Yak July 2018 Electrical Flow Affairs Of Import Highlights (One-Liners)

Friends, hither are the Major Current Affairs Highlights of July 2018. These one-liners embrace all of import International, National, MOUs, Indexes, Banking, Technology, Books & Authors, Committees in addition to Sports affairs of July calendar month (from 1st to 31st July 2018). You volition larn pdf versoin of this listing past times this evening. All the Best in addition to Happy Reading :)

July 2018 Current Affairs Highlights (One-Liners) 

• 10th BRICS Summit was lately held at Johannesburg , South Africa with the Theme 'BRICS inwards Africa: collaboration for inclusive growth in addition to shared prosperity inwards the 4th Industrial Revolution'.
• 1st July 2018 was observed every bit 'GST Day' every bit the indirect taxation regime completes 1 twelvemonth on this day.
• 10th edition of Delhi Dialogue (DD X) was lately held inwards New Delhi. Theme of tenth DDX : “Strengthening India-ASEAN Maritime Cooperation”.
• 11th July 2018 was observed every bit World Population Day with the theme "Family Planning is Human Right".
  
• 15th July 2018 was observed every bit World Youth Skills Day with the theme  ‘Improving the icon of TVET (Technical in addition to Vocational Education in addition to Training)’.
• 19th Kargil Victory Day (Kargil Vijay Diwas) was observed on 26th July 2018.
• 2018 Commonwealth Games aureate medallist Bajrang Punia emerged champion at the Tbilisi Grand Prix inwards the 65kg category past times defeating Iranian wrestler Mehran Nasiri inwards the lastly inwards Georgia.
• "The International Congress of Parliamentary Women's Caucuses" volition live held at Dublin Castle, Republic of Ireland during ninth in addition to tenth of September 2018.
• 28th July 2018 was observed every bit World Hepatitis Day with the theme "Test. Treat. Hepatitis".
• 2-day Unified Commanders' Conference (UCC) 2018 was lately held at New Delhi.  
• 2nd Young Superintendent of Police Conference was held inwards New Delhi. Theme of this conference : “Predictive Policing in addition to Contemporary Challenges for Indian Police Forces”.
• 30th July 2018 was observed every bit World Day against Trafficking inwards Persons, with the theme ‘Responding to the trafficking of children in addition to immature people’.
• 4th edition of BIMSTEC Summit volition live held inwards Khatmandu (Nepal's capital) from 30th to 31st August 2018. BIMSTEC - Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical in addition to Economic Cooperation.
• 5th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) intersessional ministerial coming together was held inwards Tokyo, Japan.
• 6th India-UK Science & Innovation Council (SIC) coming together was held at New Delhi.
• 6th coming together of BRICS Education Ministers was lately held at Cape Town, South Africa. Theme of the Meeting : “Deepening BRICS Education Partnerships in addition to Exchanges”.
• 8th BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting was held at Durban, South Africa. Indian delegation was led past times J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health in addition to Family Welfare.
• A mass titled "The Dhoni Touch" was lately released. This mass has been authored past times Bharat Sundaresan.
• A mass titled ‘Gandhi The years that changed the world (1914-1948)’ written past times Sahitya Akademy winner Ramachandra Guha volition live released inwards September 2018. This mass volition live published past times Penguin Random House India.
• A Museum dedicated to all one-time in addition to hereafter Prime Ministers volition live built at Delhi's Teen Murti Bhavan, which served every bit Jawaharlal Nehru's official residence every bit PM until his give-up the ghost inwards office.
• A panel headed past times retired Supreme Court jurist B N Srikrishna submitted its study to the regime on suggestions for a information protection law that volition also embrace Aadhaar. The panel recommended for certain measures for protecting personal information, defining obligations of information processors in addition to the rights of individuals.
• According to a lately released World Bank report, Republic of Republic of India is the sixth largest economic scheme inwards the world, with a gross domestic product of $2.59 trillion inwards 2017. Republic of Republic of India surpassed French Republic in addition to is behind the US, China, Japan, FRG in addition to the UK.
• Airtel Payments Bank received the requisite approvals from the Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) to resume taking novel customers. The payments banking concern has also been permitted past times the Unique Identification Authority of Republic of Republic of India (UIDAI) to resume adding novel customers using Aadhaar based eKYC.
• All l states of US of America similar a shot allow Breastfeeding inwards public, with Utah in addition to Idaho lately joining the residual of the province inwards legalising it.
• All Republic of Republic of India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) in addition to IIT (Indian Institute of Technology)-Delhi get got signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to heighten enquiry inwards the patch of Ayurveda.
• American in addition to Castilian scientists get got discovered a novel 3D shape called 'Scutoid' spell studying human tissue folds which shape the skin, cavity in addition to organ linings. The twisted prism-like shape has 5 sides at 1 cease in addition to half dozen sides at the other end, also a triangular surface on 1 of its longer edges.
• American multinational retail corporation Walmart has signed a five-year partnership with Microsoft to usage the company's cloud services inwards retail.
• Arjuna-awardee gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who finished 4th at Rio Olympics, clinched the Gold medal inwards the vault lawsuit of Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup.
• As many every bit 1 lakh students inwards 100 schools across Republic of Republic of India volition gather Solar Lamps on Oct 2 to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi's 150th nascence anniversary in addition to celebrate IIT-Bombay's diamond jubilee.
• As component of its preparations to send an Indian astronaut into infinite using an indigenous rocket inwards the future, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully tested the Crew Escape System, which is critical to ensure security of the astronauts inwards illustration a rocket explodes on the launch pad.
• As per lately released Prime Database Investment Bankers League tabular array for FY 2017-18, IIFL Holdings Ltd. (IIFL) is India’s top investment banking concern for equity issuances past times private sector companies.
• Australia's Sydney Airport is starting to attempt out the get-go stage of biometric applied scientific discipline for check-in amongst Qantas airlines eliminating the requirement of a passport.
• Banks in addition to fiscal institutions, including State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI), Punjab National Bank (PNB) in addition to the Life Insurance Corporation of Republic of Republic of India (LIC) entered into an overarching Inter-Creditor Agreement (ICA) to fast rail resolution of stressed assets of Rs l crore or to a greater extent than which are nether consortium lending. The ICA is existence signed past times 22 populace sector banks (including Republic of Republic of India Post Payments Bank), nineteen private sector banks in addition to 32 unusual banks.
• Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government has won No Confidence motion moved inwards Lok Sabha. This was get-go no-confidence motion against Narendra Modi regime after it came to mightiness inwards May 2014 in addition to less than twelvemonth before the adjacent full general elections.
• Bogibeel, India’s longest rail-cum-road bridge, is probable to live inaugurated inwards Oct this year. Built over the Brahmaputra river, 4.94 kilometres long rail-cum-road brace connects the North in addition to South banks of river Brahmaputra in addition to is situated inwards the eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh in addition to Assam.
• Bollywood Actress Kangana Ranaut in addition to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh  launched a smartphone distribution scheme titled 'Mobile Tihar' nether Sanchar Kranti Yojana. The scheme includes distribution of smartphones to 45 lakh women in addition to 5 lakh children, in addition to setting upwards of 556 novel mobile towers.
