1]
List of Important International Days in July 2015
- 4 July (first Saturday in July) - International Day of Cooperatives
- 11 July - World Population Day
- 15 July - World Youth Skills Day
- 18 July - Nelson Mandela International Day
- 28 July - World Hepatitis Day
- 30 July - International Day of Friendship
- 30 July - World Day against Trafficking in Persons.
2]
30 June 2015 clocked one second longer with a leap
second added to clocks worldwide.
3]
Prime Minister Modi launched Digital India Week to
spread awareness about Digital India Programme.
4]
Greece became 1st developed nation to default on
IMF debt.
5]
Sanjeev Galande selected for G D Birla Award for
Scientific Research for 2014.
6]
Anisa Rasouli nominated as first female judge of
Afghanistan Supreme Court.
7]
U P Singh appointed as Interim CMD of Oil India
Limited.
8]
The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development
has adopted the ‘Digital Guddi-Gudda Board’ as a Best Practice under Beti
Bachao Beti Padhao scheme on the occasion of Digital India Week being observed
from 1st July to 7th July, 2015.
9]
Darshan Jain, an Indian-American teacher named for
US Presidential Award
10]
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA),
chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval to a
new scheme the “Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana” (PMKSY). It will have
an outlay of Rs. 50,000 crore over a period of five years (2015-16 to 2019-20).
The allocation for the current financial year is Rs. 5300 crore.
11]
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee
received the first copy of the book ‘Uniki’ The book has been written by Shri
Ch Vidyasagar Rao, Governor of Maharashtra
12]
Cuba became first country in the World to eliminate
mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Syphilis.
13]
Chandrasekaran Ramakrishnan appointed as CFO of Tata
Motors.
14]
"Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years" by A.S.
Dulat.
15]
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of Bangladesh won 2015 World
Food Prize
16]
SBI launched Project Tatkal - The project will help
home loan applicants to get the loan within 10 days after receipt of application
form and relevant supporting documents. 17] Book “37 Bridges” authored
by Aamer Hussein.
18]
Corporation Bank launched first MUDRA card under
Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana.
19]
India won 2015 South Asian Basketball Championship
20]
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015
Formula 1 British Grand Prix title.
21]
Indian-American Professor R. Paul Singh named for
GCHERA World Agriculture Prize 2015.
22]
SN Sahai appointed as Home Secretary of Delhi.
23]
Electronic Nose for environmental monitoring
jointly developed by CSIR-NEERI and C-DAC.
24]
Climate Change to be the theme of Science Express
in 2015.
25]
Goa to host the Youth Delphic Games in February
2016
27]
Jodhpur Film Society honoured with Pritiman Sarkar
Award 2014-15
28]
Floyd Mayweather stripped of WBO Welterweight title
he won against Manny Pacquiao.
29]
India Central Asia Relations authored by Amiya
Chandra.
30]
HDFC Bank launched watch banking application for
Apple Watch
31]
Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in
India written by Jairam Ramesh
32]
‘World Population Day’ observed with theme
Vulnerable Populations in Emergencies
33]
ISRO successfully launched five UK satellites into
space
34]
Kagiso Rabada became second bowler to claim
hat-trick on ODI debut
34]
India’s 1st Earthquake Warning System successfully
installed in Uttarakhand
35]
7th BRICS Summit held in Ufa, Russia
36]
Inderjeet Singh became first Indian to win a Gold
Medal at World University Games in Gwangju.
37]
Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Simhastha Kumbh Mela began in
Maharsahtra
38]
IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals
suspended for two years by Justice Lodha panel
39]
55th National Inter State Senior Athletics
Championships concluded in Tamil Nadu.
40]
Lt General Man Mohan Singh Rai appointed as
Vice-Chief of Indian Army
41]
'Buddha in a Traffic Jam' bagged best screenplay
award at Madrid film festival.
42]
Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis won women's doubles
title in Wimbledon.
43]
Indo-Vietnamese pair Sumit Nagal-Nam Hoang Ly won
2015 Wimbledon Boys’ Doubles title
44]
Paes-Hingis won mixed doubles final at Wimbledon
45]
Novak Djokovic won the men’s singles title of
Wimbledon
46]
RBI constituted Deepak Mohanty Committee on
Medium-term Path on Financial Inclusion - The 14-member panel will be headed by
RBI executive director Deepak Mohanty.
