Current Affairs - July 30, 2021 Current Affairs

The Reserve Bank of India has accorded its approval to the Government of the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh to acquire 8.23 per cent of the paid-up equity capital of Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd as of the date of enforcement of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 (October 31, 2019).

State Bank of India topped the list of Public Sector Bank writing off loans in FY21 followed by Union Bank of India.

Indian-origin British author, Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel 'China Room', alongside Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers.

World's largest star sapphire cluster worth up to $100 million has been found in Sri Lanka by accident. It is named 'Serendipity Sapphire'.

The Rajasthan government's industries department and the Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation (RIICO) have launched the ''Mission Niryatak Bano'' campaign to promote aspiring exporters in the state.

Global Tiger Day or International Tiger Day is observed on 29th July every year to raise awareness about the declining population of wild cats and making efforts to conserve them.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, India's billionaire investor, has announced to launch his very own ultra-low-cost airline called Akash Air. .

Maruti Suzuki India Limited has announced a partnership with Maharashtra's Savitribai Phule Pune University to train youth in automobile retail.

IAF operationalised the second Rafale squadron at Hasimara in West Bengal.

Karnataka has become the first state in the country to provide one per cent reservation for the 'transgender community in all the government services.

The Bihar assembly passed a Bill to establish the first sports university of the state where one-third of the seats will be reserved for women.

The Sitio Burle Marx site, a landscape garden in Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro has been added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites. The garden features more than 3,500 species of plants native to Rio and is considered a laboratory for botanical and landscape experimentation.

The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 5 crore on private sector lender Axis Bank.

Google-parent Alphabet will launch a new robotics company, Intrinsic which will focus on building software for industrial robots. The segment comes out of X, Alphabet's Moonshot factory that houses futuristic firms such as Waymo, Wing and Veril.

King Chilli 'Raja Mircha' from Nagaland exported to London for the first time

Paytm Payments Bank has become the first bank in the country to achieve the milestone of issuing 1 crore FASTags.

For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This water vapour forms when ice from the moon's surface sublimates that turns from solid to gas.

The Indore city of Madhya Pradesh, or the cleanest city of India, has become the only city from the country to be selected for International Clean Air Catalyst Programme.

US announced USD 25 million in aid to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts across India.

The Centre is setting up the Garima Grihas for transgender persons with the help of community-based organizations.