turnover and deposits of 100 crore rupees and forwarded this information to GeM for starting the onboarding process.

The Cooperation Ministry said, 589 cooperatives have been shortlisted as eligible for onboarding. NCUI has written to all cooperative federations and conducted virtual meets of national and state federations to apprise them about the benefits of the GeM portal.

The 13th Edition of the Indo-US Joint Special Forces exercise “Ex Vajra Prahar 2022” commenced at the Special Forces Training School at Bakloh of Himachal Pradesh yesterday. The Vajra Prahar series of joint exercise aims to share best practices and experiences in areas such as joint mission planning and operational tactics as also to improve inter-operability between the Special Forces of both the Nations. This annual exercise is hosted alternatively between India and the United States. The 12th edition was conducted at Joint Base Lewis Mcchord, Washington (USA) in October last year.

The Ministry of Defence in a statement said, this joint exercise is a significant step in strengthening the traditional bond of friendship between the special forces of both Nations as well as improve bilateral defence cooperation between India and the USA.

During the exercise, teams of both armies would jointly train, plan and execute a series of Special Operations, Counter Terrorist Operations, Air Borne operations in simulated conventional and unconventional scenarios in mountainous terrain.

The Government has started a short-term course namely ‘Drone Service Technician’ in 126 Industrial Training Institutes. It has been started across 19 States for the session 2022-23. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the drone sector is a shining example of significant growth of innovation and start-ups in the last few years.  
     
The Minister said six short-term skilling courses have been developed for manufacturing, assembly, repairing and maintenance of drones as well as to meet the requirement of skilled manpower in the drone sector. Mr. Chandrasekhar said the course comprises ground classes and practical training.

National Democratic Alliance candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar has been elected as the 14th Vice President of India. He will take the oath of office on Thursday, a day after the term of the incumbent Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu ends. Mr Dhankhar will also be appointed the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.

The Election Commission today issued a certificate announcing the election of Mr Dhankhar. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey signed the Certification of the Election of Mr Dhankhar. It will be read out at the time of the oath taking ceremony of the new vice president on August 11.

The Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman S Somanath has said that the maiden launch of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, SSLV failed to place the satellites in the intended orbit due to sensor anomaly. SSLV-D1-EOS 02 launched from Sriharikota launch pad had placed the satellites into 356kmX76 kms elliptical orbit instead of 356 km circular orbit. Due to which the two satellites remained unstable and are no longer usable. The ISRO Chairman has said the launch vehicle took off majestically at the intended time from the launch pad in Sriharikota. Its propulsion stages, overall hardware, aerodynamic design and new generation electronics, the separation system used for the first time performed very well. However after reaching an altitude of 356 kms there was a failure of logic to identify sensor failure and go for the salvage motion. Hence the launch vehicle developed an anomaly. The ISRO Chairman has said that a team of experts will go deeper to find out the reason for this isolation. He emphasised that after a small correction and revalidation, SSLV-D2 will be launched very soon.