47]
India’s first railway-line built under PPP model
inaugurated in Gujarat
48]
Make in India initiative of DIPP won Frost and
Sullivan’s 2015 Economic Development Innovation Award.
49]
Professor Kamal Bawa, an Indian-origin scientist,
elected to Royal Society of London.
50]
RBI signed Special Currency Swap Agreement with the
Central Bank of Sri Lanka
51]
Union Cabinet approved setting up of Panagariya
Committtee to classify Caste Census data, 2011
52]
RBI permitted CBS-enabled Cooperative Banks to
issue ATM cards in tie-up with a sponsor bank.
53]
Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Shri P. Ashok
Gajapathi Raju, formally launched the GAGAN system (GPS AIDED GEO AUGMENTED
NAVIGATION) at a function here today. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister
congratulated the entire team on development of the GAGAN project.
54]
Prime Minister Launches SKILL INDIA on the Occasion
of World Youth Skills Day (15 July).
55]
The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development
(MWCD) in collaboration with Facebook has launched the ‘#100Women Initiative’
that aims to recognize and acknowledge women who are making a difference in
their communities, across the country. The ‘#100Women Initiative’ involves a
contest to select 100 women achievers of India through public nominations via
social media.
56]
The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari
released a book entitled “Swatantrata Senani Raja Mahendra Pratap” edited by
Shri Raghuvir Singh ‘Arvind’
57]
India and World Bank Sign US $ 250 Million
Financing Agreement for Andhra Pradesh Disaster Recovery Project
58]
Railway PSU – “RailTel” Bags 12th National Awards
for Excellence in Cost Management 2014.
59] India and World Bank signed
Financing Agreement for Andhra Pradesh Disaster Recovery Project.
60] Union Cabinet approved
setting up of Panagariya Committtee to classify Caste Census data, 2011
61] Indian American Sunita
Viswanath honoured as Champions of Change by US White House.
62] RBI signed Special Currency
Swap Agreement with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
63] Nelson Mandela
International Day observed on 18 July
64] New fish species named
Puntius Dolichopterus discovered in Kerala
65] BCCI announced venues for
ICC World Twenty20; Kolkata's Eden Gardens to host final.
66] Bhanu Pratap Sharma
appointed as Chairperson of FSSAI
67] India’s 1st indigenously
designed and developed High Thrust cryogenic rocket engine tested.
68] Indian-origin Shiv Pande
received honorary fellowship from University of Central Lancashire.
69] Ajay Mathur appointed as
Director-General of TERI 70] Earth-like exoplanet Kepler 452b discovered.
71] Shubham Jaglan won IJGA World Stars of
Junior Golf event 2015
72] Peter Higgs received Royal
Society’s Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize.
73] Indian-American Amitoj
Chhabra won Junior Title at US Powerlifting Championships 2015.
74] India ranked 12th in terms
of power generation from nuclear source.
75] National Broadcasting Day
observed across the country - 23 July.
76] Conakry named as World Book
Capital for 2017 by UNESCO.
77] Ashish Bahuguna appointed
as Chairman of food safety regulator FSSAI
78] Rajesh Exports Ltd acquired
Switzerland-based world’s largest gold refinery Valcambi.
79] Ram Sevak Sharma appointed
as Chairman of TRAI.
80] Former Indian President APJ
Abdul Kalam passed away.
81] World's largest flower
Amorphophallus Titanum bloomed at Jindai Botanical Gardens in Tokyo.
82] 16th Anniversary of Kargil
Vijay Diwas (27 July) observed across the country.
83] Ramachandra Guha chosen for
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 2015.
84] Beijing chosen to host 2022
Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
85] Microsoft launched Windows
10 operating system.
86] RBI decided to issue 10
rupees coins to commemorate International Day of Yoga.
87] Cyclone Komen formed over
Bay of Bengal.
88] ‘Visaarnai’ became first
Tamil film to enter Venice film festival.
89] India to become most populous nation by 2022:
UN World Population Prospects. 90] SEBI cancelled Certificate of Registration
of Sahara Mutual Fund.
91] India signed Loan Agreement of $300 Million
with ADB for National Urban Health Mission
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