Events of July 2011

Events of July 2011

Question	Answer
1)The indigenously built fast attack craft (FAC), built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineer Limited of Kolkata, which was commissioned into the Indian Navy in Jul	INS Koswari
2)The new chief of the Indian Air Force	Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne
3)The new Chairperson of National Commission for Women	Smt Mamata Sharma
4)The Indian who has been awarded the 2011 Magsaysay Award for "Guiding villages to find their own ways towards hope and progress"	Nileema Mishra
5)The Indian who has been awarded the 2011 Magsaysay Award for "Lighting the way to make solar power work for the poor".	Harish Hande
6)The chemical which has been recently notified as an explosive by the Government of India	Ammonium Nitrate
7)The African nation where famine has been declared in its two regions.	Somalia
8)The spacecraft of NASA which is on a mission to two largest members of the asteroid belt, the Vesta and the Ceres (it reached Vesta on Jul 16, 2011)	Dawn
9)The former football player who has been awarded the Dhyanchand Award in recognition for his lifetime achievement in sports.	Shabbir Ali
10)Cadel Evans, the cyclist who recently won the 2011 Tour de France belongs to	Australia
11)The Prime Minister-elect of Tibetan Government in exile who is to take oath on August 8 in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh	Lobsang Sangay
12)The person who has been conferred honorary doctorate by Middlesex University, London in recognition of his contribution to entertainment in India and throughout the world	Shiamak Davar
13)The country with which India has signed a Civil Nuclear Deal in Jul 2011. (India has already signed Civil Nuclear Deal with US, France, Russia, Canada, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Namibia since 2008).	South Korea
14)The place where setting up of Indian Sign Language Research & Training Centre (ISLRTC), has been approved on project basis for a period of five years	New Delhi
15)The place where Indian Statistical Institute has opened a new centre	Tezpur, Assam
16)The Indian actress who has been awarded Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from France in recognition of her contribution to the world of cinema and to the development of Franco-Indian co-operation in the film industry	Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
17)The state which has recorded the highest number of domestic tourists for the year 2010	Andhra Pradesh
18)The ace Indian shooter who has been chosen for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2010	Gagan Narang
19)The government recently cleared international oil company BP Plc buying 30% stake in most of Reliance Industries' (RIL) oil and gas blocks, including the showpiece KG-D6 gas fields, for $7.2 billion. BP Plc is headquartered in	London, U.K.
20)The Chess player who has become the second Indian Grandmaster among Indian woman (Koneru Humpy being the first)	D Harika
21)The Indian queen who has been listed among 10 wives who were resolute even in troubled times by the Times magazine	Rani Lakshmibai
22)The person appointed as the new Solicitor General of India in place of Gopal Subramaniam	Rohinton F Nariman
23)The Indian cricketer who has become the second highest run-getter in test cricket (the first slot being occupied by Sachin Tendulkar)	Rahul Dravid
24)The mini satellite to be launched by astronauts aboard International Space Station on Aug 3 in honour of the 50th anniversary of Russian astronaut Yury Gagarin's pioneering space flight is named	Kedr
25)The former Indian Prime Minister who has been chosen for Bangladesh's highest state honour, 'Bangladesh Swadhinata Sanmanona'	Mrs. Indira Gandhi
26)INS Teg, INS Tarkash and INS Trikhand, the three frigates which will be inducted into the Indian Navy are being built by	Russia
27)The last of the US space shuttles which completed its last trip to the space by landing at Kennedy Space Centre on Jul 21	Atlantis
28)The ICT based solution for vehicle registration launched by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is named	Vaahan
29)The one stop solution to Motor Vehicle Driver Licensing launched by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is named	Sarathi
30)The venue of 46th World Archery Championship 2011, held during 3 - 10 Jul 11	Turin, Italy
31)The place in Andhra Pradesh which is reported to have about 49,000 tonnes of uranium — three times the original estimate of the area’s deposits, with the potential of becoming the world’s largest uranium mine.	Tumulapalli
32)The mascot of FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 held in Germany	Karla Kick, the cat
33)The team which has won the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 held in Germany by defeating USA in the finals	Japan
