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AWARDS AND HONOURS INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Name of the Award

Award Winner

Key Points to Note

UN Public Service Award

Nadia District in West Bengal

GD Birla Award

Professor Sanjeev Galande

World Food Prize 2015

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of

Bangladesh

Presidential Award for

Excellence

Darshan Jain

World Agriculture Prize

R Paul Singh

Great Immigrants : The Pride

of America

1. Preet Bharara

Award was given for

eliminating Open Defecation.
Given for his pioneering
research in the field of
epigenetics and molecular
cell biology.
Given for his role in
developing the largest nongovernmental organization
(BRAC) to tackle food
insecurity and poverty
around the world.
One among the 108
Mathematics and Science
teachers of United States.
For his research in areas such
as energy conservation,
freezing preservation, postharvest technology and mass
transfer in food processing.
They are among 38
personalities. Given by
Carnegie Corporation of New
York.

2. Rakesh Khurana
3. Madhulika Sikka
4. Abraham Verghese

Guinness Record

Madhya Pradesh

The Royal Society

Kamal Bawa

Best Original Screenplay

Award
Miss USA
Named in the Worlds top
100 effective and talented
people.

Buddha in Traffic Jam

Olivia Jordan
Biocon CMD Kiran
Mazumdar

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Recognised Madhya
Pradeshs record in hand
washing on World Hand
washing Day. A total of
12,76,425 students created a
new world record by
washing their hands
simultaneously.
Given for his huge
contributions in the area of
conservation science.
Given at the Madrid Film
Festival
She is also Miss Oklahoma
Given by US-based Scientific
American magazine.

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Name of the Award

Award Winner

Frances Commandeur de la
Lgion dHonneur

Artist Sayed Haider Raza

Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Award
Golden Peacock
environment management
award
Pacific Asia Travel
Association (PATA) Gold
Award 2015
International Tennis Hall of
Fame

Professor Mini Shaji Thomas

Champions of Change Award

Sunita Viswanath

Grand Prix World Press

Cartoon 2014 Award
American Book Award

Bharat Gaurav Lifetime

Achivement Award
Guinness World Record
Royal Societys Copley Medal
Mr India 2015
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Prize
Rural Litigation and
Entitlement Kendra
Ramon Magsaysay award
2015

Krishnapatnam Port in
Andhra Pradesh
Kerala Tourism

Amelie Mauresmo

Key Points to Note

Given for his peerless
achievements in
transcending all boundaries
Given for her educational
career.
Given for its achievements
and initiatives in the field of
environment.
Given for its Muziris Heritage
Project in the Heritage &
Culture category.
She was a former Tennis
player from France.

Given for her work to

encourage Hindus to take
care of the environment
Cartoonist Pamarthy Shankar Given for sketching Nelson
Mandela
Naomi Klein
Given for her environmental
work This Changes
Everything: Capitalism vs. the
Climate.
Hockey Legend Dhyan Chand Award will be given to Ashok
Chand, son of Major Dhyan
Chand
Baahubali Movie Poster
For making Worlds Largest
Poster 50,000 Sq Ft.
Peter Higgs
It is worlds oldest scientific
prize
Rohit Khandewal
Organized by Provogue
Personal Care
Helena Ndume and Jorge
Given by the United Nations
Sampaio
at the UN Headquarters in
New York.
Future Leadership Award
NGO is based in Uttarakhand
Sanjiv Chaturvedi and Anshu
Gupta

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The other awardees are,1.

Kommaly Chanthavong
Loas
2. Ligaya FernandoAmilbangsa Philippines
3. Kyaw Thu Myanmar

Current Affairs July 2015

Name of the Award
Chaudhary Charan Singh
Award for Excellence in
Journalism

Award Winner

Journalist Gargi Parsai of

The Hindu
Rajya Sabha TV Assistant
Editor Arvind Kumar
Singh
Economic Times Special
Correspondent Madhvi
Sally
ETV senior producer Jai
Prakash Singh
Dainik Jagran Deupty
Bureau Chief (national
bureau) Surendra Prasad
Singh
Hindustan Principal
Correspondent Arvind
Kumar Singh.

Key Points to Note

Presented by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi

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Current Affairs July 2015

APPOINTMENTS
Name of the Persons
YC Modi
Commodore CD Balaji

Posts/Departments
Additional Director in CBI
Chief of Aeronautical Development
Establishment
MD and CEO of CIBIL
Secretary of MSME
Chairman of Bandhan Bank
Point Person for Varanasi
Chairman of Narmada Valley Development
Authority
Head of Gujarat International Finance

Satish Pillai
Dr Anup K Pujari
Ashok Lahiri
Mahesh Sharma
Rakesh Sahni
Ajay Kumar Pandey

Tec-City

Jin Liqun

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

President

Prasanna Kumar Suryadevara

Lord Kamlesh Patel

Secretary of Delhi Legislative Assembly

First British-Asian appointee to ECB
Director
Anurag Srivastava
CFO of Tata Tele Services
Sriram Kalyanaraman
MD and CEO of National Housing Bank
Panjkaj Munjal
CMD of Hero Motors Group
Prashant Pathrabe
Director of Film and Television Institute
of India
Bhanu Pratap Sharma
Chairperson of FSSAI (Temporary in
charge)
Ajay Mathur
Chief of The Energy and Resources
Institute (TERI)
Anand Krishnamurthy
MD and CEO of Catholic Syrian Bank
Professor Richard Hay and George Baker Two Nominated persons to Lok Sabha
TK Chand
NALCO Chairman
Roelant Oltmans
Coach of Hockey India
Ashish Bahugana
Chairperson of FSSAI
RS Sharma
Chairman of TRAI
K Vijayaraghavan
Secretary of DSIR
Jinesh Hedge
Airtels CEO of Operations in Sri Lanka
David Taylor
CEO of Procter & Gamble (P&G)
Swati Maliwal
Chairperson of DCW
Ananth Narayanan
CEO of Myntra
Lt Gen Man Mohan Singh Rai
Vice Chief of Army
Rahul Bhatnagar
MD and CFO of Bharti Enterprises
C Ramakrishnan
CFO of Tata Motors Limited
Rahul Agarwal
MD of Lenova India

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Current Affairs July 2015

BANKING AND FINANCE
1. The World Bank Board has approved 6. Government of India has notified rules
$650 million towards the third loan for
the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor
(a freight-only rail line). This project
mainly aims at improving the speed of
movement of raw materials and finished
goods between the northern and eastern
parts of India.

2. According to the official statement

from Finance Ministry, a person may
make a declaration in respect of an
undisclosed asset located outside India
under the compliance provisions of the
Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign
Income and Assets) and Imposition of
Tax Act, 2015 (Black Money Act) before
or on September 30. 2015.
3. According to the World Bank Report,
Indias GDP crossed the $2-Trillion mark
in 2014 and at present stands at $2.067
Trillion. India is among the world the
fastest
growing
economies
this
year. After taking 60 years to reach the
$1-trillion mark, India added the next
trillion in just seven years. Going by
income, India is still in the lower middle
income category.
4. Banking Giant State Bank of India
has launched an initiative called Project
Tatkal to provide doorstep services and
expedite
home
loans
application
process. The Project Tatkal will help get
the loan within 10 days after receipt of
application
form
and
relevant
supporting
documents. The
implementation will be done at large
centres
with
sizable
home
loan
business.
5. HDFC Bank has become the first
Indian bank to launch Watch Banking
for Apple Watch. The main objective is to
provide banking services through all
wearable devices across platforms like
iOS and Android.

for calculating overseas income and

assets under the stringent foreign black
money law that came into force on July
1. The value of the overseas assets
includes

immovable property

jewellery and precious stones

archaeological collections and

paintings

shares and securities and shares in

unlisted firms

The value of an overseas bank account

will be the sum of all deposits made in
the account since its opening.

7. Reserve Bank of India has announced

that the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

in manufacturing of tobacco products is
prohibited, though activities such as
retail and wholesale trading fall under
the sectoral restrictions.
FDI is
prohibited in the manufacturing of
cigars,
cheroots,
cigarillos
and
cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco
substitutes.
8. Qatar is the fastest growing economy
among the Gulf Cooperation Council
(GCC) countries and it is expected to
grow by more than 7 per cent this year.
9. Union Bank of India has launched
initiatives such as IMPS at branches
and M-passbooks for its customers. The
bank has become the first lender to
launch immediate payment service
(IMPS) through branches for its retail
and corporate customers by integrating
the platform to its core banking
solution.

