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TOP Headlines : 16.7.2019

▪ Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Satya Pal Singh & Jayant Sinha elected as members of Public Accounts Committee

▪ Around 30 lakh workers enrolled under PM Shram Yogi Maandhan Scheme

▪ Kiran More appointed as USA cricket team’s interim coach

▪ Justice AK Sikri appointed as the Judge of Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC)

▪ First-ever Himalayan States Conclave to be hosted by Uttarakhand on July 28, 2019

▪ The first international flight from Devi AhilyaBaiHolkar International Airport of Indore in Madhya Pradesh left for Dubai

▪ IFFI(International Film Festival of India) to celebrates its special golden jubilee edition 2019 in Goa

▪ As per the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019 Report, more than 820 million people suffer from hunger




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▪ Foundation stone of Baba Guru Nanak International Varsity laid in Pak ▪ Extinct bird Elektorornis chenguangi had an extra-long toe: Study

▪ Indian diplomats in South Africa participated in a cycle rally to promote greater awareness of Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals of non-violence and satyagraha

▪ Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh lights victory flame to mark 20 years of Kargil War

▪ Japan’s Narita Airport, which recorded 81.1% on-time flight arrivals, was crowned as the world’s best business airport

▪ Vinesh Phogat added to India’s medal tally in YasarDogu 2019 Ranking Series tournament

▪ India to host International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup from March 15 to 26, 2020 in New Delhi

▪ The UK’s new £50 pound note features codebreaker Alan Turing

▪ Boxing legend ‘Sweet Pea’ Pernell Whitaker passed away in Virginia, US

▪ PV Sindhu won the Indian campaign at the Indonesia Open Badminton tournament beginning

▪ Sharath Kamal voted the Sportsperson of the Year in the annual Indian Oil Sports Conclave

▪ RBI slaps Rs 7 crore fine on SBI for non-compliance of directions

▪ 1971 war hero Lt Gen JS Gharaya passed away at the age of 93

▪ French government celebrates its National Day on 14 July 2019 (Bastille Day)

▪ World Bank to offer $250 million to Kerala for disaster management

▪ Varun Dhawan has made an announcement of his association with the fitness brand Reebok India

▪ Delhi’s IGI Airport is at the 38th spot while Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is at 43rd

▪ Moon Landing 50th Anniversary : It was on July 16, when American astronauts, Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. sat to the Apollo 11 spacecraft

TOP Headlines : 17.7.2019

▪ 17 JULY : International Justice Day

▪ Govt launches “Kaushal Yuva Samwaad” to interact with youth and get their perspective on skill development



JULY 2019

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▪ Lok Sabha passes the National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill, 2019 seeks to amend NIA act, 2008

▪ Zakir Hussain, Sonal Mansingh among 4 selected for Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships

▪ Google India's 'Internet Saathi' programme aimed to empower rural women to use the Internet

▪ Under Bharat Net, more than 1.28 Lakh Gram Panchayats linked with optical fibre

▪ Bhutanese cargo was flagged off from Dhubri in Assam to Narayanganj in Bangladesh

▪ Government to build India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) at Pottipuram in Theni District, Tamil Nadu

▪ 4,200 AYUSH wellness centres to be set up in India in FY 2019-20 ▪ Lok Sabha passed the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2019

▪ The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) plans to convert all electricity meters into smart prepaid meters by 2022

▪ SC constituted a high powered committee to frame an emergency plan to prevent the extinction of Great Indian Bustard, Lesser Florican

▪ Pakistan to allow 5,000 Sikh pilgrims per day to visit Gurudwara Kartarpur Sahib

▪ Coca cola appoints Sarvita Sethi in M&A role , Harsh Bhutani as Vice-president finance(CFO) ▪ Anusuiya Uikey, Harichandan appointed as Governors of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh

▪ Smriti Mandhana and Shri Rohan Bopanna were selected for Arjuna Awards 2018 for their outstanding achievements in Cricket and Tennis respectively

▪ SIDBI introduced web-based application system for contribution from Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS)

▪ HDFC & CSC launches co-branded ‘Small Business MoneyBack Credit Card’ for small traders and village level entrepreneurs (VLEs)

▪ India & Italy to establish fast-track mechanism to facilitate investment

▪ University of California, Riverside(UCR) has found that electronic cigarettes(e-cigarettes-ECs) damage brain cells

▪ Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah maintains top spots in ICC ODI ranking 2019

▪ Ashleigh Barty, Novak Djokovic got top spot at World Tennis Ranking 2019



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▪ Co-founder of Dalit Panther, Raja Dhale passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra

