Current Affairs Current Affairs July 2019

  Olympic silver medallist Amir Khan clinched the WBC international welterweight title. He knocked out Australian Billy Dib in the fourth round of his bout in the inaugural Super Boxing League held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is a British professional boxer who was also the Britain’s youngest boxer to won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics at the age of 17.
Source: The New Indian Express

  Pakistan Punjab’s chief minister laid the foundation stone of Baba Guru Nanak University at Nanakana Sahib. The University was dedicated to Guru Nanak Dev at his birth place. This university would be spread over 10 acres.
Source: The Times of India

 Private sector lender HDFC Bank has terminated and de-listed its 22 outstanding global depository receipts (GDRs) from the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. The action has been taken due to low trading volume of GDRs.
Source: The Economic Times

  The Reserve Bank of India has penalised State Bank of India and Union Bank of India for violating certain regulatory guidelines. SBI was fined Rs 7 crore for non-compliance on Income Recognition and Asset Classification norms, code of conduct for opening and operating current accounts and reporting of data on Central Repository of Information on Large Credits, and fraud risk management and classification and reporting of frauds. The central bank also imposed a Rs 10 lakh fine on Union Bank of India for non compliance with the directions on the cyber security framework in banks.
Source: The Hindu

 M. Sreeshankar has won the long jump gold at the Tatyana Kolpakova International athletics. The tournament was held in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan).
Source: The Hindu

  The ICC Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International(ODI) cricket (50-over cricket) organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC)every 4 years. The 12th edition of the world’s biggest cricketing event, the ICC Men’s cricket World Cup 2019, was played in England and Wales. England lifted the ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy 2019 at the Lord’s cricket stadium in London. England defeated New Zealand with more number of boundaries in the Super Over thriller in the grand finale of ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy 2019.
  • Player of the tournament: Kane Williamson (New Zealand).
  • Player of the Match Award: Ben Stokes (England).
  • Highest run scorer of the tournament: Rohit Sharma (India).
  • Highest wicket taker of the tournament: Mitchell Starc (Australia).
Source: The ICC Cricket

  The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly known as Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877 and is played on outdoor grass courts. The Championships, Wimbledon (2019) was the 133rd edition of the tournament.
Here is the Complete List of Winners of the Wimbledon 2019 (with their Respective Countries):
Sl. No. Category Winner Runner Up
1. Men’s Singles N. Djokovic (Serbia) R. Federer (Switzerland)
2. Women’s Singles S. Halep (Romania) Serena Williams (USA)
3. Men’s Doubles Juan Sebastian Cabal (Colombia) and Robert Farah (Colombia) Nicolas Mahut (France) and Edouard Roger Vasselin (France)
4. Women’s Doubles S W. Hsieh (Taiwan) and B. Strycova (Czech Republic) G. Dabrowski (Canada) and Y. Xu (China)
5. Mixed Doubles I. Dodig (Croatia) and L. Chan (Taiwan) R. Lindstedt (Sweden) and J. Ostapenko (Latvia)
Source: The Wimbledon

 India wrestler Vinesh Phogat has won her second consecutive gold in 53kg, at Yasar Dogu International in Istanbul. Phogat beat her Russian opponent Ekaterina Poleshchuk in the final match to bag the gold medal.
Source: The Times of India

 Lewis Hamilton made a thrilling victory in the Silverstone circuit to win his sixth British Grand Prix, his seventh victory in ten races in 2019 and the 80th win of his career.
Source: The News on AIR

 Serbian Novak Djokovic won his fifth Wimbledon title after defeating Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer. This is  Djokovic’s 16th Grand Slam and 5th Wimbledon title. He is now level with Bjorn Borg as a five-time Wimbledon winner.
Source: The News on AIR


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