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IMPORTANT DAYS

DATE DAYS THEME 15th July World Youth Skill Day “Learning to Learn from Life and Work” 17th July World day of International This day recognize the emerging Justice system of International crime justice. 18th July Nelson Mandela International This day remind the Day contributions of Mandela to the culture of peace, human right, reconciliation and freedom.

NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Ayush Minister Shripad Yesso Naik informed the Rajya Sabha that 2,500 new centres are planned to be opened within the first four months of the present government. 2. Over 30.6 lakh persons have been enrolled so far under the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM) scheme.The government has launched the PM-SYM a voluntary and contributory pension scheme for the benefit of unorganized workers in February this year in the country. 3. Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank released the UGC Guide to Student Induction Programme - Deeksharambh in New Delhi. Objective: to help new students adjust and feel comfortable in the new environment. 4. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will participate in the Standalone meeting of BRICS' Foreign Ministers from July 25-26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 5. Union government is planning to set up -based Neutrino Observatory (INO) at Pottipuram in Theni District, Tamil Nadu. Objective is to set up a 51000 ton Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector.It will be the first neutrino detector in India. 6. Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel inaugurated the architectural illumination of the historic Safdarjung Tomb in New Delhi. 7. Coal minister Prahlad Josh informed that government is planning to increase the total production of coal in the country to one billion tones by 2022-23. Page 1 of 14 Join Our Telegram Group to Get Instant Notifications, Study Materials, Quizzes & PDFs: https://t.me/exampunditofficial

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8. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India has fixed a deadline of 2025 for eradicating TB against the global deadline of 2030 and asked MPs to work for its removal.He launched the TB Free India Campaign at ‘Delhi End TB Summit’. 9. Union Panchayat Raj Minister Narendra Singha Tomar informed Lok Sabha that over one lakh 28 thousand Gram Panchayats linked with optical fibre under Bharat Net programme. 10. Union Environment Ministry has selected 12 beaches in Inida to vie for a ‘Blue Flag certification, an International recognition conferred on beaches that meet certain criteria of cleanliness and environmental propriety. 11. Pakistan Punjab’s chief minister laid the foundation stone of Baba Guru Nanak University at Nanakana Sahib. The University was dedicated to Guru Nanak Dev at his birth plance. This university would be spread over 10 acres.

STATE CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. West Bengal Kesri Nath Tripthi released the Bengali version of the famous book “Great Minds of India”. This unique book is translated into Bengali by Dr. R N Das. 2. Meghalaya became the first Indian state to draft a water policy to ensure water conservation, issues and protection of water resources in the State.The approved policy intended to achieve sustainable development by Meghalaya state government. 3. First-ever Himalayan States Conclave will be hosted by Uttarakhand on July 28, 2019 at Mussoorie.The main Objective of this conclave is to focus on sustainable development of the Indian Himalayan Region. 4. Tamil Nadu to form two new districts and the total number of districts in the state will be raised to 35.Tenkasi District would be carved out of Tirunelveli and Chengalpet District would be established by splitting Kanchipuram district. 5. Odisha will get its first desalination plant in Paradip with a capacity of 10 million litres per day.The proposed plant, to be built at a cost of around Rs 116 crore, is expected to be commissioned by 2021 6. In Chief Minister received the 'Victory Flame' at Mandi.The ‘Victory Flam’ that illuminated from the National War Memorial, New Delhi on July, 14 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Kargil Vijay Diwas. 7. Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik has launched the new e-challan system and the e-payment gateway for the use of Delhi Traffic Police. 8. The Maharashtra sports department has sought funds of over Rs one crore for ace shooter Rahi Sarnobat. 9. The country's first garbage cafe has been launched in Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh.Persons fetching 1 kg plastic waste will be offered a full meal while those collecting 500 grams waste will get a substantial breakfast. 10. government approved the proposal to set up first full-fledged sports university at Sonipat. 11. The Assam Government is to plant sapling spread over one thousand kilometres across the National Highways. 12. Chief Minister today flagged off the Central Reserve Police Force cycle rally.Five women officers along with 20 other cyclists will travel a distance of 982 kilometres on cycle from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to India Gate, New Delhi. 13. In Madhya Pradesh, the first international flight from Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar International Airport of Indore left for Dubai today with 153 passengers.

