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
Part - 2
1) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has given its nod to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education to provide technical assistance for setting up satellite TV classrooms in the country.
➨This initiative is being undertaken in order to bridge the gap in learning created due to the COVID-19 induced lockdowns.
ISRO :-
➨Formed :- 15 August 1969
➨Headquarter :- Bangalore, Karnataka, India
➨Chairman :- Kailasavadivoo Sivan
2) Indian Navy's Hydrographic Survey Ship INS Sarvekshak successfully completed survey action around the site of ill-fated MV X-Press Pearl on July 2 and handed over the survey data to the Sri Lankan authorities.
➨Sri Lanka :-
Capital :- Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative) , Colombo (executive and judicial)
Largest city :- Colombo
President :- Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime Minister:- Mahinda Rajapaksa
3) International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Gita Gopinath and NASA Scientist Kamlesh Lulla are among the 34 immigrants honored by Carnegie Corporation of New York, an NGO.
4) Central Board of Secondary Education has collaborated with Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and AICTE to launch ‘Innovation Ambassador Programme’.
➨The program will be launched for CBSE teachers where the Board will train 50,000 teachers as Innovation Ambassadors. The online training program for CBSE teachers will be launched on July 16, 2021.
5) The Ministry of Railways has approved a proposal to name Train No. 16595/16596 Bengaluru-Karwar-Bengaluru Express as Panchaganga Express.
Ministry of Railways :-
➨Formed :- March 1905
➨Headquarters :- New Delhi
➨Minister :- Piyush Goyal
➨Chairman of Railway Board and Chief Executive Officer :- Suneet Sharma
6) The trial of Passenger Railways Service from Silchar Railways Station of Assam to Vangaichungpao Railways Station of Tamenglong Manipur has been conducted today successfully. The Second Railways Station of Manipur, after Jiribam Railway Station, is expected to be inaugurated within this week.
Assam
CM - Himanta Biswa Sarma
➨Assam - Bihu Festival
➨Governor - Jagdish Mukhi
➨Nameri National Park
➨Manas National Park
➨Dibru Saikhowa National Park
➨Kaziranga National Park
7) In Uttar Pradesh, the government is planning to establish Health ATMs to provide better health facilities to the people in state.
➨Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath while reviewing a high-level Covid19 meeting at Lucknow instructed to find out possibilities in this direction so that poor and stranded people are benefitted.
Uttar Pradesh :-
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister - Yogi Adityanath
➨Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dudhwa National Park
➨National Chambal Sanctuary
8) Two term MLA from Khatima in Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami was sworn in as the 11th Chief Minister of the State along with an 11-member cabinet in Dehradun.
➨Mr. Dhami, at 45 the youngest Chief Minister yet of Uttarakhand, retained the entire team of his predecessor, Tirath Singh Rawat.
Asan Conservation Reserve
Country's first moss garden
Country's first Pollinator Park
Integrated Model Agriculture Village Scheme
Rajaji Tiger Reserve
Jim Corbett National Park
9) After Kalpana Chawla, Indian-origin Sirisha Bandla will become the second Indian-born woman to fly into space later this month.
➨Bandla will be one of the six space travellers aboard ‘VSS Unity’ of Virgin Galactic, scheduled to blast off to space on July 11 from New Mexico.
➨Sirisha Bandla, astronaut number 4 on the crew, was born in Andhra Pradesh and grew up in Houston. She is also the Vice President, Government Affairs and Research Operations at Virgin Galactic.
10) In a boost to cricket infrastructure, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCC) released a financial grant of Rs 100 crore to the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA), which will be used to build India's second-largest cricket stadium.
