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July 17th Current Affairs

1)Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan laid the foundation stone of India’s first National Skill Training Institute (NSTI) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
2)The National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation, NMDFC, organized a workshop on financial management in New Delhi.
3)Union Home minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the largest Indian visa centre in the world in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
4)Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, co-chaired the 8th session of India-Oman Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) in Muscat,Oman.
5)All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) under Ministry of AYUSH is organizing two days Conference of Heads of AYUSH National Institutes in New Delhi.
6)Yes bank announced that it would unveil the 7th edition of ‘Transformation Series Challenge’.The theme is ‘Tech for Urban Development’.
7)Defence manufacturer Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL) signed an MOU with Swedish firm SAAB to market air-surveillance radar.
8)The ‘BIMARU’ Indian states – Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh – have the highest numbers of partially immunized and non-immunized children, according to UN bodies WHO and UNICEF.
9)Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that, it had signed a partnership with French energy company Total to develop a digital innovation centre in India.
10)IIT Madras has launched “world’s first” remotely operatable microscope that would enable a precise atom-by-atom view of a material in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
11)Bollywood singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh is all set to get his own wax statue at the Madame Tussauds museum in the national capital.
12)The UN has entered into a partnership with Google to monitor the impacts of human activity on global ecosystems by using sophisticated online tools.
13)Honda’s Marc Marquez (of Spain) cruised to his ninth consecutive German Grand Prix victory to extend his MotoGP lead.

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