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INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Palau signed the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Framework Agreement and became the 76th country to join ISA. 2. The Saudi military says it has intercepted a drone launched at the kingdom’s southern border by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. 3. India and Italy have decided to set up a fast-track system for companies and investors of both the countries. The key objective of the system is to identify and solve problems faced by Italian companies and investors with their operations in India. 4. The 8th meeting of India-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism was held in New Delhi. The meeting was co-chaired by Mahaveer Singhvi, Joint Secretary (Counter Terrorism), Ministry of External Affairs and Ambassador Farhod Azriev of Uzbekistan. 5. China has gifted a Warship to Sri Lanka named ‘P625’.Frigate 'P625' arrived in Colombo last week

BANKING & ECONOMY

1. State Bank of India (SBI) has waived the charges on National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) transactions through YONO, Internet, and mobile banking.This will be effective from July 1. 2. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposed fine on State Bank of India (SBI) of Rs 7 cr and Union Bank of India of Rs 10 lakh for violating certain regulatory guidelines. 3. Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) introduced a web-based application system for contribution from the Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS).Aimed to improve the turnaround time and increase transparency.SIDBI is the implementing agency for FFS with a corpus of Rs 10,000 crore on behalf of the Government of India. 4. Andhra Bank launched its Artificial Intelligence interactive assistant — ABHi. The Bank's AI powered chatbot-ABHi uses latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm to understand the customer query and fetch the relevant information from possible knowledgebase in a matter of milliseconds. 5. ICICI Bank launched a new digital platform specially for MSMEs and self-employed customers to enable them to undertake their business banking transactions digitally and instantly named ‘‘InstaBIZ”. 6. Standard Chartered will become first foreign bank to launch operations at International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) located at the Gujarat International Finance Tech City (GIFT City). 7. HDFC Bank and Common Services Centres (CSCs) launched a co-branded ‘Small Business Money-Back Credit Card’. This Co-branded credit card is for small traders and village-level entrepreneurs (VLEs).

BUSINESS & FINANCE

1. HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company and Muthoottu Mini Financiers Ltd announced the tie-up for the distribution of HDFC ERGO’s range of non-life insurance offerings for the customers of the NBFC through its network branches. 2. Asian Development Bank lowered the GDP growth rate of India from 7.2% to 7% for the current fiscal. 3. Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI) has signed an agreement to acquire AI firm Lymbyc Solutions for Rs 38 crore. 4. BSE has inked a pact with Haryana government to encourage and support state's micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to raise capital. Objective is to facilitate SMEs in raising funds through BSE's dedicated platform for SME's -- BSE SME .

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SUMMITS & CONFERENCES

1. The 11th Mekong Ganga Cooperation Senior Officials' Meeting (11th MGC SOM) held in New Delhi.The meeting reviewed the progress of the 9th MGC ministerial meeting held in Singapore on August 2, 2018.They discussed about the draft MGC Plan of Action (2019-22) to be adopted at the 10th MGC ministerial meeting in Bangkok on August 1, 2019. 2. The 5th edition of International Police Expo 2019 is inaugurated at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi from July 19 to July 20.

RANKS & INDICES

1. A/C to Bloomberg Billionaires Index,Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO is the world’s richest person with a total net worth of $125 million. Bill Gates, Microsoft founder stands at Number 3 with net worth of $107 billion.The richest Indian, Mukesh Ambani is on the 13th spot, with a net worth of USD 51.8 billion. Azim Premji is the second-richest Indian to be on the list at the 48th rank with USD 20.5 billion.Shiv Nadar is on the 92nd spot and Uday Kotak is on the 96th spot. 2. According to the data from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has overtaken rival Bharti Airtel to become the second largest operator in terms of mobile subscriber base.As of May end, Jio had 322.98 million users as against Airtel’s 320.38 million users.Vodafone Idea continues in the top position with 387.55 million users. 3. Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will launch the Global Innovation Index, GII on 24th July in New Delhi.

