Yak July 2017 Electrical Flow Affairs Highlights (One-Liners)

Friends, hither are the Major Current Affairs Highlights of July 2017. These one-liners comprehend all of import International, National, MOUs, Indexes, Banking, Technology, Books & Authors, Committees as well as Sports affairs of July calendar month (from 1st to 31st July  2017). We will  render the pdf version soon, but nosotros advise yous to write these on your ain as well as then that yous wont forget them again. All the Best as well as Happy Reading :)

July 2017 Current Affairs Highlights (One-Liners) 

• The authorities launched the Goods as well as Services Tax (GST) regime, effective from July 1, 2017. In the making since 2000 as well as claimed to live the biggest taxation reform since Independence, the GST volition live a unified indirect taxation construction across the country. The GST Council has come upward out amongst a four-rate construction of 5%, 12%, 18% as well as 28%.
• "Hywind", the world’s commencement full—scale floating air current farm is beingness built off the coast of Scotland inwards the North Sea.
• "Maitree 2017" a fourteen solar daytime articulation state of war machine preparation exercise betwixt Indian Army as well as Royal Thailand Army commenced at Bakloh inwards Chamba district inwards Himachal Pradesh.
• “JIGYASA”, a student- scientist connect programme was officially launched inwards Delhi.
• 11th July 2017 was observed equally World Population Day amongst the Theme “Family Planning: Empowering People, Developing Nations”.
• 15th July 2017 was observed equally the World Youth Skills Day amongst the Theme “Skills for All”
• 17th July 2017 was observed equally the World Day for International Justice (International Justice Day) amongst the Theme “Preventing conflict as well as sustaining peace through decent work”
• 2017 BRICS Labour as well as Employment Ministers’ coming together was latterly held at Chongqing (China). This coming together comes ahead of 2017 BRICS Summit to live held inwards Xiamen, Red People's Republic of China inwards September 2017.
• 28th July 2017 was observed equally the World Hepatitis Day amongst the Theme "Eliminate Hepatitis".
• 30th July 2017 was observed equally the World Day against Trafficking inwards Persons amongst the Theme  ‘Act to Protect as well as Assist Trafficked Persons’.
• 321st anniversary of Russian Navy was observed on 31st July 2017.
• 4th July is Independence Day of United States.
• 4-time FIFA World Cup winner Deutschland won it's maiden FIFA Confederation Cup Football championship past times defeating Copa America Champion Republic of Chile past times 1-0 goals inwards the terminal fit held at St Petersburg, Russia.
• 5 Indian States (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Telangana as well as Arunachal Pradesh) as well as a Union Territory (Puducherry) have got formally adopted the Centre’s Government e-Marketplace (GeM) initiative.
• 90th founding anniversary of Chinese Army was observed on 31st July 2017.
• A volume titled "Mandela's Last Years" is inwards word due to controversies. The volume was written past times : Vejay Ramlakan
• A consortium including India's fossil oil as well as gas fellowship ONGC has announced that it is willing to invest $11 billion inwards Islamic Republic of Iran to develop a natural gas land as well as build the infrastructure to export the fuel.
• A museum inwards honor of belatedly President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was inaugurated on July 27 inwards Tamil Nadu's Rameshwaram.
• A total of 36 places inwards Republic of Republic of India are recognised equally World Heritage Sites past times UNESCO, amongst the latest improver beingness the metropolis of Ahmedabad. With 4 of its sites recognised, Maharashtra tops the listing inwards India.
• A US province subdivision has latterly revealed that Republic of Republic of India inwards 2016 replaced Islamic Republic of Pakistan equally the world's 3rd largest terror target after Republic of Iraq as well as Afghanistan.
• A US-Russia interrogation collaboration at Harvard has created the world's most advanced quantum estimator amongst 51 quantum bits, or qubits– the fundamental unit of measurement of information inwards a quantum computer.
• According to a National Commission for Protection of Child Rights' report, Maharashtra as well as Rajasthan recorded the highest number of cases of little fry marriage. 
• According to National Centre for Seismology, 29 Indian cities as well as towns including Delhi autumn nether 'severe' to 'very severe' seismic (earthquake) zones.
• According to the authorities data, out of India's population of 132 crore people, alone 6.8 crore or 5.15%, have got a valid passport. Republic of Republic of India is instantly 3rd inwards terms of issuing passports, after Red People's Republic of China as well as US.
• Ahmedabad has acquire India's commencement World Heritage City.
• American multinational retailer Walmart signed a Memorandum of Understanding amongst the Maharashtra authorities to invest ₹900 crore for opening upward of 15 stores.
• Arpan Doshi, an Indian-origin man, who studied inwards Gujarat until he was 13, has acquire UK's youngest always doctor.
• Astronomers at Pune-based IUCAA as well as IISER have got discovered a supercluster of galaxies, which they named 'Saraswati'.
• Australia has sent its commencement uranium shipment to Republic of Republic of India for testing purposes ahead of possible commercial sales.
• Bolivia's President Evo Morales has declared "total independence" from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as World Bank.
• Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has appointed her commencement dark equerry, a senior staff fellow member inwards accuse of assisting the regal household. The Ghana-born Afghan state of war veteran, Major Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, had moved to the Great Britain inwards 1982.
• British cyclist Chris Froome won his 3rd consecutive as well as quaternary overall Tour de France, finishing the race inwards 86 hours 20 minutes 55 seconds inwards Paris.
