Current Affairs Update – 29th July, 2015

Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the Important Current Affairs of 29th July, 2015. These are important for the upcoming IBPS RRB Exam 2015.

• India on 28 July 2015 signed a loan agreement of 300 million
  US dollars with Asian Development Bank (ADB) for its flagship programme
  National Urban Health Mission (NUHM). The main of the NUHM is to improve the
  health status of the country’s urban population.
• The agreement was signed by Raj Kumar, Joint Secretary,
  Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance on behalf of India and M.
  Teresa Kho, Country Director of ADB’s India Resident Mission on behalf of ADB.
• The loan agreement is titled Supporting National Urban
  Health Mission and it seeks to reinforce ongoing government efforts under the
  NUHM to develop health systems in urban areas that can deliver quality health
  services to the urban poor and vulnerable.
• Further, it will focus on strengthening primary health care
  and also promote better coordination between health and urban sectors and
  opportunities for public-private partnerships.

• It seeks to cover all 779 cities with a population of above
  50000 and all the district and state headquarters (irrespective of the
  population size)
• It provides for Mahila Arogya Samitis for promotion of
  access to improved health care at household level on the lines of Mahila Bachat
  Gat scheme in Maharashtra
• It seeks to reduce Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) by 40 percent
  (in urban areas) and National Urban IMR down to 20 per 1000 live births by 2017
• It also aims to reduce Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) by 50
  percent by 2017

• Gujarat government issued a notification in Ahmedabad on
  making voting compulsory for people of the state during elections to local self
  governing bodies.
• Incidentally, the bill was introduced when Prime Minister Narendra
  Modi was Chief Minister of Gujarat.
• The notification would mean that people have to compulsorily
  vote from now onwards during elections held for municipal corporations,
  municipalities, and all village panchayats.
• The Act has also made provisions to penalise those who fail
  to vote. However, the notification issued today has not specified what
  punishment would be meted out to voters who fail to exercise their franchise.

• The Board of Trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award
  Foundation (RMAF) on 29 July 2015 announced the Ramon Magsaysay awardees for
  the year 2015.
• Among the five awardees who will be conferred with the
  so-called Asia’s Nobel Prize, there are two Indians, namely Sanjiv Chaturvedi
  and Anshu Gupta.
• The awards will be presented on 31 August 2015 at Manila,
  Philippines.

1. Sanjiv Chaturvedi,
   India: He was awarded for Emergent Leadership for his exemplary integrity,
   courage and tenacity in uncompromisingly exposing and painstakingly
   investigating corruption in public office. He is an Indian Forest Service
   officer and currently the deputy secretary of All India Institute of Medical
   Sciences (AIIMS). He also served as a Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) at AIIMS
   during 2012-14.
2. Anshu Gupta, India:
   He was recognized for his creative vision in transforming the culture of giving
   in India and his enterprising leadership in treating cloth as a sustainable
   development resource for the poor. He founded Goonj in 1999, which is a
   non-governmental organisation based in Delhi and works in 21 states across
   India in disaster relief, humanitarian aid and community development.
3. Kommaly Chanthavong,
   Laos: She was recognized for her fearless, indomitable spirit to revive and
   develop the ancient Laotian art of silk weaving, creating livelihoods for
   thousands of poor, war-displaced Laotians, and thus preserving the dignity of
   women and her nation’s priceless silken cultural treasure.
4. Ligaya
   Fernando-Amilbangsa, the Philippines: She was recognized for her
   single-minded crusade in preserving the endangered artistic heritage of
   southern Philippines, and in creatively propagating a dance form that
   celebrates and deepens the sense of shared cultural identity among Asians.
5. Kyaw Thu, Myanmar:
   He was recognized for his generous compassion in addressing the fundamental
   needs of both the living and the dead in Myanmar — regardless of their class
   or religion — and his channeling personal fame and privilege to mobilize many
   others toward serving the greater social good.

• International Tiger Day was observed across the world on 29
  July 2015. The day is observed every year since 2010 to promote the protection
  and expansion of the wild tiger habitats and to gain support through awareness
  for tiger conservation.
• In last 100 years, world has lost 97 percent of all wild
  tigers. The tiger count has fallen from 100000 in 1913 to 3274 in 2013 to 3200
  in 2014.
• Tigers lost 93% of their natural habitat due to the
  expansion of cities and agriculture by humans. Besides, human-wildlife conflict
  and climate change also has been responsible for decline in tiger population
  and loss of habitat.

• World Hepatitis Day was observed across the world on 28 July
  2015 with the theme Prevent hepatitis. Act now. The day acts as a significant
  global platform for raising awareness about hepatitis and influence real change
  in disease prevention, testing and treatment.
• The theme highlights the fact that infection through
  transmission can be prevented through proven and effective interventions. It is
  important for everyone to be aware of hepatitis and to learn how they can
  protect themselves from being infected.
• The observance of the day in 2015 focuses particularly on
  Hepatitis B and C. These two combined cause approximately 80 percent of all
  liver cancer deaths and kill close to 1.4 million people every year.

• Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on 28 July 2015
  constituted a Working Group on re-drafting National Sports Development Code of
  India (NSDCI). The aim of constituting the working group is to make the NSDCI
  more relevant from both sports governance and legal angles.
• The nine-member Working Group will be headed by Justice CK
  Mahajan (retd.), Former Judge of Delhi High Court.

• The pioneering Indian HIV/AIDS researcher Dr. Suniti Solomon
  died at her residence in Chennai on 28 July 2015. She died due to cancer and
  was 76.
• She was the first person in India who documented the
  nation’s first HIV/AIDS case in 1986 and later set up Y R Gaitonde Centre for
  AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE) – the first voluntary testing and
  counseling center for the disease.
• In 1986, Dr Solomon, then a microbiologist at Madras Medical
  College, made headlines for discovering HIV/AIDS cases in six blood samples
  collected from female sex workers lodged at the government home on Kutchery
  Road in Mylapore in Chennai.

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