1.Delhi High Court removes 200 SMS per day limit
2.India tests nuclear-capable Agni-I missile
3.Which IT company reported its 1st ever
loss in 26 years--Microsoft
4.Which company join hands with Google to
introduce Google Web Academy in India—NIIT
5.Which bank overtook SBI as India’s most
valued bank:HDFC Bank
6.Which Indian state residents will have
to pay property tax for the first time--Jammu and Kashmir.
7.IMF reduces India’s growth to 6.1 %.
8.RBI lowers growth forecast rate for
2012-13 to 6.5%.
9.BCCI for resuming cricket with Pakistan.
10. What is the NEFT transaction charges per
transaction for funds less than Rs.10,000 from August 1st 2012--Rs.2.50
11. SBI hikes interest rate for deposits below
Rs.15 lakh.
12. Western Ghats now in World Heritage List.
13.E-filing of returns must for income over
Rs. 10 lakh.
14.National Housing Bank (NHB), Genworth,
Asian Development Bank (ADB), and International Finance Corporation (IFC), have
together set up a joint venture mortgage guarantee company-India Mortgage
Guarantee Corporation Pvt. Ltd. (IMGC).
15.Pakistan to reopen NATO supply lines.
16.New particle found by CERN at Meyrin, near
Geneva. This particle looks like Higgs Boson.
17.Nuclear power goes back online in Japan.
18.The Supreme Court has asked the Reserve
Bank of India not to grant permission to or register foreign law firms to set
up liaison offices in India under Section 29 of the Foreign Exchange Regulation
Act, 1973, for fighting litigation in the country.
Reconstituted NAC meets today
19.IRCTC recently introduced which payment
service to book tickets online--Interbank Mobile Payments Service, with One
Time Password
20.Yahoo India recently tied-up with which
kannada language daily newspaper to launch a co-branded kannada property
kannada.yahoo.com--Udayavani
21.Name the Nobel laureate who has been
appointed as the first chancellor of the proposed Nalanda University.--Amartya
Sen
22.RBI to issue Rs.5 coins bearing which
institutes emblem as it mark’s its Centenary Year--Indian Council Medical
Research
23.Haryana bans chewable tobacco products.
24.No I-T returns if you earn Rs 5L or less.
25.The reconstituted Sonia Gandhi-led National
Advisory Council (NAC) will meet on Friday to review the first two years of NAC
2 (June 2010-June 2012) as well as to listen to presentations by the Union
Ministries of Labour and Employment and Financial services on a set of
recommendations to the Central government on ensuring social security for the
unorganized sector.
26.Chidambaram to head Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on
spectrum now.
27.Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong Arrives in
Delhi to push for bigger Indian role in ASEAN and to engage in education
sector.
28.Jawaharlal Nehru University is the best
university in the country, according to the National Assessment and
Accreditation Council.
29.The third edition of the Defence &
Aerospace SES (Strategic Electronic Summit) 2012 will be held in Bangalore on
July 26-27.
30.The Maharashtra government has banned
production, sale, distribution and storage of gutka and paan masala.
31.India, U.S. join hands to promote
innovation.
32.India has joined hands with the U.S. to
promote innovation in India. Called ‘Millennium Alliance’, the unique
initiative will provide grassroots innovators with essential resources such as
seed funding, business incubation services, networking opportunities and
technical assistance to solve development problems, particularly in the areas
of basic education and food security.
33.Which Indian state government has increased
0.5% VAT recently--Karnataka
34.China’s Yi Siling wins 1st gold medal of
Olympics 2012 in 10m air rifle
35.Indian Shooter Gagan Narang wins bronze 10m
air rifle
36.BCCI bans five cricketers for spot-fixing
in Indian Premier League: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
meted out harsh punishments on Saturday to five cricketers — T P Sudhindra,Shalabh
Srivastava, Amit Yadav, Mohnish Mishra and Abhinav Bali — who were caught in a
TV sting operation in May agreeing to either spot-fix matches or bragging about
receiving 'under-the-table' payments from franchisees and agreeing to move to other
IPL teams for more money.
37.The head of the European Center for Nuclear
Research says its teams have discovered a new particle that is consistent with
the Higgs boson -- a subatomic particle considered so significant to the
understanding of the universe that it has been called the God particle.
38.Sunita Williams sets off on yet another
space mission: Indian-American record-setting astronaut Sunita Williams along
with her two colleagues today took off for her second space odyssey on a
Russian Soyuz rocket, which blasted off successfully from a cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan.
39.Supersonic missile BrahMos successfully
test-fired: India successfully test fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile as
part of a user trial by the Army from a test range at Chandipur off Odisha
coast. The missile, which has a flight range of up to 290 km, is capable of
carrying a conventional warhead of 300 kg.
