CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 17th JULY, 2023

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 17^th JULY, 2023

1. Day of International Criminal Justice is annually observed across the globe by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 17 July to commemorate the anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statue, the founding treaty of the ICC.
2. Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) achieved a significant milestone as it became India’s first airport to have four operational runways.
3. Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, have developed a Deep Learning based framework, namely OsteoHRNet, that automatically assesses the knee osteoarthritis (OA) severity from X-rays images.
4. Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on 14 July 2023, announced Michele Bullock as the first female head of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) for the next seven years, replacing Philip Lowe.
5. HDFC Bank, India’s largest private lender, has achieved a significant milestone by entering the $100 billion market-capitalization club.
6. The Third G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBGs) meeting, under India’s G20 Presidency, held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat from 17 to 18 July, 2023.
7. On 16 July 2023, National Zoological Park, New Delhi has celebrated World Snake Day to protect snakes by raising awareness about snakes of India, snakes disbelieves and importance of snakes in our ecosystem.
8. A joint naval exercise called ‘Security Bond-2023’, spanning five days, has been initiated by China, Russia, and Iran in the Gulf of Oman to safeguard critical maritime routes.
9. Jammu and Kashmir launched a path breaking Mobile-Dost App in sync with the vision of Apka-Mobila-Humara-Daftar, a pioneering initiative for mobile based delivery of citizen-centric services in the Union Territory.
10. United Arab Emirates becomes first Arab country who has participated with observer status in the plenary of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), a Financial Action Task Force-Style Regional Body (FSRB), in Vancouver, Canada.
11. A book titled ‘India Rising: Memoir of a Scientist’ authored by R. Chidambaram and Suresh Gangotra has been released.
12. India’s long-distance runner Abhishek Pal won bronze medal in the men’s 10,000 meter event at the Asian Athletics Championships 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand.
13. At the Chavin de Huantar archaeological site in Peru, archaeologists have successfully revealed a sealed corridor named ‘the condor’s passageway’ within the ancient temple complex of the Chavin culture, which dated back 3,000 years.
14. A private Chinese company launched the World’s first methane-fuelled space rocket into orbit named ‘Zhuque-2’.
15. The seventh edition of India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2023, Asia’s premier digital technology exhibition, will take place from 27 to 30 October, 2023 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
16. Dr Mangala Narlikar, an eminent mathematician and the wife of Dr Jayant Narlikar who is the founder director of Pune-based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), passed away on 17 July 2023, at the age of 80.