Top News Headlines by GKToday – 30 July 2019

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Here are the top current affairs of 30 July 2019 for all competitive examinations of India.

India has 2967 tigers says All India Tiger Estimation Report 2018: MP-526, Karnataka: 524, Uttarakhand: 442, Maharashtra: 312, Tamil Nadu: 264, Assam: 190, Kerala: 190
Mobile application M-STrIPES (Monitoring System For Tigers-Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) used for Tiger census
Repealing and Amending Bill, 2019, a Bill seeking to repeal 58 obsolete laws, passed unanimously by the Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha passes National Medical Commission Bill, 2019 that seeks to create National Medical Commission in place of Medical Council of India
Landing Craft Utility commissioned into Indian Navy in Visakhapatnam; is 100th warship built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE), Kolkata
Odisha wins Geographical Indication (GI) tag for ‘Odisha Rasagola’, W. Bengal had got GI for ‘Banglar Rasogolla’ in 2017
West Bengal: CM launches phone number (9137091370) and website www.didikaybolo.com to address public grievances
Karnataka: CM B.S. Yeddyurappa wins floor test in the Assembly by voice vote
Maharashtra: Congress MLA Kalidas Kolambkar quits the Assembly

BSE Sensex: 37,688.28 (–196.82), NSE Nifty: 11,189.20 (–95.10)
Rajya Sabha approves Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2019; seeks to speed up bankruptcy resolution process
Commerce and industry ministry to set up a ‘National Traders Welfare Board’ to advise the government to reduce compliance burden and improve availability of funds for traders
India signs Rs 1,500 crore deal to acquire R-27 air-to-air missiles from Russia for equipping Su-30MKI combat aircraft
Cisco collaborating with Google to launch free high-speed WiFi at public locations across India
Infosys launches Cyber Defence Center in Bucharest, Romania

President Ram Nath Kovind holds talks with his Beninese counterpart Patrice Talon in Cotonou
Pakistan: 1,000-year-old Shawala Teja Singh temple in Sialkot opened for Hindus for the 1st time since partition
BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, participants-Sergei Lavrov (Russia), Wang Yi (China), Ernesto Araujo (Brazil), Naledi Pandor (South Africa) and V.K. Singh (India)
Israel and the U.S. conduct tests of Arrow-3 missile defence system in Alaska

WTC to begin from August 1 with Australia-England test in Ashes series
9 countries will play a total of 71 Test matches across 27 series over two years
Top 2 two teams to play in final in June 2021 in the UK
Athletics: Dalilah Muhammad (52.2 sec) of US breaks 16-year old WR in women’s 400 m hurdles
Colombia’s Egan Bernal of Team Ineos wins 3,365.8 km Tour de France cycle race (July 6-Brussels – July 28-Paris)
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of Finland wins German Grand Prix at Hockenheim, Germany’s Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) is 2nd and Russian Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso) finished 3rd
13-year old Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa wins Xtracon Open chess championship in Copenhagen
Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili beats Russia’s Andrey Rublev in final 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to win men’s singles title at Hamburg Open tennis