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1) Chinese ex-FM to be AIIB chief:
--> China on 6 July 2015 named a former
Finance Minister as its choice to head the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank (AIIB), which is being seen as a rival to the U.S. and
Europe-dominated banking institutions.
--> Former Finance Minister Jin Liqun
has been formally nominated by China as its preferred candidate to head the
$100 billion AIIB.
--> Mr. Jin (65) is currently the
secretary-general of the interim multilateral secretariat for establishing
AIIB.
2) Lord Kamlesh Patel becomes first British-Asian appointee
to ECB:
--> Professor Lord Kamlesh Patel has
become the first British Asian to be appointed as Director of England and Wales
Cricket Board (ECB).
--> He succeeds Lord Morris of
Handsworth, who had stepped down after 11 years as an ECB Director.
3) eMudhra launched eSign services:
--> eMudhra Limited, a leading
certifying firm in the country for digital signatures launched eSign services.
--> eSign is an online electronic
signature service which can facilitate an Aadhaar holder to digitally sign a
document within seconds.
--> The signatures generated by eSign
are legally valid and secure under the Information Technology Act, 2000, the
company said.
4) Union Government appointed Sriram Kalyanaraman as MD and
CEO of NHB:
--> Union government has appointed
Sriram Kalyanaraman as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of National Housing Bank (NHB) for a period of five years.
--> With this he became the first person
from private sector to be appointed as head of a public sector financial
institution.
5) Home ministry declared whole of Nagaland as 'disturbed
area':
--> The Union home ministry has declared
whole of Nagaland as a "disturbed area" for a further period of one
year from June 30, 2015.
--> The state was declared as
“disturbed” area under Section 3 of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act,
1958.
--> With this declaration the armed
forces get powers to search, raid and arrest anyone without a warrant.
6) Fergusson College wins heritage status:
--> Pune’s Fergusson College, founded in
1885, has been accorded the special heritage status by the University Grants
Commission (UGC).
--> With the status, UGC will provide
financial assistance for its upkeep.
--> Now the college is among the 19
institutions in the country to get the heritage status.
7) Floyd Mayweather stripped of title he won in Manny
Pacquiao fight:
--> World Boxing Organization (WBO) has
stripped of the Welterweight World title 2015 won by Floyd Mayweather in May
2015.
--> Decision in this regard was taken by
WBO after Mayweather failed to pay the 200,000 dollar sanctioning fee to WBO
prior to the deadline of 3 July 2015.
--> As per WBO rules, boxers are
required to pay 3 per cent of their purse to fight for a world title which at
maximum accounts for 200,000 dollars.
8) India and Kazakhstan ink deals on uranium supply,
defence:
--> India signed a historic uranium deal
with Kazakhstan on 6 July 2015 during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state
visit of Kazakhstan.
--> Under the deal, India will receive
5,000 metric tonnes much uranium from Kazakhstan.
--> Kazakhstan is Central Asia’s largest
economy and the world’s largest producer of uranium.
9) Trujet becomes the latest to enter domestic skies:
--> Directorate General of Civil
Aviation (DGCA) granted a regional air operator’s permit (AOP) to Turbo Megha
to operate a regional airline Trujet.
--> TruJet will start scheduled regional
services a little later.
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