• Canada has celebrated the 150th anniversary of the solar daytime it officially became a province as well as the self-governing regulation of Great Britain on 3rd July 2017.
• Canara Bank, which has laid an ambitious target of moving to ‘paperless’ futuristic banking, launched its commencement ‘Digital Banking Branch’ at Bengaluru. Titled ‘CANDI’, the branch volition render an end-to-end digital sense to customers.
• China as well as Russian Federation held their First Joint Naval Drill inwards the Baltic Sea. This exercise involves anti-aircraft as well as anti-ship defense forcefulness measures coordinated from the Baltiysk base of operations inwards Russia's Kaliningrad enclave.
• China has announced that it would halt accepting shipments of garbage such equally waste matter plastic as well as newspaper equally component subdivision of a drive against "foreign garbage".
• China is going to to build its commencement Mars simulation base of operations on the country's Tibetan plateau equally it aims to send the commencement mission to the blood-red planet past times 2020 after the US, Republic of Republic of India as well as Russia.
• China-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a $329-million (over ₹3,100 crore) loan to build access roads across 4,000 villages inwards Gujarat.
• Customers of Banks volition non endure whatever loss if unauthorised electronic banking transactions are reported inside iii days, the Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India has latterly announced.
• Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has notified of a novel regulation nether which consumers volition live compensated past times ability distribution companies if they don't restore an outage for to a greater extent than than 2 to iii hours.
• Delhi authorities has announced plans to launch a mobile application which volition allow people to banking concern check the condition of authorities projects on a unmarried platform.
• Delhi Police volition live the commencement province police push clit to acquire 'super cop' belts which are widely used past times the police push clit inwards the UK, USA, as well as Russia. The belt volition assist the cops bear wireless sets, pistols, as well as cartridges easily.
• England's women's cricket squad defeated Republic of Republic of India past times ix runs at Lord's Cricket Ground to clinch their quaternary World Cup title.
• European as well as Japanese infinite agencies are edifice a articulation mission to solar system's smallest as well as "least explored" rocky planet Mercury.
• Expanding its outreach to the Arab world, External Affairs Ministry is going to brand its website available inwards Arabic.
• Facebook has closed downwardly i of its Artificial Intelligence systems after chatbots programmed to converse inwards English linguistic communication started speaking inwards their ain language.
• Facebook TV is laid to launch online inwards mid-August.
• Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been partially blocked inwards Red People's Republic of China next a censorship crackdown past times the government.
• Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) major ITC became the 4th Indian fellowship to cross marketplace seat capitalisation of ₹4 trillion. Earlier, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Reliance Industries as well as HDFC Bank have got achieved this milestone amongst TCS beingness the most valued fellowship amongst marketplace seat capitalisation of ₹4.64 trillion.
• Ferrari's Formula One racer Sebastian Vettel won the Hungarian Grand Prix title, finishing ahead of teammate Kimi Raikkonen as well as Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas.
• Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the Financial twelvemonth may shortly laid about from Jan inwards sync amongst the calendar year. In May 2017, Madhya Pradesh became India's commencement province to shift its financial twelvemonth format to January-December from the nowadays April-March cycle.
• Finance Minister Arun Jaitley introduced the Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2017 inwards the Lok Sabha. This pecker empowers RBI to inquire whatever banking concern to initiate insolvency proceedings as well as give directions for resolution of stressed assets.
• Finance Ministry along amongst the Central Board of Excise as well as Customs has launched GST Rates Finder app for consumers to verify the accurate taxation rates on commodity as well as services nether the Goods as well as Services Tax.
• For a 4th consecutive year, US retail giant Walmart has topped the 2017 Fortune Global 500 listing amongst a revenue of $486 billion.
• For the commencement fourth dimension Republic of Republic of India is going to host Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS) 2017, the world’s largest conference on cyber infinite as well as related issues inwards New Delhi inwards Nov 2017. Theme of GCCS 2017 : ‘Cyber4All : An Inclusive, Sustainable, Developmental, Safe as well as Secure Cyberspace'.
• Former cricketer Ravi Shastri has been named the novel coach of Team Republic of Republic of India on a two-year contract.
• Former national-level hockey actor Amit Saroha, who met amongst an accident inwards 2007, clinched the Silver medal inwards the guild throw lawsuit inwards the F-51 category at the World Para Athletics Championships.
• Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's cite from the scheme Indira Priyadarshini Puruskar Yojana, given to meritorious girls of Class 10 as well as 12 from Rajasthan Board, has been removed. From now, this scheme volition live called 'Padmakshi Puruskar Yojana', based on the cite of Goddess 'Saraswati'. 
• Former Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov is laid to come upward out of retirement to play inwards Sinquefield Cup, a US tournament side past times side month.
• France has celebrated its 228th Bastille Day on 15th July 2017.
• French fossil oil as well as gas fellowship Total S.A has signed an understanding of $4.8-billion (over ₹31,000 crore) amongst Islamic Republic of Iran to develop i of the world's largest natural gas fields.
• G20 Summit, the annual coming together of the G20 (an international forum for the governments as well as key banking concern governors from 20 major economies), was latterly held at Hamburg Messe, inwards the metropolis of Hamburg, Deutschland during seventh as well as eighth July 2017.
• Government has implemented the “Seekho aur Kamao” scheme which encourages the youth from minority communities to larn work skills.