AGREEMENTS and MoU signed

1. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has provided a $100-million loan to L&T Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (LTIF) for wind and solar infrastructure projects in India. 2. World Bank signed a loan of $250 million to the Kerala Government for the Resilient Kerala project.The main objective is to enhance the state’s resilience against the impacts of natural disasters and climate change. 3. The Department of Telecom (DoT) and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a Broadband Readiness Index (BRI) for Indian States and Union Territories (UT).The first estimate will be made in 2019 and subsequently every year until 2022. 4. GeM and Steel Authority of IndiaNSE -2.31 % (SAIL), signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) to set up GeM Organizational Transformation Team.With this MoU, SAIL has become the first public sector undertaking to establish GOTT PMU for transforming their procurement landscape and increasing their footprint on GeM. 5. Sri Lankan government today signed an agreement with IRCON International for upgrading of a railway track with Indian concessional financing of around 91.26 million US dollars. 6. Union Health Ministry has signed an MoU with Ministries of Ayush, Defence and Railways to strengthen the efforts towards a TB-Free India by 2025.

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APPOINTMENTS

PERSON APPOINTED AS SUCCEEDED Julie Sweet CEO of Accenture Inc David Rowland David Rowland Executive Chairman of Accenture Governor of Himachal Acharya Devvrat Pradesh Acharya Devvrat Governor of Gujarat O.P. Kohli Kiran More interim coach of the Pubudu Dassanayake USA cricket team Swatantra Dev Singh Uttar Pradesh BJP Chief Chandrakant Patil BJP's Maharashtra unit. Mangal Prabhat Lodha BJP President of Mumbai. Christine Lagarde resigned as managing director of IMF Ursula von der Leyen European Commission's first female president.

Justice AK Sikri International judge of Previously he served as the Singapore Supreme Court judge. international commercial court (SICC).

Anusuiya Uikey Governor of Chhattisgarh Biswa Bhusan Harichandan Sarvita Sethi Coco Cola Vice President Harsh Bhutani CFO of Coco Cola Vivek Kumar Private secretary to IFS Officer, currently Prime Minister working as Director in Narendra Modi. the Prime Minister’s Office.

Bharat Lal Additional secretary in IFS Officer, at present the Jal Shakti Ministry's additional secretary to

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Drinking Water and the President. Sanitation department. Amita Prasad Chairperson of the IAS Officer of the 1985 Inland Waterways batch Authority of India in the Ministry of Shipping. Jyoti Arora Additional secretary IAS officer of the 1987 and financial advisor in batch the Electronics and Information Technology Ministry. Rajesh Verma Additional secretary in IAS officer of the 1987 the Department of batch Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare. Indevar Pandey Additional secretary in IAS officer of the 1988 the Ministry of batch Development of North Eastern Region. Sanjeev Kumar Singla Indian Ambassador to Israel Upender Singh Rawat Indian Ambassador to the Republic of Panama. STATE NEW GOVERNOR REPLACED Madhya Pradesh Lal Ji Tandon Anandi Ben Patel Uttar Pradesh Anandi Ben Patel West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar Bihar Phagu Chauhan Lal Ji Tandon Tripura Ramesh Bais Nagaland R.N.Ravi Chhattisgarh Anusuiya Uikey Anandi Ben Patel Andhra Pradesh Biswa Bhusan E. S. L. Narasimhan. Harichandan Himachal Pradesh Kalraj Mishra Acharya Dev Vrat Gujarat Acharya Devvrat

