JULY 2019 current affairs part 1



TOP Headlines : 1 & 2.7.2019

▪ 1 JULY : National Doctors day

▪ 2 JULY : World Sports Journalists Day

▪ 1 JULY : Chartered Accountants Day

▪ 2 JULY : World UFO day

▪ Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Bill, 2019 passed by the Parliament

▪ Telecom Ministry forms committee under telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan to spell out revival plans for the Telecom sector

▪ India slips 1 place to 74th in terms of money in Swiss Banks

▪ ISA’s First Joint Security Exercise named ‘ISALEX19’ held in Abu Dhabi

▪ India Refrains From UNGA voting on Capital Punishment

▪ MGIT-BP, India-assisted IT- Biotechnology Park inaugurated in Cote d’Ivoire

▪ UGC approved a new initiative named “STRIDE” to boost research culture in India

▪ Japan officially resumes commercial whaling after more than 30 years

▪ FinMin to launch 11th tranche of Electoral Bonds sale to start from July 1.

▪ Keshni Anand to be the new Haryana chief secretary

▪ Saudi Arabia increased India's Haj quota by 30,000

▪ Jal Shakti Abhiyan launched by the Government to create awareness on benefits of water conservation

▪ Pullela Gopichand bestowed upon an honorary doctorate by IIT Kanpur

▪ Mark Tully presented the Lifetime Achievement Award at UK-India Awards 2019 ▪ Karnam Sekar takes over as new MD and CEO of IOB
▪ In recognition of best practices in CSR, NALCO has selected for the prestigious President’s award

▪ MTNL Chairman PK Bharwar assumes additional responsibility as BSNL CMD



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▪ Indian pro boxer Vaibhav Yadav wins WBC Asia title

▪ N.S. Vishwanathan reappointed RBI deputy governor for one year

▪ Aparna Kumar becomes the first civil servant & IPS Officer to conquer the ‘Seven Summits’ challenge

▪ China tests JL-3 Submarine-launched Ballistic Missile: Report

▪ Veer Chotrani won Asian U-19 champion in Squash

▪ NASA’s TESS space telescope discovers its smallest planet named L 98-59b

▪ Astronomers discovered the source of Fast radio burst

▪ Max Verstappen won 2019 Austrian Grand Prix

▪ 2nd anniversary of GST celebrated on July 1, 2019

▪ Tamil Nadu declared ‘Tamil Yeoman’ or ‘Tamil Maravan’ as its state butterfly

▪ Goa Govt clears amendment to allow women to work at night

▪ NASA’s PUNCH mission has selected Indian Scientist Dipankar Banerjee as its co-investigator

▪ Odisha to host the 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship 2019

▪ Nitesh Kumar Jangir Indian Engineer won innovation award in UK

▪ Nagaland occupies the top position in the unemployment rate: NSSO Survey

▪ Malayalam film director Babu Narayanan passes away

▪ Indian Railways conducting trials of Tri-Netra technology: Piyush Goyal

▪ New Zealand bans single-use plastic shopping bags

▪ Max Verstappen won 2019 Austrian Grand Prix

▪ Five-year vision plan EQUIP finalised and released by HRD Ministry

▪ Bhullar finishes 13th at the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucia Masters 2019

▪ Dr. Krishna Saksena’s book ‘Whispers of Time’ launched by Smriti Irani in New Delhi

▪ Former Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar authored a book titled "A Prime Minister to Remember," released

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TOP Headlines : 3.7.2019

▪ 3 JULY 2019 : World Vitiligo Day ( Theme : “The Quality of Life of a Vitiligo Patient”)

▪ Govt sets a target to raise health services expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by 2025

▪ Uttarakhand launches One-time settlement scheme for recovering NPAs of cooperative banks

▪ Delhi Airport becomes first airport to operationaliseTransshipment Hub Centre

▪ MTNL chairman Purwar to assume additional charge as BSNL CMD

▪ Union Cabinet gives nod to grant OGAS status to paramilitary forces

▪ National Film Heritage Mission Project reviewed by Prakash Javadekar

▪ Rajasthan government to establish a board for vedic education, culture

▪ Centre declared Nagaland as ‘Disturbed Area’ under AFSPA for 6 more months

▪ N S Vishwanathan gets extension by one year as RBI deputy governor

▪ Uttarakhand launches One-time settlement scheme for recovering NPAs of cooperative banks