▪ US bans Myanmar army chief over Rohingya 'ethnic cleansing'

▪ Vijayveer Sidhu took his third gold medal of the ongoing ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany

▪ German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen has been elected as the European Commission’s first female president

TOP Headlines : 18.7.2019

▪ 12 JULY : International Malala Day

▪ 18 JULY : Nelson Mandela International Day

▪ The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch the Chandrayaan-2 on July 22, 2019

▪ Demand for digitally skilled manpower will increase at 35% CAGR: NASSCOM

▪ Madhya Pradesh got its First International Flight with Air India’s Service from Indore-Dubai

▪ “Find the Incredible You” campaign of the Tourism Ministry wins PATA Gold Award 2019

▪ Union Cabinet extends 15th Finance Commission's term up to Nov 30

▪ The brand ‘Tata’ has become India’s most valuable brand for the second straight year in 2019

▪ Special Public awareness campaign on vector-borne diseases launched in Delhi

▪ ‘Internet Saathi’ programme of Google India & Tata Trusts to be extended to Punjab and Odisha

▪ 12 beaches in India selected for Blue Flag certification

▪ ADB cut India’s GDP growth forecast to 7%

▪ China has gifted warship frigate P625 to Sri Lanka

▪ Palau became the 76th country to sign the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Framework Agreement

▪ ICICI Bank unveils digital platform InstaBIZ for MSMEs

▪ Centre to increase coal production to one billion tone by 2022-23

▪ Author Rachna Bisht Rawat’s new book titled “Kargil: Untold stories from the War” released

▪ French Tycoon Bernard Arnault Overtakes Bill Gates To Become 2nd Richest Person In The World: Bloomberg



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▪ Managing Director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde, aged 63, has resigned from her post

▪ South African musician Johnny Clegg passed away at 66 ▪ Ebix buys Yatraonline forRs 2,323.6 crore
▪ Former South Africa footballer Marc Batchelor shot dead outside his home in Olivedale, Johannesburg, South Africa

▪ Bengali cinema veteran actor Sharp Dutt passed away at 78

▪ Supreme Courtforms panel to frame emergency planfor the protectionGreat Indian Bustard and the Lesser Florican Bird

▪ 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship begins in Cuttack

▪ Ashleigh Barty, Novak Djokovic got top spot at World Tennis Ranking 2019

▪ AnishBhanwala claims gold medal in 25m rapid fire pistol in ISSF Junior World Cup ▪ Saudi Arabia intercepts drone launched by Yemeni rebels

TOP Headlines : 19.7.2019

▪14 JULY : International Shark Awareness Day (Theme - “The sharks in crisis: a call to action for the Mediterranean.”)

▪Hima Das bags her 4th gold at in the Tabor Athletics Meet 2019 ▪Arjun Bhati of India won Junior World Golf Championship 2019 ▪East Bengal to confer Kapil Dev with Bharat Gaurav award

▪IIT Madras is launching a first-of-its-kind tech MBA programme for its undergraduate (UG) students from all the engineering streams

▪Ambikapur launches India’s first garbage café

▪BharatPe has appointed Pawan Pathak as its senior vice-president (product) and Abhishek Sharma as its vice-president (product)

▪Haryana to set up Sports University near Sonipat

▪Zimbabwe cricket has been suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) with immediate effect after it breached the ICC Constitution



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▪NIIT Limited has bagged the ASSOCHAM Education Excellence Awards 2019 as the ‘Best Innovative Brand’ in the Education sector

▪Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has launched a scheme ‘Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)’ for the period 2018-2020

▪R K Singh reviews first-ever Draft Plan for Power Distribution Sector prepared by CEA

▪Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has overtaken Bharti Airtel to become the second-largest operator in terms of mobile subscriber base

▪Archer Deepika Kumari won silver in Tokyo Olympic test event

▪Harsh Vardhan launches public awareness campaign to control of vector-borne diseases in Delhi

▪Former Olympic track and field athlete P T Usha has been nominated for the International Association of Athletics Federations Veteran Pin for her ‘long and meritorious service to the cause of World Athletics’

▪Sachin Tendulkar became the 6th Indian to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

▪Sarabjot Singh won India's ninth gold in ISSF Junior World Cup ▪Asia has 60% of hungry people in the world
▪Indian Railways will conduct the largest recruitment drive for the paramedical categories from July 19, 2019

▪India to be free of Tuberculosis by 2025

▪Tamil Nadu Govt announces the creation of two new Districts, Tenkasi and Chengalpattu

▪21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship commenced at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Cuttack, Odisha

