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CURRENT AFFAIRS OF JULY 2017

NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS AND EVENTS

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has Muntra

developed India's first unmanned tank, which has three variants (Mission
– surveillance, mine detection and reconnaissance in areas with UNmanned
nuclear and bio threats. What is the name of this unmanned TRAcked)
tank?

Government of which state has recently banned use Of Liquid Haryana

Nitrogen in Drinks and food items?

Which state government has launched its flagship health scheme Punjab

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"Care Companion Programme (CCP)"?

Which Indian metro has become completely green metro system Delhi Metro

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Which bank has launched its first digital banking branch Canara Bank
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"CANDI" in Bengaluru?

Which Indian public sector bank has started offering Bharat Bill Indian Overseas
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Payment System, introduced by the National Payments Bank

Corporation of India, for its customers?
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Which country hosted the 2017 BRICS National Security China

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Advisors (NSAs) meeting?

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Which private sector bank has announced to acquire mobile Axis Bank
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payment provider Freecharge from Snapdeal?

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Who has been appointed as India's Alternate Governor on the Subhash

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Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)? Chandra Garg

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Who sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Bihar? Nitish Kumar

On which day Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated every year? July 26

In which year India will host the men's World Boxing 2021
Championship for the first time?

Name the Indian scientist, educator and recipient of India's Professor Yash
second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2013, Pal
who passed away at the age of 90?

Which Indian metro station will have its own FM radio station? Lucknow Metro

Which new pension scheme has been launched by the Union Pradhan Mantri
Government for the senior citizens? Vaya Vandana
Yojana (PMVVY)
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Civil Secretariat of which State has become the India's first Arunachal
secretariat to be fully under wireless coverage? Pradesh

Which State will host the 5th North East Connectivity Summit- Arunachal
2018? The announcement was made by North East Advisory Pradesh
Council of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI) chairman Ranjit Barthakur.

Which country will host the 5th Global Conference on Cyber India
Space (GCCS)-2017?

In which state India's first Eco-bridges for the movement of tigers Telengana
will come up?

Who has been elected as the 14th President of India? Ram Nath
Kovind

Which state will host the 5th South India Writers Ensemble Kerala

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(SIWE) literary festival?

Name the Veteran BJP leader who was awarded the Lifetime L.K. Advani

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Achievement Award for his contributions as a parliamentarian in
the Lok Sabha?
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Odisha's longest road bridge 'Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Setu' Kathajodi river
has built over which tributary of the Mahanadi River? The bridge
is 2.88 km in length and is built at an approximate cost of Rs
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114 crore. It will lessen the distance between Bhubaneswar and

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Cuttack by 12 km.

Which state government has launched "Janahitha" to receive Telangana

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complaints from public?

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Name India's largest private sector lender bank which will be ICICI Bank
selling personal loans of up to Rs 15 lakh through its ATMs that
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can be availed of by select salaried customers even if they haven't

previously applied for one?
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Which state will be the focus state at the 2017 World Food India West Bengal
(WFI)?

As per World Bank's report, in 2017 India is expected to achieve 7.4

the projected growth rate of ...... per cent.

As of July 2017, how many countries have joined International 35

Solar Alliance co-led by India and France?

Name Naga People's Front leader and ruling DAN chairman who TR Zeliang
was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Nagaland by Governor PB
Acharya?

Who heads the 9-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court J S Khehar
(SC) to determine whether privacy is a fundamental right or not
under the Constitution?
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Which mobile app has been launched by UIDAI to carry unique mAadhaar
identification profile on mobile?

Who has been given additional charge of Ministry of Information Smriti Irani
and Broadcasting (I&B) after Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah
Naidu resigned to contest Vice presidential election as NDA
candidate?

Which railway station has become the India’s first station to run Matunga
by all women staff? railway station

In which state, India's first high-speed rail training centre will be Gujarat
set up?

Name the senior advocate and constitutional expert who has K K Venugopal
been appointed as the new Attorney General of India? He
succeeds Mukul Rohatgi as the country's top law officer.

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Name the Indian-origin Canadian YouTube star who was Lilly Singh
appointed by UNICEF as its newest Global Goodwill
Ambassador?

