Current affair july 2001 india Delhi CM Sheila Dixit received the first Mercy Ravi Award for

or Woman of Substance from Defence Minister A.K. Antony. Centre set 2012 deadline to seal Bangladesh border. Pradeep Kumar elected as the new CVC. TN chief minister reshuffled her cabinet. RBI allowed fresh loans to finance FCCBs. MPs and MLAs quit en masse in Andhra Pradesh. 25 more Telangana legislators resigned. Noted filmmaker Mani Kaul passed away. Mayookha Johny won 1st Gold for India at the Asian Athletics Championship. Cho-Lhamu lake in Sikkim declared highest lake in the country. VS Hegde appointed Antrix Corporation Chief. More than 30 dead and more 240 hurt as Kalak Mail derailed. Rs1543 crore deficit budget presented for Assam for 2011-12. Bharti, IBM inked 10 year deal for Africa. Serial blasts in Mumbai left 21 dead. Pradeep Kumar sworn in new CVC. PSLV-C17 put GSAT-12 inot orbit. Government lifted wheat export ban. Ambika Pande became the first Indian to win the Canadian U-18 ITF Jr world ranking championship. Pacts singed for Gorkhaland Territorial Administration. RS Gujral Appointed as the new finance secretary. Himachal inked $95.16 mn loan agreement with ADB. Prahaar missile flight-tested successfully. Cabinet cleared $7.2 bn RIL-BP deal. India, Bangladesh revived border haat. President Patil began her two-nation tour to Korea and Mongolia. SC approved national-level medical exam. India inked tax treaty with Lithuania. Neelima Mishra and Harish Hande won Ramon Megsaysay Award 2011. Union Cabinet approved draft of Lokpal Bill. Dinesh Trivedi and Salman Khursheed are the new Union Railway Minister and Law Minister respectively. The insurgent organization which recently declared unilateral, indefinite ceasefire is ULFA.

Sri Lankan Government dissolved national cricket board. Petra Kvltova won her first womens singles Wimbledon title. Novak Djokovic won his first mens singles Wimbledon title. Thailand army accepted Pheu Thai Partys victory in general elections. China retained Badminton Asia Youth Under 19 Championship Mixed Team title.

World in july 2011 WTO ruled against China rare earth hoarding. Japan ordered safety test of n-plants. US president Obama held first twitter town hall answering questions. 135th and final space shuttle, Atlantis, launched from NASA. Space shuttle docked at ISS for last time. Republic of South Sudan became worlds newest country and Africas 54th nation. US suspended $800m aid to Pakistan. 1000 French troops to exit Afghanistan by 2012 end: Sarkozy News Corp withdrew bid for BSkyB. 15 killed in Karachi political violence. Italian Senate approved 4 year austerity budget. US recognized Libyan rebels as legitimate government. Darren Clarke won the British Open Golf Championship. Russia launched Spektr-R radio telescope into space. Hina Rabbani Khar sworn in as first Pakistani woman Foreign Minister. UN declared famine in South Somalia. Space shuttle Atlantis ended final voyage after landing in Florida Greece go a new bailout deal. British singer Amy Winehouse found dead in her flat in London. Ex-rebe Tamila party swept poll in North Sri Lanka. Syrian government adopts draft law for multipartism. Walt Disneyoffered to acquire UTV for about Rs. 2000 Cr. Russia, partners plan to sink ISS by 2020 Britain expelled all Libyan envoys and recognized rebel council as sole governmental authority. Libyan rebels celebrate British recognition. Recently Scientist decoded the full DNA sequence genome of Potato. The first woman Prime Minister of Thailand is Yingluck Shinawatra.