Dear readers, Welcome to Online Current Affairs July 2016 weekly one liners section. Here we are providing the one liners covering important event in Current Affairs in the First week of June, which is common for all the bank exams and other competitive exams!!!
1) Sameer Mon, the famous
sprinter from Manipur, has recently won gold in 100 metre dash in 10.60 seconds
at the 56th National Inter-state Senior Athletics Championships in Hyderabad.
With this, he became the fastest male athlete in India.
2) The Union Railway Minister
Suresh Prabhu has recently launched NIVARAN portal, an online system for
redressal of service related grievance of serving and former railway employees.
This online system facilitates the employees to lodge their grievances and also
monitor the progress.
3) The 25th edition of Exercise
Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2016 has started in Pacific Ocean at Hawaii, United
States from June 30, 2016 and will continue till August 4, 2016. In it, 27
countries viz. India, the Philippines, Australia, France, Japan, Malaysia, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Tonga, the United Kingdom, etc, are participating.
4) Rodrigo Duterte, Maverick
anti-crime candidate, has been sworn-in as the 16th President of the
Philippines, after a landslide election victory in May 2016. He succeeded
Benigno S. Aquino III and will have a tenure of 6 years.
5) The World Bank Board has
approved the $ 201.50 million for Technical Education Quality Improvement
Project (TEQIP III) in India. The purpose of the project is to increase quality
and equity in participating engineering education institutes and to improve the
efficiency of the engineering education system in focus states. The maturity
period for the project is 25 years with an additional 5 years grace period.
6) India has been ranked 35th out
of 160 countries in the World Bank’s 2016 Logistics Performance Index (LPI).
India’s logistics performance at its key international gateways has improved in
the last two years from 54 in 2014 to 35 in 2016, which will not only boost
programmes, such as Make in India, but also help in increasing trade. The list
is topped by Germany, followed by Luxembourg and Sweden.
7) Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere
(86), the famous Marathi writer, has recently passed away in Pune, Maharashtra.
He was known for his exhaustive research in folk literature and bhakti
tradition of Maharashtra. His works include Vividh, Gangajali, Dakshinecha
Lokdev Khandoba, History of Nath Sampraday, Sri Venkateshwara, etc.
8) Major General Per Gustaf Lodin
of Sweden is the newly appointed Chief Military Observer and Head of Mission
for the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP).
He succeeded Major General Delali Johnson Sakyi of Ghana.
9) The Kerala Government has
banned the manufacture, sale, marketing and advertising of e-cigarettes (or
electronic cigarette) in the state, as its use could lead to cancer and heart
diseases. With this, Kerala has become the 4th state in India to ban
e-cigarette after Punjab, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
10) India’s first integrated
Defense Communication Network (DCN) has been launched by Union Defense Minister
Manohar Parrikar in New Delhi. The network will facilitate Indian Army, Indian
Air force, Indian Navy and the Special Forces Command to share situational
awareness for a faster decision-making process.
11) The Rapid Rural Police
Response System (RRPRS) has been launched by Punjab police to ensure prompt and
effective police response in villages to counter any crime or law and order
situation in just 20 minutes.
12) The first international film,
arts and animal welfare festival “Animal-Human-Nature Continuum” has started at
Liberty in Mumbai,India from July 1 and will continue till August 28, 2016. The
focus of the unique festival is to highlight the relationship among animals,
humans and nature. In it, over 150 films from more than 40 countries will be
screened up.
13) India’s first Commercial
Court and Commercial Disputes Resolution Centre has been opened at Raipur, the
capital of Chhattisgarh. The complex has ultra-modern facilities like
Video-conferencing, E-Court, E-Library, E-Filing and E-Summons. These
facilities will help the investors in their commercial dealings.
14) The State Bank of India (SBI)
has signed agreements with the World Bank for a $625 million credit facility to
support grid connected rooftop solar programme in India. This will help SBI in
financing grid connected rooftop solar photovoltaic (GRPV) projects at very
competitive rates.
15) The first meeting of the
BRICS Working Group on “Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency” will be held in
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh from July 4-5, 2016. In it, the BRICS (Brazil,
Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries would make presentations on
measures taken by them in the field of energy saving and energy efficiency.
