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- Akshaya Patra, a Bengaluru-based non-profit organisation (NGO) running one of the world’s largest school meals project in India was awarded BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) World Service Global Champion Award for the programme. Founded by Madhu Pandit Dasa in 2000, Akshaya Patra today feeds 1.75 million children all over India with freshly prepared meals.
- Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters has selected a list of 22 writers as recipients of Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 23 writers for Yuva Puraskar for 2019. The Executive Board of Sahitya Akademi under the chairmanship of its President, Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar approved the selection of awardees. Sahitya Akademi was founded on 12 March 1954.
- In FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) World Ranking Indian football team remains static at 101st place and Belgium continued to top. Introduced in December 1992, the FIFA Ranking ranks men’s national teams in association football. The world champions France was ranked 2nd. United States drops six ranks to 30.
- Peter Gilchrist defeated India’s Sourav Kothari in final to win the 2019 Pacific International Billiards Championship played at the Yarraville Club in Melbourne, Australia. In June 2019, Kothari had become the 1st Indian billiard player to win a Triple Crown event of Australia by bagging the International Reventon Classic Snooker Champion. English-born Singaporean, Peter Gilchrist won World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) World Championships in 1994, 2001 and in 2013.
- The National Geographic Society (NGS), a US based non-profit scientific and educational organizations announced successful installation of world’s highest operating weather stations on Mount Everest. This installation was part of National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Everest. The station is aimed at monitoring and understanding of climate change as they will help continuously monitor upper reaches of atmosphere which is critical to tracking and predicting weather patterns around the world.
- India will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of Operation Vijay also called Kargil Vijay Diwas for over three days from 25 July to 27 July 2019 at Dras and New Delhi to commemorate victory in Kargil war with pride, honour and inspiration with theme- Remember, Rejoice and Renew. Kargil War was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).
- Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Kyrgyzstan awarded Chinese President Xi Jinping with highest national award of Kyrgyzstan titled Manas Order of the First Degree in Bishkek (capital of Kyrgyzstan), who is on a state visit to Kyrgyzstan and to take part in two-day 19th SCO summit. SCO is a Eurasian political, economic and security alliance in which China plays an influential role.
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