• British cyclist Chris Froome won his tertiary consecutive in addition to 4th overall Tour de French Republic entitle inwards Paeis.
• British Racer Lewis Hamilton has won the 2018 High German Grand Prix.
• Cambodia’s ruling political party CPP ( Cambodian People's Party) has won an expected victory inwards an election Lord's Day widely considered illegitimate after the alone credible opposition was silenced.
• Canada's smartARM has won Microsoft's global contest Imagine Cup 2018 for creating an affordable, robotic arm prosthetic. As component of their winnings, smartARM received ₹58 lakh, a mentoring session with CEO Satya Nadella, in addition to ₹34.5-lakh Azure grant.
• Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh-led BJP regime has defeated the no-confidence motion that the Congress moved against it inwards the province assembly.
• China has built an unmanned automatic conditions observation station inwards Tibet close its border with India.
• China is planning to launch 300 low-orbit satellites to render worldwide communication services. The get-go inwards the 300-satellite array — known every bit the Hongyan constellation — is laid to live launched past times the cease of this year.
• China successfully launched 2 remote sensing satellites PRSS-1 in addition to PakTes-1A of Islamic Republic of Pakistan on board of Long March-2C rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre.
• Commercial banks inwards Republic of Republic of India volition no longer live able to transact inwards cryptocurrencies similar Bitcoin from (6th July 2018) inwards thought of an RBI directive inwards April.
• Consumer or Retail Inflation accelerated to 5% to hitting a five-month high inwards June this year, good higher upwards May's 4.87%, majorly due to ascension inwards the fuel prices.
• Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal along with the spiritual leader Dalai Lama launched a 'Happiness Curriculum' for students studying inwards Class Nursery to Class 8 inwards regime schools.
• Delhi Metro lately became the 1st Metro scheme inwards the World to go Completely Green.
• Digital payments major Paytm's parent fellowship One97 Communications is going to build the Headquartes of Paytm at Noida's Sector 137.
• Drawing inspiration from the highly-successful 'Amma' canteens inwards Tamil Nadu, the Andhra Pradesh regime launched its ain 'Anna' canteens across the state. The canteens volition offering breakfast, tiffin in addition to dinner at Rs 5 a meal.
• Egypt defeated England to win the Boy's entitle at the WSF-World Junior Squash squad entitle held inwards Chennai.
• Elon Musk-led infinite startup SpaceX launched the Telstar nineteen Vantage satellite through it's Falcon nine rocket. Weighing over 7,000 kg, this is the world's heaviest commercial communications satellite .
• External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was on a two-day see to Manama (Bahrain). During this visit, She co-chaired the 2nd high articulation commission coming together with her Bahraini counterpart Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.
• Ex-world number 1 Novak Djokovic clinched his 4th Wimbledon entitle in addition to overall 13th Grand Slam past times defeating Kevin Anderson inwards Men's Singles category.  
• Facebook has announced that it is working on a novel satellite project, named Athena, which volition render broadband mesh connections to rural in addition to underserved areas.
• Facebook's 34-year-old CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dethroned Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett to go the world's third-richest soul with $81.6 billion wealth, according to Bloomberg. Amazon's Jeff Bezos remains the world's richest followed past times Microsoft's Bill Gates.
• Fertiliser major Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO) has launched e-commerce platform IFFCO iMandi (an mobile application in addition to spider web portal) to address all needs of the farming community associated with it.
• For the get-go time, Rajya Sabha members tin speak inwards whatsoever of the 22 languages listed inwards the 8th schedule of the Constitution, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has lately announced.
• For the get-go time, the Indian Air Force is going to participate inwards Exercise Pitch Black, a three-week multinational warfare exercise hosted past times the Royal Australian Air Force.
• Former captain MS Dhoni has go the first-ever Indian wicketkeeper to get got 300 catches inwards ODI cricket.
• Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested past times anti-corruption investigators over his links to misappropriation of $4.5 billion from the state-run 1MDB wealth fund, which was gear upwards to promote economical development.  
• Former Islamic Republic of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to 10 years inwards prison theatre inwards a corruption case. The illustration pertains to the purchase of flats inwards London in addition to came to calorie-free after the Panama Papers leak inwards 2016.
• Former Team Republic of Republic of India captain Rahul Dravid has go the fifth Indian cricketer to live inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. Other 4 Indian Cricketers inwards ICC Hall of Fame are : Anil Kumble, Sunil Gavaskar, Bishan Singh Bedi in addition to Kapil Dev.
• Former world number 1 Angelique Kerber defeated seven-time champion Serena Williams inwards the women's singles lastly to clinch her first-ever Wimbledon title.  
• Four-time world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) won the High German Grand Prix 2018.  
• France has won the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals past times defeating first-time finalists Croatia.
• From the upcoming Monsoon Session, Lok Sabha MPs volition live allowed to inquire a maximum of 5 questions inwards the spot per day.
• Germany's Mesut Özil announced his retirement from international football game over "disrespect in addition to racism".  
• Germany's multinational conglomerate fellowship Thyssenkrupp in addition to India's Tata Steel signed a lastly understanding to flora a steel articulation venture, mark the European steel industry's largest bargain inwards 12 years. The bargain volition create Europe's second-largest steelmaker after ArcelorMittal.
• Google is working on a novel operating scheme (OS) titled 'Fuchsia' which volition supersede Android.
• Gujarat Government has granted religious minority condition to Jews living inwards the state. With this, Gujarat becomes the tertiary province inwards Republic of Republic of India to grant religious minority condition to Jews after West Bengal in addition to Maharashtra.
• Gujarat Government’s Industries in addition to Mines Department has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) to strengthen trade, industrial relations.
• Harry Potter fantasy serial autor J. K. Rowling has announced her adjacent mass titled "Lethal White". Rowling is writing this novel with the pen call "Robert Galbraith".
• Himachal Pradesh CM Jairam Thakur announced a ₹1.55-crore projection to gear upwards a moo-cow sanctuary at Kotla Barog.
• Home Minister Rajnath Singh along with his Bangladeshi counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal inaugurated India's largest visa centre inwards the world inwards Bangladesh's upper-case alphabetic lineament Dhaka. It volition supersede India's 4 other visa application centres inwards People's Republic of Bangladesh inwards 2 phases.
• Homegrown e-commerce startup Flipkart is laid to go into fiscal services line of piece of job organisation in addition to has applied for an NBFC (Non-Banking Financial Company) license to focus on consumer lending. The startup volition start its services with microlending in addition to micro-insurance for e-commerce purchases on its website.
• Hungary volition withdraw from the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly in addition to Regular Migration understanding which volition live adopted inwards December,.
• Iceland  was elected to get got upwards the spot left vacant at the United Nations Human Rights Council after the US of America quit the trunk over what it charges was anti-Israel bias.
• In a bid to cutting costs incurred past times the province government, the West Bengal main government minister Mamata Banerjee laid a “one soul 1 car” policy for ministers in addition to bureaucrats in addition to mandated economic scheme even out for all domestic air travel.