▪INS Sagardhwani starts on mission Sagar Maitri

▪WHO declares Congo Ebola outbreak a Health emergency of International Concern

▪Andra Bank rolls-out Al chatbot “ABHi” in Telangana

▪India’s current account balance deficit shoots up to $68 billion in 2018-19: IMF

▪SAARC Film Festival 2019 held at the National Film Corporation Cinema Hall, Colombo, Sri Lanka

▪Repco MFI wins award from NABARD for SHG linkage in TN for 2018-19



JULY 2019

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▪Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship 2019- Overview, India topped the medal tally in the Championship

▪P Rajagopal, Saravana Bhavan founder passed away in Chennai ▪ICICI Bank launches digital banking platform ‘InstaBIZ’ for MSMEs

TOP Headlines : 20.7.2019

▪20 JULY : International Chess Day

▪India’s first space tech park to come up in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

▪2004 batch IFS officer Vivek Kumar to take charge as Private Secretary to PM Modi

▪Upender Singh Rawat appointed as India’s next Ambassador to Panama

▪Central Govt approves Rs 206.8 crore for Implementation of Agriculture Export Policy Scheme ▪HRD Ministry launches new UGC Scheme “Paramarsh” For Higher Education
▪Australia and India recently finalized a new veterinary health protocol for the export of Australian breeder sheep to India

▪5th International Police Expo for the year 2019 held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

▪Amita Prasad appointed Chairperson of Inland Waterways ▪Amit Shah to head panel on Air India disinvestment

▪WB govt will sign MoU with British Council to improve the spoken English skills of students studying in polytechnic colleges

▪8th edition of Hand-in-Hand Military exercise 2019 between India, China to be held in Meghalaya in December 2019

▪Prithu Gupta becomes India’s 64th Grandmaster of India

▪World Bank decides not to fund for Andhra’s ambitious Amaravati capital city project

▪Sanjeev Kumar Singla, PS to PM, appointed as India’s Ambassador To Israel

▪Indian Army successfully conducted the trials of third Generation Anti-Tank Guided Missile- NAG at Pokhran, Rajasthan

▪Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju unveiled AIFF Golden Baby Leagues Handbook 2019-20

▪Maharashtra government raises financial aid for martyrs’ kin from 25 lakhs to Rs 1crore
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▪Standard Chartered to be first foreign bank to launch ops at GIFT IFSC ▪Rani Banga wins gold at the Israel rhythmic gymnastics annual Championship

▪2nd Edition of Hero Intercontinental Cup football tournament for the year 2019 won by North Korea

▪Anahat Singh and Neel Joshi won Dutch Junior Open Squash 2019

▪Cricket Association of Puducherry (CAP) became the newest associate member of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)

▪Argentine architect & creator of Petronas Twin Towers passed away

▪Former 3 time Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit passed away in New Delhi

▪Algeria won the Africa Cup of Nations for the 2nd time

▪The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to launch special cleanliness drive in Dengue prone 22 wards in the city

▪India’s runner Sanjivani Yadav has been handed a 2-year suspension by the IAAF’s Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for a doping violation

▪In the Shooting Junior World Cup, Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar clinched gold with a junior world record in the final of rifle 3-position event

▪The 10th edition of the Jagran Film Festival was inaugurated by Prakash Javadekar

▪Benjamin Netanyahu becomes the longest serving Prime Minister of Israel


TOP Headlines : 21.7.2019

▪E-postal ballot registered 60.14% turnout in 2019 Lok Sabha elections

▪International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Biro praised Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) for providing free cooking gas connection to poor

▪Health Ministry launched a Jan Jagrukta Abhiyaan in Delhi

▪Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank (ABIPBL) will shut down its operations within 18 months of launch

▪Amita Prasad takes charge as ‘Inland waterways’ authority chief and AK Jha to lead NPC

▪Uttarakhand to host the first ever Himalayan states conclave in Mussoorie


JULY 2019

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▪Silicon Valley of India, Bengaluru tops “most digitised cities” list: Razorpay report 2019

▪ICICI Bank launched ‘InstaBIZ’ a new digital platform for MSMEs and self-employed customers

▪Anandiben Patel Appointed As New Governor Of Uttar Pradesh

▪Architectural illumination of historic Safdarjung Tomb in Delhi inaugurated by Culture Minister

▪Rajasthan government has launched Student Police Cadet (SPC) scheme

▪HDFC Bank and Government of India’s Common Service Centre (CSC) have launched a co-branded small business MoneyBack Credit Card for Village-Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) and VLE-sourced customers

