Current Affairs One-Liner: 28th July 2021

• Yuto Horigome (Japan) has won the first-ever Olympic Gold medal in a skateboarding competition. The silver medal was won by Brazil’s Kelvin Hoefler and the bronze was won by Jagger Eaton of the United States.
• The parent company of Google named Alphabet has announced to launch a new company named ‘Intrinsic’ which will be focused on software developing for robots. Wendy Tan White will be the CEO of Intrinsic.
• Static Part: 
• HQ of Alphabet: Mountain View, California.
• Important Days and Themes: 28th July: World Nature Conservation Day
• 28th July: World Hepatitis Day
• Theme: ‘Hepatitis Can’t Wait’.
• Books and Authors: Title of Book: ‘Shifting Orbits: Decoding the Trajectory of the Indian Start-up Ecosystem’
• Co-author: Thillai Rajan, Joffi Thomas and Rohan Chinchwadkar
• Released by: Amitabh Kant (CEO of NITI Aayog)

• The Dholavira in Gujarat, which is the Harappan-era metropolis is added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. It has thus become the 40th one from India in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
• Static Part: 
• Other World Heritage Sites of Gujarat: Champaner, Rani ki Vav and the historic city of Ahmedabad.
• The Buen Retiro Park and Paseo del Prado of Madrid, Spain are added to the UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
• The Care Rating agency has estimated that India’s GDP growth rate to be in the range of 8.8 to 9% for FY 2021-22 (FY22). India’s economy contracted by 7.3% in FY21. The fiscal deficit for FY22 will be between Rs 17.38 lakh crore to Rs 17.68 lakh crore.
• Static Part: 
• HQ of Care Ratings: Mumbai
• MD and CEO of Care Ratings: Ajay Mahajan
• Exercise Cutlass Express 2021
• OD Facility upto Rs 10 lakh launched by HDFC and CSC
• Appointments on 28th July 2021
• Devaranya Yojana-- Madhya Pradesh
• India’s Economic Growth to be at 9.5% for FY22--IMF

Question: 

Q.1 The Dholavira, which is the Harappan-era metropolis is added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. In which state it is situated?
a. Gujarat
b. Rajasthan
c. Uttarakhand
d. Himachal Pradesh