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CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 21st JULY 2022

Editor1 Jul 22 2022 Current Affairs

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF  21st  JULY 2022

     

  1. Daughter of a tribal family coming from a very ordinary house in Odisha, Draupadi Murmu has been elected as the 15th President of India. Murmu becomes India’s first woman tribal President.
  2. Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has won the presidential election held in the Sri Lankan Parliament with 134 votes.
  3. The organisers of the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympic Games have announced that the opening for the mega event will take place on 14 July, 2028.
  4. Indian passport was ranked 87th in the Henley Passport Index. Japan, Singapore and South Korea have the most powerful passports in the world.
  5. The Union Cabinet on 20 July, 2022 approved the signing of an MoU for Judicial cooperation between India and the Judicial Service Commission of the Republic of Maldives.
  6. A new industry body ‘The Indo-UAE Economic Chamber of Commerce’ was launched in Chennai on 17 July, 2022.
  7. Malayalam filmmaker KP Kumaran has been honoured with Kerala’s highest film award, the JC Daniel Award.
  8. The National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) has bagged the Sardar Patel Outstanding ICAR Institute Award 2021.
  9.  Himachal Pradesh has become the first state in the country to connect all registered commercial vehicles equipped with Vehicle Location Tracking Device (VLTD) with Emergency Response Support System (ERSS).
  10.  Retired Army officer Raj Shukla has been appointed as a member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
  11.  RattanIndia Power announced hiring Brijesh Gupta as its new managing director.
  12.  Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami released the book ‘BEYOND THE MISTY VEIL’, Temple Tales of Uttarakhand written by Ms Aradhana Johri (Senior IAS) on the temples of Uttarakhand.
  13.  As per the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List, India’s richest person, Gautam Adani has now also become the fourth richest person in the world, leaving behind Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
  14. Karnataka, Manipur and Chandigarh have topped in their respective categories in the Third edition of NITI Aayog’s India Innovation Index.

 

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