Top News Headlines by GKToday – 6 July 2019

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Army releases song ‘Tujhe Bhulega Na Tera Hindustan’, written by lyrist Sameer, on 20th anniversary of Kargil War
Gujarat: Congress MLAs Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh Zala resign from the Assembly
External Affair Minister S. Jaishankar and Jugal Ji Thakor of BJP win Rajya Sabha election from Gujarat
1800 Bangladeshi civil servants to train at National Centre for Good Governance, Mussoorie in 2019-2025

BSE Sensex: 39,513 (–395), NSE NIFTY: 11,811 (–136)
FOREX: India’s foreign exchange reserves scale a fresh high of USD 427.678 billion in the week to June 28
fixes price at Rs 3,443 per gram for the new series of sovereign gold bonds (SGBs) opening July 8
Mindtree Chairman Krishnakumar Natarajan and CEO Rostow Ravanan resign after company acquired by L&T
NCLAT approves Lakshmi Mittal-led ArcelorMittal’s ₹42,000 crore bid for the acquisition of bankrupt Essar Steel

UNESCO lists Iraq’s Babylon as World Heritage Site
Sri Lanka: Apex court stays President’s execution order against 4 drug convicts
UAE to give free mobile phone SIM cards to tourists
YouTube bans ‘instructional hacking and phishing’ videos citing them as harmful or dangerous content
Italy: Volcanic eruption on the Sicilian island of Stromboli kills 1 tourist
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Pope Francis in Vatican City
British Navy seizes Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar taking oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions