Important Current Affairs 20th July 2018

Important Current Affairs 20th July 2018

Current Affairs 20th July 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

President addresses annual convocation of IIT Kharagpur
●        President Shri Ramnath Kovind today addressed the 64th Annual Convocation of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in Kharagpur, West Bengal.
●        Immediately after independence, under the committee set up by the government, IIT Kharagpur was established to promote technical education in the country.
●        President of this committee, British Nobel laureate Dr. A.V. Hill, who recommended the establishment of an institution on the lines of MIT in the US.
 
Discovering new reserves of coal
●        The government has not slowed down the pace of search for new estimates of coal in the country.
●        New resources of coal are identified by promotional / regional search / drilling.
●        Each year, about one to three billion tonnes of new resources are included in ready stock of coal in the country through encouraging / regional exploration.
 

Central Home Minister tomorrow will launch Police Cadet Program tomorrow
●        Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Minister of State for Human Development, Prakash Javadekar, Chief Minister of Haryana, Manohar Lal, Union Minister of State for Planning and Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Rao Inderjit Singh, Union Home Minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir and Haryana Government Minister Rao Narveer Singh. The lion will launch the Student Police Cadet Program on July 21, 2018.
●        This program aims to make bridges between the police and the mass community with the help of school students.
●        This program gives special attention to students of 8th and 9th standard.
 

TRAI announces new rules for telecom companies
 
●        The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced the new rules on July 19, 2018 to curb fake calls and messages.
●        According to the new rules, the user's consent has been made mandatory before sending any unwanted messages.
●        TRAI has asked telecom companies to ensure that any kind of commercial communication should be done according to the registered senders only.

Passage of the Prevention of Corruption Prevention Bill from the Rajya Sabha
 
●        The Rajya Sabha passed the Corruption Prevention Amendment Bill 2013 by sound vote on July 19, 2018.
●        This bill has been amended in the Prevention of Corruption Prevention (Amendment) Act 1988.
●        According to the bill, before the case of corruption on LokSevak Lokayuktas in the case of Lokpal and states, the permission of the Lokayuktas will be sought.
●        A total of 43 revisions were brought on behalf of the government, which were passed by the consensus.
 
100 rupees new note will be launched
 
●        RBI will soon issue new notes of Rs 100.
●        This note will also be of Mahatma Gandhi series, which will be the signature of the current Governor Urjit Patel.
●        This note will be of purple.
 

NMCG organized 'Ganga Plantation Campaign' in five Ganga basin states
 
●        On behalf of the National Clean Ganga Mission, 'Ganga Plantation Campaign' was organized in five major states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
●        This event was celebrated from July 9 to July 15, 2018 as 'Shubharambh Week'.
●        Nodal agency was created to effectively implement this campaign to the forest departments of these states.

Justice KM Joseph named by the collegium of Supreme Court
 
●        The Supreme Court of the 5 senior judges, headed by Chief Justice Deepak Mishra, has decided to recommend the appointment of Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court KM Joseph again as a Supreme Court Justice.
●        Earlier on 26th April the Central Government had sent back the recommendation of the Council to promote Justice Joseph. The Center had argued that this proposal is not under the parameters of the top court.
●        It was also said from the Center that there is enough representation from Kerala in the Supreme Court, from which they come.

Now bottles can be sold back to Pepsi and Coca Cola
 
●        Top cold drinks companies like PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Bisleri will now buy their plastic bottles from the customer.
●        Companies have started writing buyback values on their plastic bottles.
●        The companies themselves have taken this decision regarding bottles of cold drinks sold in Maharashtra.
 
 
TDP's no confidence motion against Narendra Modi government failed
 
●        The non-confidence motion brought by the opposition parties in the Lok Sabha fell on Friday after voting.
●        There were 325 votes in opposition to the motion for non-confidence while only 126 votes were cast in favor of it.
●        A total of 451 members voted on this proposal.
●        After the vote on the motion, the action of the Lok Sabha was postponed till Monday.

Current Affairs 20th July 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

Govt. Asked Whatsapp to find a more effective solution 
●        On July 3, 2018, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology was asked to take prompt action in order to prevent the misuse of the inflammatory messages being circulated through Whatsapp platform in his written message to WhatsApp.
●        Even after this, an unfortunate incident took place in Bidar, where a 32-year software engineer Mohammad Azam was killed after a viral rumor allegedly kidnapped children on Whatsapp.
 

 Myanmar joins International Solar Coalition
 
●        Myanmar was initiated by India on July 19, 2018 as a 68th member of the International Solar Organization, which has signed Framework.
●        Myanmar has expressed commitment to the use of solar energy by joining this organization.
●        During the bilateral meeting held during the Delhi Dialogue, Myanmar Foreign Minister Keev Tin agreed with India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj signing the ISA Framework and signed her consent.

Current Affairs 20th July 2018: OBITUARY

Famous songwriter Gopal Das Neeraj dies
 
●        Padmabhushan Gopal Das 'Neeraj', a well known songwriter and well-known poet of Hindi, passed away on 19th July 2018 at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.
●        He was 93 years old.
●        Gopal Das Neeraj, who was seriously ill for a long time due to old age, was admitted to Lotus Hospital in Agra on getting worse.
●        He was admitted to AIIMS from Agra after his condition worsened.

AMU Medical College will get Gopaldas' Neeraj's body
 
●        The pious body of the great poet and songwriter Gopaldas 'Neeraj' will be brought to his Aligarh residence on Saturday.
●        K.P. In the Inter College, the public will be kept for Darshan, after which the body will be taken to his private residence, where the doctors' team will work for the process of family happiness.
●        Neeraj donated his whole body in 2015.

Current Affairs 20th July 2018: ECONOMY

RIL's market cap crosses Rs 7 lakh crore
 
●        Reliance Industries stock reached its highest level on Friday and its market capitalization crossed the Rs 7 lakh crore mark.
●        There is a second chance in a week when market capitalization has reached this level.
●        Reliance Industries Ltd Market capitalization ( MACP ) of the Bombay Stock Exchange after the expiry of the business stood at Rs. 7,45,106.70 crore.
●        Earlier, on July 13, RIL's MICOP had crossed Rs 7 lakh crore for some time.

Wipro's profit reaches Rs 2,120 crore
 
●        The country's third largest information technology company Wipro 's integrated net profit rose two percent to Rs 2,120.80 crore in the first quarter of the current financial year.
●        It was Rs 2,076.70 crore in the same quarter last fiscal.
●        The company said in the information given to the stock exchange that operating income during the reported period increased 2.5 percent to Rs 13,977.70 crore.