IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS
OF JULY 23rd & 24th , 2019
IMPORTANT
CURRENT AFFAIRS OF JULY 23rd & 24th, 2019
1.
Ministerial meeting of Coordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned
Movement (NAM) was recently held at Caracas (capital city of
Venezuela).
a. Theme for
2019 NAM Meet : Promotion and Consolidation of Peace through Respect
for International Law.
b. Important
Note : Venezuela has held the presidency of NAM since the year
2016 which will now be passed on to Azerbaijan in October 2019.
2.
Pakistan's ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has said
that US President Donald Trump has accepted
Prime Minister Imran Khan's offer to visit Pakistan. Khan extended the
invitation to Trump during his first official trip to the US.
3.
23rd July is National Broadcasting Day.
a. On this day
in 1927, India got its first radio station.
b. Note : The first
station of the Indian Broadcasting Company (IBC) was
inaugurated at Bombay by the British Viceroy of India Lord Irwin on 23rd
July 1927.
c. Minister of
State for Information & Broadcasting - Prakash
Javadekar
4.
Nation remembered freedom fighters Chandra Shekhar Azad and Lokmanya
Tilak, on their birth anniversaries on 23rd July 2019.
a. Indian
nationalist leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak's birth anniversary.
i) Popularly
called 'Lokmanya', meaning 'accepted by the people', Tilak was born onJuly 23,
1856 in Maharashtra.
ii) The pioneer
of the Swadeshi Movement, he is also widely known for his quote 'Swaraj is my
birthright and I shall have it'.
b) Indian
revolutionary Chandra Shekhar Azad, popularly known as 'Azad', was
born on this day (23rd July) in the year 1906.
i) He fought for
the Indian independence struggle till the age of 24 years, before shooting
himself to keep his pledge of never being caught alive.
5.
Congress-JD(S) alliance government in Karnataka failed
to prove majority in the Assembly during the floor test.
a. Amid the
political crisis, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy resigned
from the post after meeting state Governor Vajubhai Vala.
6.
The Madhya Pradesh Assembly unanimously passed
a bill providing 27% reservation for Other
Backward Classes (OBCs) in the state.
a. The OBCs
currently get 14% reservation.
b. The Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SCs/STs) get 16% and 20% reservation respectively
in the state.
c. Madhya
Pradesh Chief Minister : Kamal Nath
7.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today
announced that a 251-metre-tall statue of Lord Ram will
be built in Ayodhya, which he claimed will be the world's tallest
statue.
a. At 251
metres, it'll stand taller than the 182-metre-tall Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel statue (Statue of Unity) in Gujarat.
8.
The Indian Army has ruled that the next
of kin of a dead ex-serviceman can now sport his or her medals at
homage ceremonies, no matter whether he or she is a civilian or serving in the
armed forces.
9.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has
announced India's 1st mission to the Sun, Aditya-L1,
aimed at studying its corona.
a. ISRO
Chairman K Sivan had revealed the mission is planned to be launched in the first
half of 2020.
10. India's
fastest train Vande Bharat Express today successfully
completed its test run from New Delhi to Katra in
8 hours.
a. The train can
run up to a maximum speed of 160 km per hour.
11. Scientists
in Bangladesh have developed a method to convert Jute
fibre into low-cost Bio-Degradable cellulose sheets.
a. Dubbed
as Sonali (Golden in Bengali), the cellulose sheet has
been developed by the team of scientist working for state-run Bangladesh
Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC).
b. The
commercial production of these bags is likely to start by end of 2019.
12. 2-time
Olympic gold medal winning Hockey Player Keshav Dutt and
former India Football Captain Prasun Banerjee are selected
for Mohun Bagan Ratna Award 2019.
a. Other winners
of Mohun Bagan Awards 2019
i) Best Football
Player for the season 2018-19 Award : Arijit Bagui
ii) India’s
hat-trick hero of 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup Award : Mohammed
Shami
iii) Lifetime
Achievement Award : Ashok Chatterjee (Footballer)
iv) The awards
will be given away on annual celebration of Mohun Bagan Day (29 July).
13. India today
announced that 272 foreigners, Non-Resident Indians, Overseas
Citizens of India and Indian-origin people have been conferred with the Padma
awards since 1954.
