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IMPORTANT DAYS

DATE DAYS THEME

15th July World Youth Skill Day “Learning to Learn from Life and

Work”

17th July World day of International

Justice

This day recognize the emerging

system of International crime

justice.

18th July Nelson Mandela International

Day

This day remind the

contributions of Mandela to the

culture of peace, human right,

reconciliation and freedom.

NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Ayush Minister Shripad Yesso Naik informed the Rajya Sabha that 2,500 new centres are planned to be opened within

the first four months of the present government.

2. Over 30.6 lakh persons have been enrolled so far under the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM)

scheme.The government has launched the PM-SYM a voluntary and contributory pension scheme for the benefit of

unorganized workers in February this year in the country.

3. Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank released the UGC Guide to Student Induction

Programme - Deeksharambh in New Delhi. Objective: to help new students adjust and feel comfortable in the new

environment.

4. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will participate in the Standalone meeting of BRICS' Foreign Ministers from July

25-26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

5. Union government is planning to set up India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) at Pottipuram in Theni District, Tamil

Nadu. Objective is to set up a 51000 ton Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector.It will be the first neutrino detector in India.

6. Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel inaugurated the architectural illumination of the historic Safdarjung Tomb in New

Delhi.

7. Coal minister Prahlad Josh informed that government is planning to increase the total production of coal in the

country to one billion tones by 2022-23.

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8. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India has fixed a deadline of 2025 for eradicating TB against the global

deadline of 2030 and asked MPs to work for its removal.He launched the TB Free India Campaign at ‘Delhi End TB

Summit’.

9. Union Panchayat Raj Minister Narendra Singha Tomar informed Lok Sabha that over one lakh 28 thousand Gram

Panchayats linked with optical fibre under Bharat Net programme.

10. Union Environment Ministry has selected 12 beaches in Inida to vie for a ‘Blue Flag certification, an International

recognition conferred on beaches that meet certain criteria of cleanliness and environmental propriety.

11. Pakistan Punjab’s chief minister laid the foundation stone of Baba Guru Nanak University at Nanakana Sahib. The

University was dedicated to Guru Nanak Dev at his birth plance. This university would be spread over 10 acres.

STATE CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. West Bengal Governor Kesri Nath Tripthi released the Bengali version of the famous book “Great Minds of India”. This

unique book is translated into Bengali by Dr. R N Das.

2. Meghalaya became the first Indian state to draft a water policy to ensure water conservation, issues and protection of

water resources in the State.The approved policy intended to achieve sustainable development by Meghalaya state

government.

3. First-ever Himalayan States Conclave will be hosted by Uttarakhand on July 28, 2019 at Mussoorie.The main Objective

of this conclave is to focus on sustainable development of the Indian Himalayan Region.

4. Tamil Nadu to form two new districts and the total number of districts in the state will be raised to 35.Tenkasi District

would be carved out of Tirunelveli and Chengalpet District would be established by splitting Kanchipuram district.

5. Odisha will get its first desalination plant in Paradip with a capacity of 10 million litres per day.The proposed plant, to

be built at a cost of around Rs 116 crore, is expected to be commissioned by 2021

6. In Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur received the 'Victory Flame' at Mandi.The ‘Victory Flam’ that

illuminated from the National War Memorial, New Delhi on July, 14 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Kargil Vijay

Diwas.

7. Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik has launched the new e-challan system and the e-payment gateway for the

use of Delhi Traffic Police.

8. The Maharashtra sports department has sought funds of over Rs one crore for ace shooter Rahi Sarnobat.

9. The country's first garbage cafe has been launched in Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh.Persons fetching 1 kg plastic waste will

be offered a full meal while those collecting 500 grams waste will get a substantial breakfast.

10. Haryana government approved the proposal to set up first full-fledged sports university at Sonipat.

11. The Assam Government is to plant sapling spread over one thousand kilometres across the National Highways.

12. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today flagged off the Central Reserve Police Force cycle rally.Five women officers

along with 20 other cyclists will travel a distance of 982 kilometres on cycle from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to

India Gate, New Delhi.