• H-Bots Robotics, a startup from Telangana's T-Hub incubator, is developing 'police robots' priced at virtually ₹3.5 lakh.
• HDFC Standard Life Insurance as well as Max Life Insurance have got called off their proposed merger after failing to win regulatory blessing for a union that would've created an insurance giant amongst ₹1.1 lakh crore inwards assets.
• Hyderabad is going to constitute India's commencement academy alone for Dalit students past times 2018. 
• ICICI Lombard General Insurance, a articulation venture of ICICI Bank as well as Fairfax Financial Holdings, has filed draft prospectus for its IPO. This makes it the commencement non-life insurance fellowship inwards Republic of Republic of India to file for IPO.
• ICICI Prudential has agreed to bring over the life insurance concern of Sahara Group's subsidiary Sahara Life, which was closed downwardly past times insurance regulator IRDAI inwards June.
• In a bid to foreclose harassment of women, the authorities has decided to brand registration of marriages compulsory.
• In a bid to promote environment-friendly system, Indian Railways launched commencement 1600 HP solar-powered DEMU develop from the Safdarjung railway station inwards Delhi. [DEMU - Diesel Electric Multiple Unit]
• In a recent order, the Bombay Court held that a working adult woman who is "capable of maintaining as well as sustaining herself" should non live entitled to acquire maintenance from her estranged husband.
• India as well as European Union (EU) have got established Investment Facilitation Mechanism (IFM) for European Union Investments inwards India. The machinery volition allow for a closed coordination betwixt European Union as well as Republic of Republic of India amongst an aim to promote as well as facilitate European Union investment inwards India.
• India as well as State of Israel jointly launched a $40 i G k (over ₹258 crore) engineering fund. The State of Israel Republic of Republic of India Innovation Initiative Fund (I4F), volition have $4 i G k a twelvemonth from each authorities for v years.
• India bagged a total of 29 medals including 12 golds to top the medals tally at the Asian Athletics Championships for the commencement fourth dimension ever.
• India for the commencement fourth dimension is going to host International Theatre Olympics, the greatest carnival of theater inwards the world inwards 2018. The 51-day carnival of theater volition laid about on Feb 17, 2018.
• India has contributed an additional $1 i G k to India-UN Development Partnership Fund launched to back upward sustainable evolution projects across the developing world.
• India has ranked 4th amid world's fastest growing economies. according to latterly released World Bank's Global Economic Prospects.
• India has slipped past times i spot to acquire the 4-largest unusual investor into the UK. The US remains on the top, investing inwards 577 projects inwards the UK, followed past times Red People's Republic of China (including Hong Kong) inwards 2nd house amongst 160 projects.
• India is going to host the Men's World Boxing Championship for the commencement fourth dimension inwards 2021 as well as the Women's World Championship inwards 2018.
• India is going to invite the 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) equally Chief Guests for 2018 Republic Day celebrations.
• India recently-enforced Anti-Hijacking Act, 2016. This deed prescribes expiry punishment for hijack conspirators inwards illustration of a casualty, as well as life imprisonment otherwise.
• India successfully test-fired its indigenously developed QuickReaction Surface-to-Air curt attain Missile (QR-SAM).
• India volition host its 1st WTA tournament inwards v years when the metropolis of Bombay stages the ₹80 lakh ($125,000) Bombay Open inwards November.
• India volition shortly bring together Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC), a newly-constituted forum of key bankers as well as experts working towards advertisement of a robust as well as transparent unusual substitution (Forex) market.
• India, the world’s third-largest fossil oil importer, for the commencement fourth dimension volition import unsmooth fossil oil from the United States.
• India’s Harinder Pal Sandhu has defeated Rhys Dowling of Commonwealth of Australia to elevator South Australian Open squelch title.
• India’s Karamjyoti Dalal has won Bronze medal at the World Para Athletics Championships 2017 inwards the discus-throw.
• India’s alone ATP tournament the Chennai Open is laid to displace out of Chennai after 21 years because it is unable to encounter the commercial demands of the main organizers IMG. 
• Indian golfer Diksha Dagar won a Silver medal inwards the women's private golf game lawsuit at the Deaflympics inwards Samsun, Turkey.
• Indian hammer thrower Damneet Singh won a silvery medal inwards the boys' hammer throw lawsuit to give Republic of Republic of India their commencement medal at the IAFF World U-18 Athletics Championships inwards Nairobi.
• Indian National Football has managed to secure 96th spot at the latest FIFA world football game rankings. This is the best ranking secured past times Republic of Republic of India inwards 21 years.
• Indian Navy’s 2nd LCU Mark IV L52 ship was formally launched inwards Kolkata, West Bengal. [LCU -  Landing Craft Utility]
• Indian Para-athlete Sundar Singh Gurjar became alone the 2nd Indian to win a golden at the World Para Athletics Championships, winning i inwards javelin at the 2017 edition inwards London. Rio golden medalist Devendra Jhajharia was the commencement Indian to win a golden inwards 2013.
• Indian shuttler C Rahul Yadav as well as the men's doubles dyad of Manu Attri as well as B Sumeeth Reddy clinched the Men's singles as well as men's doubles championship respectively at Lagos International challenge inwards Nigeria.
• Indian shuttler HS Prannoy won the US Open Grand Prix Gold tournament after defeating Parupalli Kashyap inwards an all-India final.
• Indian squelch actor Harinder Pal Sandhu won his 2nd championship inwards 2 weeks after winning the Victorian Open past times beating top-seed Rex Hedrick of Australia.
