Current Affairs One Liners, 📅 08 July 2021

Current Affairs One Liners, 

📅 08 July 2021 . 

By - Dream Big Institutions

📆 07 July: World Chocolate Day

⏳ World Chocolate Day Was First 

Celebrated In The Year 2009

👤 Ismail Sabri Yaakob Appointed As The Deputy Prime Miníster Of Malaysia

🐯 Rajasthan Govt Has Planned To Develop A Tiger Coridor

✅ To Connecting Ranthambore, 

Ramgarh Vishdhari & Mukundra Tiger Reserves

✅ A Tiger Corridor Will Be Developed By Relocating Eight Villages

🤝 lst Edition Of Indo Pacific Business Summit Is Being Organised By CIl

🏢 Confederation Of Indian Industry (Founded In 1895 & HQ: New Delhi)

👤 Current Chairman Of Confederation Of lIndian Industry: T. V. Narendran

🎯 Indian Army Has Named A Firing Range In Gulmarg After Vidya Balan

✅ Vidya Balan Firing Range Is Situated In Gulmarg, Kashmir

📱 Giriraj Singh Has Launched The Online Course Mobile App " Matsya Setu

✅ App Developed By The ICAR-Central Institute Of Freshwater Aquaculture

👤 Jim Whitehurst Has Announced He Is Stepping Down As President Of IBM

🏢 International Business Machines Corp. (Founded In 1911 & HQ: Armonk, NY)

👤 Current CEO Of International Business Machines Corp.: Arvind Krishna

✈️ Korean Air Wins Air Transport World's Airline Of The Year Award

🏆 Indian Economist Kaushik Basu Awarded Prestigious Humboldt Research Award

✅ The Alexaınder Von Humboldt Foundation Awarded The Humboldt Research Award

✅ Award Honours Scientists & Economists From Across The World For Their Work

👤 Kaushik Basu Is Currently A Professor Of Economics At Cornell University

✅ Basu Was The Chief Economist of The World Bank From 2012 To 2016

✅ From 2009 To 2012, Basu Served As The Chief Economic Adviser To The GOlI

🏆 Basu Is Also A Recipient Of The Padma Bhushan (2008) 3rd Highest Civilian Award

👤 ADB Has Appointed Arnaud Cauchois As The New Country Director For Nepal

🏢 Asian Development Bank (Founded In 1966 & Headquarter: Manila, Phillipines)

👤 current President Of Asian Development Bank: Masatsugu Asakawa (Japan)

🏌️Udayan Mane Becomes 2nd Indian Male Golfer To Qualify For The Tokyo Olympics

✅ Anirban lst Indian Male Golfer To Qualify For Tokyo 2020 (Female: Aditi Ashok)

🔶 I&B Minister P Javadekar Inaugurates India Pavilion During 74th Cannes Film Festival

📆 The 74th Annual Cannes Film Festival Is Taking Place From 6 To 17 July 2021

🎞 French Director Leos Carax's " Annette Will Serve As The Opening Film Of The Festival

😔 Actor Dilip Kumar (Mohammed Yusuf Khan) Passed Away Recently

🎞 Kumar Debuted As An Actor In The Film Jwar Bhata, Produced By Bombay Talkies

✅ Jwar Bhata Is A 1944 Black & White Drama Film Directed By Amiya Chakravarty

✅ He Was The First Actor To Win The Filmfare Best Actor Award (For Daag)

📕 Autobiography: Dilip Kumar: The Substance And The Shadow (Published In 2014)

🏆 Awards: Padma Bhushan (1991), Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1994), Padma Vibhushan (2015)

👤 Appointed As The Sheriff Of Bombay By The Governor Of Maharashtra (1979-82)

🇵🇰 In 1998 Pakistan Honoured Him With Its Highest Civilian Honour, The Nishan-e-Imtiaz

✅ Only Indian Recipient of Pakistan's Highest Civilian Award, Nishan-e- Imtiaz

✋Kumar Was Nominated As A Member of The Rajya Sabha (2000-06, Maharashtra)

🔶 WB Assembly Passed A Resolution For Creation Of A Legislative Council (Article 169)

📩 Govt Was Able To Pass The Resolution With 196 Votes In Favour And 69 Against

✅ According To Law, West Berngal Can Have A Maximum Of 94 Members In Legislative Council

✅ 6 States Have A Legislative Council: Up, Bihar, AP, Maharashtra, Telangana & Karnataka

🔶 Government Announced For Creation Of A New Ministry Of Cooperation

📢 First Proposed By FM Nirmala Sitharaman While Delivering Union Budget Speech In 2021

✅ Ministry of Cooperation Is 2nd Ministry To Be Created Since 2019 (1st: Jal Shakt)

🔶 DMRC Launched India's lst FASTag Or UPI Based Parking Facility

✅ This Facility Was Launched At Kashmiri Gate Metro Station, New Delhi

📊 Trafficking In Persons Report 2021 Was Recently Released By US State Department