Page-22 of Current Affairs - July, 2015

Typhoon Linfa hits Southern Chinese province of Guangdong

July 11, 2015

The powerful Typhoon Linfa has hit the southern China after it made landfall on southern province of Guangdong. Typhoon Linfa has hit the southern province by bringing winds of up to 126 km/hr along with heavy rain. However after it ..

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Prince Saud al-Faisal, World's longest serving Foreign Minister passes away

July 11, 2015

Prince Saud al-Faisal, former foreign minister of Saudi Arabia passed away in United States. He was 75. He was the Saudi kingdom’s foreign minister for 4 decades (from 1975 to 2015). He had retired in April 2015 and was succeeded ..

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Legendary Egyptian actor Omar Sharif passes away

July 10, 2015

Legendary Egyptian actor Omar Sharif passed away due to a heart attack in Cairo. He was 83. He was best known for his roles in classic films Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965). These movies had soared him ..

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Indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash Missile inducted in IAF

July 10, 2015

Indigenously developed supersonic surface-to-air Akash Missile has been inducted in Indian Air Force (IAF). The Akash missile was inducted by Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar at a function held at Maharajpur Airbase in Gwalior after he handed over the symbolic ..

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Uttarakhand gets India’s first earthquake early warning system

July 10, 2015

Uttarakhand became first Indian state to install a system to detect earthquakes and disseminate warnings. The first system has been installed in its capital Dehradun which will issue warnings 1-40 seconds before earthquakes of magnitude 5 or more occur. The ..

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Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka sets record for spending longest time in space

July 10, 2015

Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has set a Guinness World Record for spending longest time in space with a total of 804 days as on July 2015. With this he broke the previous record of 803 days, nine hours and 41 ..

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MoUs inked to address Chemical Industry’s need of Skilled Manpower

July 10, 2015

Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (MCF) signed MoUs to address the Industry’s need of Skilled Manpower. These MoUs will enhance strategic tie between both parties to scale up skill development and ..

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Healthcare firm Practo acquires tech start-up Genii

July 10, 2015

Healthcare firm Practo has acquired Mumbai based Genii, a technology services start-up focused on product design and development. With this acquisition, Genii’s founders Varun Vohra and Aditya Anand and their 11 member team will join Bengaluru based Practo. Currently, Practo ..

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