Prime Minister Modi is to meet sportspersons who will represent the country at the forthcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Modi will interact informally with the sportspersons in Delhi today. Rio will see India’s biggest contingent to the Olympics, with 102 athletes having qualified. The previous highest was 83 at the London Olympics.
The Supreme Court will hear a petition seeking to restrain the High Court from giving a verdict in a case relating to the Delhi government’s powers under the Constitution. The AAP government is the petitioner.
BRICS nations will chalk out a plan for enhancing cooperation in energy efficiency when they meet at Visakhapatnam for two-day deliberations from today. India will showcase its efforts in energy efficiency, particularly the LED street lighting programme and performance achievement and trade programme for industrial energy efficiency.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft reaches the largest planet in our solar system today, after a five-yearlong journey of more than 1.8 billion miles. It will transmit pictures back to Earth. Scientists hope to collect tonnes of data to help them understand Jupiter’s formation — and our own.
Beginning today, fans can download free a host of comic book samplers on their desktops, tablets or phones for one week as part of the ‘Alto Comic Book Celebration Week’. The initiative is an expansion of the ‘Free Comic Book Weekend’ that has been in vogue from 2013 on content marketplace Readwhere.com.