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10. Indias largest lender, the State
Bank of India has raised its information
technology (IT) budget to improve its
digital offerings. The bank will spend
nearly Rs.4,000 crore before March
2016 and significantly upgrade its IT
back-end.

11. The BRICS Nations have signed an

agreement to create a USD 100 billion
forex pool to help each other in case of
any problems with dollar liquidity. The
contributions are,

India USD 18 billion

Brazil USD 18 billion

Russia USD 18 billion

China USD 41 billion

South Africa USD 5 billion

12. Indias largest private sector bank,

ICICI, has created a dedicated payments
gateway for the
mobile
banking
transaction. This system will enable
much faster transactions for its
customers. This system will attract more
customers for mobile banking than for
internet banking.

15. Chief

Economic Advisor Arvind

Subramanian has announced that
Indirect tax revenues grew 37.5% in the
first quarter of current fiscal. He said
that the indirect tax collections which
include excise, Customs and service
taxes grew 14.5 per cent in the first
quarter from a year ago.
16. National Bank for Agriculture and
Rural Development (NABARD) has set a
target of providing Rs 30,000 crore as
credit to farmers for irrigation over the
next three years. The Bank has already
sanctioned Rs 1,000 crore so far in
2015.
17. Small Industries Development Bank
of India (SIDBI) has signed an MoU with
Snapdeal, an e-commerce major in
India, to provide financial support to its
MSME vendors. The MoU was signed by
Dr Kshatrapati Shivaji, CMD, SIDBI and
Kunal Bahl, CEO, Snapdeal.

18. The Reserve Bank of India has set

up a 14-member committee for working
out
a
medium-term
(five-year)
measurable action plan for financial
inclusion. The committee will be headed
by Deepak Mohanty, Executive Director
of RBI. He will review the existing policy
of
financial
inclusion,
including
13. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has supportive
payment
system
and
announced that it has issued Rs 100 customer protection framework.
denomination
banknotes
in
the
Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005 with a 19. The Reserve Bank has asked banks
new numbering pattern. Now, the to levy any late payment penalty on
numerals in both the number panels of credit card customers, or report them to
1oo rupees banknotes will be in credit information companies, only if the
ascending size from left to right while payment has been due for more than
the first three alphanumeric numerical three days. For banks, RBI said they can
characters will remain constant in size.
treat a credit card as non preforming
asset if the minimum amount due has
14. According to funds tracking not been paid within 90 days from the
company EPFR Global, India focused due date.
equity funds have witnessed an inflow of
over $ 9.5 billion from worldwide 20. The Income Tax has launched an
investors in the first six months of the ambitious drive to bring one crore new
year. In the mean time China has seen a taxpayers under its net after the central
hefty outflow of $ 17 billion.
government initiative to broaden the tax
base.

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21. Chinas renminbi (RMB) may become
the
worlds
fourth
most-used
international currency, replacing the
Japanese
yen.
The
International
Monetary Forum had raised the RMB
Internationalisation Index from 0.02 in
2009 to 2.47 in 2014. The top three
currencies are the dollar, the euro and
the British pound.

26. IDFC Ltd has announced that its

unit IDFC Bank Ltd has got a license

from the Reserve Bank of India for
undertaking banking business in India
under Section 22(1) of the Banking
Regulation Act, 1949. IDFC becomes the
second lender to enter the banking
sector after more than a decade. IDFC
Bank plans to start operation from
October 1 2015 with an initial loan book
22. A new $100 billion BRICS bank of around Rs 55,000 crore with an
dedicated to the emerging BRICS estimated 20 branches.
countries
has formally
started
its
operations in Chinas commercial hub 27. The GOI is planning to unveil an
Shanghai. The New Development Bank exclusive all-in-one insurance product
(NDB), backed by the so-called for farmers as part of its ongoing social
emerging BRICS nations Brazil, Russia, security scheme. The step has been
India, China and South Africa, has been initiated as the incidents of farmer
viewed as a challenge to Washington- suicides
in
the
country are
based institutions. Kamath, 67, will be increasing. To be known as the Unified
the banks President for the first five Package Insurance Scheme (Bhartiya
years.
Krishi Bima Yojana), the policy would
flaunt nine features with mandatory
23. Pension Fund Regulatory and crop insurance.
Development
Authoritys
(PFRDA)
Chairman Hemant Contractor has 28.
Manila-headquartered
Asian
announced that Non-resident Indians Development Bank (ADB) has a loan
(NRIs) can invest in National Pension pact worth USD 300 million with the
System (NPS) to get a social security government of India to support the
cover. RBI has communicated it to National
Urban
Health
Mission
PFRDA that NRIs are now eligible to (NUHM). The NUHM is aimed at
make such investments, however, the improving health status of the countrys
Central Government will come out with urban population. This will be ADBs
a clarification on the Foreign Exchange first health project in India. The loan
Management Act (FEMA) guidelines.
has been provided from the ADBs
Ordinary Capital Resources. It has a 2024. National Commodity and Derivatives year term and includes a grace period of
Exchange Ltd (NCDEX) has launched a 5 years.
mobile app named NCDEX App to give
anytime, anywhere access to prices and 29. Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB)
market information about commodities has launched a mobile banking app
traded on it. The online commodity Kotak Bharat to provide mobile banking
exchange has partnered with Trakinvest, services to customers in the remotest of
a Singapore based financial technology regions. The special thing about the App
firm, to develop this app.
is it requires no internet connectivity.
25. IT companies CSC and HCL The app is Android-based. It works on
Technologies have signed an agreement the existing SMS banking keyword
to form a banking software and services process platform.
company to provide technology services
and solutions to the banking industry.

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30. Union Cabinet has approved setting
up of an Online National Agriculture
Market that will provide more options to
farmers for selling their produce.
Decision in this regard was taken at a
Union Cabinet meeting presided by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New
Delhi.
31. Greece has become the first
developed
nation
to
default
on
International Monetary Fund (IMF) debt.
It has defaulted on a 1.7 billion dollars
payment to IMF. The deadline for debt
payment was missed by Greece after
Eurozone Finance Ministers refused to
extend its bailout.
32. Mahindra Defence Systems Limited,
a subsidiary of Mahindra Group and
Airbus Helicopter have inked pact to
form a joint venture (JV) company to
produce helicopters in India. In this
regard, both entities have signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) to
form a joint venture.

37. Union Ministry of Skill Development

and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
(MCF) signed MoUs to address the
Industrys need of Skilled Manpower.
These MoUs will enhance strategic tie
between both parties to scale up skill
development
and
entrepreneurship
initiatives in the country.
38. Healthcare firm Practo has acquired
Mumbai based Genii, a technology
services start-up focused on product
design and development. With this
acquisition, Geniis founders Varun
Vohra and Aditya Anand and their 11
member team will join Bengaluru based
Practo.

39. Union Ministry of Skill Development

and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has
signed
a
Memorandum
of
Understanding
(MoU)
with
Union
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
on skill development. The MoU seeks to
establish a framework for joint action to
address the need for skilled human
33. Indias seafood exports touched an resources in the health sector.
all-time high at 33,441 crore rupees
during the financial year 2014-15. The 40. India has in imposed definitive antidata was released by Marine Products dumping duty of 342.76 dollars per
Export Development Authority (MPEDA). tonne on all phenol imports on imports
As per data the marine product exports of Phenol from South Africa. This antifrom the country have crossed all time dumping duty will be valid for a period
high breaking previous records in of five years.
quantity, rupee value and dollar terms.
41. Union Ministry of Home Affairs
34. India and Kazakhstan launched the (MHA) has given nod to Chinese Telecom
first exploratory drilling at Satpayev oil manufacturer Huawei to set up a
block owned by Indias ONGC Videsh manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu for
Limited (OVL) and Kazakhstan company its components.
KazMunaiGaz.
42. The Cabinet Committee on
35. Adani Group has inked a Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved
memorandum of understanding (MoU) the creation of an Intra-state
with Tamil Nadu Government to set up Transmission System (ISTS) in 7 states
650 Mega Watt (MW) solar power plant across the country. The seven States are
in Ramanathapuram district.
Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh,
36. eMudhra Limited, a leading Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.
certifying firm in the country for digital
signatures launched first of its kind
eSign services in the country as part of
the Digital India Vision.
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43. Tata Advanced Systems Limited
(TASL) and US-based aircraft maker
Boeing
have
signed
a
strategic
framework agreement for aerospace and
defence manufacturing. The agreement
was signed by Sukaran Singh, MD &
CEO of TASL and Shelley Lavender,
President of Boeing Military Aircraft in
lines with Make in India in Hyderabad,
Telangana.

