July-2017 Current Affairs Compilations

Compilations of the following important topics from TH, PIB, IE etc. Download now and revise them as much as you can. Topics covered: National and International Importance: 1) U.S. prods India on Pyongyang 2) ASEAN at 50 3) Bengaluru Declaration 4) India, Japan civil nuclear deal comes into force 5) DGCA braces for ICAO safety audit 6) Joint Interpretative Notes 7) IRRI South Asia Regional Centre 8) SASEC Road Connectivity Investment Program 9) India to celebrate Falun Gong 10) Hamburg Action Plan 11) Indonesia’s New North Natuna Sea 12) Investment Facilitation Mechanism 13) India’s tough anti-hijacking law 14) Beijing Declaratoin 15) Delhi Dialogue 9 16) Telangana tops in national integration initiatives 17) United Nations Peacekeeping Course for African Partners 18) International Aviation Security seminar 19) Global foreign exchange committee 20) International Association of Insurance Supervisors 21) Lipulekh 22) India rejects OIC move on vigilantism 23) Arab League chief says Israel ‘playing with fire’ over Jerusalem 24) List of MoUs/Agreements signed during the visit of Prime Minister to Israel 25) 19th RCEP Meeting 26) Saint Petersburg Declaration 27) Pant-Mirza Agreement

Economic, Social and Government Schemes: 1) Gold Bond Scheme 2) NPCI to function as Bharat Bill Payment Central Unit 3) GST & Small and Medium Businesses 4) Indian Community Welfare Fund 5) India performs miserably in war on inequality 6) National Trade Facilitation Action Plan 7) Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana 8) ‘Family Planning: Empowering People, Developing Nations’ 9) Recently launched Initiatives of Ministry of Railways 10) Welfare of Tribal Women 11) Online education portal Swayam 12) India ranks 116 out of 157 nations on SDG index 13) Trade Infrastructure for Export Scheme 14) E-com: RCEP nations start detailed talks 15) Farmers Welfare Schemes 16) First Maize Based Mega Food Park in Kapurthala, Punjab 17) Asia Pacific Group meet on Money Laundering 18) Mauritius keeps tax treaty with India outside purview of MLI 19) Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana 20) Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana 21) JIGYASA” – Student-Scientist connect programme 22) National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination (2017-22) 23) Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana 24) Bitcoin trade may come under SEBI 25) All you need to know about the new IPR Policy 26) National Agricultural Markets (E-Names) and Soil Health Card 27) India gets a ‘Goods and Services Tax’ 28) Two commodity exchanges merge 29) Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) in Telangana 30) Notification of rules regarding GSTIN 31) ECO MARK Label on Coir Products 32) Major Port Authorities Bill 33) NFHS-4 shows decreasing trend in under age marriages 34) Centrally Sponsored Schemes - sunset date for all schemes 35) Atal Pension Yojana (APY) 36) Industrially Backward States 37) Steps to Enhance the income of Farmers 38) Hamari Dharohar Scheme 39) Education Related Digital Initiative 40) ZED Scheme for MSMEs Polity: 1) The Admiralty (Jurisdiction and Settlement of Maritime Claims) Bill, 2016 2) Bill on mob violence 3) Mahadayi: Goa open to out-of-tribunal settlement 4) Committee formed to study legalities for separate State flag 5) Centre seeks debate in SC on J&K special status 6) Selection of ECs must be transparent, SC tells Centre 7) What is ‘the menace of paid news’? 8) The Supreme Court will decide whether privacy is a fundamental right 9) Taking action against cow vigilantism is a State subject, Centre tells SC 10) Ravi-Beas River Water Dispute 11) Object of the Arms Act 12) Kambala 13) India’s 14th President 14) MASUKA 15) States can’t enact law on parliamentary secretaries: SC 16) Presidential Election, 2017 – Right to vote or not to vote – Clarification 17) Minimum qualifications for coop. societies’ polls 18) Need for directly elected mayors

Science and Technology: 1) Bio-glue for healing developed 2) Castor oil can reduce soil pollution 3) Coronal Explosion 4) World’s 1st Laser Weapon 5) Artificial Intelligence 6) DIPP to set up India’s first TISC in Punjab 7) Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) 2017 8) New drugs needed against hard-to-treat gonorrhoea: UN 9) Radiation Processing Technology 10) Saraswati, a supercluster of galaxies 11) India declares itself free from Bird Flu 12) Major solar flare detected in dwarf star close to sun 13) Drug-resistant TB higher among children than expected: report 14) India’s polar ship 15) Tuberculosis-A looming threat 16) 3D-printed, functional heart made 17) Liquor ban in Bihar hits TB diagnosis 18) Artificial Silk developed 19) What is Xicc++ ? 20) ‘Brain freeze’ decoded 21) Curcumin nanoparticles 22) Oseltamivir and Zanamivir 23) Govt. unveils new hydrocarbon policy 24) Quick reaction surface-to-air missile 25) APEDA 26) MammaPrint 27) Compensation for women in Odisha’s ‘village of widows’ 28) China Just Extracted Gas From 'Flammable Ice' 29) Cyber space global conference 30) Sohum 31) Petya ransomware 32) Launch of GSAT-17

Environment & Geography 1) Safe haven for endangered Egyptian vultures 2) Sensor network to map and predict pollution 3) Eco-bridges for the movement of tigers 4) Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve 5) New frogs discoveries in the Western Ghats 6) Nathu La 7) Uranus’ unusual rotation creates light switch effect 8) 9 new IBA in Kerala 9) Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary 10) Okinoshima island gets UNESCO heritage tag 11) GM mustard DMH-11 12) NABARD takes first step to access Green Climate Fund 13) Seismic Zones 14) Role of Aerosols in Indian Monsoon

Defence, Art & Culture etc. 1) Muntra, country’s first unmanned tank 2) CPWD Reminded Of Challenges Ahead As It Turns 163 3) Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages of India 4) Intangible Cultural Heritage 5) Ahmedabad gets World Heritage City tag 6) MRSAM defence system regiment 7) National ST Commission to take action on video films of Jaravas on YouTube 8) Paika Rebellion 9) Rukmini 10) Indus Valley city of Dholavira 11) Saint Teresa’s blue-bordered sari is Intellectual Property 12) First indigenously built floating dock 13) A jainsem 14) Scorpenes to gain in endurance 15) Nirbhay failed due to use of recycled material 16) Pandharpur Wari 17) Kandhei Jatra celebrated in Berhampur 18) Race to Raisina goes along the expected lines 19) Government plans ‘I stand by my country’ campaign 20) Project Mausam 21) SHe-Box 22) Thirsty Vijayapura reaches into ancient bawadis 23) Gomira dance 24) Welcoming harvest 25) INS Vagli