▪ J&K: Annual Chamliyal Mela celebrated without traditional exchange of sweets between Indo-Pak

▪ 82-member rhino protection force deployed in Kaziranga National Park, Assam

▪ WHO launches its first guidelines on self-care interventions for health

▪ Trump becomes 1st sitting US president takes Steps Into North Korea

▪ India pledged to contribute $5 million to UN Palestine refugee agency in 2019

▪ As per ILO, India could lose 34 million jobs in 2030 due to global warming

▪ World Economic Forum Awards Quantela Inc, a 2019 Technology Pioneer

▪ Shri Rabindra Panwar given additional charge as secretary to the Ministry of Textiles

▪ MFIN appoints Manoj Kumar Nambiar as chairman & Vineet Chattreem as vice chairman

▪ Rahul Gandhi resigned as Congress President

▪ India’s middle-order batsman Ambati Rayudu, announced retirement from all forms of cricket


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TOP Headlines : 4.7.2019

▪ Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) released a report on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) titled “India: Health of the Nation’s States”

▪ Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, launched commemoration of four years of Digital India initiative

▪ Railways aim to install CCTV cameras in over 7,020 train coaches by March 2021

▪ Cabinet approves proposal for leasing out of three airports viz. Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Mangaluru of Airports Authority of India through Public Private Partnership

▪ UIDAI started its first Aadhaar Seva Kendra in Delhi and Vijayawada

▪ Vaibhav Yadav, Indian pro boxer won World Boxing Council (WBC) Asia title

▪ Christine Lagarde nominated as president of European Central Bank

▪ AYUSH collaborated with MeitY for digitisation of AYUSH sector

▪ Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enable newer diagnostic methods to treat genetic disorders

▪ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirms Iran breached enriched Uranium Stockpile limit set by 2015 nuclear deal

▪ U.S. Senate passes a legislative provision to grant India a NATO ally-like status

▪ RBI forms Working group under Tapan Ray to review the regulatory guidelines on core investment companies

▪ Manoj Kumar Nambiar is appointed as the Chairman of Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) ▪ Jio Digital Udaan Literacy Programme Launched in Partnership with Facebook ▪ Indian middle-order batsman Ambati Rayudu retired from all forms of cricket ▪ CM BhupeshBaghel inaugurates ‘Jan Choupal’ programme in Raipur

▪ Airtel Payments Bank ties up with Bharti AXA Life Insurance to offer the Bharti AXA Life POS Saral Jeevan Bima Yojana

▪ Karnataka Bank launches web tool for NPA recovery process named ‘Vasool So-Ft’

▪ USISPF honors Wipro Chairman Azim Premji & Mastercard CEO and President Ajay Banga with Global Excellence Award 2019


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▪ International Monetary Fund (IMF) appointed American economist David Lipton as its interim leader

▪ AK Misra appointed as an additional director on Board of Directors (BOD) of Jammu and Kashmir Bank by Reserve Bank of India

▪ Airtel completed the merger of Tata Tele’s consumer mobile business ▪ NASA successfully tests launch-abort system for moon-mission capsule

▪ Indian sprint runner Hima Das, nicknamed ‘Dhing Express’ won the gold medal in women’s 200m in Poznań Athletics Grand Prix 2019 held in Golecin Stadium, Poznań, Poland

▪ Barun Haldar, veteran newsreader of All India Radio(AIR) passed away at the age of 85 in Kolkata

▪ Operation Khumaar launched in J&K to make 312 panchayats free from tobacco.
TOP Headlines : 5.7.2019

▪ Parliament passes Central Educational Institutions (Reservations in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill 2019 ▪ Government extends Kisan Credit Card (KCC) facility to fisheries, animal husbandry sector ▪ Unmanned Level Crossings in all Broad-Gauge Network removed

▪ South Central Railways (SCR) of Indian Railways commissioned the longest electrified tunnel between Cherlopalli and Rapuru stations in Nellore district, AP

▪ ‘Fashionova’, India’s first Design Development Centre launched in Surat, Gujarat

