In Monthly Current Affairs for July 2023, we will see the latest national and international current affairs news. These important current affairs will be beneficial for your upcoming NDA, CDS, CDS OTA, AFCAT, TA, Agniveer Army, Agniveer Navy, Agniveer Air Force, Women Military Police, INET, MNS, ACC exams, SCO, PCSL, CAPF, and SSB interviews, and direct entries for Army, Navy, and Air Force like SSC Tech, TGC, JAG, NCC, TES, 10+2 Cadet. Download a PDF file about current events at the end of this article.

MONTHLY CURRENT AFFAIRS JULY 2023

IIT Bombay Breaks Into Top 150 In QS World Ranking

• IIT Bombay Breaks Into Top 150 In QS World Ranking, Eight Years After IISc First Made It. IIT Bombay Has Made A Remarkable Leap, Climbing 23 Positions To Secure The 149^th Rank Globally In This Year’s Edition Of The Rankings.
• IISc Fell 70 Positions From 155^th Rank To 225. It Now Stands As The Third-Highest Ranked Indian Institution, Compared To Being The Best Indian Institution Last Year. Similarly, IIT Delhi Fell From 174 To 197, IIT Kanpur From 264 To 278 And IIT Madras From 250 To 285, Among Others.

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Neeraj Chopra Clinches Lausanne Diamond League

• With The Best Throw Of 87.66 Meters. Neeraj’s Golden Arm Did Its Magic In The 5^th Attempt And Achieved A Throw Of 87.66 Meters.
• Germany’s Julian Webber Slid Secured Second Place With A Best Throw Of 87.03 Meters While Jakub Vadlech Of The Czech Republic Got Third Place With 86.13 Meters.

PM Modi Chairs 23^rd SCO Summit

• PM Modi Has Described Terrorism A Threat To Regional And Global Peace And Called Upon Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Countries To Fight This Menace Together.
• Addressing The SCO Virtual Summit, Mr Modi Said Some Countries Are Using Cross-border Terrorism As An Instrument Of Their Policies And SCO Countries Should Not Hesitate To Criticize Such Nations.
• Mr. Modi Said India Has Made Sustained Efforts To Take SCO’s Multifaceted Cooperation To New Heights As The Chair Of SCO. India Has Made Five New Pillars For Cooperation In The SCO And They Are
  • Startups And Innovation
  • Traditional Medicine
  • Youth Empowerment
  • Digital Inclusion
  • Shared Buddhist Heritage
• SCO Have Reaffirmed Their Commitment To Fight Terrorism, Separatism And Extremism. They Emphasized On Taking Measures To Disrupt The Terror Financing Channels, Stop The Radicalization Of Youth And Eliminate Sleeper Cells And Places Used As Terrorist Safe Havens, And Cross-border Terrorism.

India Acquires Over 200 Patents For 6G Technology

• India Has Acquired Over 200 Patents For 6G Technology So Far.  This Was Stated By Communications And IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw At The Launch Of Bharat 6G Alliance In New Delhi.
• Bharat 6g Alliance Is A Professional Body Of Industry, Academia And Central Government. He Added That It Will Undertake All The 6G Related Works In A Methodical And Systematic Way. India Has Entered Into The World’s Top Three 5G Ecosystems As 2 Lakh 70 Thousand 5G Sites Are Ready In The Country.

Ajit Agarkar As Chairman Cricket Selection Committee

• Ajit Agarkar Has Been Appointed As Chairman Of The Senior Men’s Cricket Selection Committee. The Selection Committee Now Consists Of Ajit Agarkar, Shiv Sundar Das, Subroto Banerjee, Salil Ankola, And Sridharan Sharath.
• Former India All-Rounder Represented The Country In 26 Tests, 191 Odis, And Four T20is, In Addition To Playing 110 First-class, 270 List A, And 62 T20 Matches.

India Lifts SAFF Championships Trophy For 9^th Time

• In Football, India Lifted The SAFF Championships Trophy For The Ninth Time, Beating Kuwait 5-4 In The Penalty Shoot-out In The Final After A 1-1 Stalemate At The End Of Regulation Time At Sree Kanteerava Stadium In Bengaluru Last Night.

First Ever IIT Campus Outside India In Tanzania

• The First IIT Campus Outside India Will Come Up At Zanzibar In Tanzania. An MoU Has Been Signed For The Setting Up Of A Campus Of IIT Madras In Zanzibar. The Agreement Was Signed In The Presence Of EAM S Jaishankar And Zanzibar’s President Hussein Ali Mwinyi.
• NEP 2020 Recommends That High Performing Indian Universities Will Be Encouraged To Set Up Campuses In Other Countries. Dr S Jaishankar Is On A 4 Day Official Visit To Tanzania. He Was Welcomed By The President Of Zanzibar On His Arrival To Tanzania.

