CURRENT AFFAIRS 31.7.19

1.NITI Aayog Atal Innovation Mission will launch a new program for Community Innovation in New Delhi.

2.Parliament passed Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Triple Talaq Bill 2019.

APPOINTMENTS

3. Siddhartha Sanyal – Chief Economist & Head of Research, Bandhan Bank.

4. Rajiv Kumar – Finance Secretary.

5. Dr. Samir Rawat invited as key speaker at 32^nd ICP (International Congress of Psychology) 2020 in Prague.

6. During Ramnath Govind visit to Benin

a. India offered $100mn loan for Developmental projects.

b. India also emerged as largest trading partner amounting to $800 mn.

c. MOU was signed on Education, Health, E-visa, Tele Education program e-vidyabharati, Tele Medicine initiative e-Arogyabharati.

7. Sudarsan Patnaik won International Sand Art Championship in Boston, US.

8. Vidisha Baliyan crowned with ‘Miss Deaf World 2019’ in Mbombela, South Africa.

9. Egan Bernal of Colombia clinched Tour de France.

10. Jerlin Anika won Gold in World Deaf Youth Badminton Championship held in Taipei.

11. IAF received 4 AH-6E Apache Helicopter from Boeing.

12. Donkupar Roy – Meghalaya Assembly Speaker & Former CM.

13. Vithalbhai Radadiya – Former MP, Gujarat.