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1ST TO 5TH JULY 2017

INDIA
  • On March 27, the Supreme Court rejected  a plea of a 28-year old  Mumbai woman to abort her pregnancy in the 27th week; the SC states that the bay could be "born alive" during the process of abortion
  • The woman gave birth to a baby boy with the Arnold Chiari Type II syndrome, which leads to a malformed brain and spinal cord
  • The baby is now battling for life in a neonatal intensive care unit
  • Supreme Court observed that there may be nothing wrong in de - notifying particular stretches of highways running inside city limits as city roads and such de-classification does not violate its order that national and state highways across the country should be liquor-free zones
  • Cautioning the government against depriving genuine persons of their hard earned money and property, the Supreme Court said the Centre cannot close all options for such persons; it should open a window for them to approach the authorities to prove that it is their money
  • Centre is considering partial removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
  • Law Commission of India has recommended compulsor registration of marriages to protect gullible women who become victims of fake marriages
  • Prime Minister,  Mr. Narendra Modi sent out personalised e-mails to over two lakh chartered accountants across the country to combat black money
  • Law Minister issued a notification for the appointment of Election Commissioner Mr. Achal Kumar Joti as the next Chief Election Commissioner; he will take over the charge from incumbent Chief Election Commissioner Dr. Nasim Zaidi on July 06
  • All the 1,137 statutory cities and towns in six States of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Kerala and Telangana are set to be declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) by October 2 this year marking the completion of three years of Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban).

TAMIL NADU
  • A new Tamil Nadu curriculum Framework Committee headed by M. Anandakrishnan, (former Vice - Chancellor of Anna University) has been constituted to revise the syllabus in schools
STATES SCAN
  • Andhra Pradesh: Excise Minister, Mr. Kothapalli Samuel Jawahar said that beer is a "health drink and the state government was planning to promote beer as a health drink
  • Goa: The Office of the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes has set up GST facilitation centres in ward across the state and at the department's head office in Panaji
  • Karnataka: Government's "Elevate Program" to fast track the most innovative startups
  • Madhya Pradesh: country's biggest Global Skill Park was laid in the city of Bhopal
  • Manipur: declared the flood situation in the state as a "national calamity"
  • Punjab: Chief Minister, Mr. Amarinder Singh said that his government would bring the Chief Minister, along with Ministers and bureaucrats, within the ambit of the Lokpal Bill to be enacted soon
  • Uttar Pradesh: government launched the "Mukhbir Yojana" to curb female foeticide
  • West Bengal: witnessed an unprecedented political showdown with Governor Mr. Keshari Nath Tripathi and Chief Minister, Ms. Mamata Banerjee indulging in a public spat
BILATERAL ISSUES
  • Vietnam asked India to play a greater role in ASEAN's strategic and security affairs
  • Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel
  • India and Israel celebrates 25 years of diplomatic relationship
  • Prime Minister, Mr. Modi paid tribute to fallen Indian soldiers at the Haifa Cemetery in Israel
  • India and Israel likely to sign 7 MoUs today
WORLD
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo: WHO (World Health Organisation) put an end to the Ebola outbreak in Congo
  • Nigeria: Boko Haram jihadists have kidnapped 37 women 
  • North Korea: claimed it successfully test-launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (HWASONG-14)
  • UK: Britain announced that it would withdraw from the 50-year-old London Fisheries Convention, in order to fulfill one of its Brexit Pledges
  • UN: Secretary General, Mr. Antonio Guterres appointed a French legal expert and former judge Catherine Marchi - Uhel was appointed as the head of the independent panel to assist in the investigation and prosecution of those responsible for most serious violations of international law in Syria
ECONOMICS
  • Reliance Jio has launched the world's longest submarine cable system
SPORTS
  • 22nd Asian Athletics Championships to begin today in Bhubaneswar, Odisha (July 05-09, 2017)
  • Bhubaneswar is the third Indian city (after Delhi in 1983 and Pune in 2013) to host Asian Athletics Championships
  • The winners of the Asian meet will get a direct berth for the 2017 World Championships in London from August 4–13.
  • "Olly" that represents Olive Ridley sea turtle, one of the endangered species of Odisha became the mascot for this championship
MISC
  • Indian - Americans (Shantanu Naraen and Vivek Murthy) to be honoured with Great Immigrants Award
6TH JULY 2017
Around INDIA
  • President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee approved the promulgation of The Prevention of cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Ordinance 2017 to legalise Kambala in Karnataka
  • Selection of Election Commissioners must be transparent: Supreme Court to Centre
  • Union Home Minister, Mr. Rajnath Singh spoke to West Bengal Governor Mr. K. N. Tripathi and Chief Minister, Ms. Mamata Banerjee regarding the communal violence at Basirhat in North 24 Parganas Dt
TAMIL NADU
  • Supreme Court agreed to hear a petition on quashing the Confidence Vote won by the Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami
  • Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami wrote to Union Water Resources Minister, Ms. Uma Bharti asking her not to accord sanction for the Mekedatu project across the Cauvery till the issue was settled legally
STATES SCAN
  • Haryana: Government is planning to set up an environment - friendly transportation system in Gurugram on the pattern of Poland
  • Jammu & Kashmir: both the Houses of the State legislature passed a resolution adopting the GST through a presidential order
BILATERAL ISSUES
  • India and Israel announced a strategic partnership; signed 7 agreements
  • - A new fast-growing Israeli flower was named after Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi; Israeli Crysanthumum flower will now be called Modi
  • 10th India-Jordan Trade and Economic Joint Committee (TEJC) Meeting was held in New Delhi 
  • 5th Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Education was held in Beijing, China; adopted "Beijing Declaration"
  • China accused India of "misleading the public" by pointing out that the face-off between Indian and Chinese troops was taking place not at the tri - junction of China, India and Bhutan but at an undisputed section in the Donglang general  area
WORLD
  • France: Prime Minister, Mr. Edouard Philippe overwhelmingly won the confidence vote in the National Assembly
  • Pakistan: test - fired short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile NASR
  • USA: President, Mr. Donald Trump accused China of non - cooperation in dealing with the North Korean nuclear threat, and threatened retaliatory trade measures against Beijing
SPORTS
  • Athlete Tintu Luka was national flag bearer in the opening ceremony of the Asian Athletics Championships - 2017 at Bhubaneswar; 44 countries participating in the championships
  • Asian Snooker Championship (at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan): Indian team (Laxman Rawat, Pankaj Advani and Malkeet Singh) won the Championship by defeating Pakistan in the final
MISC
  • Scientists have recorded a major section of Rare Endemic and Threatened (RET) plant and trees in the Western Ghats, some of which have not been assessed by international conservation bodies for nearly two decades
10th JULY 2017
INTERNATIONAL

