1. Dipa Karmakar became the first-ever Indian green cess of 20-22% on diesel vehicles . EPCA is gymnast to receive the honour of ‘Gymnaste de known to be a Supreme court-appointed Green Panel Classe Mondaile’ (World class gymnast) by the for -National Capital Region (NCR).T International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). 9. The Union Cabinet finally approved the National • she belongs from Agartala, Tripura Dipa Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme to train 50 Karmakar represents at the international lakh apprentices by 2019-20 . This Scheme is circuit. involving an outlay of 10000 crore rupees which • she won a bronze medal at the 2014 will catalyze the entire apprenticeship ecosystem in Commonwealth Games, held at Glasgow becoming the country. It will also offer a winning situation for the first Indianfemale gymnast to do so in the all stakeholders and is expected to become one of history of the games. the most powerful skill-delivery vehicles in the 2. Deepak Singhal who is 1982 batch IAS officer has country. The Scheme is all set to be implemented by been appointed as the Chief Secretary of Uttar Director General of Training (DGT) under Ministry Pradesh of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 3. TRAI which is also known as The Telecom (MSDE). Regulatory Authority of India have launched the 10. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has successfully entered MySpeed mobile application for measuring real into the orbit of Jupiter and started orbiting solar time mobile Internet speed of consumers . system’s most massive planet. NASA launched the However, the idea behind this app is that customers spacecraft as part of its New Frontiers program in should know about the experience of their as well as 2011 to study Jupiter’s composition, gravity field, other networks in order to select the best mobile magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere. operator in their locality. Data will be made • The Juno Spacecraft is in a polar orbit to study available on TRAI Analytics portal. Through the Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, application, TRAI Myspeed App, TRAI will get real and polar magnetosphere. time data from customers. This will be put on TRAI 11 . Niranjan Mukundan who is a Para swimmer won Analytics Portal. This will show mobile data speed eight medals, including three gold medals, at the of each operator within a given area on real time International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports basis. This is the first application to be launched (IWAS ) U-23 World Games in Prague, Czech under the Digital India initiative which is directly Republic. trying to tackle the issue of poor data speeds. • Mukundan bagged gold medals in 200m freestyle, 4. FC Barcelona’s Superhero Lionel Messi his father 50m butterfly and 50m breaststroke, silver in 100m Jorge have been sentenced to 21 messimonths in fly and 50m freestyle, and bronze in 100m freestyle, prison for tax fraud , but the Barcelona forward is 100m breaststroke and 100m backstroke events. not expected to spend any time behind bars Know About Niranjan Mukundan – 5. R Thiruppathi Venkatasamy has been appointed • In the year 2015, Niranjan Mukundan was as the Accountant General of Economic and crowned as the Junior World Champion. Revenue Sector Audit of Tamil Nadu. 12. RBI has appointed Sudarshan Sen as an 6. The Union Cabinet gave the green signal to the Executive Director in place of NS Vishwanathan, Interest Subvention Scheme for farmers for the who has been elevated as Deputy Governor at the year 2016-17 and assigned a sum of 18276 crore central bank. Sen will look after Department of rupees for the purpose. The main aim of this Banking Regulation, Department of Co-operative scheme is to help farmers getting short term crop Bank Regulation and Department of Non-Banking loan payable within one year up to 3 lakhs rupees at Regulation. only 4% per annum. 13. Hero MotoCorp Ltd. (HMCL) country’s largest 7. Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail (ABFRL ) two-wheeler maker has inked a wage settlement acquired global clothing brand Forever 21 in the pact with its permanent workers at Gurgaon Indian market for 26 million US dollars. Forever Plant , entailing a hike of 12500 rupees spread over 21 has a network of more than 700 stores three years. worldwide. The three-year agreement will be implemented with Know About Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail - retrospective effect starting from 1 August 2015 till • In the beginning, the company was named as 31 July 2018. The previous wage settlement was Pantaloons Fashion and Retail Ltd (PFRL). also effective from 1 August 2012 to 31 July 2015. • After some time, it was formed as the 14. A New species of tarantula has been identified consolidation of the branded apparel businesses of near the home town of Gabriel Garcia tarantula Aditya Birla Group - Aditya Birla Nuvo, Madura Marquez , the late Nobel literature laureate Fashion division, Pantaloons Fashion and Retail Ltd 15. Indian shuttler B Sai Praneeth clinched the Canada and Madura Garments Lifestyle Retail Company Open Grand Prix Badminton Men’s Singles title Ltd. at Calgary. Praneeth grab this title from Lee Hyun 8. The Environment Pollution (Prevention and II of Korea 21-12, 21-10.Whereas, men's doubles Control) Authority (EPCA) recommended a pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy also

