World Youth Skills Day: 15 July
World Youth Skills Day is celebrated every year on 15 July.
Theme of World Youth Skills Day 2020: “Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic”
The United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 2014 decided to observe this day annually on 15 July to raise awareness about the importance of investing in the skill development of youth.
Deepak Kabra becomes first Indian gymnastics judge at Olympics
Deepak Kabra has become the first Indian to be selected to judge a gymnastics event at the Olympic Games.
This time Pranati Nayak has qualified for the Olympics from India in gymnastics.
Tokyo Olympics will be held from 23 July to 08 August
Tokyo Olympic Games mascots: ‘Miraitova’ and ‘Somite’
India’s flag bearers at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games: Mary Kom (boxer) and Manpreet Singh (hockey)
Flag bearer at closing ceremony: Bajrang Punia (Wrestler)
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Steering Committee Chairman: Seiko Hashimoto
Piyush Goyal becomes Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha
Union Minister of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Food and Textiles Piyush Goyal has been appointed as the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha.
He will replace Thawar Chand Gehlot.
Thaawarchand Gehlot has been appointed as the Governor of Karnataka
Rajya Sabha: It is the upper house of the Parliament. (Lower House – Lok Sabha)
There are 245 members in the Rajya Sabha.
In which 12 members are nominated by the President for their contribution in the field of arts, science, literature and social services.
Members of the Rajya Sabha are elected for six years, of which one-third of the members retire every two years.
The Vice President of India is the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
Current Chairman: Vaikeya Naidu
Himalayan yak to be insured for the first time
The ‘National Research Center for Yak’ (NRCY) located at Dirang in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh has tied up with National Insurance Company Limited to insure high altitude yaks.
The ‘National Yak Research Center’ was established in 1989.
Yaks belong to the Bovini tribe, which also includes bison, buffalo and cattle.
It can tolerate temperatures up to -40 °C.
The largest population of yak is in Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir.
The total population of yak in India is about 58,000.
Khelo India Youth Games 2022 will be organized in Haryana
The Khelo India Youth Games will be organized in Haryana in February 2022.
The Games were to be organized in Haryana in November this year but the state government has now decided to organize it in February next year in view of the third wave of Covid-19.
The Khelo India Youth Games are to be held in the Under-18 category.
Mascot: ‘Dhaakad’
Khelo India Youth Game was launched by Sports Minister Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the year 2018.
Indian Navy gets tenth ‘P-8I’ warplane from Boeing
The Indian Navy has received the 10th anti-submarine warfare aircraft ‘P-8I’ from American aerospace company ‘Boeing’.
The contract for eight P-8I aircraft was signed in 2009 by the Ministry of Defense.
In 2016 signed a contract for four additional P-8I aircraft.
Boeing founded: 15 July 1916
Headquarters: Chicago, United States
President and Chief Executive Officer: David L. Calhoun
Capital of America: Washington, DC
Currency: US dollar
President: Joe Biden
Indian Ambassador to the US: Taranjit Singh Sandhu
“The Struggle Within: A Memoir Of The Emergency” book by Ashok Chakraborty
The book titled “The Struggle Within: A Memoir Of The Emergency” has been written by the economist Ashok Chakraborty.
He is currently the Senior Economic Adviser to the Government of Zimbabwe.
UK exports apples to India for the first time in 50 years
United Kingdom’s Minister of International Trade Liz Truss has exported apples to India for the first time in 50 years.
Capital of United Kingdom: London
Currency: Pound Sterling
Prime Minister: Boris Johnson
High Commissioner of India to UK: Gayatri Issar Kumar
Former WWE wrestler Paul Orndorf passed away
Noted American wrestler, Paul Orndorf has passed away.
He was known as ‘Mr Wonderful’.
Paul Orndorf was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2005 for his contributions.
ICCR to set up ‘Bangabandhu Peeth’ in Delhi University
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) will set up ‘Bangabandhu Peeth’ at the University of Delhi.
The bench will be established in honor of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s Liberation War, along with diplomatic relations between India and Bangladesh.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the first President and later Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
He was awarded the title of ‘Bangabandhu’.
Bangladesh was formed on 16 December 1971.
Government increased DA of central employees from 17% to 28%
The Central Government has approved to increase Dearness Allowance (DA) to employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners to 28% with effect from July 01, 2021.
Which was getting till now at the rate of 17%.
That is, the central government employees will now get 11% more dearness allowance.
India’s first National Dolphin Research Center to be set up in Patna
National Dolphin Research Center will soon be established in Patna, the capital of Bihar.
This will be the first National Dolphin Research Center in India and Asia
The Gangetic dolphin is the national aquatic animal of India.
Its scientific name is Platanista gangetica.
It is one of four freshwater dolphins in the world.
The other three are:
‘Baiji’ on the Yangtze River in China
‘Forgotten’ on Indus River in Pakistan
‘Boto’ on the Amazon River in America
India’s only sanctuary for dolphins: Vikramshila Ganga Dolphin Sanctuary, Bhagalpur, Bihar
