1. The Kakatiya Rudreshwara Temple, popularly known as Ramappa Temple at Palampet, Warangal, Telangana was inscribed in UNESCO’s World Heritage List on July 25, 2021 during the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee in Fuzhou, China. The temple has become the 39th site in India to gain the prestigious tag.
2. Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu bagged a silver medal in the women’s 49-kg category at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 on July 24, 2021. The 26-year-old lifted a total of 202-kg, 115-kg in clean and jerk and 87-kg in snatch. She has become the second Indian weightlifter to win an Olympic medal after Karnam Malleswari, who had won the bronze medal in the 69-kg category at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
3. Singapore’s Sunseap Group has announced that it plans to spend $2 billion to build the world’s largest floating solar farm and the energy storage system in Batam Island, Indonesia. The floating system is expected to have a capacity of 2.2 GigaWatt-peak (GWp).
4. The Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences announced on July 23, 2021, that 150-million years old fossilized skeleton which was discovered in the mountains of Southern Chile was determined to be the ancestor of the modern crocodile. The species has been named Burkesuchus mallingrandensis.
5. China has unveiled plans to build the first-of-its-kind clean commercial nuclear reactor that will not require water for cooling and is expected to be safer than traditional reactors. The molten-salt nuclear reactor will run on liquid thorium rather than uranium.
6. Srihari Nataraj became the first Indian swimmer to take part in a classification A heat. He finished 27th with a time of 54.31s in the men’s 100m backstroke event on July 25, 2021. Sajan Prakash became the second Indian to swim a classification A heat on July 26.
7. Russian athletes are competing under the name of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. All the 335 sportspersons from Russia are not allowed to use Russia’s name, anthem, or flag at the Tokyo Olympics, as Russia was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 2019 from competing as a country at the Olympics after a doping scandal.
8. Sumit Nagal became the first Indian to win a singles match in the Olympics in 25 years after 1996 when he progressed to the second round of the men’s singles on July 24 after beating Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin 6-4, 6-7, 6-4. He lost to world no. 2 Daniil Medvedev in the second round.
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