Important Current Affairs 23rd July 2018

Important Current Affairs 23rd July 2018

Current Affairs 23rd July 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor
●        Visakhapatnam- Two nodes of Chennai Industrial Corridor (i) Visakhapatnam and (ii) Master Planning of Yerpedu-Srikalahasti is still going on.
●        Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved the amount of US $ 631 million in loans and grants for the VCIC.
 
 
Guide to more than 550 new ventures for early assistance and financial help
●        Startup India provided consultancy services to more than 550 new companies for initial aid and financial help till June 2018, 220000 lakhs were registered and more than one lakh questions were answered.
●        As per the second phase of the startup India program announced in May 2018, a total of eighty centers including the Atal Incubation centers and established incubation centers were selected by the Commission for financial assistance.
●        In the first phase, 19 incubation centers were selected during the year 2017-18.
 
 
Government constituted a high level committee under the chairmanship of Union Home Secretary to control mobs lynching
●        The Government respects the guidelines given by the Supreme Court in the matter of mob violence.
●        The government has advised the State Governments to take effective steps to prevent incidents of massacre by the mob and mob violence and in such cases, take strict action according to the law.
●        State Governments have been advised to implement the guidelines given by the Supreme Court on July 17, 2018.
 
 
 Launch of 'Delhi Metro Rail' app
●        Launching the upgraded version of the 'Delhi Metro Rail' mobile app, Secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and DMRC Durga Shankar Mishra said that through this app, metro passenger, nearest metro station, fare, first and last metro Time etc. will be easily available.
●        In this advanced version many new features have been added, such as the nearest metro station information, the passengers' responses, the smallest road information etc.
 
MSME Ministry will send teams in 117 aspiring districts to increase awareness about their plans
●        The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises will send teams of officers in the 117 most backward and Naxal affected aspiring districts identified by the Commission for increasing awareness about their current plans.
●        It is also aimed at achieving proposals for setting up and strengthening micro and small enterprises.
●        This information was given by the Minister of State for MSME, Shri Giriraj Singh in the Lok Sabha today.

Nitin Gadkari inaugurated National Highway projects in Madhya Pradesh
●        Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Protection Minister Nitin Gadkari today inaugurated the National Highway Project costing Rs. 5485 crore in Madhya Pradesh.
●        Today, in a program organized in Guna, he laid the foundation for a total of 226 km long 5 National Highway (NH) projects worth Rs. 3583 crore.
 
 Policy commission signed 'SOI' with Lupine Foundation for cooperation in the aspiring district program
●        An Intent of Statement (SOI) was signed today between the Policy Commission and the Lupine Foundation for cooperation in aspiring district program.
●        On this SOI, Additional Secretary of the Policy Commission Mr. Yaduvendra Mathur and Mr. Sitaram Gupta, Executive Director, Lupine Foundation signed.

The state-of-the-art air quality system 'Safar' was inaugurated
 
●        Union Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harshvardhan unveiled the most advanced system of air quality and weather forecast in Chandni Chowk, Delhi on July 21, 2018.
●        This huge real-color LED display displays the real table of 24 hours air quality with color coding along with 72 hours advance prediction.
 
 
Kerala tops for the third time in public affairs index
 
●        According to the Public Affairs Index 2018, released by the Public Affairs Center on 22 July 2018, Kerala is the best governed state in the country.
●        An index has been issued for better governance in the country.
●        Kerala has been the best administered state in the category of big states since the year 2016.
●        Tamil Nadu second in Kerala, Telangana in third place, Karnataka at fourth place and Gujarat at fifth position in this list.
 

List of top 500 people influencing the global entertainment world released by Variety
 
●        Variety Magazine has released a list of 500 most influential people in the entertainment world.
●        Various Indian personalities have also been included in this list.
●        This list of varieties is from those who contributed $ 2 trillion in the Global Entertainment Industry.
●        Variety 500 is a list of the 500 most influential people in the global entertainment world of $ 2 billion.
●        These include those people who have influenced the entertainment world.
 
 
Unemployed employees can withdraw 75% from PF 
 
●        The government has said that no employee, who is not employed for one month, can withdraw 75 percent from his own account of provident fund.
●        Labor Minister Santosh Gangwar said in the Lok Sabha that the Central Board of Trustees of Employees Provident Fund had considered the proposal to include paragraph 68 HH in EPF scheme, 1952 in its 222nd meeting on June 26.
 
 
McDonald's making diesel from cooking oil
 
●        Under a unique green initiative, McDonald's has started extracting diesel from food oil.
●        The company is recycling the thousands of liters of cooked oil that is using the biodiesel and its delivery truck is now running with this oil.
●        Each month, 35 tons (35 thousand liters) of cooking oil is being converted into biodiesel and saving 42 million liters of crude oil annually.

Current Affairs 23rd July 2018: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIP

Prime Minister's visit to Rwanda, Uganda and South Africa
●        Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on the state visit to Republic of Rwanda (23-24 July), Republic of Uganda (24 to 25 July) and Republic of South Africa (July 25 to 27).
●        This will be the first Rwandan visit of any Indian Prime Minister, whereas this will be the first Ugandan visit of the Indian Prime Minister after 20 years.
●        The journey of South Africa is in reference to the BRICS Summit.
 
 
First meeting of Bangladesh Joint Committee on border haats took place in Agartala
 
●        The first meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Committee on the border haats took place in Agartala, Tripura on July 22 and 23, 2018.
●        At the meeting, both sides accepted the positive impact of the hats on the livelihood of those living in areas around the border haats.
●        On this occasion, the measures for improving the operation and operation of four boundary haats were reviewed.
●        At the same time, there was talk of a certain time fixed for making six new boundary haats.

Current Affairs 23rd July 2018: APPOINTMENT

S.N. Agarwal takes charge as new member of the Railway Board
●        S.N. Agrawal took over as new member of Railway Board and ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India.
●        Earlier, Agarwal was the General Manager of South-Eastern Railway, Kolkata.
●        S.N. Agarwal is a civil engineer and is a 1980 batch officer of Indian Railway Engineering Service.

Current Affairs 23rd July 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

MoU with Britain to improve public transport system
●        The government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Britain.
●        Its aim is to improve the public transport system in the country.
●        This MoU was signed by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and Transport for London (TFL).
●        TFL is a statutory body under the Greater London Authority Act, 1999.

Current Affairs 23rd July 2018: SCHEMES

Uttar Pradesh government abolished 'unemployment allowance' scheme
 
●        The Uttar Pradesh government has stopped the 'Upra Unemployment Allowance' scheme run by the Labor and Employment Department.
●        On the formation of a new government, the Program Implementation Department issued a letter to all departments to end irrelevant plans.
●        Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath government has ended the much-awaited unemployment allowance scheme of the previous Samajwadi Party government.

Current Affairs 23rd July 2018: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA will launch Parker Solar probe mission for the study of Sun
 
●        US space agency NASA is preparing for the launch of the most ambitious mission.
●        NASA will send this mission to space to study the sun.
●        The name of NASA's mission is Parker Solar Probe Mission, which will be flagged on August 6.
●        This space station will reach near the sun and study it.
●        This spacecraft has been named after American scientist Eugene Newman Parker.