1) Govt to increase coal production to one billion tone by 2022-23
2) Rajya Sabha passed the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2019
•The total outlay for the Central University project is Rs 902.07 crore and for Tribal University is Rs 836 crore. The Tribal University will offer research facilities in the fields of art, culture and technology to the tribal population.
3) President appoints Governors for Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh
4) Health Ministry to launch a “Jan Jagrukta Abhiyaan” in Delhi
•It will start from 17th to 19th July, 2019 in Delhi through active involvement of people’s representatives, officers from Government of India, Government of NCT Delhi, all three Delhi Municipal Corporations, New Delhi Municipal Council, Railways and Cantonment board and other stakeholders to combat malaria, dengue and chikungunya.
5) China gifts warship ‘P625’ to Sri Lanka
•The Type 053 frigate was commissioned into China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy in 1994 as the Tongling.
6) Ursula von der Leyen elected EU commission president
7) Israel Aerospace signs $50 million deal with Indian navy
•Israel Aerospace signs $50 million follow-up deal with Indian navy. Under the deal, Israel Aerospace Industries will provide complementary missile systems to the Indian navy and India’s MDL Shipyard.
•The agreement also involves a range of maintenance and other services for sub-systems of Israel Aerospace’s naval medium range surface-to-air missile.
8) Centre cuts interest on GPF by 10 bps
•During the year 2019-2020, accumulations at the credit of subscribers to the GPF and other similar funds shall carry interest at the rate of 7.9% with effect from July 1, 2019 to 30th September 2019.
9) National Digital Health Blueprint released
•The objective is to establish state-of-the-art digital health systems, for managing the core digital health data, the infrastructure required for its seamless exchange.
10) India, Italy to set up fast-track mechanism
•The meeting was attended by Ambassador of Italy to India, Lorenzo Angeloni and Secretary of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ramesh Abhishek. The fast-track system in Italy aims to identify and solve problems faced by Indian companies and investors.
11) 13th Meeting of India-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee
•The 14th meeting of the JETCO would take place in New Delhi in 2020.
12) Justice AK Sikri appointed as judge in SICC
•The President of the Republic of Singapore has made the appointment of Justice Sikri. It currently has 16 international judges as part of its panel.
•The SICC is a division of the Singapore high court and part of the Supreme Court of that country, designed to deal with transnational commercial disputes.
13) India, Uzbekistan exchange views on combating terror financing
•The meeting was co-chaired by Mahaveer Singhvi, the Ministry of External Affairs’ Joint Secretary for Counter-Terrorism and Ambassador Farhod Azriev of Uzbekistan.
14) Rohan Bopanna and Smriti Mandhana got Arjuna Award
•Bopanna who won the Gold medal in tennis men’s double category in Asian Games 2018 and Mandhana was the ICC women’s player of the year 2018.