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SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Vijayveer Sidhu picked up his third gold medal of the ongoing ISSF Junior World Cup with Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu and Adarsh Singh to clinch the men's 25m pistol event.The event was held in Suhl, Germany. 2. 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship started today at the Jawaharlal Indoor Stadium in Cuttack, Odisha.The event was inaugurated by Odisha Governor . Indian team secured the first spot in the medal tally of Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship 2019 held at Samoa. It won 35 medals including 22 golds, 10 silvers and 3 bronze medals in the youth, junior, and senior categories. 3. Indian sprinter Hima Das clinched her fourth gold in a fortnight as she won the 200m race with a creditable timing in the Tabor Athletics Meet in Czech Republic. She won the race in 23.25 seconds. 4. At the ISSF Junior World Cup, Sarabjot Singh shot a 239.6 to bag the men's 10 metres air pistol gold.This is India's ninth yellow metal at the event in Suhl, Germany. 5. International cricket chiefs suspended Zimbabwe over a failure to keep the sport free from government interference.ICC funding has been withdrawn and the country will be barred from participating at ICC events. 6. PT Usha has been nominated for the International Association of Athletics Federation’s (IAAF) ‘Veteran Pin’ for her outstanding service to the sport.Usha is often called the “queen of track and field”. 7. In the Shooting Junior World Cup, Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar clinched gold with a junior world record in the final of rifle 3-position event in Suhl Germany.India finished the ISSF tournament on top of the table with 10 gold, nine silver and five bronze for a total of 24 medals. 8. In Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship held in Cuttack , India made a record by winning gold in both men’s and women’s category.The Indian men won the final match defeating England 3-2. The Indian women team defeated England 3-0 in final match. 9. Indian Army has successfully carried out summer user trials of third Generation Anti-Tank Guided Missile- NAG at Pokhran Field Firing Ranges in Rajasthan. 10. The 2019 Wimbledon Championships was the 133rd edition of Championship.It is played in Grass court.After the “Australian open” and “French open”, Wimbledon is the 3rd Grand Slam of the year.The tournament took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom from 1st July 2019 to 14 July 2019. TITLE WINNER RUNNER UP Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic(Serbia) Roger federer(Switzerland) Women’s Singles Simona Halep(Romania) Serena Williams(USA) Men’s Doubles Juan Sebastián Cabal (Colombia) Nicolas Mahut (France) Robert Farah (Colombia) Édouard Roger-Vasselin (France) Women’s Doubles Hsieh Su-wei (Chinese Taipei) Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) Barbora Strýcová (Czech Xu Yifan (China) Republic ) Mixed Doubles Ivan Dodig (Croatia) Robert Lindstedt (Sweden) Latisha Chan (Chinese Taipei) Jeļena Ostapenko (Latvia)

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Australia Open 2019

TITLE WINNER RUNNER UP Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Rafael Nadal (Spain) Women’s Singles Naomi Osaka (Japan) Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) Men’s Doubles Pierre-Hugues Herbert (France) Henri Kontinen (Finland) and and Nicolas Mahut (France) John Peers (Australia) Women’s Doubles Samantha Stosur (Australia) and Tímea Babos (Hungary) and Zhang Shuai (China) Kristina Mladenovic (France) Mixed Doubles Barbora Krejčíková (Czech Astra Sharma (Australia) and Republic) and Rajeev Ram John-Patrick Smith (Australia) (United States)

French Open 2019

TITLE WINNER RUNNER UP Men’s Singles Rafael Nadal (Spain) Dominic Thiem (Austria) Women’s Singles Ashleigh Barty (Australia) Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic) Men’s Doubles Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies Fabrice Martin and Jeremy (Germany) Chardy (France) Women’s Doubles Kristina Mladenovic (France) Duan Yingying and Zheng Saisai Timea Babos (Hungary) (China) Mixed Doubles Latisha Chan (Taiwan) Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) Ivan Dodig (Croatia) Mate Pavic (Croatia)

