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July 9th Current Affairs

1)India Smart Cities Fellowship (ISCF) and the India Smart Cities Internship (ISCI) are the two programmes launched by The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MoHUA) to give youth the chance to work In the domain of urban planning and governance.
2)The central government think tank NITI Aayog has unveiled the blueprint of National Health Stack (NHS), a shared digital healthcare infrastructure.
3)South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in New Delhi on a four day visit to India to attend India-Korea Business Forum in New Delhi.
4)Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in would inaugurate world’s largest mobile factory of Samsung in Noida,India.
5)The University Grants Commission (UGC) announced that the HRD Ministry  granted Institutions of Eminence status to three public and three private institutes.IIT-Delhi, IIT-Bombay and the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in the public sector, and Manipal Academy of Higher Education, BITS Pillani and Jio Institute by Reliance Foundation in the private sector.
6)Himachal Pradesh Government is all set to ban the use of plastic and thermocol cutlery in the state.
7)Centre for Skilling & Technical Support (CSTS) and Foundation Stone of new CIPET Building at Doiwala, Dehradun laid by Shri Ananthkumar.
8)Microsoft India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Rajasthan government to improve the integration of technology in teaching and skilling of students and educators in government colleges.
9)Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar inaugurated the 17th World Sanskrit Conference held at Vancouver, Canada.
10)Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan is on a visit to Geneva to attend the UNCTAD meeting of a third inter-governmental group of experts on consumer protection.
11)Bollywood star Akshay Kumar as the new brand ambassador of Revital H.
12)The English Patient,the wartime love story by Michael Ondaatje, won the Golden Man Booker Prize.
13)Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, has finally decided to hold The 1st Global Travel Mart India (GTMI)in New Delhi.
14)Indian Railways introduced Double Stack Dwarf Container Services from Western Railway’s Rajkot railway station on its first commercial run.
15)Pakistan launched 2 indigenously built satellites named PRSS-1 and PAK-TES-1A into the orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China, through a Chinese-made launch vehicle.



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