12 July GKToday Current Affairs 2021 for Upcoming Exams Daily GK
12 July GKToday Current Affairs 2021 for Upcoming Exams Daily GK
- U.P law panel proposes ‘two-child’ population draft bill
- IATA launches Mobility Aids Action Group
- India-Italy Joint Commission for Economic Cooperation
- Bank staff in sensitive operations to get surprise leave
- Rare superluminous supernova spotted by Indian researchers
- Novak Djokovic has won his 6th Grand Slam Wimbledon Tennis Championship Title 2021
- India’s First Private LNG Facility plant inaugurated at Nagpur
- National Dolphin Research Centre to come up in Patna
- PM invites people’s nominations for Padma Awards
- Virgin Galactic Space Flight soars into space
- Study: Risk of cardiovascular disease to increase in TN
- Khadi secures trademark registrations in 3 countries
INDIA
– IT rules compliance: Twitter has appointed Vinay Prakash as resident grievance officer for India.
– Uttar Pradesh: CM Yogi Adityanath unveils new population policy 2021-30
– Uttarakhand: India’s first cryptogamic (non-seed-bearing plants) garden inaugurated at Deoban in Chakrata town of ‘s Dehradun district
– Assam Government to set up “department of indigenous faith and culture”
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurates country’s first private Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant in Nagpur; set up by Baidyanath Ayurvedic Group
WORLD
– Afghanistan: India evacuates diplomats, security personnel from Kandahar as Taliban captures new areas
– G20 Finance Ministers approve global corporate tax rate of at least 15% during two-day talks in Venice
– Cuba develops three-shot Soberana 2, world’s first conjugate vaccine for COVID-19
– Conjugate vaccines can be stored in regular refrigeration settings of 2–8 degree Celsius
– Cambridge University chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman declared winners of 2020 Millennium Technology Prize for their development of revolutionary sequencing techniques
– Virgin Galactic space tourism company founder Richard Branson conducts space flight along with four other crewmates including Indian-origin woman Sirisha Bandla
– Ethiopia: PM Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity party wins parliamentary election
– World Population Day celebrated on July 11; theme: “Rights and Choices are the Answer: Whether baby boom or bust, the solution to shifting fertility rates lies in prioritising all people’s reproductive health and rights”
2021 COPA AMERICA FOOTBALL
– Argentina beats Brazil 1-0 in final at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro
– Argentina’s captain Lionel Messi finishes as tournament’s joint top goalscorer with Peru’s Luis DÃaz with four goals
– Messi elected joint best player along with Brazil’s Neymar
EURO 2020 FOOTBALL
– Italy win 2020 UEFA European Football Championship by defeating England 3-2 in penalty shoot-out in the final played at Wembley Stadium in London
– Czech Republic’s Patrik Schick and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo were top scorers 5 goals each
– Italy’s goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was Best player of the tournament
2021 WIMBLEDON TENNIS: TITLE WINNERS
– Men’s Singles: Serbia’s Novak Djokovic
– Women’s Singles: Ashleigh Barty
– Men’s Doubles: Croatia’s Nikola Mektić and Mate Pavić
– Women’s Doubles: Chinese Taipei’s Hsieh Su-wei & Elise Mertens of Belgium
– Mixed Doubles: United Kingdom’s Neal Skupski and Desirae Krawczyk of US
CHESS
– Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France wins Croatia Grand Chess Tour at Zagreb
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