13. In Madhya Pradesh, the first international flight from Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar International Airport of Indore left for

Dubai today with 153 passengers.







INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Palau signed the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Framework Agreement and became the 76th country to join ISA.

2. The Saudi military says it has intercepted a drone launched at the kingdom’s southern border by Iranian-backed rebels

in Yemen.

3. India and Italy have decided to set up a fast-track system for companies and investors of both the countries. The key

objective of the system is to identify and solve problems faced by Italian companies and investors with their

operations in India.

4. The 8th meeting of India-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism was held in New Delhi. The meeting

was co-chaired by Mahaveer Singhvi, Joint Secretary (Counter Terrorism), Ministry of External Affairs and Ambassador

Farhod Azriev of Uzbekistan.

5. China has gifted a Warship to Sri Lanka named ‘P625’.Frigate 'P625' arrived in Colombo last week

BANKING & ECONOMY

1. State Bank of India (SBI) has waived the charges on National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and Real Time Gross

Settlement (RTGS) transactions through YONO, Internet, and mobile banking.This will be effective from July 1.

2. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposed fine on State Bank of India (SBI) of Rs 7 cr and Union Bank of India of Rs 10

lakh for violating certain regulatory guidelines.

3. Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) introduced a web-based application system for contribution from

the Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS).Aimed to improve the turnaround time and increase transparency.SIDBI is the

implementing agency for FFS with a corpus of Rs 10,000 crore on behalf of the Government of India.

4. Andhra Bank launched its Artificial Intelligence interactive assistant — ABHi. The Bank's AI powered chatbot-ABHi uses

latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm to understand the customer query

and fetch the relevant information from possible knowledgebase in a matter of milliseconds.

5. ICICI Bank launched a new digital platform specially for MSMEs and self-employed customers to enable them to

undertake their business banking transactions digitally and instantly named ‘‘InstaBIZ”.

6. Standard Chartered will become first foreign bank to launch operations at International Financial Services Centre

(IFSC) located at the Gujarat International Finance Tech City (GIFT City).

7. HDFC Bank and Common Services Centres (CSCs) launched a co-branded ‘Small Business Money-Back Credit Card’. This

Co-branded credit card is for small traders and village-level entrepreneurs (VLEs).

BUSINESS & FINANCE

1. HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company and Muthoottu Mini Financiers Ltd announced the tie-up for the distribution

of HDFC ERGO’s range of non-life insurance offerings for the customers of the NBFC through its network branches.

2. Asian Development Bank lowered the GDP growth rate of India from 7.2% to 7% for the current fiscal.

3. Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI) has signed an agreement to acquire AI firm Lymbyc Solutions for Rs 38 crore.

4. BSE has inked a pact with Haryana government to encourage and support state's micro, small and medium enterprises

(MSMEs) to raise capital. Objective is to facilitate SMEs in raising funds through BSE's dedicated platform for SME's --

BSE SME .







SUMMITS & CONFERENCES

1. The 11th Mekong Ganga Cooperation Senior Officials' Meeting (11th MGC SOM) held in New Delhi.The meeting

reviewed the progress of the 9th MGC ministerial meeting held in Singapore on August 2, 2018.They discussed about

the draft MGC Plan of Action (2019-22) to be adopted at the 10th MGC ministerial meeting in Bangkok on August 1,

2019.

2. The 5th edition of International Police Expo 2019 is inaugurated at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi from July 19 to July 20.

RANKS & INDICES

1. A/C to Bloomberg Billionaires Index,Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO is the world’s richest person with a total net

worth of $125 million. Bill Gates, Microsoft founder stands at Number 3 with net worth of $107 billion.The richest

Indian, Mukesh Ambani is on the 13th spot, with a net worth of USD 51.8 billion. Azim Premji is the second-richest

Indian to be on the list at the 48th rank with USD 20.5 billion.Shiv Nadar is on the 92nd spot and Uday Kotak is on the

96th spot.

2. According to the data from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has overtaken rival

Bharti Airtel to become the second largest operator in terms of mobile subscriber base.As of May end, Jio had 322.98

million users as against Airtel’s 320.38 million users.Vodafone Idea continues in the top position with 387.55 million

users.

3. Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will launch the Global Innovation Index, GII on 24th July in New Delhi.

AGREEMENTS and MoU signed

1. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has provided a $100-million loan to L&T Infrastructure Finance

Company Limited (LTIF) for wind and solar infrastructure projects in India.

2. World Bank signed a loan of $250 million to the Kerala Government for the Resilient Kerala project.The main objective

is to enhance the state’s resilience against the impacts of natural disasters and climate change.

3. The Department of Telecom (DoT) and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a Broadband Readiness Index (BRI) for Indian States and

Union Territories (UT).The first estimate will be made in 2019 and subsequently every year until 2022.

4. GeM and Steel Authority of IndiaNSE -2.31 % (SAIL), signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) to set up GeM

Organizational Transformation Team.With this MoU, SAIL has become the first public sector undertaking to establish

GOTT PMU for transforming their procurement landscape and increasing their footprint on GeM.

5. Sri Lankan government today signed an agreement with IRCON International for upgrading of a railway track with

Indian concessional financing of around 91.26 million US dollars.

6. Union Health Ministry has signed an MoU with Ministries of Ayush, Defence and Railways to strengthen the efforts

towards a TB-Free India by 2025.







APPOINTMENTS

PERSON APPOINTED AS SUCCEEDED

Julie Sweet CEO of Accenture Inc David Rowland

David Rowland Executive Chairman of

Accenture

Kalraj Mishra Governor of Himachal

Pradesh

Acharya Devvrat

Acharya Devvrat Governor of Gujarat O.P. Kohli

Kiran More interim coach of the

USA cricket team

Pubudu Dassanayake

Swatantra Dev Singh Uttar Pradesh BJP Chief

Chandrakant Patil BJP's Maharashtra unit.

Mangal Prabhat Lodha BJP President of

Mumbai.

Christine Lagarde resigned as managing

director of IMF

Ursula von der Leyen European

Commission's first

female president.

Justice AK Sikri International judge of

the Singapore

international

commercial court

(SICC).

Previously he served as

Supreme Court judge.

Anusuiya Uikey Governor of

Chhattisgarh

Biswa Bhusan

Harichandan

Sarvita Sethi Coco Cola Vice

President

Harsh Bhutani CFO of Coco Cola

Vivek Kumar Private secretary to

Prime Minister

Narendra Modi.

IFS Officer, currently

working as Director in

the Prime Minister’s

Office.

Bharat Lal Additional secretary in

the Jal Shakti Ministry's

IFS Officer, at present

additional secretary to







Drinking Water and

Sanitation department.

the President.

Amita Prasad Chairperson of the

Inland Waterways

Authority of India in the

Ministry of Shipping.

IAS Officer of the 1985

batch

Jyoti Arora Additional secretary

and financial advisor in

the Electronics and

Information Technology

Ministry.

IAS officer of the 1987

batch

Rajesh Verma Additional secretary in

the Department of

Agriculture,

Cooperation and

Farmers Welfare.


batch

Indevar Pandey Additional secretary in

the Ministry of

Development of North

Eastern Region.


batch

Sanjeev Kumar Singla Indian Ambassador to

Israel

Upender Singh Rawat Indian Ambassador to

the Republic of Panama.

STATE NEW GOVERNOR REPLACED

Madhya Pradesh Lal Ji Tandon Anandi Ben Patel

Uttar Pradesh Anandi Ben Patel Ram Naik

West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar Keshari Nath Tripathi

Bihar Phagu Chauhan Lal Ji Tandon

Tripura Ramesh Bais Kaptan Singh Solanki

Nagaland R.N.Ravi Padmanabha Acharya

Chhattisgarh Anusuiya Uikey Anandi Ben Patel

Andhra Pradesh Biswa Bhusan

Harichandan

E. S. L. Narasimhan.

Himachal Pradesh Kalraj Mishra Acharya Dev Vrat

Gujarat Acharya Devvrat Om Prakash Kohli







SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Vijayveer Sidhu picked up his third gold medal of the ongoing ISSF Junior World Cup with Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu and

Adarsh Singh to clinch the men's 25m pistol event.The event was held in Suhl, Germany.