grabbed Men’s doubles title at the tournament.Also, 23. The Haryana Police has launched a 24-hour top seed doubles pair Attri and Reddy defeated helpline for people to report incidents of cow Adrian Liu and Toby Ng 21-8 21-14 in a lop-sided smuggling in the state, where cattle slaughter and final. However, the pair of Attri and Reddy is the beef sale are already banned. The police also said first Indian men's doubles pair to qualify for the Rio that barricades would be put up to check cow Olympics. smuggling. This comes after a recent incident 16. former Prime Minister of France Michel Rocard wherein two alleged beef smugglers were forced to at the age of 85 passed away in Paris.. eat cow dung. 17. The Haryana Government declared that it would 24. The Assam government announced a 100-day develop an industrial township in the state at an plan for the development of agriculture, urban expense of 5 billion dollar. In Sohna and Manesar infrastructure , and veterinary sectors in the state. areas of Gurgaon, the new industrial township will The plan includes issuing soil health cards to spread in over 1500 acres of land.Also for this farmers, building cold storages, setting up e- purpose, in New Delhi, the Haryana Industrial and tendering of seed distribution, and urban Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) infrastructure development. The government also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with plans to commercialise four of the 22 poultry farms China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) across Assam. Company. 25. The world’s largest ‘charkha’ or spinning wheel 18. ICC which is also known as The International was unveiled at Terminal-3 of Delhi’s Indira Cricket Council finally approved a change to the Gandhi International Airport by BJP President DRS (Decision Review System ) playing condition Amit Shah. The installation of the 27 feet long and relating to the LBW “Umpire’s Call”. 15 feet tall charkha commemorates the centenary What this amendment says - year of Mahatma Gandhi’s return from South • The size of the zone inside which half the ball Africa. Around 42 carpenters in Ahmedabad took 55 needs to hit any part of the stumps for a not out days to build the charkha. The Charkha weighs 4 decision. Currently, half of the ball would need to tonnes and is made from Burma teak wood be hitting a zone between the Centre of leg and off 26. Jawaharlal Nehru Port becomes the first port in stumps. the country to implement logistics data tagging of • From 1 October, this amendment will come into containers. Jawaharlal Nehru Port implemented effect. the logistics data bank tagging of containers , first 19. Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (goalkeeper) who is an of its kind facility, which will help Indian footballer became the first Indian to play importers/exporters track their goods in transit in Europa League. Sandhu was named in through logistics data bank service. An RFID (Radio Norwegian club Stabaek FC's squad for their Europa Frequency Identification Tag) tag would be attached League qualifying match against Welsh Premier to each container which would be tracked through League side Connah's Quay Nomads FC. RIFD readers installed at different locations. 20. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr. Raman Singh 27. Noel Neill, the first actress to play Superman’s has inaugurated country’s first commercial love interest, passed away at the age of 95 . Neill dispute resolution centre and commercial court was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1920, the in the state capital. The commercial court is located daughter of Minneapolis Star Tribune news editor in Naya Raipur area of the city. The court also David Neill and the New York vaudeville performer consists of arbitration centre and a mediation centre. LaVere Neill. As a teenager, she became a highly 21. The Supreme Court has ruled that 3% sought-after photographic model and her pin-up was reservation for promotions shall be provided to reportedly second only to Betty Grable’s in terms of the differently-abled in all posts under the popularity among American serviceman during Government of India . This comes after the Centre World War II. ordered the confining of such reservation to only 28. Regulator FSSAI has joined hands with ASCI in Group C and Group D posts. Ruling to provide its bid to check misleading advertisements in the reservation without any classification, the court food and beverages sector. Advertising Standard declared the Centre’s order as “illegal and Council of India (ASCI) will comprehensively inconsistent”. monitor the advertisements across various media. 