▪ India ranks 86th in Most Powerful Passport index 2019, Japan and Singapore holding the top spot

▪ Reliance Jio partners with Facebook to launch literacy drive “’Digital Udaan” for first-time internet users in India

▪ Punjab & Sind Bank sets up centralised hub ‘Cen-MARG’ to process retail and MSME loans ▪ According to the World Bank data for 2018, India’s turnover ratio fell by 60% in 10 years ▪ June was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide

▪ Hyderabads Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is set to launch the face-recognition facility under Digi Yatra Policy

▪ Uttar Pradesh State govt. has announced piped water for every rural home in the state within two years


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▪ Tata Steel Kalinganagar included in WEF’s Global Lighthouse Network

▪ Dr.Nalin Shinghal appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited(BHEL)

▪ Harideesh Kumar appointed as the Director of Institute of Banking Personnel Selection

▪ ISRO signed a contract with Russian company Glavkosmos to train Indian astronauts for ‘Gaganyaan’

▪ Former Bayern Munich and Netherlands forward Arjen Robben, announced retirement from football

▪ Sudershan Agarwal, former Uttarakhand Governor passed away in New Delhi

▪ SC Directs Meghalaya to deposit 100 Crore as Fine imposed by NGT for Illegal Coal Mining ▪ UP govt launches toll-free ‘CM helpline 1076’ for complaint registration
▪ Dubai Duty Free has announced that Indian Rupee will now be an accepted currency at all the retail outlets of the Dubai airport.

▪ June was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide

▪ Hyderabads Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is set to launch the face-recognition facility under Digi Yatra Policy

▪ Uttar Pradesh State govt. has announced piped water for every rural home in the state within two years

▪ Around 35 crore LED bulbs distributed under UJALA scheme saved Rs 18,341 crore annually

▪ NITI Aayog launched Agricultural Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index 2019

▪ Total female enrollment ratio in secondary education increased to 80.29% in 2016-17: Smriti Irani
TOP Headlines : 6.7.2019

▪ 6 JULY : International Day of Cooperatives (Theme for 2019 is “Coops 4 decent work”)

▪ 6 JULY : World Zoonoses Day

▪ The sanitation coverage in the rural areas jumped to 99% from 38% in 2014: Jal Shakti ministry

▪ The highways of Delhi-Jaipur and Delhi-Agra are India’s first highway corridors will get charging stations for electric vehicles by March 2020



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▪ The Indian Army releases special tribute video to commemorate 20 years of ‘Operation Vijay’ ▪ As per Greenpeace India, Six Indian metros are hotspots of air pollutant nitrogen oxide

▪ The government will set up a National Sports Education Board under Khelo India to popularise sports at all levels

▪ Shoaib Malik, a veteran of 35 Tests, 287 ODIs and 111 T20Is for Pakistan, has announced his retirement from ODI cricket

▪ UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has voted to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site.

▪ Ministry of I&B has set up FM Radio Transmitter on 103.7 MHZ frequency at Baltal, on the Amarnath route

▪ The world’s largest burn and plastic surgery institute in Dhaka started functioning from 4 July 2019

▪ Hong Kong Govt donates over $9 million to cyclone” Fani”-hit Odisha

▪ RBI gets the power to regulate housing finance companies instead of NHB

▪ Elavenil Valarivan clinched women’s 10m Air Rifle silver medal in the 30th Summer Universiade Games 2019

▪ 1800 Bangladeshi mid-career civil servants will be trained at the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) in Mussoorie,India

▪ LightSail 2 sent its first signals to Earth on July 2

▪ Chhattisgarh CM inaugurated ‘Jan Choupal’ program to hold public meetings

▪ NASA launched an incredible new atomic clock into orbit to navigate distant planets

▪ Genesis Foundation, a Gurgaon based Non-Profit Organization won the CSR Implementation Partner award

TOP Headlines : 7.7.2019

▪ Pink City Jaipur declared as a World Heritage site by UNESCO

▪ A 10-year old Karate Girl, Arinjeeta Dey wins a silver medal for India in World Youth Cup 2019 ▪ Airtel Payments Bank to sell term insurance of Bharti AXA Life
▪ The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched its first guidelines on self-care interventions for health