• Indian Super League side Atletico de Kolkata has been renamed to 'Aamar, Tomar Kolkata' (ATK) after the team's partnership amongst Castilian football game guild Atletico Madrid ended.
• Indian lawn tennis actor Vishnu Vardhan won the Men's doubles lawsuit at the $125,000 ATP Astana Challenger amongst Japanese partner Toshihide Matsui.
• Indian women's cricket squad captain Mithali Raj has became the all-time highest run-scorer inwards women's ODI cricket.
• India's commencement bullet develop project, the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail, volition live inaugurated this September past times Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.
• India's largest lender State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) cutting involvement rates on savings banking concern deposits past times 0.50 percent points effective July 31. For saving deposits residue upward to ₹1 crore, SBI volition offering an involvement charge per unit of measurement of 3.5% equally compared to 4% before as well as for residue to a higher house ₹1 crore, the charge per unit of measurement has been retained at 4% per annum.
• India's Manpreet Kaur bagged Gold medal inwards women's shot-put on the opening solar daytime of the Asian Athletics Championships 2017 inwards Bhubaneswar.
• India's para athletes Sharad Kumar as well as Varun Singh Bhati clinched the Silver as well as bronze medals respectively inwards High boundary at the World Para Athletics Championships.
• India's tallest Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower at the Delhi Airport is going to start operations past times this December.
• India's The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) has been ranked equally the 2nd best climate recollect tank inwards the world.
• India's top-ranked woman somebody shot putter Manpreet Kaur has been suspended past times the Athletics Federation after she failed dope test.
• Indonesia renamed component subdivision of the South Red People's Republic of China Sea equally the North Natuna Sea.
• Iran as well as US-backed Republic of Iraq signed an understanding to boost state of war machine cooperation.
• Italian football game legend Francesco Totti anounced his retirement from football game after spending his 25-year-long playing career amongst Seria H5N1 guild Roma.
• Jammu as well as Kashmir became the lastly province to implement GST, passing the resolution during a exceptional session of the legislative assembly.
• Japan has approved a innovation to cut down working hours to lower the country's suicide charge per unit of measurement past times 30% past times 2025.
• Jio has announced the launch of the 25,000-kilometre Asia-Africa-Europe (AAE-1) submarine cable system.
• Lahore High Court lifted a ban on the airing of Indian goggle box serials inwards Pakistan.
• Maharashtra authorities likewise announced plans to brand installation of GPS organisation mandatory inwards black-and-yellow taxis as well as autorickshaws. 
• Maharashtra authorities has announced that integrated coaching volition non live allowed inwards the province from the side past times side academic year.
• Maharashtra has acquire the commencement Indian province to render costless injectable contraceptives to women nether the state's household unit of measurement planning programme, Antara.
• Malabar Naval Exercise 2017, a calendar week long trilateral articulation naval exercise involving the United States, Nihon as well as Republic of Republic of India was latterly held at Chennai coast.
• Matunga suburban railway station inwards Bombay has acquire the commencement station inwards Republic of Republic of India to live run past times an all-women staff.
• Mercedes' Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas, has won the Austrian Grand Prix.
• Minister of Road Transport as well as Highways Nitin Gadkari has announced that the driverless cars as well as whatever engineering that takes away jobs volition non live allowed inwards India.
• Mizoram latterly celebrated the 31st anniversary of the signing of the historic Mizo peace accord.
• Mother Teresa's Blue-bordered Sari was recognised equally an Intellectual Property of the Missionaries of Charity after she was cannonised lastly year. It is the commencement fourth dimension that a uniform has been protected nether the Intellectual Property rights.
• Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries crossed ₹5 lakh crore inwards marketplace seat capitalisation for the commencement fourth dimension inwards its trading history, making it the 2nd Indian fellowship to do as well as then after TCS.
• Mumbai Metro One announced plans to launch India's commencement mobile ticketing organisation past times mid-August for slow commute.
• Mumbai-based 18-year-old racing driver Jehan Daruvala has acquire the 1st Indian to win the FIA Formula 3 European Championship after winning the 3rd race at the Nuremberg circuit.
• Mumbai's 'Vikrikar Bhavan' was renamed equally 'GST Bhavan' after the Goods as well as Services Tax regime was rolled out on 1st July 2017.
• NASA's James Webb Telescope, the largest infinite telescope always built, has been locked inwards a vacuum vault for testing at sub-zero temperatures to copy its working inwards deep space.
• National Multi Commodity Exchange (NMCE), India’s commencement demutualised online national multi-commodities substitution volition merge amongst Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX). The merged entity volition create India’s 3rd biggest commodity exchange.
• National Security Advisor Ajit Doval was on a catch to Red People's Republic of China to attend BRICS coming together inwards Beijing.
• NDA's presidential candidate as well as quondam Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind was elected equally the 14th President of India.
• Nepal volition acquire Internet services through Chinese optical fibre starting side past times side month, ending its reliance on Republic of Republic of India for the service.
• Netherlands' third-largest banking concern ABN AMRO announced that it volition no longer extend credit to clients inwards the tobacco industry.
• Officials of Republic of Republic of India as well as People's Republic of Bangladesh agreed to create gates along the edge to allow costless as well as safe passage for wild elephants.
