Current Affairs July 2012

National Current Affairs : July 2012

• BJP Core Committee decides to replace Sadanand Gowda as Chief Minister of Karnataka; Formal announcement of Jagdish Settar as his successor likely today.
• SC quashes disproportionate assets case against BSP Chief Mayawati
  Government does not plan to censor internet and social media: Law Minister
• Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina storm into semifinals of mixed doubles of Wimbledon tennis Andy Murray and Roger Federer to clash in men’s singles final in London on july 8th.
• India and Spain to play their second Hockey match on july 7th.
• Home Minister says role of CRPF transparent  in the Naxal operation in Chattisgarh; Apologises if any innocent person killed.
• RBI sets up working committee for transparency in bank lending rates.
• Home Minister says role of CRPF transparent  in the Naxal operation in Chattisgarh; Apologises if any innocent person killed.
• Air India pilots call off their 58-day long strike.
• Centre approves 500 crore rupees as special assistance for  irrigation project in  Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.
•  Foreign Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan begin in New Delhi today.
• Indian challenge ends in men’s doubles event as Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek and duo of  Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna bow out of Wimbeldon Tennis Championship.
• Government sets a target to bring 70 million people under the Rashtriya Swasthya Beema Yojana during the 12th five year plan period.
• Death toll in Assam floods and landslides rises to 77; Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to visit the state today to take stock of the situation.
• Indian Air Force helicopters drop four thousand kilograms of food packets in flood affected areas of Assam; Prime Minister and UPA Chairperson to visit the state on 1st july.
• New Service Tax regime comes into force from on July1, 2012.
• ‘Starting today, most services will be taxed’ says The Hindu, of the wider new service tax regime, which comes into effect from today. Actors will be levied 12% service tax too, reports the Times of India.
• The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has indicated that the Centre will soon launch a unified National Health Mission to ensure all round development of the country’s health care system. Delivering the convocation address of the Jawarharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research in Puducherry yesterday, he said, the successful implementation of the National Rural Health Mission in the last seven years, has yielded results as health indicators have improved at primary and secondary levels.
• “Fear of cross-voting grips BJP”, writes the Hindustan Times, of Yeddyurappa’s aides eyeing the July 19 Presidential polls to build pressure for the removal of Karnataka CM”.
  Fasih Mehmood, wanted in connection with the 2010 Chinnaswamy Stadium blasts in Bangalore, is in the CBI net now. ‘India wins another gulf war, gets Fasih’ is the Times of India headline.

Major Current Affairs/ Events of World: July 2012

• Turnout in Libya’s first free national election in decades after the ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi was 60 %, the electoral commission has said, quoting preliminary figures.
• CERN scientists discover new particle, likely to be the Higgs boson.
• Voting begins in Libya
• UNSG recommends to reduce number of UN military observers in Syria
• Greek PM Samaras promises to focus on reforms and measures to restore economic growth
• Indo- Russian duo of Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina advance to the mixed doubles quarter finals of the Wimbledon.
• Pakistan reopens vital supply routes to Afghanistan after US apologises for loss of 24 Pakistani military lives in cross border NATO attack.
• Indian challenge ends in men’s doubles event as Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek and duo of  Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna bow out of Wimbeldon Tennis Championship.Iran today test-fired in its central desert a ballistic missile capable of striking Israel as part of war games designed to show its ability to retaliate if attacked, media said.
• Spain clinches Euro Cup 2012; defeats Italy 4-0 to become the first nation to retain crown.
• IN SPORTS:Under-19 Asia Cup Cricket final between India and Pakistan at Kuala Lumpur ends in a draw; Both countries share honours.
• India meets Pakistan in the final of under 19 Asia Cup Cricket Tournament.
• A lot happening on the sports front. BCCI banning 4 IPL players for fixing is covered prominently by most papers. “Day of shame for crickets’s youngistan is the Hindustan Times headline. ‘BCCI fixes fixers’ says Mail Today and has pictures of the offenders on its front page.
• Do you know who the world’s richest man is? Well, its Mexico’s Carlos Slim, with a net worth of 72.5 billion dollars, writes the Business Line of the Hindu.

Educational  Current Affairs/hot News of: July 2012

• The department of secondary education of Uttar Pradesh has finalised the distributed plan for free laptops and tablets among successful students.
• Bar Council of Delhi will support apex lawyers` body Bar Council of India`s agitation against the proposed Higher Education and Research Bill.
• Supreme Court rules Medical Council of India not empowered to grant recognition to medical colleges.
• TI School in Chennai, run by the AMM Foundation, has been selected by the Helga Todd Teachers’ Education Foundation of the United Kingdom for hosting two Cambridge-traditionally teachers under a teacher exchange programme.
• Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE), India’s leading higher educational and training services provider today announced the appointment of S Vaitheeswaran as its MD & CEO.
• Selected and funded by the German Research Foundation and India’s Department of Science and Technology, the group will discuss the prospect of a new Physics for a better world.
• First Kunskapsskolan School to open in India will offer K12 education to Indian and international students with the highest academic standards and state-of-the-art learning systems.
• some thing to cheer for all Delhi school students. Now, schools will reopen on the 9th of July, instead of tomorrow, because of intense heat, writes the Hindustan Times.