1.Police Sunday arrested vice-president of BSE Nihar Ranjan Mohanty for his alleged involvement in the question paper leak of Special OTET-2025, a senior officer said.

2.Six migrant workers from Odisha were killed  in  AP quarry and at least nine others sustained grievous injured after a massive granite rock fell on them at a quarry in Bapatla district Sunday.

3.Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and Kaling Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) felicitated 11 athletes from the university who represented India in various sporting events and won medals at the recently concluded World University Games (WUG) 2025 in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany.

4.Vigilance sleuths Sunday detected 44 plots, 1kg gold, deposits worth Rs1.34 crore and other valuable items allegedly in the possession of a state government employee working as a motor vehicle inspector (MVI) in Boudh district.

5.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bangalore and inaugurate the Yellow Line Metro August 10.

6.The Election Commission Sunday asked RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav to “hand over for investigation” a voter ID card that he claimed to be in possession of despite having been “not issued offi cially”.

7.A government-appointed panel has warned that unscientifi c mining in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar district is destabilising slopes, threatening villages and agriculture, besides disrupting water sources in the fragile Himalayan region.

8.New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday rocked Syria at two distinct fl ashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefi re and calling into question the ability of the transitional government to exert its authority across the whole country.

9.An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi sparked a major fi re, Russian offi cials said Sunday,

10.India's annual oil import bill could rise by $9-11 billion if the country is compelled to move away from Russian crude in response to US threats of additional tariffs or penalties on Indian exports, analysts said.

11.In a tragic incident, four senior Indian-origin persons were killed in a car crash in West Virginia, authorities said Sunday.

12.Sri Lanka received a total of 200,244 tourists in July 2025, with Indian travellers accounting for the largest share, local media reported Sunday.

13.Moderate to heavy rains continued to lash parts of Himachal Pradesh, resulting in the closure of 297 roads, including one national highway Sunday, offi cials said

14.Opposition INDIA bloc leaders are likely to have a dinner meeting August 7 to discuss strategy over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue, sources said Sunday.

15.Prisoner number 15528, Prajwal Revanna, appeared visibly stressed and wept spending the fi rst night in the jail after being sentenced to life in a rape case Saturday, authorities have said.