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▪ PMMSY: A new scheme to promote processing in the fishery sector

▪ Budget 2019: Rs 3.18 lakh crore allocated to the defence budget

▪ Govt ropes in IBM for a pilot study on using AI, weather tech in agriculture

▪ The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched its first guidelines on self-care interventions for health

▪ The first ever India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) to be held in New Delhi, India

▪ Indian Railways commissions longest electrified tunnel between Cherlopalli-Rapuru Station

▪ Ola gets green light for London taxi business

▪ Rajni Saraf has been appointed As Chief Financial Officer Of JK Bank

▪ Maharashtra state government has decided to inter-link rivers to solve the crisis of drought

▪ Jasprit Bumrah 2nd Fastest India Bowler To Take 100 ODI Wickets In 57 Matches

▪ International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde was nominated as the president of the European Central Bank

▪ NASSCOM & NSDC launches "World Skills India"-lnternational Cloud Computing Challenge 2019

▪ Arinjeeta Dey Won Silver Medal In Karate World Championship

▪ Bishmita Likhak, the women commando unit of Assam police will be conferred with the prestigious ‘Virangana Savitribai Phule National Award 2019’

▪ Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) has elected Manoj Kumar Nambiar, managing director of Arohan Financial Services, as its Chairman

▪ Elavenil Valarivan won the gold medal in 10m women's air rifle at ISSF World Cup 2019


TOP Headlines : 8.7.2019

▪ Operation Sudarshan launched by BSF to fortify the anti-infiltration grid along Pakistan border

▪ India will train 1800 Bangladeshi Civil Servants at NCGG in Mussoorie

▪ Uttarakhand was named among best performing states in ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme

▪ Central Government to set up three CoE in Sports at Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh


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▪ Sri Lanka inaugurated its first model village built with Indian assistance at Ranidugama in Gampaha

▪ Genesis foundation awarded as CSR Implementation Partner at the 3rd edition of CSR Health Impacts Awards

▪ M Nageswar Rao appointed director general of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guard

▪ China’s Li Shi Fengwins the Canada Open Badminton

▪ 10th edition of World Tamil Conference held in Chicago

▪ Indian Army plans to buy American howitzer ammo for long-range accurate strikes

▪ Indai's VineshPhogat, DivyaKakran wins gold at Grand Prix of Spain

▪ New gene linked to schizophrenia discovered by Indian and Australian scientists

▪ World’s First Interactive Browser 'Popshot' Launched

▪ India has successfully test-fired a vertical deep dive version of the indigenous BrahMos supersonic missile

▪ Arctic mission will trap scientists in ice to study the impact of climate change

▪ Jammu and Kashmir government has approved Aadhaar-linked payment mode for disbursal of pension

▪ Youth Affairs and Sports minister, Kiren Rijiju has informed that central government is going to set-up three Sports Centre of Excellence in Itanagar

▪ Vinesh Phogat & Divya Kakran won gold; Pooja Dhanda won silver at the Wrestling Grand Prix 2019 of Spain

▪ Hima Das and Muhammed Anas won gold medal at 2019 Kutno Athletics Meet in Poland ▪ Rohit Sharma made history by making 5th century in 2019 World Cup against Sri Lank

▪ J&K Bank announced the appointment of Rajni Saraf as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the bank

▪ In Badminton, India’s Parupalli Kashyap lost to Li Shi Feng of China in the men’s singles title clash of the Canada Open.

▪ Honda rider Marc Marquez extended his lead at the top of the championship with a seventh consecutive victory at the German MotoGP

▪ Brazil beats Peru in the final to lift the Copa America 2019 title


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▪ IOC removed Kuwait suspension and allows participating in 2020 Olympics ▪ Vice President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu released book titled Vivekadeepini ▪ Bi-cycle sharing scheme to be introduced in Puducherry

▪ Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis announced that Damanganga-Pinjal project will meet the water needs of Mumbai till 2060

