JULY CURRENT AFFAIRS

Static Take Aways from July 2017 Current Affairs

* Sukanya Samriddhi Account can be opened up to age of 10 years only from the date of birth.
* Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) investments mature in 115 months.
* Antonio Guterres is the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations.
* The headquarters of the United Nations is in New York City, USA.
* Lima is the capital of Peru. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is present president of Peru.
* BHEL Head Office is in New Delhi. Mr Atul Sobti is Chairman and Managing Director of BHEL.
* The Election Commission was established in accordance with the Constitution on 25th January 1950. It currently consists of Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners.

* Om Prakash Kohli (additional charge) is present governor of Madhya Pradesh. Kanha National Park, also known as Kanha Tiger Reserve, is in Madhya Pradesh.

* Prof. Ravindra Kumar is Vice-Chancellor (In-charge) of IGNOU.
* Fino Paytech was founded on 13th July 2006 is headquartered at Mumbai, with offices across India.
* Belgrade is the capital of Serbia. Serbian dinar is the currency of Serbia.
* Rajiv Pratap Rudy is Lok Sabha MP from the Saran constituency in Bihar. He is Union Minister of State Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Government of India.

* Headquarters of Union Bank of India is in Mumbai. The Tagline of Union Bank of India is "good people to bank with".
* Headquarters of Syndicate Bank of India is in Manipal, Karnataka.
* The capital of Germany is Berlin.
* Takehiko Nakao is present president of the Asian Development Bank. Manila, Philippines is headquarters of ADB.
* The FSB was established in April 2009 as the successor to the Financial Stability Forum (FSF). Financial Stability Board (FSB) Secretariat in Basel, Switzerland.

* Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu is Chief Minister of Nagaland. Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya is governor of Nagaland.
* The National Voters’ Day is celebrated every year on 25th January.
* A joint training exercise between the Indian Army and the Royal Army of Oman named Al Nagah-II 2017 also held in Himachal Pradesh in March 2017. Bangkok is the capital of Thailand. Its currency is Thai baht.

* The Director General of TERI is Ajay Mathur.
* Siddaramaiah is the CM of Karnataka. Vajubhai Vala is the Governor of Karnataka.
* Benjamin Netanyahu is the PM of Israel. The Capital of Israel is Jerusalem. Israeli new shekel is the Currency of Israel.
* Piyush Goyal is the present Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines in the Government of India.

* K.K.Nair is General Secretary of Indian National Bank Officers Congress.
* NDRF was formed in 2006. It is headquartered in New Delhi.
* ASEAN was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand.
* Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are the five-member Nations of BRICS. It was established in 2009.
* Jin Liqun is present president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Beijing, China is headquarters of AIIB.
* Amman is the Capital of Jordan. The currency of Jordan is Jordanian dinar.
* Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed is the present chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Narinder Nath Vohra is the present governor of Jammu and Kashmir.

* The capital of Indonesia is Jakarta. Joko Widodo is the current President of Indonesia.
* Admiral Sunil Lanba is the Chief Naval Officer of Indian Navy. Yutaka Murakawa is the Chief of Staff of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) of American Navy is Admiral John M. Richardson.

* Bishkek is the Capital of Kyrgyzstan. Currency of Kyrgyzstan is Kyrgyzstani som. President of Kyrgyzstan is Almazbek Atambayev.
* Headquarter of South Indian Bank is in Thrissur, Kerala. Current MD and CEO of South Indian Bank is Mr. V.G Mathew.
* ITU currently has a membership of 193 countries. ITU is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
* Headquarter of FIFA is in Zurich, Switzerland. The President of FIFA is Gianni Infantino.
* European Parliament is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
* Chief Minister of Odisha i

s Mr. Naveen Patnaik. The Governor of Odisha is Mr. S C Jamir.
* Co-founder and CEO of Indus OS is Rakesh Deshmukh. CEO of YES Bank is Rana Kapoor.
* EPFO came into existence under the promulgation of the Employee's Provident Fund Ordinance on the 15th November 1951.
* Army chief of Pakistan is Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.
* Managing Director & CEO of Union Bank of India Shri Rajkiran Rai G.
* G-20 was founded in 1999.
* Japan had suffered the Nuclear attack in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 during Second World War.
* GST council is headed by Finance Minister of India Mr. Arun Jaitley.
* Union Minister for Science & Technology is Dr. Harshvardhan. Mr. Prakash Javadekar is Union HRD Minister.
* Chief executive officer of Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company Limited is Anuj Mathur. MD and CEO of Dhanlaxmi Bank is G. Sreeram.

* Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) is a company registered under the Companies Act, 1956 of India.
* Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the Director-General of WHO for the term of 5 Years.
* The capital of Australia is Canberra. Its Currency is Australian dollar. Malcolm Turnbull is the PM of Australia.
* NSG was founded in 1984. It Headquarters in New Delhi. Current Director General of NSG is Sudhir Pratap Singh.
* Capital of Nepal is Kathmandu. Prime Minister of Nepal is Sher Bahadur Deuba
* Shikha Sharma is the MD and CEO of Axis Bank. Headquarter of Axis bank is in Mumbai.
* Ravichandran Purushothaman is the present President of Danfoss India.
* Golden Peacock Awards, instituted by the Institute Of Directors (IOD), India in 1991, are now regarded as a benchmark of Corporate Excellence worldwide.

* OLLY was the Mascot of the 22nd Edition of Asian Athletics Championships which was held in Odisha.
* Ahmedabad is the city in the state of Gujarat. The Sabarmati River runs through its center. Vijay Rupani is the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
* UNESCO Headquarters based in Paris, France. Irina Bokova Director-general of the UNESCO.
* UNESCO stands for- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
* Antonio Guterres is the Secretary-General of United Nations.
* Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia. Currency of Mongolia is Mongolian togrog.
* Harsimrat Kaur Badal is the Food Processing Minister.
* 24th Governor of RBI is Dr. Urjit Patel.
* Shri Keshari Nath Tripathi is the Governor of West Bengal. Smt. Mamta Banerjee is the CM of West Bengal.
* Chairman of BCCI is Vinod Rai. Ravi Shastri replaces Anil Kumble as a head coach.
* Leslie Thng will succeed Vistara’s incumbent CEO Phee Teik Yeoh.
* Mr. Justice Swatanter Kumar is the Present Chairperson of NGT.
* Shri T. Suvarna Raju is the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of HAL. HAL is Headquartered in Bengaluru.
* Harsh Kumar Bhanwala is the Chairman of NABARD. NABARD came into existence on 12 July 1982.
* The current Lt. Governor of Delhi is Anil Baijal.
* Devendra Fadnavis is the CM of Maharashtra. Shri Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao is the Governor of Maharashtra.
* The Head Office of NHB is at New Delhi. NHB was set up on July 9, 1988, under the National Housing Bank Act, 1987. Shri Sriram Kalyanaraman is the MD & CEO of NHB.

* Capital of Meghalaya is Shillong. Governor of Meghalaya is Banwarilal Purohit.
* Smt. Vasundhara Raje is the present CM of Rajasthan. Shri Kalyan Singh is the Governor of Rajasthan.
* Achal Khare is managing director of National High-Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC).
* Amulya Patnaik is an IPS, Commissioner of Police, Delhi.
* National Framework for Malaria Elimination (NFME) was launched in 2016 with the aim of eliminating malaria by 2030.
* Capital of Turkey is Ankara. Currency of Turkey is Turkish lira.
* The minimum amount to be remitted through RTGS is Rs2 lakh.
* Shri Lalit Jalan is the Chairman of BSES.
* TCS executive Ramanathan Ramanan is the head of Atal Mission under NITI Aayog.
* Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google.
* Airports Authority of India (AAI) was constituted by an Act of Parliament and came into being on 1st April 1995. Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra is the Chairman of AAI.

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Headquarter of OBC is in Gurugram, Haryana.
* Rajiv Pratap Rudy is Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge).
* UNICEF stands for United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. Head office of UNICEF is in New York, US.
* Roger Federer is from Switzerland.
* CEO of Mobikwik is Bipin Preet Singh.
* Headquarter of Central Silk Board (CSB) is in Bengaluru.
* The Capital of Tibet is Lhasa.
* The Capital of Sikkim is Gangtok. Chief Minister of Sikkim is Pawan Kumar Chamling.
* Doyang Dam is situated in Nagaland. PB Acharya is the Governor of Nagaland.
* Maithripala Sirisena is the President of Sri Lanka.
* Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was officially born on 30 September 1961. Angel Gurría is the Present Secretary-General of OECD.