16) The Union Sports minister Dr
Jitendra Singh has recently granted Rs. 10 lakh to Olympic gold medallist
Mohammed Shahid, who is undergoing treatment for serious liver and kidney
disease at a hospital in Gurgaon. Shahid is known for his artistic stickwork
and was a member of the Indian Hockey team that won the gold medal at the 1980
Olympic Games in Moscow.
17) Lewis Hamilton, a British
Formula One racing driver from England, has won the 2016 Austrian Grand Prix
title of Formula One. It is his third title of the 2016 season after Monaco
Grand Prix and Canadian Grand Prix.
18) Sai Praneeth from India has
won the 2016 Men’s Singles Canada Open Grand Prix Badminton tournament by
defeating South Korean Lee Hyun-il in final by 21-12 21-10 at the Markin
MacPhail Centre, in Calgary, Canada.
19) Elie Wiesel (87), the Nobel
Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist, has recently passed away in
Manhattan, United States.
20) The 3rd edition of BRICS
Urban Forum meeting 2016 will be host by Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh from
September 14 to 16, 2016. The conference will throw light on the challenges
faced by the cities and the emergence of new urban spaces with rapid
urbanization.
21) The 2nd edition of BRICS
Youth Summit 2016 was organized at Guwahati, Assam from 1st to 3rd July, 2016.
The 2016 theme is “Youth as bridge for Intra-BRICS Exchanges”.
22) Neerja Bhanot, the senior
flight purser on a Pan Am flight, has been conferred with the 2016 Bharat
Gaurav Award in London, United Kingdom (UK) for her distinguished services to
the nation and outstanding individual achievements.
23) The State Bank of India (SBI)
has recently launched a social media banking platform for Facebook and Twitter
users “SBI Mingle”, which will allow its customers to access various banking
services via these social platforms.
24) The world’s first Mixed
Martial Arts (MMA) ‘Super Fight League’ will be hosted by India from August 26
to October 1, 2016. The championship will have an equal stage for women as a
total of 96 fighters will be involved in both men and women combined.
25) The State Bank of India (SBI)
has recently tied up with e-commerce giant Flipkart to offer new pre-approved Equated
Monthly Installment(EMI) facility for SBI account holders. Under the tie-up,
SBI will provide overdraft facility to its customers purchasing goods worth Rs.
5,000 and above on Flipkart for a tenor of 6, 9, and 12 months without any
processing fees.
26) Bengaluru para swimmer
Niranjan Mukundan has won 8 medals at the 2016 International Wheelchair and
Amputee Sports (IWAS) U-23 World Games in Prague, Czech Republic. He has bagged
gold medals in 200m freestyle, 50m butterfly and 50m breaststroke, silver in
100m fly and 50m freestyle, and bronze in 100m freestyle, 100m breaststroke and
100m backstroke events.
27) The top seed doubles Indian
pair Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy have won the 2016 Men’s doubles Canada Open
Grand Prix Badminton tournament by defeating Adrian Liu and Toby Ng in the
final by 21-8 21-14 at the Markin MacPhail Centre in Calgary, Canada. Both
Attri and Reddy are the first Indian men’s doubles pair to qualify for the Rio
Olympics 2016.
28) The recently released 2016
“State of the World’s Children” report is the annual flagship report of United
Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). As per the report, global
under-five mortality rates have been more than halved since 1990 globally.
29) The Telecom Regulatory
Authority of India (TRAI) has recently launched ‘MySpeed’ mobile app, which
allow users to measure their internet speed on their smart phone and send
results to a TRAI analytics portal.
30) Sudarshan Sen has been
appointed as the new Executive Director of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in place
of N S Vishwanathan, who has been elevated as Deputy Governor at the central
bank. Sen will look after Department of Banking Regulation, Department of
Co-operative Bank Regulation and Department of Non-Banking Regulation. Earlier,
he was in-charge of the Department of Banking Regulation. He also served as the
Regional Director of Ahmedabad office of the RBI.