• Okinoshima,  sacred Japanese isle where women are banned as well as men must strip naked was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• Over 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic, plenty to comprehend the entire province of Argentina, has been generated past times humans since the material's volume production started inwards 1950s, a US-based interrogation has revealed.
• Pakistan has launched a state of war machine performance inwards the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) targeting the Islamic State. 
• Pakistan has successfully examine fired short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile 'Nasr'.
• Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from his seat after the country's Supreme Court found him guilty of corruption inwards the Panama Papers case.
• Parliament has passed The Admiralty (Jurisdiction as well as Settlement of Maritime Claims) Bill, 2016. The Bill seeks to upgrade existing laws related to civil matters of admiralty jurisdiction of courts, maritime claims, arrest as well as detention of ships. 
• Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte offered self-rule to the country's Muslim minority inwards an endeavour to defeat militants loyal to Islamic State who have got besieged the metropolis of Marawi for nearly 2 months.
• PM Narendra Modi met Moshe Holtzberg, the instantly 11-year-old survivor of the 26/11 Bombay attacks, inwards Jerusalem.
• PM Narendra Modi-led cabinet cleared the New Wage Code Bill which volition ensure minimum wage to 4 crore employees across all sectors. The novel minimum wage norms would live applicable irrespective of the pay whereas it's presently applicable to workers getting upward to ₹18,000 monthly.
• President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to Maharashtra Prohibition of People from Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition as well as Redressal) Bill, 2016. Maharashtra is the commencement province inwards the province to formulate a law to punish social boycott.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited a total of 49 countries inwards the lastly iii years.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to adopt Kakrahia, a hamlet inwards Varanasi nether the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. In the past times 2 years, Modi has adopted Jayapur as well as Nagepur inwards his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is laid to write a volume for the youth of the province wherein he volition address issues similar overcoming examine stress, keeping one's composure as well as what to do after the exams. The book, a first-of-its-kind maiden past times a serving prime number minister, volition live out afterwards this twelvemonth inwards multiple languages.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a 3 solar daytime historical catch to Israel. He is the commencement always Indian Prime Minister to catch State of Israel inwards lxx years.
• Private sector lender Axis Bank has reached an understanding to purchase digital payments platform FreeCharge for ₹350-400 crore inwards cash from Snapdeal.
• Punjab National Bank (PNB) Maestro debit bill of fare holders volition human face upward bill of fare blockage if they neglect to supervene upon it amongst a to a greater extent than secure EMV chip based bill of fare past times July 31. Earlier, RBI had directed all banks are to migrate to EMV chip based cards past times Dec 31, 2018.
• Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) an arm of the Indian Railways for commercial exploitation of rails land, has inked MoU amongst National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC) for redevelopment of 10 railway stations across the province on global standards.
• Rajasthan has acquire the commencement State to lay downwardly the minimum educational qualifications for contesting elections to hamlet cooperative societies as well as diverse other cooperative bodies.
• Reliance Defence as well as Engineering Limited (RDEL) launched the commencement 2 Naval Offshore Patrol Vessels (NOPVs) — Shachi as well as Shruti at their shipyard inwards Pipavav, Gujarat. These 2 NOPVs are the commencement warships to live launched past times a private sector shipyard inwards India.
• RSS primary Mohan Bhagwat has releaed a coffee-table volume “Narendra Damodardas Modi : The Making of a Legend”. This volume has been authored past times Bindeshwar Pathak (Chief of Sulabh International)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying a bargain amongst the Syrian authorities allowing Russian Federation to hold its air base of operations inwards Syrian Arab Republic for almost l years. 
• Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree extending the embargo imposed on nutrient products from the European Union as well as other Western countries until the terminate of 2018.
• Russian infinite agency Roscosmos successfully launched 'Kanopus-V-IK' Earth-imaging satellite as well as 72 microsatellites into orbit on a unmarried rocket. This comes after ISRO launched a world tape 104 satellites at i time before this year, breaking Russia's previous tape of 37 satellites.
• SBI Life Insurance, a unit of measurement of State Bank of India, has filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO), that volition reportedly heighten over $1 billion (over ₹6,400 crore). SBI Life volition live the 2nd Indian life insurer to go public.
• Scientists from University of Cambridge, Great Britain have got discovered the smallest star inwards the universe. It has been named equally EBLM J0555-57Ab.
• Shyam Saran Negi, independent India's first-ever voter, latterly turned 100.
• Spain's Garbine Muguruza has won the Wimbledon Women's singles title. 
• Sri Lanka has signed a US $1.1 billion bargain to sell a 70% stake of the strategic Hambantota deep-sea port to China.
• Swami Vivekananda Airport of Raipur was ranked commencement inwards Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) Survey amid 49 airports inwards the country.
• Sweden is going to handle its 'first as well as biggest' state of war machine exercise inwards over 20 years, involving all of its state of war machine branches equally good equally troops from several NATO countries.
• Swiss lawn tennis star Roger Federer won a tape eighth Wimbledon men's singles title. With this he likewise became the oldest manful somebody actor (35 years) to win The Championships inwards Open Era.
• Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appeared for the commencement fourth dimension on the country's currency since taking office, amongst his portrait printed on a novel 2,000-pound banknote that latterly went into circulation.
• Telangana prisons department, citing Norway's example, has proposed to conform prisoners from overcrowded prisons inwards Republic of Republic of India at a rent of ₹10,000 a calendar month per prisoner.