49. Reserve Bank of India has signed a

special currency swap agreement with
the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBS).
Under this agreement, Sri Lankan bank
can draw up to 1.1 billion dollars for a
maximum period of 6 months. It was
signed with an intention to mitigate the
possible currency volatility in the spirit
of strengthening bilateral relations and
economic ties of India with Sri Lanka.

44. The GOI has brought 39 more

Pharmaceutical drugs under price
control as part of its efforts to make
medicines affordable in the country. The
drugs brought under this price control
regime include the durgs which can be
used to treat diseases such as diabetes
and digestive disorders.

50. Mashable, a New York-based news

and blogging portal has joined hands
with India.com, a Zee Entertainment
Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) sponsored
website for the launching of its Indian
version in India.

45. Union Cabinet meeting chaired by

Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved
the redevelopment of 400 major railway
stations. This approval will enable the
Union Ministry of Railways to accelerate
the redevelopment of A-1 and A
category railway stations across the
country. These stations generally are
located
in
major
cities,
metros,
pilgrimage centres and important tourist
destinations.
46. Union Cabinet has given nod to
introduce composite foreign investment
cap in a bid to streamline the Foreign
Direct Investment (FDI) structure.
Decision in this regard was taken during
Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.

51. KFC and the Indian Railway

Catering and Tourism Corporation
(IRCTC) have entered into partnership to
launch a delivery system for commuters
on trains. Under e-catering service
initiatives commuters now can place
order for KFC meal while booking tickets
through IRTC website.
52. Indian pharmaceutical major Lupin
has acquired US based Gavis
Pharmaceuticals in cash-free and debtfree transaction for 880 million dollars
(around 5,606 crore rupees).
53. The Insurance Regulatory and
Development Authority of India (IRDAI)
have constituted three committees for
review of regulations in insurance
sector.

The life insurance committee will specifically

47. India and Russia have signed a work for the regulations in areas like
customs and liberalize business visas liabilities, assets and solvency margin and
agreement to boost trade between both
appointed actuary.
countries to remove the hindrances and
boost commerce.
48. European Union (EU) has approved
a short-term loan of 7.16 billion euros to
Greece after it was backed by the 28
member states. This loan will allow
Greece to pay its debt to European
Central
Bank
(ECB)
and
the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) till
new bailout plan is ratified.

The general insurance committee will

specifically work for the regulations in areas
like claim reserving and appointed actuary.
Reinsurance committee will specifically
work for the regulations on the issues
relating to registration of branches of foreign
reinsurers among others.

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54.Indias largest commodities exchange
platform, Multi Commodity Exchange of
India Limited (MCX) has signed a MoU
with the US based CME group to set its
operations in GIFT City in Gujarat.

60. Indias Kalyani Group and Israels Rafael

have partnered to produce Spike Anti-Tank
Guided Missiles (ATGM) in India.
In this regard both the entities have formed
a manufacturing Joint Venture (JV) and this
55. European Union (EU) has banned move is considered to deepen India-Israel
the marketing of around 700 generic strategic cooperation.
medicines among its member countries.
This is the largest suspension imposed
on the sales and distribution of generic
drugs ordered by EU which will come
into effect on August 21, 2015 and it will
be applicable to all 28 member nations.

61. Worlds second largest automaker

General Motors (GM) has announced to
invest USD 1 billion (6, 400 crore rupees) in
India by 2020 and has decided to close its
loss making plant at Halol, Gujarat.

56. A Bengaluru based gold Jewellery

manufacturing company Rajesh Exports
Ltd (REL) bought the worlds largest gold
refining company Valcambi from USbased mining company Newmont Mining
Corporation. REL had to fetch over 2560
crore rupees all in cash to buy Valcambi
refinery.

62. Department of Industrial Policy and

Promotion (DIPP) has given nod to Asian
Development Banks (ADB) and Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for
their conceptual development plan (CDP)
report on Vizag Chennai Industrial Corridor
(VCIC) and Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial
57. Maharashtra government has placed Corridor (CBIC) respectively.
a comprehensive plan to develop six
solar cities in order to add solar capacity
of 7,500 MW in the state. To enhance
solar capacity in country Centre has
planned to develop 55 solar cities across
the country among them six are from
Maharashtra these are Nagpur, Thane,
Aurangabad, Kalyan-Dombivli, Shirdi
and Nanded.

63. The two leading financial news

operations from Europe and Asia are now
together, as Nikkei Japanese media group is
going to buy the Financial Times from
Britains Pearson in a $1.3 billion.
64. Forbes Asia Fabulous 50 list released on
the eve of its 10th Anniversary has listed 10
Indian companies which stands second after
China in terms of number of companies
listed.

58. Israels largest drug maker Teva

Pharmaceutical agreed to buy generic
drugs business of Allergan Plc for USD
40.5 billion. According to the agreement
Teva will make cash payment of USD
33.75 billion and USD 6.75 billion of its Indian companies that made to the list are:
HDFC Bank, Tata Consultancy Services, HCL
stock for Allergan.
59. The Competition Commission of
India (CCI) has imposed fine of 420 crore
rupees on the local unit of Hyundai
Motor Co.
The fined was imposed after CCI
investigation had found that Hyundai
was
engaged
in
anti-competitive
practices.

Technologies, Aurobindo Pharma, Lupin, Sun

Pharma Industries, Motherson Sumi
Systems, Tech Mahindra, Tata Motors and
Titan.
South Korea has third highest number of
companies with four firms after China and
India.

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INDIAN AFFAIRS
1. India and the US have signed a
memorandum of understanding to set
up the Rs 50 crore PACE setter Fund. The
main objective of this fund is to give boost to
commercialization of innovation in off-grid
clean energy solutions. This is part of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and President
Barack
Obamas
commitment
to
strengthening and expanding the US-India
Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE).

6. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar

said the government is thinking of launching
an internet green channel and also provide
one hour programme on environment on
DD Kisan channel. The Government is
planning to go for online channel rather than
a dedicated television channel on
environment, as the later would require
huge investment.
7. Shri Narendra Modi flagged off the Digital
India initiative. Digital initiatives aims to
make all citizens digitally literate and bring
internet and e-governance to the houses of
all the Indians. The Prime Minister has
promised that Digital India has an
investments worth Rs 4.5 lakh crore and will
provide Rs. 18 lakh jobs.

2. The Union Cabinet has approved Pradhan

Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY). The
ambitious scheme aims at providing
irrigation facilities to every village in India by
converging ongoing irrigation schemes
implemented by various ministries. The
scheme with an outlay of Rs 50,000 crore
spread over a period of five years starting
from 2015-16.
8. The state government of Maharashtra has
signed a memorandum of understanding
3. Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal (MoU) with global technology major Cisco
has launched the state ePMS Portal or for making Nagpur a smart city and also a
Electronic Projects Management System safe city with the help of modern technology
portal to fast track infrastructural and use of Internet to improve quality of life.
development.
9. Government of India has launched a
4. Government of India has launched an mobile App m-Asset to know gram
online registration system for foreign panchayats assets. The app was launched by
employers who look for Indian workers. Union Rural Development and Minister
According to the Indian embassy in Abu Birender Singh on the occasion of Digital
Dhabi, all the foreign employers must India Week in New Delhi. The main objective
register in the eMigrate system, which will of this app is to provide people with the
be vetted by the Indian mission. After information related to assets of the gram
registration, the employer can raise the panchayats.
demand for Indian workers in the eMigrate
system and seek a permit to recruit either 10. Coal India Limited is going to set up five
directly or through recruiting agents online.
cancer detection centres in the mining belts
of five states ie Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh,
5. The nationwide Mobile Number West Bengal, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh.
Portability (MNP) has become operational
from July 3, 2015. This facility will allow
customers to keep their existing mobile
phone numbers while shifting between
states and circles.
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11. BSNL has launched a pre-paid card linked
mobile wallet service which would allow
the customers to transfer money, pay for
services as well as withdraw cash of up to Rs
1 lakh. The wallet service has been named as
Speed Pay, which allows a customer to load
money even if he does not have a bank
account.
12. The government of India has decided to
recognize the rag pickers and also to give
national award for their contribution to keep
India clean. The national award, with a cash
prize of Rs 1.5 lakh, will be given to three
best rag pickers and three associations
involved in innovation of best practices.
13. India and Mauritius have renewed the
existing MoU on hydrographic cooperation
for the next five years. This renewal would
pave the way for continued ties between the
two countries. The MoU was renewed during
the IXth Hydrographic Committee meeting
held at Mauritius from June 29 to July 1.

16. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)Bombay and Nehru Science Centre have
launched a pilot project Internet for All in
its Mobile Science Exhibition Bus in Mumbai.
It was launched under the aegis of the Union
Governments flagship Digital India
campaign.
17. Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar
Prabhu has release the 50000th Coach
manufactured by Integral Coach Factory
(ICF), Chennai via video conferencing. The
Minister also announced Rs 5 lakh reward
for ICF staff for attaining the milestone of
rolling out 50,000th coach.
18. Amit Shah on 7th July 2015 launched the
book Transcendence. The book is written
by former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in
Ahmedabad. The book takes the reader to
the Mr. Kalams spiritual experiences with
Pramaukh Swami Maharaj.

19. Indian Coast Guard on 6th July 2015

started ICGS Rani Durgavati, the 3rd
14. According to the UNICEFs Rapid Survey Inshore Patrol Vessel (IPV) of its kind, at the
on Children in India, the number of Coast Guard district headquarters.
underweight children had fallen to a historic
low from 48 per cent in 2004-05 to 39 per The IPV, designed by Hindustan Shipyard Ltd
cent in 2013-14 in the case of stunting and is equipped with the most-sophisticated
from 42.5 per cent to 30 per cent in the case navigational communication sensors and
of underweight children.
equipment.
15. According to a survey conducted by
global property consultant Jones Lang
LaSalle (JLL) Bangalore has been ranked 12th
in the list of top 20 technology-rich cities in
the world.

20. According to the World Bank Report,

Indias rural employment guarantee
programme MGNREGA has been ranked as
the worlds largest public works programme.
The scheme provides social security net to
almost 15% of Indias population.

Bangalore has helped India debut on the

City Momentum Index Top 20 list an 21. Food safety regulator FSSAI has finalised
annual survey carried out by JLL globally.
12,000 standards for food additives and
ingredients in line with global safety
standards Codex, established by the United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation
and World Health Organisation.

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22. Food safety regulator FSSAI has finalised
12,000 standards for food additives and
ingredients in line with global safety
standards Codex, established by the United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation
and World Health Organisation. At present,
there are 375 FSSAI safety standards for
food items but none for food additives and
ingredients.
23. According to a research paper by India
Meteorological Department (IMD) scientist,
12 east coast districts in India are very
highly prone and 41 are highly prone to
cyclones in the country. Four states West
Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil
Nadu-and one UT Puducherry on the east
coast, and Gujarat on the west coast are
more vulnerable to the Tropical Cyclones.
24. India has test-fired its indigenously
developed Nag anti tank missile from a
helicopter at a firing range in Jaisalmer in
Rajasthan. Three-round trial of helicopterlaunched Nag (HeliNa) missile were
conducted at the Chandhan firing range.
25. Police verification for issue/renewal of
passports is going online, and the existing
time shall be cut from 20 days to less than a
week. The home ministry will allow all SPlevel police officers access to databases such
as,
1. National Population Register (NPR)
2. Aadhaar and Electoral Photo I-Card via the
Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System
(CCTNS) to enable online verification of
identity, address and criminal record, if any,
of the passport applicant.

26. According to the HSBC Report, India has

pipped China to drive the smartphone
volume growth in the world. The main
reasons are falling prices of high-end devices
and growing adoption of 3G services. The
report says China was the volume growth
engine since 2013. As Chinas smartphone
penetration having reached 95% in 2014,
further growth will be derived from other
emerging countries.
27. A tiny butterfly species has been
discovered in the verdant forests of the
Changlang district in Arunachal Pradesh. The
butterfly has been named as the Banded Tit
(Hypolycaena Narada). The Banded Tit is a
denizen of low-lying evergreen forests of
Changlang and has an interesting life cycle.
28. Reliance Industries has decided to
replace .com to .JIO as a generic top-level
domain (gTLD) and it will be used across the
Reliance empire. It is being treated as the
worlds largest fourth-generation mobile
telephony launch with an investment of Rs
1-lakh crore.
29. For the first time in India, an earthquake
early warning system has been installed in
Uttarakhand, where researchers can
predicte an earthquake of magnitude 8 or
greater. It will issue warnings 1-40 seconds
before earthquakes of magnitude 5 occur.
30. Defence PSU Bharat Electronics made
Akash missile has been inducted into Indian
Air Force at a ceremony held at Air Force
Station, Gwalior. The missile system can
target aircraft upto 30 km away, at altitudes
upto 18,000 metres. It has the capability to
neutralise aerial targets like fighter jets,
cruise missiles and air-to-surface missiles.

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31. The total number of telephone
connections in India has crossed the record
one billion mark in May, bolstered by growth
in number of mobile users. According to the
data released by TRAI, at the end of May,
total number of telephone connections
stood at 1,002.05 million, of which 975.78
million connections were wireless or mobile.
32. India is among those countries which has
the second highest millionaire outflow, or
number of Indian HNWIs ( high net-worth
individuals), but with a rapid speed these
ricie- rich are moving out of the country,.
This was revealed by a new report from New
World Wealth, a global wealth sector
information consulting services firm.
33. Justice R.M. Lodha Committee,
appointed by the Supreme Court, has
suspended IPL cricket teams Chennai Super
Kings and Rajasthan Royals from the league
for two years. The committee has declared
that the spirit of cricket is larger than
individuals, their cricket franchises or
financial losses.
34. India and Georgia have signed a MoU for
cooperation in the field of election
management and administration. The MoU
was signed by Dr. Nasim Zaidi, Chief Election
Commissioner (CEC) of India and Ms. Tamar
Zhvania, Chairperson, Central Election
Commission of Georgia in New Delhi.
35. USA on 15th july 2015 presented the
2015 Asia Pacific Economic Development
Innovation for Policy and Program
Implementation Excellence Award in
Manufacturing to Department of Industrial
Policy and Promotion (DIPP) for the Make in
India initiative.

37. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has

launched his most ambitious National Skill
Development Mission, with a aim of gaining
skills and promoting entrepreneurship
among youth. The Centre has set a target of
training 40.2 crore people by 2022.
Aim of the National Skill Development
Mission
1. To generate employment.
2. To educate the poor.
3. To make India A literal Country.
4. To provide youth with maximum
opportunities.
38. IOC on 15th July 2015 bagged the
Leading Oil & Gas Corporate of the Year
award for the fourth time in eight years at
the annual Petrofed Awards . It also bagged
the Oil & Gas Marketing Company of the
Year and the Human Resources
Management Company of the Year awards
which were presented by Petroleum
Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
39. The Central Governments Department
of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has
approved a proposal from the Kerala
Industrial Infrastructure Development
Corporation to set up Indias first defence
industrial park at Ottappalam. It will have
modern common infrastructure facilities
aimed at attracting component
manufacturers in the defence industry. The
project will be established as part of the
Make in India, Make in Kerala project.

40. The Cabinet Committee on Economic

Affairs (CCEA) has given their nod for the
creation of an Intra-state Transmission
System (ISTS) in 7 states across the country.
The Seven states are, Andhra Pradesh,
36. The Governing Council of the Champions Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya
League Twenty20 has confirmed that the Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Himachal Pradesh.
CLT20 competition will be discontinued with
immediate effect. The decision pf Governing
Council took the decision unanimously.
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41. The Ministry of Railways has notified
some new rules pertaining to purchase of
Takal tickets. Under the new rules,
passengers booking Tatkal tickets from
computerized reservation counters will no
longer be required to furnish photocopy of
identity proof or to indicate its number at
the time of booking at the counter or
through internet.
42. The GOI has raised the daily minimum
wage from Rs. 137 to Rs. 160. This goes into
effect from July 2015 and is the first time in
2 years that the minimum wage has been
altered.
43. Indian roads were at their deadliest in
2014 claiming more than 16 lives every hour
on average. Over 1.41 lakh people died in
crashes, 3% more than the number of
fatalities in 2013. The numbers of crashes
and of people left injured stands at 4.5 lakh
and 4.8 lakh respectively.

