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Current Affairs Today – 30th July 2019
IMPORTANT DAYS AND THEMES
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is observed on 30th July
- 30 July is observed as World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.
- In 2013 United Nations adopted resolution A/RES/68/192 and designated July 30 as the World Day against Trafficking in Persons.
- Objective: raise awareness of the situation of victims of human trafficking and for the promotion and protection of their rights.
- Theme: “Human Trafficking: Call Your Government To Action”.
- UNODC is focusing on highlighting the importance of Government action in the interest of victims of trafficking.
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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
BANKING AND FINANCE CURRENT AFFAIRS
RBI slaps Rs 26 lakh fine on Mobikwik and Hip Bar
- The Reserve Bank has imposed a fine of about 26 lakh rupees on two online payment solutions providers for non-compliance of regulatory guidelines.
- Mobikwik Systems Private Limited has been slapped a fine of 15 lakh rupees while Hip Bar Pvt Ltd faced a fine of 10.85 lakh rupees.
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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
- Headquarters: Mumbai
- Governor: Shaktikanta Das
- Deputy Governors: B P Kanungo, M K Jain, N S Vishwanathan
Mobikwik: MobiKwik is an Indian company founded in 2009 that provides a mobile phone based payment system and digital wallet.
- Founded: April 2009
- Headquarters location: Gurugram
- Founders: Bipin Preet Singh, Upasana Taku
- CEO: Bipin Preet Singh
PNB Housing Finance raises $100 mn from World Bank’s IFC
- PNB Housing Finance Ltd has raised $100 million (around Rs 690 crore) from International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group
- Objective: to finance the purchase of affordable housing projects.
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PNB Housing Finance Limited is an Indian public limited housing finance company, promoted by Punjab National Bank and is registered with state owned bank and regulation authority of India – National Housing Bank.
- Headquarters: New Delhi
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)
- Its five organizations: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
NITI Aayog partners with WhatsApp to promote women entrepreneurs
- NITI Aayog announced a Partnership with Facebook-owned WhatsApp under the aegis of its Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP).
- Objective: To address the challenges faced and to promote women entrepreneurs in India
- WhatsApp partnerned with the Women Transforming India (WTI) Awards 2019, flagship initiative of NITI Aayog and it decided to provide support amounting to $100,000 to WTI winners.
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Facebook: Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company.
- Founded: February 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, United States
- CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
- CFO: David Wehner
NITI Aayog: The NITI Aayog is a policy think tank of the Government of India, established with the aim to achieve Sustainable Development Goals.
- Formed: 1 January 2015
- Headquarters: New Delhi
- CEO: Amitabh Kant
- Chairman: PM Narendra Modi
- Vice-Chairman: Rajiv Kumar
NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS
Pink coaches introduced for women by the Northeast Frontier Railway zone
- Indian Railways Northeast Frontier Railway zone started an initiative to bring a special portion of the SLR coach with pink colour.
- Objective: in order to bring women passengers with better safety and security
- Around eight trains in Rangiya division of the Northeast Frontier Railway has begun operations with some pink coaches.
- The section 58 of the Railways Act, 1989 provides for earmarking of accommodation for female passengers in trains.
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Indian Railways: Indian Railways is India’s national railway system operated by the Ministry of Railways. It manages the fourth largest railway network in the world by size, with a route length of 67,368-kilometre and total track length of 121,407-kilometre as of March 2017.
- Headquarters: New Delhi
- Customer service: 139
STATE CURRENT AFFAIRS
Odisha gets GI tag for its version of Rasgulla after West Bengal
- The Geographical indicator (GI) granted to Odisha for the ‘Odisha rasgulla’, more than two years after West Bengal won its own GI tag.
- West Bengal received its GI tag for its variety of rasgulla in November 2017.
- Both the neighboring states now recognizes two distinct varieties in taste and texture.
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GI Tags: A geographical indication (GI) is a name or sign used on certain products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin.
Odisha: Capital City(Bhubaneswar) CM(Naveen patnaik) Governor(Ganeshi Lal)
Odisha Secretariat’s rename as ‘Lok Seva Bhawan’
- Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik renamed the state secretariat as the ‘Lok Seva Bhawan’.
- The Odisha secretariat building was inaugurated on November 12, 1959 by the then Union Home Minister Govind Ballabh Pant.
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Odisha: Capital City(Bhubaneswar) CM(Naveen patnaik) Governor(Ganeshi Lal)
West Bengal CM launches ‘Didi Ke Bolo’ campaign
- Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee launched a unique initiative called ‘Didi Ke Bolo’ (Tell your sister) campaign to reach out to people of West Bengal.
- People will tell regarding various issues for which phone number (9137091370) and website www.didikaybolo.com are also launched.
- The move is being seen as fresh plans to mobilise people and strengthen party at booth level ahead of Assembly polls due in 2021.
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West Bengal: Capital City(Kolkata) CM(Mamta Banerjee) Governor(Jagdeep Dhankar)
SUMMITS AND CONFERENCES
National Conference on e-Governance to be held on 8-9 August
- 22nd National Conference on e-Governance 2019 will be held on 8-9th August 2019 at Shillong, Meghalaya.
- It will be organized by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), in association with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India and the State Government of Meghalaya.
- Theme: “Digital India: Success to Excellence”
- This is the first time that the event is being organized in the North-Eastern region of the country.
- The conference will provide a platform to disseminate knowledge on effective methods of designing and implementing sustainable e-Governance initiatives to provide end-to-end Digital services, exchange experience in solving problems, mitigating risks, resolving issues and planning for success.
