Friends..Here check the Important GK and
Current Affairs Updates for 12 July 2015 for preparing for upcoming Exams. To
boost your preparation we suggest you to daily attempt our Current Affairs Quiz 2015 series.
1) Leander Paes, Martina Hingis won mixed doubles title at
Wimbledon 2015:
--> India's Leander Paes and
Switzerland's Martina Hingis defeated Alexander Peya of Austria and Timea Babos
of Hungary 6-1, 6-1 to win the Wimbledon mixed doubles title at The 2015 All
England Lawn Tennis Club on 12 July 2015.
--> The win gave Paes his 16th Grand
Slam trophy and Hingis her second title at Wimbledon in two days, having won
the women's doubles title with India's Sania Mirza on 11 July 2015.
--> It was Paes' eighth mixed doubles
title and second with Hingis.
--> They won the Australian Open earlier
this year. 42-year-old Paes also has eight men's doubles crowns in his Grand
Slam collection.
--> Sumit Nagal won the junior boys'
doubles trophy with Vietnam's Nam Hoang Ly.
2) Djokovic beats Federer to win his third Wimbledon title:
--> Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer
for the second successive year in the Wimbledon final to capture his third
title at the All England Club with a 7-6(1) 6-7(10) 6-4 6-3 win on 12 July
2015.
--> The Serbian world number one became
the first man since 2007 to retain the Wimbledon men's title and in the process
took his grand slam tally to nine.
3) Sunil Chhetri is highest paid player in ISL Auction 2015:
--> India national football captain
Sunil Chhetri was the biggest earner at the inaugural Indian Super League (ISL)
auction in Mumbai on 11 July 2015.
--> He was selected by Mumbai City FC
for Rs 1.20 crore.
--> Chhetri's team-mate at Bengaluru FC,
central midfielder Eugeneson Lyngdoh, was purchased by Pune FC for 1.05 crore
from a base price of Rs 27 lakh.
--> A total of Rs 7.22 crore was spent
on the ten players at the auction, with FC Goa and Kerala Blasters the only
teams not to buy any player.
4) Indian-American Astronaut Sunita Williams Selected in
NASA's First Commercial Crew:
--> Indian-American astronaut Sunita
Williams is among four astronauts who have been selected by NASA for commercial
flights to the International Space Station (ISS) from US soil.
--> They will work closely with
company-led teams to understand their designs and operations as they finalise
their Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and operational
strategies.
5) ‘Buddha In A Traffic Jam’ wins best original screenplay
award at the Madrid Film Festival:
--> ‘Buddha In A Traffic Jam’ film has
won the best original screenplay in a Foreign Language award at the Madrid
International Film Festival.
--> The film is a political satire
directed by filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri.
--> It stars Arunoday Singh and Mahi
Gill in a lead role along with Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi and introduces Anchal
Dwivedi.
6) Police verification for passports to go online:
--> Police verification for
issue/renewal of passports will soon be an online affair, allowing its
timeframe to be cut from the existing 20 days to less than a week.
--> The home ministry is set to allow
all SP-level police officers access to databases such as National Population
Register (NPR), Aadhaar and Electoral Photo I-Card via the Crime and Criminal
Tracking Network System (CCTNS) to enable online verification of identity,
address and criminal record, if any, of the passport applicant.
--> Though the online check, for now,
will be backed up with the usual physical verification by the local police, the
ultimate aim is to fully eliminate the need for a doorstep check for all
categories of passports.
7) Website of Isro's commercial arm Antrix hacked:
--> Two days after proving its
commercial satellite launch capabilities, the Indian Space Research
Organization (Isro) on 12 July 2015 found the website of its commercial arm,
Antrix, defaced by hackers.
--> The home page of the Antrix website
was replaced with parts of an article talking about 300 kids from Cape Town
getting American Major League jerseys at cheap prices from China.
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