Top News Headlines by GKToday – 20 July 2019
NATIONAL
- Centre and Assam govt. move SC seeking extension of the July 31 deadline for finalisation of NRC (National Register of Citizens)
- Indian Army conducts summer user trials of 3rd Generation Anti-Tank Guided Missile NAG at Pokhran Field Firing Ranges
- IFS officer Vivek Kumar appointed private secretary to PM Narendra Modi
- India’s new Ambassadors: Upender Singh Rawat: Panama; Sanjeev Kumar Singla: Israel
HUMAN RIGHTS BILL
- Lok Sabha passes Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill, 2019
- Now a Supreme Court judge besides CJI can be appointed Chairperson of NHRC
- Number of members of NHRC increased from two to three
- At least one of 3 members of NHRC should be a woman
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
- S&P BSE Sensex: 38,337.01 (–560.45), NSE Nifty: 11,419.25 (-177.65)
- India’s foreign exchange reserves decline by USD 1.113 billion to USD 428.797 billion in the week to July 12
- International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol praises Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
- All Nippon Airways (ANA) to start first direct flight from South India to Japan connecting Tokyo to Chennai – from Oct 27
- Chennai-based Laxman Muthiyah wins $30,000 reward from Instagram for spotting a flaw in the photo-sharing app
INTERNATIONAL
- Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy awarded honorary doctorate by Royal Holloway, University of London
- Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom organised in Washington
- US blocks sale of Turkish-made T129 ATAK helicopter gunships to Pakistan
- AB InBev to sell Aussie brewer CUB (Carlton & United Breweries) to Asahi of Japan for USD 11.3 bn
- S. House votes to block Trump administration from selling billions of dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia
- 33 killed in an arson incident in an animation studio in Kyoto, Japan
- The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) adds more than 7,000 animals, fish and plants to its endangered ‘Red List’
SPORTS
- 15-year old Prithu Gupta becomes India’s 64th Grandmaster, crossing the Elo threshold of 2500 points
- ICC inducts Sachin Tendulkar, Allan Donald in its Hall of Fame list
- Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju Friday launches AIFF’s Golden Baby Leagues handbook 2019-20 for 6-12 years age group
- Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in Cuttack: India win both men’s and women’s team titles beating England (3-2) and Singapore (3-0) respectively
- North Korea beat Tajikistan 1-0 in final to win Intercontinental Cup football tournament in Ahmedabad
