Current Affairs Update – 22nd July, 2016

Hello and welcome to exampundit . Here are the Important Current Affairs  for 22nd July, 2016. These are important for the upcoming RBI Grade B and UBI PO PGDBF Exams 2016.

• Prime Minister of India Narendra
  Modi and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina on 21 July 2016 jointly
  inaugurated the Petrapole Integrated Check Post (ICP).
• PM Modi and PM Hasina inaugurated
  the check post through video-conferencing.
• The Petrapole checkpost will help
  in promoting bilateral trade and will also boost economic growth of both
  countries.
• Petrapole-Benapole is an
  important land border crossing for India-Bangladesh trade as more than 50% of
  the India-Bangladesh trade passes through Petrapole.

• Petrapole is the Indian side of
  Petrapole-Benapole border checkpoint between India and Benapole of Bangladesh.
• It is located near Bongaon in
  North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
• Petrapole border is the only land
  port in south Bengal.

• The New Delhi Municipal Council
  (NDMC) on 21 July 2016 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National
  Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to develop 12 sewage
  treatment plants (STP).
• This project will help increase
  the green cover in NDMC areas and curb dust pollution.

• In the first phase, 12 STPs will
  be installed across the NDMC area.
• Each plant will have a capacity
  of treating sewage water ranging from 50000-1 lakh litres.
• All these plants will be
  connected to all parks which will help the horticulture department to maintain
  the parks.
• These plants will be installed at
  schools also.

• BJP leader and New Delhi MP
  Meenakshi Lekhi has been appointed as the chairperson of the Committee of
  Privileges of the Lok Sabha.
• She replaces SS Ahluwalia, who
  resigned on July 18 on his appointment as a minister.

• Sustainable Development Solutions
  Network (SDSN) of the United Nations and the Bertelsmann Stiftung on 20 July
  2016 launched a new Sustainable Development Goal Index (SDG Index) to provide a
  report card for tracking SDG progress and ensuring accountability.
• SDG Index is the world’s first
  comparative study of the Sustainable Development Goals for 149 countries
• The SDG Index assess where each
  country stands in 2016 with regard to achieving the SDGs. The SDG Index ranks
  countries based on their performance across 17 goals.
• The index has been topped by
  Sweden and India is ranked 110th in the index and is followed by Lesotho on
  113th position, Pakistan (115), Myanmar (117), Bangladesh (118) and Afghanistan
  (139).

• The countries which are closest
  to fulfilling the goals are not the biggest economies but comparably small,
  developed countries.
• Sweden, Denmark and Norway are
  the top three performing countries.
• Germany and the United Kingdom
  are the only G7 countries to be found among the top ten performers

• The 2016 Fortune Global 500 list
  of the world’s biggest firms was released on 21 July 2016. Seven Indian
  companies were featured in the list with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) ranked
  highest at 161st rank with revenues of 54.7 billion US dollars.
• The overall list was topped by
  retail giant Walmart with revenue of 482.130 million US dollars.

• The world’s 500 largest companies
  generated 27.6 trillion US dollars in revenues and 1.5 trillion US dollars in
  profits in 2015.
• This year’s Fortune 500 companies
  employ 67 million people worldwide and are represented by 33 countries.
• The overall list was topped by
  Walmart with revenue of 482.130 million US dollars, followed by State Grid at
  Second place and China National Petroleum at the third place.

• Seven Indian companies figure in
  the Fortune 500 list with state-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) ranked highest at
  161st with revenues of 54.7 billion US dollars.
• Second and third biggest Indian
  firms in revenue were Reliance Industries (RIL) and Tata Motors Ltd, with 215th
  and 226th ranks respectively.

• Former French cyclist Dominique
  Arnaud passed away in Dax, Aquitaine, France on 20 July 2016 due to cancer. He
  was 60.
• Born on 19 September 1955 in
  Tarnos, France, Dominique Arnaud was a French racing cyclist.
• He rode in eleven editions of the
  Tour de France, which is an annual multiple stage bicycle race primarily held
  in France.
• He won three stages in the Vuelta
  and a stage in the Midi Libr.

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