▪National award-winning filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Indu Sarkar’ is now a part of National Film Archives

▪Li Na, Mary Pierce and Yevgeny Kafelnikov inducted into Tennis Hall of Fame ▪D Raja Appointed As General Secretary Of Communist Party Of India (CPI)

▪The Next Generation Sequencing (NSG) facility was inaugurated at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad

▪Squash players Anahat Singh won the girls’ U13 title while Neel Joshi won the boys’ U17 title

▪North Korea won the second edition of Intercontinental Cup football tournament beating Tajikistan in the final match

▪India has topped the championship by securing top the medals tally in the ISSF Junior World Cup ▪ADB reduced Indias growth forecast for the current financial year to 7 per cent
▪International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released its updated report

▪Indian Woman's Team Win 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship

▪Bjorn Vassallo Elected As President Of The Malta Football Associaiton


TOP Headlines : 22.7.2019

▪22 JULY : Pi Approximation Day [ Pi Approximation Day is observed on 22 July every year because of the value of Pi that is 22/7. Whereas Pi Day is celebrated on 14 March which is similar to the approximate value of 3.14 and also coincides with the Albert Einstein’s birthday ]

▪Chandrayaan-2 launched successfully from SDSC, Sriharikota, AP

▪Lok Sabha passed protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill 2019


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▪India’s First Smart School Campus in Pune to be launched by Singapore’s GIIS

▪CRPF unveils country’s first body protector for women personnel in combat

▪Author Sunil Mishra’s book ‘Who Stole My Job enters second print Run’

▪India’s track and field legend PT Usha nominated for IAAF’s ‘Veteran Pin’

▪CRPF unveils country’s first body protector for women personnel in combat

▪NASA prepared to send 1st woman on moon

▪Lucknow to host Asia’s biggest arm show ‘DefExpo’ in February 2020

▪13th Global Healthcare Summit organized by AAPI and GAPIO held in Hyderabad

▪Indian bodybuilder Ravinder Malik clinches Mr South Asia title

▪Indian Navy commissions fifth Dornier Aircraft Squadron in Chennai

▪MS Dhoni’s request to train with a battalion of the Indian Army’s Parachute Regiment for two months has been approved by Army chief General Bipin Rawat

▪Amazon launched ‘JEE Ready’ app for IIT-JEE preparation

▪India will be the first recipient of local currency financing by the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB)

▪Standard Chartered to be the first foreign bank to launch operations at GIFT IFSC

▪Shiva Thapa Becomes India’s First Gold-medallist in Kazakhstan President’s Cup

▪Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee named as the Brand Ambassador for RummyCircle

▪HRD Minister launches UGC scheme Paramarsh, Quality Assurance in higher education in focus

▪Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank to receive Leopard Club Award at 2019 Locarno International Film Festival

▪DefExpo India-2020 to be held in Lucknow

▪Carnatic vocalist S. Sowmya selected for Sangita Kalanidhi Award 2019

▪PV Sindhu clinched silver in Indonesia Open

▪The World Bank continues to support Andhra Pradesh with an over one billion USD

▪CNSA destructed Tiangong 2, experimental space station over the Pacific


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▪Maharashtra Sports Dept gave Rs One Crore Assistance for Gold Medalist Rahi Sarnobat

▪International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) adds more than 7000 species to red list; nearly 30,000 species are facing the risk of extinction

▪Zappfresh wins ‘Best Farm to Fork Fresh Meat Brand’ at the 6th edition of ‘CMO Asia National Awards for Marketing Excellence’

▪World Reputation Rankings 2019: Top 3 Best Institutes in India are IISc Bengaluru, IIT Madras and MAHE

▪Intercontinental Cup 2019: North Korea Beat Tajikistan to Win Title

▪Peter McNamara, former Australian Tennis Star passed away in Germany

▪Vivek Kohli elected chairman of Commonwealth TT Federation

▪International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano passed away

▪Ursula von der Leyen was elected as the first female President of European Commission

▪Varun Dhawan was signed as the brand face of Reebok


TOP Headlines : 23.7.2019

▪22 JULY : World Brain Day (Theme 2019 - "The Painful Truth")

▪23 JULY : National broadcasting day

▪Under PMKSNY, more than 7 crore 32 lakh farmer families received first two instalments of Rs 2000 each

▪Government bans Colistin- antibiotic used in poultry industry

▪Lieutenant-General M.M. Naravane, currently General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Army Command, has been appointed the next Vice-Chief of the Army Staff

▪Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates Ujh and Basantarbridges in Jammu and Kashmir