  • French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a summit on December 12
  • UNESCO has voted to leave Australia's Great Barrier Reef off its "List of World Heritage in Danger”
NATIONAL

  • President launches three digital initiatives over e-education
  • First International Aviation Security seminar organised by National Security Guard in Haryana
  • India to import crude oil from US for first time
  • India is going to invite the 10 leaders of ASEAN for 2018 Republic day Celebrations
 STATE

  • First Edition of WINGS 2017 – “Sab Uden, Sab Juden”- Expanding Regional Connectivity Hosted in New Delhi
  • Anti-Copying bill will be introduced by Uttar Pradesh government 
BANKING & ECONOMY

  • RBI said Ombudsman cannot handle note ban plaints
  • Nepal SBI launches first paperless Banking services sbi INTOUCH
APPOINTMENT

  • John Joseph has been appointed as Director General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DG GSTI)
SPORT

  • Valtteri Bottas won the Austrian Grand Prix
  • Harinder Pal Sandhu beat Rhys Dowling of Australia in the final of South Australian Open squash title
  • India has topped the medal tally for first time in Asian Athletics Championships history
  • India has topped the medal tally for the first time in the history of Asian Athletics Championships. In a stunning show of dominance on the fourth and final day of competitions in Bhubaneshwar, India clinched five gold, 1 silver, and 3 bronze. 
  • With that, the hosts ended the championships on top with a haul of 29 medals which included 12 gold, 5 silver, and 12 bronze. India’s earlier best came way back in the 1985 Jakarta edition where they had won 22 medals. India pushed China to the second spot (20 Medals). 
  • China ended this edition with a tally of 8 gold, 7 silver, 5 bronze. Kazakhstan finished third (8 Medals) with 4 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze while Iran ended on fourth with 4 gold and 1 bronze.
  • Atthaya Thitikul, a 14-year-old amateur from Thailand has won on the Ladies European Tour
13th JULY 2017
 Around INDIA
  • Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi chaired his twentieth interaction through PRAGATI - the ICT-based, multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation. 
  • A five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court will hear a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Aadhaar Scheme.
  •  The Supreme Court allowed Arunachal Pradesh and Andaman & Nicobar Is to join the club of Sikkim and Meghalaya, both of which enjoy full exemption from the Court’s ban on sale of liquor within 500m of National and State Highways
  • 8th edition of the greatest carnival of Theatre in the World will take place in India for the first time ever from February 17 – April 08, 2018 simultaneously in various cities across the country
  • Ministry of Health launched the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination (2017-22)
  • Ministry o f Railways launched the following Initiatives:-
                     1. Rail Cloud Project:
                     2. NIVARAN-Grievance Portal (First IT Application on Rail Cloud).
               3. Cashless treatment Scheme in Emergency (CTSE) Scheme and Handing over of 1st CTSE Card.

  • MoS for Home Affairs,  Mr. Kiren Rijiju to lead a high level central team today to supervise the rescue and relief operations in flood affected different parts of North East.
  • A major controversy erupted with the CBFC objecting to the use of words like "Cow", "Gujarat", "Hindu" and "Hindutava" in a documentary on Nobel laureate Amartya Sen titled "The Argumentative Indian"
  • Union Health Ministry will set up the Centres of Excellence in Transfusion Medicine under the Metro Blood Bank Project in the cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai
  • Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South Asia Regional Center (ISARC) at campus of National Seed Research and Training Center (NSRTC) in Varanasi. 
  • Union Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Palestine on cooperation in the field of Health and Medicine. 
  • Union Cabinet has given its approval for the Joint Interpretative Notes (JIN) on the Agreement between India and Bangladesh for the Promotion and Protection of Investments.
  • Union Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for signing a Joint Declaration of Intent (JDI) between India and Germany on cooperation in the field of Health.
  • Union Cabinet has been apprised of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Bangladesh on cyber security
  • Union Cabinet has been apprised of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Palestine on Cooperation in the field of Information Technology and Electronics (IT&E).
 TAMIL NADU 
  • Commercial Tax Department will soon unveil a "Samadhan Scheme" to collect outstanding tax arrears that are pending for a long time
STATES SCAN
  • Maharashtra: become the first State to enact a law against social boycott by caste panchayats
  • Karnataka: Chief Minister, Mr. Siddaramaiah has written to his Goa Counterpart, Mr. Manohar Parrikar requesting a tentative date to hold a meeting of the Chief Ministers of three riparian State (the other being Maharashtra) to help resolve the Mahadayi river water row
WORLD
  • 22nd World Petroleum Congress at Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Malta: the predominantly Roman catholic island nation of Malta is set to legalise same-sex marriage, joining much of its western Europe countries
  • USA: Postal service marked the occasion of Henry David Thoreau's 200th birth anniversary with a new postage stamp honouring the writer, philosopher and naturalist
ECONOMICS
  • Government is considering the introduction of a regulator regime for virtual or crypto currencies, such as Bitcoin, that would enable the levy of the GST on their sale
SPORTS
  • CEAT-Ultimate Table Tennis league starts today in Chennai (July 13 - July 26); 6 teams (each team has 8 players) comprising Indian players and International players
  • Indian women cricketer Maithali Raj becomes the highest run scorer in women's cricket; she scored a total of 6028 runs so far
  • Only female cricketer to surpass the 6000 run in ODIs
  • Ravi Sashtri is the new coach of Indian cricket team
  • 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics likely to be held either in Los Angeles or Paris
MISC
  • Japanese comedian Pikotato has adapted his catchy song "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen", to promote the United Nations' sustainable development
  • NASA's spacecraft Juno flied close to Jupiter's Great Red Spot
  • Scientists have discovered the smallest star (called as EBLM JO555-57Ab) in the universe slightly larger than Saturn in size
  • One of the biggest icebergs ever recorded has just broken away from Antarctica
  • Book "The Great Game in Afghanistan: Rajiv Gandhi, General Zia and the Unending War" by Kallol Bhattacherjee
  • Renowned forensic expert Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan passed away