• In a get-go of its variety initiative, the Madhya Pradesh province govt is going to appoint Girls every bit a District Brand Ambassador who get got recorded meaning achievements inwards whatsoever patch nether the Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao scheme.
• In a first, Indian Navy's P-8I long-range Maritime Patrol Aircraft has been inducted at Hawaii for participating inwards the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, which is the world's largest international maritime exercise.
• In its all Republic of Republic of India lastly of US Open, HS Pranoy defeated P Kashyap to elevator his 3rd US Open Grand Prix Gold Tournament.
• India in addition to Sri Lanka signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a Sanitation Sector Project nether which 3400 toilets would live constructed inwards Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
• India in addition to the US of America are going to take hold the initiatory 2+2 dialogue led past times India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in addition to their US counterparts inwards New Delhi on September 6.
• India in addition to U.K. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation inwards the sphere of Law & Justice in addition to establishing Joint Consultative Committee.
• India formally joined the European Bank for Reconstruction in addition to Development (EBRD). With this Republic of Republic of India became 69th fellow member of the London-based multilateral lender.
• India has go the Vice-Chair (Regional head) of the Asia Pacific Region of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) for 2 years from July 2018 to June 2020. By becoming the Vice Chair, Republic of Republic of India volition live able to get got upwards the leadership usage at the WCO.
• India has extended ₹1,378 crore ($200 million) Lines of Credit (LOCs) to Rwanda after PM Narendra Modi held talks with the nation's President Paul Kagame.
• India has invited US President Donald Trump to live the Chief Guest for adjacent year's Republic Day parade.
• India has won nine Medals (4 Silver in addition to 5 Bronze medals) at the seventh World Junior Wushu Championships 2018 inwards Brazil.
• India is going to purchase the Russian S-400 Triumf air defense forcefulness missile despite US sanctions on armed forces transactions with Russia, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced.
• India is going to develop Sri Lanka's loss-making Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport inwards Hambantota, which is known every bit the 'world's emptiest airport'. With India's investment, the projection is expected to handgrip 5 1000000 passengers, 50,000-ton cargo, in addition to over 6000 air traffic operations every twelvemonth past times 2028.
• India is going to procure National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System-II (NASAMS-II), an advanced air defense forcefulness scheme at $1 billion from United States. This volition live used to defend National Capital Region (NCR) from aerial attacks.
• India is going to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with People's Republic of Bangladesh to ease visa restrictions for citizens from the neighboring country.
• India ranks 109th inwards overall 4G mobile mesh speeds with an average download speed of 9.12 Mbps which is less than Islamic Republic of Pakistan (14.03 Mbps), according to information speed tester Ookla. Out of the listing comprising 124 countries, Qatar ranked get-go inwards the listing with 63.22 Mbps average download speed, followed past times Kingdom of Norway with 62.14 Mbps download speed.
• India Under-19 batsman Pavan Shah slammed 282 runs off 332 balls against Sri Lanka Under-19 to tape the highest-ever score past times an Indian inwards a Youth Test.
• India’s Department of Telecommunications has approved Net Neutrality Rules that ban blocking, throttling, in addition to zero-rating mesh data, with some exceptions. With this, access to mesh volition stay unrestricted in addition to non-discriminatory.
• India’s Manu Attri in addition to Sumeeth Reddy won the Men’s doubles entitle at Lagos International Badminton 2018 inwards Lagos, Nigeria.
• India’s upper spot of parliament Rajya Sabha in addition to Senate of Rwanda has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for promoting inter-parliamentary dialogue capacity edifice in addition to cooperation.
• Indian Army has awarded Rs. 100-crore contract for 81 high mobility 10×10 vehicles to India’s leading vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland.
• Indian Army has singed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with State banking concern of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) on Defence Salary Package.
• Indian badminton instrumentalist Lakshaya Sen bagged the Gold medal past times defeating Indonesia’s top-seeded Kunlavut Vitidsaran inwards the lastly tally of the Badminton Asia Junior Championship inwards Jakarta.
• Indian banking in addition to fiscal services fellowship HDFC Bank has gone past times Russia's Sberbank to go the most valuable banking concern inwards the emerging marketplace exterior China. HDFC Bank’s electrical flow marketplace capitalisation is $78.4 billion against Sberbank's $74.4 billion.
• Indian Captain Virat Kohli has go the 1st Indian in addition to fastest overall to gain 2,000 runs inwards men's T20I cricket.
• Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. This statement came just sixteen years after Kaif leading Republic of Republic of India to victory inwards the NatWest Series final.
• Indian e-commerce payment scheme in addition to digital wallet company, Paytm is going to launch its services inwards Japan.
• Indian information technology manufacture apex trunk NASSCOM (National Association of Software & Services Companies) has opened Centre of Excellence for Data Science in addition to Artificial Intelligence (CoE-DSAI) inwards Bengaluru, Karnataka. Aim of CoE-DSAI : To nurture invention inwards emerging disruptive technologies such every bit AI in addition to to leverage the mightiness of information science.
• Indian shuttler Sourabh Verma won the 2018 Russian Open Men's Singles entitle past times defeating Koki Watanabe of Japan.
• Indian Skipper Virat Kohli has go the fastest cricketer to score 3,000 runs every bit captain inwards ODIs, reaching the milestone against England inwards his 49th innings every bit skipper yesterday.
• Indian sprinter Hima Das won the women's 400m lawsuit at the IAAF World Junior Championships. With this, she the first-ever Indian to clinch rail aureate inwards a world entitle across all historic menstruum groups.
• Indian state-owned telecommunication fellowship Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has became the country's get-go telephone network to launch 'internet telephony' service, which makes landline operate similar mobile.
• Indian rail in addition to patch athlete Neeraj Chopra has won Gold medal at Sotteville Athletics run into inwards France.
• Indian wicketkeeper MS Dhoni surpassed Pakistan's Kamran Akmal to live the instrumentalist with the most stumpings inwards T20I history.
• Indian Women's Compound Archery Team created history past times becoming the World No. 1.
• India's  Muhammad Anas Yahiya won Gold medal at 400-meter race lawsuit inwards Czech Republic.
• India's 1983 Cricket World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev has been selected inwards the National Golf squad to get got component inwards the 2018 Asia-Pacific Senior Amateur Championship, which volition live held from Oct 17 to nineteen inwards Japan.
• India's 2nd largest credit carte du jour issuer,  SBI Card announced the launch of a virtual assistant for client back upwards in addition to services titled 'ELA' (Electronic Live Assistant).
• India's biggest mightiness producer NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) Limited has signed a term loan understanding with HDFC Bank for availing a loan of ₹1,500 crore.
• India's get-go government-sponsored 'Transgender Poets' Meet' was lately held at the Sahitya Akademi inwards West Bengal's Kolkata.
• India's largest lender State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) hiked its Fixed Deposit (FD) involvement rates for select tenures. FDs below ₹1 crore for 1 twelvemonth to 2 years volition similar a shot render 6.70% involvement every bit against 6.65% before spell senior citizens volition larn 7.2%. For deposits from 2 years to 3 years, the involvement charge per unit of measurement has been revised to 6.75% from 6.65%.
