The document provides a summary of current affairs from July 1st. It discusses topics like the midnight parliamentary session to pass the GST bill, India's first purchase of shale oil from the US, setting educational qualifications for local elections in Rajasthan, and approval for upgrading NH-39 in Manipur. It also provides details of people appointed to roles like the Election Commissioner and Attorney General of India. International topics mentioned include the treaty banning nuclear weapons, the G20 summit, and PM Modi's visit to Israel.

1. CURRENT AFFAIRS
JULY 1
ANIRUDH REDDY

2. India Events and Affairs

3. 1.
 QUESTION : Recently Parliament held a midnight session and
it was only the 5th time in the history. What could be the
reason ?
 Launch of GST
 Indirect tax - Constitution 122nd Amendment Bill- The
Constitution (101st Amendment) Act, 2016
 Governed by GST Council and its Chairman is the Finance
Minister of India
 Mumbai’s Vikrikar Bhavan has been renamed as GST Bhavan

4. Q.
 The Constitution (One Hundredth Amendment) Act, 2015 was enacted to give
effect to:
 1. the transfer of certain territories by India to Bangladesh and transfer of certain
territories from Bangladesh to India
 2. the acquiring of territories by India from Bangladesh.
 3. National Judicial Appointment Commission
 4. transfer of certain territories by India to Bangladesh.

5. Removing no-detention policy
 Right to Education Act,or Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education Act, 2009
 Article 21A- free and compulsory education for children
between 6 and 14.
 Education as a fundamental right
 no child will be detained or held back in any class or expelled
till the completion of elementary education covering classes 1
to 8

6. Textiles India 2017
 India’s first ever mega textiles trade fair.
 Gandhinagar, Gujarat
 Inaugurated by pm
 Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani
 Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani

7. Crude Oil from US
 Indian Oil Corp (IOC) has bought shale oil from the United States for the first time.
 India is the world’s third-largest oil importer.
 Oil suppliers to india – Saudi Arabia (30.3 MT)
 -Iraq (29.1 MT)
 - Iran (19.8MT)
 Why ? OPEC Cuts production which led to rise in prices of oil from middle east

8. OPEC – HQ Vienna, Austria

10. Asian Athletics Championships
 Odisha / Kalinga Stadium
 The name of the mascot is Olly and it is named after a animal known for mass
nesting. Can you guess it?
 Olive Ridley Turtles/ Gahirmatha Beach / Bhitarkanika national Park.

11. UDAY Scheme
 Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna (UDAY)- Union Ministry of Power
 financial turnaround and revival package for electricity distribution companies of
India (DISCOMs)

12. Q
 Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, in March, 2016, launched an ambitious
programme "Setu Bharatam". The programme is aimed at:
 1. Linking all major cities and towns by rail, air and road by 2019.
 2. Making all National Highways railway level crossing free by 2019
 3. Providing travel concession to senior citizens throughout India.
 4. Providing travel concession to women and children throughout India
 New Schemes which target important issues are important for the exam.

13. Sunderbans
 West Bengal Mangroves
 National Park, Tiger Reserve, and a Biosphere Reserve
 Bengal Tiger, Salt water Crocodile, sundari tree
 1986 to 2012, 124.418 sq km or about 5.5% of the mangrove cover of Sunderbans
was lost and varying degrees of erosion has been observed

14. World Heritage City
 600-year old walled city of Ahmedabad
 eastern bank of the Sabarmati river
 World Heritage City by the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO
 It is the first Indian city to get this honour
 Sultan Ahmed Shah I of Gujarat Sultanate in 1411

15. digital initiatives to push e-education
 Swayam - Study Webs of Active –Learning for Young Aspiring Minds
 Swayam Prabha - 32 DTH channels
 National Academic Depository - Online Academic Awards
 National Digital Library. – online library which is part of the online services of
the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

16. Aaykar Setu - App
 Central Board of Direct Taxes ,Union Ministry for Finance
 income tax return (ITR) online,
 locate the nearest Tax Return Prepares (TRP),
 provides calculators and other tools,
 helps you manage your PAN and TDS

17. Presidential retreats
 'The Retreat Building’, Mashobra, Shimla
 Rashtrapati Nilayam, Bolarum, Hyderabad
 These locations, one in north and another in south, symbolise unity of our country
and unity of our diverse cultures and people.
 Ashiana Annexe’, comprising of 12 low cost dwelling units in Dehradun,
Uttarakhand was recently inaugurated by the President.

