JULY CURRENT AFFAIRS ( BRIEFLY)

July, 2013
31st July:
The Union Home Ministry has agreed for handing over the security of BodhGaya complex to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).This
is the first time the paramilitary
force will guard a religious place.
The Bombay High Court declared the probe panel BCCI to look into
allegations of spot-fixing IPL-6 as
illegal and unconstitutional, and
directed to form a new panel to
investigate the issue correctly.
India defeated Nepal to wins
Under-16 SAFF Football Title, 2013.

30th July:
Congress Working Committee (CWC) endorsed the formation of Telangana State. Hyderabad will be the capital of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for 10 years.
Mamnoon Hussain elected as
President of Pakistan.
Convict of Batla House Encounter
Shahzad Ahmed got life sentence.
Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan will
receive 21st Rajiv Gandhi National
Sadhbhavna Award.
29th July:
Ashwani Kumar sworn in as
Governor of Manipur.
2,058 crore Jet-Etihad deal cleared by
investment board with conditions.
Britain confirms £3,000 cash bond
for visas for visitors from India and
5 other countries.
India's 'Metro Man' E Sreedharan
chosen for Lokmanya Tilak award,
2013.

28th July:
BCCI's two-member probe panel
clears Raj Kundra, Gurunath
Meiyappan of involvement in IPL
spot-fixing. 13 injured in grenade blast in Guwahati World Hepatitis Day 2013 observed. India defeat Zimbabwe by seven wickets to lead 3-0 series win.

27th July:
More than 100 people have been
killed and 1,500 injured at a protest held by supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed
Morsi in Cairo.

26th July:
India’s advanced meteorological
satellite INSAT-3D launched
successfully from the spaceport of
Kourou in French Guiana by the
European rocket, Arianespace's
Ariane 5 rocket.India defeat Zimbabwe by 58 runs in the second ODI.

25th July:
A Delhi court convicted Indian
Mujahideen operative Shahzad
Ahmad in the 2008 Batla House
encounter case for murdering a
police inspector M C Sharma and
death of Head Constables Balwant
Singh and Rajbir Singh.
India's K Jennitha Anto wins the 13th IPCA World Women's Individual
Chess Championship title at Czech
Republic.

24th July:
Bihar Police arrested headmistress of the school in Bihar where 23
children died after eating a meal in Chapra District.
Afghanistan's first woman governor Habiba Sarabi, Civil society organiser Lahpai Seng Raw from Myanmar, Nepal's Shakti Samuha, Ernesto Domingo of Philipine and
Indonesia's independent anti-
corruption government body  Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) are the five winners of Magsaysay
awards for 2013.
India wins the first ODI against
Zimbabwe by 6 wickets.

23rd July:
Leo Burnett chairman and CEO of
India subcontinent Arvind Sharma
has been re-elected president of the Advertising Agencies Association of India. Kate Middleton The Duchess of Cambridge, Gave Birth to a Baby Boy.Devendra Jhajharia wins India'sfirst-ever gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France. Josy Joseph and Ravish Kumar
awarded Ramnath Goenka
“Journalist of the Year” award for
print and broadcast categories
respectively.

22nd July:
56 people died in China's western
Gansu province after 6.6 magnitude earthquake.
Supreme Court asks Centre to
enforce tobacco advertisement rules
at shops.
Delhi Police filed charge sheet in
match-fixing case of 2000 involving
Hansie Cronje.
Britain's Chris Froome was crowned champion of the 100th edition of the Tour de France.
21st July:
India win bronze medal in Archery
World Cup held in Medellin,
Colombia.
Australia lost second test of Ashes
Series in Lord’s England.

20th July:
U.S. city Detroit filed for bankruptcy. Shane Warne inducted into ICC Hall of Fame at Lord's, England.

19th July:Supreme Court order to cancel
common medical entrance exam
(NEET) because the MCI is not
empowered to hold it and now
private medical and dental
universities and colleges will now
have the right to conduct their own entrance exams. Justice Palanisamy Sathasivam
sworn in as the new Chief Justice of India. Anil Ambani and wife Tina Ambani summoned as witness in 2G case. 18th July:The Union Government approved
recommendations of a Group of
Ministers (GoM) to make marriage
laws more women friendly,
including providing for
compensation to a woman from her husband’s ancestral property in the case of divorce. Union Govt. approved Proposal to
give SEBI more Powers including to carry out search and seizure
operations on ponzi schemes.
Veteran Tamil lyricist Vaali passes
away in Chennai at the age of 81.
The Union Government approved to rename Bengaluru International
Airport as Kempegowda
International Airport.
Delhi and KKR seamer Pradeep
Sangwan fails dope test conducted
during IPL 6.
Second Test of Ashes Series begins in Lord Cricket Ground, England.

17th July:
The Indian Government permits 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in telecom sector. ArcelorMittal decides to drop its Rs 50,000 crore steel plant project in Odisha. NASA announced discovery of 14th
moon named S/2004 N1 of Neptune.

16th July:
22 children died after mid-day meal in Saran district, Bihar. The Supreme Court allowed dance
bars in Maharashtra to reopen which were shut down by the state
government eight years.
Central Railway to use first fully
retrofitted AC rake on Pune-
Lonavala section.
Two of world’s leading sprinters,
American Tyson Gay and the
Jamaican Asafa Powell both have
failed doping tests.
15th July: List of 5,748 missing persons released by Uttarakhand
government. Monsoon Session of Parliament to
begin on August 5.
Cipla appoints MK Hamied as
Executive Vice-Chairman.
Abhijeet Gupta won Commonwealth Chess Championship.

