2. India won four medals, including a gold, at the Asian Grand Prix Archery Championship which concluded at Ulaanbaatar, (Mongolia) on Friday.
3. N. Srinivasan has dropped his bid to reinstate himself as BCCI President after the under-fire Board called off its Working Committee meeting in New Delhi.
4. The government has defended its decision to amend the RTI Act to keep political parties out of the purview of the ombudsman, saying they are not "public authorities" but voluntary association of people.
5. The executive committee of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) on 2 August 2013 approved a proposal to increase Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from 26 percent to 49 percent in print media.
6. The Government's decision to create Telangana has brought long-standing demands by four ethnic groups -- Bodos, Karbi, Dimasas and Koch-Rajbongshis -- for separate states carved out of Assam to the fore, with large-scale violence and agitation erupting in the state.
7. Berthold Beitz, savior of hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust, has died at 99. The German industrialist saved hundreds of Jews in Poland, and rose to prominence after the war heading one of the country's biggest companies – ThyssenKrupp.
8. The party of Zimbabwe's longtime President Robert Mugabe has taken an early and decisive lead in national elections, according to partial official results.
9. The Reserve Bank of India has said liquidity tightening measures will be rolled back only after stability is restored in the forex market as volatility hurts growth.
10. Dadra and Nagar Haveli celebrated its 60th Liberation Day on 2 August 2013. The Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli were liberated from the Portuguese rule.
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