▪CRPF unveils country’s first body protector jointly developed by DRDO for women personnel in combat

▪All toll lanes on National Highways to be ‘FASTag lanes’ from December 1, 2019 ▪Coca-Cola appoints Sarvita Sethi as VP M&A for India & South West Asia

▪Author Sunil Mishra’s book ‘Who Stole My Job’ enters second print run


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▪Two-time Olympic gold medallist Keshav Dutt and former India Football Captain Prasun Banerjee will be conferred the ‘Mohun Bagan Ratna’ on 29 July 2019

▪10th Edition of Jagran Film Festival inaugurated in New Delhi

▪Central Government favors it's 31.8% contribution to economic growth

▪According to RBI, accessed by the Times of India (TOI), Maharashtra registered the highest number of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) frauds in India for the FY 2018-19

▪Andhra Pradesh became the first state in India to reserve 75% private jobs for locals

▪Harmeet, Ayhika win as India complete golden sweep in C’wealth TT

▪Adam Peaty becomes a 1st man to swim under 57 sec in the 100m breaststroke

▪Kerala Tourism organised 5 day annual Nishagandhi Monsoon Ragas Music Fest 2019 in Kanakakkunnu,Thiruvananthapuram

▪Govt panel headed by SC Garg recommends banning all private cryptocurrencies & jail time of up to 10 years

▪Paytm partnered with Clix Finance to offer instant digital loans to customers and merchants on its platform

▪In Badminton, PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth will lead the Indian campaign at the Japan Open BWF World Tour Super

▪IIT Madras students develop ‘Agricopter’ to eliminate manual spraying of pesticides in agricultural farms

▪National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Japan Credit Bureau (JCB) International along with domestic banks, launched RuPay JCB Global Cards

▪Boris Johnson won the contest to be next British Prime Minister

▪IAS officer Ajay Bhadoo appointed as Joint Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind

▪Ministry of home affairs approves Bhabha Kavach to be India’s 1st Lightest, Indigenous Bullet Proof Jacket

▪Union minister launches Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) facility at CCMB in Hyderabad

▪Scientists Build Ramanujan Machine in honor of the Indian maths genius.

▪Nigeria set to host 2020 FIFA women U-20 World cup

▪Shiva Thapa wins first gold for India in Kazakhstan President’s Cup 2019
▪John Isner of America wins Hall of Fame Tennis Championships 2019


TOP Headlines : 24.7.2019

▪23 JULY : National broadcasting day

▪24 JULY : National Thermal Engineer Day

▪Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal launched 12th Edition of the Global Innovation Index for the year 2019

Theme 2019 - “Creating Healthy Lives – The Future of Medical Innovation”

▪India was ranked 52nd in 2019 with the score 36.58 out of 100 from 57th position in 2018 as per Global Innovation Index 2019

▪International shark meet held in Kochi, Kerala at CMFRI

▪Income Tax Department celebrated Aaykar Diwas 2019 on July 24

▪Project compliance lab launched by Wipro in Hyderabad

▪RBI launches a medium-term strategy framework “Utkarsh 2022”

▪‘JATAN: Virtual Museum software’, developed by Human Centres Design and Computing Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing( C-DAC), Pune, Maharashtra

▪Chetak helicopters by HAL delivered to the Indian Navy ahead of schedule.

▪The Indian Army appointed Manoj Mukund Naravane as its new vice-chief

▪Reliance Industries (RIL) has become the top-ranked Indian company to feature in the latest Fortune Global 500 list

▪Mohun Bagan Ratna Award 2019 to be conferred to Keshav Dutt & Prasun Banerjee ▪BP Kanungo to run monetary policy after the resignation of Viral Acharya
▪Former All-India University champion boxer, Kishen Narsi appointed as ASBC’s competition commission chairman

▪Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy submits resignation to the Governor

▪ISRO to launch India’s 1st solar mission Aditya-L1 in the first half of 2020

▪Bangladesh develops an alternative for plastic from jute- “Sonali”


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▪Pakistan Cricket Board’s chairman Ehsan Mani has been appointed as the head of the ICC’s influential Finance and Commercial Affairs committee

▪Adam Peaty wins 100m breaststroke gold at world championships

▪Dejan Papic appointed as India’s table tennis head coach ▪ICC Test Rankings: Virat Kohli holds on to No 1 spot

▪Former Chinese premier Li Peng, known as the “Butcher of Beijing” passed away

▪Russian boxer Maxim Dadashev dies after suffering a brain injury during a match

▪Abhay Singh of Tamil Nadu and Asian Games medallist Tanvi Khanna clinched the men’s and women’s titles respectively in the 6th Bengal Open squash tournament in Kolkata