▪ Legendary Brazilian musician and songwriter Joao Gilberto passed away

▪ Nepal's effective measures to clean up the Mount Everest

▪ U.S. womens national soccer team won the FIFA Womens World Cup 2019


TOP Headlines : 9.7.2019

▪ Mexico’s men’s soccer team have won their record eighth CONCACAF Gold Cup

▪ The annual Bonalu festival kicked off in the city at the historic Golconda Fort, Telangana ▪ Rahul Dravid, former Indian cricketer, appointed as Head of Cricket at NCA by BCCI

▪ The Delhi Police Crime Branch has rescued 333 children from Delhi as these children were missing since January 2019

▪ The Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (amendment) Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha by Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel

▪ Leonardo DiCaprio, Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth will launch Earth alliance to tackle climate change

▪ Parliament passed Aadhaar Amendment Bill which allows voluntary use of Aadhaar as proof of identity

▪ ”War over Words: Censorship in India, 1930-1960” authored by Devika Sethi released

▪ The government announced a new tranche of sovereign gold bonds

▪ India’s first elephant rehabilitation centre will be situated in Kottoor, Kerala

▪ ‘Meri Fasal Mera Byora’ portal for farmers launched by Haryana Government

▪ The Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express is set to be the first train to be operated by private players

▪ Two new heavy-lift Chinook helicopters for IAF arrived at the Mundra port, Gujarat

▪ Sharjah issues its first Golden card visa to an Indian Lalu Samuel, Chairman of Kingston Holdings


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▪ LinkedIn names Ashutosh Gupta as country manager for India

▪ INS Tarkash reached Tangier in Morocco as part of a visit for overseas development programme ▪ Coffee Table Book commemorating 5 decades of partnership with UNWFP launched ▪ Kyriakos Mitsotakis sworn in as the new prime minister of Greece ▪ Pune’s IITM has developed an extended range prediction system

▪ Hollywood Actor Leonardo DiCaprio along with Laurene Powell Jobs & Brian Sheth to launch Earth Alliance to tackle climate change

▪ RBI board has finalized a three- year roadmap ‘Utkarsh 2022’ to improve regulation & supervision ▪ Toran Yadav, a para-athlete wins 3 medals at 4th World Wealth Yoga Championship 2019

TOP Headlines : 10.7.2019

▪ National Museum of Indian Cinema launched a fortnightly bulletin named “NMIC Bulletin“ in Mumbai, Maharashtra

▪ India’s first cow sanctuary Kamdhenu Gau Abhyaranya in Madhya Pradesh to be privatised

▪ India’s first elephant rehabilitation centre will be set up at Kerala’s Kottoor

▪ New Delhi’s Connaught Place is the 9th most expensive office location in the world

▪ Saudi Arabia adopts Digital India &‘equality of women’ motto for Haj 2019

▪ Dutee Chand clinched a gold medal in the World Universiade in 100 m dash event at Napoli in Italy

▪ Overall Homicide Rate declined by 10% in India: UN Report

▪ Parliament adopts a statutory resolution for levying 200% duty on all Pakistani goods

▪ RIL outpace TCS to become the most valued firm by m-cap with more than 8 Lakh Crore

▪ Madhya Pradesh to produce its own seeds soon

▪ Sunil Chhetri and Ashalata Devi conferred with top honours at AIFF Awards

▪ UAE-based Indian business tycoon Lalo Samuel has become the first expat in Sharjah to get the gold card permanent residency


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▪ U’khand CM accepts proposal to establish Six Sigma Institute of Mountain Medicines & High Altitude Rescue

▪ India is set to host the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP) of United Convention to combat Desertification (UNCCD)

▪ Aditya Birla World Academy became the only Indian School to feature in ‘The Commonwealth At 70: From Westminster to the World’ Book

▪ Film ‘Gully Boy’ directed by Zoya Akthar wins NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film at BIFAN 2019

▪ Arun Kumar appointed as Director General(DG) of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)

▪ Russia successfully launched its Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with 33 satellites

▪ A new human atlas initiative named ‘Manav’ launched for holistic understanding of human biology

▪ Magnus Carlsen wins the Croatia Grand Chess Tour title 2019

▪ Former Indian football team goalkeeper AU Celestine passed away at the age of 73


TOP Headlines : 11.7.2019

▪ 11 JULY : World Population Day

▪ Centre sets up committee to assess law to protect doctors

▪ Government approved Phase-I of Bharatmala Pariyojana along Indo-Nepal Border areas with financial outlay of Rs 5,35,000 crore