• Thailand has amended a regal belongings law to formally give King Maha Vajiralongkorn total command of the agency which manages regal assets worth to a greater extent than than $30 billion.
• Thailand's Atthaya Thitikul has acquire the youngest known winner of a professional person golf game tour lawsuit after claiming the Ladies European Thailand Championship at the historic menstruation of fourteen years, 4 months as well as xix days.
• The annual buffalo racing sport 'Kambala' has been legalised inwards Karnataka after President Pranab Mukherjee approved the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Ordinance, 2017.
• The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) has been extended for half dozen to a greater extent than months inwards Nagaland amongst outcome from June 30. The AFSPA has been inwards forcefulness inwards Nagaland for several decades.
• The Assam authorities is going to heighten a novel Special Rhino Protection Force (SRPF) for amend protection of the one-horned rhinos inwards Assam.
• The Bank of England unveiled a novel polymer £10 annotation featuring 19th century novelist Jane Austen, inwards a displace to supervene upon newspaper £5, £10 as well as £20 amongst secure plastic notes. This makes Austen the alone adult woman other than Queen Elizabeth to live featured on a polymer British banknote.
• The BCCI named quondam Indian cricketer Bharat Arun equally the Indian cricket team's bowling coach.
• The key authorities has approved the renaming of 2 villages inwards Haryana, after complaints from villagers. The Ganda hamlet has been renamed to Ajit Nagar as well as Kinnar has been renamed to Gaibi Nagar.
• The Centre has notified that activity would live taken against those who post videos as well as images of the protected Andaman as well as Nicobar Islands' tribal communities on social media.
• The Chinese authorities has ordered telecommunication firms to completely block access to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) past times Feb 2018, inwards a crackdown aimed at suppressing dissent over the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party.
• The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has adopted 3 Codex standards for pepper (black, white as well as green), cumin as well as thyme. It is for commencement fourth dimension pepper, cumin as well as thyme, spices volition have got such universal standards.
• The Competition Commission of Republic of Republic of India approved the merger of Vodafone Republic of Republic of India as well as Aditya Birla Group's Idea Cellular.
• The Defence Research as well as Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed India's commencement unmanned tank 'Muntra', which has iii tested as well as validated remote-controlled variants - Muntra-S, Muntra-M, as well as Muntra-N.
• The Delhi authorities has released ₹100 crore for the completion of the Signature Bridge, which is twice the pinnacle of the Qutub Minar.
• The Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) has acquire the world’s commencement completely ‘green’ Metro organisation for adhering to dark-green edifice norms for its residential colonies.
• The Department of Industrial Policy as well as Promotion (DIPP) volition constitute India’s commencement Technology as well as Innovation Support Center (TISC) at Patent Information Centre, Punjab.
• The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has inked an understanding amongst 4  Private Sector Banks (ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank as well as Kotak Mahindra Bank) as well as i Public Sector Bank (Bank of Baroda) for the exercise of collection of provident fund dues from the employers as well as payments to its subscribers.
• The European Union has approved a $6.1-billion (over ₹39,000 crore) province bailout for Italy's quaternary largest lender, Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
• The commencement successful rover called Sojourner was deployed on Mars' surface via NASA's Pathfinder mission 20 years agone on fifth July 1997.
• The Food Safety as well as Standards Authority of Republic of Republic of India (FSSAI) has banned the exercise of stapler pins inwards tea bags from Jan 2018. 
• The French authorities has announced that the province volition terminate sales of petrol as well as diesel fuel vehicles past times 2040 equally component subdivision of an ambitious innovation to encounter its targets nether the Paris climate accord.
• The Goa authorities has announced that it is discontinuing the Goa Yuva Samwad Yojana, a scheme through which people betwixt xvi as well as thirty could avail costless vocalization calls as well as cyberspace data.
• The authorities has approved e-commerce giant Amazon's proposed $500 i G k (over ₹3,200 crore) unusual straight investment (FDI) inwards retailing of nutrient products inwards India.
• The authorities is going to link promotions of IPS officers to their physical fitness.
• The government's 'Project Insight', which was built over 7 years at a cost of $156 million, volition enable catching taxation evaders past times keeping a tab on their social media posts.
• The Haryana authorities banned the exercise of liquid nitrogen inwards drinks as well as food.
• The Indian Army has signed MoU amongst Defence Research as well as Development Organisation (DRDO) to heighten i regiment of the advanced Medium Range Surface to Air Missiles (MRSAM) defense forcefulness system.
• The Indian boxing contingent at the 48th Grand Prix Usti Nad Labem inwards the Czechia claimed v golden medals, 2 silvery as well as i bronze medal at the event.
• The Indian contingent at the World Para Athletics Championship ended its drive amongst v medals (1 gold, 2 silvery as well as 2 bronze)
• The Indian Railways has launched RailCloud, a virtual server amongst an inbuilt security organisation that volition enable faster connectivity at a reduced cost. 
• The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced that it volition waive off the fees for transgender students, inwards all the courses that it offers.
• The Karnataka authorities has announced a 3-day global conference on social justice from July 21-23 at the University of Agricultural Sciences inwards Bengaluru. Theme of this conference : 'Reclaiming Social Justice, Revisiting Ambedkar'.
• The Karnataka authorities has laid upward a 9-member commission to blueprint a province flag (an identity symbol unique to the state). As of now, Jammu as well as Kashmir is the alone province that has its ain flag.
