The Government of Lithuania has approved the draft law amendments drafted by the Ministry of Justice, under which voters as of the upcoming parliamentary election next autumn could be able to submit their early votes in electronic voting terminals, available at city and district municipalities.

From July 2016, old-age pensions in Lithuania will be increased by 6% on average.

In the first half of 2015, nearly 9,000 people appealed to the State Consumer Rights Protection Authority (VVTAT), or by a fifth more compared with the first half of 2014.

The Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania together with independent consultants, after analyzing the legal and financial options, submitted a proposal to set up a new corporate group formed from companies of the transport sector. The corporate group is proposed to be managed by the joint stock holding company where 100 per cent of the shares belong to the state and by trust law are managed by the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania.

Statistics Lithuania informs that an annual publication Women and Men in Lithuania 2014 has been released.

On Thursday, five Lithuanians were injured during a tourist bus accident on a road between Pamukkale and Antalya in south-western Turkey.

On August 6 soldiers with the Grand Duchess Birutė Uhlan Battalion and D Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade trained delivering live fire from the BGM-71 TOW (tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided) anti-tank missile units at the General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Range (Pabradė). Participants honed their firing skills and accuracy by trying to hit armoured targets at the distance of nearly 2 kilometres. The live fire exercise is a part of Exercise Uhlan Rage that involves Lithuanian and U.S. troops and will is running for two weeks.

The Government of Lithuania approved a resolution submitted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications to appoint Regitra, a management body for the Register of Road Vehicles of the Republic of Lithuania, as a national contact point responsible for the exchange of information.

On August 6th 2015, the Government of Lithuania approved the formation and further development of EPSO-G, a state-controlled group of energy companies,.

Due to the currently intensive heat in Lithuania, the state company Lithuanian Railways has decided to limit train speeds in the country.