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• Greece's centre-right opposition party New Democracy has won the nation's snap general election.


• With most districts counted, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras admitted defeat to his rival, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.


• New Democracy has 39.8% of the vote so far, with Mr. Tsipras's leftist Syriza party in second place with 31.6%.

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• Venezuela's opposition says it has agreed to resume talks with President Nicolás Maduro to try to resolve a prolonged political crisis.


• A meeting between opposition and government officials will be held in Barbados, self-declared interim President Juan Guaidó says.


• A date for the talks mediated by Norway was not given. Dialogue between the two sides broke down in May.

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• Iran has announced it will break a limit set on uranium enrichment, in breach of the landmark 2015 deal designed to curb its nuclear ambitions.


• Deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran still wanted to salvage the deal but blamed European countries for failing to live up to their own commitments.


• The US unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in 2018.

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• Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong for the first time since the storming of parliament on 1 July.


• On Sunday evening riot police charged a group of protesters with batons after warning groups to disperse.


• Demonstrators were seen using umbrellas to defend themselves from the charge.

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• California’s powerful India-origin Democratic Senator Kamala Harris has raised more than $23 million since she announced her presidential bid in January.


• Among over 20 Democratic presidential aspirants, Ms. Harris (54), whose mother had migrated to the US from Chennai, is running neck to neck with former US vice president Joe Biden, particularly after her impressive show at the first primary debate held recently.

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• Navy and Air Force have no money left for new deals, and may default on earlier payments as well There is disappointment in the military and industry over the defence allocation in the Union Budget.


• There are also questions on the overall military modernisation and the big-ticket deals lined up for conclusion this year as there are no resources left for new procurements.

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• Researchers and activists studying the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) data have refuted the argument made in this year’s Economic Survey regarding the positive causal impact of Aadhaar-linked payments (ALP) on the scheme, especially in drought affected districts. The argument is riddled with false assumptions, they say.

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• The production of India’s first semi high-speed train has come to a grinding halt at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai. The work on rolling out ten trains this fiscal remains a non-starter despite floating of tenders.


• The design of the successfully running Train18 has been found to be violative of certain specifications and will go back to the drawing table.


• Investigation is also on into allegations that one company was favoured in the making of the ₹97 crore train set, railway sources said.

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• United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan arrived in New Delhi on July 7 night and will hold talks with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar to boost cooperation in key sectors such as trade and energy.


• The UAE minister will also call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and participate in a business roundtable on July 8.

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• The candidates can check the merit list through the website cee.kerala.gov.in. The second allotment list will be released tomorrow.


• The Commissioner of Entrance Examination, Kerala (CEE Kerala) will release the Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) 2019 second allotment list on Monday, July 8, 2019. The first allotment list was released on June 21.

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• The online window to apply for the plus 3-degree admissions in Odisha will be closed on Monday, July 8, 2019. The candidates who want to apply can do so through the website- samsodisha.gov.in.


Candidates can select up to five options, as the name of all colleges will be updated in the application form. Students will have to choose the college of preference based on which admission will be granted.

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• The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has announced the result for the phase 1 exam held for recruitment to 4103 posts," claim few portals. However the official website of FCI has no update on the result.


• Candidates should note that the FCI will intimate the result and the candidature status for the next exam through the official website only.

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• For those who have applied but do not want to appear for the exam a withdrawal window will open from July 15 to July 22. The application process will be closed tomorrow.


• Candidates will have to appear for the entrance exam scheduled to be conducted on September 8. Those who qualify the exam will be trained at the Indian Naval Academy (INA), Air force Academy (AFA), Indian Military Academy (IMA), and Officer’s Training Academy (OTA) – as suitable for their profile.

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• As part of the overhaul, the bank will scrap its global equities business and also cut some of its fixed income operations.


• Whole teams in Deutsche Bank's Asian operations were told their positions were gone on Monday, as the lender began axing 18,000 jobs globally in one of the biggest overhauls to an investment bank since the aftermath of the financial crisis.

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• Shares of Punjab National Bank (PNB) plunge as much as 8.2 per cent to ₹75.10, their lowest since June 20. The state-owned lender said on Saturday it had detected a ₹3,800 crore ($554.1 mln) borrowing fraud in Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd's account.


• PNB says Bhushan Power & Steel misappropriated bank funds, manipulated books of accounts to raise funds from consortium lender banks, adding it has made provisions of ₹1,932 crore in Bhushan's account.

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• Megan Rapinoe's penalty and Rose Lavelle's fine run and finish gave the defending champions victory in the second half, after resilient first-half defending from the Dutch.


• Veteran winger Rapinoe's calmly-slotted opener came from a spot-kick awarded after a video assistant referee (VAR) review, at the end of a tournament in which the system has been a major talking point.

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• A 10-year old Karate girl, Arinjeeta Dey (Barasat, West Bengal) has won a silver medal in the under 12 age category in the World Youth Cup 2019 which was held in Umag, Croatia (from July 1 to July 5, 2019).


• It was organized by World Karate Federation affiliated to the International Olympic Association. A total of 35 countries had participated in this competition.

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• A statue of the moment an Aboriginal Australian football player stood up to racists has been unveiled in Perth.


• Nicky Winmar's team St Kilda had just won a match against Collingwood in 1993 when he made the iconic gesture that would go down in sports history.


• Rival fans hurled racist abuse at Winmar - so he lifted his shirt, pointed to his chest and declared: "I'm black, and I'm proud to be black."

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• Christine Lagarde (63), the first woman head of the Washington-based body, International Monetary Fund(IMF) nominated to become the first woman to lead the ECB (European Central Bank).


• EU (European Union) leaders nominated France’s Christine Lagarde as president of the ECB in a meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

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• Originally scheduled to be launched in 2012, the mission was faced with problems which left the responsibility on ISRO to design, develop and build the lander on its own.


• A week away from its launch, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released new images of Chandrayaan-2 satellite. Its lander and rover, called Vikram and Pragyaan respectively, are presumed to touch down on the moon’s surface on September 6.