Friends..Here is the Daily Current Affairs
and GK Updates for 27 July 2015 useful for all upcoming exams. We are covered
important National, International happenings for the day in competitive Exam
point of view. Also don't forget to participate in our Current Affairs Quiz 2015 and GK Quiz.
1) Sebastian Vettel won Hungarian Grand Prix 2015:
--> Ferrari’s driver Sebastian Vettel of
Germany won the 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix of Formula One (F1).
--> Sebastian Vettel is a four-time
world champion and this was his 41st career win and first since the Malaysian
GP in the second race of this season.
--> Vettel dedicated his win to Jules
Bianchi, the French driver who died last week at the age of 25 from injuries
sustained in a head-on crash at the Japanese GP last October.
--> Daniil Kvyat finished second and
Daniel Ricciardo finished third.
2) IDFC gets banking licence from RBI:
--> IDFC Ltd said on 24 July 2015 the
Reserve Bank of India had granted a banking licence to the financial company,
making it the second lender to enter the banking sector after more than a
decade.
--> The Indian microfinance company
Bandhan Financial Services and Mumbai-based IDFC were the only two companies to
be granted preliminary bank permits last year.
--> Bandhan said in June it would launch
banking operations in August.
3) World's largest flower blooms in Tokyo for first time in
5 years:
--> A Titan Arum, believed to be the
world's largest flower, bloomed this week in Tokyo's Jindai Botanical Garden
for the first time in five years.
--> The flower Titan arum measuring
2-meter (6.5 feet) in height rarely flowers and is notoriously difficult to
propagate.
--> It is commonly called the corpse
flower because it smells like rotting meat that helps attract pollinators such
as beetles and flies.
4) World's 1st malaria vaccine gets regulatory nod:
--> The world's first malaria vaccine
cleared one of the final hurdles as it received a positive scientific opinion
from European regulators and now awaits approval from the WHO before it could be
administered within the next few years across Africa.
--> The vaccine, named Mosquirix, was on
24 July 2015 given the green light by London-based European Medicines Agency
after more than 30 years of research, detailed in 230,000 pages of data.
--> The vaccine will be examined by the
WHO which will give its recommendation in November this year.
5) Dhoni named as 9th most marketable sportsman:
--> According to figures released by the
London School of Marketing, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been named
as the ninth most marketable sportsman in the world.
--> He sits ahead of the likes of
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Maria Sharapova, Kobe Bryant and Usain Bolt
among others.
--> The list is headed by tennis star
Roger Federer who lost in the Wimbledon this year to Novak Djokovic.
6) Anand Krishnamurthy appointed CEO and MD of CSB bank:
--> Anand Krishnamurthy is now the new
MD and CEO of Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB) replacing Rakesh Bhatia who had quit
due to personal reason.
--> This appointment was done by the
board of directors of CSB among the three named sent to RBI.
7) Earth-like planet found by NASA's Kepler telescope:
--> Scientists using NASA's powerful
Kepler telescope have found a planet beyond the solar system that is a close
match to Earth.
--> The planet, which is about 60
percent bigger than Earth, is located about 1,400 light years away in the
constellation Cygnus.
--> While similarly sized planets have
been found before, the latest one, known as Kepler-452b, is circling a star
that is very similar but older than the sun at a distance about the same as
Earth's orbit.
8) 16th Anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas observed:
--> The 16th anniversary of Kargil Vijay
Diwas observed across the nation on 26 July 2015.
--> On this day in 1999 Indian Army
defeated Pakistan Army in the Kargil War.
--> The observance of the day in 2015
was marked with paying tribute to Kargil War heroes by laying a wreath at Amar
Jawan Jyoti in Delhi by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and three service
chiefs - Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha and
Navy chief Admiral RK Dhowan.
9) PM Modi launched ‘Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti
Yojana’:
--> Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25
July 2015 launched the ‘Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana’ for power
sector reforms in rural areas with a view to ensuring round the clock
electricity supply to farmers and rural households.
--> Speaking at the launch of the scheme
at Patna, Modi said that development is the panacea for all problems related to
poverty and unemployment.
--> The new power scheme focuses on
feeder separation (rural households and agricultural) and strengthening of
sub-transmission and distribution infrastructure, including metering at all
levels in rural areas.
--> The earlier scheme for rural
electrification, Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY), which was
launched by previous UPA government, has been subsumed in the new scheme as its
rural electrification component.
10) S. Sreesanth discharged in Indian Premier League 2013
Spot-Fixing Case:
--> S. Sreesanth and 41 others have been
discharged by a Patiala House Court in New Delhi in the Indian Premier League
2013 spot-fixing scandal.
--> The entire case has been dropped due
to lack of evidence.
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