18. educational qualifications for contesting
election
 Rajasthan has become the first state in India to fix the minimum educational
qualifications for contesting election to village cooperative societies and various
other cooperative bodies.
 The required qualifications will range from Class V to Class VIII.

19. NH-39
 Cabinet Committee on Economic
Affairs (CCEA) has given its approval
for upgradation and widening of 65
kms of Imphal - Moreh Section of
NH-39 in Manipur.
 vital link in providing road
connectivity up to Thailand
 It will boost trade, commerce and
tourism in the region

20. 2017 Sustainable Development Goal Index
 India has been ranked 116 out of 157 countries
 report released by Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Bertelsmann
Stiftung.
 The ranking is on the basis of countries’ performance in the 17 SDGs.
 Sweden(1st), Denmark(2nd),Finland(3rd)
 SDGs- officially known as ‘Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development’ - 17 "Global Goals" with 169 targets

21. first solar-powered local train
 DEMU (diesel electric multiple unit) train.
 The entire electrical need of the coaches, which includes lights, fans and
information display system, will be met by the energy produced by solar panels
 Sarai Rohilla in Delhi to Farukh Nagar in Haryana

22. People in News

24. Maryam Mirzakhani
 First woman to win Fields Medal in 2014
 mathematicians under 40 years of age
 described as the mathematician's "Nobel Prize“
 Passed away due to cancer

25. Achal Kumar Jyoti
 Chief Election Commissioner
 President of India based on a recommendation from Govt
 6 yrs or up to 65 yrs of age

26. KK Venugopal Rao
 15th Attorney General of India.
 Indian government's chief legal advisor
 appointed by the President of India
 Article 76 of the Constitution
 holds office during the pleasure of the President
 1st AG - M. C. Setalvad – Longest (1950-1963) AG and Chairman of the First Law
Commission of India.

27. R K Pachnanda
 new Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.
 one of the five Central Armed Police Forces
 Estb. After China-India War of 1962
 Border Security Force (BSF),
 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF),
 Central Industrial Security Force (CISF),
 Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)

28. Sanjay Kumar
 was appointed as Director General (DG) of National Disaster Response Force
(NDRF).
Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat
 2017 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Heroes Award
 Unites States Department of State

29. Liu Xiaobo
 China’s democracy icon and nobel laureate
 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental
human rights in China
 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.

30. Institutions

31. Asian Development Bank
 $ 10 billion for infrastructure for lesser developed states like UP, Bihar, Jharkhand,
Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
 ADB – HQ Manila, Philippines
 Multilateral Development Bank-67 members
 Fighting poverty in Asia and the Pacific-Social and economic development
 Japan and United States hold the largest proportion of shares at 15.607%.
 3.China holds 6.444%
 4. India holds 6.331%
 5.Australia holds 5.786%

32. Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank
 Headquarters-Beijing, China
 China (30.34 per cent),
 India (8.52 per cent)
 Russia (6.66 per cent)
New Development
Bank(BRICS Development
Bank)
 Headquarters-Shanghai, China
 President - K.V. Kamath
 Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa
 Equal share holding

33. The Energy Resources Institute(TERI)
 2nd place in ‘2016 Top Climate Think Tanks in the Rest of the World-Absolute
Global Rankings’
 Awarded by International Centre for Climate Governance(ICCG)
 Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) -- by TERI and Ministry of
New and Renewable Energy
 national rating system for green buildings in India

34. Treaty banning nuclear weapons
 122 members of the United Nations have voted in favour
 Netherlands was the only country to vote against it
 Singapore abstained from voting
 9 nuclear powers of the world- Russia, USA, India, Britain, China, France, Pakistan,
North Korea and Israel didn’t take part in the negotiations and didn’t cast their
vote
 CTBT/NPT – Is India a signatory?

35. 12th G20 summit- Hamburg, Germany
 G20 - meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. Started in 1999
 funding of terror activities and a joint crackdown on the global network of
terrorism.
 Adoption of Hamburg Plan to address problems like climate change, sustainable
livelihoods and global health.

38. Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN)-Secretariat atJakarta
 India plans to invite 10 leaders from ASEAN the as chief Guests for the 2018
Republic Day celebrations.