DEFENCE CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Israel Aerospace Industries signs $50 million follow-up deal with Indian Navy.Aimed to provide complementary missile systems to the Indian navy and India’s MDL Shipyard.The agreement involves a range of maintenance and other services for sub-systems of Israel Aerospace’s naval medium range surface-to-air missile. 2. ISRO announced that India's lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 will be rescheduled to launch on the 22nd of July at 2:43 pm from the spaceport at Sriharikota.Originally Chandrayaan-2 was scheduled to be launched at 2.51 am on July 15.Due to some technical issue it was cancelled on 15th and now rescheduled to launch on 22nd of this month. 3. INS Sagardhwani embarked on a two month long Sagar Mitri Mission-2 from Sothern Naval Command in Kochi. 4. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju today launched the All India Football Federation's Golden Baby Leagues handbook 2019-20 on the sidelines of the Intercontinental Cup in Ahemadabad

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BOOKS & AUTHORS

1. A new book titled, “Kargil: Untold stories from the War” authored by Rachna Bisht Rawat released in New Delhi.The book is based on Rawat's interviews with war survivors and martyrs' families, take the readers to the treacherous Himalayan mountains. The book has been published by Penguin Random House. 2. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju today launched the All India Football Federation's Golden Baby Leagues handbook 2019-20 on the sidelines of the Intercontinental Cup in Ahmadabad.The 'AIFF Baby Leagues' renamed as 'AIFF Golden Baby Leagues'.

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

1. Well-known breast surgeon and Padma Shri awardee P Raghu Ram has been conferred the Honorary Fellowship of The Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) of Thailand at the 44th annual congress of the Royal College in Pattaya. 2. Shah Rukh Khan conferred with an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from Melbourne-based La Trobe University at the 10th edition of Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) at Bundoora, Australia. 3. Director Kaushik Ganguly’s Bengali outing Nagarkirtan, has won big at prestigious 2019’s SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) film festival, bagging 4 awards in total, including Best Feature Film. 4. Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju conferred Arjuna award to tennis player Rohan Bopanna and women cricketer Smriti Mandhana. 5. The "Find the Incredible You" campaign of the Tourism Ministry, has won the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award, 2019 under the "Marketing - Primary Government Destination" category. 6. Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar has been inducted into the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Hall of Fame alongside South African pace legend Allan Donald and Australia's Cathryn Fitzpatrick. 7. Tabla Maestro Zakir Hussain and dancer Sonal Mansingh are among the four eminent personalities who have been selected for the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships in the field of performing arts.The two other personalities are dancer and choreographer Jatin Goswami and Bharatnatyam exponent K.Kalyanasundaram Pillai.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1. Google India's 'Internet Saathi' programme aimed to empower rural women to use the Internet.They added two more states namely Punjab and Odisha. SCHEMES

1. Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank released the UGC Guide to Student Induction Programme - Deeksharambh in New Delhi.Objective is to help new students adjust and feel comfortable in the new environment.

OBITURIES

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PERRSON PROFESSION STATE/COUNTRY EXTRA Shots H.M. Ershad Bangladesh’s former West Bengal He became the president of military dictator Bangladesh in December 1983.

Pernell “Sweet Pea” former world champion He won world titles at Whitaker lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight and light middleweight.

Lt Gen Joginder Singh He was awarded the Maha Gharaya Vir Chakra and Kirti Chakra

Fernando Corbato Computer pioneer First used passwords to protect user accounts Purobi Bormudoi Writer Assam She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award in 2007 for her book 'Shantanukulanandan' and was also a recipient of the Assam Valley Literary award and Assam Sahitya Sabha's Basanti Bordoloi Award.

Shiela Dixit Politician Delhi A three-time Chief Minister of Delhi, Shiela Dixit unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election from North East Delhi.

MISCELLANEOUS CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. The Golden Jubilee Edition of International Film Festival of India, IFFI will be held from 20th Nov till 28th November 2019 in Panaji, Goa. Russia will be IFFI partner in this edition. 2. 10th Jagran Film festival started at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi.The festival inaugurated by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar.