22. According to data by the Tourism Ministry, The council has been given a suo motu monitoring Tamil Nadu was the top tourist destination in mandate by FSSAI to process complaints against India for the second consecutive year in 2015, misleading advertisements of food and beverages. with 333.5 million domestic and 4.68 million 29. The International Co-operative Day / foreign tourist arrivals. Uttar Pradesh and Andhra International Day of Co-operatives is celebrated Pradesh were other top destinations for domestic on the first Saturday of July every yea r. To be tourists, while foreign visitors preferred celebrated on the 2nd of July 2016, this year’s theme Maharashtra, UP, and Delhi after Tamil Nadu. is ‘Co-operatives: The power to act for a sustainable future’. Its aim is to increase awareness on co-

operatives and promote the movement’s successes Chandra Roy . He was born on 1 July, 1882 and and ideals of international solidarity, economic died on the same date in 1962, aged 80 years. Dr efficiency, equality, and world peace. Roy was honoured with the country’s highest 30. Lewis Hamilton won Austrian Grand prix 2016. civilian award, Bharat Ratna on 4 February, 1961. Lewis Hamilton collided with Mercedes team-mate 37. Iceland has been named as the world’s safest Nico Rosberg on the last lap before passing him to vacation spot. Based on the recently released win a thrilling Austrian Grand Prix. The German Global Peace Index (GPI) ranking, the Institute for turned into a corner late as Hamilton tried to pass Economics and Peace charted the world’s safest around the outside and damaged his front wing, destinations. Iceland also called the Republic of finishing fourth. Rosberg was given a 10-second Iceland, is a Nordic island country situated between penalty and two penalty points by stewards for the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. The causing a collision. It reduces Hamilton’s deficit to country has a population of 332,529 and covers an Rosberg to 11 points in the title race. Max area of 103,000 km2, making it the most sparsely Verstappen in a Red Bull was second and Kimi populated country in Europe. Its capital and the Raikkonen of Ferrari was third. largest city is Reykjavik. 31. The South Asian Basketball Association (SABA) 38. The second Edition of BRICS Youth Summit Zone Qualifying Round of the FIBA Asia concluded in Guwahati of Assam State that Challenge 2016 will be held from July 6 to 8 at bricsfocused on enhancing people-to-people contacts the Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium. The three- of BRICS member states viz. Brazil, Russia, India, day competition will be played on a round robin China and South Africa. It inaugurated by Assam league format. Four South Asian teams – defending CM Sarbananda Sonowal, The city of Guwahati champions and hosts India, Nepal, Bangladesh and which is the gateway to the North East hosted the the island nation of Maldives are in the fray. event with the theme ‘Youth as bridge for intra- 32. Former Madhya Pradesh cricketer Kapil Seth BRICS exchanges’. has recently passed away. He was 36. According to 39. Holland has become the world’s first country to the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA), have a nationwide low-range or LoRa network the all-rounder was suffering from Hepatitis B. Seth, for enabling Internet of Things (IoT) applications. who represented the state in only one first-class and Launched by Dutch telecom company KPN, the a List A game in the 2000-01 season, made his sole network connects IoT devices to transfer data Ranji Trophy appearance against Vidarbha in between them without a local Wi-Fi connection. The November 2000,ESPN cricinfo reported. network took a total of eight months to be spread 33 . India’s first integrated defence communication across the country. network was launched in New Delhi enabling the 40. Union Cabinet has approved an MoU between army, air force, navy and the Special Forces India and Tanzania in the field of traditional Command to share situational awareness for a faster systems of medicine and homeopathy . decision-making process. The Defence • MoU will provide structured framework for Communication Network (DCN), a strategic, highly cooperating between two countries for secure and scalable system, has a pan-India reach — propagating indian traditional systems of from Ladakh to the North East to island territories. medicine and homeopathy in Tanzania. 