14th July 2017
Around INDIA

  • Song `Vande Mataram' was in Sanskrit, the script was written in Bengali: Tamil Nadu Government said in Madras High Court
  • An area of 100metres from the edge of the Ganga between Haridwar and Unnao has been declared a "No Development Zone", with the NGT prohibiting dumping of waste within 500 metre of the river
  • Ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament, Home Minister, Mr. Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister, Ms. Sushma Swaraj to brief the opposition parties on the border stand-off with China
  • Indian Railways has framed a "Rail Display Network" (RDN) policy, which envisages setting up of display screens at railway stations on a public-private partnership model to mop up non-fare revenue
TAMIL NADU

  • Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has asked the State government to disclose the AIIMS location by Aug 01
  • Policy decision on beach sand mining would be taken after the Madras High Court delivered its verdict on the issue: Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswamy
  • State Government is taking steps to allocate 40 acres for Foxconn: Industries Minister, Mr. M. C. Sampath in Assembly
  • Tamil Nadu Government’s film awards for 2009-2014 announced
STATES SCAN
  • Meghalaya: Chief Minister, Dr. Mukul Sangma launched a programme "LIFE" (Livelihood Intervention and Facilitation of Entrepreneurship) at Songsak in East Garo Hills
  • Telangana: State government to bring out an ordinance to curb evils of online rummy games
  • West Bengal: indefinite shutdown on Gorkhaland state formation entered 29th day in Darjeeling
BILATERAL ISSUES
  • India granted USD 500000 to the Philippines for the rehabilitation and relief efforts in war-torn Marawi city
  • JIPMER-BIMSTEC Telemedicne network (JBTN) was launched in Puducherry; to improve regional cooperation in the field of health care by strengthening telemedicine-based patient care services and share medical knowledge among BIMSTEC countries
WORLD
  • China: Ships carrying personnel for China's first overseas military base in Djibouti have set sail to begin setting up the facility; Djibouti's position on the northwestern edge of the Indian Ocean instilled worry in India as China builds on its military alliances with countries that encircle India, notably Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka; Djibouti in the Horn of Africa will be China's first overseas naval base, though China officially describes it as a logistic facility
  • USA: President Mr. Donald Trump met his French counterpart, Mr. Emmanuel Macron in Paris
ECONOMICS
  • Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) signed an Institutional agreement with the Punjab State Council of Science and Technology to establish 
  • India’s first Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC) at Patent Information Centre, Punjab, under the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) TISC program
SPORTS
  • Wimbledon 2017: Women's singles finals between Garbine Mugurza (Spain) and Venus Williams (USA)
  • Wimbledon 2017: Semifinals (Men's Singles): Marin Cilic Vs Sam Querry; Roger Federer Vs Tomas Berdych
MISC
  • Liu Xiaobo, Chine dissident who won Nobel Prize (for Peace in 2010) passed away
  • Book "President’s Lady" by Sangeeta Ghosh
  • Book “Historical Background to the Imposition of Salt Tax under the British Rule in India (1757-1947) and Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt Satyagraha (1930-31) against the British Rule” by Dr. Y P Anand
15th July 2017
Around INDIA

  • India has overtaken the U. S.  to become Facebook's largest country  audience with a total of 241 million active users, compared to 240 million in the U. S.; As of now, Facebook has over 2 billion monthly users around the world
  • Government told an all-party meeting of MPs that China was trying to extend its control further down the Doklam trijunction in an effort to gain a strategic advantage over "Chicken's Neck" in Silguri (West Bengal) which connects India to the rest of the Northeast
  • Raipur’s Swami Vivekananda Airport was once again ranked first in Customer Satisfaction among 49 airports in the country.
  • Union Environment Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan dedicate the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM) to the nation at Chennai today
  • Centre released Rs. 51.30 crore to Arunachal Pradesh for rescue and relief operations on account of flash floods
  • Ministry of Railways dedicated to the nation the first 1600 HP DEMU train with Solar Powered Coaches with a unique facility of Battery Bank (Northern Railway)
  • Ministry of Shipping had constituted a committee (headed by Dr. Ved Prakash Mishra) to study how the existing healthcare infrastructure at major ports can be upgraded under PPP mode  to provide world class health services,  along with affordable medical and paramedical education submitted its report
  • Government assured the Supreme Court that it was taking steps to extradite Vijay Mallya from the United Kingdom and that the  extradition hearing was scheduled for Dec 04, 2017
TAMIL NADU

  • Former Chief Minister, Mr. Kamarajar's 115th birth anniversary today (observed as "Educational Development Day")
  • Madras High Court quashed a Government Order providing 85% reservation in State Quota seats for students from the State Board schools in MBBS/BDS admissions
  • Just S. Rajeswaran Commission of Inquiry, constituted to probe the law and order disturbances during jallikattu protests last January, has sought six months time since it has to examine over 1600 complaints. 
STATES SCAN

  • Karnataka: Government formed an inquiry commission under Mr. Vinay Kumar IAS to probe the irregularities made for V. K. Sasikala in Bengaluru jail
  • Kerala: High Court prohibited the proposed indefinite strike from Jul 17 by nurses in private hospitals demanding higher wages
BILATERAL ISSUES

  • European Union (EU) and India announced the establishment of an Investment Facilitation Mechanism (IFM) for EU Investments in India.
WORLD

  • France: US President, Mr. Donald Trump was chief guest of France's National Day celebrations (Basteille Day); French President Mr. Emmanuel Macron said that nothing will ever separate US and France
ECONOMICS

  • 3rd Meeting of the Governing Council of the “National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)” was held under the chairmanship of Union Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley
  • Income Tax Department has, in the second phase of "Operation Clean Money" identified 6.56 lakh people, whose deposits during the demonetisation window do not match their income profile
SPORTS