2. 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship started today at the Jawaharlal Indoor Stadium in Cuttack,

Odisha.The event was inaugurated by Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal.

Indian team secured the first spot in the medal tally of Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship 2019 held at

Samoa. It won 35 medals including 22 golds, 10 silvers and 3 bronze medals in the youth, junior, and senior categories.

3. Indian sprinter Hima Das clinched her fourth gold in a fortnight as she won the 200m race with a creditable timing in

the Tabor Athletics Meet in Czech Republic. She won the race in 23.25 seconds.

4. At the ISSF Junior World Cup, Sarabjot Singh shot a 239.6 to bag the men's 10 metres air pistol gold.This is India's ninth

yellow metal at the event in Suhl, Germany.

5. International cricket chiefs suspended Zimbabwe over a failure to keep the sport free from government

interference.ICC funding has been withdrawn and the country will be barred from participating at ICC events.

6. PT Usha has been nominated for the International Association of Athletics Federation’s (IAAF) ‘Veteran Pin’ for her

outstanding service to the sport.Usha is often called the “queen of track and field”.

7. In the Shooting Junior World Cup, Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar clinched gold with a junior world record in the final

of rifle 3-position event in Suhl Germany.India finished the ISSF tournament on top of the table with 10 gold, nine

silver and five bronze for a total of 24 medals.

8. In Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship held in Cuttack , India made a record by winning gold in both men’s and

women’s category.The Indian men won the final match defeating England 3-2. The Indian women team defeated

England 3-0 in final match.

9. Indian Army has successfully carried out summer user trials of third Generation Anti-Tank Guided Missile- NAG at

Pokhran Field Firing Ranges in Rajasthan.

10. The 2019 Wimbledon Championships was the 133rd edition of Championship.It is played in Grass court.After the

“Australian open” and “French open”, Wimbledon is the 3rd Grand Slam of the year.The tournament took place at the

All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom from 1st July 2019 to 14 July 2019.

TITLE WINNER RUNNER UP

Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic(Serbia) Roger federer(Switzerland)

Women’s Singles Simona Halep(Romania) Serena Williams(USA)

Men’s Doubles Juan Sebastián Cabal (Colombia)

Robert Farah (Colombia)

Nicolas Mahut (France)

Édouard Roger-Vasselin (France)

Women’s Doubles Hsieh Su-wei (Chinese Taipei)

Barbora Strýcová (Czech

Republic )

Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada)

Xu Yifan (China)

Mixed Doubles Ivan Dodig (Croatia)

Latisha Chan (Chinese Taipei)

Robert Lindstedt (Sweden)

Jeļena Ostapenko (Latvia)







Quick Revision

Australia Open 2019


Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Rafael Nadal (Spain)

Women’s Singles Naomi Osaka (Japan) Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic)

Men’s Doubles Pierre-Hugues Herbert (France)

and Nicolas Mahut (France)

Henri Kontinen (Finland) and

John Peers (Australia)

Women’s Doubles Samantha Stosur (Australia) and

Zhang Shuai (China)

Tímea Babos (Hungary) and

Kristina Mladenovic (France)

Mixed Doubles Barbora Krejčíková (Czech

Republic) and Rajeev Ram

(United States)

Astra Sharma (Australia) and

John-Patrick Smith (Australia)

French Open 2019


Men’s Singles Rafael Nadal (Spain) Dominic Thiem (Austria)

Women’s Singles Ashleigh Barty (Australia) Marketa Vondrousova (Czech

Republic)

Men’s Doubles Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies

(Germany)

Fabrice Martin and Jeremy

Chardy (France)

Women’s Doubles Kristina Mladenovic (France)

Timea Babos (Hungary)

Duan Yingying and Zheng Saisai

(China)

Mixed Doubles Latisha Chan (Taiwan)

Ivan Dodig (Croatia)

Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada)

Mate Pavic (Croatia)

DEFENCE CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Israel Aerospace Industries signs $50 million follow-up deal with Indian Navy.Aimed to provide complementary missile

systems to the Indian navy and India’s MDL Shipyard.The agreement involves a range of maintenance and other

services for sub-systems of Israel Aerospace’s naval medium range surface-to-air missile.