14. Noted
Carnatic vocalist S. Sowmya won the 2019
Sangita Kalanidhi Award of Music Academy.
a. She will
preside over 93rd annual conference of Academy to be held between 12 December
2019 and 1 January 2020.
b. Other
Awardees :
i.
Sangita Kala Acharya Awards : Seetha
Narayanan and M.S. Sheela(Vocalists)
ii.
TTK Awards : Vyasarpadi Kothandaraman (Nagaswaram player)
and Rajkumar Bharathi (vocalist)
iii.
Musicologist Award : Aarti N. Rao
iv.
Nritya Kalanidhi Award (for Dance) :
Priyadarshini Govind.
15. The Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) has assigned B P Kanungo (Deputy
Governor) to run the Monetary Policy Portfolio after
the resignation of fellow Deputy Governor Viral Acharya.
a. Kanungo, who
will retain his currency management portfolio, would become the 6th
member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).
16. China-backed Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has pulled $200 million of
funding for Andhra Pradesh's new capital Amaravati.
a. This comes
after the World Bank withdrew $300 million of funding after
the central government dropped support for the Amaravati project.
b. The two were
due to provide the majority of the $715 million cost of funding for transport,
sanitation and water supply.
17. The International
Monetary Fund (IMF) today revised downward India's growth forecast for
2019-20 to 7% from 7.3% due to "a weaker-than-expected
outlook for domestic demand".
a. The
projection was slashed by 30 bps to 7.2% for the next financial year too.
18. Former
Chinese Premier Li Peng (90) died today.
a. He was
referred to as the "Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the
Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989.
b. He served as
China's 4th Premier from 1987 to 1998 and held several posts in the Communist
Party.
19. Biswabhusan
Harichandan took oath as the new Governor of Andhra Pradesh at
a function held at the temporary Raj Bhavan, Vijayawada.
a. Acting Chief
Justice of the state High Court C Praveen Kumar administered
the oath of office to Harichandan.
20. Eastern Army
Commander Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane has been
appointed as next Vice-Chief of Armed Force.
a. He is going
to replace Lt Gen D Anbu who is set to retire on 31 August
2019.
21. Army
veteran Mark Esper was sworn in as the US'
Defence Secretary following confirmation by the Senate.
a. Esper
replaces James Mattis, who resigned in December last year following differences
with US President Donald Trump over the withdrawal of American troops from
Syria.
22. Former Union
Minister Kalraj Mishra took oath as the new
Governor of Himachal Pradesh in Shimla.
23. Boris
Johnson was elected as the leader of Britain's
governing Conservative Party and the next Prime Minister of UK.
a. He is going
to replace Theresa May, who stepped down over her failure to get parliament to
ratify her Brexit deal.
24. The Board
of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has officially
recognised the Indian Cricketers' Association (ICA), the body
formed as per the board's new constitution.
a. The ICA is a
non-profit company and is aimed at conserving and advancing the welfare
of former players.
b. Kapil Dev,
Ajit Agarkar and Shantha Rangaswamy are the directors
of ICA and will hold their positions until elections are held.
25. Indian table
tennis players Harmeet Desai and Ayhika
Mukherjee won the Men's and women's singles titles at the 21st
Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at Cuttack today.
26. Following the
suspension of Zimbabwe Cricket by the ICC, Zimbabwe's all-rounder Solomon
Mire has announced his retirement from cricket.
a. Mire featured
in 47 ODIs, nine T20Is and two Tests for Zimbabwe, scoring 955, 253 and 78 runs
in the formats respectively.
27. Fast bowler Lasith
Malinga is going to retire from ODI cricket after Sri Lanka's
first ODI of the 3-match series against Bangladesh on July 26.
a. The
35-year-old, who made his ODI debut on July 17, 2004, has taken 335 wickets in
225 ODIs. Only Muttiah Muralitharan (523) and Chaminda Vaas (399) have taken
more wickets than Malinga in ODIs for Sri Lanka.
28. Former
Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta has been named the
latest La Liga Icon.
a. The La Liga
Icons initiative aims to expand La Liga brand through a strategy focused on
digital dissemination, allowing La Liga to connect with fans globally.
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