IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS OF JULY 12th,
2018
1.
The Sri Lankan Cabinet has
unanimously approved a move to bring back capital punishment
for drug-related crimes.
a. Note : Sri
Lanka stopped hangings in 1976, with death row prisoners spending life terms in
jail.
2.
For the first time, Rajya Sabha
members can speak in any of the 22 languages listed
in the eighth schedule of the Constitution, Rajya Sabha
Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has announced
today.
3.
Tto reduce air pollution in the city,
the Delhi Cabinet today approved the engagement of 1,000
low-floor environment-friendly electric buses.
4.
Drawing inspiration from the highly-successful
'Amma' canteens in Tamil Nadu, the Andhra Pradesh government today
launched its own 'Anna' canteens across the state.
a. The
intention behind launching these canteens is to tackle hunger in urban
areas.
b. The
canteens will offer breakfast, lunch and dinner at Rs 5 a
meal.
5.
NABARD is celebrating it's 36th Foundation
Day today.
a. NABARD : National Bank
for Agriculture and Rural Development
b. NABARD is an
apex development bank in India having headquarters based in Mumbai.
c. It was
established on 12 July 1982.
d. NABARD
Chairman : Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwal
a. With
this India became 69th
member of the London-based multilateral lender.
b. Important
Details about EBRD :
o
Founded in : 1991
o
Location :
London
o
President : Sir
Suma Chakrabarti
7.
Airtel Payments Bank today
received the requisite approvals from the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) to resume taking new customers.
a. The
payments bank has also been permitted by the Unique Identification
Authority of India (UIDAI) to resume adding new customers
using Aadhaar based eKYC.
b. Note :
Earlier Airtel was accused of using Aadhaar-eKYC based process to open payments
bank accounts of subscribers without their consent.
8.
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries
Limited crossed the $100-billion market cap mark today.
a. With
this, the company will join with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as
the only two $100-billion companies in India.
9.
Kylie Cosmetics' 20-year-old Founder Kylie
Jenner, with a net worth of $900 million, became the youngest
member in Forbes list of America's richest self-made women
2018 released today.
a. Roofing
supply company ABC Supply's Diane Hendricks topped the
list with $4.9 billion.
b. Two
Indian-origin women have been featured in the list. They are :
i. Computer
networking company Arista Networks CEO Jayshree Ullal is
ranked 18th with a fortune of $1.3 billion.
ii. IT
consulting firm Syntel Co-Founder Neerja Sethi was ranked 21st
with $1-billion fortune.
c. Note : With
Kylie will beat Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the world's youngest self-made
billionaire.
d. Zuckerberg,
who became the world's youngest billionaire at 23, is currently the world's 5th
richest with $76.8 billion wealth.
10.
According to updated World Bank figures on GDP
of countries for 2017, India has become world’s
sixth-biggest economy surpassing France to seventh place.
a. India’s
gross domestic product (GDP) amounted to $2.597 trillion at
the end of 2017, as against $2.582 trillion for France.
b. Top 5
biggest economies :
i. United
States (US $19.39 trillion)
ii. China
(US $12.23 trillion)
iii. Japan
(US $4.87 trillion)
iv. Germany
(US $3.67 trillion)
v. Britain
(US $2.622 trillion)
11.
Dr Ravi Mehrotra CBE,
Chairman of Foresight Group International Ltd., was presented with a Lifetime
Achievement Award by Mr Chris Hayman (Chairman, Seatrade) at the Seatrade
30th Anniversary Award Ceremony held at the Landmark, London on June
29th.
a. This
award recognises recipients who have made a significant and lasting
contribution to shipping and the maritime industry.
12.
India and United
Kingdom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation
in the sphere of Law & Justice and establishing Joint
Consultative Committee.
a. The MoU
was signed by Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and UK’s Secretary of State for
Justice David Gauke in London.
13.
India’s Department of
Telecommunications has approved Net Neutrality Rules that ban
blocking, throttling, and zero-rating internet data, with some exceptions.
a. With
this, access to internet will remain unrestricted and non-discriminatory.
b. What is
Net Neutrality ?
c. Net
neutrality implies that telecom service providers must treat all internet
traffic equally, without any regard to the type, origin or destination of the
content.
d. No
internet access service provider can block, degrade, slow down or grant
preferential speeds to particular content.
14.
Indian state-owned telecommunications
company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has became the
country's first telephone network to launch 'internet telephony'
service, which makes landline work like mobile.
a. BSNL
users will be able to call on any network's number by installing BSNL's app 'Wings'
on their devices including smartphone, tablet or laptop.
b. Until
now, phone calls on mobile apps were possible only within users of a particular
app.
15.
Former Google artificial intelligence (AI)
chief John Giannandrea has been appointed as Apple's
Chief of Machine Learning and AI Strategy.
a. In his
new role, he will be overseeing the strategy for AI and machine learning (ML),
and the development of Core ML and Apple's digital assistant Siri.
16.
US President Donald Trump today
appointed Brett Kavanaugh as the new Judge
of Supreme Court.
a. He will
replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
b. This
move ends the hopes of Indian Americans that Amul Thapar would
become the first judge from the community to make it to the top court.
17.
The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu
today released a book titled ‘Two Classical Plays from India’.
a. This
book is an English translation of Hindi plays written by well-known
playwright D.P. Sinha.
18.
The Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) of Union
Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs has included entire Men’s
Hockey team of India under the Target Olympic Podium
Scheme (TOPS).
a. This
is first instance that entire team has been made beneficiary
of the scheme as earlier only individual athletes from different sports were
included as beneficiaries of the scheme.
b. TOPS
aims at identifying and supporting potential medal prospects for upcoming Olympic
Games.
c. This
scheme provides selected sportspersons customized training at institutes having
world class facilities along with other necessary support.
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