DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 22 July 2015
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1. MAURIC OBSTFELD
BECOMES CHIEF ECONOMIST OF IMF:
i. Maurice Obstfeld of USA is appointed as Chief
Economist of IMF.
ii.
Maurice Onstfeld will succeed outgoing IMF Economist Oliver Blanchard
IMF – International Monetary Fund
Head Quarter – Washington DC ,USA
Member – 188 countries
2. IMPORTANT
APPOINTMENTS:
|
Name
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Appointed
as
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Replaced
|
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Bhanu Pratap Sharma
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Chairperson of ISSAI
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Was handling additional charge until now.
|
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Pankaj Munjal
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CMD of Hero Motors
|
O.P.Munjal
|
CMD-
Chairman and Managing Director
FSSAI- Food
Safety and Standards Authority of India
3.
DRISHTI, INSTALLED AT IGI AIRPORT:
i. Indigenous
visibility Measuring System, DRISHTI, installed at IGI Airport.
ii. The CAT
III B IGI Airport, New Delhi, is now the first airport in the country to have
10 indigenous systems operating in all its three runways.
iii. Drishti System is very cost effective and is
a Mandatory System required at all airports as per International Civil Aviation
Organisation (ICAO) and World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).
4.
PAMARTHY SHANKAR WON GRAND PRIX WORLD PRESS CARTOON 2014 AWARD:
i. Telugu
Cartoonist Pamarth Shankar won Grand Prix World Press Cartoon 2014 Award.
ii. Pamarth Shankar won the award for sketching
Nelson Mandela.
5. INDIAN RAILWAYS AND ODISHA GOVERNMENT SIGNED
MOU:
i. An MoU is signed between Indian Railways and
Odisha Government for Dasappla-Balangir Railway line.
ii. The agreement was signed by Ved Parkash
Dudija ,Executive Director (works) Ministry of Railways and Sanjay Rastogi,
commissioner-cum-secretary, Commerce and Transport Department, Odisha
Government.
