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July 19th Current Affairs

1)The government will print and hand-deliver about 110 million ‘family cards’ for the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme in a major public contact programme by organising ‘Ayushman Pakhwaras’ in villages.
2)National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) organised “Ganga Vriksharopan Abhiyan” in five main stem Ganga basin states – Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal 9thJuly to 15th July2018 was observed as ‘Shubharambh Saptah’ .
3)In a move to put a check on vehicle thefts, the government will soon notify a new standard for automobile industry named MicroDots.
4)Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh launched an online portal and mobile app called ‘Aabhaar-Aapki seva ka’ for the online pensioners of the state.
5)In partnership with global consultancy firm EY, also known as Ernst & Young, the Andhra Pradesh government launched the ePragati Core Platform, a new initiative to accelerate the digital transformation journey in the state.
6)External Affairs minister Smt. Sushma Swaraj is hosting the 10th edition of Delhi Dialogue (DD X) in New Delhi.The theme of this year’s DD X will be “Strengthening India-ASEAN Maritime Cooperation”.
7)The Elphinstone Road station in Mumbai has been renamed as Prabhadevi station.
8)National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) has installed a remote sensing instrument- LiDAR for assessment of offshore wind resource at Gulf of Khambat, off the Gujarat Coast.
9)The Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI) has organized, “India’s Largest Apparel Trade Show – The 67th National Garment Fair” at Bombay Exhibition Centre, NSE Complex, Goregaon (East), Mumbai, Maharashtra.
10)UK Space Agency said that, it had chosen  Sutherland, a peninsula on Scotland’s north coast as the site for UK’s first space port.
11)Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Asian Development Outlook report India continues to be the fastest growing economy in Asia with projected GDP growth of 7.3 per cent.
12)Indian Air Force will participate with fighter aircraft in Exercise Pitch Black 2018 (PB-18),in Australia.
13)The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would issue new Rs. 100 note with motif of ‘Rani Ki Vav' which is located in Gujarat.The base colour of the note is lavender.Dimension of the banknote will be 66 mm x 142 mm.
14)Repco Micro Finance Ltd, a non-banking finance company promoted by Repco Bank, received Nabard 2018 award for its service to self-help group (SHG) linkage in Tamil Nadu for the fiscal year 2017-18.
15)Jana Small Finance Bank headquartered in Bengaluru formerly known as Janalakshmi Financial Services formally launched its commercial operations.
16)Infosys Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) for the construction of a station at Konappana Agrahara in Electronics City, Bengaluru.

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