• India's largest lender State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI), Punjab National Bank (PNB) in addition to Bank of Baroda (BoB) are planning to innovate a performance-linked salary construction for the senior management.
• India's para-athlete Yogesh Kathuniya smashed the world tape inwards the Men's discus F36 spell winning Gold inwards the Para-Athletics Grand Prix inwards Berlin.
• India's richest soul Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) vanquish Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to go the Most Valued Company inwards India.  
• Inflation inwards Venezuela could top 1,000,000% past times the cease of the twelvemonth every bit the province faces its worst economical crisis, the International Monetary Fund has lately announced.
• Insurance regulator Insurance Regulatory in addition to Development Authority of Republic of Republic of India (IRDAI) has constituted a 16-member commission to examine motor tertiary political party insurance pricing aspects in addition to brand recommendations on the premium rates for 2019-20. Head of this Committee : P. J. Joseph.
• Interpol issued a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against fugitive Indian diamantaire Nirav Modi. This Red Corner Notice volition enable Modi's arrest inwards whatsoever province for extradition to India.
• Invest Republic of Republic of India in addition to Business French Republic get got signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote investment facilitation in addition to cooperation betwixt startups of Republic of Republic of India in addition to France.
• Iran has overtaken Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to go the 2nd largest oil supplier to Indian state-owned firms during the June quarter. Note : Republic of Iraq is the largest oil supplier to India.
• Iran is planning to jointly manufacture Defence Equipment with Islamic Republic of Pakistan in addition to introduce them every bit a articulation achievement of Muslim nations.
• Israel’s Parliament approved a controversial slice of legislation that defines the province every bit the nation-state of the Jewish people.
• Japanese metropolis Tokyo unveiled the world’s get-go all-digital fine art museum. This museum features around l kaleidoscopic installations triggered past times motion sensors, which are projected across every surface of the 100,000-square-foot exhibit infinite with the assist of lights.
• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in addition to European Union (EU) leaders signed a costless merchandise agreement, eliminating tariffs on a bulk of their products to heighten line of piece of job organisation betwixt the 2 sides.
• Japan's parliament passed a controversial law to legalise casino gambling paving way for upwards to 3 casino resorts to open.
• Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das announced that the get-go 'Khadi mall' of Republic of Republic of India volition live opened inwards the province soon.  
• Karnataka Chief Minister hard disk Kumaraswamy presented the 1st budget of his Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition regime inwards the Vidhana Soudha. Presenting this budget, he announced a farm loan waiver of ₹34,000 crore.
• Kylie Cosmetics' 20-year-old Founder Kylie Jenner, with a mesh worth of $900 million, became the youngest fellow member inwards Forbes listing of America's richest self-made women 2018 released.
• Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas was formally inducted into Indian Air Force (IAF)'s 'Flying Daggers' squadron, which before had Russian MiG-21s.
• Lok Sabha has passed Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2018 past times phonation vote to supersede Ordinance promulgated past times President inwards May 2018. This nib amends Homoeopathy Central Council Act, 1973 which sets upwards Central Council of Homoeopathy in addition to regulates homoeopathic educational activity in addition to practice
• Lok Sabha passed The Right of Children to Free in addition to Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017 to abolish the ‘no detention policy’ inwards schools.
• Lok Sabha passed the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection in addition to Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018. This nib calls for penalization ranging from 10 years of imprisonment in addition to a fine of non less than ₹1 lakh to offenders.
• Lok Sabha passed Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill, a Bill on cheque bounce cases. This nib provides for allowing a courtroom trying an offence related to cheque bouncing to straight the drawer to pay interim compensation to the complainant.
• London has launched the 'Walking Action Plan' inwards a bid to brand London the 'world's most walkable city'.
• Madhya Pradesh regime has launched an outstanding mightiness nib waiver scheme in addition to subsidized mightiness scheme titled ‘Sambal’ for laborers in addition to misfortunate families. Under the Sambal scheme, the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families would live provided electricity at a cost of 200 rupees per month.
• Madras High Court has ruled that mentioning father's call inwards nascence certificates is optional.
• Maharashtra Food Supplies Minister Ravindra Chavan announced that people volition live allowed to send nutrient items along with them inwards flick spot halls in addition to multiplexes inwards the state.
• Maharashtra’s women commission signed an understanding with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for rescue in addition to rehabilitation of women who are victims of gender activity trafficking, acid laid on in addition to domestic violence.
• Messaging app WhatsApp has announced that it is testing a bound on forwarding messages to 5 chats at 1 fourth dimension inwards India. This displace comes inwards the wake of fierce incidents triggered past times the spread of faux intelligence on the platform.
• Ministry of world Sciences has unveiled state-of-the-art Air Quality in addition to Weather Forecast System– SAFAR at Chandni Chowk inwards Delhi. SAFAR - System of Air Quality in addition to Weather Forecasting And Research
• Ministry of Home Affairs sponsored Student Police Cadet (SPC) Programme was launched nationally inwards Gurugram, Haryana. Aim of Student Police Cadet (SPC) Programme : To build brace betwixt Police in addition to larger community through schoolhouse students past times inculcating values in addition to ethics inwards them through classes inwards schoolhouse in addition to outside.
• Ministry of Railways approves Digital Aadhaar in addition to Driving License from Digital Locker every bit proof of identity of passengers for task journeying past times Train.
• More than 34 years after coming into existence, the Sports Authority of Republic of Republic of India (SAI) is laid to live renamed every bit Sports India.
• Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited crossed the $100-billion marketplace cap mark. With this, the fellowship volition bring together with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) every bit the alone 2 $100-billion companies inwards India.
• NABARD celebrated it's 36th Foundation Day on twelfth July 2018.
• National Broadcasting Day‬ was observed on 23rd July 2018.
• National Film Archive of Republic of Republic of India hosted European Union Film Festival 2018 from sixth July to twelfth July inwards Mumbai.
• Neeraj Chopra, who became the 1st Indian to win aureate inwards javelin throw at Commonwealth Games inwards Apr this year, won aureate at the Savo Games inwards Finland.
• Nigeria overtook Republic of Republic of India every bit the Country with the largest number of extreme misfortunate inwards early on 2018, in addition to the Congo-Kinshasa could shortly get got over the number 2 spot.
• NITI Aayog has signed Statement of Intent (SoI) with Lupin Foundation to collaborate inwards Aspirational Districts Programme to create templates for concerted evolution policy.
• Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL), Assam has became get-go oil Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) inwards Republic of Republic of India to adopt an online legal compliance scheme past times introducing ‘Legatrix‘. Legatrix is cloud-based compliance management scheme to serve every bit onestop solution for effectively managing organisations legal in addition to regulatory compliances through monitoring command at dissimilar levels.  
• Odisha regime ordered a ban on the usage of plastic bags in addition to single-use plastic inwards the province starting from Oct 2.
• P. Karthikeyan vanquish one-time National champion G. Akash to go the Commonwealth chess champion 2018 held inwards New Delhi. Tania Sachdev won the Women's entitle past times defeating Shantanu Bhambure.
• Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf main Imran Khan declared his party's victory inwards the Islamic Republic of Pakistan full general elections.
