Current Affairs - July 10, 2017 Current Affairs

Goa International Airports Limited, a subsidiary of GMR Airports has executed a debt facility agreement for the development of Greenfield airport at Mopa. The entire debt of Rs. 1,330 crore was underwritten by Axis Bank on a long tenor door to door basis of 18 years on competitive terms.s

Baahubali actor Prabhas have featured in the Most Influential Young Indians Artistes list by GQ India magazine. GQ (formerly Gentlemen's Quarterly) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City. It includes Young Indians from a diverse section of professions varying from business,media food and drinks, entertainment, sports and real estate among others.

India is planning to invite the leaders of the 10 ASEAN nations for the Republic Day parade for 2018. It will bring together leaders from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It will be the first Republic day for India where so many chief guests will be invited. World leaders like former US President Barack Obama, former French president Francois Hollande and UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan have been chief guests at Republic Day celebrations in the past.

India ended the four-day championships on top with their highest ever medal haul of 29 medals (12 gold, 5 silver and 12 bronze). China ended this edition on second position with 8 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.

Turkey has won the bid to host the 22nd World Petroleum Congress (WPC) in 2017, widely recognized as the 'Olympics' of the oil and gas industry. The tri-annual WPC Conference is widely recognized as the 'Olympics' of the oil and gas industry. It attracts Ministers, CEOs of Oil and Gas MNCs, experts and academics from the hydrocarbon sectors and provides an ideal forum to showcase potential of India's hydrocarbon sector, highlight the recent policy reforms to international investors and interact with policy makers, technologists, scientists, planners and management experts, entrepreneurs, service providers and vendors in order to attract foreign investments into India's growing oil and gas sector.

Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a new health scheme to enable capital's residents avail free surgery in private hospitals at government's cost. This would be applicable in case government hospitals were unable to operate within one month. The facility is available for 52 types of specified surgeries like heart by-pass, kidney stone surgery and laparoscopic gall bladder surgery. It will be taken care of at 48 NABH-accredited private hospitals in Delhi-NCR. These include Moolchand Hospital, Rockland Hospital and Batra Hospital in south Delhi.

A three-day Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar International conference on social justice will be held in Bengaluru from July 21 to 23. It will unveil the 'Bengaluru Declaration' outlining specific constitutional, institutional and policy responses to concerns of equity, human rights, freedom and democracy.

National Security Guard (NSG) organised First International Aviation Security Seminar in Manesar, Haryana. It was inaugurated by Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha on July 6, 2017.

Private life Insurance company Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance entered into an alliance with the Kerala-based Dhanlaxmi Bank for marketing various life insurance products. All the life insurance products of Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance will be available to customers of Dhanlaxmi Bank and would be sold by the licensed staff of the bank.

Atthaya Thitikul became the youngest winner on the Ladies European Tour. She beat Ana Menendez of Mexico by two strokes in the inaugural Ladies European Thailand championship at the Phoenix Gold Golf and Country Club in Chinburi. Atthaya broke the previous record of the formerly top-ranked Lydia Ko, who at 14 years and eight months won her first professional event at the New South Wales Open in 2012.

Senior bureaucrat John Joseph has been appointed Director General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DG GSTI). Joseph, a 1983 batch officer of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), has worked in the Finance Ministry's important departments, including the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).

Valtteri Bottas won the Austrian Grand Prix for Mercedes ahead of championship leader Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari. The Finn, in his first season with Mercedes after replacing 2016 champion Nico Rosberg, came home 0.658 seconds clear of Vettel who increased his lead ahead of Lewis Hamilton in the drivers championship to 20 points.

India, the world's third-largest oil importer, will import crude oil from the United States of America (USA) for the first time after Indian Oil Corporation bought a cargo that will be delivered in October 2017.

Raninder Singh as re-elected as president of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) for a four-year term in Mohali. He introduced 18 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) levied on all imports, including duty-free imports.