46. According to the official data released by

National Crime Records Bureau, Bhopal is
Indias suicide and road accident capital. The
data shows that the city recorded 56.6
suicides per 1 lakh population, and 95 road
accident deaths for every lakh motor
vehicles the highest rate among 53 mega
cities.
47. Animal rights activists have urged the
central government to ban export of buffalo
meat even as they lauded Union ministry of
commerces recent statement that export of
beef has been prohibited in accordance with
countrys foreign trade policy.
48. India is working on creating a strategic
uranium reserve to ensure its atomic power
reactors do not face shortage of the crucial
nuclear fuel. The reserve pool could be
anywhere between 5000 MT to 15,000 MT
which can last for 5-10 years.
49. According to the National Crime Records
Bureau (NCRB) report, 28,360 cases of
railway accidents were reported in 2014,
showing a decrease of 9.2% compared to
2013 (31,236 cases). Over 25,000 people
died and 3,882 were injured in railway
accidents in 2014.

44. The government of India is going to issue

an order putting a ban on use, sale and
purchase of plastic-made national flags in
the country. In March, the Bombay High
Court had asked Maharashtra Government
to come up with a comprehensive policy to
ensure a ban on use, sale and purchase of
national flags made of plastic.
Maharashtra reported the maximum such
cases, accounting for 42.5% of total cases of
45. Government of India has launched the all fall from train or collision of trains with
India Railway Helpline Number 1512. people.
Passengers can report any illegal act
observed while travelling in trains instantly 50. Kerala government and Adani Ports have
and get an FIR registered without decided to sign the construction agreement
interrupting their journey. Delhi Police has of Vizhinjam port. The decision was taken at
launched the service and it is available 24 x a meeting by chief minister Oommen
7. The special thing about this service it it Chandy with Adani Ports Officials. The port,
will not only register the complaint, but also a long pending project of the state, was first
inform the Government Railway Police proposed in 1991, but did not materialise
guards present on the train and the local due to various reasons. The estimated cost
of the project is Rs 7,500 crore which
police station of the area.
includes investments made by the Kerala
government.

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51. Shri Radha Mohan Singh, Union
Agriculture Minister launched 3 web portals
viz. Soil Health Card portal, Fertiliser Quality
Control System portal and Participatory
Guarantee System.
Soil Health Card Portal
1. Developed for registration of soil samples,
recording test results of soil samples and
generation of Soil Health Card (SHC) along
with Fertilizer Recommendations.
2. It promotes uniform adoptions of codes
for e.g. Census Codes for locations.
Fertilizer Quality Control System Portal

53. Government of India has launched the

Surakshit Khadya Abhiyan, a nation wide
campaign, to create mass awareness and
capacity building for safe and hygienic food.
The campaign was launched by Union
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and
Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan.
54. After the hugely successful Mars Orbiter
Mission, which completed 300 days in the
Martian orbit on July 21st, India is now
planning a mission to Venus and even an
asteroid for exploration. Kiran Kumar, the
Chairman said, ISRO is planning to revisit the
red planet with Mangalyaan-2 mission
scheduled in 2018.

1. The FQCS application will lead to

automation of most of the manual activities
as listed above and help in online tracking
the status of the sample.

55. Government has decided to update the

National Population Register (NPR) and seed
the Aadhaar number in the NPR database.
The MoS for Home Haribhai Parathibhai
Chaudhary told Rajya Sabha that the
2. The role based access to the system for initiative would cost Rs 951.35 crore and the
users and computerized generation of field work would be completed by March
sample code no. have been provided for the 2016.
purpose of security.
56. According to the Home Ministry, more
than 10,000 NGOs licences cancelled by
Participatory Guarantee System
Central Government till March 2015 for
1. Participatory Guarantee System is a violating foreign funding norms. After
process of certifying organic products which inspections and scrutiny of accounts, 15
ensures agriculture production process in cases were referred to CBI and 10 to states
accordance with the standards laid down for for further investigation and prosecution.
organic products and that desired quality has Accounts of 23 associations have been
frozen.
been maintained.
57. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will
inaugurate the Mai Bhago Armed Forces
Preparatory Institute at Mohali on July 25.
The institute, set up on the line of Maharaja
Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory
52. PM Modi has launched the National Institute, will impart specialized training to
Career Service Portal as part of an females aspiring to join the National Defence
endeavour to modernise all government-run Academy (NDA).
employment exchanges. The portal was
launched under the aegis of National Career
Service project of Union Ministry of Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship.
2. It has been implemented to promote
domestic organic market growth and also to
enable small and marginal farmer to have
easy access to organic certification.

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58. GOI has proposed to transfer fertilizer
subsidy directly into farmers accounts and is
planning a road map for the pilot project. A
major challenge in operationalising this
scheme lies in identification of beneficiary
farmers as in many states the land records
are neither accurate nor updated.

63. According to the US Green Building

Council (USGBC), India ranks third in the
annual ranking of the top 10 countries for
Leadership in Energy & Environmental
Design (LEED) certified buildings. LEED is a
widely used green building rating system.
LEED is a set of rating systems for the design,
construction, operation, and maintenance of
59. The Cabinet Committee of Economic green buildings. Canada and China are on
Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister the top two positions in this list respectively.
Narendra Modi, has approved the proposal
of the Union Home Ministry to extend the 64. Union environment minister Prakash
deadline for implementation of Crime and Javadekar said that toxic air in Delhi is killing
Criminals Tracking network and Systems at least 80 people every day. According to
(CCTNS) project to March 2017.
the study, 45% of premature deaths linked
to air pollution in Delhi could be avoided if
60. The Central Government has announced the city met the national ambient air quality
that 14 Indian States and Union Territories standard for PM 2.5 that is 60 micrograms
(UTs) have achieved or exceeded the literacy per cubic metre.
rate of 80%. The announcement has been by
Union Human Resource Development 65. The Supreme Court has permitted the
Minister Smriti Irani in a written reply to the states to exercise their power to remit the
Lok Sabha.
sentences of life convicts if they have
already served more than 14 years of
The 14 States and UTs are:
Kerala, imprisonment. The SC had on July 14 last
Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, year restrained the states from releasing
Daman and Diu, Andaman and Nicobar lifers after remitting their sentences while
Islands, NCR of Delhi, Chandigarh, staying Tamil Nadu governments decision to
Puducherry,
Himachal
Pradesh, release Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
convicts on the ground that they had served
Maharashtra, Sikkim and Tamil Nadu.
more than 22 years in prison.
61. Prime Minister Narendra Modis Smart
City initiative got its first nomination from 66. The Supreme Court has directed all
Puducherry, a former French colony, which prisons to install CCTV cameras to deter
was awarded 75 out of a potential 100 human rights abuse. It also said that a similar
points by the High Powered Steering facility should be provided for lockups if
Committee. The Government of Union possible. The top court bench of Justice TS
Territory of Puducherry has nominated its Thakur and Justice R Banumathi in their
capital city for inclusion in the 100 Smart judgement said that CCTV cameras should
Cities Mission launched on the 25th of June be installed in the prisons within one year
but not later than two years.
2015.
62. Six new species of spiders have been
discovered around banks of river Periyar in
Kerala. The team has found a spider species
named Argyrodes which belongs to the most
famous and venomous spider family black
widow.

67. The Central Government has announced

that foreign direct investment or FDI
amounting to $1.31 million has been
received in the defence sector in last three
years (since 2012) and current year.

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68. Under the Development of Solar Cities
Programme of the union ministry of new and
renewable energy (MNRE), six cities in
North-East India will be developed as Solar
Cities. The six cities are Guwahati and Jorhat
in Assam, Kohima and Dimapur in Nagaland,
Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh and Agartala
in Tripura.
69. SC has Refused to entertain plea of an
Islamic organisation that Muslim girl
applicants be allowed to wear hijab in All
India Pre-Medical Entrance Test on 25th July
2015.
70. Security agencies have launched a special
operation Lal Quila, in which trained dog
squads will be deployed to sanitise and
ensure fool-proof security at the Red Fort
and adjoining areas for Independence Day
celebrations on August 15. The operation is
being spearheaded by the elite dog squad of
paramilitary force ITBP with 20 dogs,
followed by those from the Army and Delhi
police.

