Current Affairs Recap of the Day: 22 July 2016

• Rank of India in the inaugural Sustainable Development Goal Index released by Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) – 110

• This country topped the Sustainable Development Goal Index released by Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) – Sweden

• This organisation partnered with Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) of the United Nations - Bertelsmann Stiftung


• The new HIV infections reported in the year 2015 as per the Global Burden of Disease Study of 2015 is - 2 lakh

• Gita Gopinath was appointed as the financial advisor to - Chief Minister of Kerala

• The former French cyclist, who rode in eleven editions of the Tour de France, who died recently is - Dominique Arnaud

• The 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Unique Identification Authority of India is - Ajay Bhushan Pandey

• As per WMO, global land and ocean average temperature for January 2016–June 2016 was -
1.05°C above the 20th century average

• Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Fox News Channel who resigned in July 2016- Roger Ailes

• Company that topped the 2016 Fortune 500 list of the world's biggest firms - Walmart

• Indian Company that got the highest ranking in the 2016 Fortune 500 list of the world's biggest firms - Indian Oil Corporation

• NDMC in July 2016 signed MoU to develop 12 sewage treatment plants with- National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)

• State that constituted a State Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (STAGI) in July 2016- Kerala

• This aircraft carrier will be preserved as museum after it is de-commissioned – INS Viraat

• He will head the panel constituted to prepare draft bill on Ganga river to deal with all issues related to the river – Justice (retd) Girdhar Malviya

• He is retired judge of Odisha High Court and will head the judicial probe constituted by the state government to look into Jagannath Temple management – Bimal Prasad Das