Current Affairs - July 2015

TNPSC Current Affairs July 2015
Miscellaneous 

• Important Persons in News
• Ira Singhal - became the first physically challenged woman to top the UPSC Civil services exam.
• TK 0065
• A Turkish flight made an emergency landing at the India Gandhi International Airport (Delhi) after a bomb alert.
• Youth Delphic Games
• Awards
• Prof. Sanjeev Galande - G D birla Award for Scientific Research 2014.
• Prof R Paul singh - World Agriculture Prize Laureate 2015.
• Fazle Hasan Abed - World food prize 2015
• Krishnapatnam port (Andhra pradesh) - Golden peacock Award 2015.

Economy

• Important Persons in News
• Muhammad Yunus - Founder of Grameen Bank.
• Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee yojana
• Aim: This Scheme aims to provide irrigation facilities to every village in the country by coordinating with the already existing irrigation schemes in the respective region.
• Mhara Gaon, Jagmag Gaon
• It is a scheme launched by Haryana government to provide 24 hour power supply to rural domestic consumers.

Science and Technology

• ClapShare
• A new app which helps the users to share their own books to anyone using the app.
• Matti Makkonen 
• regarded as the Father of SMS Technology passed away.
• July 3, 2015 - Nationalwide MNP (Mobile Number Portability) became operational.
• Speed Pay
• It is the mobile wallet launched by BSNL.
• Uttarakhand - became the first state in India to install Earthquake early warning system.

Environment and Health

• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome - Discovered in 2012

Sports

• FIFA Women's World Cup (Football)
• Host City: Vancouver of Canada
• United States won the final match against Japan.
• Carli Lloyd became the first women to score a hat trick goal in the world cup final.
• Abhijeet Gupta won gold in the 19th Commomwealth Chess Championship
• Two IPL teams suspended for 2 years 2016-2017
1. Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
2. Rajasthan Royals

World

• Yanis Varoifakis
• Greece's finance minister who resigned recently.
• PM Narendra Modi visited Kazakhstan
• Karim Massimov - Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
• Greece 
• Greece became the first developed country to default IMF Debt.
• It is located in the southeastern Europe.
• Cuba - became the first country to eliminate mother to child HIV transmission.
• Gennady Padalka
• Russian Cosmonaut, who set a record for spending longest time (804 days) in space.
• Astronauts names in different countries
• India,US - Astronauts
• Russia - Cosmonaut
• China -Taikonauts
• France - Spationauts

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