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Russia (Capital/Currency): Moscow/Ruble Accenture: Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy,  Prime Minister: Dmitry Medvedev consulting, digital, technology and operations.  President: Vladimir Putin Thailand (Capital/Currency): Bangkok/Bhatt  Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland  Establishment: 1 September 2009  Prime Minister: Prayut Chan-o-cha Google: Google LLC is an American multinational Italy (Capital/Currency): Rome/Euro technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising  Prime Minister: Giuseppe Conte technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, Uzbekistan (Capital/Currency): Tashkent/Som and hardware.  President: Shavkat Mirziyoyev  Founded: 4 September 1998, Menlo Park, China (Capital/Currency): Beijing/Renminbi California, United States  President: Xi Jinping  Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin Sri Lanka (Capital/Currency): Colombo, Sri  CEO: Sundar Pichai Jayawardenepura Kotte/ Sri Lankan rupee ISRO: The Indian Space Research Organisation is the space agency of the Government of India.  President: Maithripala Sirisen Israel (Capital/Currency): Jerusalem/New Shekel  Founded: 15 August 1969  Headquarters: Bengaluru Brazil (Capital/Currency): Brasilia/ Brazilian real  Founder: Vikram Sarabhai  President: Jair Bolsonaro  Director: Kailasavadivoo Sivan Palau (Capital/Currency): Ngerulmud/US Dollar  Subsidiary: Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre TRAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is a  President :Tommy Remengesau statutory body set up by the Government of India under Saudi Arabia (Capital/Currency): Riyadh/Riyal section 3 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997. It is the regulator of the telecommunications sector in Czech Republic (Capital/Currency): Prague/ Czech koruna India. Steel Authority of India Limited is an Indian state-owned  Founded: 20 February 1997 steel making company based in New Delhi, India. It is a  Headquarters: New Delhi public sector undertaking.  Chirman: Ram Sewak Sharma  Founded: 19 January 1954  Secretary:Sunil K Gupta  Headquarters: New Delhi DRDO: The Defence Research and Development  CEO: Anil Kumar Chaudhary Organisation is an agency of the Government of India,  CEO of Government e Marketplace (GeM): Radha charged with the military's research and development. Chauhan  Founded: 1958  Headquarters: New Delhi

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 Motto: बलस्य मूलं विज्ञानम्; "Strength's Origin is in IAAF: The International Association of Athletics Federations Science" (Sanskrit) is the international governing body for the sport of  Chairman: Dr G. Satheesh Reddy athletics. BSE: The Bombay Stock Exchange is an Indian stock  Founded: 17 July 1912, Stockholm, Sweden exchange located at Dalal Street, Mumbai. Established in  Membership: 215 member federations 1875, the BSE is Asia's first stock exchange.  Headquarters: Monaco  Founded: 9 July 1875  President: Sebastian Coe  MD & CEO: Ashish Kumar Chauhan ISSF: The International Shooting Sport Federation, also L&T: Larsen & Toubro Limited, commonly known as L&T known with the acronym ISSF, is the governing body of the Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate company. Olympic Shooting events in rifle, pistol and shotgun disciplines, and of several non-Olympic Shooting sport  Headquarters: Mumbai events.  Founders: Henning Holck-Larsen, Søren Kristian Toubro  Founded: 1907  MD & CEO :S.N.Subhramaniyam  Headquarters: Munich, Germany Bloomberg: Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial,  President: Vladimir Lisin software, data, and media company. United Nations: It is an International Organization. Its Objective of UN is to not only maintain International Peace  Headquarters: New York, New York, United States and Security but also to develop Friendly relations among  CEO: Michael Bloomberg nations.  Founders: Michael Bloomberg, Thomas Secunda, Charles Zegar, Duncan MacMillan  Founded – 24th October, 1945 International Criminal Court (ICC): The International  Headquarter- New York,United States Criminal Court is an intergovernmental organization and  Secretary General- Antonio Guterres (9th SG OF international tribunal. UN)  He is from PORTUGAL  Founded: 1 July 2002, Rome, Italy  Portugal (Capital/Currency) - Lisbon/ Euro  Member states: 122  United States (Capital/Currency) - Washington, D.C/  Seat: The Hague, Netherlands US Dollar ICC: The International Cricket Council is the global World Bank: The World Bank is an international financial governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial institution that provides interest-free loans and grants to Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from the governments of poorer countries for the purpose of Australia, England and South Africa. It was renamed as the pursuing capital projects. International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.  Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States  Founded: 1944  Founded: 15 June 1909  Formation: July 1945  Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates  Founders: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter  Chairperson: Shashank Manohar White  CEO: Manu Sawhney  CEO: Kristalina Georgieva(Bulgaria)  13th ICC Cricket World Cup will be held in India from 9th February to 26th March 2023. Page 12 of 14 Join Our Telegram Group to Get Instant Notifications, Study Materials, Quizzes & PDFs: https://t.me/exampunditofficial