  • Wimbledon 2017: Men's Singles finals between Switzerland's Roger Federer and Croatia's Marin Cilic
MISC
  • A group of Indian astronomers have discovered a massive supercluster of galaxies, and have named it "Saraswati"
  • Defence Ministry released a Coffee Table Book titled ‘Ganga Avahan – The Epic Tale of a Historic Swim’
  • Book "Hungary an Adventure" authored by M.A. Rahman
  • IIFA (International Indian (Hindi) Film Academy) 2017 at New York
  • Subra Suresh, Padma Shree awardee and alumnus of the IIT-Madras has been selected to head the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
16th July 2017
Around INDIA
  • Transgender Joytia Mandal becomes India's first transgender judge; became the judge of National Lok Adalat Judge of Uttar Dinjapur Dt (West Bengal)
  • So far, Central Government has distributed 2.5 crore LPG connections under PMUY (Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana) among the poor and marginalized households across the country since its launch
  • Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) celebrated the second anniversary of Skill India Mission on the World Youth Skills day (July 15).
  • 2nd Anniversary Celebrations of the Skill Indian Mission, on the occasion of the World Youth Skill Day (July 15), held in New Delhi
TAMIL NADU
  • Tamil Nadu government has appointed IAS officer A. Arun Thamburaj the project director, sand mining, public works department (PWD), in the state. 
  • Election Commission has appointed Anshu Prakash as observer for the Presidential Election to be held tomorrow in Chennai
  • Madras High Court has directed the Centre and the State to ensure implementation of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
  • Neduvasal protesters get support from nearby villages
  • State's first "Disabled Friendly Park" was opened in Madurai as part of the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)
STATES SCAN
  • Andhra Pradesh: Union Minister, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu and Chief Minister, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the SRM University, in Amaravati
  • Maharashtra: Government has decide to issue an ordinance to amend the Maharashtra Gram Panchayat Act, 1958
  • Odisha: "Operation Muskan", a month-long drive to rescue Odisha's missing children was launched by the State Police
BILATERAL ISSUES
  • U. S. National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) 2018 passed by the House of Representatives has mandated the Secretaries of Defence and State to come up with a strategy for advancing defence cooperation between India and the U. S.
WORLD
  • USA: House of Representatives has voted for three legislative amendments to impose tougher conditions for reimbursement of defence funding to Pakistan
ECONOMICS
  • India's top IT services company Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) is moving to capitalise on growth opportunities in areas such as life sciences and manufacturing
SPORTS
  • India's Sundar Singh Gurjar (Javelin Thrower) won Gold medal at the 2017 IPC Para athletics Championships (in London)
  • Indian hammer thrower Damneet Singh won the silver medal at the IAAF u-18 athletics championships (in Nairobi)
  • Wimbledon 2017: Garbine Mugurza (Spain) won the  Women's singles title by defeating Venus Williams (USA)
  • Women's World Cup Cricket: Indian team enters semifinals
  • Justice Mukul Mudgal believes that the Lodha Committee reforms ought to be implemented across sports
  • Chennai Open might be shifted to Pune from 2018
MISC
  • Book "Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister" by Sagarika Ghose
  • Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, pased away
17th July 2017
Around INDIA
  • 14th Presidential Election between Ms. Meira Kumar and Mr. Ram Nath Kovind to be held today
  • Monsoon Session of the Parliament begins today
  • Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi said that, State governments should take strict action against cow vigilantes including violence
  • Government formed the National Steering Committee under the head of Dr. Harsh Vardhan (Union Sci & Tech. Minister) to carry out scientifically validated research on cow derivatives including its urine, and their benefits - Scientifically validate the benefits of panchgavya (concoction of cow dung, cow urine, milk, curd and ghee) in various spheres
TAMIL NADU
  • Tamil Nadu accounted for a mere 2.9%of the total FDI out of the $44 billion in India during 2016 calendar year, the lowest in three years: report by Kotak Institutional Equities
  • A group of farmers from the state were arrested in Delhi as they to tried to take out a procession to the Prime Minister's residence to press Rs. 40, 000 crore relief package
  • National Banana Festival 2017 will be held in Madurai (from Jul 21-23)
STATES SCAN
  • Jammu & Kashmir: 17 Amarnath pilgrims including two women were killed after a bus rolled down a gorge on the Jammu - Srinagar National Highway
BILATERAL ISSUES
  • Iraq has informed that 39 Indians abducted three years ago by the ISIS are probably imprisoned by the outfit in the city of Badush, near Mosul
WORLD
  • France: French President, Mr. Emmanuel Macon called for a resumption of long - stalled West Asia Peace talks based on a two-state solution
  • Pakistan: JIT report on Prime Minister, Mr. Nawaz Sharif to be tabled before Supreme Court
ECONOMICS
  • Empowered Committee on "Trade Infrastructure for Export Scheme (TIES)" headed by Mr. Rtia Teaotia clears three export infra plans
  1. To establish an Integrated Cargo Terminal (ICT) at the Imphal International Airport
  2. Modernisation of infrastructure facility in Karnataka for marine exports
  3. Construction of a new "Standard Design Factory" building at Cochin Special Economic Zone
SPORTS
  • Wimbledon 2017: Roger Federer won the Men's Singles title by defeating Marin Cilic - It is Federer's 8th Wimbledon title and 19th Grandslam win 
  • Lewis Hamilton (UK; Mercedes team) won the 2017 British Grand Prix for the fourth year in a row
MISC
  • Former Chief Minister of Sikkim, Mr. Nar Bahadr Bhandari passed away
  • UNICEF appointed Indian - origin Canadian YouTube star Lilly Singh as its newest Goodwill Ambasador for Children's rights
  • 18th edition of IIFA (International Indian Film Academy) at New York
  1. Best Film: Neerja; Best Director: Anirudha Roy Chowdhury for Pink
  2. Best Actor: Shahid Kapoor for Udta Punjab; Best Actress: Alia Bhatt for Udta Punjab
  • Music Academy Awards 2017
  1. N.Ravikaran (Chitraveena maestro) won the Sangita Kalanidhi Award 
  2. Sangita Kala Acharya Awards will be given to mridangist V. Kamalakar Rao and vocalist Radha Namboodhiri
  3. TTK awards to Ghatam expnent Sukanya Rajagopal and Othuvar Muthu Kandasamy
  4. Musicologist award to T. S. Sathyavathi
  5. Papa Venkatranah award to Thiruvallur Parthasarathy
  6. Nirtya Kalanidhi award to Lakshmi Viswanathan