34. The World Bank Group signed an agreement • There were no additional financial implications with the International Solar Alliance (ISA), associated with this and financial resources needed consisting of 121 countries, led by India. It has to conduct research, training courses, conferences committed to provide $1 billion support to Indian and meetings from allocated budget and plan solar energy projects. The World Bank-supported schemes of AYUSH ministry. projects includesolar rooftop technology, 41. Union Cabinet was apprised of a joint issue of infrastructure for solar parks, bringing innovative postage stamps between Department of Post and solar and hybrid technologies to market and Portugal Post.Joint issue will help postal transmission lines for solar-rich states. departments in both countries for production of 35. Kerala government has decided to ban philately. ‘electronic cigarette’ in view of studies claiming 42. Union Cabinet on July 5, 2016 approved the that its use can cause various health issues, including signing of an MoU between India and Mauritius cancer and heart ailments. State Health Minister KK in the field of Rural Development and Poverty Shylaja has directed the additional chief secretary Alleviation. MoU will help establish a framework (health) to issue an order banning the production, for cooperating between National Development sale and advertisement of ‘electronic cigarette’ alias Unit, PMO of Mauritius and the Union Ministry of ‘e-cigarette’. E-cigarettes are handy devices that Rural Development in the sphere of rural emit doses of vaporised nicotine. development. 36. 1 July is observed as Doctor’s Day in India to 43. The High Courts (Alteration of Names) Bill 2016 honour the legendary physician and the second will facilitate the changing of names of Bombay Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr Bidhan and Madras HC to and Chennai. HC of

Bombay and Madras was named after cities where solutions to numerous MNCs and domestic they were located. companies 44. Union Cabinet has provided in-principle 55. With this acquisition, 1mg is expanding to offer a approval for establishing a port on Enayam near service for booking imaging tests such as CT Colachel in Tamil Nadu. Scans, MRIs and X-Rays . Diagnostics is a USD 5- • SPV will be formed for development of this port 8 billion industry in India making for 25% of the with initial equity investment from three major ports total pharmacy business in TN namely VO Chidambaranar Port Trust, 56. M V Dhekane has assumed the office of Director Chennai Port Trust and Kamarajar Port Limited. of ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), 45. Search engine major Google has acquired French Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala. After this, Dhekane startup Moodstock with the acquisition announced becomes the seventh director of IISU which on the official blog. functions under the aegis of the Department of 46. With no Indian swimmer managing to attain the A Space. A B-Tech graduate in electrical engineering qualification mark for Rio Olympics, the Swimming and M-tech (Systems and Control) from Indian Federation of India selected Kerala’s Sajan Institute of Technology, Mumbai, he had joined Prakash and Haryana’s Shivani Kataria for Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in 1983. representing India at the games. 57. Cabinet Committee on Security headed by Prime 47. To bolster the anti-doping programme, the Minister has signed acquirement of four National Anti Doping Agency has signed a 2 year Poseidon -8I longrage surveillance and MoU with the Australian counterpart and antisubmarine warfare aircraft.The Four Poseidon international anti doping agency WADA. aircraft built with radars and weapons will be joined 48. GoI constituted a committee to examine with the first eight such aircraft introduced by the feasibility of new financial year .Committee Navy in 2013-15 under a $2.1 billion deal. headed by Dr. Shankar Acharya (former Chief 58. India has played the important role on “The Economic Adviser) has the following members: The efficiency of customs and Border management committee will be examining merits and demerits of clearance ” and improved the ranking to 35th various dates for commencement of financial year position in World Bank’s Logistics Performance including the existing date (April to March). Index • Dr Rajiv Kumar (Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy 59. World’s largest international Biennial maritime Research) exercise named RIMPAC (Rim of the bangPacific) • Shri PV Rajaraman (former Finance Secretary TN). 2016 kicked off in Pacific Ocean at Hawaii, United • Shri KM Chandrasekhar (former Cabinet secretary) States. 49. Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh Theme: Capable, Adaptive, Partners. released an illustrative book of the CRPF entitled Course of Exercise: 30 June to 4 August 2016. “Ayodhya Ke Shoorvir” in New Delhi on July 5, Participating Countries: 26 2016. Book is on the vapour filled legends of CRPF Participants: 45 ships, 5 submarines, about 200 in foiling the attack on the Ram Janam Bhumi- aircrafts and 25000 personnel’s. Babri Masjid Complex New Nations Taking Part for the first time: 50. Linda Burney, a former teacher on 2nd July 2016 Denmark, Germany and Italy. became the first indigenous woman elected to the 60. RIL, SBI sign shareholder agreement for House of Representatives (lower house) of the payments bank JV Parliament of Australia. i. Reliance Industries Limited went into