* Smriti Irani is also Textiles Minister in the Government of India.
* Narendra Singh Tomar is also the Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation, and Housing and Urban Affairs.
* Bharat Arun appointed Team India bowling coach.
* Mr. Bakri Hassan Salih is the present Prime Minister of Sudan. The Capital of Sudan is Khartoum.
* Dr. Subhash Bhamre is the Union Minister of State for Defence. Shri Arun Jaitley is the Defence Minister of India.
* Smt. Sumitra Mahajan is the Present Speaker of Lok Sabha.
* Shri Mohammad Hamid Ansari is the Present Chairman of Rajya Sabha.
* Abu Dhabi is the Capital of UAE.
* The headquarter of Forbes is in New York City, USA.
* CEO of ICICI Bank is Chanda Kochhar. Headquarter of ICICI is in Mumbai.
* Kawal Tiger Reserve is located at Jannaram mandal of Mancherial District in Telangana state of India.
* Chief Minister of Telangana is KC Rao.
* Headquarter of SEBI is in Mumbai. Present chairman of SEBI is Ajay Tyagi.
* Chief of Indian Army is General Bipin Rawat.
* Present chairman of LIC is V K Sharma.
* MD and CEO of Bank of Baroda is P. S. Jayakumar. Headquarter of Bank of Baroda is in Vadodara.
* Chief Minister of Kerala is Pinarayi Vijayan. Governor of Kerala is Palaniswamy Sathasivam.
* Sameer Bansal is the Director of PNB MetLife.
* The Capital of Bangladesh is Dhaka. Prime minister of Bangladesh is Sheikh Hasina. Abdul Hamid is the President of Bangladesh.
* The Capital of Mozambique is Maputo. Filipe Nyusi is the President of Mozambique.
* The Capital of Tanzania is Dodoma. John Magufuli is the President of Tanzania.
* Current chairman of ISRO is A. S. Kiran Kumar.
* ILO is Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The Director-General of ILO is Guy Ryder.
* Edinburgh is the Capital of Scotland. Its currency is Pound sterling.
* Trivendra Singh Rawat is the CM of Uttarakhand. Dr. Krishan Kant Paul is the Present Governor of Uttarakhand.
* Nassau is the Capital of Bahamas. Bahamian dollar is the Currency of Bahamas.
* Kshatrapati Shivaji is the Chairman and Managing Director of SIDBI. Head Office of SIDBI is in Lucknow.
* Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank is Jose Vinals.
* Anil Ambani is the Non-Executive Chairman of RDEL.
* CEO of Yatra.com is Dhruv Shringi.
* Headquarters of AIBA is in Lausanne, Switzerland. President of AIBA Dr. Wu Ching-kuo.
* Vande Mataram is written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
* CEO of Microsoft Corporation is Satya Nadella.
* Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder & CEO of Snapdeal, the parent company of Freecharge.
* Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park in India.
* Ashishkumar Chauhan is the present Managing Director and CEO of BSE.
* Mrs. Ashwini Bhide is the present Managing Director of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation.
* Earthquake is measured by Seismograph.
* MD of Punjab National Bank Sunill Mehta. Headquarter of PNB is in New Delhi.
* Karnataka is the State in India with Maximum number of Tigers.
* A. P. Hota is the MD & CEO of NPCI.
* R Subramaniakumar is the MD & CEO of IOB. IOB is headquartered in Chennai.
* Chairperson of NITI Ayog is Shri Narendra Modi. Vice Chairperson of NITI Ayog is Dr. Arvind Panagariya.
* Tehran is the Capital of Iran. Hassan Rouhani is the President of Iran.
* S Christopher is the chairman of DRDO.

* Uber was founded in 2009. It Headquarters in California, the USA.
* Headquarters of Canara Bank is in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Chairman of Canara Bank is Shri T. N. Manoharan.
* Headquarter of SAARC is in Kathmandu. Amjad Hussain B. Sail is the present Secretary General of SAARC.
* Chairman of IRDAI is TS Vijayan. Headquarter of IRDAI is in Hyderabad, Telangana.
* Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award named after former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay. It is regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize and was first awarded in the year 1958.

* Budapest is the Capital of Hungary. The Currency of Hungary is Hungarian forint.
* Prague is the Capital of Czech Republic. Czech koruna is the Currency of Czech Republic.