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IMF: The Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore is one  Founded: 2 April 1990 of the two tiers of the court system in Singapore.  Headquarters: Lucknow  Chairman and Managing Director: Mohammad  Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States Mustafa  Managing Director (MD): Christine Lagarde Union Bank of India: Union Bank of India is one of the  Chief Economist: Gita Gopinath largest government-owned banks of India, the government  Membership: 189 countries owns over 90% of its share capital. AIIB: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a multilateral development bank that aims to support the  Headquarters: Mumbai building of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.  CEO: Rajkiran Rai G. State Bank of India: Founded on: As 2 June 1806 (Bank of  Headquarters: Beijing, China Calcutta), 15 April 1840 (Bank of Bombay), 1 July 1843  Formation: January 16, 2016 (Bank of Madras), 27 January 1921 (Imperial Bank of India),  President: Jin Liqun 1 July 1955 (State Bank of India) ADB: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank aimed to promote social and economic  Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra development in Asia.  Chairman: Rajnish Kumar  SBI is the largest commercial bank and the largest  Founded: 19 December 1966 mortgage lender across the country.  Membership: 68 countries  SBI has 22,010 branches and 58,000 ATM/CDM  Purpose: Economic development across India.  Headquarters: Mandaluyong, Philippines Andhra Bank: Andhra Bank is a medium-sized public sector  President: Takehiko Nakao bank of India, with a network of 2885 branches, 4 extension BRICS: BRICS is the acronym coined for an association of counters, 38 satellite offices and 3798 automated teller five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, machines as of 31 March 2019. India, China and South Africa. Originally the first four were grouped as "BRIC", before the induction of South Africa in  Headquarters: Hyderabad 2010.  Founder: Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya ICICI: ICICI Bank Limited is an Indian multinational banking  Founded: June 2006 and financial services company.  Headquarters location: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark  Headquarters: Mumbai  Founders: India, China, Brazil, Russia  CEO: Sandeep Bakhshi RBI: The Reserve Bank of India is India's central banking  Tagline: Hum Hai Na institution, which controls the issuance and supply of the Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking Indian rupee. and financial services company.

 Founded: 1 April 1935, Kolkata  Headquarters location: London, United Kingdom  Headquarters: Mumbai  CEO: Bill Winters  Governor: Shaktikanta Das HDFC ERGO: HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company SIDBI: Small industrial Development Bank of India is a Limited is a joint venture between HDFC Ltd. and ERGO development financial institution in India. International AG, a Germany-based company that is part of the Munich Re Group. Page 13 of 14 Join Our Telegram Group to Get Instant Notifications, Study Materials, Quizzes & PDFs: https://t.me/exampunditofficial

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 Headquarters: Mumbai  Founded: August 1994  CEO: Mr. Ritesh Kumar  Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India  Executive Director: Anuj Tyagi  MD: Aditya Puri  Executive vice president: Mr. Dayananda V. Shetty HDFC Bank:

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