Dear Readers,
Welcome to Mentor for Bank Exams. Here I am presenting the most important current issues of the second week in the month of July. These will be helpful for your upcoming exams and mainly to boost your general awareness. Kindly make use of these!!!
1) The 2016 North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) has started at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland from
July 8. In the 2-day summit, the leaders of the 28 NATO Allies and many partner
nations will deliberate and take decisions to increase the alliance’s security
by strengthening its deterrence and defense and projecting stability beyond its
borders,
3) India has recently signed three Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mozambique in areas of drug trafficking, pulse trading and sports.The excerpts of MoUs are on reduction of drug trafficking and psychotropic substances and related materials, cooperation in the field of youth affairs and sports and long term agreement for purchase of pulses. In it, Mozambique will focus on the production of tur daal (Pigeon Peas) to facilitate the long term trade goals with India.
4) The National E-Vidhan Academy
will be set up in Tapovan, where Himachal Vidhan Sabha is situated in
Dharamshala. The academy in Dharamsala will train MPs, MLAs and the staff of
such institutions from different states in the country.
5) The 7th edition of Mountain
Echoes literary festival 2016 will be held in Thimpu, Bhutan on August 26 to
28, 2016. It is an initiative of India-Bhutan Foundation in association with
Siyahi, a literary organization.
6) Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton
from England has won the 2016 Formulae One British Grand Prix championship in
Silverstone, United Kingdom. It is his 4th title of the 2016 season after
Monaco Grand Prix, Canadian Grand Prix, and Austrian Grand Prix.
7) The Haryana Government has
decided to introduce online filing of Performance Appraisal Report (PAR)
through Smart Performance Appraisal Report Recording Online Window (SPARROW)
for all its IPS officers from the assessment year 2015-16. The government has
also notified the instructions for writing of their PAR which will be recorded
online at http://ips.gov.in by December 31, 2016.
8) Jagat Prakash Nadda, the Union
Minister of Health and Family Welfare, has recently launched nationwide
“Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF)” in New Delhi on July 11, which
will be continue till July 23, 2016. The purpose of the IDCF is to curb the
risk of diarrhoea which scales up during monsoon season.
9) Dharambir Singh has recently book
his berth in 2016 Rio Olympics by clocking 20.45 seconds in Men’s 200 meters
race at the Indian Grand Prix in Bengaluru and become the first Indian to
qualify in the sprint event after Perumal Subramaniam in the 1980 Moscow games.
Apart from him, Jinson Johnson from Kerala has also qualified for the 2016 Rio
in the 800m race after clocking a time of 1:45.98 seconds.
10) An independent base of Marine
Commandos (MARCOS) “INS Karna” has been commissioned by Chief of Naval Staff
Admiral Sunil Lanba at Bheemunipatanam Naval Base in Visakhapatnam, Andhra
Pradesh. Captain Varun Singh will be the Commanding Officer of INS Karna.
11) The world’s first Snoopy Museum
has opened at Roppongi in Tokyo, Japan. It is organized by Charles M. Schulz
Museum and Research Center and is dedicated to the cartoon beagle.
12) The 2016 Hemis festival will be
held at the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) from July
14, 2016 to celebrate the birthday of Lord Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), who
is believed to be the local savior who banished demons and evil spirits.
13) K V R Murthy has been appointed
as the new Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of Jute Corporation of India
Ltd. (JCI). His appointment is for a period of 5 years or till the date of his
superannuation. Prior of this appointment, he was the Chief Commercial Manager
of Eastern Railways.
14) Theresa May, the leader of the
Conservative Party, is the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK). She
succeeded David Cameron, who resigned after the outcome of the European Union
membership referendum. She is the 2nd female Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom after Margaret Thatcher.
15) The Republic of Peru has recently
declared a Zika health emergency across the northern half of the country after
102 people were infected with the virus. The 90-day health emergency was
declared to prevent the spread of the disease, which is principally transmitted
by daytime-active mosquitoes. Over 100 cases of Zika have been reported in
Peru, more than 30 of the infected are pregnant women.
