Thursday, 21 July 2022

Daily Current Affairs One Liner July 2022 Part 16

 

Daily Current Affairs One Liner

July 2022 Part 16

 Important Facts

 *   100% Saturation of Grey Water Management in Pappankuzhi Village, Tamil Nadu

*   A Brazilian Navy delegation led by Vice Admiral Liberal Enio Zanelatto, Director of Industrial Production & Engineering, visited New Delhi on 15 Jul 22

*   Academic and activist Avdhash Kaushal dies at 87 in Dehradun; awarded Padma Shri in 1987

*   Agnikul Inaugurates India’s First Facility for 3D Printed Rocket Engines

*   Agritech Startup nurture.farm Partners with SBI General Insurance & Future Generali for Insurance Solutions

*   Ajmer Dargah Cleric Gauhar Chishti to be produced in court today.

*   Assam's Cachar district makes face masks mandatory as COVID cases rise.

*   BJP to hold a parliamentary party meeting , July 16.

*   Brijendra K Syngal, former Chairman of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) & known as ‘Father of Indian Internet’, dies at 82

*   Cancer: IIT Madras Develops AI-based Tool to Predict Cancer-causing Genes; DCGI Approves India’s 1st qHPV Vaccine to Treat Cervical Cancer

*   CCEA Gives Approval to Taranga Hill-Ambaji-Abu Road New Rail Line & Upgradation of NRTI to Gati Shakti University in Gujarat

*   CCI approves acquisition of Ageas Federal Life Insurance Company Limited by Ageas Insurance International NV

*   CCI approves increase in proportion of voting rights held by CPPIB in ReNew Energy Global

*   CCI approves proposed combination involving indirect subscription of over 30% of total number of issued shares of CitiusTech by Bain Capital and Bain Credit

*   Celebrating ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mohtsav’ NHAI to Organize a Nation-wide Plantation Drive

*   Centre extends scheme for Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies till March 2024

*   Centre launches e-NAM POP to facilitate farmers to sell produce outside their state borders.

*   Coal Secretary Dr. Anil Kumar Jain Reviews Performance of NCL

*   Covaxin can help in controlling the virus load of SARS-CoV-2 & its variants, reducing disease severity: Study

*   Cricketer Shikhar Dhawan collaborates with Web3 startups, Bliv. Club & WIOM to launch the first sports city in the metaverse

*   Delhi: Develops India’s First E-waste Eco Park; Government Signs MoU with IIIT-D for Improving Urban Mobility

*   Department of Consumer Affairs launches ‘Jagriti’, a mascot to empower consumers and generate awareness towards consumer rights

*   Doordarshan Launches The Promo Of Its Upcoming Mega Show ‘Swaraj’

*   Fraud claims by ‘National Rural Development Mission’, Ministry of Rural Development cautions public against recruitment purportedly in the name of the Ministry

*   Free Covid booster doses for all adults for next 75 days from July 15 at govt clinics

*   Geological Survey of India Celebrates AKAM Iconic Week with Patriotic Fervour

*   Govt directs e-commerce platforms to sell Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani drugs only after customers upload valid medical prescriptions

*   Haiti: At least 89 people dead in gang violence in capital Port-au-Prince

*   HDFC Bank Partners With NIIT to Train and Hire Data Engineers

*   Highest procurement of Onions of 2.50 lakh tons for buffer stock done from farmers in 2022-23

*   IIT Delhi Inaugurates New Census Data Workstation to Help Academics, Researchers Access Census Microdata; Deadline for Freezing Administrative Boundaries Extended

*   In 35 months, Over 6.56 Crore new tap water connections Provided under Jal Jeevan Mission

*   India is among 7 Nations where 1.4 bn Adults are without Access to Formal Banking: WB’s Global Findex Database 2021

*   India is determined to boost cooperation with Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey

*   India ranks 135 out of 146 in Global Gender Gap Index; Iceland Tops

*   India supplied over 235 million total supplies of COVID-19 vaccines to 98 countries: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman.

*   India top ISSF Shooting World Cup medal tally at Changwon in South Korea; Arjun Babuta, Shahu Tushar Mane and Paarth Makhija win gold in the 10-metre air rifle team event

*   India’s first monkeypox case reported in Kollam district of Kerala

*   India’s wholesale price-based inflation declines to 15.18% in June

*   India's current account deficit expected to deteriorate in FY23, as per Finance Ministry report.