partnership 51. Javeline thrower Annu Rani on 2nd July 2016 with banking major State Bank of sbi logo India have bettered her national record with a 59.87m throw signed the shareholder for the payment Bank. at the 56th National Inter State Senior Athletics ii. Upon this Agreement that was signed by RIL as Championship in Hyderabad promoter with a 70 per cent equity contribution and 52. A new species of spider Tetraponera rufonigra SBI as joint venture with a 30 per cent equity has been found which mimics the characteristics of 61. India’s Central Bank “Reserve Bank of ants and was discovered in the moist deciduous India mulling to set up a committee to study the forest of the Wayanad wildlife sanctuary use of Blockchain technology”. It will be used to 53. Hyderabad IT services company Ray Business reduce the use of paper currency. The Technology is Technologies Pvt on 4th July has acquired digital made by distributed database that maintains a education enterprise resource planning ERP continuously-growing list of data records secured product - QuickEdmin-to boost the service against tampering and revision. offerings 62. Proteas Opener Hasim Amla and West Indies All- 54. Staffing company TeamLease Services said it will rounder Dwayne Bravo set a new world cricket acquire ASAP Info Systems for an enterprise record for a fifth-wicket stand in Twenty 20 cricket value of INR 67 crore The Bengaluru of 150 in 92 balls for the Trinbago Knight Riders headquartered ASAP Info Systems offer IT staffing against the Barbados Tridents at Queen’s Park Oval in th e Caribbean Premier League .

63. As a next step in transforming India, president Lyallpur (Punjab) in 1919. He was also unveiled a new scheme called SMART MODEL the editor of “new age ”, the central organ of CPI. VILLAGE PILOT PROJECT. He was a recipient of Lenin Peace Award and also 64. Indian Government signed a deal holds the record of addressing the United Nations with Thyssennkrupp marine systems , Germany in Assembly many a times, the highest number of Mumbai. times by an Indian. 65. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 74.India’s first SME Bank opened by HDFC Bank created history by marching with tens of Toronto 75. SA writer Lidudumalingani Wins 17th Caine Pride Parade thousands of people in Toronto’s Prize for African Writing for African Writing for his Gay Pride parade, becoming the nation’s first short story Memories We Lost , published sitting prime minister to participate. in Incredible Journey: Stories That Move You . 66.Government of India made a pact of Allowing four ii. He received the prestigious award at Oxford’s Public Sector Insurers in PMFBY (Pradhan Mantri Bodleian Library. iii. The Eastern Cape-born Fasal Bima Yojana) on July 3rd ,2016. author is also a filmmaker and producer. ii. Along with the existing 11 private sector Insurers 76.Himachal Pradesh Assembly Speaker now Government allowed Four PSU’s BBL Butail today said that a National E-Vidhan namely LIC(life Insurance Corporation of India), Academy will be set up in Tapovan in General Insurance Corporation of India, National Dharamsala , Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs in Insurance Co. ltd, Oriental Insurance Co. ltd . to have already permitted in principle approval for increase the agricultural insurance cover to a great setting up of the National academy which extent. will train MPs, MLAs and the staff of such 67.The Union Sports minister Dr Jitendra institutions from different states in the country. Singh announced a grant of Rs 10 lakh f or sickly 77.The International Air Transport Association Olympic gold medallist Mohammed Shahid , who is (IATA) reported that India’s Air passenger market undergoing treatment for serious liver and kidney in India grew at the fastest pace in the world in 2015 ailment at Medanta Medicity in Gurgaon. He is well and India topped the domestic air passenger growth known for his artistic stickwork , Shahid was a rankings. member of the V Baskaran headed Indian team that 78.The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, won its last gold medal at the 1980 Moscow chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra axis Olympics. bankModi, has approved increased limits in foreign 68. India listed down to 75th place in terms of money investment in Axis Bank from 62% to 74% of the held by its citizens with banks in Switzerland, while total paid up share capital of the Axis Bank on a the list is topped by UK as per the latest annual fully commodity basis. update released by Switzerlands central bank SNB 79.Reserve Bank of India (RBI), sanctioned a semi (Swiss National Bank) closed wallet license to YELDI SOFTCOM 69. Odisha’s Eminent Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik i. A semi-closed wallet is a payment instrument that is making an attempt another world sand- is accepted by a predefined set of merchants that artrecord by carving 100 sand chariots at the have been contracted specifically by the issuer of the Puri beach in Odisha on upcoming Ratha Yatra