▪Monkeys declared as ‘vermin’ in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh

▪Madhya Pradesh Assembly passes a bill raising OBC quota to 27% from 14%

▪Shiva Thapa Becomes Indias First Gold Medallist in Kazakhstan Presidents Cup

▪Supreme Court extends Assam NRC deadline to August 31

▪Voda’s M-Pesa shuts shop in India


TOP Headlines : 25.7.2019

▪25 JULY : National Refreshment Day

▪Rajya Sabha passed the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) (Amendment) Bill, 2019

▪Piyush Goyal reviews preparations of India’s Participation in Dubai World Expo 2020

▪“Dracaena cambodiana”, India’s first dragon blood-oozing tree discovered in Assam

▪The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has proposed light urban rail transit system – ‘Metrolite’ in small cities

▪Inter-State River Water disputes (Amendment) Bill, 2019 introduced in LS seeks to amend the Inter State River Water Disputes Act, 1956

▪British Council of India and The Universities UK International (UUKi) launched UKIERI mobility program

▪New Vande Bharat express completes Delhi-Katra trial run


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▪Scaly-Foot Snail became the first-ever species endangered due to deep-sea mining

▪London will be officially confirmed as the world’s first National Park City.

▪US regulators formalized a record 5 billion US Dollar fine on Facebook for violation of users’ privacy

▪Mark Esper sworn in as the US secretary of defense

▪Gujarat tops in solar rooftop installations in India

▪PayPal opens third Global Technology Centre in Hyderabad

▪Ajay Kumar Bhalla, an IAS Officer, appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)

▪Kristof Milak created a new world record in the 200 metres butterfly at the 2019 FINA world championship

▪Priti Patel became UK’s First Indian-Origin Home Secretary

▪Bandhan Bank appoints Sanjeev Naryani as Head of Business for all divisions

▪Book on former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar released by PM Narendra Modi and written by Shri Harivansh

▪A Coffee Table Book showcasing the history and achievements of the ‘Fire & Fury Corps’ released in Leh

▪“Indo-Pak Relations: Beyond Pulwama and Balakot” book authored by Dr. U V Singh released


TOP Headlines : 26.7.2019

▪26 JULY : Kargil Vijay Diwas (Theme 2019 - “Remember, Rejoice and Renew”)

▪Amendments to Aadhaar bill approved by the cabinet

▪Amendment to RTI act, 2005 approved by the parliament ▪Sunil Kumar given additional charge as MTNL chairman

▪Pradhan Mantri Laghu Vyapari Maan-Dhan Yojana (PM-LVMY) was launched by the Union labour and Employment ministry

▪India conducted 1st ever simulated space war exercise,” IndSpaceEx” in New Delhi

▪Anganwadi Centres to get transformed into Model Community facilities in Jammu and Kashmir


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▪Apple buys ‘majority’ of Intel’s smartphone modem biz for $1 billion

▪Uttar Pradesh becomes No.1 in implementation of Pradhanamntri Suraksha Beema Yojna in the country

▪Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy’s son-in-law Rishi Sunak joins Boris Johnson’s cabinet

▪Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury appointed Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman

▪Combat veteran, Dr Samir Rawat first officer invited to Congress of Psychology in Prague in 2020 ▪Delhi among cheapest cities to relocate: Moving Price Index 2019 ▪The celestial object has landed in a village of Madhubani, Bihar

▪Punjab, Haryana High Court bans live shows of songs promoting liquor, violence

▪StartupiSpace achieves China’s 1st private satellite launch

▪NITI Aayog and WhatsApp partners to promote women entrepreneurs

▪BS Yediyurappa sworn-in as Chief Minister of Karnataka

▪IIT Kharagpur Students developed an app ‘CARE4U’ for elderly people

▪Researchers from IIT, Bengaluru have discovered a new vine snake species 'Proahaetulla antiqua' in the southern Western Ghats which' is believed to have evolved around 26 million years ago

▪China’s Tiangong-2 spacecraft destroyed upon its controlled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean

▪FIFA rankings: India drops two places to 103

▪Dutch film legend Rutger Hauer passed away at 75

▪Statewide tree plantation programme launched by Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu
TOP Headlines : 27.7.2019

▪PriyaPriyadarshini Jain receives ‘Indian Woman of Influence Award’ at House of Lords

▪Western Railways first printing press heritage gallery opened at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai

▪23 self-styled and unrecognized universities announced by the University Grants Commission


