Current affairs July 2014 Gk,politics,sports,etc....

The e-commerce company which has raised a funding of 1 billion dollars from Tiger Global Management LLC, Accel Partners, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Singapore sovereign-wealth fund GIC (The company is registered in Singapore and was founded by Sachin and Binny Bansal in 2007)	Flipkart
The African nation which has declared a public health emergency after efforts to control the ebola disease have not proved successful	Sierra Leone
The new Chief of Army Staff who has taken over from outgoing COAS, General Bikram Singh	General Dalbir Singh Suhag
The South African all-rounder who has announced retirement from all forms of cricket	Jacques Kallis
The mission launched by Government of India to promote conservation and developments of indigenous breeds of cows in a focused and scientific manner is named	Rashtriya Gokul Mission
The South East-Asian country which crossed the 100 million (10 crores) mark in population on 27 July 2014 (Its 100 millionth citizen Chonalyn was born at the Jose Fabella hospital in Manila)	Philippines
The indigenous research vessel built by ABG Shipyard intended to carry out monsoon experiments and underwater exploration in the deep sea basins of Andaman by the scientists of National Institute of Oceanography which was flagged off from Visakhapatnam on 27 July is named	RV Sindhu Sadhana
The country in which representatives of Indian Air Force and Indian Navy have taken office for the first time (making it the fourth country after United Kingdom, USA and Russia to have Indian attaches from the 3 services)	China
The former Power Minister who has been chosen to head the committee to revisit the Natural Gas Pricing Guidelines of 2014 (NGPG 2014) and the Rangarajan formula and the possibility of applying the same in its present form or with modifications”.	Suresh Prabhu
The company engaged in logistics business under Ministry of Railways which was granted Navratna status by the Department of Public Enterprises, Govt of India	Container Corporation of India
The sector in which Cabinet Committee has approved raising of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) cap from 26 percent to 49 percent through the Foreign Investment Promotion Board route	Insurance
Flight AH 5017, (type of plane - McDonnell Douglas MD83) of Algeria's national airline, Air Algerie, which crashed in Mali killing 116 people on board was travelling from	Burkina Faso to Algiers
The annual bi-laterial Naval exercise of India and United States which began on 24 July with Japan being a special invitee this year	Malabar
Indian techonological company which has become the first in the country to cross a market capitalisation of Rs. 5 lakh crores (exceeding the combined market capitalisation of Infosys, Wipro Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd and Tech Mahindra Ltd)	TCS
The Indian village in Jehanabad district of Bihar which has become the country's first village to be powered entirely be solar power	Dharnia
The Indian athlete who has been dropped from Commonwealth squad of Indian athletes due to excess adrogen levels which prohibit her from participating as a female athlete	Dutee Chand
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) which is believed to have been shot down with a Buk surface-to-air missile killing about 295 people on board, was a Boeing 777-200ER travelling from	Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur
The minimum floor capital which has been prescribed by Reserve Bank of India for setting up of small banks in India	Rs. 100 crores
The South American nation which has become the first country in the world to legalise child labour allowing children above 10 years of age to work	Bolivia
The city in China which has been chosen to be the headquarters of the New Development Bank which is being set up by BRICS nations as decided at the sixth BRICS summit	Shanghai
The typhoon which hit Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan and China during July 15 to July 21 killing several people and causing large-scale damage was named	Typhoon Rammasun
The first non-white female athlete to win an Olympic gold medal who died at the age of 90 in Georgia (She had won the gold in the high jump at the 1948 London Olympic Games with an American and Olympic record of 1.68 metres)	Alice Coachman Davis
The Indian city which has become the world's second most populous city with 25 million population after Tokyo (with a population of 38 million) as by report by U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs	Delhi
Ahmedabad based premier design institute which has been accorded the status of institution of national importance by an act of parliament, making it the 41st institute to have such a status	National Institute of Design
The South African anti-apartheid activist, author of works like The Conservationist and Burger's Daughter, and winner of Booker Prize (1974) and Nobel Prize in Literature (1991) who died on 13 July 2014	Nadine Gordimer
The first in series of anti-submarine corvettes indigenously built by Kolkata based Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd. (GRSE), which was handed over to Indian Navy	INS Kamorta
The Indian film star whose ancestral home in Peshawar has been declared as National Heritage by the Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif	Dilip Kumar
India’s first domestically built guided missile destroyer and the largest-ever destroyer in the Indian Navy which was delivered by Mazagon Dock Limited to the Indian Navy is named	INS Kolkata
The venue of sixth BRICS Summit 2014 to held from 15 to 17 July 2014, India being represented by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi (Theme of discussions: Inclusive Growth: Sustainable Solutions)	Fortaleza
The well known film and theatre personality, dancer and choreographer, recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowship who died at the age of 102 years on 10 July 2014	Zohra Sehgal
The country which has won a five-year long maritime dispute against India with a United Nations tribunal awarding it 19,467 sq. km of the 25,602 sq. km sea area of the Bay of Bengal	Bangladesh
The Indian mathematician from Microsoft Research India who along with Adam W. Marcus and Daniel A. Spielman from Yale University has been chosen for the 2014 George Polya Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), in Chicago.	Nikhil Srivastava
The renowned scholar of the Indian constitution and constitutional assembly debates and author of The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation and Working a Democratic Constitution: A History of Indian Experience who died on 06.07.14	Granville Austin
The university in Maharashtra which has been renamed Savitribai Phule University	Pune University
The minimum broadband speed notified by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) by amending the Telecom Consumers Complaint Redressal Regulations, 2012 has been raised from 256 kbps to	512 kbps
World's first flying observatory fitted by NASA on a modified Boeing 747 to study stars is named	SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy)
Soviet Union's last foreign minister and the second President of Georgia who died after a prolonged illness on 07 July 2014 (He was forced to resign as the President of Georgia following a bloodless Rose Revolution)	Eduard Shevardnadze
The tennis player from Serbia who has won the Wimbledon Gentlemen Singles title defeating Swiss tennis star Roger Federer in the finals	Novak Djokovic
Indian Chess great who has been selected for the Russian Federation's Order of Federation award alongwith and Boris Gelfand of Israel	Viswanathan Anand
The tennis player from Czech Republic who has won the Wimbledon Ladies Singles title defeating Canadian contestant Eugenie Bouchard in the finals	Petra Kvitova
The 240-Megawatt Uri-II Hydro Electric Project (HEP) located near the Line of Control (LoC) in Baramulla district of Kashmir which was dedicated to the nation by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is located on the river	Jhelum
The treaty to facilitate access to published works for persons who are visually impaired, which India has become the first country to ratify (the treaty was adopted by 79 member countries of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on June 27, 2013 and will come into force once 20 countries ratify it)	Marrakesh Treaty
The commonly used commodities which were included in the purview of stock holding limits under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 to curb hoarding and rising prices	Onion and Potato
The state which has adopted the camel as its State Animal with an aim to check its dwindling numbers (from 6,68,000 camels in 1997 to 4,30,426 in 2008)	Rajasthan
The former cabinet minister who has been appointed the head of a high-level panel on power revamp — Advisory Group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy.	Suresh Prabhu
The 3D mobile game launched by the Indian Air Force in a bid to attract generation-next youth to pursue a career in the air force is named	Guardian of the Skies (GOTS)
The Indian shooter who has been ranked as World No. 1 in the latest rankings released by ISSF (International Shooting Sports Federation)	Jitu Rai
The eminent Indian-American scientist and adjunct professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at the University of Minnesota, in whose honour the United States has named a mountain in Antartica as Mt. Sinha	Akhouri Sinha

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Wimbledon 2014

Event	Winner	Nationality	Runner-up	Nationality
Gentlemen's Singles	Novak Djokovic	Serbia	Roger Federer	Switzerland
Ladies' Singles	Petra Kvitova	Czech Republic	Eugenie Bouchard	Canada
Men's Doubles	Vasek Pospisil Jack Sock	Canada USA	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	USA
Women's Doubles	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	Italy	Timea Babos Kristina Mladenovic	Hungary France
Mixed Doubles	Nenad Zimonjic Samantha Stosur	Serbia Australia	Max Mirnyi Chan Hao-ching	Belarus Taiwan

FIFA World Cup 2014

1. Venue : Brazil
2. Winner : Germany
3. Second, Third and Fourth Position : Argentina, Netherlands and Brazil respectively
4. Golden Ball for Best Player : Lionel Messi (Argentina)
5. Golden Boot for Top Scorer : James Rodriguez (Columbia)
6. Golden Glove for Best Goalkeeper : Manuel Neuer (Germany)
7. Best Young Player : Paul Pogba (France)

Union Budget 2014-15 - Points to Remember

Programmes - aims and allocations

Programme	Aim	Allocation
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojna	Assured irrigation	Rs. 1000 crore
Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission	Integrated project based infrastructure in rural areas	-
Neeranchal	To give impetus to watershed development	Rs. 2142 crores
Safety for Women on Public Road Transport	Safety of women in buses etc	Rs. 50 crores
Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana	To help in improving the efficiency of delivery of welfare services meant for women	Rs. 100 crores
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan	To provide sanitation facility to every household by 2019	-
Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya New Teachers Training Programme	To infuse new training tools and motivate teachers	Rs. 500 crores
Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana	To augment power supply to the rural areas	Rs. 500 crores
Statue of Unity	To erect a Statue of Sardar Patel as the symbol of the unity of the country	Rs. 200 crores
Skill India	To skill the youth with an emphasis on employability and entrepreneur skills	-
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana	To improve accessibility for rural population	Rs. 14,389 crores
Communication Linked Interface for Cultivating Knowledge (CLICK) and online courses.	Setting up of virtual classrooms	Rs. 100 crores
Digital India	To bridge the divide between digital "haves" and "have-nots" and ensure Broad band connectivity at village level	Rs. 500 crores
Jal Marg Vikas	Project on River Ganges to enable commercial navigation of at least 1500 tonne vessels between Allahabad and Haldia	Rs. 4,200 crores
One Rank One Pension	Equity in pension among retired personnel of armed forces	Rs. 1,000 crores
War Memorial	Princes Park, Delhi	Rs. 100 crores
Namami Gange	Integrated Ganga Conservation Mission	Rs. 2,037 crores
Arun Prabha	24x7 channel for the North-East India	-

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New Institutes Proposed in Union Budget 2014-15

1. National Academy for Customs & Excise at Hindupur in Andhra Pradesh
2. 2 National Institutes of Ageing to be set up in AIIMS, New Delhi and Madras Medical College, Chennai
3. AIIMS like institutions to come up in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Vidarbha (Maharashtra) and Poorvanchal (UP)
4. Jai Prakash Narayan National Centre for Excellence in Humanities to be set up in MP
5. 5 more IITs to come up in Jammu, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala
6. 5 IIMs in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Odisha and Rajasthan
7. 2 more Agricultural Research Institute of Excellence in Assam and Jharkhand
8. Agricultural Universities in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan
9. Horticulture Universities in Telangana and Haryana
10. Sports University in Manipur

New Governors of States

1. Uttar Pradesh - Shri Ram Naik
2. Gujarat - Om Prakash Kohli
3. Chhattisgarh - Balramji Dass Tandon
4. West Bengal - Keshari Nath Tripathi
5. Nagaland - Padmanabha Acharya
6. Haryana - Kaptan Singh Solanki