of semi-closed wallet. Lord Jagannath. ii. A semi-closed wallet does not allow users 70 . Michael Cimino, Oscar-winning director of ‘The to withdraw or redeem cash. Deer Hunter’, dies at 77 .The Director who bagged iii. Most semi-closed wallets require a debit card, Academy Award for the film The Deer Hunter credit card or a net banking account. But when it became one of the great triumphs of Hollywood’s comes to adding money to Yeldi’s products, cash 1970s that has also won five Academy Awards. could be remitted over a designated counter to add 71. The maiden meeting of BRICS Working Group money to the wallet. meeting on “Energy Saving and Energy 80. India’s first insurance policy covering public Efficiency” held in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra liability to an atomic power plant operator has Pradesh on 4th and 5th July. been issued to Nuclear Power Corporation of 72In order to bring harmony and to look after the India Limited(NPCIL ) former & current Olympic athletes, A maiden 81. Anil Ambani led Reliance Group, which had Non-Profit organization named Olympians drawn up a comprehensive strategy to drive growth Association of India has been introduced on July in the Internet of Things (IoT) space, has 4 in New Delhi. This organization is directly appointed Juergen Hase as the Group CEO for its affiliated to World Olympians Association (WOA) IoT Business. under the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 82. In order to monitor blood glucose in patients with 73.Com. Romesh Chandra, A veteran communist diabetes an automatically adjusts levels of insulin leader and Former president of World Peace entering the body, researchers found how to make a Council passed away in Mumbai on July 4th, 2016. artificial PANCREAS in 2018. He was 97 when he is dead. He was born at

1. The Argentina women’s team has claimed a record phase out pollutants. Hole in the ozone layer over the seventh Champions Trophy title with a 2-1 win over Antarctic has started to shrink indicating good news for reigning World and Olympic champions, the the environment several decades after the global accord Netherlands, in the final at the Lee Valley Hockey and was in place to phase out pollutants.September ozone Tennis Centre. In the bronze medal game, USA battled hole shrunk by 1.5 million square miles or 4 million to a shootout victory over Australia, giving the team a square kilometres since 2000, this equals the area about first Champions Trophy medal since wining bronze at the size of India.The ozone hole was first discovered in the 1995 event in Mar del Plata, Argentina. With this the 1950s victory, Argentina women’s team has won the 10. China launched the second Shijian 16 series satellite Champions Trophy title of Hockey for record seventh carried by Long March-4B rocket from the Jiuquan time. Earlier they had won it in 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010, Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.The Shijian- 2012 and 2014. 16 satellite will be used for space environment Individual Awards measurements, radiations and technology testing •Best player: Carla Rebecchi (ARG) 11. India test-fired a medium range surface-to-air •Best junior player: Maria Granatto (ARG) missile (MR-SAM) from a mobile launcher in the •Best goalkeeper: Joyce Sombroek (NED) Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the 2. State Bank of India inked agreement with World Odisha coast. Bank to get $625-million with an aim to support grid The MR-SAM was co-developed by the Defence connected rooftop solar programme in India. Research Development Laboratory (DRDL) of DRDO 3. Saudi Arabia was unanimously elected as 30th in partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries Associate Member of International Cricket Council. (IAI).Apart from the missile, the system includes a Motto of ICC is - Great Sport Great Spirit Multi Functional Surveillance and Threat Alert Radar Headquarters of ICC - Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (MF STAR) for detection, tracking and guidance of the Chairman of ICC - Shashank Manohar missile.The missile, along with MF—STAR, will President of ICC - Zaheer Abbas provide the users with the capability to neutralise any 4.Coomaraswamy became new Governor of the Central aerial threats.The missile will be produced at the Bharat Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). He succeeded Arjuna Dynamics Limited (BDL) in Hyderabad. Mahendran for this one of top posts. 