Daily Current Affairs Updates

Para swimmer Niranjan Mukundan has won eight medals at the recently-concluded IWAS (International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports) U-23 World Games held in Prague, Czech Republic.

The Union Cabinet has approved signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Mauritius in the field of Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation.

The Union Cabinet has given its approval for signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Mozambique on Drug demand reduction and related matters.

NASA̢۪s Juno spacecraft has successfully entered into the orbit of Jupiter on 4th July 2016 and started orbiting solar system̢۪s most massive planet.

Nineteen new Ministers of State (MoS) were inducted in the Union Council of Ministers in a major expansion.

• Gurpreet Singh Sandhu becomes first Indian footballer to play in Europa League
• MV Dhekane takes over as Director of IISU
• India to host meet of BRICS anti-narcotics heads

The Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) at Nhava Sheva in Raigad District of Maharashtra has become the first port in India to implement logistics data bank tagging system of containers.

India is going to host meet of the heads of anti-narcotics agencies of BRICS nations to discuss issues related to narco-terrorism and money laundering.

Researchers from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium have built a super-sensitive electronic nose comprising of chemical sensors metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

Sudarshan Sen has been as Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Ace Indian shuttler B Sai Praneeth (World no 33) has won the 2016 Canada Open Grand Prix Badminton title in the men̢۪s singles category.

Noted scientist M V Dhekane has assumed the office of Director of ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.