• PM Narendra Modi inaugurated thirteen infrastructure projects worth ₹2,100 crore inwards Rajasthan.
• Policy recall tank of the Government of India, NITI Aayog, inwards collaboration with diverse ministries in addition to manufacture partners, is organising ‘MOVE: Global Mobility Summit’ inwards New Delhi on seventh in addition to 8th September, 2018. This volition live the get-go Global Mobility Summit of its kind, with over 1,200 expected participants from across the world.
• President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent to Assam Witch Hunting (Prohibition, Prevention in addition to Protection) Bill, 2015. The law aims to eliminate superstition from lodge past times making such offences nether it every bit non-bailable, non-compoundable in addition to cognizable.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated ‘Dharohar Bhawan’ – the novel headquarters edifice of the Archaeological Survey of Republic of Republic of India (ASI) at 24, Tilak Marg inwards New Delhi.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched 81 investment projects worth ₹60,000 crore inwards a tape breaking lawsuit inwards Uttar Pradesh.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a 5 twenty-four lx minutes menstruum see to Rwanda, Republic of Uganda in addition to South Africa from 23rd July 2018. Modi is the 1st Indian Prime Minister to see Rwanda.
• Prime Minister of Kingdom of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay was on a three-day see to India. Aim of this see : To verbalize over close economical cooperation in addition to security ties.
• Puducherry Tourism has announced the get-go Pondicherry International Film Festival (PIFF), which volition showcase over 100 films from to a greater extent than than 25 countries.
• Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has announced that the regime has decided to seek Death Penalty for drug peddling in addition to smuggling.
• Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered a mandatory dope attempt out for all regime employees, including constabulary personnel, from the fourth dimension of their recruitment through every stage of their service.
• Rajasthan volition shortly get got its 1st ‘cow sanctuary’, a shelter for 10,000 bovines spread over an surface area of to a greater extent than than 220 hectares inwards Bikaner district.
• Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix 2018 entitle inwards Austria.  
• Reliance Industries Chairman in addition to India's richest soul Mukesh Ambani dethroned Chinese e-commerce fellowship Alibaba's Co-founder Jack Ma to go Asia's richest soul every bit RIL shares hitting an all-time high.
• Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani announced that Reliance is India’s largest payer of Goods in addition to Services Tax (GST), Excise in addition to Customs Duty, in addition to Income Tax inwards the Private Sector.
• Richard Branson-led commercial spaceflight Virgin Galactic has announced that it is going to launch its commercial infinite flights from Italy.
• Russia is going to build 2 Nuclear Power Units inwards Cathay which are expected to live operational past times 2026 in addition to 2027 respectively.
• Satyarup Siddhanta has go the 2nd Indian mountaineer after Malli Mastan Babu to climb Mt Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano inwards the world (6,893 metres or 22,615 ft).
• Scientists from New Zealand get got performed the first-ever 3-D, color X-ray on a human body, using the imaging applied scientific discipline developed for the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN physics lab.
• South Africa has unveiled the 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope, slated to live the world's largest in addition to most powerful telescope on its completion inwards 2030. It is said to get got l times meliorate resolution than NASA's Hubble Space Telescope when fully operational.
• South Korean multinational conglomerate Samsung opened the world's largest mobile telephone manufacturing mill inwards Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
• South Korean President Luna Jae-in was on his get-go province see to India. During this 4 twenty-four lx minutes menstruum visit, he held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on fundamental issues such every bit the province of affairs on the Korean peninsula, in addition to ways to boost merchandise in addition to defense forcefulness cooperation.
• Sri Lanka’s regime signed an understanding to sell a 70% stake inwards a $1.5 billion Hambantota port to Cathay inwards a bid to recover from the heavy burden of repaying a Chinese loan obtained to build the facility.
• State-owned defense forcefulness electronics fellowship Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Swedish Aerospace in addition to defense forcefulness theatre Saab for jointly marketing L-Band 3D air surveillance radar (RAWL-03) which is co-developed past times the companies.  
• State-run Airports Authority of Republic of Republic of India (AAI) is going to gear upwards state-of-the-art Civil Aviation Research Organization (CARO) at Hyderabad’s Begumpet Airport.
• Striker Rani Rampal is going to atomic number 82 the 18-member Indian women’s hockey squad at the Asian Games 2018 to live held inwards Republic of Indonesia from August eighteen to September 2. Goalkeeper Savita has been named every bit the vice captain of the team.
• Tamil Nadu based political political party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President M Karunanidhi became the 1st Indian political figure to atomic number 82 a political party for l years.
• Team Republic of Republic of India opener Rohit Sharma has go the get-go Indian cricketer to blast 3 centuries inwards T20I cricket. Rohit is alone the 2nd cricketer after Colin Munro (New Zealand) to register 3 tons inwards T20I cricket.
• The 1st cruise service betwixt Bombay in addition to Goa volition start out from August 1.
• The 1st Meeting of Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on coordination betwixt MGNREGA in addition to Agriculture was lately held at NITI Aayog.
• The 1st coming together of the India-Bangladesh Joint Committee on Border Haats was held inwards Agartala, Tripura.
• The 1st-ever land-based communication link betwixt Cathay in addition to Islamic Republic of Pakistan was lately inaugurated. It is a component of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
• The 2nd coming together of the Joint Working Group on Tourism Cooperation betwixt Republic of Republic of India in addition to Nepal was concluded inwards Kathmandu, Nepal. Both sides agreed to jointly promote Buddhist in addition to Ramayana circuits in addition to Adventure tourism.
• The 42nd session of World Heritage Committee (WHC) coming together of United Nations Educational, Scientific in addition to Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held inwards Manama, Bahrain has inscribed 4 cultural sites on the World Heritage List. They are : Victorian Gothic in addition to Art Deco Ensemble of Bombay (India), Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars part (Iran), Hidden Christian Sites inwards Nagasaki Region (Japan) in addition to Sansa Buddhist Mountain Monasteries inwards Korea (South Korea).
• The 5 fellow member Committee (Administrative in addition to Budgetary) of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved US $6.69 billion dollar budget for thirteen peacekeeping operations for twelvemonth 2018-19.
• The ninth Heads of Mission Conference is existence held inwards New Delhi from June 30-July 2, 2018. Theme of the Conference : ‘Unprecedented Outreach: Unparalleled Outcomes’.  
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved Lining Project of Son canal inwards Shahabad-Bhojpur part of Bihar.
• The Assam regime has made it mandatory for its staff to get got attention of their elderly parents in addition to differently-abled siblings who don't get got an income source. Employees found neglecting their subject parents in addition to siblings volition human face upwards a 10% in addition to 15% salary cutting respectively.
• The Bihar regime has raised the compensation awarded to Acid Attack Victims from ₹3 lakh to ₹7 lakh, spell victims aged nether fourteen years volition have 50% to a greater extent than compensation.
• The Bihar regime is going to grant reservation inwards promotions to employees belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) / Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories.
• The board of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) gave its approving to purchase upwards to 51% stake inwards populace sector lender IDBI Bank. LIC's stake purchase volition assist the debt-ridden state-owned banking concern larn a upper-case alphabetic lineament back upwards of ₹10,000-13,000 crore.