12. Google officially announced the nickname of the 5. Punjab state of India got its Rapid Rural Police latest version of Android, namely Android N or Nougat. Response System. This system was launched with an Malayali netizens have been campaigning to have the aim to provide quick police response in over 12000 Android N’s name Neyappam villages in Punjab. Police will report within 20 minutes 13. For bridging the employability gaps across the in case of any crime reported and two lines were set up industry, NASSCOM has partnered with 3D Design for same purpose. Technology firm Autodesk to make new standardised 6. Indian Navy launched Follow-on Water Jet Fast courseware for product design engineers for enhancing Attack Craft (FO-WJFAC) named as INS Tarasa. It is skilling in the field. fourth in series which was launched at Garden Reach 14. The Railway Ministry launched the Nevadan portal Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd, Kolkata. which is an online system for redressal of service These Follow-on Water Jet Fast Attack Crafts are related grievances of serving and former Rail powered by latest MTU engines and these can attain employees.The new system will also be launched in speed up to 35 knots. multiple regional languagesWith a 1.3 million 7. Four Indian Americans including Google CEO workforce, Railways is the largest employer in the Sunder Pichai were along 42 US nationals awarded the nation.New system will facilitate employees to lodge “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” award for grievances and monitor progress on mitigation their sizeable professional accomplishments.Other three 15. Lt General Velu Nair has been appointed as DG Indian Americans include Hari Sreenivasan, anchor and Medical Services (Army) on July 1, 2016. senior correspondent, PBS NewsHour, Vikram 16. Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Unni assumed Malhotra Chairman of the Americas McKinsey & charge as the Director General Armed Forces Medical Company and Bharati Mukherjee, National Book Services. Critics Circle Award Winning writer 17. Country’s largest lender, SBI has launched three 8. India’s Amul is the largest food products marketing digital initiatives and aims to print its branch network organisation and it will be sponsoring the Indian once its associated have merged. contingent at the Rio Olympics 2016.Its famous motto, •SBI can debut on social media by launching the Amul Doodh Pita Hai India will be used to cheer the platform called Mingle through which FB and Twitter Indian contingentAmul is an Indian dairy cooperative users can transact business. located in Anand Gujarat and shone through the efforts •Customers have to register for the service through a of founder chairman of GCMMF- Dr. Verghese Kurien. simple one time registration process using their account 9. Hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic has started number or ATM Debit card details to shrink indicating good news for the environment several decades after the global accord was in place to

•Another initiative is a tie up with Flipkart through •India and Pakistan signed the Memorandum of which the bank will extend loans to select customers for Obligations on 24 June 2016. purchases above INR 5000 •The signing of Memorandum of Obligations by India •SBI has indicated at present, one million customers can and Pakistan started the formal process of joining the avail this loan SCO as a full member. They are expected to become •Another initiative is the SBI Digital Villages which full members by the next meeting at Astana in 2017. will transform selected villages into safe, healthy and 25. Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner vibrant digital centres Elie Wiesel has passed away. The activist and writer •A total of 21 villages have been covered under this who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the voice of initiative millions of Holocaust victims has died at the age of 87. •SBI will bring more than 6000 branches into its fold •Peace Prize was awarded to the writer and activist in once the 5 associates merge 1986 18 .MasterCard, one of the largest payment networks in •He also received the Congressional Gold Medal in the world has invested an undisclosed sum in financial 1985 technology startup Razorpay. 26. Eminent Marathi writer RC Dhere known for his •India will shape the future of e-commerce through exhaustive research in Bhakti tradition of Maharashtra strategic collaboration and innovative technology and folk literature. He passed away following prolonged 19. Social networking major Facebook has decided to illness at 86.- Dhere, a recipient of the Sahitya close Paper which is a news reading app providing Academy Award in 1987 for his book “Sri Vitthal- A customised news spanning politics, technology, food Mahasamanvayak.” (Lord Vitthal-A Leading and more. Mahasamvayak) 20. German car major BMW announced on July 1st 27. Babu Harihar Singh dies on 30th June 2016 at the 2016 that it is partnering US computer chip giant Intel age of 98. He was the former ASI of CID Bihar who and Israeli technology firm Mobileye to develop cars interrogated Nathuram Godse, who was the killer of that are self driving Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation. •The three companies are joining hands to bring 28. India and Cyprus have made the decision to revise solutions for rapid and fully automated driving into the tax treaty under which capital gains tax will be series production by 2021 levied on sale of shares on investments made after April 21. HCL Infosystems has developed and designed the 1, 2017. Defence Communication Network- the first ti-service 29. China to host world’s biggest Radio Telescope. This communication and IT network of the Indian armed telescope called FAST (500 Metre Aperture Spherical forces Telescope) is the size of 30 football fields and has been 22. Highways ministry rolled work out for greening cut out of the mountain in the SW province of Guizhou. 