2. ISRO announced that India's lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 will be rescheduled to launch on the 22nd of July at 2:43 pm

from the spaceport at Sriharikota.Originally Chandrayaan-2 was scheduled to be launched at 2.51 am on July 15.Due

to some technical issue it was cancelled on 15th and now rescheduled to launch on 22nd of this month.

3. INS Sagardhwani embarked on a two month long Sagar Mitri Mission-2 from Sothern Naval Command in Kochi.

4. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju today launched the All India Football Federation's Golden Baby Leagues handbook 2019-20

on the sidelines of the Intercontinental Cup in Ahemadabad







BOOKS & AUTHORS

1. A new book titled, “Kargil: Untold stories from the War” authored by Rachna Bisht Rawat released in New Delhi.The

book is based on Rawat's interviews with war survivors and martyrs' families, take the readers to the treacherous

Himalayan mountains. The book has been published by Penguin Random House.

2. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju today launched the All India Football Federation's Golden Baby Leagues handbook 2019-20

on the sidelines of the Intercontinental Cup in Ahmadabad.The 'AIFF Baby Leagues' renamed as 'AIFF Golden Baby

Leagues'.

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

1. Well-known breast surgeon and Padma Shri awardee P Raghu Ram has been conferred the Honorary Fellowship of The

Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) of Thailand at the 44th annual congress of the Royal College in Pattaya.

2. Shah Rukh Khan conferred with an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from Melbourne-based La

Trobe University at the 10th edition of Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) at Bundoora, Australia.

3. Director Kaushik Ganguly’s Bengali outing Nagarkirtan, has won big at prestigious 2019’s SAARC (South Asian

Association for Regional Cooperation) film festival, bagging 4 awards in total, including Best Feature Film.

4. Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju conferred Arjuna award to tennis player Rohan Bopanna and women

cricketer Smriti Mandhana.

5. The "Find the Incredible You" campaign of the Tourism Ministry, has won the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)

Gold Award, 2019 under the "Marketing - Primary Government Destination" category.

6. Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar has been inducted into the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Hall of Fame

alongside South African pace legend Allan Donald and Australia's Cathryn Fitzpatrick.

7. Tabla Maestro Zakir Hussain and dancer Sonal Mansingh are among the four eminent personalities who have been

selected for the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships in the field of performing arts.The two other

personalities are dancer and choreographer Jatin Goswami and Bharatnatyam exponent K.Kalyanasundaram Pillai.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1. Google India's 'Internet Saathi' programme aimed to empower rural women to use the Internet.They added two more

states namely Punjab and Odisha.

SCHEMES

1. Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank released the UGC Guide to Student Induction

Programme - Deeksharambh in New Delhi.Objective is to help new students adjust and feel comfortable in the new

environment.

OBITURIES







PERRSON PROFESSION STATE/COUNTRY EXTRA Shots

H.M. Ershad Bangladesh’s former

military dictator

West Bengal He became the president of

Bangladesh in December

1983.

Pernell “Sweet Pea”

Whitaker

former world champion He won world titles at

lightweight, light

welterweight, welterweight

and light middleweight.

Lt Gen Joginder Singh

Gharaya

He was awarded the Maha

Vir Chakra and Kirti Chakra

Fernando Corbato Computer pioneer First used passwords to

protect user accounts

Purobi Bormudoi Writer Assam She was awarded the

Sahitya Akademi award in

2007 for her book

'Shantanukulanandan' and

was also a recipient of the

Assam Valley Literary award

and Assam Sahitya Sabha's

Basanti Bordoloi Award.

Shiela Dixit Politician Delhi A three-time Chief Minister

of Delhi, Shiela Dixit

unsuccessfully contested

the 2019 Lok Sabha election

from North East Delhi.