Lakshya Sen Wins Canada Open Badminton

• Indian Shuttler Lakshya Sen Clinched Men’s Singles Title Of The Canada Open 2023 Badminton Tournament Defeating Li Shi Feng Of China 21-18, 22-20 In The In Calgary, Canada. This Is The First BWF World Tour Title Of Commonwealth Games Champion Lakshya Sen After Almost A Year.

PM Modi Gets Lokmanya Tilak Award 2023

• PM Modi Will Be Awarded The Prestigious Lokmanya Tilak Award This Year. An Official Announcement Was Made By The President Of Tilak Smarak Trust  Dr. Dipak Tilak And Rohit Tilak. The Award Will Be Conferred By Dr Deepak Tilak On August 1, The Death Anniversary Of Lokmanya Tilak.

India To Become World’s 2^nd Largest Economy By 2075

• Investment Bank Goldman Sachs Has Said That India Is Poised To Become The World’s Second-largest Economy By 2075 Crossing Japan, Germany And The US With A Population Of 1.4 Billion People, India’s GDP Is Estimated To Reach 52.5 Trillion Dollars Surpassing The US GDP Projection.
• India’s Progress In Innovation And Technology, Higher Capital Investment And Rising Worker Productivity.
• This Is An Appropriate Time For The Private Sector To Scale Up On Creating Capacity In Manufacturing And Services In Order To Generate More Jobs And Absorb The Large Labor Force.
• Labour Force Participation, A Vast Pool Of Talent And A Working-age Population Ratio Are A Few Of The Factors Set To Make India The Second-largest Economy In The World By 2075.

Muslim World League (MWL) Chief Visits India

• Secretary General Of Muslim World League, Dr Mohammad Bin Abdulkarim Al Issa Met President Murmu At Rashtrapati Bhavan In New Delhi, She  Stated That India, As A Multi-cultural, Multi-lingual, Multi-ethnic And Multi-religious Society, Celebrates Unity In Diversity.

Nishad Kumar Wins Silver In Para Athletics

• India’s Nishad Kumar Has Clinched A Silver Medal In The Ongoing Para Athletics World Championships 2023. Nishad Bagged This Medal In The High Jump T47 Event. With This Win, Nishad Has Become The Second Athlete At This Event To Grab A Medal.
• The Top Four Ranked Athletes At The 2023 World Para Athletics Championships In Each Of The Individual Medal Events Qualify For The 2024 Paralympic Games, Also To Be Held In Paris.

Grand Cross Of The Legion Of Honour

• France Has Awarded Prime Minister Narendra Modi The Grand Cross Of The Legion Of Decoration, The Country’s Highest Civilian And Military Decoration. President Emmanuel Macron Gave The Prize To Modi.
• Modi Is The First Indian Prime Minister To Earn This Award. Former South African President Nelson Mandela, Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Received It Earlier.

ISRO Successfully Launches Chandrayaan – 3

• ISRO Successfully Launched A 642-Tonne Heavy Lift Rocket LVM3 Carrying Chandrayaan – 3 Satellites From Sriharikota. India’s Yet Another Historical Mission To The Moon Began After The Completion Of The Three Stages.
• All Three Stages Performed Exactly In Textbook Style. The First Stage is Powered By Solid Fuel Followed By Liquid Fuel And The Third And Final Cryogenic Stage Powered By Liquid Hydrogen And Liquid Oxygen Performed In A Perfect Automatic Launch Sequence.

Wimbledon Open Championship

• In Wimbledon Tennis, World Number One Carlos Alcaraz Ended Novak Djokovic’s Long Reign At The All-England Club To Win His First Wimbledon 2023 Title And His Second Grand Slam Title In London.
• The Twenty-year-old Spaniard Beat The Seven-time Champion To Become The Youngest Man To Lift The Challenge Cup Since 18-year-old Boris Becker Won The Second Of His Three Wimbledon Titles In 1986. The Spanish Sensation Won His Second Major Title, Having Triumphed At The 2022 US Open.
• Marketa Vondrousova Won Her First Grand Slam Title Following A Straight Sets Win Over Ons Jabeur In The Wimbledon Women’s Singles Final. She Is A Czech Professional Tennis Player & Defeated Ons Jabeur To Clinch The Title. She Was World No. 10 By The Women’s Tennis Association

Britain Join the Asia-Pacific Trade Group

• Britain Has Joined An Asia-Pacific Trade Group That Includes Japan And 10 Other Nations During A Meeting In New Zealand. The Trade Bloc Covers More Than 500 Million People And 15 Percent Of The World’s Economy.
• For Britain, It Represents The Largest Trade Deal It Has Struck Since Leaving The European Union More Than Three Years Ago. Britain First Announced In March It Had Reached An Agreement To Join The Bloc, Which Was Created In 2018, After More Than Two Years Of Negotiations.
• It Is The First New Member To Join The Bloc, Called The Comprehensive And Progressive Agreement For Trans-pacific Partnership. The CPTPP Also Includes New Zealand, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Singapore And Vietnam.

