Top News Headlines by GKToday – 15 July 2019

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Defence Minister lights Victory Flame at National War Memorial in New Delhi to begin celebrations of 20th Anniversary of the victory in Operation Vijay at Kargil
Golden Jubilee Edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panaji, Goa on November 20-28
Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns as Punjab Cabinet Minister

Bangladesh: Former military dictator Muhammad Ershad (1982-1990) dies at 91
France: President Emmanuel Macron announces creation of a national military space force command
National Day of France, also known as Bastille Day, celebrated on July 14
S. govt. fines Facebook $5 billion for the social network’s privacy and data protection lapses
Fernando Corbató, known for his work on computer time-sharing in the 1960s, dies at 93 in US

PAK PENALTY

International arbitration court imposes $5 billion penalty on Pakistan for unlawful denial of a mining lease to a company in 2011
The Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) was unlawfully denied a mining lease for the Reko Diq project in 2011 in Balochistan

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins Formula 1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone followed by Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) and Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) in 2nd and 3rd places respectively
Yasar Dogu International Wrestling tournament in Istanbul: Vinesh Phogat wins gold in women’s 53kg freestyle
Kladno Memorial Athletics Meet in Czech Republic: Hima Das wing gold medal in women’s 200m in 23.43 seconds
Tatyana Kolpakova international athletics meet in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan): M. Sreeshankar wins gold medal in men’s long jump (7.97m)

WIMBLEDON TENNIS

Men’s Doubles title won by Colombian pair of Juan Sebastián Cabal & Robert Farah who beat French pair of Nicolas Mahut & Édouard Roger-Vasselin in final 6−7(5−7), 7−6(7−5), 7−6(8−6), 6−7(5−7), 6−3
Mixed Doubles title won by Ivan Dodig (Croatia) & Latisha Chan (Chinese Taipei) who defeated Robert Lindstedt (Sweden) & Jeļena Ostapenko (Latvia) in the final 6–2, 6–3