Weekly Current Affairs July 2018:2nd Week

Banking and Financial Awareness:

Yes Bank MD and CEO- Rana Kapoor.
Head office - Mumbai.

ICICI Bank's Mortgage Portfolio Crosses Rs1.5-Trillion, making it the largest private player in the segment.
RBI Licences Bank Of China To Operate In India and this will be the second Chinese bank to be operating in the country.
NABARD has sanctioned Rs 735.53 crore for West Bengal for facilitating the execution of 86 projects.
LIC (Life Insurance Corporation) gets IRDAI’s nod to buy stake in IDBI Bank.

Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel Appointed NGT Chairperson.
Payments Council Of India Appoints Vishwas Patel As New Chairman.
Major General Jose Eladio Alcain appointed as the Head of the UN Military Observer Group in India, Pakistan.
an Indian-American top White House lawyer, Uttam Dhillon appointed Head of Drug Enforcement Agency In US.
Saraswati Prasad appointed as chairman and managing director of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).
P K Shrivastava appointed as the new Director-General and Chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board.
K B Vijay Srinivas appointed Director& GM of United India Insurance Company.
State Bank of India (SBI) has selected Arijit Basu as Managing Director of the SBI.

The Paris-born dancer, actor, and singer, Tony Award winner Liliane Montevecchi, passed away.
Ex Navy chief Admiral JG Nadkarni Passed away.

Michael Ondaatje’s bestselling novel 'The English Patient' was announced as the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize at the Southbank Centre in London.
According to Study by OAG, Mumbai Airport Among Least Punctual Airports in The World.
MOU’s, Agreement and Summits
9th Heads of Mission Conference was held in New Delhi; the theme was ‘Unprecedented Outreach: Unparalleled Outcomes’.
9th Meeting of EPG on Indo-Nepal Relations Concludes in Kathmandu.
NITI Aayog to Organise India’s First Global Mobility Summit in New Delhi.

June 29: International Day of the Tropics.
National Doctors’ Day: July 1, theme is ‘Zero tolerance to violence against doctors and clinical establishment’.
International Joke Day – July 1
World Sports Journalists Day – July 2
World UFO day – July 2
International Day of Cooperatives: 7 July

UN Member States Approve USD 6.69 Billion for 13 Peacekeeping Operations.
Antonio Guterres is the Secretary-General of the United States.
The UN Headquarters in New York, United State
The world’s first digital art museum opened its doors to the public in Tokyo, Japan.

The Govt. launched mobile application “ReUnite” in New Delhi to track and trace missing and abandoned children in India.
The government of India announced country’s first e-waste recycling unit will come up in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
India to Host International Union of Food Science and Technology 2018 and the theme is 25 Billion Meals a Day by 2025 with Healthy, Nutritious, Safe and Diverse Foods.
India’s first e-waste recycling unit to come up in Bengaluru.
India to Operate 'World’s Emptiest Airport' The Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) in Sri Lanka.
Central Reserve Police Force launches 24 hour ‘Madadgaar helpline’ for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Aadhar enabled e-PAN card service launched by Income Tax Department for individuals seeking PAN (Permanent Account Number) service.
Agartala Airport to be named after Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Kishore, the erstwhile ruler of Tripura.

Gymnast Dipa Karmakar clinched a gold medal in the vault event of FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin in Turkey.
ICC (International Cricket Council) Introduces Stricter Sanctions for Ball-Tampering.
Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore announced that the Sports Authority of India (SAI) has been renamed as Sports India.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix 2018 title in Austria.
Australia Wins Hockey Champions Trophy Final 2018 at Breda, the Netherlands.