73. The Election Commission of India has

remembered APJ Abdul Kalam as its first
national icon for voter awareness. The EC
noted APJ championed the cause of greater
participation and use of electronic means in
holding of free and fair elections.
74. The GOI has announced that the
Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan will be renamed
as APJ Abdul Kalam Rashtriya Avishkar
Abhiyan in memory of the former president.
Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan is a unique
concept developed by the Ministry of
Human Resource Development.
75. The Competition Commission of India
(CCI) has imposed a fine of Rs 420 crore on
the local unit of Hyundai Motor Co as it was
engaged in anti-competitive practices. The
CCI has notified Hyundai to deposit the
penalty within 60 days from the order date.

76. Karnataka, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya

Pradesh, Goa and Andhra Pradesh are in the
forefront of Swachh Bharat campaign, which
is related to generating awareness about the
71. Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi Swachh Bharat Mission in urban areas.
launched the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram
Jyoti Yojana for power sector reforms in 77. Gujarat has become the first Indian state
rural areas. The main aim is to ensure the to introduce compulsory voting for local
proper electricity supply to farmers and rural body elections. The state government had
households. The earlier scheme for rural issued a notification on the amended
electrification, Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment)
Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY), which was Act,2009, approved by Governor last year.
launched by previous UPA government, has
been subsumed in the new scheme as its 78. The United Nations has said that India is
expected to surpass China to become the
rural electrification component.
worlds most populous country by 2022.
72. Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis has China and India remain the two largest
inaugurated the first of the six new Indian countries in the world, representing 19 and
Institutes of Management in Nagpur. The 18 per cent of the worlds population,
proposal of setting up of six IIMs was made respectively.
by Narendra Modi government last year. It is
Maharashtras first IIM and is being
mentored by IIM Ahmedabad. It will start its
first batch with 60 students from a
temporary campus in Visvesvaraya National
Institute of Technology.
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79. Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, the only
covict in 1993 blast, has finally been put to
death in Nagpur Hail on 30th July 2015. He
moved to the Supreme Court on 29th June
2015 hoping for a last-minute reprieve. He
pleaded for stay on his execution, which has
been scheduled for July 30, on the ground
that Maharashtra governor Ch Vidyasagar
Rao must be allowed time to decide on his
mercy plea.

82. According to the study conducted by

Brand Finance India, Tata remains the most
valuable brand in India. The brand value has
exceeded US$15 billion for the first time.
Tata is the worlds 65th most valuable brand.
Among the top 10 includes Tata is followed
by SBI, LIC, Airtel, Reliance, Indian Oil,
Infosys, L&T, HCL and ONGC. A total of 20%
of the brands in this years Brand Finance
India 100 are new entries.

80. The Capital Market Regulator Securities

and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has
cancelled the certificate of registration of
Sahara Mutual Fund after finding that the
fund house and its sponsors are not fit and
proper entities to carry out the mutual fund
business.

83. Bharat Heavy Electronics Limited (BHEL)

has signed three strategic agreements with
Kazakhstan companies in order to deepen its
roots in Central Asia.

84. The government has decided to infuse

capital to the tune of Rs 20,000 crore in
public sector banks, Financial Services
81. Department of Industrial Policy and Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said. 50%, or Rs
Promotion (DIPP) has given nod to Asian 10,000 crore of this money will find its way
Development Banks (ADB) and Japan to "weak" banks.
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for
their conceptual development plan (CDP) 85. Rajendra Srivastava, the Provost and
report on Vizag Chennai Industrial Corridor Deputy President and Professor of
(VCIC) and Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Marketing at Singapore Management
University, will be the next Dean of Indian
Corridor (CBIC) respectively.
School of Business (ISB) with effect from
January 1, 2016.

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
1. Bangladesh and China have signed an
agreement with respect to the construction
of a 3.5-km tunnel under the Karnaphuli
River in Chittagong. The estimated cost of
the project is $ 1 billion. Bangladeshs
Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges
signed the deal with China Communications
Construction Company in Beijing, ministry
spokesperson Abu Naser.

5. The UN Human Rights body has adopted a

resolution on addressing the human rights
situation of Rohingya Muslims and other
minorities in Myanmar. The resolution has
condemned the systematic gross violations
of rights and abuses committed against all,
including Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine
State. It urges the Myanmar government to
grant full citizenship rights to them.

2. According to the report from World

Health Organization, Cuba has become the
first country in the world to stamp out
transmission of HIV and syphilis from a
mother to her child. WHO defines
elimination of transmission as reduction
of transmission to such a low level that it no
longer constitutes a public health problem.
In 2013, only two babies were born with HIV
and five with congenital syphilis.

6. India has abstained from voting on a

resolution on Palestine adopted at the UN
rights body that calls for accountability by
parties involved in conflict in Gaza. Although
India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Paraguay and
Macedonia abstained, the resolution was
adopted as 41 countries voted in its favour.
7. US secretary of defence Ash Carter met
with French defence minister Jean-Yves Le
Drian at the Pentagon, to strengthen
cooperation with the aim to fight against the
Islamic State (IS). Carter commended France
for its commitment in the fight to deliver a
lasting defeat to IS. Earlier this year, France
deployed its aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
to the Persian Gulf to support counter-IS
airstrikes.

3. The six world powers (the UK, China,

France, Russia, the US and Germany) and
Iran have come to an agreement to extend
the nuclear deal on Tehrans nuclear
program until July 7 to allow more time for
talks to reach a final deal. This decision was
taken during the talks between these
nations held in the Vienna, Austria after the
deadline expired on 30 June 2015.
8. Warren Buffett, the third wealthiest man
in the World, has donated about $2.84
4. Scientists have identified two drugs for billion of Berkshire Hathaway Inc stock to
the treatment of deadly Middle East the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and
Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus. The four family charities, as part of the
name of the two promising drugs are- billionaires plan to give away nearly all of his
REGN3051 and REGN3048 which have wealth. This is Buffetts 10th annual
shown ability to neutralise the MERS virus.
donation and the largest, taking his total
contributions to the charities to more than
This research took place in collaboration $21.5bn.
with biopharmaceutical company Regeneron
which is situated in New York.

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9. China has developed and commissioned a
fixed-wing, anti-submarine patrol aircraft
similar to the United States P-3C Orion. The
Chinese navy has got a four-engine Gaoxin-6,
anti-submarine aircraft developed and
manufactured by Aviation Industry Corp of
China. It has been delivered to the Beihai
or North Sea Fleet of the Peoples
Liberation Army navy.

14. Super typhoon Chan-hom waved

towards eastern China in Shanghai on 11th
July 2015,leading to evacuation of more than
865,000 people. The powerful storm could
be the strongest typhoon to make landfall in
Zhejiang province.

15. Tunisias status as a non-NATO ally of

the United States has been approved on
10th July 2015. This important decision was
10. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka in taken by US State Department. Now, Tunisia
the first week of July 2015 achieved has become the 16th country to become a
Guinness World Records for spending most part of NATO ally of United States.
number of days in the space. He achieved
this title by spending 804 days on the 16. President Pranab Mukherjee has
International Space Station (ISS). He announced that India strongly supports
surpassed cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, record Iraqs
territorial
integrity
and
its
of 803 days, nine hours and 41 minutes in governments efforts to overcome the
the space which Sergei achieved across six current ISIS crisis.
missions from 1998 to 2005.
17. A historic deal was done on 14th July
11. Paytm is the latest company to jump on 2015 which aims at ensuring that Iran does
the person-to-person (P2P) money transfer not obtain the nuclear bomb, opening up
bandwagon. Mobile payment firms like M- Tehrans stricken economy and potentially
Pesa and Oxigen, and certain banks are also ending decades of bad blood with the West.
joining the pararde to offer ease and
convenience of the cashless mode and Irans nuclear ambitions after repeated
promote
cash-less
and
paperless diplomatic failures and threats of military
action. US President Barack Obama said the
transactions while making payments.
deal meant every pathway to a nuclear
12. India and Pakistan have decided to revive weapon is cut off.
the stalled dialogue process and find ways to
expedite trial of the Mumbai attack case. 18. The worlds oldest Koran fragments have
The leaders of both countries agreed to been found by the University of Birmingham.
cooperate to eliminate terrorism from South Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to
Asia. Mr. Modi and Mr. Sharif met for nearly be at least 1,370 years old, making it among
one hour in Ufa on the sidelines of the the earliest in existence.
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
Summit.
19. Defence Secretary Ashton Carter
announced that the United States has
13. WhatsApp could soon be banned in the decided to end its ban on transgender
United Kingdom, owing to the strict laws on soldiers serving in the armed forces.
social media and online messaging services. According to the current regulations,
UK PM David Cameron is now looking at new transgender service members are outdated
legislation that plans to stop people from and causie uncertainty that distracts
sending any form of encrypted messages. commanders from core missions.
The popular messaging services in the UK are
WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat.
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20. Film-maker Benoy Behl in fourth week of
July 2015 won the Best Documentary
Producer award at Madrid International Film
Festival. He was awarded for producing and
directing a documentary film titled Indian
Roots of Tibetan Buddhism.

