Current Affairs Current Affairs July 2019

The 19th Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting was held in London. External Affairs Minister conveyed India’s stand at the meet.
Source: The Hindu

  Film Divisions will launch documentary film club “KSHITIJ” in Mumbai. The club will be launched by Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, in association with Indian Documentary Producer’s Association (IDPA). The acclaimed documentary film “Secret Life of Frogs” by Ajay & Vijay Bedi will bescreened as the inaugural film.  With this, the film-lovers will now have an opportunity to watch acclaimed documentary films at public screenings, as well as interact with the director/curator of the films.
Source: The DD News

  A joint venture of a Kalyani group firm and Israel’s Rafael Advanced Systems has secured a $100 million contract for manufacturing 1,000 Barak-8 MRSAM missile kits. Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems will manufacture the kits at its production facility near Hyderabad and supply them to Bharat Dynamics for further integration. The product will be used by the Indian Army and the Air Force.
Source: The Hindu

India handed over 250 pre-fabricated houses to Myanmar in Maung Daw for use of displaced returnees from Bangladesh. The Indian government had taken up the project under its Rakhine State Development Programme for $ 25M for a period of five years.
Source: The News on AIR

The Bharat Chamber of Commerce and the BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi, signed an MoU  for promoting trade and investments between the BRICS countries and the eastern part of India.
Source: The Business Standard

  The United Nations observes 11 July every year as World Population Day. This year’s World Population Day calls for global attention to the unfinished business of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development.
Source: The United Nations

  Singer Taylor Swift has topped the Forbes’ Celebrity 100 list and emerged as the highest-paid celebrity with her 2019 estimated earnings of over USD 185 million. Taylor Swift replaced Kylie Jenner. Jenner is now 2nd in the list. India’s Akshay kumar is placed 33rd in the list.
Source: The Forbes

 Fergus Kavanagh has been roped in to conduct a 7 day camp with Indian defendersat the Sports Authority of India Centre in Bengaluru. He will be working closely with 14 Indian defenders identified by Hockey India. Kavanagh was part of the Australian dream team that won the 2010 World Cup in New Delhi and the 2014 World Cup in The Hague.
Source: The News On AIR

 Ukraine has inaugurated the world’s largest movable metal dome encasing the destroyed reactor at the infamous Chernobyl plant. It is a 108-meter high dome which weighs 36,000 tonnes.
Source: The Business Standard

Highlights of the state budget presented by Madhya Pradesh government:
  • Allocation of Rs 8,000 crore has been made to waive loans of 20 lakh farmers of the state.
  • The grants for the Madhya Pradesh Waqf Board and the Haj committee have been hiked.
  • A grant of Rs 132 crore has been proposed for the welfare of cows.
Source: The Financial express


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