MISCELLANEOUS CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. The Golden Jubilee Edition of International Film Festival of India, IFFI will be held from 20th Nov till 28th November

2019 in Panaji, Goa. Russia will be IFFI partner in this edition.

2. 10th Jagran Film festival started at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi.The festival inaugurated by Union Information

and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar.







STATIC SHOTS

Russia (Capital/Currency): Moscow/Ruble

Prime Minister: Dmitry Medvedev

President: Vladimir Putin

Thailand (Capital/Currency): Bangkok/Bhatt

Prime Minister: Prayut Chan-o-cha

Italy (Capital/Currency): Rome/Euro

Prime Minister: Giuseppe Conte

Uzbekistan (Capital/Currency): Tashkent/Som

President: Shavkat Mirziyoyev

China (Capital/Currency): Beijing/Renminbi

President: Xi Jinping

Sri Lanka (Capital/Currency): Colombo, Sri

Jayawardenepura Kotte/ Sri Lankan rupee

President: Maithripala Sirisen

Israel (Capital/Currency): Jerusalem/New Shekel

Brazil (Capital/Currency): Brasilia/ Brazilian real

President: Jair Bolsonaro

Palau (Capital/Currency): Ngerulmud/US Dollar

President :Tommy Remengesau

Saudi Arabia (Capital/Currency): Riyadh/Riyal

Czech Republic (Capital/Currency): Prague/ Czech koruna

Steel Authority of India Limited is an Indian state-owned

steel making company based in New Delhi, India. It is a

public sector undertaking.

Founded: 19 January 1954

Headquarters: New Delhi

CEO: Anil Kumar Chaudhary

CEO of Government e Marketplace (GeM): Radha

Chauhan

Accenture: Accenture plc is a multinational professional

services company that provides services in strategy,

consulting, digital, technology and operations.

Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland

Establishment: 1 September 2009

Google: Google LLC is an American multinational

technology company that specializes in Internet-related

services and products, which include online advertising

technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software,

and hardware.

Founded: 4 September 1998, Menlo Park,

California, United States

Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin

CEO: Sundar Pichai

ISRO: The Indian Space Research Organisation is the space

agency of the Government of India.

Founded: 15 August 1969

Headquarters: Bengaluru

Founder: Vikram Sarabhai

Director: Kailasavadivoo Sivan

Subsidiary: Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

TRAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is a

statutory body set up by the Government of India under

section 3 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act,

1997. It is the regulator of the telecommunications sector in

India.

Founded: 20 February 1997


Chirman: Ram Sewak Sharma

Secretary:Sunil K Gupta

DRDO: The Defence Research and Development

Organisation is an agency of the Government of India,

charged with the military's research and development.

Founded: 1958








Motto: बलस्य मूलं विज्ञानम्; "Strength's Origin is in

Science" (Sanskrit)

Chairman: Dr G. Satheesh Reddy

BSE: The Bombay Stock Exchange is an Indian stock

exchange located at Dalal Street, Mumbai. Established in

1875, the BSE is Asia's first stock exchange.

Founded: 9 July 1875

MD & CEO: Ashish Kumar Chauhan

L&T: Larsen & Toubro Limited, commonly known as L&T

Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate company.

Headquarters: Mumbai

Founders: Henning Holck-Larsen, Søren Kristian

Toubro

MD & CEO :S.N.Subhramaniyam

Bloomberg: Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial,

software, data, and media company.

Headquarters: New York, New York, United States

CEO: Michael Bloomberg

Founders: Michael Bloomberg, Thomas Secunda,

Charles Zegar, Duncan MacMillan

International Criminal Court (ICC): The International

Criminal Court is an intergovernmental organization and

international tribunal.

Founded: 1 July 2002, Rome, Italy

Member states: 122

Seat: The Hague, Netherlands

ICC: The International Cricket Council is the global

governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial

Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from

Australia, England and South Africa. It was renamed as the

International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its

current name in 1989.

Founded: 15 June 1909

Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Chairperson: Shashank Manohar

CEO: Manu Sawhney

13th ICC Cricket World Cup will be held in India from

9th February to 26th March 2023.

