Current Affairs One liner of the day: 2 July 2017 By: Edusafar

         

Current Affairs One liner of the day: 2 July 2017

• Two food items from India that were added to Oxford English Dictionary in its quarterly update - Chana and Chana Dal

• Company that got the environment clearance for exploratory drilling in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin - Oil and Natural Gas Corp

• India’s communication satellite that was launched from Kourou in French Guiana on 29 June 2017 - GSAT-17

• The Government has made it mandatory to link existing Aadhaar numbers with Permanent Account Number (PAN) of taxpayers with effect from - July 1, 2017

• This football league was granted official recognition by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) - Indian Super League

• British High Commissioner Sir Dominic Asquith on 28 June 2017 called on Chief Minister of a state to discuss about the British companies which are keen to investing in Amaravathi City. The state is - Andhra Pradesh

• The social media website with which the Election Commission of India collaborated to launch a special drive to enrol left out electors is – Facebook

• The Union Government recently launched two key interventions for the first major oil field auctions to be held under a new Hydrocarbon Exploration Licensing Policy. These two key interventions are - Open Acreage Licensing Process (OALP) and National Data Repository (NDR)

• The Union Cabinet approved signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between India and Israel on - National Campaign for Water Conservation in India

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently released the coin and postal stamp in the honour of Shrimad Rajchandra on his 150th birth anniversary. Shrimad Rajchandraji was the guru of - Mahatma Gandhi

• India signed a USD 35 million loan agreement with the World Bank For  - Assam State Public Financial Institutional Reforms Project

• This city has been crowned the ‘World Book Capital' for 2019 by UNESCO- Sharjah

• He, former Vice Chancellor of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University, has taken oath as the member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) - Dr. Manoj Soni

• According to a new study, this climatic factor is going to lead to displacement of about two billion people by 2100 – Rise in ocean level

• Person appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Governors  of National Institute of Fashion Technology - Rajesh V Shah

• According to new visa criteria released by the United States, applicants from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen would require this to get approval – Close family or business tie with the US

• The biggest ever joint military exercise took off on 29 June 2017 between – Australia and the United States.

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