Current Affairs Recap of the Day: 7 July 2016

•    The first state in India to introduce minimum wages for part time workers is - Rajasthan

•    Debshankar Mukhopadhyay was recently been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of - Zee Learn

•    The 139th Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath commenced on 6 July 2016 in Puri, Odisha. The festival is celebrated for – 9 days



•    The former English cricketer who registered his name in Guinness Book of World Record for taking the highest catch of cricket ball is - Nasser Hussain

•    This Indian artistic gymnast was named a ‘Gymnaste de Classe Mondaile’ (World class gymnast) by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) – Dipa Karmakar

•    This bank launched India’s first full-fledged digital banking service for small-and medium enterprises – HDFC Bank

•    This Argentina and Barcelona footballer was sentenced to 21-months in prison for tax fraud by a Spanish court - Lionel Messi

•    Name of the operation that seeks to build border modelled after Israeli security mechanisms along Pakistan - Operation Chakravyuh

•    App launched by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on 5 July 2016 for measuring real time mobile Internet speed of consumers - MySpeed

•    Platform launched by the State Bank of India (SBI) for Facebook and Twitter users - SBI Mingle

•    India was placed at what position in the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2016 - 91st position

•    Person appointed as the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh in July 2016 - Deepak Singhal

•    Number of projects inaugurated by Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti under the Namami Gange Programme is - 231

•    The newly discovered species of tarantula (a big hairy spider) was named as Kankuamo Marquezi after – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Laureate in Literature

•    US placed Sanctions on Kim Jong-un and Other Top North Koreans for - Human Rights Abuses

•    The committee that was constituted to examine the desirability and feasibility of having ‘a new financial year’ will be headed by this former Chief Economic Adviser - Shankar Acharya

•    India renewed its existing Agreement on Trade, Commerce and Transit with which country that was signed on 29th July 2006 for a period of ten years with - Bhutan

•    The South African Paralympic gold medallist who was sentenced for six years for the murder of his girl friend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 is - Oscar Pistorius

•    The Iraqi Interior Minister who offered to resign after a massive suicide bombing in Baghdad earlier this week killed more than 200 people is - Mohammed al-Ghabban

•    The country inducted its largest indigenously-built transport aircraft Y-20 is - China