34)Eran, the place at which archeological monuments and remains have been declared monuments of national importance is located in	Madhya Pradesh
35)The village in Darjeeling where a historic tripartite agreement has been signed by the Central Govt, WB State Govt and Gorkhaland Janmukti Morcha on the Gorkhaland issue.	Pintail
36)The place at which a new Officers Training Academy for training military officers for short-service commission has come up	Gaya, Bihar
37)The oldest commissioned ship of the Indian Navy which has been decommissioned this month	Sharabh
38)GSAT-12, India's latest communication satellite has been launched on 15 Jul from Sriharikota aboard	PSLV C-17
39)The day which has been selected to be celebrated as Common Service Centre (CSC) Diwas every year to mark the incorporation of CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd on this day in 2009	Jul 16
40)Mount Lokon, a volcano which started erupting on Jul 14 is located in	Indonesia
41)The place where Prabhash Prasang, a two-day festival on vernacular journalism is being held	Indore
42)The country which has passed the controversial boycott law making it a civil offence to call for an economic, cultural, or academic boycott of people or institutions	Israel
43)The South Korean power equipment-maker which will set up a power equipment manufacturing unit at Chennai, in Tamil Nadu	Doosan
44)The venue of 5th World Military Games to be held from Jul 16 to Jul 24	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
45)The 168-year old newspaper owned by News International (Chairman - James Murdoch) which was finally shut down in the face of the raging phone hacking scandal	News of the World
46)The last active Space Shuttle of the United States which was launched on its final mission from Kennedy Space Center on July 8, 2011, in Cape Canaveral	Atlantis
47)The cruise ship which sank recently in Volga river in Russia on Jul 10 was named	Bulgaria
48)The Indian Air Force base where the C-17 Globe III, the largest strategic heavy lift aircraft being acquired from US are planned to be inducted	Hindan
49)The team which has topped the medals tally at 19	< sup> Asian Athletics Championship held at Kobe, Japan. India finished 8th with 11 medals (1 gold, 2 silver and 8 bronze)	Japan
50)The venue of 21st President's Cup International Boxing Tournament	Jakarta
51)The planet which is completing its first revolution of the sun this year since its discovery in 1846. (The period of revolution is 164.79 years)	Neptune
52)The venue of 19th Asian Athetics Championship 2011	Kobe, Japan
53)The country which has become the 193rd country of the world to be recognised by the UN on 09 Jul 11 after its independence from Sudan. Its first President is President General Salva Kiir Mayardit and its capital is Juba (Note: Vatican City, Kosovo and Taiwan are not UN recognised independent countries.)	South Sudan
54)The Maternal Mortality Rate of India as per the latest figures released for 2007-09 is	212
55)The film Gandhi to Hitler is directed by	Rakesh Ranjan Singh
56)The Ukrainian coach who has been removed from his position for being responsible for Indian athletes failing in the the dope test	Yuri Ogrodnik
57)The Padmanabhaswamy Temple which was in news recently for the discovery of huge amount of wealth is located in	Thiruvananthapuram
58)The material which has been sought to be banned by National Human Rights Commission, for it being responsible for various incurable diseases including cancer	Chrysotile Asbestos or White asbestos
59)The new and the first woman Prime Minister of Thailand	Yingluck Shinawatra
60)The player from Serbia who has won Wimbledon 2011 Men's title by defeating Spain's Rafael Nadal	Novak Djokovic
61)The actor who has been chosen as the Brand Ambassador for Ministry of Women and Child Development for spreading the message of curbing malnutrition among children	Aamir Khan
62)Professor Amartya Sen was conferred the Degree of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa, by the National University of Education Planning and Administration (NUEPA) which is located in	New Delhi
63)Soputan, the volcano which has erupted recently is located in	Indonesia
64)The new tactical short-range missile with a range of 150 km developed by DRDO is named	Prahar
65)The Czech national who has won the Women's Wimbledon title for the year 2011, defeating Russian Maria Sharapova	Petra Kvitova
66)The honorarium payable to Anganwadi workers has been increased by the Government from Rs. 1500/- to	Rs. 3000/-
67)The newly opened world's longest cross-sea bridge, the Jiaozhou Bay bridge (26 miles (42 kilometers) long) links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to the island of	Huangdao
68)The new Chief Vigilance Commissioner	Pradeep Kumar