July 2018 Current Affairs: In this chapter, information has been given about the latest current affairs based on India and the world in the month of July 2018 from the point of view of upcoming competitive examinations. Here you can find various fields of India and the world like: Appointments, Resignations, Sports and Sportsmen, Politics, Awards and Honors, Important Days, Deaths, Reports, Business, Planning, Politics, Education, Books and Authors, Economy, Accidents, Science, Technology You can get general knowledge about important current affairs related to geography, records, settlement, convention and entertainment etc.
30 July 2018 | Awards Current Affairs Former West Bengal Governor Gopalakrishna Gandhi has been selected for the year 2017's Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavna Award for his contribution to promoting communal harmony and peace. He will be given this award at Jawahar Bhawan on August 20 during a special event. |
29 July 2018 | Sports Current Affairs Serbia's 17 year old tennis player Olga Danilovic clinched her first WTA title on 29 July 2018 with a 7-5, 6-7 (1/7), 6-4 win over Russia's Anastasia Potapova in the Moscow final. |
28 July 2018 | Sports Current Affairs The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has chosen Kenya to host the 2020 World Under 20 championships. Last year IAF World Under-18 Championship was held in Nairobi. |
27 July 2018 | Awards Current Affairs Ramon Magsaysay Award also known as Asia's Nobel Prize winners for the year 2018 have been announced. This year, 6 people have been selected with this honor, which includes two Indians. Psychiatric physician Bharat Watani and Ladakhi engineer Sonam Wangchuk have also been selected as Ramon Magsaysay Award winners of the year 2018. |
26 July 2018 | Conferences Current Affairs Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the 10th BRICS Conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The theme of this year's BRICS Summit 2018 was "Cooperation for Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution of BRICS in Africa". |
25 July 2018 | Reports Current Affairs Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Sistrom and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg were ranked top among Fortune's '40 Under 40' list. This is the list of the 40 most influential and inspiring youth in the field of business. Four people of Indian origin, including three women have been also included in the list. |
24 July 2018 | Appointments Current Affairs Justice Syeda Tahira Safdar will be the Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court, Pakistan’s top judge announced on Monday, paving way for her to become the first woman chief justice of any court in the conservative Muslim-majority nation. He will replace the current Chief Justice Mohammad Noor Miskinjai, who retires on August 31. He also became Pakistan's first woman civil judge in 1882. |
23 July 2018 | Awards Current Affairs Indian football captain Sunil Chhetri has been named Player of the Year for the year 2017 by the All India Football Federation (AIFF). Sunil Chhetri is the only second player to play 100 international matches after Baichung Bhutia. Sunil Chhetri is the star striker of India and Bangalore FC. |
22 July 2018 | Sports Current Affairs Young Indian badminton player Goal Sen has won gold medal in the Asia Junior Badminton Championship in Jakarta, Indonesia. The goal also reached the finals by winning the junior world champion Thailand's Kunalawat Vitidasaran 21-19, 21-18 in straight games to become the third Indian player to win this title. |
21 July 2018 | Sports Current Affairs Young Indian Golfer Shubhankar Sharma won the cut in his first British Open tournament on 20 July. Shubhankar Sharma became the youngest Indian golfer in the 147th Open championship, getting a cut in some major tournaments. Shubhankar had scored 73 on the first day and after two days he was able to cross the cut with the total score of 144. |
20 July 2018 | Obituaries Current Affairs Famous Indian songwriter Padmabhushan poet Gopaldas Neeraj died on July 19, 2018. He was 93 years old. He was also awarded the Filmfare Award thrice for songs from his pen. Apart from this, He was also honored with Padmashree award in 1991, Yash Bharti in 1994 and Padma Bhushan award in 2007. |
19 July 2018 | Obituaries Current Affairs Japan's famous screenwriter and film director Shinobu Hashimoto died of pneumonia at the age of 100 year on 19 July 2018. He is known for writing Japanese films of Akira Kurosawa, including 'The Seven Samurai' and 'Rashomon'. He started his Hashimoto Production Company in 1973. |
18 July 2018 | Indian Current Affairs India has been made Vice President of the Asia Pacific region of the World Customs Organization (WCO) for a period of two years. The WCO has divided its membership into 6 zones. Each of the six areas is represented by the regional elected vice-president in the WCO Council. WCO represents 182 customs administrators worldwide, which collectively process around 98 percent of world trade. |
