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It’s going to be a quite busy Friday.
Paris is gearing up for the opening ceremony of the Olympics today. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
PM Narendra Modi will be in Ladakh on July 26 to attend the 25th anniversary of the Kargil Vijay Diwas.
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal is likely to attend the BRICS trader ministers’ meeting in Moscow on Friday.
Here’s how the day will unfold.
PM Modi to attend 25th anniversary Kargil Vijay Diwas
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Ladakh on July 26 to attend the 25th anniversary of the Kargil Vijay Diwas.
The grand celebrations to mark the ‘Rajat Jyanti’ of India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1999 war are being conducted at Drass in the Kargil district.
Maj General Malik said the prime minister would land at Drass Brigade Helipad on the morning of July 26 and be received by army officials.
Modi would take rest in the green room before departing for the Kargil War Memorial to participate in the wreath-laying ceremony, which will followed by a visit to the ‘Shaheed Marg’ (Wall of Fame). He said Modi would sign on the visitors book and inspect the museum of Kargil War artefacts.
PM Modi will also interact with ‘Veer Naris’ (War Widows) and visit the Veer Bhoomi, he said, adding he would inaugurate the ‘Shinku La Tunnel’ virtually.
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More Shorts2024 Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony
The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics is scheduled today, July 26.
Instead of a traditional march into a stadium, about 10,500 athletes will parade on more than 90 boats on the Seine River for six kilometres (3.7 miles). This will start the ceremony, not mark the end of it, another break from tradition.
The ceremony starts at 11 pm IST (1:30 pm EDT/7:30 pm CES) and is expected to last more than three hours.
The ceremony will air on NBC and stream on Peacock and NBC Olympic platforms — NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, NBC app, NBC Olympics app.
Trump to meet Netanyahu in Florida
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
The meeting will be their first since the end of Trump’s presidency, during which the two forged close ties, and comes at a time of strains also between Netanyahu and Democratic President Joe Biden over Israel’s war against Hamas militants in Gaza.
This week he will also meet both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who on Sunday entered the 2024 presidential race after Biden pulled out.
The Israeli leader appears to be hedging his bets about the November U.S. election. Polls show the race is tight. Most analysts believe a second Trump administration would give Netanyahu a freer hand in the Gaza war.
SC hearing on eateries along Kanwar Yatra route
The Supreme Court will be hearing a plea against Uttar Pradesh government’s order that eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route must display the names of their owners.
The top court had earlier put an interim stay till Friday on the directive and had said that shop owners will, however, be required to display the kind of food they are serving to Kanwariyas.
The holy month of Sawan 2024 has begun on Monday (July 22) during which devotees carry Kanwar, a bamboo pole with pitchers filled with Ganga Jal attached on both sides, and travel to Lord Shiva temples.
Among the most popular is the Haridwar Route. Devotees take Ganga Jal from Haridwar to the Neelkanth Mahadev Temple in Rishikesh or the Pura Mahadeva Temple in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh.
Piyush Goyal to attend BRICS trade ministers’ meeting in Moscow
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal is likely to attend the BRICS trader ministers’ meeting in Moscow on Friday.
BRICS members comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
With the Indian marine and pharma exporters facing issues in Russia, New Delhi is looking to resolve and facilitate the shipments.
Monsoon session of Jharkhand Assembly begins
The monsoon session of Jharkhand Assembly will be held from July 26 to August 2.
Governor CP Radhakrishnan has approved the week-long session, which will comprise six working days.
The session is likely to be stormy as the opposition BJP will try to corner the ruling alliance led by the JMM on various fronts such as corruption, deteriorating law and order and infiltration.
This will be the last session of the fifth Jharkhand Assembly.
Women’s Asia Cup T20 2024 – Semi-finals from today
The Women’s Asia Cup semi finals is slated to kick off on Friday in Sri Lanka.
India, the reigning champions, will begin their campaign for an unprecedented eighth Asia Cup title when they will clash against their fierce rivals Pakistan in Dambulla on the tournament’s opening day.
The tournament will feature a total of 15 matches, with full-member teams from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka participating alongside Malaysia, the UAE, Thailand and Nepal.
A day to remember
Kargil Vijay Diwas
India’s 1st Nuclear Submarine was launched in 2009 by PM Manmohan Singh
Birth anniversary of painter artist Tyeb Mehta
Birth anniversary of economist Jagdish Bhagwati
Birth anniversary of Irish playwright and Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw
22 bomb blasts in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad in 2008 killing 56 persons and leaving 200 injured
Egypt seized Suez Canal in 1956
General Hospital taped its 7,000th episode in 1990
Mars Observer took 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km in 1993
FBI was formed in 1908
Egypt occupied Suez Canal in 1956
Maldives Independence Day
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