Important Weekly Current Affairs Revision Tit-Bits (22nd to 31st July 2017) – Download-in-PDF

Important Weekly Current Affairs Revision Tit-Bits (22nd to 31st July 2017) – Download-in-PDF:
Dear Readers, Here we have given the list Important Current Affairs Weekly Revision Tit-Bits (8th to 14th July 2017). Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming IBPS PO/Clerk 2017-18 can make use of it.

Important Weekly Current Affairs Revision Tit-Bits (22nd to 31st July 2017)

• The state which hosted the fifth edition of South India Writers Ensemble (SIWE) – Kerala
• First child-friendly police station will be coming up at – Rajasthan
• Sports Minister Vijay Goel and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari today flagged off the 10th Slum Yuva Daud at – Khichripur, New Delhi
• The U.K. government appointed the first woman president of the Supreme Court – Baroness Brenda Marjorie Hale
• The new White House Press Secretary – Sarah Huckabee Sanders
• Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY), a pension scheme exclusively for senior citizens has been launched by – Arun Jaitley
• The agreement with Directorate General of Supplies & Disposal (DGS&D) for extending various banking services to Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has been made by – Bank of Baroda
• The new Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office – Gopal Baglay
• 14^th President of India – Ram Nath Kovind
• Secretary to President-elect Ram Nath Kovind – Sanjay Kothari
• Press Secretary to Ram Nath Kovind – Ashok Malik
• Joint Secretary to Ram Nath Kovind – Bharat Lal
• India’s Karamjyoti Dalal has won bronze medal at the World Para Athletics Championships 2017 in – discus-throw
• World Para Athletics Championships 2017 – London
• The first IPC Athletics World Championships were held in Berlin, Germany in 1994
• Kiren Rijiju has inaugurated the Research Institution of World Ancient, Traditional, Culture & Heritage (RIWATCH) Museum at – Roing, Arunachal Pradesh
• The United States announced that the government will ban citizens from traveling to – North Korea (due to “the serious risk of arrest”)
• US retail giant Walmart has topped the 2017 Fortune Global 500 list with revenue of – $486 billion
• Karnataka Bank partnered with PNB MetLife, has launched – Met Loan and Life Suraksha (MLLS)
• The new spokesperson of the ministry of external affairs – Raveesh Kumar
• Income Tax Day is observed on – July 24^th
• Mukul Sangma launched ‘Mission Football’ at a grand ceremony at – JN Sports Complex, Shillong
• India is going to host Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS) 2017 in – New Delhi, November 2017
• The Union Ministry of Rural Development is going to launch – Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY)
• The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2017 has been passed by – Lok Sabha
• A village in Karnataka’s Ramanagara district which has transitioned to a completely cashless system – Vondaraguppe
• India and Bangladesh have signed a pact to connect both the countries by – waterways
• Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanbahad begun an eight-day-long two-nation tour of – Mozambique and Tanzania
• England won ICC Women’s World Cup final 2017 at – Lord’s, London
• Former ISRO Chairman who passed away recently – Udupi Ramachandra Rao
• Free power connection schemes for BPL families has been launched in – Uttar Pradesh
• The state government which has lifted the ban on the sale of paan masala – Maharashtra
• Union Government has launched the Mobile App for Road Maintenance – “Aarambh”
• India’s rank out of 152 countries in Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index is – 132^nd
• The person whose role as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador has been extended for two more years – Actor Amitabh Bachchan
• World’s first floating wind farm emerges off coast of – Scotland
• UN has selected this city as the data hub for the Middle East North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) – Dubai
• Airports Authority of India (AAI), has signed an MoU with Government of this state on civil aviation development – Uttarakhand
• US Navy commissioned world’s largest aircraft carrier – USS Gerald R Ford
• The captain of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 team by the ICC – India skipper Mithali Raj
• Boxer Sachin Siwach wins Gold at Commonwealth Youth Games 2017 at – Bahamas
• The country has celebrated the 18th Anniversary of ‘Kargil Vijay Diwas’ on – July 26^th
• The High Court which directed that National Song Vande Mataram should be sung in all Tamil Nadu educational institutions – Madras High Court