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▪Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta Inks MoU With Two Foreign Universities for research and cultural understanding

▪INS Tarkash reached Saint Petersburg, Russia to take part in the Russian Navy Day parade ▪India made huge achievements in the nuclear power sector during the last 3 years
▪Jordan has unveiled its first underwater military museum off the coast of Aqaba

▪Union Government approves creation of buffer stock for 40 lakh MT of sugar for 1 year

▪Former Finance Secretary Shri Subash Chandra Garg, takes over as the new Power Secretary of the Power Ministry

▪Cars24 gets RBI NBFC license to offer loans against used cars ▪3rd edition of CSR Journal Excellence Awarded to 6 firms ▪Mark Esper appointed as Pentagon chief

▪Inaugural Tribute actor award won by Meryl Streep in TIFF 2019

▪Global Ayurveda Summit 2019 to be held at Kochi, Kerala

▪Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury appointed as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee ▪New India-UK scheme to fund students from UK to visit India
▪World temperatures rose faster in the late 20th century than in the last 2,000 years: study ▪West Bengal government set to bring legislation for ensuring Journalists’ job security

▪India tops with 24 medals in ISSF Junior World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun 2019 held in Suhl, Germany

▪Five wrestlers among Bajrang Punia selected at KD Jadhav stadium, for Senior Wrestling Championships

▪Hungarian teenager Kristof Milak broke the men’s 200 meters butterfly world record

▪Byju’s Replaces Oppo as new sponsor of Indian team till 2022

▪SEBI fixes minimum staggered delivery period of 5 days for commodity futures ▪Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga retires from ODIs
▪Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India, released book titled ‘New-Age Technology and Industrial Revolution 4.0’


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▪Goa govt. to launch water taxi replacing old ferry boats in inland waterways


TOP Headlines : 28.7.2019

▪28 JULY : World Hepatitis Day ( Theme 2019 -“Invest in Eliminating Hepatitis”)

▪28 JULY : World Nature Conservation Day

▪28 JULY : National Parent’s Day

▪Indian scientists from ARIES discovered 28 new stars in Milky Way

▪VidishaBaliyan Becomes First Indian To Win Miss Deaf World Pageant

▪SudarsanPattnaik wins People’s Choice Prize at Boston International Sand Art Championship

▪Khelo India Youth Games 2020 will be held in Guwahati, Assam

▪36th GST Council Meeting held in New Delhi

▪Dr Jitendra Singh reviewed the status of implementation of various projects under MDoNER

▪5th Dharma-Dhamma conference to be held in Rajgir

▪Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh launches Department of Defence Production (DDP) Dashboard

▪Ministry of Mines organizes workshop called ‘Waste To Wealth’ on effective utilization of ‘Red Mud’ in New Delhi

▪Lt Gen Paramjit Singh will be the next Director-General of Military Operations

▪GST Council to decide on tax cut on electric vehicles this week

▪High-level 10-member committee constituted to strategize preparations for 2020, 2024 Olympics

▪Two Defence Industrial Corridors to be set up in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

▪Badri Narain Sharma re-appointed Chairperson of National Anti-profiteering Authority for 2 years

▪The Centre has issued an order banning the last line antibiotic, colistin, for use in animals.

▪IAF gets its first batch of the AH 64E Apache helicopters of the 22 helicopters

▪Govt decides to extend budget session till 7 August

▪Centre has approved the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences' Deep Ocean Mission (DOM) ▪India readies plan for $4 billion Tesla-scale battery storage plants


JULY 2019

Monthly Oneliner Current Affairs Compilation


▪Nepal invited as Gita Jayanti Mahotsav 2019 partner

▪IIT Madras develops Agricopter to eliminate manual spraying of pesticides

▪upGrad with Liverpool John Moores University offers India’s 1st online Master’s degree program in Machine Learning and AI

▪Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir retires from Test cricket

▪Noida to get 100 charging stations for electric vehicles

▪IT major Wipro announced the launch of its global Digital Product Compliance lab in Hyderabad.