*   Infosys to acquire Denmark-based BASE life science for 110 million euros

*   Italy Prime Minister Draghi announces resignation, Italy's president refuses PM Draghi's resignation.

*   Ivana Trump, the first wife of former US President Donald Trump, has passed away.

*   Jubilant Pharma arm to raise USD 400 million loan from Standard Chartered Bank to repay debt

*   KVIC launches Knowledge Portal for Khadi by the Center of Excellence for Khadi

*   Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry to allow transit of Russian goods to Kaliningrad

*   Lok Sabha Secretariat releases list of ‘unparliamentary’ words such as ‘Jumlajeevi’, ‘tanashah’, ‘Dictator’, ‘black’ and ‘Khalistani’

*   London Indian Film Festival: Filmmakers Aparna Sen and Nandita Das awarded Icon Award

*   Maharashtra: CM Eknath Shinde restores Emergency pension scheme scrapped by Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt

*   Mali to suspend all new rotations of the United Nations' MINUSMA peacekeeping mission citing national security reasons.

*   Meeting of BIMSTEC Expert Group on Cyber Security Cooperation being held in New Delhi on July 14-15

*   Ministry of Defence sets up an Apex Committee for Performance and Efficiency Audit

*   Ministry of Home Affairs has been ranked at 1 under the Central Ministries Portal in a National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment conducted by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG)

*   Mustafizur Rahman appointed as Bangladesh’s next High Commissioner to India

*   National Health Authority commences the first Hackathon under the ‘ABDM Hackathon Series’ in Pune, Maharashtra

*   New memory device with excellent switching characteristics and low-power requirements developed

*   NHPC signs MoU for development of “Pilot Green Hydrogen Technologies”

*   Paper Import Monitoring System to Come into Effect from October 01, 2022

*   PM anguished by the mishap in Alipur, Delhi

*   PM Modi participates in the first Leaders’ Summit of I2U2 (India, Israel, UAE and USA) virtually

*   PM remembers Shri K. Kamaraj on his birth anniversary

*   President Ram Nath Kovind's tenure to end on July 24th.

*   Proportion of unmarried persons 15-29 years age bracket at 23% in 2019: Govt

*   Raksha Mantri launches Y- 3023 Dunagiri, Project 17A frigate at GRSE Ltd, Kolkata

*   RINL Launches ‘Safety Is My Responsibility’ Campaign as part of “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” Celebrations

*   Rishi Sunak tops second round of voting in UK leadership contest.

*   Samsung develops industry’s first, world’s fastest graphics DRAM chip

*   Saudi Arabia opens airspace to 'all carriers' in gesture to Israel.

*   Shri Hardeep S. Puri dedicates 166 CNG stations across 14 states

*   Sri Lanka Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywarden confirms President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation.

*   Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emails his resignation letter to parliamentary speaker

*   The European Commission is expected next week to ask EU countries to reduce heating and cooling of public buildings and offices to cut demand for gas.

*   Twitter experienced a widespread outage in the United States and parts of Europe on July 14.

*   Two-day National Conference of the Ministers of Agriculture and Horticulture of the States concludes in Bengaluru

*   UN Deputy Secretary-General commends India localising monitoring of sustainable development goals

*   Union Education Minister Releases India Rankings 2022 of higher educational institutes

*   Union Minister and BJP MP Piyush Goyal was reappointed as the Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha. 

*   Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh says, Kishtwar in J&K will become North India’s major power hub generating nearly 6000 MW of power after the completion of the ongoing power projects

*   Union Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah to be Chief Guest at the National Conference of ARDBs – 2022 in New Delhi

*   Union Textiles Minister Shri Piyush Goyal holds second interactive meeting with the Textile Advisory Group in Mumbai to review progress of work

*   US lawmakers approve CAATSA waiver for India.

*   US Successfully Tests Pair of Lockheed Hypersonic Missiles

*   Vaccination Drive for free precautionary dose organized by the Ministry of Labour & employment

*   Vice President calls for increasing female participation in the formal labour force in country

*   Vice President cautions against forces that threaten nation’s peace and integrity

*   WHO to reconvene its expert monkeypox committee in a week to reconsider whether the growing outbreak should receive the global body's highest level of alarm.

*   Women and Child Development Ministry issues guidelines for Mission Shakti Scheme that has been launched for the safety, security and empowerment of women

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