• The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has secured a Trademark for its iconic edifice Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers at Dalal Street inwards Mumbai.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the proposal to expand the reach of the Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA) to mobilize Rs 1 lakh crore for enquiry in addition to academic infrastructure for higher educational activity institutions past times 2022.
• The Central Board of Direct Taxation (CBDT) has extended the deadline for the PAN-Aadhaar linking from June 30, 2018, to March 31, 2019.
• The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested 2 senior retired officers of Bank of Republic of Republic of India (BOI) inwards connexion with alleged loan fraud of Rs 2,654 crore past times Vadodara-based Diamond Power Infrastructure Ltd. (DPIL) inwards the bank.
• The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has launched Saathi, a mobile assist centre to gain out to people task annual pilgrimage to 3,880-metre high holy cave shrine of Amarnath.
• The Centre approved the lift inwards Minimum Support Price (MSP) for kharif crops inwards line with its budget statement to ensure that farmers larn at to the lowest degree 1.5 times of the production cost.
• The Centre announced a 4-member commission to suggest laws against lynching in addition to mob violence. Head of this Committee : Rajiv Gauba (Union Home Secretary)
• The Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik launched the 'Green Mahanadi Mission'. Objective of Green Mahanadi Mission : To halt soil erosion on river banks in addition to recharge the groundwater reserve.
• The Department of Telecommunications has approved merger of Vodafone Republic of Republic of India in addition to Idea Cellular that volition create India's largest telecom operator.
• The Egyptian parliament passed an amendment offering citizenship to foreigners who deposit at to the lowest degree 7 1000000 Egyptian pounds (over ₹2.5 crore) inwards the country's Treasury.
• The finance ministry building approved infusion of Rs 11,336 crore inwards 5 state-owned lenders namely Punjab National Bank (PNB), Allahabad Bank, Corporation Bank, Andhra Bank in addition to Indian Oversease Bank (IOB).
• The Finance Ministry has conveyed to the Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) that it has no objection to allowing the Tehran-based Bank Pasargad to opened upwards its branch inwards India.
• The regime gave lastly approving to the mega merger of Vodafone in addition to Idea Cellular which volition create India's largest mobile operator with 35 per cent marketplace part in addition to around 430 1000000 subscribers.
• The regime has decided to gear upwards a commission to suggest measures to strengthen National Cadet Corps (NCC) & National Service Scheme (NSS). Chairman of this Committee : Anil Swarup (former Secretary, School Education)
• The growth charge per unit of measurement of India's Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows recorded a five-year depression of 3% to $44.85 billion inwards 2017-18.
• The GST Council has decided to  exempt Sanitary Napkins from Goods in addition to Services Tax. The electrical flow GST charge per unit of measurement on sanitary napkins is 12%.
• The Haryana regime has announced that the individuals defendant of Rape in addition to Molestation volition live barred from regime services including losing their driving in addition to arms licenses in addition to old-age pension till their trial is completed.
• The Health Ministry has clarified it's non mandatory for beneficiaries to submit Aadhaar details for seeking ₹5-lakh health insurance nether the Ayushman Bharat scheme, which is also known every bit 'Modicare'.
• The heritage metropolis of Udaipur has been ranked 3rd amidst a listing of fifteen best cities inwards the world past times Travel + Leisure. The get-go 2 cities on the listing are San Miguel de Allende in addition to Oaxaca, both inwards Mexico.
• The high-level commission on restructuring stressed assets in addition to creating to a greater extent than value for populace sector banks (PSBs) has suggested a transparent market-based solution with a focus on property turnaround to ensure task protection in addition to creation. Head of this Committee : Sunil Mehta (Non-Executive Chairman of Punjab National Bank)
• The Himachal Pradesh regime has banned the usage in addition to sale of Thermocol Cutlery including cups, plates, glasses, spoons or whatsoever other item inwards the state.
• The Home Ministry of Republic of Republic of India has liberalized the procedure for granting Long-Term Visas (LTVs) to minorities from Pakistan, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan in addition to Bangladesh.
• The Income Tax Department has launched instant Aadhaar-based e-PAN resources allotment service for individuals seeking PAN (Permanent Account Number) service for the get-go time.
• The India-Korea Technology Exchange Centre was inaugurated at National Small Industries Corporation premises inwards New Delhi.  
• The Indian contigent at the World Para Athletics Championship ended its motion with 5 medals (1 Gold, 2 Silver in addition to 2 Bronze medals) inwards London finishing at 32nd place.
• The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras has commissioned remotely operable Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP) Microscope. It is claimed to live world’s get-go remotely operable LEAP microscope, every bit it tin live remotely operated through especial terminal past times researchers divided geographically.
• The Indian kabaddi squad vanquish Islamic Republic of Iran to elevator the Kabaddi Masters 2018 entitle inwards Dubai.
• The Indian men's hockey squad lost to Commonwealth of Australia inwards penalty shootout to cease every bit runners-up inwards the last-ever Champions Trophy.  
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the world attempt out of its high thrust version of Vikas Engine that would improve the payload capability of the infinite agency's launch vehicles.
• The International Conference on strengthening economical ties betwixt Republic of Republic of India in addition to Vietnam was lately held at New Delhi. Aim of this conference : To heighten the bilateral economical partnership inwards the fast approaching Asian Century for upholding economical prosperity non alone inwards South-east Asia but the entire Asian region.
• The International Criminal Court has brought into consequence a New Law nether which politicians in addition to armed forces leaders tin live held individually responsible for invasions in addition to other major attacks. This law volition apply to the leaders of the fellow member states of ICC which get got ratified it.
• The Iranian rial plunged to a tape depression of 100,000 against the US dollar on the unofficial market, every bit the province faces US sanctions.
• The Nippon International Cooperation Agency is going to invest around ₹72 crore inwards Bengaluru to install smart signals that volition cut the waiting fourth dimension past times 30%.  
• The Kerala regime has gear upwards a panel of eminent writers in addition to linguistic communication experts to take a 'Kerala Ganam', an official vocal for the state. Head of this Panel : Rani George.
• The Khadi in addition to Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched its in-house developed, single-umbrella e-marketing scheme named Khadi Institution Management in addition to Information System (KIMIS) inwards New Delhi.
• The Lok Sabha passed the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, 2018. This nib aims to allow authorities to attach in addition to confiscate properties of economical offenders who flee the country.
• The Lok Sabha passed the National Council for Teacher Education (Amendment) Bill to grant retrospective recognition to Central/State institutions that are conducting instructor educational activity courses without NCTE approval.
• The Maharashtra regime has announced a especial bundle worth over ₹21,000 crore for the evolution of industries, agriculture in addition to tourism inwards the Vidarbha in addition to Marathwada regions.
• The Ministry of Finance has extended the Deadline for filing of income taxation returns to August 31, 2018, for categories of taxpayers who were to file their returns past times July 31.
• The Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) of Union Ministry of Sports in addition to Youth Affairs has included entire Men’s Hockey squad of Republic of Republic of India nether the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS). This is get-go illustration that entire squad has been made beneficiary of the scheme every bit before alone private athletes from dissimilar sports were included every bit beneficiaries of the scheme.