TOP Headlines : 29.7.2019

▪29 JULY : World Tiger Day

▪Former International tennis player Vidisha Balyan from Uttar Pradesh wins Miss Deaf World 2019 title

▪Parliament passes Finance Bill 2019 and Appropriation Bill 2019

▪Priya Priyadarshini Jain facilitated with “Indian Women of Influence” award

▪22-year-old Egan Bernal crowned as the 1st Colombian to win the 106th edition of Tour de France title 2019

▪“Pink coaches” introduced for women by the Northeast Frontier Railway zone

▪Bhakti Kulkarni retains the title at 46th National Women Chess Championship 2019

▪DD News was awarded Champions of Empathy Award for spreading awareness about hepatitis

▪Scientists at IIT Hyderabad have developed low-cost, environment-friendly solar cells by employing a dye used to make kumkum or vermilion in India

▪WHO recommends the use of innovative anti HIV drug Dolutegravir (DTG)

▪Democratic Republic of Congo to launch surveillance, vaccination training to tackle Ebola

▪Special secretary in RAW, IPS officer VK Johri has been appointed as the new BSF DG ▪Mary Kom, Six Other Indians Clinch Gold Medal In 23rd President’s Cup
▪India’s Current Account Deficit to remain steady at 16-17 billion dollars in the first quarter ▪Fagu Chauhan, a six-time member of the UP Assembly, sworn as new Governor of Bihar


JULY 2019

Monthly Oneliner Current Affairs Compilation


▪Meryl Streep to Receive Tribute Actor Award at the Toronto Film Festival

▪Pakistan will send its first man to space in 2022

▪Bangladesh records highest level of Dengue cases in 18 years

▪Ashish Kumar clinches gold as India grab eight medals at Thailand Open

▪An Account Aggregator platform “Sahamati” introduced to Solve Fintech’s Data Problem

▪Chandigarh gets BCCI affiliation after nearly four decades

▪Indian cities contribute 59%- 70% of India’s GDP: IDFC Institute’s Report on Reforming Urban India

▪7th Economic Census (EC) for the year 2019 which is conducted by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) commenced from Tripura

▪Anandiben Patel sworn-in as Uttar Pradesh governor ▪Max Verstappen wins 2019 Formula 1 German Grand Prix

▪Disney Legend Russi Taylor passes away

▪Former Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy passed away on 28 July


TOP Headlines : 30.7.2019

▪30 JULY : World day against trafficking in persons (Theme 2019 - “Human Trafficking: call your government to action”)

▪30 JULY : TN celebrates ‘Hospital Day’

▪An inter-ministerial panel for Electric Vehicles (EVs) sanctioned 5645 electric buses for operations in 65 cities

▪Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi stated that the Centre government has set a target to achieve “100% Digitization of Waqf properties across country in its 1st 100 days”

▪Singapore tops Asia in Dell Global Women Entrepreneur Cities Index 2019, Bengaluru top Indian city

▪Google partners with Cisco to roll out free high-speed Wi-Fi zones in India ▪PM of Nepal KP Oli inaugurates India-Nepal Logistics Summit in Kathmandu

▪India’s renewable energy cost is lowest in Asia Pacific region -Wood Mackenzie


JULY 2019

Monthly Oneliner Current Affairs Compilation


▪World Hindu Economic Forum (WHEF) unveiled its Nepal Chapter in Kathmandu, Nepal

▪A 15-year-old Tamil Nadu girl Jerlin Anika wins Gold medal at 2nd World Deaf Youth Badminton Championships 2019

▪After West Bengal, Odisha gets GI tag for its sweet version of Rasagola

▪Pakistan opens historic 1,000-year-old Hindu temple(Shawala Teja Singh Temple) in Punjab for worship after 72 years

▪Reliance Jio become the largest telecom company of India with 331.3 million subscribers overtaking Vodafone Idea

▪Former SC judge AK Sikri appointed as Ombudsman officer of Indian Federation of Sports Gaming

▪Ellyse Perry of Australia becomes first cricketer to reach 1000 runs, 100 wickets in T20Is

▪Bandhan Bank appoints Siddhartha Sanyal as chief economist ▪J&K District Administration Udhampur launched helpline “Jeene Do” ▪Rs.1500 crore deal signed by India and Russia to acquire Russia’s R-27

▪Dalilah Muhammad set new world record in the 400m hurdles womens athletics at the U.S. Championships athletics

▪The new terminal of the international airport of trichy has been shortlisted for the Leading European Architecture Forum (LEAF) award

▪Lalji Tandon sworn in as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh

▪Jagdeep Dhankar sworn in as the governor of West Bengal

▪Israel and the US successfully tested Arrow-3 Anti-Ballistic Missile System ▪MP tops country with 526 tigers: All India Estimation report
▪Odisha Secretariat Renamed As ‘Lok Seva Bhawan’: Odisha CM

▪22 species of flora and fauna gone extinct in the past few centuries in India

▪International Cricket Council (ICC) officially launched the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC)

▪Karnataka assembly speaker K R Ramesh Kumar stepped down from his post


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