Current Affairs of July 2017 for all types of Competitive Exams Read top news headlines and latest major events happened in India and World in the month of July 2017. The information given will help you to prepare for exams like: IAS, PCS, UPSC, Railways, SSC, Banking and all other competitive exams.

• 01 July 2017: Senior diplomat Shamma Jain has been appointed as India’s ambassador to Greece.
• 02 July 2017: Anti-hunger activist Ankit Kawatra has been awarded with the Young Leaders Award for 2017 by Queen Elizabeth II at the Buckingham Palace.
• 03 July 2017: Achal Kumar Jyoti, a 1975-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Gujarat cadre, will be the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India. Media reports suggest that Jyoti would take charge from incumbent Nasim Zaidi.
• 04 July 2017: Germany defeated Chile by 1-0 to win the Confederations Cup final title.
• 05 July 2017: Himachal Pradesh DGP Sanjay Kumar has been appointed as the new chief of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
• 06 July 2017: India’s leading cueist Pankaj Advani teamed up with Laxman Rawat to defeat Pakistan in the final of the Asian Team Snooker Championship title.
• 07 July 2017: India is ranked a high 23rd out of 165 nations in a Global Cybersecurity Index. This Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) has been released by the UN telecommunications agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
• 08 July 2017: Saima Wazed Hossain has been appointed as the WHO’s Goodwill Ambassador for Autism in the South-East Asia region.
• 09 July 2017: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will represent India at the 22nd World Petroleum Congress that will be held in Istanbul between 10- 12 July.
• 10 July 2017: President Pranab Mukherjee launched four major digital initiatives in to push e-education. They are Swayam, Swayam Prabha, National Academic Depository and National Digital Library.
• 11 July 2017: Renowned cartoonist Mangesh Tendulkar died. He was 83.
• 12 July 2017: Former cricketer Ravi Shastri has been appointed the head coach of the Indian cricket team. Along with this, Zaheer Khan has been appointed as the bowling coach.
• 13 July 2017: India, for the first time, will be host to the Theatre Olympics since the event’s inception in 1993.
• 14 July 2017: Prominent Indian-origin businessman, Yusaffali M A has received the prestigious Queen’s Enterprise Award 2017.
• 15 July 2017: Indian Railways launched first solar-powered DEMU (diesel electrical multiple unit) train from the Safdarjung railway station in Delhi.
• 16 July 2017: Karnataka’s Manudev defeated Alok Kumar of PSPB by four frames to one in the final to win the title in the first National Masters snooker tournament.
• 17 July 2017: Alia Bhatt and Shahid Kapoor bagged the Best Actors for Udta Punjab at the 18th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards.
• 18 July 2017: The International Swimming Federation (FINA) said that the Russian city of Kazan and Hungarian city Budapest will host the 2022, 2024 Short Course Swimming Championships respectively.
• 19 July 2017: American President Donald Trump nominated experienced diplomat and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. as country’s new ambassador to Russia.
• 20 July 2017: Veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani has been awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions as a Parliamentarian in the Lok Sabha.
• 21 July 2017: Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has approved to buy 25% stake in Balaji Telefilms for ₹413.28 crore.
• 22 July 2017: Former Australian tennis professional Peter Doohan died. He was 56.
• 23 July 2017: India ended their World Para Athletics Championship campaign with five medals, including a gold.
• 24 July 2017: Eminent space scientist and former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Udupi Ramachandra Rao died. Rao was 85.
• 25 July 2017: India will host the men’s World Boxing Championship for the first time in the year 2021.
• 26 July 2017: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee conferred this year’s ‘Mahanayak Samman 2017’ to veteran actress Shakuntala Barua for her contribution to the world of cinema.
• 27 July 2017: India’s third largest private sector bank, Axis Bank acquired Snapdeal-owned recharge app ‘FreeCharge’ for $60 million.
• 28 July 2017: outh Korean electronics company, Samsung overtook Intel to become the World’s biggest chip maker.
• 29 July 2017: John Morris, a celebrated US-born editor who commissioned and published some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century, died. He was 100.
• 30 July 2017: India shooter Tejaswini Sawant of Maharashtra won the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event in the XVII Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting championship.
• 31 July 2017: The Reserve Bank of India imposed Rs 1 crore penalty on Union Bank of India for non-compliance of KYC norms.

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