• The calendar month of September to live celebrated every bit National Nutrition Month every year
• The National Advisor Bureau Limited (NABL) of the UAE has proposed to tow icebergs from Antarctica to usage them every bit novel sources of H2O inwards the Middle East. With an estimated cost of $50-60 million, the projection volition start out with the airplane pilot stage inwards 2019.
• The National Aeronautics in addition to Space Administration (NASA) has launched ‘Remote Sensing Toolkit’ to promote commercial usage of satellite data. This toolkit makes it easier for users to find, analyse in addition to utilise the most relevant satellite information for their research, line of piece of job organisation projects or conservation efforts.  
• The National Bank for Agriculture in addition to Rural Development (NABARD) has launched Centre for Climate Change inwards Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. This is get-go of its variety centre inwards South East Asia.
• The National Board of Wildlife has recommended that states usage Section 144, which prohibits the assembly of 4 or to a greater extent than people, during wild fauna emergencies. The provision volition live used to "prevent people gathering inwards large numbers, which aggravates wild fauna emergency situations".
• The National Council of Educational Research in addition to Training (NCERT) has initiated procedure of introducing QR code (Quick Response code) inwards their textbooks. This displace is aimed at helping students empathise chapters meliorate past times watching cinema or reading additional content on laptops in addition to digital boards.
• The National Green Tribunal (NGT) formed a monitoring commission on the cleaning of the Yamuna in addition to directed it to submit an activeness computer programme on the issue. Members of the Committee : B southward Sajwan in addition to Shailaja Chandra.
• The National Payments Corporation of Republic of Republic of India (NPCI) has decided to block transactions made inside the same line of piece of job organisation human relationship using dissimilar UPI IDs, effective August 1.
• The Odisha regime has constituted a ‘Heritage Cabinet’ to save the Odia linguistic communication in addition to the state’s culture. The cabinet comprises 8 members in addition to volition live headed past times Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
• The Odisha Government has unveiled 1st-ever ‘Tribal Atlas of Odisha’. This is a compilation of demographic in addition to cultural information of the tribal population inwards the state.
• The Power Grid Corporation of Republic of Republic of India (POWERGRID) has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation (UPPCL) for liberate energy efficiency in addition to agricultural demand side management programme.  
• The Punjab regime has announced that it is going to render ₹5 lakh to every hamlet that turns costless of drugs to purchase sports in addition to gym equipment for the youth.
• The Rajasthan regime announced 1% reservations for 5 communities– Gujjar, Banjara, Gadia-Lohar, Raika, in addition to Gadariya– nether the Most Backward Classes (MBC) category.  
• The Rajya Sabha passed the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, 2013. This nib prescribes that anyone who is caught bribing regime officials tin live sentenced to a jail term of upwards to 7 years.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) announced that it is going to number novel ₹100 denomination banknotes inwards the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series with lavander colour.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) cancelled the licences of every bit many every bit 35 Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs). These companies volition non live able to do the line of piece of job organisation of a non-banking fiscal establishment from similar a shot on.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) has announced that the license of Alwar Urban Co-operative Bank inwards Alwar, Rajasthan has been cancelled every bit it is non inwards a spot to pay its depositors inwards total every bit in addition to when their claims accrue, amidst other reasons.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) has issued a licence to Bank of Cathay to operate inwards India. Note : Bank of Cathay is 1 of China's 4 major state-owned banks in addition to has a marketplace capitalisation of $153 billion.
• The Sports Ministry has postponed the National Sports Day to September 25, 2018. Every year, the Sports Day is traditionally celebrated on 29th August. But this year, with the Asian Games going on, the ministry building has decided to postpone the event.
• The Sri Lankan Cabinet has unanimously approved a displace to convey dorsum upper-case alphabetic lineament penalization for drug-related crimes.
• The standing commission of National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has lately added 4 species into Centre’s Recovery Programme for Critically Endangered Species. They are : Northern River Terrapin, Clouded Leopard, Arabian Sea Humpback Whale in addition to Red Panda.
• The Supreme Court ordered that the Third-party insurance for a term of 3 years volition live mandatory for Cars existence sold from September 1. The apex courtroom also ruled that third-party insurance for a menstruum of 5 years volition live mandatory for two-wheelers.
• The Supreme Court upheld the give-up the ghost penalty for the convicts of the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape case, after hearing a review petition seeking reduction of sentence.
• The two-day International Round Table Conference on “Data for New India” was held at New Delhi.
• The United Kingdom has topped 2018 'Soft Power 30' index, an annual Global Ranking of Nations' Soft Power which does non characteristic India. French Republic stood at the 2nd spot followed past times FRG in addition to US inwards the 3rd in addition to 4th spots respectively.
• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has entered into partnership with search engine giant Google to monitor impacts of human activity on global ecosystems past times using sophisticated online tools.
• The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2428 a resolution to impose an Arms embargo (an official ban on merchandise or other commercial activity) on South Sudan.
• The Union Cabinet has approved The deoxyribonucleic acid Technology (Use in addition to Application) Regulation Bill 2018. The Bill aims at expanding application of DNA-based forensic technologies to back upwards in addition to strengthen justice delivery scheme of the country.
• The Union Cabinet has approved the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) amongst BRICS Nations (Brazil, Russia, India, Cathay in addition to South Africa) on Regional Aviation Partnership Cooperation. The objective of this MoU is to do goodness BRICS countries from establishing of institutional framework to cooperate inwards patch of civil aviation.
• The Union Government constituted a high-level task forcefulness to spot diverse items in addition to policy interventions to cut dependence on imports. Head of this Task forcefulness : PK Sinha (Cabinet Secretary)
• The Union Government has constituted 13-member Committee for Sub-National Accounts to upgrade the norms for computation of economical information at states in addition to districts even out inwards backdrop of plans to revise the base of operations twelvemonth for National Accounts or Gross Domestic Production (GDP) calculation. Head of this Committee : Ravindra H Dholakia  
• The Union Government has reduced minimum yearly deposit required nether pop daughter kid savings scheme, Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana to Rs 250 from Rs 1,000 earlier. This has been lowered to enable to a greater extent than people to savour benefits of this scheme.
• The Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced that 21 Nuclear Reactors with a total installed capacity of 15,700 megawatt are currently nether construction. Currently, at that spot are nine nuclear mightiness reactors at diverse stages of construction which are expected to live completed past times 2024-25.
• The Union Ministry of Housing in addition to Urban Affairs has announced that over 51 lakh houses get got been approved nether Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) inwards the 3 years of its implementation.
• The U.K. has launched novel visas that volition live opened upwards to overseas scientists in addition to researchers, including Indians, to encourage growth of the country's enquiry sector. This volition enable them to operate in addition to develop inwards the United Kingdom for maximum menstruum of 2 years.
• The United Nations Educational, Scientific in addition to Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has come upwards into an understanding with the Andhra Pradesh regime to gear upwards a 'Design University for Gaming' inwards Visakhapatnam.
• The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) declared that Migrants do non get got the unfettered correct to take their host nation.
