Complete July Current Affairs Revision for all Upcoming Exams | Railway RRB NTPC, JE, ALP, Group D, Technician
Complete July Current Affairs Revision for all Upcoming Exams #English
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1) Swimmer Maana Patel became the first female and third Indian swimmer to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.
➨ She will be the third Indian swimmer at Tokyo Games after Srihari Nataraj and Sajan Prakash qualified to secure direct entries.
➨Indian woman swimmer Maana Patel's participation in the Tokyo Olympics has been confirmed through 'Universality quota'.
2) Senior Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer and seasoned diplomat Reenat Sandhu has been appointed as Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and she took over the charge from senior bureaucrat Vikas Swarup, who retired on June 30.
3) Taking forward the activities and programmes of National Horticulture Board, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India opened centre in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
➨Sh. Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture Farmers Welfare inaugurated the new Centre of National Horticulture Board (NHB) at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
4) NASSCOM Centre of Excellence with support from Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Gujarat Department of Science & Technology (DST) & MSME Department successfully organised the 2nd Edition of virtual conference on UDYAM 4.0 NAYI DISHA (Digital Innovative Solutions for Helping Atmanirbharta).
Gujarat:-
➨ CM :- Vijay Ramniklal Rupani
➨Nageshwar Temple
➨Somnath Temple
5) The oldest commercial bank in the country, State Bank of India, SBI, is celebrating its 66th year on 1 July 2021.
➨SBI descends from the Bank of Calcutta founded in 1806 through the Imperial Bank of India.
State Bank of India :-
Founded - 1 July 1955
Headquarters - Mumbai,
Maharashtra
Chairman - Dinesh Kumar Khara
6) Air Marshal VR Chaudhari took over as the new Vice Chief of Air Staff (VCOAS) on July 1 with the retirement of Air Marshal HS Arora.
➠The guard of honour parade was carried out to honour Air Marshal Chaudhari at Air Force Headquarter.
Indian Air Force:-
➨Founded - 8 October 1932
➨Headquarters - New Delhi
➨Commander-in-Chief - President Ram Nath Kovind
➨Chief of the Air Staff - Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
7) As the nation celebrates the 75th anniversary of its Independence, Ministry of Defence (MoD) has initiated a project to create an interactive virtual museum of the country’s Gallantry award winners to honour the heroic deeds of the bravehearts of India.
Ministry of Defence :-
Headquarters - New Delhi
Founded - 15 August 1947
➨Chief of Defence Staff (CDS):- General Bipin Rawat
➨ Chief of the Navy Staff - Admiral Karambir Singh
8) China was officially certified ‘malaria-free’ by the World Health Organization (WHO), becoming the second country in the Asia Pacific region to get the tag, after Sri Lanka in 2016.
World Health Organization :-
Headquarters - Geneva, Switzerland
Founded - 7 April 1948
Director-general - Tedros Adhanom
9) Lt Gen Sanjeev Kumar Sharma will be the new Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Strategy), a post created last year to oversee the 1.3 million-strong Army's operations and intelligence directorates.
➨Lt Gen Sharma succeeds Lt Gen Paramjit Singh who became the first DCOAS(strategy) earlier this year.
➨Army Day is celebrated on 15th January since 1949.
➨The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army.
➨Headquarters :- Integrated Defence Headquarters, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi
Founded :- 1 April 1895
➨Chief of Defence Staff (CDS):- General Bipin Rawat
➨Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) :- General Manoj Mukund Naravane
10) Andhra Pradesh Chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy launched the YSR Bima scheme with new guidelines and paid Rs 750 crore as the premium. The guidelines were changed to facilitate the state government paying the insurance amount directly to the family of the deceased.
Andhra Pradesh :-
➨CM - Jaganmohan Reddy
➨ Venkateswara Temple
➨Sri Bhramramma Mallikarjuna Temple