• The landmark India-Japan civil nuclear understanding came into outcome on 21st July 2017. This bargain would enable Nihon to export nuclear ability flora engineering equally good equally render finance for nuclear ability plants inwards India.
• The Lucknow Metro volition acquire India's commencement to have got its ain FM radio station, which volition render amusement as well as information on tube safety. 
• The Maharashtra authorities has launched a scheme to comprehend medical insurance of upward to ₹10 lakh for legislators as well as their families. This scheme is aimed at curbing the exercise of imitation bills inwards the medical reimbursement scheme the legislators were covered nether earlier.
• The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation has received the blessing to create a 12-km 'missing link' betwixt Khopoli as well as Kusgaon, which volition allow motorists to drive at 100 kmph.
• The much awaited 8% Pension scheme - Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana- for senior citizens aged threescore or to a higher house was formally launched past times Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
• The Bombay railways is going to innovate a software which volition assist commuters volume tickets through Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) codes.
• The National Aeronautics as well as Space Administration (NASA) is developing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first-ever mission that volition deflect a near-Earth asteroid.
• The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed a consummate ban on 'manja' (kite strings) made of or coated amongst whatever synthetic fabric that is non-biodegradable. 
• The National Payments Corporation of Republic of Republic of India (NPCI) has received terminal nod from the Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) to business office equally the Bharat Bill Payment Central Unit (BBPCU) as well as operate the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS).
• The National Zoological Park, New Delhi is going to launch an Animal Adoption Scheme. Citizens would live able to adopt an animate beingness after paying a fixed amount of money, unremarkably spent on nutrient as well as medicines for the animal.
• The parliament has passed The Collection of Statistics (Amendment) Bill, 2017 after it was approved past times the Rajya Sabha. This pecker aims at amending the Collection of Statistics Bill, 2008, which facilitates the collection of statistics related to social, economic, demographic, scientific as well as environmental aspects, past times central, province as well as local governments.
• The Prime Minister Narendra Modi latterly inaugurated Textiles Republic of Republic of India 2017 India’s commencement always mega textiles merchandise fair at Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) had stopped printing the ₹2,000 currency notes virtually v months agone as well as has started printing the smaller denomination ₹200 notes.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) is going to number a novel batch of ₹20 notes nether the Mahatma Gandhi series-2005 soon. 
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India is considering setting upward of Public Credit Registry (PCR), an extensive database of banking concern loans. 
• The Roman Catholic Mediterranean isle Republic of Malta became the 24th province inwards the world to legalise same-sex marriage.
• The State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) has waived charges for fund transfer of upward to ₹1,000 through its Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) to promote little transactions. SBI was before charging ₹5 along amongst service taxation for such transfers of upward to ₹1,000.
• The State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) launched SBI Realty, a dedicated portal that volition assist habitation buyers to select flats from its 3,000 approved projects across the country. 
• The Telangana authorities has issued an ordinance to curb the "social evils" caused past times online rummy bill of fare games.
• The Telangana School Education Department has issued an monastic tell capping the weight of schoolhouse bags for students inwards primary, upper primary as well as high schools. The monastic tell directed schoolhouse managements to ensure that the weight of a handbag does non occur 5 kilograms for cast 10 students.
• The Telecom subdivision has made it mandatory for all phones, including characteristic phones, to install Global Positioning System (GPS) from Jan 1, 2018.
• The Unesco World Heritage commission has lay the West Bank metropolis of Hebron's Old Town on its listing of world heritage inwards danger, drawing shock from Israel.
• The union cabinet has approved the institution of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Southern Asia Regional Center (ISARC) at campus of National Seed Research as well as Training Center (NSRTC) inwards Varanasi.
• The Union Finance Ministry has launched a novel taxation payer service module titled Aaykar Setu. The novel e-initiative literally agency taxpayer’s span as well as volition live available inwards android phones.
• The Union Government as well as Asian Development Bank (ADB) have got signed a $220 i G k loan understanding for improving connectivity equally good equally carry efficiency as well as security on State Highways of Rajasthan.
• The Union Minister of Health as well as Family Welfare J P Nadda launched the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination (2017-22). This Strategic Plan gives twelvemonth wise elimination targets inwards diverse parts of the province depending upon the endemicity of malaria inwards the side past times side 5 years.
• The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued instructions to all states to halt using bouquets during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tours inside India.
• The Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pension has launched a novel preparation programme titled Comprehensive Online Modified Modules on Induction Training (COMMIT) for State Government officials.
• The Union Ministry of Power has announced that virtually 97% of the total outstanding debt of all province ability distribution companies (discoms) has been covered nether the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY).
• The Union Ministry of Rural Development is going to launch Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY), a sub-scheme nether Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).
• The Union Ministry of Rural Development launched Aarambh mobile app for performance based maintenance contracting as well as community contracting for maintenance of rural roads.
• The Union Ministry of Science & Technology has launched National Biopharma Mission, a commencement always Industry-Academia mission to accelerate biopharmaceutical evolution inwards India.
• The Union Ministry of Science as well as Technology has launched SOHUM, an indigenously developed low-cost hearing screening device for newborns.
• The Unique Identification Authority of Republic of Republic of India (UIDA) has launched 'mAadhaar', a novel app for syncing Aadhaar information on mobile phones. This app allows users to bear their Aadhaar information including name, appointment of birth, gender, address, as well as the linked photograph, on their smartphones.