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Meghalaya: Capital City(Shillong) CM(Conrad Kongkal Sangma) Governor(Tathagata Roy)
AGREEMENTS AND MOU SIGNED
India, Mozambique sign two MoU in field of Hydrography
- India and Mozambique have signed two MoU on sharing white shipping information and co-operation in the field of Hydrography.
- The agreement will further strengthen the ongoing Indo-Mozambican Defence co-operation and India Mozambique relations in general.
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held delegation-level talks with his Mozambican counterpart Atanasio Salvador M’tumuke in Maputo.
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Mozambique (Capital/Currency): Maputo/ Mozambican metical
- President: Filipe Nyusi
India, Myanmar sign MoU on defence co-operation
- India and Myanmar today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on defence co-operation.
- The MoU was signed in New Delhi after the talks between Minister of State for Defence, Shripad Yesso Naik and Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services of Myanmar, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
- the talks were aimed at enhancing defence co-operation, review joint exercises and training provided to Myanmar Defence Services.
- It also aims to strengthen maritime security by joint surveillance and capacity building, medical co-operation, pollution response and for developing new infrastructure.
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Myanmar (Capital/Currency): Naypyitaw/ Burmese kyat
- President: Win Myint
India, Benin sign MoUs in various field
- India and Benin signed four MoUs on education, health and e-visa facilities after the bilateral talk between President Ramnath Kovind and Benin President Patrice Talon in Cotonou.
- India will provide fresh line of credit of 100 million US dollars to finance development projects in Benin.
- Two more MoUs are signed on tele education program e-vidyabharati and Tele medicine initiative e-Arogyabharati.
- Under these programmes, India is extending free tele-education courses to 15,000 students and telemedicine courses to 1000 doctors and paramedics in Africa.
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Benin (Capital/Currency): Porto-Novo/West African CFA franc
- President: Patrice Talon
APPOINTMENT
Jagdeep Dhankar sowrn in as West Bengal Governor
- In West Bengal Mr. Jagdeep Dhankar has been sworn in as the State Governor.
- The Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court Mr. T.B Radhakrishnan administered the oath of office and Secrecy to him at a simple function in Raj Bhavan in Kolkata.
- Dhankhar replaced Mr. Keshari Nath Tripathy.
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West Bengal: Capital City(Kolkata) CM(Mamta Banerjee) Governor(Jagdeep Dhankar)
DEFENCE CURRENT AFFAIRS
IAF’s Tarun Chaudhri becomes 1st Pilot to accomplish wingsuit skydive jump
- Wing Commander Tarun Chaudhri become the first pilot of Indian Armed Forces to do a wingsuit jump.
- The jump was accomplisehed from a Mi-17 helicopter from an altitude of 8500 feet.
- The jump was undertaken during the Kargil Diwas celebration at Air Force station Jodhpur.
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Chief of the Army Staff: General Bipin Rawat
Landing Craft Utility L-56 Commissioned into Indian Navy
- Landing Craft Utility (LCU) LCU L56 was commissioned into Indian Navy at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam.
- Indian Navy Ship LCU L-56 is the 6th ship of Landing Craft Utility (LCU) MK IV class.
- Landing Craft Utility is 100th warship built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE), Kolkata. With this it has become 1st shipyard in the country to do so.
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Chief of Naval Staff: Admiral Karambir Singh
BOOKS & AUTHORS
VP Venkaiah Naidu releases book titled ‘New-Age Technology and Industrial Revolution 4.0’
- Vice President Venkaiah Naidu released titled ‘New-Age Technology and Industrial Revolution 4.0’ book written by Rajya Sabha Member, Narendra Jadhav.
- This book examines and elaborates on various dimensions of the so-called Industrial Revolution 4.0.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Vidisha Baliyan From UP Becomes 1st Indian To Be Crowned Miss Deaf World 2019
- Vidisha Baliyan, a 21-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar city, was crowned Miss Deaf World 2019 on July 22.
- The event was held in Mbombela, South Africa.
- In 2018, Assia Uhanany from Israel bagged the title of Miss Deaf World.
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South Africa (Capital/Currency): Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein/ South African rand
- President: Cyril Ramaphosa
Vinayak S Hiremath youngest doctor to be felicitated with ‘Pride of Nation Award’
- Dr Vinayak S Hiremath is the youngest doctor of Gulbarga, has been felicitated with the ‘Pride of the Nation Award’.
- He is known for his exemplary work in the field of medicine.
- Dr Vinayak S Hiremath, aged 30, is the first South Indian doctor to offer free insulin consultation and treatment to gestational (pregnancy) diabetic mothers and family members of the Indian Army.
- The ceremony was held at NCC auditorium parade grounds in New Delhi on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas.
- Dr Vinayak S Hiremath was given this honour by the Defence Minister of India, Rajnath Singh.
- “Pride of the Nation award” holds its place amongst the most prestigious awards in India and is given to the people who have made a notable contribution in their fields and in the process made India proud.
OBITUARIES
Saudi Arabia’s Prince Bandar bin sultan died
- Prince Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud passed away at an age of 96.
- Prince Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was the eldest living son of King Abdulaziz Al Saud.
Former State Minister Mukesh Goud died
- Former Congress Minister M. Mukesh Goud passed away at an age of 60.
- He served as BC Welfare and Marketing Minister in Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy and Kiran Kumar Reddy Cabinets.
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