National
- Theme of Conference of Vice-Chancellors organized on
July 26-28 - Research and Innovation.
- India’s first in-phone guide - Go whatsThat.
- India’s first National Skill Training Institute
(NSTI) which is exclusively for women at - Mohali, Punjab.
- This state implement Pranam Scheme to ensure
that govt staff take care of their parents & physically challenged
siblings – Assam.
- Indigenised multi-fuel engines for powering
T-90 Bhisma Tank - V92S2 (1,000 HP).
- 2nd Conference of Young Superintendent of Police being
organized at – New Delhi.
- Software to detect plagiarism in research, would be
provided to all universities free of cost - Turnitin.
- Country is the largest milk producer of the world
– India
- The per capita consumption of the global average
- 330 grams
- Indian Prime Minister had attended the concluding
session of the two-day ‘Transforming Urban Landscape’ convention at
– Uttar Pradesh
- Under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) Government of
India set a target of building 20 million affordable houses by - 31
March 2022
International
- This Assamese film won best movie award at the 3rd Love
International Film Festival in Los Angeles - Xhoihobote Dhemalite.
- India will provide advance warning of floods to country
- Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand.
- New strain of Ebola virus discovered in Sierra Leone
named – Bombali.
- Global Tiger Day, often called International Tiger Day
is celebrated on - 29 July
- Imran Khan to be sworn-in as Prime Minister of
Pakistan.
- Imran Khan is a leader of Political Party - Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)
Banking
- First time this State-owned company is going to take up
gold mining in India in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh - NMDC
Limited.
- According to official data, Nearly this percent of
17.79 lakh companies registered in the country were active in India at the
end of June-18 – 66%.
- Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel-headed
Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)
- The government has mandated the Reserve Bank to keep
inflation at 4 per cent (+/- 2 per cent)
- India's third-largest software service provider in
terms of dollar revenue- T.C.S.(Tata consultancy Services)
Sports
·
New Goalkeeper coach
of the Chennai FC team of Indian Super League - Kevin Hitchcock
(Britain).
·
Bajrang Punia won
international gold at the Yasar Dogu International.
Person in News
- Name of The world's oldest 117-year-old person ,
who died recently - Chiyo Miyako (Japanese).
- Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare Radha Mohan Singh
- The current Governor of Meghalaya - Ganga
Prasad
General knowledge
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) headquarters
- Geneva (Switzerland).
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) established in
the year - 1873.
- Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) established in
the year - 1875.
- BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa) formed in the year - 2006.
- National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) is
a statutory Corporation under Ministry of Agriculture &
Farmers Welfare
- National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) was
formed in 1963 with Headquarter in New Delhi
- Global Tiger Day, often called International Tiger Day
is celebrated on - 29 July
- Mudumalai Tiger reserve is in – Tamil Nadu