Current Affair of 15th July 2015 Updates | Daily Gk Capsule Download
1. Lieutenant
General Man Mohan Singh Rai has been appointed as the Vice-Chief of the
Indian Army. Rai will succeed Lt Gen Philip Campose, who will
superannuate the office on 31 July 2015. Presently, Rai is working as
the Eastern Army Commander.
2. India
and Georgia signed a MoU in New Delhi, for cooperation in the field of
election management and administration. The major aims of MoU are:
promotion of exchanges of knowledge and experience in electoral
processes; exchange of information, materials, expertise and training of
personnel; production and distribution of materials pertaining to
electoral systems, voting technology, voters’ education and awareness,
and participation of women and minorities in electoral process.
3. An
India-based software products and technology services company is among
the winners of the prestigious Microsoft Country Partner of the Year
Award for 2015, a recognition that honours the technology giant’s
partner achievements across the globe. Comparex India Pvt. Ltd,
headquartered in New Delhi, was honoured, along with 110 awardees by
Microsoft, at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2015.
4. Tata
Steel's West Bokaro Division was conferred with the Golden Peacock
Environment Management Award (GPEMA) 2015 during 17th World Congress on
Environment Management organised in New Delhi. It was presented by the
Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar
to Sanjay Rajoria, General Manager of West Bokaro, Tata Steel of
Jharkhand.
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5. Olivia
Jordan of Oklahoma was crowned Miss USA 2015.The competition was held
in Lusiana. The 26-year-old winner was followed by first runner-up
Ylianna Guerra, 22, of Texas, and second runner-up Anea Garcia, 20, of
Rhode Island.
6. In
order to leverage Indian creativity, expertise, and resources to
identify and scale innovative solutions, the FICCI and the World Bank
announced their partnership to advance the Millennium Alliance (MA)
initiative. The agreement was signed to formalize a shared commitment to
support sustainable and scalable innovative solutions in the identified
priority areas of sanitation, education, healthcare, clean energy and
agriculture.
7. In
fresh trials, India has test-fired its indigenously developed ‘Nag’ an
anti-tank guided missile, which can hit a target upto 7 km, from a
helicopter at a firing range in Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. Three-round
trial of helicopter-launched Nag (HeliNa) missile were conducted at the
Chandhan firing range. HeliNa is a helicopter-launched version of Nag
and has been developed by the Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) under the Integrated Guided Missile Development
Programme (IGMDP).
8. Civil
Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju launched the GPS-Aided Geo
Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system, which would make airline operations
more efficient and reduce costs. GAGAN is a satellite-based navigation
system which provides autonomous, high precision geo-spatial location
information of the user in terms of latitude, longitude and height along
with velocity and time. Jointly developed by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI), at an
investment of Rs. 774 crore, GAGAN will offer seamless navigation to the
aviation industry.
9. Indian
grapplers finished with an impressive haul of 16 medals, including
three gold, at the Junior Asian Freestyle, Greeco-Roman and Female
Wrestling championship at Nay Pyi Taw in Myanmar. The Indian team's
performance has won them 68 Champion Trophy points, while the
Greeco-Roman team finished runners-up with 59 points. In Men's Freestyle
category, the Indians claimed a total of eight medals with Ravi Kumar
bagging the yellow metal in 55kg division.
10. Southern
music composer M.S. Viswanathan, who has over 750 films to his credit
passed away. He was 87. He was popularly known as MSV in the film
industry. Popular for composing music in more than 750 films in Tamil,
Telugu and Malayalam, MSV started his career as a composer for 1952
Tamil film "Panam".
