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Current Affairs One Liner: 1 to 31 July 2023

• India’s Tiger Population Reaches 3,925 with 6.1% Annual Growth
Rate, Holds 75% of Global Wild Tiger Population
• ‘Meri Mati Mera Desh’ Campaign to Honor Martyrs and Foster
National Unity
• Indian women’s hockey team won the 100th Anniversary Spanish
Hockey Federation – International Tournament in Terrassa
• ISRO’s Successful Launch PSLV-C56 Rocket with DS-SAR Satellite
and Co-Passenger Payloads
• Indian-American Nisha Biswal becomes Deputy Chief Executive
Officer of United States International Development Finance
Corporation
• Eye flu, also known as conjunctivitis on the rise
• Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam at Bharat Mandapam, Pragati
Maidan in Delhi
• United States officially re-enters UNESCO after five-year hiatus
• Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur Announces 1000 Khelo
India Centres Across the Nation in the next three months.
• Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships 2023 in
Greater Noida from 27 July to 5 August 2023.
• Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) celebrated its 85th Raising
Day on 27th July 2023
• India finish 2nd on medals tally at ISSF Junior Shooting World
Championships 2023 in South Korea
• UK-India Young Professional Scheme : opportunity to live, work
or study in the Britain for up to two years
• Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to Resign and Hand Over
Power to Eldest Son, Hun Manet
• Eco-Friendly ‘Bahu Balli’ Bamboo Barriers to replace Steel
barriers on Highways

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• Army Postal Service Corps Inaugurates First Permanent Aadhaar

Enrolment Centre (PAEC)
• Kargil Vijay Diwas : July 26
• IMF raises India’s GDP growth forecast to 6.1% for current fiscal
• Byculla Railway Station Receives UNESCO Award for Heritage
Restoration and Modernization
• President Droupadi Murmu Presents National Geoscience
Awards-2022
• Semicon India 2023: 28 to 30 July 2023 in Gandhinagar
• Twitter Unveils New Logo in Major Rebranding Move: Blue Bird
Replaced with an X
• EPF Interest rate hiked to 8.15% for FY 2022-23; Over 4900 Crore
Rupees in Inoperative EPF Accounts
• Conservative Popular Party (PP) won the national elections in
Spain
• Redeveloped Pragati Maidan Complex ready to Host G20 Leaders
Meetings 2023
• Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won the Korea Open
Badminton men’s doubles title
• Union Home Minister Inaugurates Aviation Security Control
Centre (ASCC) of CISF at Mahipalpur campus in New Delhi
• BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa from 22 to 24
August 2023
• Gyanvapi mosque case : Varanasi Court Orders Scientific Survey
• FIFA Women’s Football World Cup has commenced in New
Zealand and Australia
• Asian Cricket Council (ACC) announced the schedule for the Asia
Cup 2023
• Bhoomi Samman 2023 awards were presented to outstanding
achievers in implementing the Digital India Land Records
Modernization Programme

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• Monsoon Session of Indian Parliament from 20 July to 11 August

2023
• GPU and AI Synergy: Driving Innovation Across Industries
• Satwiksairaj Rankireddy set a new Guinness world record for the
fastest shot by a male player in badminton
• Opposition Parties formed alliance called “INDIA” to contest the
2024 Lok Sabha election
• Heatwaves and Extreme weather have affected most parts of the
world
• Nelson Mandela International Day : July 18
• PM Narendra Modi Inaugurates Terminal Building at Veer
Savarkar International Airport, Port Blair
• Key Findings of NITI Aayog’s National Multidimensional Poverty
Index Report
• Wimbledon 2023: Carlos Alcaraz beats Novak Djokovic in five
sets for men’s title
• India and UAE Agree to Currency-based Trade Settlement and
UPI – IPP Integration
• Asian Athletics Championships 2023 : India won 6 gold, 12 silver,
and 9 bronze
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi to setup Campus in Abu
Dhabi.
• World Youth Skills Day : July 15
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the Bastille Day Parade
as the Guest of Honour.
• Chandrayaan-3 launched from Sathish Dhawan Space Centre
Sriharikota on 14 July 2023
• Indian Team Secures 2 Gold at the 64th International
Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2023 held in Chiba, Japan
• Defence Acquisition Council approved the procurement of 26
Rafale Marine aircraft from France for the Indian Navy

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• Sixth India-Arab Partnership Conference 2023 took place on 12

July 2023 in New Delhi
• Seventh edition of India Mobile Congress (IMC) exhibition to be
held from 27th October at Pragati Maidan
• Japan-India Maritime Exercise (JIMEX 23) was held in
Visakhapatnam from 05-10 July 2023
• India and Bangladesh Launch Rupee-Based Bilateral Trade
• NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania from 11 to 12 July 2023
• International Day of Combating Sand and Dust Storms : 12 July
• World Population Day : 11 July
• ISRO to Transfer Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) to Private
Sector
• PM Narendra Modi to Receive Prestigious Lokmanya Tilak Award
2023
• Parth Salunkhe becomes first Indian to win Youth World
Championship in recurve category
• Lakshya Sen beats Shi Feng in Canada Open 2023 Final in Straight
Sets
• BSF Commander Parimal Kumar Ghosh, First Indian Officer to Aid
Bangladesh Freedom Fighters, Passes Away at 84
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Launches NCC Integrated
Software and Announces MoU with State Bank of India for
Cadets’ Benefits
• Indian Navy and Air Force contingent to participate in the Bastille
Day Parade on 14 July 2023.
• UK National Security Adviser Tim Barrow met with NSA Ajit Doval
on 7th July 2023 in New Delhi
• India will be Open Defecation Free in the next five years, Sikkim
first ODF state
• Peru Declares State of Emergency around Ubinas Volcano; Part
of the “Ring of Fire”

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• Government approves draft notification to mandate installation

of air-conditioning in truck cabins
• First IIT Campus Outside India to be Established in Zanzibar,
Tanzania
• World Archery Youth Championships: Priyansh and Avneet Kaur
won gold in the junior mixed team compound event
• Chandrayaan 3 Spacecraft integrated with GSLV Mark III launch
vehicle
• World’s hottest day : 3 July 2023, El Niño Weather Pattern to
Blame
• Ajit Agarkar Appointed Chairman of Senior Men’s Cricket
Selection Committee
• Annual Kanwar Yatra has begun in different parts of the country
on 4 July 2023
• 23rd Summit of the SCO Council of Heads of State chaired by PM
Modi on 4 July 2023
• India Clinches SAFF Championship 2023 Title in Penalty Shootout
Victory Against Kuwait
• SGX Nifty is now Gift Nifty : Trading Shifts to GIFT City in
Gandhinagar
• RAPIDX, India’s first regional train service, will commence
operations in July
• Ajit Pawar Joins Shiv Sena-BJP Government as Deputy Chief
Minister in Maharashtra
• India’s First Indigenously Developed 700 MW Nuclear Power
Reactor at Kakrapar, Gujarat, Begins Commercial Operations
• Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra clinches Lausanne
Diamond League title
• National Doctors Day : 1 July
• India’s Men’s Football Team Climbs to 100th Rank in FIFA World
Rankings

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• Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Sandhu won the gold medal at
the Asian Mixed Doubles Squash Tournament
• Micron Technology Signs MoU with Gujarat Government for
Semiconductor Unit in Sanand

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