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Thursday, 12 July 2018

Banking and Financial Awareness:

Yes Bank MD and CEO- Rana Kapoor.
Head office - Mumbai.

➤ICICI Bank's Mortgage Portfolio Crosses Rs1.5-Trillion, making it the largest private player in the segment.
➤RBI Licences Bank Of China To Operate In India and this will be the second Chinese bank to be operating in the country.
➤NABARD has sanctioned Rs 735.53 crore for West Bengal for facilitating the execution of 86 projects.
➤LIC (Life Insurance Corporation) gets IRDAI’s nod to buy stake in IDBI Bank.

➤Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel Appointed NGT Chairperson.
➤Payments Council Of India Appoints Vishwas Patel As New Chairman.
➤Major General Jose Eladio Alcain appointed as the Head of the UN Military Observer Group in India, Pakistan.
➤An Indian-American top White House lawyer, Uttam Dhillon appointed Head of Drug Enforcement Agency In US.
➤Saraswati Prasad appointed as chairman and managing director of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).
➤P K Shrivastava appointed as the new Director-General and Chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board.
➤K B Vijay Srinivas appointed Director& GM of United India Insurance Company.
➤State Bank of India (SBI) has selected Arijit Basu as Managing Director of the SBI.

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➤The Paris-born dancer, actor, and singer, Tony Award winner Liliane Montevecchi, passed away.
➤Ex Navy chief Admiral JG Nadkarni Passed away.

➤Michael Ondaatje’s bestselling novel 'The English Patient' was announced as the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize at the Southbank Centre in London.
➤According to Study by OAG, Mumbai Airport Among Least Punctual Airports in The World.
MOU’s, Agreement and Summits
➤9th Heads of Mission Conference was held in New Delhi.
The theme was ‘Unprecedented Outreach: Unparalleled Outcomes’.
➤9th Meeting of EPG on Indo-Nepal Relations Concludes in Kathmandu.
➤NITI Aayog to Organise India’s First Global Mobility Summit in New Delhi.

➤June 29: International Day of the Tropics.
➤National Doctors’ Day: July 1, theme is ‘Zero tolerance to violence against doctors and clinical establishment’.
➤International Joke Day – July 1
➤World Sports Journalists Day – July 2
➤World UFO day – July 2
➤International Day of Cooperatives: 7 July

➤UN Member States Approve USD 6.69 Billion for 13 Peacekeeping Operations.
Antonio Guterres is the Secretary-General of the United States.
The UN Headquarters in New York, United State
➤The world’s first digital art museum opened its doors to the public in Tokyo, Japan.

➤The Govt. launched mobile application “ReUnite” in New Delhi to track and trace missing and abandoned children in India.
➤The government of India announced country’s first e-waste recycling unit will come up in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
➤India to Host International Union of Food Science and Technology 2018 and the theme is 25 Billion Meals a Day by 2025 with Healthy, Nutritious, Safe and Diverse Foods.
➤India’s first e-waste recycling unit to come up in Bengaluru.
➤India to Operate 'World’s Emptiest Airport' The Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) in Sri Lanka.
➤Central Reserve Police Force launches 24 hour ‘Madadgaar helpline’ for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
➤Aadhar enabled e-PAN card service launched by Income Tax Department for individuals seeking PAN (Permanent Account Number) service.
➤Agartala Airport to be named after Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Kishore, the erstwhile ruler of Tripura.

➤Gymnast Dipa Karmakar clinched a gold medal in the vault event of FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin in Turkey.
➤ICC (International Cricket Council) Introduces Stricter Sanctions for Ball-Tampering.
➤Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore announced that the Sports Authority of India (SAI) has been renamed as Sports India.
➤Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix 2018 title in Austria.
➤Australia Wins Hockey Champions Trophy Final 2018 at Breda, the Netherlands.