▪ Government banned Pro-Khalistani group Sikhs for Justice for alleged anti-national activities

▪ Centre launches fertiliser DBT 2.0 initiatives

▪ India – ASEAN Troika Trade Ministers’ Meeting held in New Delhi

▪ The 2nd edition of India-Russia Strategic Economic Dialogue 2019 held in New Delhi

▪ Rare footage of 1948 film Vande Mataram is now part of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) collection

▪ Govt to launch 6th tranche of CPSE ETF on July 18; raise Rs 10,000 cr

▪ The Government of India(GoI) handed over the 250 pre-fabricated houses for use of Refugees returned from Bangladesh to Myanmar’s Rakhine State

▪ From 2020, France will impose green tax on plane tickets


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▪ Sri Lanka declared ‘measles-free’ nation by WHO

▪ Total deposits in Jan Dhan accounts crosses Rs.1 lakh crore

▪ India’s first cow sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh to be privatised

▪ RBI panel suggests to review timings of different financial markets

▪ Samsung join hands with Paisabazaar.com to offer financial products

▪ India’s first elephant rehabilitation centre in the works at Kerala’s Kottoor

▪ Centre says no foreign government or organisation has any right to repeal Article 370

▪ Prasar Bharati signs MoU with IIT Kanpur for research collaboration

▪ Delhi-LucknowTejas Express to be Indian Railways 1st ‘private’ train

▪ Govt to establish first National Police University

▪ BCC entered into MoU with BRICS chamber to promote trade

▪ Reebok announced Katrina Kaif as the new brand ambassador

▪ Walmart Labs acqui-hired 2 startups FloCare and BigTrade

▪ Mandla Maseko, first black African in space passed away in a motorbike crash

▪ DevikaSethi Pens Books Titled ‘War over Words: Censorship in India, 1930-1960’

▪ Government of India has waived off basic customs duty (BCD) on products imported for nuclear plants

▪ UP has highest number of senior citizens with more than one crore 54 lakh ▪ Ukraine inaugurates world’s largest Metal Dome ▪ RPF launched “Operation Thirst”

▪ Former Goa Minister and senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Dr. Wilfred Mesquita passed away

▪ Odisha state Govt implemented the Centre’s Witness Protection Scheme, 2018

▪ Cabinet has approved for introduction of the Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Bill, 2019 in the Parliament

▪ Cabinet approves Transgender Persons Bill 2019
 Connaught Place 9th most expensive office location; Hong Kong tops chart


TOP Headlines : 12.7.2019

▪ 12 JULY : National Simplicity Day

▪ The Ministry of Women and Child Development(WCD)implements a Scheme for Women in Difficult Circumstances called “Swadhar Greh”

▪ DBT 2.0 of Fertilizer Subsidy launched by D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Union Minister for Chemicals ▪ RPF launches “Operation Thirst” to curb the menace of unauthorized Packaged Drinking Water

▪ Delhi girl Isha Kanth, aged 20, is selected for the internship programme with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) based in the Hague, Netherlands

▪ 5th India-EU High Level Dialogue on Migration and Mobility held in New Delhi

▪ Article 370 a temporary provision with respect to J&K in Part XXI of the Constitution: Government

▪ Chandigarh best performing state in the field of education in the Performance Grading Index 2017-18

▪ Akshay Kumar only Indian star to feature in Forbes World’s Highest Paid Entertainers List

▪ India’s envoy to Canada Vikas Swarup appointed as the Secretary of Overseas Indian Affairs

▪ Tamil Nadu to be the first state to manufacture electric cars: Minister

▪ Gaganyaan National Advisory Council created

▪ PAN not linked to Aadhaar card will become invalid from September

▪ Port Integrity Campaign launched in India by Maritime Anti-Corruption Network

▪ India successfully lifted 271 million out of poverty in ten years: UN Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019

▪ Ukraine inaugurates gigantic dome worth $1.7 billion over destroyed Chernobyl reactor ▪ Airtel Africa has been listed as the third-largest stock on the bourse by market value

▪ Delhi government has announced that the Rajghat thermal power plant will be officially shut and turned into a solar park and electricity museum