• The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has adopted Resolution 2427 aimed at providing legal framework for mainstreaming protection, rights, well-being in addition to empowerment of children throughout the conflict cycle.
• The US of America has granted Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA-1) condition to India. This condition allow India's easier access to sensitive in addition to high-technology products.
• The US of America has released $200 1000000 inwards armed forces assistance to Ukraine. This assist volition render the funding for "training, equipment, in addition to advisory efforts to build the defensive capacity of Ukraine's forces".
• The US of America obsered Independence Day on 4th July 2018.
• The USA won the get-go Athletics World Cup at the London Stadium. Poland in addition to Britain finished Second in addition to Third respectively.
• The Uttarakhand regime has announced that it volition brand provisions for awarding give-up the ghost penalty to rapists of little girls. Currently, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, in addition to Haryana get got approved give-up the ghost penalty for rapists of girls aged upto 12.
• The Uttarakhand high courtroom has declared the entire Animal Kingdom, including birds in addition to aquatic animals, every bit a legal entity having rights of a “living person”.
• The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu released a mass titled ‘Two Classical Plays from India’. This mass is an English linguistic communication translation of Hindi plays written past times well-known playwright D.P. Sinha.
• The West Bengal Assembly has passed the resolution to modify the state's call to 'Bangla'.
• The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognized Sex addiction every bit a mental health disorder inwards its International Classification of Diseases list.
• The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has designated Republic of Republic of India every bit Nodal Centre for developing customized model to number advance alert of floods to Asian countries, including Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Myanmar in addition to Thailand. The model volition live called every bit Flash Flood Guidance System.
• Thetford, a little town inwards the U.K. volition live converted into a twin metropolis of Amritsar inwards the retentiveness of the lastly Rex of the Sikh Empire, Maharaja Duleep Singh.  
• To command viral hepatitis C, the Union Ministry of Health in addition to Family Welfare has launched National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme on the occasion of World Hepatitis Day (July 28). Aim of this programme : To scrap viral hepatitis in addition to cut mortality in addition to morbidity associated with it.
• To increase greenish embrace inwards the state, the Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has launched a unique computer programme titled ‘Paudhagiri campaign’. Under this campaign, 22 lakh students studying inwards Class sixth to twelfth of all regime in addition to private schools volition plant  sapling each, during 3 months of monsoon ( July, August in addition to September).  
• To protect involvement of consumers, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes in addition to Customs (CBIC) has developed in addition to launched a mobile app named ‘GST Verify’. The application volition verify if the soul collecting GST from the consumer is eligible to collect it or not.
• To cut air pollution inwards the city, the Delhi Cabinet approved the engagement of 1,000 low-floor environment-friendly electrical buses.  
• To wipe out corruption, the Indian Railways has launched a novel programme titled Mission Satyanishtha. It was get-go of its variety lawsuit organised past times whatsoever regime organisation inwards the country.
• Trinity supercomputer, hosted at the Los Alamos National Lab, US, has made a world tape of creating 1 trillion files inwards 2 minutes.
• Turkey is going to sell 4 corvette warships to Islamic Republic of Pakistan which volition live the country's largest unmarried export deal.
• Turkey signed a bargain to sell thirty T129 ATAK helicopters to Pakistan.
• Two Indians Bharat Vatwani in addition to Sonam Wangchuk are amidst the winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award 2018, regarded every bit the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.
• UK Space Agency has selected site at Sutherland on A’Mhoine peninsula on northward coast of Scotland for its get-go spaceport to launch rockets vertically in addition to lay satellites inwards orbit.
• Ukrain's Oleksandr Usyk vanquish Russian competition Murat Gassiev past times a unanimous conclusion to go the get-go adult man to take hold all 4 world cruiserweight titles.
• Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has been named the world's highest paid celebrity past times Forbes with earnings of $285 1000000 inwards the lastly 12 months.
• Union Cabinet has approved extension of scheme of recapitalization of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) for adjacent 3 years (upto 2019-20). Note : Currently, at that spot are 56 RRBs inwards the country.  
• Union Finance Ministry has hiked Threshold Monetary Limit for taxation departments to file appeals inwards taxation cases. The displace is aimed at significantly decreasing taxpayer greivances in addition to litigation burden of taxation departments inwards courts in addition to tribunals across the country.
• Union Government has constituted High Level Empowered Committee headed past times Cabinet Secretary to address issues of Stressed Thermal Power Projects.
• Union Health in addition to Family Welfare Minister J P Nadda confirmed that fruit bats are the source of the Nipah virus infection, which killed 17 people inwards Kerala.
• Union abode government minister Rajnath Singh was on a 3-day see to Bangladesh. During this see he met his Bangladeshi counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan in addition to held discussions on diverse issues including anti-terror co-operation, attempts past times terror groups to radicalise youths in addition to Rohingya refugees.
• Union Minister Nitin Gadkari flagged off India's get-go taxi ambulance services inwards Delhi, a service past times a Gurugram-based startup Wagon Cab.
• Union Ministry of Drinking Water in addition to Sanitation (MDWS) has launched Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018 (SSG 2018) inwards New Delhi. Swachh Survekshan is a rural cleanliness survey to rank all states in addition to districts on footing of qualitative in addition to quantitative evaluation.
• Union Ministry of world Sciences has unveiled designing of Deep Ocean Mission (DOM). This mission proposes to explore deep-ocean past times emulating success of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) inwards designing in addition to launching satellites.
• Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is going to create National Database of Arms Licenses scheme from Apr 2019. This scheme volition include names of all arms licence holders, novel or old in addition to they volition live issued a unique identification number (UIN).
• Union Ministry of Petroleum in addition to Natural Gas has amended Petroleum in addition to Natural Gas Rules 1959 to include 'shale' inwards Definition of petroleum. This modify volition allow private companies to explore in addition to make the resources inwards the blocks they already operate.
• United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has established first-of-its-kind Panel on Digital Cooperation aimed at addressing concerns of cybersecurity threats in addition to ascension inwards loathe speech. The high-level panel on digital cooperation volition live co-chaired past times US philanthropist Melinda Gates in addition to China-based Alibaba founder Jack Ma.
• US President Donald Trump in addition to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held their get-go official summit at Helsinki, Finland.
• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced a ban on plastic inwards the province effective July 15, days after Maharashtra announced a plastic ban from June 23.  
• Venezuela is going to take away 5 zeroes from its bolivar currency rather than the 3 zeroes originally planned. The statement comes 2 days after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected that Venezuela's inflation could top 1,000,000% this year.
• Vice President Venkaiah Naidu has asked province governments to brand their respective woman parent tongues a mandatory discipline inwards schools.
• With an aim to improve health of schoolhouse children, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje launched a scheme titled 'Annapurna milk distribution scheme' to render milk to the students of even out 1 to 8.
• World's richest soul Jeff Bezos-founded aerospace startup Blue Origin successfully launched its infinite capsule, New Shepard, breaking its ain tape of highest-ever attempt out flying at nearly 120 km.
• Yogi Adityanath became the 1st Uttar Pradesh CM to see all the 75 districts inwards the province inwards sixteen months of his government's rule.  

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