39.  Brunei – Brunei Dollar- Bandar seri
Begawan
 Cambodia – Riel – Phnom penh
 Indonesia –Rupiah - Jakarta
 Laos –Laos kip - Vientiane
 Malaysia- ringgit-Kuala Lumpur
 Myanmar – Burmese Kyat -Naypidaw
 Philippines – Peso- Manila
 Singapore – Singapore Dollar
 Thailand – Bhat - Bankok
 Vietnam – Dong - Hanoi

40. Global Affairs

41. 11. Global Cybersecurity Index
 India has been ranked 23rd out of 165 nations
 United States, Malaysia, Oman
 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – UN body
 WannaCry ransomware
 Distributed denial of service (DDoS)/Phishing/ClickJacking/Eaves Dropping/ Virus
and worms / Zero day Exploits

42. World heritage sites in danger
 By UNESCO
 Hebron in West bank, Palestine
New world heritage site
 Okinoshima Island, Japan’s men-only island
 ban on women from entering the island

43. Oil block 128
 Vietnam has granted
ONGC Videsh a two-year
extension to explore oil
block 128 in the disputed
South China Sea.
 Nine - dash line
 UNCLOS

46. PM Modi visit to Israel
 A fast growing Israeli Chrysanthemum flower was named “MODI” during the Indian
Premier’s visit to the Danziger flower farm.
 Capital: Jerusalem
 Currency: Israeli new shekel
 Benjamin Netanyahu

47. Sanctions on North Korea
 first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) - Hwasong- 14

48. World Population Day
 World Population Day is celebrated every year on the 11th of July
 population issues like family planning, gender inequality, poverty and maternal
health
World Youth Skills Day
 15th of July
 theme for 2017 is “Skills for All”

49. Defence

50. Special Rhino Protection Force
 Government of Assam
 protection of one horned rhinos - IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
 Kaziranga National Park - World Heritage Site (other one is Manas National Park )
 Great one horned Rhinoceroses

51. Q
 Garuda Shakti III is a military Exercise between India and which country?
 1. Nepal
 2. Russia
 3. Indonesia
 4. China

52. Maitree 2017
 Indian Army and Royal Thailand Army
 Bakloh in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh
 It was held at Krabi in Thailand in 2016

53. Malabar 2017
 India, Japan and United States have kicked off the 2017 MALABAR trilateral naval
exercise near Chennai in Bay of Bengal.
 All three countries air craft carriers were used.
 India – INS Vikramaditya ( recently retired INS viraat, scraped Vikrant)

54. Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile
(QRSAM)
 Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha
 truck-mounted canister launcher

55. Technology

56. Double Asteroid Redirection Test(DART)
 NASA is developing the first ever mission to deflect a near-Earth asteroid
 The target for DART is the asteroid called Didymos
Juno
 NASA’s unmanned spacecraft
 first space probe to complete flyby of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot which is a storm
measuring around 16,000km in diameter. It is the largest known storm in the solar
system.

57. S-band doppler weather radar
 India Meteorological Department
 Palluruthy in West Kochi, Kerala.
 manufactured by Bharat Electronics Limited on the basis of technology offered by
ISRO.
 predicting weather events such as storms and cyclones, other severe weather
conditions occurring in 500-km radius from Kochi

58. RailCloud - Cloud Computing system
 Indian Railways
 virtual server - faster connectivity at a reduced cost
 Cloud computing is an emerging technology for faster and on demand
commensurate deployment of server resources which results in reduced cost

59. Saraswati Supercluster
 Indian astronomers have identified extremely large supercluster of galaxies which
has been named Saraswati.
 supercluster is about 4 billion light years away
 Milky way galaxy – Local
group galaxy cluster Laniakea
supercluster

60. Sports

61.  Mithali Raj Indian cricket team captain
 first player in the history of women’s ODI cricket to score more than 6000 career
runs
 Ravi Shastri has been appointed as the new chief coach of the Indian Cricket Team
till ICC world Cup 2019.
 He will be succeeding Anil Kumble after he resigned.

62. Sundar Singh Gurjar
 gold medal in the men’s javelin
 World Para Athletics Championships , London

63. FIFA Confederation Cup
 1st – Germany
 2nd – Chile
 Hosted by Russia