  • Book "Future of Indian Universities: Comparative and International Perspectives" by Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar
18th July 2017
INDIA
  • Union Housing & Urban Affairs and Information & Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu named NDA’s Vice Presidential candidate
  • The Poona Horse, a tank regiment of the Army, turns 200
  • Swami Smarananandaji Maharaj (87) elected as 16th President of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
  • India and Sri Lanka have signed a MoU to develop a village in Anuradhapura District
  • &K: Army jawan martyred, girl killed in ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Poonch district
  • Sohum, a newborn hearing screening device developed by the Department of Biotechnology, launched
  • ‘Future of Indian Universities: Comparative and International Perspectives’, by Professor C. Raj Kumar, released
  • Voting held to elect the country’s next President; result of contest between Ram Nath Kovind and Meira Kumar on July 20
  • Markets scale new peaks: BSE Sensex closes at 32,074.38 (+54.03 points), NSE Nifty at 9,915.95 (+29.60 points)
  • Can’t give more time to deposit old notes, it defeats purpose of demonetisation: Centre to SC
  • RBI insists that it cannot make public the list of big loan defaulters
  • IPO of Salasar Techno Engineering oversubscribed a staggering 272.93 times on last day of offer
  • GST Council hikes cess on cigarettes to take away an estimated Rs 5,000 crore annual “windfall” manufacturers could have reaped from lower GST rates
  • Siemens bags contract to install state-of-the-art insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBT) technology for Indian Railways
  • Tata Motors unveils country’s first Bio-CNG (Bio-Methane) bus in Mumbai
  • Kodak launches its camera-first smartphone EKTRA in India for Rs 19,990
  • Tata Group’s Tanishq launches ‘Red Carpet Collection’ jewellery
  • Institutional Investor magazine names Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) as “Most Honoured Company” in Asia’s oil & gas sector for 2017.
WORLD
  • ROSS 128: Mystery Radio Signals detected from Red Dwarf star just 11 Light years away.
  • China’s Army holds “live-fire drills” in Tibet, close to the India’s border in Arunachal
  • Actor Martin Landau, star of ‘Mission: Impossible,’ dies at 89
  • George A Romero, known for directing “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), dies at 77
SPORTS
  • South Africa beat hosts England by 340 runs to win 2nd Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, level 4-match series at 1-1
20th July 2017
Around INDIA
  • As part of a radical "privatisation project", the Health Ministry and NITI Aayog have developed a framework to let private hospitals run select services within district hospitals, on a 30-year lease
  • China is India's "real enemy" rather than Pakistan: SP Chief, Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav in Lok Sabha
  • A total of 34 incidents of infections from the two global ransomware attacks, WannaCry and Petya were reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT - In) by organisations and individuals
  • Supreme Court observed that, the Right to Privacy is not absolute and cannot prevent the state from making laws imposing reasonable restrictions on citizens
  • Lynchings and atrocities against minorities and Dalits are part of a conspiracy to take the discourse away from the government's development agenda: MoS for Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
  • Lok Sabha passed a Bill to declare the IITs established under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as Institutes of National Importance (INIs)
  • Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman, Mr. Khurien requests BSP Chief, Ms. Mayawati to take back resignation
  • President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee presented the ‘Pranab Mukherjee Award for Academic Excellence’ to Aman Aggarwal for scoring the highest aggregate in Class XII CBSE Examination, 2017 among the students of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Sarvodaya Vidyalaya located in the President’s Estate
  • Union Cabinet has given the approval for the signing of Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) in respect of tax matters between India and the Revenue administrations of BRICS countries namely, Brazil, Russian Federation, China and South Africa 
  • Union Cabinet has been apprised of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Netherlands on cooperation in the exploration and uses of outer space for peaceful purposes.
  • Union Cabinet approved the sale of the government's 51.1% stake in oil refiner HPCL to India's largest oil producer ONGC
  • Union Cabinet approved the second phase of the BharatNet project that forms the backbone for the government's Digital India initiative
  • Union Cabinet gave its nod to Inland Water Authority of India (IWAI) for raising Rs. 660 crore in bonds for extra budgetary resources in 2017-18
TAMIL NADU
  • The monthly salary and allowances paid to every MLA in Tamil Nadu will be increased from the present Rs. 55, 000 to Rs. 1. 05 lakh
  • Funds under the Member of Legislative Assembly Constituency Development Scheme (MLACDS) for each legislator will go p from Rs. 2. crore to Rs. 2.50 crore a year
  • Out of 8000 seats for persons with disability, only 233 students appeared for the ongoing engineering counselling in Anna University, Chennai
STATES SCAN
  • Karnataka: Government made 72.24% of seats reserved to the students of Karnataka in the admission of medical seats; 70.98% of seats reserved to the students of Karnataka in the admission of dental seats
  • Kerala: State Cabinet gave nod for Sabarimala airport on Cheruvally estate; Cheruvally estate is 2.5 km from the Theni - Kottarakara National Highway and close to Erumeli town in Kottayam Dt
  • Nagaland: Mr. T.R. Zeliang was sworn in as the Chief Minister 
BILATERAL ISSUES
  • India launched a Solar Electrification Project to electrify a remote village named Agaween in Egypt
  • India has a "critical role" to play in breaking the stalemate in Afghanistan: U. S. Senate Committee on Armed Forces - US called for enhancing trilateral cooperation between Afghanistan, India and the U. S.
ECONOMICS
  • World Bank will help draw up a granular makeover blueprint for the Indian Railways, which is investing Rs.5 lakh crore to transform itself from a colonial-era mass transporter into a strategic platform underpinning growth in Asia's third-biggest economy.
SPORTS
  • Women's World Cup (Cricket): Semifinal between India and Australia
MISC
  • A research conducted at the Washington University School of Medicine has unveiled that a commonly used malaria drug "hydroxychloroquine" can effectively block the Zika Virus from crossing the placenta and getting to the foetus and damaging its brain - The drug "hydroxycholorquine" already has approval for use in pregnant women.
21st July 2017
INDIA

