1) World Hepatitis Day: 28 July
•The theme for 2019 is “Invest in eliminating hepatitis”.
•The host country for World Hepatitis Day 2019 is Pakistan.
2) 7th Economic Census begins from Tripura
•The fieldwork is expected to be completed by December and the results at the national level is expected to be available by March 2020.
3) NITI Aayog partners with WhatsApp to promote women entrepreneurs
•WhatsApp will also partner with the Women Transforming India (WTI) Awards 2019,flagship initiative of NITI Aayog.
4) Nepal invited as a partner country for Gita Jayanti Mahotsav 2019
•Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has invited Nepal to be the partner country for this year’s ‘Gita Jayanti Mahotsav 2019’ scheduled to be held at Kurukshetra. He extended the invitation to Ambassador of Nepal to India Nilamber Acharya.
5) RAW officer appointed as new BSF Director General
•The order has been issued by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) that is headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
6) Girish Bapat appointed as chairman of estimates committee
•Estimates committee is one of the three financial standing committees of the parliament apart from the public accounts committee and committee on public undertakings.
7) 5th Dharma-Dhamma conference was held in Rajgir
•The aim of the conference is to address people about the terror, violence and global warming prevalent in the world. The conference will also address the subjects of Sat-Chit-Ananda and Nirvana which are the pivotal topics of Buddhism.
8) Sudarsan Pattnaik wins Peoples Choice Award in the U.S.
•Pattnaik was participating in the 2019 Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival in Boston, Massachusetts. He won the People’s Choice Award for his sand sculpture ‘Stop Plastic Pollution, Save Our Ocean’.
9) Khelo India Youth Games 2020 to be held in Guwahati