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Name the Indian-origin man who has awarded the highest
civilian award in Australia, Order of Australia for community
Guruswamy
Jayraman
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work?

Which steel company has won the Prime Minister's trophy for Tata Steel
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being the best performing integrated steel plant in the country

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during 2014-15 and 2015-16?

As per the amended Legal Metrology rules for packaged January 1,

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commodities, the Central Government has clarified that the retail 2018
sale price shall be the maximum retail price (MRP) inclusive of all
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taxes, with the provision to round off the price to the nearest
rupee or 50 paise. From which date it will be effective?
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Govindan Laxman who won gold in Asian Athletics Sprint

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Championships 2017 held at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, (Athletics)

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Odisha is associated with which sports?

Manpreet Kaur who won gold in Asian Athletics Championships Shot Put
2017 held at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, Odisha is
associated with which sports?

What is the rank of India out of the 193 member countries in the 23
2017 Global Cybersecurity Index?

State Government of which state signed EOI with the Odisha

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and
Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to establish a High
Performance Academy?

Who has been selected as the Chairman of the Board of Sanjiv Goenka
Governors at IIT-Kharagpur? He will be Chairman for three years
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In which city India's first university only for Dalit students will be Hyderabad
set up by 2018?

Who has becomes the 1st Indian to win FIA Formula 3 European Jehan Daruvala
Championship race?

President Pranab Mukherjee promulgated the ordinance Karnataka

legalizing the traditional 'Kambala' sport. In which state this
traditional buffalo race is held?

Who has been appointed as the new Director General of the Indo- R K Pachnanda
Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)?

Name the Indians who has been chosen for prestigious Great Shantanu
Immigrants: The Pride of America Award 2017? Narayen and
Vivek Murthy

Who is the new Managing Director & CEO of Union Bank of Rajkiran Rai G

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India?

Who has been appointed as the 15th Attorney General of India by K K Venugopal

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Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India?
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Name the Election Commissioner who has been appointed the Achal Kumar
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Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India? Jyoti

In which State, India's largest Fresh water aquarium has been Jharkhand
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inaugurated by Chief Minister Raghubar Das in Bhagwan Birsa

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Munda Biodiversity Park?

Which Indian state has been conferred with the award of Uttarakhand
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excellence at the 2nd Global Skill Development Summit (GSDM –

2017) held in Paris for innovations and extensive use of IT for
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skilling the state's youth?

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At which place Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Gandhinagar

Textiles India 2017, India’s first ever mega textiles trade fair?
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In which State, Aji dam is situated? Prime Minister Narendra Gujarat

Modi inaugurated various irrigation initiatives at Aji dam
including the filling of Aji dam with Narmada waters under Sauni
Yojana.

On which day National Doctors' Day is celebrated across India to July 1

honour the legendary physician and the second Chief Minister of
West Bengal, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy?
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INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS AND EVENTS

Which day is observed as United Nations World Day against July 30

Trafficking in Persons?

Which country is the world's largest exporter of beef, as per Brazil

recently released OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2017-2026
report?

What is the theme of the 2017 World Day Against Trafficking in Act to protect
Persons? and assist
trafficked
persons

To raise worldwide attention to the reservation of tigers the July 29

International Tiger Day, also known as Global Tiger Day, is

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observed every year on?

Which country will host the 2018 Asian Football Confederation Indonesia

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(AFC) U-19 championship?

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Which country declared total independence from International Bolivia
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Monetary Fund and World Bank?

Fanaceso Totti, the legendary footballer has announced his Italy

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retirement. He belongs to which country?

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The Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation Australia

Program (HIFiRE) was jointly launched by US and __________.
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The 2017 World Day for International Justice (WDIJ) is observed 17th July
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The 2017 Nelson Mandela International Day (NMID) is observed 18th July
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on?
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Who won the 2017 men's singles Wimbledon tennis tournament Roger Federer
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defeating Marin Cilic in the final by 6-3, 6-1, 6-4?

At which place in Germany, the 2017 G20 summit, the twelfth Hamburg
meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20) countries, was held from
7th to 8th July 2017?

Which football team has won the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup? Germany