NITI Aayog’s National Multidimensional Poverty Index

• The Number Of Persons Living In Multidimensional Poverty In The Country Has Fallen From 24.85 Percent To 14.96 Percent Between 2015-16 And 2019-21. This Was Unveiled In The National Multidimensional Poverty Index Released By The NITI Aayog. Briefing Media In New Delhi, NITI Aayog CEO Subrahmanyam.
• 13.5 Crores People Have Escaped From Multidimensional Poverty In Five Years. India Is On Course To Achieve Sustainable Development Goals Target Much Ahead Of Schedule By 2030. The Report Shows That Poverty In Rural Areas Has Declined Sharply From 32.59% To 19.28% During The Period.
• Uttar Pradesh Has Registered The Highest Decline In The Number Of Poor With 3.43 Crore People Followed By Bihar And Madhya Pradesh. Providing Multidimensional Poverty Estimates For The 36 States And Union Territories And 707 Administrative Districts.
• The Report States That The Fastest Reduction In The Proportion Of Multidimensional Poor Was Observed In  Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, And Rajasthan. Improvement In Nutrition, Years Of Schooling, Sanitation, And Cooking Fuel Have Played A Significant Role.

Global Food Regulators Summit 2023

• The two-day Summit Which Has Been Organized By Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India,  Is Aimed At Creating A Global Platform For Regulators On Enhancing Food Safety Systems And Regulatory Frameworks Through Collaboration.
• WHO Director-General  Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Congratulated The Union Health Ministry And Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India  For Organizing This Maiden Global Food Regulators Summit.
• Dr Mandaviya Said It Is The Need Of The Hour For Detailed Discussions On Issues Like Food Safety For Framing Universal Food Safety Standards In View Of The Increasing Habitual Disease And Food Adulteration.
• Dr Mandaviya Also Launched Three Digital Platforms Namely Food – O- Copoeia Which Is A Collection Of Food Category-wise Monographs, A Common Digital Dashboard, And SaNGRAH.

‘China Plus One’ Opportunity

• World Bank President Ajay Banga Has Said That India Has An Opportunity To Create Jobs In The Manufacturing Sector By Tapping Into The ‘China Plus One’ Opportunity, But That Window Is Available Only For A Short Period Of Time. He Said, This Opportunity Will Not Stay Open For 10 Years.
• Three-to-five-year Opportunity When The Supply Chains Start Adding On In Another Location. 15-20 Million Jobs To Be Created With Some Highly Skilled Ones In Manufacturing And Technology. If There Is A Global Slowdown, India Will Have A Very High Share Of Its GDP Comes From Domestic Consumption.

Satwik & Chirag Lifts Korea Open Badminton Title

• Asian Champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy And Chirag Shetty Continued Their Winning Streak By Lifting The Korea Open Badminton Men’s Doubles Title In South Korea, Yeosu.
• The Indian Duo Defeated The World No. One Pair Of Fajar Alfian And Muhammad Rian Ardianto Of Indonesia In A Thrilling 3-game Finals. In The Semi-Final Chirag And Satwik Had Defeated World Number Two Chinese Pair Of Liang Wei Keng And Wang Chang In A Thrilling Straight-Game.

International Exhibition-Cum-Convention Centre

• IECC Complex At Pragati Maidan In New Delhi. The PM’s Vision Of Having A World Class Infrastructure For Hosting Meetings, Conferences, And Exhibitions In The Country Has Led To The Conceptualization Of The International Exhibition-cum-convention Centre.
• The Project, Which Revamped The Old And Outdated Facilities At Pragati Maidan, Was Developed As A National Project At A Cost Of About 2,700 Crore Rupees.
• With A Campus Area Of Approximately 123 Acres, The IECC Complex Has Been Developed As India’s Largest MICE – Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, And Exhibitions – Destination.

Military Coup In Niger

• Soldiers Claimed To Have Overthrown The Niger Government On Thursday Following An Apparent Coup In The Fragile State After Members Of The Presidential Guard Detained President Mohamed Bazoum.
• Disgruntled Members Of The Elite Presidential Guard Sealed Off Access To The President’s Residence And Offices In The Capital Niamey On Wednesday, And After Talks Broke Down “Refused To Release The President,” A Presidential Source Said.

Meri Maati Mera Desh

• The Govt Has Said That Meri Maati Mera Desh Event Will Be Organized Across The Country From the 9th To the 15th of August This Year, Marking The Culmination Of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. The Selected Youths From About 7,500 Blocks Will Assemble At Kartavya Path In New Delhi.
• They Will Be Carrying Soil From All The Villages Or Gram Panchayats Of Their States In The Mega Event To Be Organized Next Month.  Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Started On 12^th March 2021 With A March From Sabarmati To Dandi.

Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar

• It Is A Pan-India Initiative Of The Ministry Of Culture Under The National Mission On Cultural Mapping. Mr. Shah Will Officially Launch The Virtual Platform During A Grand Projection Mapping Show At The Qutub Minar. The Virtual Platform Will Connect People With Villages Of India.
• The Program Also Includes A Samvad Between People From Different Villages And Mr. Shah, Offering A Unique Opportunity To Interact With The Heart And Soul Of India’s Villages.

REVIEW QUESTIONS

• Global Food Regulators Summit 2023
• Chennai
• New Delhi
• Kanpur
• Prayagraj

ANSWER: B

• India Stood At ____ In Henley Passport Index 2023
• 80^th
• 81^st
• 86^th
• 87^th

ANSWER: A

• _____ Decided Not To Host 2026 Commonwealth Games
• USA
• UK
• Australia
• New Zealand

ANSWER: C

• Recently _____ Halted Participation In Black Sea Grain Deal
• Russia
• Ukraine
• Turkey
• Poland

ANSWER: A

• _____ Hands Over 105 Trafficked Antiquities To India
• UK
• USA
• Ukraine
• Russia

ANSWER: B

• ____ Won Wimbledon Women’s Singles Title 2023
• Marketa Vondrousova
• Ons Jabeur
• Maria Sharapova
• Angelique Kerber

ANSWER: A

• ______ Topped Asian Athletics Championships 2023
• China
• Japan
• India
• Sri Lanka

ANSWER: B

• _____ Joined Join Asia-Pacific Trade Group ‘CPTPP’
• New Zealand
• Australia
• USA
• UK

ANSWER: D

• ‘Bhoomi Samman’ 2023 Are Given For
• Digitization Of Land Records
• Implementation Of Ayushman Bharath
• Poverty Eradication Policy
• Centre-State GST Sharing

ANSWER: A

• Grand Cross Of The Legion Of Honour 2023 Will Awarded
• Narendra Modi
• Nelson Mandela
• Angela Markel
• Emmanuel Macron

ANSWER: A

• Bastille Day 2023 Parade’s Guest Of Honour Is _____
• Joe Biden
• Rishi Sunak
• Narendra Modi
• Olaf Scholz

ANSWER: C

• Current General Secretary Of the Muslim World League
• Muhammad Bin Abdul Karim Musa
• Muhammad Bin Abdul Karim Issa
• Muhammad Bin Abdul Karim Yusuf
• Muhammad Bin Abdul Karim Yunus

ANSWER: B

• Won Silver In High Jump Para Athletics Championship 2023
• Praveen Kumar
• Sharan Kumar
• Nishanth Kumar
• Nishad Kumar

ANSWER: D

• NATO Summit 2023 Was Hosted By
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Sweden
• Finland

ANSWER: B

• Gets Lokmanya Tilak Award 2023 Was Conferred Upon
• Narendra Modi
• Amit Shah
• Rajnath Singh
• Nirmala Seetharaman

ANSWER: A

• Men’s Singles Title Of The Canada Open 2023 Badminton
• Srikanth Kidambi
• Lakshya Sen
• Parupalli Kashyap
• Sai Praneeth

ANSWER: B

• ____ Received Record Applications For Asylum In EU In 2022
• France
• Germany
• Spain
• Italy

ANSWER: B

• Who Is The 14^th & Current Dalai Lama
• Tenzin Gyatso
• Gyalwa Rinpoche
• Jetsun Jamphel
• All The Above

ANSWER: D

• 1^st IIT To Be Established Outside India Will Be In
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
• Zaire
• Zanzibar

ANSWER: D

• 67^th TAAI Convention To Begin In
• Kandy
• Colombo
• Galle
• Kalmunai

ANSWER: B

• ___ Announced Scheme For Modernization Of Fire Services
• Ministry Of Finance
• Ministry Of Home Affairs
• NDRF
• Ministry Of Social Welfare & Justice

ANSWER: B

• SAFF Championships Trophy 2023 Was Won By
• South Korea
• Malaysia
• India
• Canada

ANSWER: C

• 6G Related Works In A Methodical And Systematic Way
• India 6g Alliance
• Bharat 6g Alliance
• Telephone 6g Alliance
• Hindustan 6g Alliance

ANSWER: B

• ______ Appointed Chairman Cricket Selection Committee
• Ashish Nehra
• Ajith Agarkar
• MSK Prasad
• Rahul Dravid

ANSWER: B

• ___ Won Lausanne Diamond League 2023
• Neeraj Chopra
• Shivpal Singh
• Ajeet Yadav
• Ramesh Thakur

ANSWER: A

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