26. Japan, the worlds sixth biggest

greenhouse gas polluter, has pledged to cut
emissions 26 per cent from 2013 levels by
2030, a target observers judged inadequate
to avert calamitous global warming. In order
to achieve this goal, nuclear energy, deeply
unpopular and offline since the 2011
21. PayPal Holdings, Inc., the digital tsunami-induced Fukushima disaster, must
payments company, has separated from provide about 20-22 per cent of electricity
eBay, the e-commerce company that production.
acquired PayPal in 2002 for $1.5 billion. It is
now an independent public company trading 27. According to the US Energy Information
on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol Administration (EIA), China is expected to
PYPL.
become the worlds third largest nuclear
generating country by 2017 surpassing South
22. The UN Security Council has unanimously Korea and Japan. China is expected to
adopted a resolution that endorses the surpass South Korea and Russia in nuclear
landmark nuclear deal between Iran and six generating capacity by the end of 2015,
world powers. The historical deal paves the overtake Japan around 2017 and to be
way for lifting the crippling sanctions behind only after the US and France.
imposed by the world body against Tehran.
Representatives of all 15 countries on the 28. Agile Spirit 2015 the NATOs military
Security Council voted by raising their hands. training has ended on July 22 2015 in
Vaziani, Georgia. American, Bulgarian,
23. According to an analysis by the Global Romanian, Lithuanian and Latvian military
Finance Magazine, the top three richest personnel were participated along with
countries in the World are Qatar, Georgia Battalion 42 in the military
Luxembourg and Singapore. The magazine exercises.
has determined the poorest and richest ones
based on data from the IMF. The Democratic 29. China has started assembling the Worlds
Republic of Congo is at the other end of the largest radio telescope, whose dish has the
spectrum and has been the poorest country size of 30 football grounds. The telescope is
in the world over the 2010-2013 period.
being assembled in the mountains of
southwest Guizhou Province to enhance its
24. China has started assembling the worlds ability to observe outer space. The fivelargest sea plane which it plans to deploy in hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio
the disputed South China Sea. China Aviation Telescope (FAST) nestles in a bowl-shaped
Industry General Aircraft Co is developing valley.
the aircraft, which has received 17 domestic
orders for what will be the worlds largest 30. Chinese scientists have successfully
sea plane.
tested the power system of a Long March-5
carrier rocket scheduled for flight in 2016.
25. The United States and Cuba have The fifth-generation launch vehicle of the
reopened embassies in each others Long March family, has entered a runoff
countries for the first time in 54 year. This phase. The rocket will have a payload
historical move has restored their full capacity of 25 tonnes to low Earth orbits, or
diplomatic ties.
14 tonnes to geostationary transfer orbit,
about twice the current capacity.
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31. China has began its construction of the
sixth unit of the Hongyanhe plant in Liaoning
province. China has taken the number of
nuclear power units under construction to
26 and making it the largest expansion of
nuclear power in the world. As per the
strategic
action
plan
2014-2020
announced by the Chinese government, the
installed nuclear power capacity will reach
58,000 megawatts by 2020.

34. China will press its Supercomputer

Skyeye-1, capable of a quadrillion computing
operations per second, to support space
exploration by the worlds largest radio
telescope being built in its Guizhou Province.

33. China has become the Worlds largest

potato producer, accounting for nearly a
quarter of the global production. The most
populous country is also the largest
consumer of Potato.

36. Kazakhstan became 162th member of

WTO or World Trade Organization. The
agreement was signed between the WTO
Director General Robert Azevedo and
Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev
at Geneva.

35. The Gadhimai festival, the worlds largest

animal sacrifice held in Nepal, will see no
more bloodshed as animal sacrifice has now
been banned. The Gadhimai Temple Trust
has put an end to a religious practice that
32. The European Union has banned the had been continuing for the last 300 years.
marketing of around 700 generic medicines The festival is held for every five years.
for alleged manipulation of clinical trials
conducted by Indias pharmaceutical In 2009, more than five lakh animals
research company GVK Biosciences. The including goats, buffaloes and chickens were
largest EU-wide suspension of sales and slaughtered at the Gadhimai festival, though
distribution of generic drugs ordered by the the number reportedly fell in the festival
European Commission.
held last year to about 1 lakh

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. A Russian booster Soyuz-U rocket has
5. Presidents of the United States of America
been successfully launched an unmanned
and Brazil have issued a joint statement on
cargo ship to the International Space Station
(ISS). The crew is anxiously awaiting it after climate change in Washington, the USA.
USA will reduce GHG emissions by 26
the successive failures of two previous
supply missions. A Soyuz-U rocket blasted off
percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels
flawlessly from Russia-leased Baikonur
in 2025. Brazil intends to restore and
launch pad in Kazakhstan.
reforest 12 million hectares of forests by
2030.
2. A new study has found that, Sahara desert
The USA and Brazil each intend to
contained the worlds largest freshwater
lake until it evaporated in just a few hundred
increase the share of renewables
years. Researchers from the University of
beyond hydropower in their respective
London used satellite images to map
electricity generation mixes to the level
abandoned shore lines around Palaeolake
of 20 percent by 2030.
Mega-Chad. They had analysed sediments to
Both the countries agreed to work
calculate the age of these shore lines,
producing a lake level history spanning the
multilaterally in the Montreal Protocol
last 15,000 years.
to consider promptly amendment
proposals to phase down HFCs.
3. British Astronomers have uncovered five
Supermassive black holes that were
6. Indian Space Research Organisation
previously hidden by clouds of dust and gas. (ISRO) has successfully launched its heaviest
commercial mission at 9.45 pm (July 10
The discovery has suggested that millions
2015). PSLV-C28 carried five British satellites
more could be similarly undetected.
takes-off smoothly from Sriharikota.
4. As part of Digital India Week, the Centre
for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)
has launched four new products. They are
1.
2.
3.
4.

Solar powered Wi-Fi hotspots

Long distance Wi-Fi
Next Generation Network solution
100 Gbps optical fibre cable

7. The National Dairy Development Board

(NDDB) has launched a mobile application
called Pashu Poshan. The mobile app will
recommend a balanced diet for cows and
buffaloes to help boost dairy farmers
income by raising milk yield and cutting feed
cost.

Payload

Three identical DMC3 satellites, built by

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) in the
UK

Technology demonstrator CBNT1

Technology demonstrator De-OrbitSail

The total weight of the satellites and launch

vehicle is 1,450kg.

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8. Airbus flew its electric plane across the
English Channel for the first time on 10th
July 2015. Amid fanfare, European
planemaker Airbus flew its E-fan plane from
Lydd, England, to the French port of Calais.
The plane operates exclusively on batteries,
and since theres no oil or water, the 20-foot
long, 1300-pound jet releases zero
emissions.

11. A new supersonic luxury plane that fly

people from New York to London in just
three hours is on its way as it is
being developed by a team of engineers,
including those of Indian-origin. Bostonbased Spike Aerospaces S-512 Supersonic
Jet was introduced in 2013, but the company
recently announced a few updates to the
planes design.

9. NASA has named the first four astronauts

who will fly on the first U.S. commercial
spaceflights in private crew transportation
vehicles being built by Boeing and
SpaceX. They are

12. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said

the world was headed for a generation
free of AIDS, after UNAIDS reported a 35percent drop in new HIV infections from 15
years ago.

1.
2.
3.
4.

The positive news was also coupled with

calls for more funding, with the objective of
eliminating the virus by 2030.

Robert Behnken
Eric Boe
Douglas Hurley
Sunita Williams.

10. Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi

Raju has launched the GPS-Aided Geo
Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system.
This indigenously developed system will
make airline operations more efficient and
reduce costs. GAGAN will offer seamless
navigation to the aviation industry. GAGAN
will provide augmentation service for GPS
over the country, Bay of Bengal, South East
Asia and Middle East expanding up to Africa.
11. Government of Sri Lanka inked a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
search engine giant Google to launch the
Google Loon project in the country. As per
the MoU, Google will place 13 high-altitude
balloons over the island nation to provide
affordable high-speed 3G (3rd Generation)
internet services to the entire country.

13. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said

the world was headed for a generation
free of AIDS, after UNAIDS reported a 35percent drop in new HIV infections from 15
years ago. The positive news was also
coupled with calls for more funding, with the
objective of eliminating the virus by 2030.
14. Scientists working at the worlds biggest
atom smasher say they have discovered a
new kind of particle called pentaquark.
The European Organisation for Nuclear
Research, or CERN, says the discovery was
made by a team working on one of the four
experiments at the Large Hadron Collider
beneath the Swiss-French border.
15. A new species of cyprinid freshwater fish
named Puntius Dolichopterus has been
discovered in Kayamkulam, Kerela by
Mathews Plamoottil. Mathew is a head of
the department of zoology in Baby John
Memorial Government College of Kollam
district.

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16. ISRO has announced that, Indias first
indigenously designed and developed highthrust cryogenic rocket engine generating a
nominal thrust of 19 tonnes has been
successfully endurance hot-tested for 800
seconds. The engine will be used for
powering the Cryogenic stage (C25), the
upper stage of the next generation GSLV MkIII launch vehicle of ISRO, capable of
launching four-tonne class satellites.
17. Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts
was launched towards the International
Space Station after a two-month delay
caused by a Russian rocket failure. The
spacecraft blasted off on schedule from
Russias Baikonur cosmodrome in the barren
Kazakh steppe. The three are cosmonaut
Oleg Kononenko, US astronaut Kjell Lindgren
and Kimiya Yui of Japan. After around six
hours from the launch, it is announced that
the space capsule has been successfully
docked at the International Space Station
(ISS).
18. A British pensioner has become the first
person in the world to be fitted with a bionic
eye to fix the most common form of
blindness in a landmark operation. He is the
first person in the world to have both
artificial and natural vision combined.

19. NASA has announced that its Kepler

spacecraft has spotted Earths bigger, older
cousin: the first nearly Earth-size planet to
be found in the habitable zone of a star
similar to our own. The planet, Kepler-452b,
is about 1,400 light-years from Earth in the
constellation Cygnus. Its about 60% bigger
than Earth. Researchers Kepler-452bs
atmosphere would probably be thicker than
Earths, and it would have active volcanoes.
It takes 385 days for the planet to orbit its
star.
20. The worlds first malaria vaccine,
Mosquirix has cleared one of the final
hurdles as it received a positive scientific
opinion from European regulators. The
vaccine now awaits approval from the WHO
before it could be administered within the
next few years across Africa. The vaccine,
named Mosquirix, gets regulatory nod by
London-based European Medicines Agency
after more than 30 years of research.
21. Researchers at the University of
California have used CRISPR/Cas9 a popular
genome editing technique to precisely
modify a key type of human immune cell
that protects the body against a wide range
of diseases, from diabetes to AIDS to cancer.
22. After so much hype and expectation
Microsoft has launched its new operating
system Windows 10. It will be available as
free upgrade or with new PCs and tablets.
The phone version will be available at a later
time.

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SPORTS
Winner
Abhijeet Gupta
Chile defeated Argentia
Unites States defeated Japan
Lewis Hamilton
India defeated Sri Lanka
Inderjeet Singh won Gold
Serena Williams defeated
Spains Garbine Muguruza
Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis
defeated Russina pair
Makarova-Vesnina
Novak Djokovic defeated
Roger Federer
Leander Paes and
Switzerlands Martina Hingis
defeated Alexander Peya of
Austria and Timea Babos of
Hungary
Shubham Jaglan
Sangram Singh

Ansh Arora
Shubham Jaglan
Chris Froome
Sebastian Vettel
Indian Oil Corporation
Defeated Army XI
Mexico defeated Jamaica
Amitoj Chhabra

Title
th

19 Common Wealth Chess

Championship
Copa America Crown
FIFA Womens World Cup
British Grand Prix
South Asian Basketball
Championship
Athletics
Wimbledon Championship
(Womens Singles)
Wimbledon Championship
(Womens Doubles)

Sport/Venue
Mumbai
Football
Football/Canada
Formula One Race
Basketball
World University
Games/South Korea
Tennis/London
Tennis/London

Wimbledon Championship
(Mens Singles)
Wimbledon Championship
(Mixed Doubles)

Tennis/London

World Junior Golf

Championship
World Wrestling
Professionals (WWP)
Commonwealth Wrestling
Heavyweight Championship
National Junior Aquatic
Championship
IJGA World Stars of Junior
Golf
Tour de France
Hungarian Grand Prix
Murugappa Hockey Title

Gold/San Diego, US

CONCACAF Gold Cup

Junior Title at the US
Powerlifting Association
National Championships
2015.

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Wrestling/South Africa

Swimming/Pune
Golf/Las Vegas
Cycling/France
Formula One Race
Hockey

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Wimbledon 2015 Juniors Title Winners

Boys Singles Title

Reilly Opelka of United States defeated Swede Mikael Ymer. It is 12 years since an
American man last won a grand slam title.
Girls Singles Title
Sofya Zhuk of Russia defeated Anna Blinkova, also from Russia.
Boys Doubles Title
Sumit Nagal from India and Vietnams Nam Hoang Ly defeated Reilly Opelka and
Akira Santillan.

Points to Note

India has won a record 156 medals, including 89 gold and 50 silvers, in the
World Police and Fire games held at the United States.
Germany defender, Marcell Jansen has quit professional football at the age
of just 29 following his release by Hamburg.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the venues that will
host the mens and womens ICC World T20 2016. The Eden Gardens in
Kolkata will host the event finale.
Goa has now been handpicked by organizers of the ISL to host the final of
the 2015 edition on December 20.

Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan has joined an elite club of cricketers by
crossing the 10,000 ODI run-mark.
Mitchell Johnson became the fifth Australia bowler to take 300 Test wickets as he
hauled his side back into the third Ashes Test against England at Edgbaston.
Two major Indian Premier League teams Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan
Royals were suspended from the cricket league for two years.
Union Sports Ministry constituted a 9 member Working Group to prepare a revised
draft of the National Sports Development Code (NSDC). The Working Group will be
headed by Retired Delhi High Court Judge CK Mahajan.
Union Government has constituted All India Council of Sports (AICS), as an advisory
body to deliberate on matters relating to the development and promotion of sports.
Patiala House Courts in New Delhi has acquitted all 36 accused persons in the Indian
Premier League (IPL) season 6 spot fixing case including former cricketer S Sreesanth.
International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned Pakistans all-rounder cricketer
Mohammad Hafeez from bowling in international cricket for a period of one year.
Champions League Twenty 20 (CLT20) of Cricket has been scrapped with immediate
effect.

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OBITUARY
Name of the Person
Matti Makkonen
Diana Doughlas
Abdullah Hussai
Bashar Navaaz
Omar Shariff
Prince Saud al-Faisal
MS Viswanathan
V Ramakrishna
Alcides Ghiggia
El Doctorow
RS Gavai
Bijoy Handique
Parameshwaran Hariharan
Santasilan Kadirgamar
APJ Abdul Kalam
Dr Suniti Solomon
Clive Rice
Vasundhara Komkali
Tom Moore
Alex Rocco
Jules Bianchi
Aubrey Morris
Satoru Iwata
Adi Bharucha

Associated Field
Father of SMS Technology
US Actress
Urdu Novelist
Urdu Poet
Egyptian Actor
Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia
Music Director
Telugu Playback Singer
Uruguay Soccer Legend
US Novelist
Former Governor of Bihar and Kerala
Former Union Minister (Assam)
Physicist
Sri Lankan Historian
Former President of India
Pioneer of HIV/AIDS Research
Former South African Cricket Player
Vocalist
Cartoonist
God Father Actor
F1 Driver
Clockwork Orange Actor
Nintendo CEO
Helsinki Olympics Swimmer

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IMPORTANT DAYS IN JULY
Date
July 1
July 2
July 4
July 6
July 7
July 11
July 12
July 15
July 17
July 18
July 26
July 28
July 29
July 30

Observed Day
International Joke Day
National Doctors Day
World Sports Journalist Day
Independence Day (USA)
International Kissing Day
Global Forgiveness Day
World Population Day
Malala Day
World Youth Skills Day
International Justice Day
International Nelson Mandela Day
Kargil Diwas Day
World Hepatitis Day
World Tiger Day
International Day of Friendship
World Day against Trafficking in persons

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