Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a 30-ft bronze statue of legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju on his 125th birth anniversary. Raju is believed to have been born in present-day Andhra Pradesh in 1897 or 1898. He is said to have become a sanyasi at the age of 18.
The annual rate of inflation based on the All-India Wholesale Price Index (WPI) is 15.18 per cent for the month of June, in a marginal drop from May when the figure stood at 15.88 per cent.
Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom has supplied the first batch of upgraded nuclear fuel to India for two functioning units of the Tamil Nadu-based Kudankulam nuclear power plant.