  • ISRO earns 6.1 million euros from 29 nanosatellite launches on June 23
  • External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said all countries support India's stand on the Doklam issue
  • Indian Army to get medium-range surface to air missile produced by DRDO with Israel
  • Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has made changes in the schedule of Combined Graduate Level (CGL) exam. SSC CGL 2017 which was supposed to begin on 1 August, has been rescheduled to 5 August. Likewise the exam will conclude on 24 August instead of 20 August
  • Ram Nath Kovind elected 14th President with 65.65% of the votes in Electoral College
  • Govt to do away with franchisee model under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)  
  • India submits its national review report on implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the UN
  • Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari accepts resignation of BSP chief Mayawati 
  • Centre, Haryana Govt. ink pact to revive River Saraswati, provide water in drought-prone areas
  • MP Assembly passes a bill imposing a complete ban on plastic carry-bags
  • Delhi: Army Chief unveils memorial of 2nd Lieutenant Puneet Datt, Ashok Chakra (Posthumous)
  • Telangana: “Janahitha” programme launched to receive complaints from public online
  • President inaugurates ‘Bicentenary Celebration of Paika Rebellion of Odisha’
  • Commander-in-Chief of Britain’s defence services Sir Stuart Peach calls on Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat in New Delhi
  • BSE Sensex closes at 31,904.40 (–50.95 points), NSE Nifty at 9,873.30 (–26.30 points)
  • Govt. launches NDDB’s Quality Mark logo which dairy cooperatives can use after complying with quality norms
  • National Trade Facilitation Action Plan released by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
  • ADB projects 7.4% growth for India in 2017 in its Asian Development Outlook report
  • Civil nuclear cooperation deal between India and Japan comes into force
  • Centre to set up e-portal to regulate online sale of medicines
  • Zee Media forays into Urdu news market with the launch of Zee Salaam
  • Ducati launches Scrambler Desert Sled motorcycle in India at Rs 9.32 lakh
  • ‘LinkedIn Lite’ Android App launched in India
WORLD
  • Nepal forms Constituency Delimitation Commission to recommend provincial and federal constituencies
  • Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena signs the Office on Missing Persons Act
  • US Senate Judiciary Committee clears nomination of Christopher Wray as FBI Director 
  • US ends 4-month ban on passengers carrying laptops onboard US bound flights from certain airports in Middle East, North Africa
  • “Despacito”, by Puerto Rican singers Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, becomes the most-streamed song of all time 
SPORTS
  • Chennai Open tennis tournament renamed Maharashtra Open, to be held in Pune
  • Indian shot-putter Manpreet Kaur suspended provisionally for her second dope offence
22nd July 2017
Around INDIA
  • Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi reviewed the progress of the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY)
  • India to host the 5th Global Conference on Cyber Space 2017 (Nov 23-24, 2017) in New Delhi with the theme "Cyber4All: An Inclusive, Sustainable, Developmental, Safe and Secure Cyberspace"
  • Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were at loggerheads again at the Godavari River Management Board meeting
  • Ending violence by cow protection groups or gau rakshaks is a "State subject" and the Centre has no role to play though it condemns all forms of vigilantism: Government in the Supreme Court 
  • Union Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley formally launched the Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVYY) on July 21, 2017; PMVVY is a pension scheme announced by the Union Government exclusively for the senior citizens aged 60 years and above. The scheme is available from May 04, 2017 - May 03, 2018
  • India submits its national review report on implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the UN
  • Union Ministry of Rural Development announced that it will launch a new sub-scheme Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY) under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY – NRLM)
  • Union Agriculture Minister, Mr. Radha Mohan Singh launched National Dairy Development Board’s (NDDB) quality logo for milk and milk products from dairy cooperatives
TAMIL NADU
  • Chief Justice of Madras High Court Indira Banerjee asked the State Election Commission (SEC) about the possibility of holding local body polls before the end of August
  • We cannot give a guarantee that there would be no common entrance examination for students wishing to pursue engineering in 2018: Higher Education Minister, Mr. K. P. Anbazhagan
STATES SCAN
  • Haryana: Centre and Haryana Government ink pact to revive River Saraswati, provide water in drought-prone areas
  • Nagaland: Chief Minister, Mr. T. R. Zeliang won the trust vote in the Assembly with a comfortable margin
  • Punjab: Government has released Rs. 90 lakh for the construction of an ultra – modern cattle pond at a village called Kanian Kalan in Jalandhar Dt
  • Telangana: Government launched “Janahitha” programme to receive complaints from public online
  • West Bengal: Chief Minister, Ms. Mamata Banerjee announced that the Trinamool Congress would launch a "BJP Quit India" programme from August 09, 2017
BILATERAL ISSUES
  • Indian Army to get medium-range surface to air missile produced by DRDO with Israel
WORLD
  • UK: Government appointed Ms. Baroness Brenda Marjorie Hale as the first woman President of the Supreme Court
  • USA: banned its citizens from travelling to North Korea
MISC
  • Book "Isthmus of Time" authored by Anshuman Gaur 
  • Three space-based observatories  Astrosat, Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory HARPS detected a massive coronal explosion on the nearest planet-hosting star Proxima Centauri
23rd July 2017
INDIA
  • Food unfit for human consumption being sold at railway stations: CAG
  • CAG slams Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) for critical deficiency in availability of ammunition to army 
  • Singapore’s deputy PM Tharman Shanmugaratnam calls on PM Modi in New Delhi
  • Pune-based FTII gets approval to conduct skill-oriented short-term courses under PMKVY
  • Uttar Pradesh Assembly MLA Mathura Prasad Pal dies at 72
  • Haryana-based Shweta Mehta wins reality show MTV Roadies Rising 
  • PSEB Chairman Sanjay Kothari appointed Secretary to President-elect Ram Nath Kovind 
  • Senior journalist Ashok Malik appointed Press Secretary to President-elect Kovind
  • Congress leader and former Maharashtra Minister Shivajirao Girdhar Patil dies at 92
  • Delhi has the highest Internet density in the country, while Bihar has the lowest: Govt
  • Arvind Mills signs agreement to buy khadi denim from Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) 
WORLD
  • Egypt: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurates largest military base in the Middle East in Alexandria
  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed new White House Press Secretary
SPORTS
  • BCCI announces cash prize of Rs 50 lakh for each member of the Indian women’s team for their performance in the ICC World Cup in England.
  • Johannesburg: Indian women finish eighth in Women's Hockey World League Semi-Final tournament
  • Jamaica’s Usain Bolt wins Men’s 100 metre race at IAAF Diamond League meet in Monaco
24th July 2017
Around INDIA
  • President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee to address the nation today on the eve of demitting office
  • President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee attended the farewell function at Central Hall of the Parliament
  • Flood toll due in Assam has gone up to 76 
  • CAG has faulted the Navy and the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd. for delay in construction of anti - submarine warfare corvettes and hampering their capabilities because of delayed decisions
  • Guwahati to host the National Handloom Day 2017 celebrations on August 7
STATES SCAN
  • Karnataka: Dr. B. R. Ambdedkar International Conference 2017 adopted "Bengaluru Declaration"; recommended a slew of affirmative action measures in the private sector, judiciary, educational institutions, government contracts and promotions for Dalits
  • Kerala: To host the fifth edition of South India Writers Ensemble (SIWE) at Chengannur, a town in State's coastal Alappuuzha Dt from Jul 24-26, 2017 with the core theme "tolerance"
BILATERAL ISSUES
  • Russia is keen on selling its new fighter jet MiG-35 to India 
  • India and Bangladesh sign agreement to connect both the countries by waterways
WORLD
  • Iran and Iraq signed an agreement to step up military cooperation and the fight against terrorism and extremism
SPORTS
  • India's Sharad Kumar and Varun Bhati won silver and Bronze respectively in the T-42 high jump event at 
  • the World Para Athletics Championships held at London
  • India finished at 34th place with 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze medals
  • China topped the table with a total of 65 medals followed by USA with 59 and England with 39
  • All India finals in the US Open Grand Prix (Badminton): P. Kashyap Vs H. S. Prannoy
  • ICC Women's World Cup Cricket: England defeated India in the finals by 9 runs at Lord's
  • A women's 50 km race walk will feature at the 2017 World Athletics Championships for the first time in order to ensure gender equality
  • First ever FIBA Women’s Asian Cup Basket Ball Tournament begins in Bengaluru
MISC
  • Radio broadcast completed 90 years in India; first broadcast was from Bombay Station on July 23, 1927
25th July 2017
Around INDIA
  • Mr. Ram Nath Kovind to be sworn in as the 14th President of India today
  • Admiralty (Jurisdiction and Settlement of Maritime Claims) Bill, 2017, passed unanimously by the Rajya Sabha
  • Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2017 was introduced in the Lok Sabha
  • Lok Sabha Speaker,Ms. Sumitra Mahajan suspended six Congress MPs for five days for "unruly behaviour" and disrupting the proceedings of the House
  • NIA arrested 7 Kashmir separatist leaders for "Creating unrest"
  • India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM) in partnership with International IDEA are conducting a two-day International Consultative Workshop on ‘Leveraging Electoral Training Facilities for Global Democracies’ (Jul 24-25, 2017)
  • A high altitude cloud physics observatory has been established at Munnar (Kerala), in Western Ghats, the region which is gateway for the monsoon of India. 
  • Union Home Minister, Mr. Rajnath Singh chaired the first meeting of the newly constituted Islands Development Agency (IDA); 10 islands namely Smith, Ross, Aves, Long and Little Andaman in Andaman & Nicobar and Minicoy, Bangaram, Suheli, Cherium and Tinnakara in Lakshadweep have been identified for holistic development in the first phase. 
  • Ministry of Rural Development launched the Mobile App called "Aarambh" for Road Maintenance
  • Minister of Women & Child Development, Ms. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi launched an online complaint management system titled Sexual Harassment electronic–Box (SHe-Box) for registering complaints related to sexual harassment at workplace
  • A Delhi-based start-up has launched a smartphone app (BillionAbles) that can assist people with special needs to find disabled-friendly  restaurants, tourist locations and other public places across India
  • CBI Special Court in Noida sentenced to death businessmen Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surinder Koli in one of the 2996 serial Nithari rape and murder cases