• The United Nations Educational, Scientific as well as Cultural Organization (UNESCO)  has voted to leave of absence Australia's Great Barrier Reef off its "List of World Heritage inwards Danger" despite several reports claiming major coral bleaching at the 2,300-km-long ecosystem.
• The United Nations has adopted a Global Draft Treaty banning nuclear weapons amid opposition from all nuclear-weapon states which boycotted the negotiations.
• The U.S. as well as Commonwealth of Australia have got jointly test-fired a hypersonic missile capable of moving at a speed 8 times faster than audio equally component subdivision of a $54-million interrogation project. 
• The U.S. as well as Qatar signed an understanding on combating terrorism as well as terror financing.
• The U.S. has banned citizens from traveling to Democratic People's South Korea due to "the serious run a endangerment of arrest".
• The U.S. has deployed anti-aircraft missiles for the commencement fourth dimension inwards the Baltics for exercise inwards NATO state of war machine drills inwards Lithuania.
• The U.S. has ended a four-month ban on flyers carrying laptops on US-bound flights from airports inwards North Africa as well as the Middle East.
• The U.S. of America (USA) has rolled out Global Entry programme (GEP), a pre-approved expedited entry clearance programme for low-risk Indian travellers. Indian Ambassador to US Navtej Sarna was the commencement Indian national to enroll inwards the programme
• The US Defence Department has latterly announced that it volition non brand state of war machine reimbursements to Islamic Republic of Pakistan for 2016 fiscal.
• The US House of Representatives has passed a $621.5 billion defense forcefulness policy pecker which includes proposals of boosting defense forcefulness cooperation amongst India.
• The US state of war machine successfully tested the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) organisation past times launching a ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean.
• The US Navy has officially inducted the world's largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford. The nuclear-powered carrier is worth over ₹83,000 crore ($12.9 billion) as well as weighs 1 lakh tonnes.
• The Uttar Pradesh authorities has decided to innovate an 'Anti-Copying' Bill inwards the upcoming assembly session to banking concern check for cheating inwards the province examinations.
• The Uttar Pradesh authorities has launched a scheme on World Population Day (July 11), nether which it volition give a kit comprising condoms as well as oral contraceptive pills equally 'shagun' to newly-weds.
• The Women as well as Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has launched an online portal SHe-box (Sexual Harassment e-box) for the key government's women employees to file complaints related to workplace sexual harassment.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the terminate of the most recent outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) inwards the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
• The world's longest hanging pedestrian bridge, Europabrücke opened close the Swiss town of Zermatt.
• The world's smallest spacecraft always launched have got successfully been placed inwards depression footing orbit past times ISRO's PSLV rocket. Named Sprites, the 3.5cmx3.5cm infinite probes weigh 4 grams each as well as run on sunlight.
• To develop Bengaluru equally the international hub of estimator graphics technology, the Cabinet approved the Karnataka Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming as well as Comics Policy, 2017-22.
• To facilitate merchandise as well as to improve communication betwixt the 2 countries, Republic of Republic of India as well as People's Republic of Bangladesh have got decided to create a span over Mizoram’s Khawthlangtuipui river (also known equally Karnaphuli river).
• UK PM Theresa May published the landmark 'Brexit repeal bill' to terminate the supremacy of European Union laws as well as the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice inwards the UK.
• UK's commencement important man, Hayden Cross, has given nascency to a daughter after putting his gender activity transition on handle to acquire important past times a sperm donor. Cross is UK's commencement transgender human being to give birth.
• Union Cabinet gave its in-principle blessing for sale of the government's 51.11% stake inwards Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) to India's largest fossil oil producer ONGC for ₹30,000 crore. After this, the HPCL volition acquire a subsidiary of ONGC as well as volition rest a listed company.
• Uruguay has acquire the 1st province inwards the world to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use.
• US Navy successfully tested the world’s first-ever active Laser Weapons System (LaWS).
• Uttar Pradesh Power Minister Shrikant Sharma launched costless ability connector schemes for BPL families at 624 places across the state. 
• Uttarakhand banned begging, making it i of the 20 states as well as 2 union territories to have got banned the practice.
• Venezuela's state-owned fossil oil house Petroleos de Venezuela has offered a 9% stake inwards an fossil oil land to ONGC Videsh, the international arm of India's state-owned Oil as well as Natural Gas Corporation.
• Vietnam has granted ONGC Videsh a two-year extension to explore fossil oil block 128 inwards the South Red People's Republic of China Sea.
• Vietnamese working capital alphabetic lineament Hanoi has approved a proposal to ban motorbikes, the city's most pop way of transport, from its key streets past times 2030. 
• Vondaraguppe hamlet inwards Karnataka's Ramanagara district has transitioned to a completely cashless system.
• Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway became the largest shareholder of Bank of America surpassing Vanguard Group past times exercising its warrants to purchase 700 i G k mutual shares. 
• With 24.1 crore active users, Republic of Republic of India has overtaken the U.S. to acquire Facebook's largest province audience, according to information shared past times the platform for July.
• World youth boxing champion Sachin Siwach clinched a Gold medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games inwards the Bahamas.  .
• 'Yara Birkeland', the world's commencement always self-driving ship worth ₹162 crore volition laid canvass along a threescore km route inwards southern Kingdom of Norway without whatever crew fellow member inwards 2018.
• Zimbabwe's Parliament passed a pecker giving President Robert Mugabe ability to appoint the country's top judges without consulting anyone. 

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