IAAF: The International Association of Athletics Federations

is the international governing body for the sport of

athletics.

Founded: 17 July 1912, Stockholm, Sweden

Membership: 215 member federations

Headquarters: Monaco

President: Sebastian Coe

ISSF: The International Shooting Sport Federation, also

known with the acronym ISSF, is the governing body of the

Olympic Shooting events in rifle, pistol and shotgun

disciplines, and of several non-Olympic Shooting sport

events.

Founded: 1907

Headquarters: Munich, Germany

President: Vladimir Lisin

United Nations: It is an International Organization. Its

Objective of UN is to not only maintain International Peace

and Security but also to develop Friendly relations among

nations.

Founded – 24th October, 1945

Headquarter- New York,United States

Secretary General- Antonio Guterres (9th SG OF

UN)

He is from PORTUGAL

Portugal (Capital/Currency) - Lisbon/ Euro

United States (Capital/Currency) - Washington, D.C/

US Dollar

World Bank: The World Bank is an international financial

institution that provides interest-free loans and grants to

the governments of poorer countries for the purpose of

pursuing capital projects.

Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States

Founded: 1944

Formation: July 1945

Founders: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter

White

CEO: Kristalina Georgieva(Bulgaria)







IMF: The Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore is one

of the two tiers of the court system in Singapore.

Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States

Managing Director (MD): Christine Lagarde

Chief Economist: Gita Gopinath

Membership: 189 countries

AIIB: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a

multilateral development bank that aims to support the

building of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.

Headquarters: Beijing, China

Formation: January 16, 2016

President: Jin Liqun

ADB: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional

development bank aimed to promote social and economic

development in Asia.

Founded: 19 December 1966

Membership: 68 countries

Purpose: Economic development

Headquarters: Mandaluyong, Philippines

President: Takehiko Nakao

BRICS: BRICS is the acronym coined for an association of

five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia,

India, China and South Africa. Originally the first four were

grouped as "BRIC", before the induction of South Africa in

2010.

Founded: June 2006

Headquarters location: Aarhus University, Aarhus,

Denmark

Founders: India, China, Brazil, Russia

RBI: The Reserve Bank of India is India's central banking

institution, which controls the issuance and supply of the

Indian rupee.

Founded: 1 April 1935, Kolkata


Governor: Shaktikanta Das

SIDBI: Small industrial Development Bank of India is a

development financial institution in India.

Founded: 2 April 1990

Headquarters: Lucknow

Chairman and Managing Director: Mohammad

Mustafa

Union Bank of India: Union Bank of India is one of the

largest government-owned banks of India, the government

owns over 90% of its share capital.


CEO: Rajkiran Rai G.

State Bank of India: Founded on: As 2 June 1806 (Bank of

Calcutta), 15 April 1840 (Bank of Bombay), 1 July 1843

(Bank of Madras), 27 January 1921 (Imperial Bank of India),

1 July 1955 (State Bank of India)

Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra

Chairman: Rajnish Kumar

SBI is the largest commercial bank and the largest

mortgage lender across the country.

SBI has 22,010 branches and 58,000 ATM/CDM

across India.

Andhra Bank: Andhra Bank is a medium-sized public sector

bank of India, with a network of 2885 branches, 4 extension

counters, 38 satellite offices and 3798 automated teller

machines as of 31 March 2019.

Headquarters: Hyderabad

Founder: Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya

ICICI: ICICI Bank Limited is an Indian multinational banking

and financial services company.


CEO: Sandeep Bakhshi

Tagline: Hum Hai Na

Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking

and financial services company.

Headquarters location: London, United Kingdom

CEO: Bill Winters

HDFC ERGO: HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company

Limited is a joint venture between HDFC Ltd. and ERGO

International AG, a Germany-based company that is part of

the Munich Re Group.








CEO: Mr. Ritesh Kumar

Executive Director: Anuj Tyagi

Executive vice president: Mr. Dayananda V. Shetty

HDFC Bank:

Founded: August 1994

Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

MD: Aditya Puri

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