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The Archie Comics cartoonist who died recently – Tom
Moore
l The new Director General of The Energy and Resources
Institute (TERI) – Ajay Mathur
l The Japanese firm which has announced to buy the Financial
Times from Britain’s Pearson – Nikkei
l The Nobel laureate who has won the Royal Society’s Copley
Medal – Peter Higgs
l World Book Capital for 2017 as announced by the UNESCO
– Conakry (Guinea)
l The National Broadcasting Day – 23 Jul
l The President and CEO of Japan’s Toshiba who resigned
recently – Hisao Tanaka
l The state where the 2015 Malabar River Festival was held
recently – Kerala
l The person appointed as the new Chief Economist of the
K
IMF – Maurice Obstfeld
l The new chairperson of the FSSAI – Bhanu Pratap
Sharma
l The Indian city which has been included in the UNESCO’s
‘Cities of Music’ – Varanasi
l The Indian actor who won the Ironman title at a triathlon
held in Zurich, Switzerland – Milind Soman
l The Interim Director of the Pune-based Film and Television
Institute of India (FTII) – Prashant Pathrabe
l Winner of the 2015 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)
award – Kerala Tourism
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l Nelson Mandela International Day – 18 July
l The South Korean steel giant who has put on hold its $12-
bn steel project in Odisha – Posco
l The Indian American honoured as Champions of Change in
the US – Sunita Viswanath
l The brand ambassador of Haryana’s ‘Beti Bachao, Beti
Padhao’ campaign – Parineeti Chopra
l The place where the country’s first defence industrial park
has been approved – Ottappalam (Kerala)
l The Uruguayan soccer legend who passed away recently –
Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia
l The new Director of National Book Trust – Rita
Chowdhury
l The recently decommissioned torpedo launch and recovery
vessel – INS Astravahini
l World Day for International Justice – 17 Jul
l India’s GDP growth rates in FY16 and FY17 respectively
as per ADB – 7.8 %, 8.2 %
l The French F1 driver who died recently – Jules Bianchi
l The city from where the govt launched the HRIDAY scheme
on 15 Jul – Amritsar
l The head of the RBI’s committee on financial inclusion –
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l The noted artist conferred with the highest French civilian
award Commandeur de la Legion d’honneur (the Legion of
Honour) recently – Syed Haider Raza
l The indigenously helicopter-launched anti-tank missile –
Nag (HeliNa)
l The NASA spacecraft which flew by the dwarf planet Pluto
recently – New Horizons
l The SC committee which suspended two IPL franchisees
for two years recently – RM Lodha Committee
l The legendary music director who died recently – MS
Viswanathan
l The new Vice-Chief of the Indian Army – Man Mohan
Singh Rai
l The 17-year-old Indian who won junior boys’ doubles of
Wimbledon 2015 – Sumit Nagal
l The head of the committee formed by the Govt for SAI
training centres – Ashwini Nachappa
l World Youth Skills Day – 15 Jul
l The new MD and CEO of Credit Information Bureau India
Ltd (CIBIL) – Satish Pillai
l The first British Asian to join the England and Wales Cricket
Board (ECB) – Lord Kamlesh Patel
l The new MD & CEO of the National Housing Bank (NHB)
– Sriram Kalyanaraman
l Winner of the mixed doubles title of Wimbledon 2015 –
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis
l The indigenous supersonic surface-to-air missile inducted
into IAF recently – Aakash
l The chairman of the upcoming Kolkata-based Bandhan Bank
– Ashok Kumar Lahiri
l Winner of the men’s singles title of the Wimbledon 2015 –
Novak Djokovic
l The new Home Secretary of Delhi – SN Sahai
l The state where, for the first time in India, a system to
detect earthquakes has been installed – Uttarakhand
l The Russian cosmonaut who has created a record for the
longest time spent in space (803 days as on Jul 2015) –
Gennady Padalka
l The two countries which got full membership of Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at its Ufa summit recently
– India and Pakistan
l The country where the proposed USD 10-bn TAPI gas
pipeline originates – Turkmenistan
l The number of people the govt has targeted to skill by 2022
– 40.20 cr
l The state which has started She-Bus service exclusively for
women – Kerala
l Winner of the women’s doubles title of Wimbledon 2015 –

Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
l Winner of the women’s singles title of the Wimbledon 2015
– Serena Williams
l World Population Day – Jul 11
l Captain of the visiting India cricket team on Zimbabwe tour
– Ajinkya Rahane
l The author of the book Farthest Field: An Indian Story of
the Second World War – Raghu Karnad
l ISRO’s rocket which carried five British satellites to the
space on 10 Jul – PSLV-C28
l The name of the Govt campaign to give up LPG subsidy –
GiveItUp
l The typhoon which hit China recently – Chan-Hom
l India’s scheme ranked as the 2nd-largest unconditional cash
transfer social security programme – Indira Gandhi
National Old Age Pension Scheme
l The chairman of the committee set up by the govt on
bankruptcy law reforms – TK Viswanathan
l India’s contribution to the $100-bn foreign-exchange reserves
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l Winner of the 4th South Asian Basketball Championship
(SABA) – India
l India’s 1st and world’s 2nd woman cricketer to score 5000
run in ODIs – Mithali Raj
l The person nominated by China to be the first president of
the AIIB – Jin Liqun
l The new Director of the Aeronautical Development Agency
(ADA) and Programme Director of the Light Combat Aircraft
(LCA) – Commodore CD Balaji (retd)
l The currency of Greece before joining the Eurozone in 2002
– Greek drachma
l The capital city of Yemen classified as endangered heritage
site by the UNESCO – Sana’a
l The cloud platform of TCS which has become the
preeminent platform for conducting exams – iON
l The state which entered the Guinness Book of World
Records for the number of simultaneous hand washes –
Madhya Pradesh
l Winner of the 2015 British Grand Prix F1 championship –

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pool of BRICS group – $18 billion
l Asia’s oldest stock exchange which completed 140 years of
operations on Jul 9, 2015 – BSE
l The country with which India signed Foreign Account Tax
Compliance Act (FATCA) pact recently – US
l The Russian oil major which will take up to 49% of the
Essar Group’s Vadinar oil refinery – Rosneft
l The Pune-based college which has been accorded special
heritage status by the UGC – Fergusson College
l The country whose 23 Meiji period (1868-1912) sites have
been granted World Heritage status by Unesco – Japan
l The Indian scheme ranked as the world’s largest public works
Lewis Hamilton
l India’s GDP in 2014 in terms of PPP – $6.78 tn
l India’s per capita income in 2014 – $1,631
l India’s rank in terms of per capita income in the world –
169th
l The denomination of banknotes signed by the Secretary,
Ministry of Finance – `1
l The former Chief Justice of India who passed away recently
– YK Sabharwal
l The bank which has launched ‘Project Tatkal’ to expedite
home loan applications – SBI
l Winner of the 2015 Copa America football tournament –

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programme by the World Bank – MGNREGA
l The state declared ‘disturbed area’ by the Union home
ministry recently – Nagaland
l The length of national highway (NH) in the country – 92,851
km
l The state which tops in practice of manual scavenging as
per SECC 2011 – Madhya Pradesh
l The total road network in the country which is 2nd highest
in the world after the US – 33 lakh km
l Winner of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup – US
l The eminent Urdu novelist of Pakistan who died recently –
Abdullah Hussain
Chile
l The state which has launched Mhara Gaon - Jagmag Gaon
initiative related to electricity – Haryana
l The first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child
transmission of HIV and syphilis – Cuba
l Winner of the Commonwealth Chess Championship –
Abhijeet Gupta
l The country where BHEL has commissioned the 500-MW
Kosti Thermal Power Station – Sudan
l The bank allowed by the FIPB to raise its FII cap to 55 per
cent recently – Kotak Mahindra Bank
l Winner of the Norway Chess 2015 – Veselin Topalov

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