31) India will host the 2016 meet
of BRICS anti-narcotics heads on July 8, 2016 to discuss issues related to
narco-terrorism and money laundering among the BRICS member-nations. The
one-day meeting will be hosted by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the agenda
of the high-level meeting is expected to revolve around illicit drug
trafficking including diversion of precursors and chemicals, usage of new
psychoactive substances, maritime drug trafficking, narco terrorism and drug
money laundering.
32) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu has
become the first Indian footballer to play in the Union of European Football
Associations (UEFA) Europa League. He achieved this feat when he plays for the
Norwegian club Stabaek FC as the goalie against Connah’s Quay FC in a
qualifying match in Rhyl, Wales.
33) The Jawaharlal Nehru Port
(JNPT) has become the first port in India to implement the logistics data bank
tagging of containers. It is first of its kind facility, which will help
importers/exporters to track their goods in transit through logistics data bank
service.
34) The Government of India (GoI)
will provide interest subvention of 5 % for all farmers for short term crop
loans up to Rs 3 lakh for FY 17 (2016-17), provided they repay in time, or else
a higher rate of 7% will be charged. Thus, farmers will have to effectively pay
only 4% as interest.
35) Lidudumalingani, the South
African writer, filmmaker and photographer, has won the 17th edition of
prestigious Caine Prize 2016 for his short story “Memories We Lost”. The
winning story explores mental health through the relationship of two sisters in
a South African village, one of whom is schizophrenic and the other her
protector.
36) Prakash Javadekar is the
newly appointed Union Minister of Ministry of Human Resource Development
(MHRD). He succeeded Smriti Irani. Previously, Javadekar was the Minister of
State (Independent Charge) for Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
37) The world’s largest Charkha
has been set up by the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Minister
Kalraj Mishra at Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA)
in New Delhi.
38) The Haryana Police has
recently launched a 24-hour helpline “8284030455” for people to report
incidents of the smuggling or slaughter of cows in the state, where cattle
slaughter and beef sale are already banned.
39) The 4th edition of Woodpecker
Environment and Wildlife Film Festival 2016 will begin at historic Gaiety
Theatre in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh from July 7 and will continue till July 9,
2016.
40) Rajasthan has become the
first Indian state to introduce minimum wages for part time. As per the
notification, it is now mandatory to pay 50 % of the prescribed a day minimum
wage to a person who works for less than 4 hours in a day. With this
notification, now part time workers come under the Minimum Wages Act 1948.
41) The 5-time Olympian Shiva
Keshavan has been appointed as the first President of the Olympians Association
of India (OAI). The OAI is the India’s first and only non-profit organization
founded by Olympians viz. Shiva Keshavan(luge), Viren Rasquinha (hockey), Malav
Shroff (sailing), Mary Kom (boxing), etc., for Olympians in India.
42) The Dr. Shankar Acharya
committee has been constituted by the Union Finance Ministry to examine the
feasibility and desirability of having a new financial year. This could lead to
changing India’s financial year from April-March to January –February or any
other 12-month period.
43) India has been ranked 91st
out of 139 countries in the 2016 Networked Readiness Index (NRI). The 2016 NRI
index is a key component of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Information
Technology Report 2016. The list is topped by Singapore, followed by Finland,
Sweden, Norway and the United States. The index measures countries’ success in
creating the necessary conditions for a transition to a digitized economy and
society.
44) The Union Minister of Water
Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Uma Bharti has recently
launched the Namami Gange programme for cleaning of river Ganga from Haridwar,
Uttarakhand.
45) The World Zoonoses Day is
observed on July 6 every year to create awareness on zoonotic diseases, how to
prevent them and what actions to take when exposed. The word “zoonoses” was
derived from the Greek words zoon (animal) and nosos (ailment).
46) Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu is
the newly appointed Union Minister of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
(I&B). In addition to I & B ministry, he already holds the portfolio of
Urban Development Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs.
47) Dipa Karmakar from Tripura
has become the first-ever Indian gymnast to be certified as “World Class
Gymnast” by the International Federation of Gymnastics (IFG). The IFG is the
governing body of competitive gymnastics and its headquarters is at Lausanne,
Switzerland.
48) Abbas Kiarostami (76), the
immensely acclaimed and influential Iranian writer-director, has recently
passed away in Paris, France. He was the only Iranian ever to win the Palme
D’Or at Cannes film festival.
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