IMPORTANT
CURRENT AFFAIRS OF JULY 10th, 2018
IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS OF JULY 10th,
2018
1.
Independence Day of The Bahamas.
a. Note :
Bahmas got freedom from British on 10th July 1973
b. Important
Details about Bahmas
i. Capital :
Nassau
ii. Official
language : English
iii. Monarch :
Elizabeth II
iv. Governor-General :
Dame Marguerite Pindling
v. Prime
Minister : Hubert Minnis
iv.
Currency :
Bahamian dollar (BSD)
2.
The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea today
signed a declaration to fully implement apeace deal reached in 2000,
ending the 20-year war between the two countries.
a. Both
the nations also agreed to re-establish trade and diplomatic ties.
b. Note :
Eritrea seceded from Ethiopia in 1993, and the two countries fought a border
war from 1998 to 2000.
3.
Gujarat Government
has granted religious minority status to Jews living
in the state.
a. Important
Note : With this, Gujarat becomes the third state in India to grant
religious minority status to Jews after West Bengal and Maharashtra.
4.
The central government is planning to
launch 7 Greenfield projects to construct 3,000km of
expressways under the Rs.5.35 trillion Bharatmala scheme.
a. In the
first phase, the road network is set to connect Delhi-Vadodara, Chennai-Salem
in Tamil Nadu, Kharagpur-Siliguri in West Bengal, Delhi-Bilaspur, Durg-Aurang
in Chhattisgarh, Mangaluru-Chitradurga in Karnataka and Ambala-Kathputli in
Haryana.
5.
The Government has shortlisted Six
Institutions of Eminence (IoEs) including 3 from Public Sector and 3
from Private Sector.
a. It is
expected that these Institutions will come up in top 500 of the world ranking
in 10 years and in top 100 of the world ranking eventually overtime.
b. Public
Sector :
o
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka
o
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Maharashtra
o
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
6.
Private Sector :
i. Jio
Institute (Reliance Foundation), Pune under Green Field Category
ii. Birla
Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani, Rajasthan
iii. Manipal
Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka.
7.
The Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) has launched Saathi, a mobile help centre to
reach out to people undertaking annual pilgrimage to 3,880-metre high holy cave
shrine of Amarnath.
a. Saathi
will provide help and information to yatris staying in camps outside the Bhagwati
Nagar base camp in Jammu.
8.
The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs has announced that over 51 lakh houses have been
approved under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in the three
years of its implementation.
a. Out of
51 lakh sanctioned houses, over 28 lakhs houses are already in various stages
of construction.
b. Over 8
lakh houses have already been completed.
9.
Michael Ondaatje’s bestselling novel 'The
English Patient' was announced as the winner of the Golden Man
Booker Prize at the Southbank Centre in London.
a. The
prize was instituted as part of celebrations to mark the Booker’s
having completed 50 years.
10.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
announced that the license of Alwar Urban Co-operative Bank in
Alwar, Rajasthan has been cancelled as it is not in a position to pay its
depositors in full as and when their claims accrue, among other reasons.
11.
South Korean multinational conglomerate Samsung opened
the world's largest mobile phone manufacturing factory in Noida,
Uttar Pradesh.
a. The
facility, inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi and South
Korean President Moon Jae-in, is spread over 35 acres in Noida's Sector
81.
b. Built
at a cost of ₹5,000 crore, the
facility can produce 12 crore mobile phones every year.
12.
The Department of Telecommunications has
approved merger of Vodafone India and Idea
Cellular that will create India's largest telecom operator.
a. However,
both companies will have to meet certain conditions for final approval.
b. The
department has reportedly asked Idea to pay ₹3,926 crore in cash for Vodafone's spectrum and furnish a bank
guarantee of ₹3,342 crore.
13.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has
approved Lining Project of Son canal in
Shahabad-Bhojpur region of Bihar.
a. The estimated
cost of this project is US $503 million (Rs 3272.49 crore) out of which US $352
million is being provided by ADB.
b. This
project on completion will bring immense benefits to agriculture sector of
Shahabad – Bhojpur region of Bihar.
14.
India and South
Korea Sign 5 MoUs in the fields of Science & Technology.
a. Three
MoUs are for Programme of Cooperation 2018-21, Establishment
of Future Strategy Group, and Cooperation in Biotechnology and
Bio-economy.
b. Two
other MoUs were signed between Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR), and South Korean National Research Council for Science
and Technology and IIT Mumbai and Korea Institute of Science and
Technology, to further accelerate future-oriented cooperation in
their respective sectors.
15.
China successfully launched two
remote sensing satellites PRSS-1 and PakTes-1A of Pakistan on
board of Long March-2C rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre.
a. It was
overall 279th mission for the Long March rocket series (mainly used to send
satellites into low Earth or Sun-synchronous orbits) and first international
commercial launch in nearly two decades after it carried Motorola’s Iridium
satellites into orbit in 1999.
16.
British Prime Minister Theresa May today
appointed Jeremy Hunt as Foreign Secretaryafter
Boris Johnson resigned in protest at the government's Brexit plan.
17.
UK Minister of State for Housing and
Planning Dominic Raab has been appointed as the Brexit
Secretary.
18.
Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz today announced
the appointment of Martin Schwenk as the new MD
and CEO for Mercedes-Benz India with effect
from November 1.
a. He will
replace Roland Folger, who will assume a new position for Mercedes-Benz's
Thailand and Vietnam markets.
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