• Union Cabinet rejects the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly autonomy resolution seeking restoration of the pre-1953 status to the State.
• Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee inaugurates the Rs 340 crore TIDEL Park set up in Chennai to host international players in software and IT industries.

• Indigenously-built multi-target surface-to-air missile is successfully test-fired from the Interim Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea. Akash has a range of 25 km and can deliver 55 kg of both conventional and nuclear explosives.
• Ten royal Bengal tigers die in the Nandankanan Zoological Park in Orissa. Seven of them belonged to the rare white variety.
• India and Russia sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Moscow to expand their cooperation in nuclear physics.

• India and Nepal sign an agreement to counter terrorism. 
• 47^th National Film Festival Awards-2000 are announced. Mohan Lal bags best actor award for the film "Vaanaprastham" which has also won the best feature film and best editing awards.

• Government decides to include Hepatitis B vaccine in the National Immunization Programme.
• Indians and Nepalese will be required to carry identification cards to fly into each other’s territories starting 1 October 2000.

• Australian Prime Minister John Howard arrives in New Delhi on a two-day official visit.

• Litterateur Amrita Pritam is honoured with "Shatabdi Samman", the highest award for Punjabi literature instituted by the Punjabi Akademi.

 July 13

• President K.R. Narayanan announces a Committee of Governors to be formed to look into the inadequacies in the implementation programmes for the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

• Karnataka agrees to release six thousand million cubic feet of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu’s Mettur reservoir in accordance with the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal’s order.

• Prime Minister announces three initiatives that include opening of national long distance operations by 15 August 2000; permitting internet companies to tap international cables without approaching the public sector Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited and improving the education infrastructure to deliver more IT professionals.

• France wins the final of the European Football champion-ship-2000, defeating Italy 2-1 at Rotterdam in Netherlands.

• Vicente Fox, a candidate of the Opposition National Action Party wins Mexico’s Presidential elections.

• The Missile Defence Test over the Pacific, a key phase in the U.S. National Missile Defence programme fails.

• Fifth seed Venus Williams wins the women’s singles title at Wimbledon, beating Lindsay Davenport.

• Fiji coup leader George Speight and military commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama sign an agreement to end the seven-week hostage crisis in Suva.
• Pakistani fast bowler Waqar Yonnis is axed from Singer Cup one-day international against Sri Lanka for ball-tampering, becoming the first cricketer to be banned for this offence.
• Top seed Pete Sampras wins his seventh Wimbledon singles title beating 12^th seed Pat Rafter in the men’s final at London.

• Dr. Bashar Assad is elected President of Syria with 97.29 per cent of the national vote.

• Fiji’s deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Chaudhry and 17 other hostages are freed after 55 days in captivity.

• UN troops rescue all 220 Indian peacekeepers and 11 military observers trapped by rebels inside a UN base in Sierra Leone.

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