14th July:
163 year old telegram service in
India to be close forever from 9pm today. England beat Australia by 14 runs in first Ashes test.

13th July:
Hemant Soren sworn in as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand.Bhutan's opposition party, People’s
Democratic Party wins the election
with 30 seats. Bofors payoffs scandal accused .Italian businessman Ottavio
Quattrocchi died in Milan following
a stroke.

12th July:
Veteran actor and Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient Pran dies at 93 in Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital.
A 15-year-old girl from Meerut Razia
Sultan has been conferred with the
first United Nation Malala Award.
Founder of Massachusetts-based
Bose audio firm Amar Bose dies at
83.

11th July:
In a landmark ruling The Supreme
Court has barred those in jail from
contesting elections even if they are not convicted of any crime yet.
Allahabad high court bans caste-
based rallies in Uttar Pradesh.
India Cricket Team wins tri series in West Indies by defeating Sri Lanka.Bhuvneshwar Kumar declared as
Man of the Series.
World Population Day observed.
Month long Ramzan fast begins
today.

10th July: In a landmark judgment the Supreme Court struck down a
provision in the electoral law that
protects a convicted lawmaker from disqualification on the ground of pendency of appeal in higher courts. The annual Ratha Yatra of Lord Jagannath, his brother Bhalabhadra and sister Subhadra began in Puri,Odisha. Hazem El-Beblawi appointed as the new Prime Minister of Egypt.
India reaches the final of Tri-Nation competition in West Indies. They will play against Sri Lanka in the
final. First test match of the Ashes series starts between England and
Australia in Trent Bridge.
Former Olympian Maharaj Krishan
Kaushik appointed as a coach of the Indian hockey team.

9th July:
Chinese troops again enter Ladakh.
Investigating agency detained three men, one woman in Bihar for being questioned for suspicious movement in Bodha Gaya temple Blasts. Supreme Court restrained a special CBI court in Jharkhand from pronouncing its verdict on July 15 in a fodder case involving RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav.

8th July:
Shiva Thapa becomes the youngest
pugilist from the country to clinch a gold medal at the Asian
Championships in Amman, Jordan.
India move to second spot in ICC
Test rankings.

7th July:
Two people have been injured in a
series of 8 blasts inside the
Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's
Bodhgaya. World Champion Sebastian Vettel
wins German Grand Prix.
Vidya Balan wins Best Actress
Award, Ranbir Kapoor bags best
actor and 'Barfi!' wins best film at
IIFA, 2013 in Macau, China.
Andy Murray of England wins the
Wimbledon Championship, 2013 by defeating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-5,6-4. Fred Perry was the last British
man to win the Wimbledon title in
1936.

6th July:
Venezuela offers asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward
Snowden. Former Secretary Department of Telecommunications (DoT) R.
Chandrasekhar appointed President of Nasscom. French tennis player Marion Bartoli defeat Sabine Lisicki 6-1, 6-4 to win her first Wimbledon title

5th July:
President Pranab Mukherjee signed Ordinance on Food Security Bill.Former Vice Admiral DK Dewan appointed new UPSC member.

4th July:
Egyptian Army ousts Egypt's
President Mohamed Morsi from his
post.
Head of the Supreme Constitutional
Court Adly Mansour appointed as
Egypt's new interim President.
Douglas C. Engelbart known as the
father of the mouse dies at 88.
Vikas Gowda wins first gold medal in
the ongoing Asian Athletics
Championships, Pune.
Oxford University's Indian origin
student Samridh Agarwal become
first ever cricketer to score a triple century in a University match. He scores a triple-century against Cambridge in a first-class match at the FP Fenner's ground in Cambridge.

3rd July:
Bhiwani and Mahendragarh districts of Haryana and Bharatpur in Rajasthan will be a part of the
National Capital Region (NCR) with
the approval of NCR Planning Board.vThe Indian government launched a $22 billion welfare scheme to give
cheap food to hundreds of millions of people in India. Sunil Soni has been appointed as
Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Sujatha Singh will be India’s new
Foreign Secretary. With the declaration made in
compliance to Section 4 of the
Cigarettes and other Tobacco
Products Act (COTPA) 2003,
Himachal Pradesh declared as the
first Smoke-free state of the country. Shriniwas Patil is appointed as new
Governor of Sikkim.

2nd July:
Seven policemen kill in attack by
Maoist in Jharkhand.
India reject Edward Snowden's
request for asylum. Indian navy decommissions INS
Taragiri after 33 years of service.
India Govt releases National Cyber
Security Policy 2013.

1st July:
Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
Brazil wins the 2013 FIFA
Confederation Cup after defeating
Spain by 3-0 in the final held at Rio. Suresh Kalmadi loses bid for Chief of Asian Athletics Association to
Brigadier Dalham al-Hamad, the
senior vice-president of athletics
association Qatar. India’s first navigation satellite
IRNSS-1A launch from Satish
Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Jamia Milia university Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung appointed as the new Lt Governor of Delhi.
Former Delhi Police Commissioner K K Paul appointedas Governor of Meghalaya.