Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 15th July to 22nd July 2021

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 15th July to 22nd July 2021

Dear students,

We all know how essential the General Awareness/ Current Affairs portion is in every exam, whether it’s for SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, LIC, SSC, Railway, or any other government exam. As a result, we’ll be providing weekly one-liner current affairs for any future exam featuring a GA portion.
Weekly one-liner current affairs condense the most important news into a single line, which is required reading for all exams. Weekly current affairs are presented below, which will keep you updated with the weekly one-liner current affairs.

National News

• Ladakh signs MoU with Sikkim to turn UT organic
• PM Modi inaugurates International Cooperation & Convention Centre ‘Rudraksh’ in Varanasi
• IAHE signs pact with University of New South Wales for setting up centre of excellence CATTS
• Piyush Goyal appointed Leader of House in Rajya Sabha
• ‘Bonalu’ festivities to begin in Telangana
• Cabinet approves increase in DA and Dearness Relief from 17% to 28%
• Manduadih railway station renamed as Banaras
• Common High Court of J&K and Ladakh renamed as ‘High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh
• Maharashtra govt launches new EV Policy 2021
• Haryana to introduce ‘One Block, One Product’ scheme
• India’s first pod taxi to operate between Noida Airport and Film City
• FDI limit in NPS fund managers hiked to 74% from 49%
• Govt to set up set up country’s top heritage institute in Noida
• GoI extends ‘Stand Up India Scheme’ up to 2025
• Vice President Venkaiah Naidu addresses the World Universities Summit 2021

International News

• UAE becomes 1st Gulf nation to open embassy in Israel
• US, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan to form new quad grouping
• Singapore unveils one of the world’s biggest floating solar panel farms
• New Zealand to host APEC 2021 virtually
• Leftist school teacher Pedro Castillo declared New Peru President
• Ariel Henry new Haiti’s Prime Minister

Banking and Financial

• RBI’s ban on Mastercard may hit card issuance of private lenders
• RBI Launches ‘Retail Direct Scheme’
• RBI cancels licence of Dr Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar Urban Co-operative Bank
• Adani Group takes over Mumbai Airport
• Microsoft acquires cybersecurity firm RiskIQ for $500M
• Federal Bank launches “FEDDY” AI-Powered virtual assistant for customers
• Kotak Mahindra Bank signs MoU with the Indian Navy for salary account
• ADB Cut India’s economic growth forecast for FY22 to 10%
• Byju’s acquires US edtech firm Epic in $500 million deal
• SBI selects Paisalo as its National Corporate Business Correspondent

Appointment and Resignation

• Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi appointed Deputy Leader Of House In Rajya Sabha

Awards

• Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus to Receive Olympic Laurel at Tokyo Olympics Opening
• Mumbai-based film-maker Payal Kapadia wins Best Documentary Award at Cannes
• Cannes Film Festival 2021: Caleb Landry Jones won Best Actor for Nitram (US); Renate Reinsve won Best Actress for Worst Person in the World (Norway); Julia Ducournau won Palme d’Or for Titane (France)
• Cachar district received the National Silver SKOCH award

Defence

• ‘Exercise Shield’ maritime exercise held between India, Sri Lanka & Maldives
• DRDO successfully flight-tests surface-to-air missile Akash-NG
• DRDO successfully test flights indigenous Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile

Science

• ISRO successfully conducts 3rd test on Vikas Engine for Gaganyaan Program

Sports

• AR Rahman launch Tokyo Olympics cheer song “Hindustani Way”
• Karnataka to host second Khelo India University Games 2022
• British Grand Prix 2021: Lewis Hamilton Won British GP
• ICC inducted Mongolia, Tajikistan and Switzerland as new members
• Australia’s Brisbane to host 2032 Olympic Games
• Viswanathan Anand won NC Masters of Sparkassen chess trophy

Book and Author

• A new book titled ‘The India Story’ by Bimal Jalan
• Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra announces autobiography ‘The Stranger In The Mirror’

Important day

• 15th July: World Youth Skills Day
• 17th July: World Day for International Justice (Theme 2021: “social justice in the digital economy”)
• 18th July: Nelson Mandela International Day
• 22nd July: Pi Approximation Day

Obituary

• Former Pakistan president Mamnoon Hussain passes away
• Veteran actor Ramakrishnan passed away
• National Award-winning Actor Surekha Sikri passed away
• Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui passes away
• Veteran thespian Urmil Kumar Thapliyal passes away

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