World this week: 30 june - 6 july 2014

Students and aspirants of various competitive exams with calendar of most important events that has happened in World 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
• World Bank released a report titled Student Learning in South Asia
• Malala Yousafzai won Liberty Medal for the year 2014
• US named a mountain in Antarctica after an Indian-American scientist, Akhouri Sinha
• India and China inked 3 agreements including one to facilitate setting up of Chinese Industrial
• India announced new liberal visa policy for Afghanistan nationals
• Pakistan Army launched Phase-II of the Operation Zarb-e-Azb against militants

1 July 2014
• Michelle Howard became first female four-star admiral in US Navy
• Sujit Choudhry became the first Indian-American dean of Berkeley Law School
• Shah Rukh Khan Conferred with Knight of the Legion of Honor
• Japanese Cabinet adopted resolution to end 60 years of pacifism

2 July 2014
• Olympian and WW II veteran Louis Zamperini died
• Four-party meet in Berlin agreed to resume ceasefire in eastern Ukraine
• National Assembly of Pakistan approved Protection of Pakistan Bill 2014
• NASA launched Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 to track Carbon Dioxide

3 July 2014
• China – South Korea bilateral summit held in Seoul
• Japan issued multiple entry visas to Indians
• Japan eased sanctions against North Korea
• Germany‘s new law allowed dual citizenship to citizen ship of immigrants

4 July 2014
• Senegal President Macky Sall sacked Prime Minister Aminata Toure
• Hurricane Arthur hit the coast of North Carolina

5 July 2014
• Kvitova won the women’s singles of the Wimbledon Tennis Open of 2014
• MCC XI won the match played to celebrate 200 years of Lord’s Cricket Ground

6 July 2014
• Novak Djokovic won the Men’s Wimbledon Tennis Open defeating Roger Federer