▪ Dinesh Bhatia concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay



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▪ Balbir Singh Dhilon has replaced Rahil Ansari to become Audi India’s new head ▪ Former Bengal leg-spin Soumendranath Kundu passed away in Kolkata
▪ Indian Scientists from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai have developed a new material called ‘black gold’

▪ France became the first country to pass GAFA(Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) tax on digital giants

▪ Senior diplomat Vikas Swarup has been appointed as Secretary, Overseas Indian Affairs

▪ In Weightlifting, Youth Olympics gold medallist Jeremy Lalrinnunga smashed three records at the Commonwealth Championships

▪ Japan spacecraft Hayabusa2 lands on asteroid Ryugu for second time

▪ Taylor Swift is the highest-paid celebrity on Forbes Celebrity 100 List 2019

▪ Non-Resident Keralites Investment Company to be set up by the Kerala Government


TOP Headlines : 13.7.2019

▪ Kaushik Ganguly’s Bengali film Nagarkirtan bags 4 awards including ‘Best Feature Film’ at SAARC film festival 2019

▪ Sex ratio at birth shows improvement at the national level: Ministry Of Women And Child Development(WCD)

▪ 11th edition of Mekong Ganga Cooperation meet 2019 held in New Delhi

▪ Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) to host Women Startup Summit 2019 on August 1 in Kochi

▪ SBI’s Anshula Kant appointed as MD and CFO of World Bank

▪ TVS Motor launches India’s first Ethanol based motorcycle ‘TVS Apache RTR 200 Fi E100’

▪ ‘Save Water Day’ observed by West Bengal government on July 12, 2019

▪ The Centre is set up under the National Agriculture Development Scheme- RAFTAAR.

▪ Yadlapati Raghunath Babu has been appointed as Tobacco Board Chairman.

▪ YouTube is bringing a new education feature “Learning Playlists” with dedicated landing pages for educational videos on topics like math, science, music and language

▪ First Global Conference for Media Freedom held in London



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▪ The US House passed a Bill to remove 7% cap on issuing Green Card

▪ Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a disc very close to a starving black hole

▪ SBI waives off charges for NEFT, RTGS to boost e-transactions

▪ In 2025, India will overtake Japan to become the World’s 3rd Largest Economy: IHS Markit

▪ The Lok Sabha passed the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2019 to establish a central university and a tribal university in Andhra Pradesh

▪ Buddhist teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh awarded Gandhi Mandela Peace Medal 2019

▪ Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal flagged off the first train under the Mukhyamantri Tirth Yatra scheme from the Safdarjung railway station on 12 July 2019

▪ The West Bengal Government will construct 8 lakh 30 thousand houses under Bangla Abas Yojana for the people belonging to economically weaker sections

▪ FIFA U-17 World Cup 2019 to be hosted by Brazil

▪ India win ten medals at Qasanov Memorial Meet 2019 in Kazakhstan

▪ Former England Striker Peter Crouch announced retirement from Football

▪ Rashid Khan has been appointed the captain of Afghanistan cricket team in all three formats.

▪ Former skipper Asghar Afghan will be the Vice Captain of Afghanistan Cricket team.

▪ Former Argentine President Fernando de La Rua passed away at a Buenos Aires

▪ Emmy winning actor Rip Torn passed away at Lakeville, Connecticut, US

▪ In Archery, Deepika Kumari finished fourth in the women’s recurve qualifying round at the Tokyo Olympic Games test event on 12 July 2019

▪ In Table Tennis, G. Sathiyan and Anthony Amalraj won the bronze at the World Tour Platinum Australian Open on 13 July 2019

TOP Headlines : 14.7.2019

▪ Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched ‘LaQshya’(Labour room Quality Improvement Initiative)

▪ Meghalaya is the first state in India to ensure water conservation



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▪ 19th Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting for the year 2019 held in London, UK

▪ Agri-Business Incubation Centre started at Raipur, Chhattisgarh

▪ West bengal Governor releases Bengali version of Great Minds of India

▪ Kalraj Mishra appointed as Himachal Pradesh Governor

▪ Padma Shri awardee Raghu Ram receives Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) of Thailand

