Friday, 11 July 2014

India this week: 30 june - 6 july 2014




Students and aspirants of various competitive exams with calendar of most important events that has happened in India in the week 30 June – 6 July 2014. It will help them revise and recollect the important news and events just before the exam.

30 June 2014
• PSLV C23, carrying five foreign satellites, launched successfully from Sriharikota
• Third edition of Ladakh International Film Festival held in Leh
• West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan resigned
• India became the first Country to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty
• Rajasthan Government declared Camel as the State animal
• Rangarajan committee to Review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty report submitted to planning commission

1 July 2014
• Bor Wildlife Sanctuary of Maharashtra to be the country's 47th Tiger Reserve
• President joined on Twitter with @RashtrapatiBhvn
• President conferred National, Shilp Guru and Sant Kabir Awards for 2011
• National Doctors’ Day observed across India on 1 July
• Indian pistol shooter Jitu Rai ranked No. 1 in the world
• Ram Naresh Yadav sworn-in as Governor of Chhattisgarh
• Supreme Court directed J&K government to restore Dal Lake

2 July 2014
• Coffee-Table book titled First Citizen: Pranab Mukherjee in Rashtrapati Bhavan released
• First Aid Post inaugurated at Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi
• Supreme Court ruled no automatic arrest of accused in dowry cases
• CCEA approved inclusion of onion and potato under Essential Commodities Act, 1955
• Swamy Goud elected as Chairman of Telangana Legislative Council

3 July 2014
• Union Government introduced four new vaccines as a part of UIP
• RBI restored the limit of Overseas Direct Investment taken under automatic route
• Indian Railways successfully conducted test run of Delhi-Agra semi-high speed train
• ADB to provide equity investment of 50 million US dollars to ReNew Power
• ADB approved 300 million US dollar loan for Assam's power sector
• TN government sets up Raghupathy commission to probe Chennai building collapse

4 July 2014

• Bihar Governor DY Patil took additional charge of West Bengal
• B V Wanchoo, the Governor of Goa resigned
• NABARD and SFAC signed a MoU for development of Small Farm Producers
• Udhampur-Katra rail line inaugurated by the Prime Minister
• Narendra Modi inaugurated 240MW Uri-II hydroelectric project in Jammu and Kashmir
• Supreme Court directed Haryana Government to stop illegal mining in Aravali Hills

5 July 2014

• Special Air India flight carrying 46 Indian Nurses and 137 others from Erbil arrived at Kochi

6 July 2014

• Kamla Beniwal, the Gujarat Governor transferred to Mizoram
• Maharashtra Government invoked Essential Services Maintenance Act, against striking medical officers

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