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Current Affairs of July 2019 Current Affairs Of July 2019 Help Line No:- Khanpur : +91-9311668899 South Ex : +91-9311556699 CONTENTS National……………………………………………………...…...2 International……………………………………………….……12 Defence ………………………………………………….……..17 Appointments or Resign/Retired…………………………….....18 Honours/ Awards…………………………………………….....23 Sports…………………………………………………………...25 Obituaries…………………………………………………….....32 Important Days with theme…………………………………….34 www.tarainstitute.com Current Affairs National India's first Design Development Centre launched in Gujarat ‘One nation one ration card’ scheme from July i. India's first Design 1, 2020 Development i. ‘One Nation One Center 'Fashionova' was Ration Card’ scheme will launched in the Textile city be available across the Surat. country from July 1, ii. The centre will promote the 2020. city in the field of the fashion design sector. ii. The scheme iii. It will also fulfill the business needs from co- will allow portability of food security working space, technicians, expert advises to benefits according to which the poor migrant cognitive workshops and exposure to the industry. workers will be able to buy subsidised rice and Do You Know- wheat from any ration shop in the country as long as their ration cards are linked to Aadhaar. Gujarat CM: Vijay Rupani; Governor: Om Prakash Do You Know- Kohli; Capital: Gandhinagar. Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution: Ram Vilas Longest electrified railway tunnel in India Paswan. commissioned i. The South Central Money in Swiss banks: India ranked 74 Railway has commissioned i. According to the Swiss the longest electrified tunnel National Bank of India. (SNB), India has moved down ii. The tunnel which is one place to 74th rank in between Cherlopalli and terms of money parked by its Rapuru stations is 6.6 km long, is built at a total citizens and enterprises with Swiss banks. cost of ₹460 crore. ii. U.K. has retained its top position. iii. The horse shoe shaped tunnel is of 6.5 metres iii. India was ranked 73rd last year, after jumping height with ballastless track and LED lighting from its 88th rank a year ago. provided at 10 metre intervals inside. Maharashtra ranks first in NITI Aayog's India ranked 86th in the Henley Passport Index AMFFR Index 2019 i. Maharashtra achieves first rank in NITI i. The Henley Passport Index 2019 have ranked Aayog launched "Agricultural Marketing and the Indian passport on the 86th positionwith a Farmer Friendly Reforms mobility score of 58. Index (AMFFRI)". ii. The score points out that Indian passport holders ii. The index ranks states can access 58 countries around the world without a based on the degree of prior visa. Japan and Singapore holds the top spot reforms they have with a score of 189. undertaken in agricultural marketing. iii. The index includes 199 passports and 227 iii. AMFFRI has a score that can have minimum travel destinations including micro-states and value “0” implying no reforms and maximum territories. value “100” implying complete reforms in the Army Chief releases Kargil selected areas. Tribute Song Do You Know- i. Army Chief General NITI Aayog CEO: Amitabh Kant; Vice Bipin Rawat has released Chairman: Rajiv Kumar. a Kargil Tribute Song to honour, salute and pay www.tarainstitute.com Current Affairs homage to the Kargil martyrs and war veterans. ones. These centres are similar to Passport Seva ii. The song has been composed by eminent Hindi Kendras run by the Ministry of External Affairs. lyricist Sammer Anjaan and sung by Shatadru Do You Know- Kabir. CEO of UIDAI: Ajay Bhushan iii. The song was released as part of the celebration Pandey; Founded: 12 July, 2016. of the 20th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas to be celebrated on 26th of July. Connaught Place 9th most expensive office location in the world Reliance Jio ties up with Facebook for 'Digital i. According to property Udaan' consultant CBRE, New Delhi's i. Reliance Jio ties up Connaught Place (CP) is with Facebook for digital the 9th most expensive office literacy initiative 'Digital location in the world. Hong Udaan'. Kong's Central district retained the top spot as ii. The initiative will have the world's most expensive market for prime office audio-visual training in 10 regional languages. The rents. initiative is announced for the first-time Internet ii. Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex and Nariman users in the country. Point CBD slipped to 27th and 40th position. iii. The programme is being launched in nearly 200 Global Prime Office Occupancy Costs different locations across 13 states. survey, CBRE tracks the cost of leasing prime Do You Know- office space globally. Facebook Headquarters: California, US; CEO: Mark Zuckerberg. "Vivekadeepini" book released by the Vice President of India Tata Steel Kalinganagar joins WEF's Global i. The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Lighthouse Network Naidu has released the i. Tata Steel book ‘Vivekadeepini’ in ten languages. Kalinganagar has been ii. It is a concise book of aphorisms that contains included in World Economic glimpses of India’s wisdom. The book will be Forum's Global Lighthouse published by Vedanta Bharati. Network. TSK in Odisha's Jajpur district is the first and IPS officer Aparna Kumar completes Seven the only Indian manufacturing plant to be included Summit challenge in the WEF's Lighthouse Network. i. Aparna Kumar becomes first IPS officer to ii. Global Lighthouse Network is a community of complete Seven Summit challenge by scaling Mt manufacturers showing leadership in applying Denali. Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to drive ii. Mt Denali is the tallest mountain in North financial and operational impact. America. First 'Aadhaar Seva Kendra' in Delhi and "News bulletin" launched in National Museum Vijayawada of Indian Cinema i. Unique Identification Authority of India has i. A News bulletin of opened its first 'Aadhaar Seva Kendra' in Delhi the National Museum of and Vijayawada. Indian Cinema, brought out ii. The Aadhaar card issuing authority has by the Films Division,was an ambitious plan to set up 114 such centresby launched. the year end. ii. This bulletin will give them a physical document iii. These centres will provide the facility to apply to cherish and to get relevant information. for a new Aadhaar card or update the existing Do You Know- www.tarainstitute.com Current Affairs National Museum of Indian Union Environment Minister: Prakash Cinema: Mumbai (Maharastra) Javadekar. Walmart Labs acqui-hires startups FloCare and Bimal Jalan panel report on surplus RBI BigTrade reserves 'finalised' i. Walmart Labs has acqui-hired health tech i. Bimal Jalan led six-member startup FloCare and B2B wholesale trading panel on Economic Capital platform BigTrade. The aim of acqui-hiring is Framework (ECF), formed by to strengthen its customer service. RBI has finalised its report on ii. As per the process, some founders and team surplus RBI reserves. members of the two companies will join Walmart ii. The panel has recommended Labs in the customer and supply chain technology that surplus reserves held by the central teams. bank should be transferred to the iii. Acqui-hires are typically made for the skills of government in tranches over three to five years. the team, rather than for the product. Do You Know- RBI Governor: Shaktikant Milkbasket acquires Bengaluru’s e-grocery Das; Headquarters: Mumbai; Founded: 1 store PSR Supply Chain April 1935, Kolkata. i. Online grocery delivery platform Milkbasket has "Kargil: Untold stories from the War" Book acquired Bengaluru-based e- released grocery distributor PSR i. "Kargil: Untold stories from the War", the Supply Chain. book published by Penguin Random House, is ii. Founded in early 2015, Milkbasket has built a authored by Rachna Bisht Rawat. new-age technology platform to enable a smooth ii. On the 20th anniversary of the Kargil War, a grocery buying experience online. new book will revisit the freezing battle grounds of Do You Know- the 1999 conflict through untold stories of its CEO of Milkbasket: Anant Goel. bravest soldiers. Indian beaches in the race to crest the ‘Blue RIL's becomes top-ranked Indian company in Flag’ challenge Fortune Global list i. Union Environment i. Reliance Industries Ministry has selected 12 ltd has jumped 42 beaches in India to vie places to become for a ‘Blue the highest-ranking Flag’certification, an Indian firm on the international recognition Fortune Global 500 list. conferred on beaches that ii. Reliance Industries replace Indian Oil meet certain criteria of cleanliness and Corporation. RIL's present ranking in the environmental propriety. list 106and IOC's ranking in the list 117. ii. These beaches are at Shivrajpur (Gujarat), Do You Know- Bhogave (Maharashtra), Ghoghla (Diu), Founder of Reliance Industries Miramar (Goa), Kasarkod and Padubidri Ltd: Dhirubhai Ambani. (Karnataka), Kappad (Kerala), Eden CEO of Reliance Industries Ltd: Mukesh (Puducherry), Mahabalipuram (Tamil Nadu), Ambani. Rushikonda (Andhra Pradesh), Golden (Odisha), and Radhanagar (Andaman & Lt Gn. Ranbir Singh releases a book on Fire and Nicobar Islands). Fury Warriors Do You Know- www.tarainstitute.com Current Affairs i. The coffee table book titled 'Fire and Fury Network yesterday announced that they are set to Corps - Saga of Valour, Fortitude and launch an innovative project to deliver emergency Sacrifice', was released by Northern Army medical supplies such as blood and vaccines via Commander Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh. drones. ii. This book showcases the courage and bravery of ii. This pilot project, called Medicine from the the Fire and Fury Warriors and portrays the rich Sky, will run in partnership with the State heritage and ethos of the Indian Army. Government and HealthNet Global Limited. Do You Know- Do You Know- Chief of the Army Staff: General Bipin CM of Telangana: K Chandrashekhar Rawat. Rao; Capital of Telangana: Hyderabad. Governor of Telangana: ESL Narasimhan. PM Modi releases book on former PM Chandra Shekhar Chengalpet, Tenkasi to be new districts in Tamil i.
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