• The first Indian to win the Mr World title is - Rohit Khandelwal
• The states three
cadre IAS officers, for the first time have been empanelled in the rank of
Union Secretary at a time - Odisha
• The jail’s
Directorate of Prisons and Correctional services provided a maiden platform to
as many as ten jail inmates to fine-tune their musical skills is - Shimla,
Himachal Pradesh
• He was elected as
President of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) - Imran Ansari,
the state sports minister
• He officially
clinched the Republican nomination for the US President after a state-by-state
vote at the Party Convention - Donald Trump
• MPs of which
country have backed in Parliament the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons
system - United Kingdom
• The actor who was
appointed as the Digital Ambassador of Axis Bank’s new product named
Multi-Currency Forex Card is - Purab Kohli
• Nigerian
journalist who won BBC World Service News Komla Dumor Award for 2016 is - Didi
Akinyelure
• The former Indian
hockey player and part of the team that won gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics,
who died recently, is - Mohammed Shahid
• The former South
Africa fast bowler who was appointed the Managing Director of 2019 World Cup is
- Steve Elworthy
• Deputy Sports
Minister of Russia who was suspended by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev after
his name occurred in WADA report on the doping of Russian athletes at the 2014
Sochi Olympics is - Yury Nagornykh
• The state that
has decided to celebrate the bicentenary (200 years) of the 1817 Paika revolt
against the British Empire in 2017 - Odisha
• The Child Labour
(Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 that was passed by Rajya
Sabha seeks to amend - Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) (CLPR) Act,
1986
• The state
assembly that passed the Legislative Assembly (Removal of Disqualifications)
Amendment Bill 2016 to amend the Section 2 of the 1951 Act is - Kerala
• Devotees of the
temple can now offer donations to Lord Ganesha in the form of shares or stocks
of listed entities in addition to traditional offerings in cash and gold -
Mumbai's famous Siddhivinayak temple
• A university of a
country has announced that it will conduct the world's first Zika vaccine test
on humans in the near future - Canada
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