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1. Rafael Nadal defeated Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka to win the men’s singles title of the French Open Tennis Tournament for the record tenth time.
2. Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko became the first unseeded player since 1933 and the youngest to win the French Open.
3. Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee will be conferred with Legion of Honour, France’s highest civilian award.
4. China launched a record-breaking swarm of 119 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
5. Legendary Telugu poet and writer C Narayana Reddy, a recipient of the prestigious Jnanpith award died. He was 85.
6. Assam’s Laimwon Narzary broke a 25-year-old girl’s high jump record with a 1.77m effort at the 15th Federation Cup National Junior Athletics Championships.
7. Amit Sinha, the Vice President of business and human resources at Paytm’s parent company One97 Communications, has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Paytm Mall.
8. The International Olympic Committee has officially included mixed gender relay racing and 3-3 men’s and women’s basketball as Olympic events for the Tokyo Games to be held in 2020. The committee has added a total of 15 events.
9. Formula 1 Team Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the Canada Grand Prix Race.
10. India and Mauritius signed a pact to institutionalize cooperation between Parliaments of the two countries.