Top News Headlines by GKToday – 21 July 2019

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Three-time Delhi CM and Congress leader Sheila Dikshit passes away at 81
New Governors: Anandi Ben Patel: UP, Lal Ji Tandon: MP, Phagu Chauhan: Bihar, Jagdeep Dhankhar: West Bengal, Ramesh Bais: Tripura, R. N. Ravi: Nagaland
Rajya Sabha MP D Raja to take over as General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) after incumbent S Sudhakar Reddy resigned
J&K: Defence Minister visits Kargil War Memorial at Dras
J&K: Defence Minister inaugurates 1 km long Ujh bridge in Kathua district, 617.40 m long Basantar bridge in Samba district
Next Generation Sequencing (NSG) facility inaugurated at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad by Union Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan
Kerala Tourism organises ‘Monsoon Ragas’ music festival in Thiruvananthapuram from July 20 to 24

SKILL CENTRES

2 Skill Centre of Excellence (CoE)s to be set up in UP with joint collaboration between State and Central Government
Centre of Excellence for Plumbing to be set up in Greater Noida, Centre of Excellence for Services Sector to be set up Varanasi

Eight more routes start operations under the regional connectivity scheme UDAN: Mysore-Hyderabad, Mysore-Goa, Mysore-Cochin and Kolkata-Shillong.
Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank Limited (ABIPBL) Saturday announces winding up of its business
All lanes at toll fee plaza on national highways will be ‘FASTag lanes’ from December 1
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: Union Cabinet approves new deadline of 330 days for completion of the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confiscate British tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz for breaking ‘international maritime rules ‘
US launches ‘Operation Sentinel’ to improve surveillance in Middle East waterways
Italy: Mount Etna volcano erupts on Sicily, closing two airports in Catania
China’s space lab Tiangong-2 re-enters the earth’s atmosphere
Cesar Pelli, architect of Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, dies aged 92

Shiva Thapa wins gold for India in men’s 63 kg at the President’s Cup boxing tournament in Astana, Kazakhstan
Algeria defeat Senegal 1-0 in final to win the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in Cairo
2018 Jakarta Asian Games: India’s silver in 4×400 mixed relay event (Mohammad Anas, Hima Das, Arokia Rajiv & M R Poovamma) to be upgraded to gold after disqualification of Bahrain for doping
Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) suspends 23-year-old Sanjivani Jadhav, bronze winner in women’s 10,000m at the 2019 Asian Championships, for 2 years for doping