▪ Accenture appoints Julie Sweet as new CEO; David Rowland as Executive Chairman

▪ Gitanas Nauseda sworn in as new President of Lithuania

▪ FanMojo Appoints Prithvi Shaw As It’s Brand Ambassador

▪ India Holds First Ever Artificial Limb Fitment Camp in Tanzania

▪ Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as Punjab Cabinet Minister

▪ In Wimbledon Tennis, seventh seed Simona Halep has won the women’s singles Wimbledon title of 2019

▪ Russia Successfully Launched Spektr-RG, a powerful X-Ray Observatory, into Space ▪ Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh to be awarded the First Gandhi Mandela Peace Medal

▪ Indian table tennis players, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Amalraj Anthony Arputharaj won India’s first ever bronze medal in men’s doubles competition at the 2019 World Tour Platinum Australian Open

▪ Boxing star Vijender Singh clinched his 11th consecutive win in US professional circuit debut bout

▪ US-born Fernando José “Corby” Corbató, credited with inventing the computer password, passed away

▪ Britain’s Amir Khan, Olympic silver medallist, won the World Boxing Council (WBC) International Welterweight Title

▪ The world’s biggest diamond mine, Argyle Diamond Mine is being shuttered after almost four decades.

▪ Lewis Hamilton wins F1 British Grand Prix for record sixth time

▪ Renowned cinematographer M J Radhakrishnan passes away

▪ Anshula Kant has been appointed as next MD and CFO of the World Bank Group



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▪ Twitter bans religion-based dehumanizing tweets

▪ Vikas Swarup appointed Secretary of Overseas Indian Affairs

▪ Delhi government announced that the Rajghat thermal power plant officially shut and turned into a solar park

▪ Isha Kanth is one of the two persons in the world to have bagged an internship programme at the International Court of Justice based in Hague

TOP Headlines : 15.7.2019

▪ 15 JULY : World Youth Skills Day (Theme - "Learning to learn for life and work")

▪ Hima Das bagged her 3rd international gold within two weeks at the Kladno Memorial Athletics Meet 2019 in Czech Republic

▪ High-Level Steering Committee set up by the Govt proposes to establish a National Digital Health Mission

▪ AIIMS along with Ministry of Health will lead largest pan-India Oral Health Survey 2019

▪ Chandrakant Kavlekar sworn in as the new Deputy CM of Goa

▪ Kerala Government to set up India’s First-ever Elephant Rehabilitation at Rs 105 cr

▪ The RBI will soon come out with a mobile app that will read out the denomination of currency notes for the visually-challenged population

▪ The city of Fuzhou (China) will host the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee in 2020

▪ Indian House would be set in Tokyo with all facilities for the Indian players as a part of preparations of Tokyo Olympics 2020

▪ Indian ship sails for Narayanganj in Bangladesh carrying cargo from Bhutan

▪ Shah Rukh Khan to be conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by Melbourne’s La Trobe University

▪ The Golden Jubilee Edition of International Film Festival of India, IFFI will be held from 20-28 November 2019 in Panaji, Goa

▪ Senior BJP leader Kalraj Mishra appointed Himachal Governor & Acharya Devvrat moved to Gujarat

▪ An international arbitration court has imposed a penalty of over 5 billion dollars on Pakistan for unlawful denial of a mining lease to a company



JULY 2019

Monthly Oneliner Current Affairs Compilation

▪ India’s ambitious moon mission, Chandrayaan-2 called off due to technical glitch

▪ First-ever image of quantum entanglement “Bell entanglement” unveiled by the physicists of Glasgow University

▪ As per the first comprehensive survey of BSI, India is a home to 1256 species of orchid

▪ M.Sreeshankar wins gold at Tatyana Kolpakova International Athletics meet 2019 at Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan

▪ India bagged 6 medals, including two Gold, on day two of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup at Suhl in Germany

▪ Lewis Hamilton won record sixth British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom

▪ In Tennis, Serbian Novak Djokovic won his fifth Wimbledon title after defeating Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer

▪ The 4th anniversary of the Skill India Mission was being observed on 15 July 2019

▪ The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was introduced in Lok Sabha by road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari

▪ TVS Motor launches Indias first Ethanol based motorcycle TVS Apache RTR 200 Fi E100

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