TAMIL NADU

  • English translation ("Periyamma's Words") of Tamil writer Jeyamohan's short story "Periyammavin Sorkal" has won the first prize in the Close Approximations translation contest run by Asymptote, a site for world literature in translation; The translation was done by Ms. Suchitra Ramachandran

STATES SCAN

  • Jammu & Kashmir: bans e - cigarette
  • Madhya Pradesh: Government constituted Food Commission headed by Mr. Rajkishore Swain IAS (Rtd)
  • Meghalaya: Jaintia tribesmen performed Behdienkhlam festival 
  • Rajasthan: Mt. Abu in Sirohi Dt received an unprecedented 770 mm of rain in 24 hrs

BILATERAL ISSUES

  • China said that it will safeguard its security interests at "any cost" as its sovereignty was "indomitable" amid a standoff with India in the Sikkim sector

WORLD

  • Sri Lanka: death toll due to dengue fever increased to 300; schools in the island nation to shut down
  • USA: Commissioned world's largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford; weighs 100000 tonnes and can apparently sail for 20 years without refuelling

ECONOMICS

  • Union Finance Ministry celebrated ‘The Aaykar Diwas – Income Tax Day Celebrations-2017’ in New Delhi; Union Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley released a Coffee Table Book “The Journey So Far”. The book traces the 157 year history of the ITD (Income Tax Department)
  • V.O. Chidambaranar Port has bagged National Award for Excellence in Cost Management for the year 2016 from ‘The Institute of Cost Accountants of India’ under the category “Transportation and Logistics”. 