• The person who chaired the first meeting of the newly constituted Islands Development Agency (IDA) – Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh
• FSSAI has banned the use of stapler pins in tea bags from – January 2018
• BRICS Youth Forum 2017 started in – Beijing
• The bank which has launched a Multi-currency Forex Card for overseas travelers – Standard Chartered Bank
• The country which has declared “total independence” from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank – Bolivia
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai has been appointed to the board of directors of – Alphabet
• The country which is going to hold its ‘first and biggest’ military exercise in over 20 years – Sweden
• Narendra Modi inaugurated the former President, APJ Abdul Kalam’s memorial at – Pei Karumbu in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
• The state which has records second highest tiger count in India – Uttarakhand
• Technology giant Microsoft has officially launched – ‘Kaizala’ app
• SIDBI has started full-fledged merchant banking operations to benefit – MSMEs
• Adobe announced that it will stop updating and distributing Flash Player plug-in by the end of – 2020
• The new CEO of Janalakshmi Financial Services – Ajay Kanwal
• The person who has been appointed as Indias Alternate Governor on the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) – Subhash Chandra Garg
• Axis Bank acquires Snapdeal-owned mobile payments provider FreeCharge for – 385 crore
• AIBA has announced that this country will host their first Men’s World Championship in 2021 – India
• The former Chief Minister of Karnataka, who passed away recently – Dharam Singh
• World Hepatitis Day (WHD) observed on – July 28^th
• Mumbai Metro announced the launch of India’s first Mobile Ticketing System – ‘OnGo’
• The bank which has join hands with Bajaj Allianz General Insurance have signed an agreement for the distribution of insurance products – Punjab National Bank (PNB)
• The Bank which has re-appointed Shikha Sharma as MD & CEO – Axis Bank
• Ajay Singh has won the bronze medal in Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships at – Kathmandu, Nepal
• Bollywood actor who passed away recently – Inder Kumar
• The 7th International Tiger Day is observed globally on – 29^th July
• Union Minister of Science & Technology Harshvardhan launched an app – “India Quake”
• Harshvardhan launched an app to disseminate ocean related information and alerts to the user community in timely manner for their safety – ‘Sagar Vani’
• Prime minister of Pakistan over Panama Papers verdict who resigned recently – Nawaz Sharif
• Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu has been appointed a Group-I officer in – Andhra Pradesh
• Iran successfully launched its most advanced satellite-carrying rocket called – ‘Simorgh’
• The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Competition Committee officially announced the host of the AFC Under-19 championship 2018 – Indonesia
• Indian golfer Diksha Dagar won a Silver medal in Deaflympics in – Samsun, Turkey
• The United Nations World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2017 is observed across the world on – 30^th July
• The first Metro system to become completely green in the world – Delhi Metro
• The state government which announced no intergrated coaching from next academic year – Maharashtra
• 2017 BRICS National Security Advisors (NSAs) meeting held in – China
• Canara Bank launched its first ‘Digital Banking Branch’ at Bengaluru – “CANDI”
• The interim Prime Minister of Pakistan – Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
• The person who has been appointed as the Administrative Manager of the Indian Cricket Team – Sunil Subramaniam
• DRDO has developed India’s first unmanned tank – “Muntra” (Mission UNmanned TRAcked)
• E. Mammen who passed away recently is a – Freedom Fighter
• Punjab government has recently launched its flagship ‘Apni Gaddi Apna Rozgar’ scheme by flagging off over – 100 uber MOTO bikes
• Vidyasagar Rao and Devendra Fadnavis has released the book – ‘Mann Ki Baat – A Social Revolution on Radio’
• 7th edition of SAARC Artists Camp & Exhibition of Paintings begins in – Kathmandu, Nepal
• The new part-time member on IRDAI board – Ravi Mittal
• Yoshiaki Ishizawa, Gethsie Shanmugam, Abdon Nababan, Tony Tay, Philippine theater group and Lilia de Lima – this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award winners
• China produces gas from methane hydrate, also known as ‘flammable ice’ under – South China Sea (SCS)
• First ever Swimmer to win three gold medals in one night at worlds Championship – Caeleb Dressel

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