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Daily Current Affairs of 1st August 2017

International Current Affairs

World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), an annual celebration which is existence held every yr from 1 to seven August inwards to a greater extent than than 120 countries, has started today.

Being organized past times WABA (World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action), WHO (World Health Organization) as well as UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), WBW came
up alongside the destination to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the start vi months of life which yields tremendous health benefits, providing critical nutrients, protection from deadly diseases such equally pneumonia as well as fostering increment as well as evolution for the start fourth dimension inwards 1991.

Themes of World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) 2017 : "SUSTAINING BREASTFEEDING TOGETHER"

Georgia began the 'Noble Partner' armed services practise with the US and partner countries despite Russia's before objections to the drills claiming they could destabilise the region.

Note : Russian Federation as well as Georgia fought a state of war inwards 2008 that led to Russian Federation occupying the Georgian regions of South Ossetia as well as Abkhazia.

US nation Hawaii is going to ban pedestrians using mobile phones piece crossing the street in Honolulu from October.

Pedestrians volition endure fined ₹1,000 to ₹6,400 depending on the pose out of times they are caught looking at a telephone or tablet device equally they cross the street.
Note : People making emergency calls are exempted from the ban.

National Current Affairs

The Supreme Court today barred firework manufacturers from using 5 chemicals that Pb to air as well as dissonance pollution, that would farther termination inwards diminished sparkle effects as well as audio inwards crackers.

The Maharashtra government is going to innovate cycling tracks along the arterial roads of 10 cities including Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, and Latur.

MOUs & Agreements

Sri Lanka has signed a $1.1-billion bargain to lease its southern Hambantota port to China.

The port volition play a primal purpose inwards China's One Belt One Road inaugural past times linking ports as well as roads betwixt Red People's Republic of China as well as Europe.

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has surpassed Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing to larn Asia's second-richest individual with a $35.2 billion (₹2.25 lakh crore) fortune, equally per Bloomberg.
The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) has imposed a ₹3 crore penalty on state-owned Union Bank of Republic of Republic of India for "non-compliance" of Know Your Customer (KYC) norms inwards ii divide cases.

After examining reports related to fraud inwards the bank, RBI imposed ₹2 crore penalization piece roughly other ₹1 crore penalization is related to a electrical charge regarding "huge cash withdrawals inwards certainly accounts".

The authorities has ordered state-run crude companies to heighten subsidised cooking gas (LPG) prices past times ₹4 per cylinder every month, effective June 1.

This volition endure till authorities subsidy is reduced to nil, or till March 2018, or till farther orders, whichever is earliest.

New Appointments

Lieutenant General Abhay Krishna has been appointed equally the new master copy of the Army's Eastern Command amid edge tensions alongside Red People's Republic of China along the Sikkim border.
Marine General (retired) John Kelly was sworn inwards equally the White House Chief of Staff after President Donald Trump forced out Reince Priebus from the post final week.
Tech giant Cisco has named one-time Philips Healthcare executive Sameer Garde as the President for its India as well as SAARC operations.

Deaths

American neuroscientist Marian Diamond (90) who studied Albert Einstein's brain in 1984, has passed away.

She was the start to demonstrate that anatomy of all animals' brains tin modify alongside sense as well as better alongside enrichment.
Considered a pioneer inwards neuroscience, Diamond likewise demonstrated encephalon tin educate at whatever age, as well as virile individual as well as woman individual brains are structured differently.

Lashkar-e-Taiba's Kashmir Chief Abu Dujana has been killed inwards an come across alongside safety forces inwards Pulwama district of Jammu as well as Kashmir.

He is the tertiary top militant leader killed since final yr next Hizbul Mujahideen leaders Burhan Wani as well as Sabzar Bhat.

People inwards News

Arvind Panagariya, the Vice Chairman of policy think-tank Niti Aayog, which replaced the 65-year-old Planning Commission, announced his resignation from component subdivision today.

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