SPORTS
  • India's H. S. Prannoy won the US Open Grand Prix (Badminton) 2017 by defeating India's P. Kashyap
  • 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games (at Nassau): India finished at 7th place with 4 Gold, 1 Silver and 6 Bronze medals
MISC
  • Book ‘Indian National Congress in Punjab’ authored by Dr. Sukhchain Kaur Bassi
  • Father of Indian Satellite Technology, Udupi Ramachandra Rao, former chairman of ISRO passed away
26th & 27th July 2017 
Around INDIA
  • Second death anniversary of 11th President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam today
  • In a big political drama once again, Bihar Chief Minister, Mr. Nitish Kumar resigned but likely to form the government today with the help of BJP MLAs
  • Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi to inaugurate the memorial of former President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam today in Ramewswaram
  • Privacy is a fundamental right but wholly qualified right: Centre in Supreme Court
  • Human toll in the floods and relentless rain across the country reached almost 200 even as thousands in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Assam, Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand were forced out of their homes into temporary shelters
  • Union Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for amendment of the Constitution (Application to Jammu & Kashmir) Order, 1954 by way of the Constitution (Application to Jammu & Kashmir) Amendment Order, 2017. The approval paves the way for applicability of Goods and Services Tax regime in the State of Jammu & Kashmir. 
  • Union Cabinet has been apprised of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between India and Palestine on cooperation in the field of youth affairs and sports. 
  • Union Cabinet has been apprised of the Joint Declaration of Intent (JDI) between Department of Science & Technology (DST), India and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany on Indo German-Centre for Sustainability (IGCS).
  • Union Cabinet has given approval for revision of guidelines of Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGB) Scheme with a view to achieve its intended objectives. 
  • Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, has approved the proposal of Department of Rural Development for revision of cost of Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC 2011).
TAMIL NADU
  • Rameswaram comes to standstill today ahead of Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi visit
  • Madras High Court directed the State Election Commission to submit on August 01 the possible time frame for the conduct of elections to the local bodies in the State
  • Anna University has done away with the system of arrears from the current academic year. Instead, students would have to re-register and reappear for exams they had not passed in a semester, when the subject is offered next
STATES SCAN
  • Andhra Pradesh: Government handed over 473 acres of land to the NPCIL to facilitate the construction of an atomic power plant in Kovvada village of Ranasthalam mandal in Srikakulam Dt
  • Delhi: Government constituted the State Names Authority headed by Deputy Chief Minister, Mr. Manish Sisodia, a separate body mandated to name government roads and institutions under the State purview
  • Jammu & Kashmir: stone-throwing incident curbed in valley - CRPF Chief, Mr. R. R. BhatnagarMaharashtra: Mumbai Metro launched India’s first Mobile Ticketing System ‘OnGo’
WORLD
  • EU: lifted the sanctions against LTTE; upholds Hamas terror listing
  • Pakistan: Indian Ocean Naval Symposium held in Islamabad
  • UK: to ban sale of new diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040
  • USA: President, Mr. Donald Trump said that the government will not "accept or allow" transgender people in the military 
ECONOMICS
  • In another form of demonetisation, RBI, which had introduced the new Rs 2,000 notes in the aftermath of demonetization, has now stopped printing this highest currency and instead shifted focus to the printing of smaller bills, including a new Rs 200 currency note.
  • In a first ever, the 50-share benchmark NIFTY closed above the psychological mark of 10,000
SPORTS
  • Chennai's Ceciline Michael Vino has been nominated to officiate in the FIBA Asia men's cup basketball championship to be held in Beirut from Aug 08-20
MISC
  • In a first, NASA scientists are planning to chase the shadow of the moon using research jets during the upcoming total solar eclipse (Aug 21) in the US
  • World renowned indigenous singer Gurrumal Yunupingu (Australia) has passed away
  • Book "Empowering the Marginalized" authored by Deepak Dwivedi
  • Book "Immortal India" by Amish Tripathi
29th July 2017
Around INDIA
  • Government is planning to bring out notification for screening Hepatitis C and is planning to implement it till the district level: Union Health Minister, Mr. J. P. Nadda
  • Lok Sabha passed the Companies Act (Amendment) Bill, 2016 that seeks to amend Companies Act, 2013 to remove complexities and improve ease of doing business
TAMIL NADU
  • Madras High Court has directed the government to chalk out a plan to remove Seemai Karuvelam trees from waterbodies in phases
  • Dairy Development Minister, Mr. K. T. Rajendra Balaji filed a report in the Madras High Court stating that the quality of milk supplied by three private suppliers (Arokya, Dodla and Vijay) was substandard
  • Madras High Court Bench ordered the appointment of "an upright officer with "unimpeachable integrity" within two weeks as the State Vigilance Commissioner to monitor the ongoing inquiry by DVAC into the gutkha scam
STATES SCAN
  • Bihar: Chief Minister, Mr. Nitish Kumar won a trust vote in the State Assembly with 131 legislators supporting him while 108 voted against him
  • Gujarat: 3 more Congress MLAs quit, taking the total number of such MLAs to six
BILATERAL ISSUES
  • BRICS Heads of Revenue and Tax Experts held at Hangzhou, China
  • BRICS meeting of NSAs (National Security Adviser) held at Beijing, China
  • India's NSA, Mr. Ajit Doval has called upon the BRICS grouping, to exercise international leadership in countering terrorism
  • US President, Mr. Donald Trump urged all the members of NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group) to support India’s bid for membership
WORLD
  • Bolivia: President Mr. Eva Morales declared "total independence" from World Bank and IMF
  • Iran: successfully launched its most advanced satellite - carrying rocket called "Simorgh" into Space
  • Pakistan: Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister, Mr. Nawaz Sharif from office over undeclared assets and ordered registration of corruption cases against him and his children, plunging the country into a political turmoil
  • Sri Lanka: set to sign Hambantota port deal
  • USA: a group of scientists at the Oregon Health & Science University edited the DNA of viable human embryos efficiently and apparently with few mistakes
ECONOMICS
  • 6th Petrochemical conclave in Gandhinagar, Gujarat; theme: "India Petrochemicals 2030 - Opportunities and Challenges"
  • Microsoft launched its first Made for India chat messaging application called as "Kaizala"
MISC
  • Actor Freida Pinto has partnered with an initiative by WWF and Discovery to save tigers from extinction. Titled as Project CAT (Conserving Acres of Tigers), which highlights the importance of preserving wild habitats
  • An important building block of life has been discovered in the hazy upper atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan
  • Scientists are attempting to unlock the secrets of the "lost continent" of Zealandia 
  • Book "I@S – TALE TOLD BY AN IASs" by Omesh Saigal
  • Messaging app WhatsApp crosses one-billion daily users milestone globally
  • 2017 Ramon Magsaysay (Asia's Nobel Prize) Award winners: 
  1. Yoshiaki Ishizawa (Japan)
  2. Gethsie Shanmugam (Sri Lanka)
  3. Abdon Nababan (Indonesia)
  4. Tony Tay (Singapore)
  5. Lilia de Lima (Philippines)
  6. Philippine Educational Theater Association - PETA (Philippines)

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