17 July 2018 | Obituaries Current Affairs Hindi film and TV actress Rita Bhaduri passed away on 17th July 2018 due to kidney issue. 62 years old Rita Bhaduri has played the role of grandmother in the famous TV serial Nimki Mukhiya. |
16 July 2018 | Sports Current Affairs France has won the FIFA World Cup trophy after 20 years after defeating Croatia 4-2 in the FIFA World Cup 2018 final, played at the Luzhniki Stadium in Russia on July 15. Earlier, France had won the title in the 1998 World Cup. |
15 July 2018 | Awards Current Affairs Karnataka's famous singer Aruna Sairam has been selected for Music Kalanidhi Award for Music Academy for the year 2018. The Executive Committee of the Academy decided to honor Sairam with the consensus in the meeting held on July 15, 2018. |
14 July 2018 | Sports Current Affairs Former Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif has retired from all forms of competitive cricket on July 13. Mohammad Kaif was one of the best fielders in the Indian team. Kaif played 13 Tests and 125 ODIs for India, and he is known for his innings of 87 runs in the NatWest Trophy final in 2002 at Lord's. |
13 July 2018 | Sports Current Affairs Indian sprinter Hima Das won India’s first-ever gold as she posted time of 51.46 seconds in 400 metres in women’s final at IAAF World Under-20 Athletics Championships held in Finland. Hima Das becomes first Indian woman to win gold at Athletics Junior World Championships. |
12 July 2018 | Appointments Current Affairs Grammy award-winning Italian pop singer-songwriter Laura Possini has been selected as the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). |
11 July 2018 | Indian Current Affairs According to the figures released by the World Bank in the year 2017, India has become the sixth largest economy in the world while France reached the seventh place. |
10 July 2018 | Reports Current Affairs According to the Global Innovation Index (GII) ranking 2018 published by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), China has joined the world's top most innovative economies. Switzerland is at the top of the list, while India is at 57th place. |
9 July 2018 | Indian Current Affairs Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon-Jay-In inaugurated the new Samsung Company's Plant on July 09, 2018 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Started by the legendary mobile company Samsung, it is the world's largest phone factory. Located in Sector 81, Noida, the land of Samsung Electronics extends over 35 acres. |
8 July 2018 | Sports Current Affairs Star Indian gymnast Deepa Karmakar won the gold medal in FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup. Deepa won gold medal with 14.150 points in the Vault event of this tournament held in Murzin city of Turkey on July 08, 2018. Deepa Karmakar, the 24-year-old Tripura Rio Olympics, was fourth in the 2016 Walt Event. |
7 July 2018 | Awards Current Affairs Former Supreme Court Judge Adarsh Kumar Goyal has been appointed as the new Chairman of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). Justice Goel's tenure of NGT will be for 5 years. The NGT was established on October 18, 2010 under the National Green Tribunal Act. Goel is the third president since the establishment of the NGT. First President was Justice Lokeshwar Singh Pant. |
6 July 2018 | Obituaries Current Affairs French filmmaker and writer Claude Lanzman passed away on July 5, 2018 at the age of 92. |
5 July 2018 | Indian Current Affairs UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced ban on plastic from July 15 in the state. Not only this, the government has also imposed a penalty of 50 thousand rupees for violating this rule. With this ban UP has become the country's 19th state, where plastic polythene has been banned. Yogi government has banned the use of 50 micron polyethylene. |
4 July 2018 | Business Current Affairs Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a license to the Bank of China for trading in India. It is China's second largest public sector bank, listed on Hong Kong and Shanghai Stock Exchange. Bank of China is the second bank in China, which will open its branch in India, its first branch will be opened in Mumbai, Maharashtra. |
3 July 2018 | Indian Current Affairs Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das announced the establishment of country's first Khadi Mall in the state on July 02, 2018. To develop the country's first Khadi Mall, the land of the Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) premises will be made available to the Khadi Board. |
2 July 2018 | Awards Current Affairs Former Indian captain and known as 'The Wall' in the world Rahul Dravid has been included in the ICC's International Cricket Council's Hall of Fame. 45-year-old Dravid is the fifth Indian player to get a place in this prestigious list ICC announces the name of Rahul Dravid in a ceremony held in Dublin, Ireland. |
1 July 2018 | Sports Current Affairs The Australian Hockey Team has won the Champions Trophy final in Breda on July 01, defeating the Indian team by 3-1 (1-1) in the shootout to become the champion for the 15th time. This was the 37th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy. |
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