2000 km involving INR 300 crore and two schemes 30. Multi-nation exercise Rim of the Pacific Southern namely Adopt a Green Highway and Kisan Harit California 2016 has kicked off occurring in and around Rajmarg Yojna. Southern California through August 4, 2016. •Under the Adopt a Green Highway initiative, PSUs 31. India will be hosting the world’s first Mixed Martial and NGOs can taken up NH stretches for plantation and Arts Super Fight League from August 26 to October 1- maintenance for 5 years as in the US. the league will feature 8 teams namely Delhi, UP, •Under the Kisan Harit Rajmarg Yojna, NHAI will Mumbai, Haryana, , Pune, Punjab and Goa. provide technical and financial assistance to farmers for 32. Ancient megalithic tombs such as those used in the planting trees in portions across the highway stretches. 6000 year old Seven Stone Antas in Portugal may have •Plantation is estimated to sequester 12 lakh tonnes been the first astronomical tools used to watch skies carbon on an annual basis millennia before telescopes were invented. 23 .Indian Post opened up the ongoing scheme of 33. Tejas is a 4th generation fighter aircraft indigenously customised printing of My Stamp for individuals and developed in a nation after technology gap of two corporates decades of HF Marut by DRDO. •As part of the scheme, individual and corporate entity 34. The fourth in the series of Follow-on Water Jet Fast can get photo or logo printed inside the postage stamp Attack Craft (FO-WJFAC) for the Indian Navy was at INR 12 lakhs launched on 30 Jun 16 at a ceremony at Garden Reach •Earlier India Post only permitted printing of photo or Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE), Kolkata which design next to postage stamp on an INR 300 My Stamp also designed the craft.It is called INS Tarasa after an Sheet Andaman and Nicobar island. •The scheme was first introduced ducring INDIPEX- 35. Kendriya Vidaylaya CRPF Amerigog, Guwahati has 2011 won the National Youth Parliament Competition for 24. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit 2015-2016 organised by the Ministry of Parliamentary concluded on 24 June 2016 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Affairs. The 2-day meeting was conducted under the presidency 36. Prashikshak was launched to strengthen District of Uzbekistan. Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) and bring

quality teachers into the Indian school education system. 37. Railway Minister proactively launched NIVARAN Portal, an online system for redressal of matters related to grievances of currently serving and former railway employees Programme: NIVARAN portal 38. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is being invited to attend the meeting to sign declaration to boost solar energy globally. Promoted by: The Interim Administrative Cell of the International Solar Alliance (ISA Cell) & the World Bank 39. Maharashtra government is mulling to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tata Power for obtaining 1,000 MW from the upcoming Dherand Thermal Project 40. Indian Students Scientist team named Screwdrivers comprising 13 students, including four girls, has won the team spirit award in NASA’s prestigious global competition to build and design remotely operated vehicles from scratch. 41. London’s first Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan has appointed India-born Rajesh Agrawal as the deputy mayor for business. 42. Former Indian Cricket Team director Ravi Shastri resigned from the International Cricket Council’s cricket committee, where he was a media representative for six years. 43. The Indian Navy launched the last of the series of the Water Jet Fast Attack Craft(WJFAC) ship at a ceremony in Kolkata. 44. India successfully blasted off twice a medium-range surface-to-air ballistic missile, developed in collaboration with Israel, from launch pad 3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore district off the coast of Odisha. 45. Nirmala Sheoran in the women’s 400 metres category has just clocked 51:48seconds at the 56th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships at Hyderabad’s G.M.C. Balayogi Stadium3 46. Well-known Marathi writer R C Dhere, who was recognized for his exhaustive research in folk literature and bhakti tradition of Maharashtra, passed away after prolonged illness in Pune. He was 86. 47. Famous Author Alvin Toffler passed away in Los Angeles, United States. He was 87 year old. 48. National Doctor’s Day is observed in healthcare organizations to recognize the contributions of physicians to individual lives and communities.