one liners current affairs 19th to 22nd July 2016

Keeping yourself abreast with the latest happenings is not only important for enhancing our awareness but it also plays a pivotal role in any Competitive Exams, be it IAS, KAS, Bank PO, SSC, JKSSB and any other. It is a scoring subject and one can easily get above 90% in this which can be a game changer. But, to do so it requires incessant serious efforts. Reading regularly is impertinent, but it is such a subject which is time consuming and there are other important subjects as well to deal with.

ONE LINERS CURRENT AFFAIRS 19th to 22nd JULY 2016

• With 35 sites in UNESCO’s world heritage list. India has the sixth highest number of culturally and historically important places in the world. Italy has the most number of world heritage sites.
• India and Malaysia have agreed to proactively engage in combating the menace of ISIS activities.
• The child labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2012 was passed in the Rajya Sabha.
• India’s first paperless court was inaugurated at the Hyderabad High court by Justice Madan B Lokur, who heads the Supreme Court’s e committee
• Amudham Thaippal Maiyam (ATM), a bank which offers mother’s milk has been opened in Puducherry
• Judges at the Calcutta high court have unanimously declined to accept the recent proposal to rename the court of ‘Kolkata HC’
• The parliament has passed the Regional centre for Biotechnology Bill, 2016 to provide statutory status to the existing Regional centre for Biotechnology in Faridabad , Haryana
• The Indian Railways has initiated process to launch the Terrain Imaging for Enhanced Optical and Radar Assisted (Tri-NETRA) system to avoid train accidents
• Micro Unit And Refinance Agency (MUDRA ) CEO Jiji Mammen announced that the government has set a target for banks to disburse 1.8 lakh crore as loans under the Mudra scheme during 2016-2017
• In line with the announcement under the Indradhanush initiative and the Budget, the centre has allocated 22915 crore for the capitalisation of 13 public sector banks
• Sikkim’s Khangchendzonga National Park has been designated as India’s first ‘Mixed’ site on the UNESCO World Heritage List , by fulfilling the criteria under both Natural and cultural heritage
• Tamil Nadu Sri Ram S emerged the National Topper of The 2016 Charter accountants final examination the institute of Chartered Accountants of India declared the result
• The World Bank confirmed New York University’s economics professor Paul Romer as its next chief Economics
• India has ranked lowest among the 43 nations listed in the Natixis Global Asset Management‘s 2016 Global Retirement Index making it the worst country to retire
• Trip Advisor has ranked Mumbai the second cheapest city for travellers ,with an estimated cost of $ 767 for a three night stay in a four star hotel, tourist activities and food
• The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi has topped the list with an estimated cost of $674 Brazil ordered phone carriers to access to Whatsapp, following the company’s refusal to comply with a previous order to reveal user information
• Pema Khandu led government passed the floor test in Arunachal Pradesh Assembly 46 MLA voting in favour of the Chief Minister
• The BJP MP’s will take out Tiranga Yatra in their respective constituencies
• Rohit Khandelwal (26) became the first Indian to win the Mr World Title at this year’s ‘Mr male’ beauty pageant held in Southport, England
• The Oberoi Hotels and Resorts has been voted ‘the world’s best hotel brand’ for the second in year in a row by the readers of the Travel + Leisure magazine
• Nigerian journalist and presenter Didi Akinyelure has won the second BBC World News Komla Dumor Award
• State Bank of India has signed a memorandum of understanding with Canada based Brookfield Asset Management Inc to form a joint venture which will independently evaluate and invest in various stressed assets in the country
• Mumbai’s Siddhivinayak Temple has opened a demat account to enable its devotees to offer shares of listed companies as donations
• The International monetary fund trimmed India’s growth forecast by 0.1 % to m7.4 % for both 2016 -2017 and 2017- 2018 ‘reflecting sluggish investment recovery ‘ in the economy
• Mohammad Shahid who was the part of the 1980 Moscow Olympics gold winning Indian hockey team passed away
• Mohmmad Hamish Ansari (95), the oldest litigant in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjit dispute, died today
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared a three month state of emergency in the country after the recent failed military coup
• The Union cabinet approved the transgender person bill 2016
• The Election commission of India has launched National Electroral Roll Purification 2016 across the country
• The Indian Institute of sciences Bangalurur has been listed as the top Indian University in the Quacquarelli Symonds University Rankings 2016 for BRICS nations Advay Ramesh has won Google’s community impact award in Asia for creating as mobile GPS to keep fishermen safe crossing International Maritime Boundaries