www.study4u.in: Weekly Current Affairs July 2018 (Week-III) || Download PDF

Banking and Financial Awareness:

●RBI to Issue New 100 Rupee Notes inLavender Colour and the back side features motif of “RANI KI VAV”. The dimension of the new note is 66 mm × 142 mm.
●Jana Small Finance Bank announced the commercial launch of its banking operations.
●Ajay Kanwal is the MD and CEO.
●Jammu & Kashmir's first all-women branch of Jammu and Kashmir Bank was inaugurated.
●Piyush Goyal has approved an infusion of Rs 11,336 crore in five banks including for helping them meet the regulatory capital requirement.
●SBI and NABARD have joined hands to provide collateral-free credit through Joint Liability Groups (JLGs) in Telangana.
●SBI Organised Kisan Mela to Educate Farmers On Financial Literacy.

●For the period of two years, India became Vice-Chair or regional head of Asia Pacific Region of the World Customs Organisation (WCO)
●Brij Bhushan Saran Singh to Be Named India's Chef De Mission At Asian Game

●Ramchandra Singhdeo, former and first Finance Minister of Chhattisgarh, passed away.
●Hindi poet Gopal Das Neeraj passed away.
●Actor Rita Bhaduri passed away.
●Kannada poet and film song lyricist M.N. Vyasa Rao passed away.

●Carnatic Vocalist Aruna Sairam Selected for 2018 Sangita Kalanidhi Award for her contribution to Carnatic music.
●8 years old Indian-origin schoolboy Ishwar Sharma, who is the under-11 UK national yoga champion has been named the 'British Indian of the Year' in the young achiever category.

●For enhancing research in the field of Ayurveda, All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) and IIT Delhi have signed a MoU.
●To enhance the bilateral cooperation between the two countries, India and Ghana signed two agreements
●The 28th meeting of the GST Council chaired by interim finance minister Piyush Goyal was held in New Delhi.
●The 4th BIMSTEC Summit will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal, main focus of the summit will be to increase connectivity between the BIMSTEC nations
●2+ 2 Dialogue Between India and US to Be Held in New Delhi.
●The 10th edition of the Delhi Dialogue begins in New Delhi; the theme is ‘Strengthening India-ASEAN Maritime Co-operation’.
●8th India-Oman Joint Commission Meeting Begins in Muscat, co-chaired by The Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu.

●UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Google have entered into a partnership, for monitoring the impacts of human activity on global ecosystems by using sophisticated online tools.

●The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras has commissioned a remotely operable Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP) microscope, which is world’s first remotely operable LEAP microscope.
●The foundation stone of country’s first skill training institute was laid by Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
●Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan has unveiled the first of a kind Air Quality and Weather Forecast System, SAFAR at Chandni Chowk in New Delhi.

●Flipkart and Hotstar Join Hands for Ad Platform.
●The European Union regulators have slapped Google with a record approx. 5 billion euro ($5 billion) antitrust fine for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system.
●Flipkart’s PhonePe Acquires POS Platform Zopper Retail.
●Microsoft and Walmart Team Up to Take On Amazon in both technology and retail.

●Climate change is threatening the Nilgiri Tahr (State Animal of Tamil Nadu): According to a recent study of Ecological Engineering.
●Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched the 'Paudhagiri' campaign to increase the green cover.

●France has won 2018 FIFA World Cup Football by defeating Croatia, held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia.
●Alisson Becker of Brazil has become the World's most expensive goalkeeper.
●Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has clinched a gold medal at the Sotteville Athletics Meet in France.
●Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara Beats PV Sindhu to Win Thailand Open 2018.
●Spain’s Marc Marquez Wins German Grand Prix.
●Indian Wrestler Vinesh Phogat won gold at the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid.