Around INDIA
# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, interacted with Chief
Secretaries of States and Union Territories.
- This interaction was part of the National Conference of Chief
Secretaries on the theme of "States as Drivers for Transforming
India."
- This is the first time, that the Prime Minister has addressed
such a gathering, at such an event.
# States stalling nuclear plants should not be eligible for
nuclear power: Union Power Minister, Mr. Piyush Goyal
# India now has overall 36 World Heritage Inscriptions with 28
Cultural, 07 Natural and 01 Mixed site. India stands second largest in number
after China in terms of number of world heritage properties in ASPAC (Asia and
Pacific) region, it is overall seventh in the world.
TAMIL NADU
# Tamil Nadu has reported its first case of zika virus in a
27-year old man from a village in Krishnagiri Dt
- The case was diagnosed on July 01 and the man, who was treated
as an outpatient, is reported to have recovered completely
# Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami announced an
incentive of Rs. 20 lakh for G. Lakshmanan (who won Gold medals in 5000m and
10000m events) and Rs. 15 lakh for Arokia Rajiv (Gold medal in 4*400m relay and
Silver medal in 400m) at the Asian Athletics Championships 2017
# Government will not approve the Centre's hydrocarbon
exploration project at Neduvasal in Pudukottai Dt: Industries Minister, Mr. M.
C. Sampath
STATES SCAN
# Assam: flood situation in the state turned critical with 12.55
lakh people across 20 districts affected the state ; most of the Kaziranga
National Park is under water and animals are straying into higher ground
# Karnataka: Government has constituted a nine-member committee
headed by Principal Secretary, Department of Kannada and Culture to study and
submit a report to the government on the possibility of "designing a
separate flag for Karnataka and providing it a statutory standing"
# Kerala: actor Dileep arrested in molestation case
# Manipur: remains cut off from the rest of the country as both
the NH 2 and NH 37 were disrupted by landslides; three major landslides
occurred along the NH 2 connecting Assam and Manipur
# Puducherry: Speaker Mr. V. Vaithilingam refused to accept the
three BJP nominees appointed as nominated MLAs by Lt. Governor Ms. Kiran Bedi
# Tripura: People's Front of Tripura launched an indefinite
blockade on Assam - Agartala NH - 8 pressing its demand for a separate state
"Twipraland"
# West Bengal: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Government of West Bengal to formalize
its support to set up a state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence in Transfusion
Medicine at Kolkata
BILATERAL
ISSUES
# Joint exercise (MALABAR-17) of India, Japan and USA began in
Bay of Bengal (North Indian Ocean)
WORLD
# Japan: A men-only island in Japan where women are banned and
male visitors must bathe naked in the sea before visiting its shrine, has been
declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Okitsugu shrine of the Munakata Taisha on Okinoshima island
# Pakistan: A joint investigation team (JIT) tasked with
investigating the assets of Pakistani Prime Minister, Mr. Nawaz Sharif and his
family has recommended that a corruption case be registered against Mr. Sharif,
his sons and daughter
# UK: Britain's first pregnant man has given birth to a girl.
Hyden Cross (21 yr) made headlines around the world earlier in 2017 when he
announced that he was pregnant by a sperm donor
- Hyden Cross had legally become male through gender assignment
- The first man to give birth was Thomas Beatie in the US in
2008
ECONOMICS
# A new tax payer service module ‘Aaykar Setu’, was launched by
Union Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley
# ONGC Videsh will bid in an upcoming auction to explore and
develop gas fields off the coast of Lebanon (Levant basin in the Mediterranean
Sea)
# India to import crude oil from the U. S. for the first time
after Indian Oil Corp. bought a cargo
SPORTS
# India's Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship
2017 held in New Delhi
# Valtteri Bottas (Finland; Mercedes Team) won the 2017 Austrian
Grand Prix
MISC
# July 11: World Population Day; theme:"Family Planning:
Empowering People, Developing Nations"
# Former Cabinet Secretary Mr. Naresh Chandra Passed away
- Cabinet Secretary from 1990-92; Indian Ambassador to the US
from 1996-2001
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