Indian Current Affairs -July, 2010

• P.T. Usha has been appointed the chairperson to head the committee that has been constituted to select the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna and Dhyanchand awards apart from Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar for 2010.
• The famous Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra has been appointed as National Ambassador of UNICEF.
• Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) recently suspended Sports Authority of India (SAI) coach after Sydney Olympic bronze medalist Karnam Malleswari alleged sexual harassment by him on junior lifters. Ramesh Malhotra of that coach.
• Mr. Sanjay Jain has been appointed as CEO of Tulip Telecom Ltd.
• Saina Nehwal won Rajiv Gandhi khel Ratan award.
• V.S. Sampath was appointed as Election Commissioner.
• Virender Sehwag become the sixth Indian batsman to score 7000 Test runs.
• Epic Browser was the world’s only antivirus browser.
• Usain Bolt the Jamaican triple Olympic champion who is going to retire on 2016 Olympics.
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the cricketer recently got married on July 4, 2010 with his childhood girlfriend.
• Ravi Baswani famous Hindi actor who died with heart attack on July 28, 2010
• Batting star Sachin Tendulkar is the Cricketer decided and wants to have his blood used on a page of his autobiography to be released in February next year (Feb 2011).
• S Y Quraishi takes charge as Chief Eelection Commissioner on July 30, 2010.
• New Rupee Symbol of India or Indian Rupee Symbol designed by IIT post-graduate D Uday Kumar.
• July 15, 2010 Indian Rupee symbol has been revealed by Cabinet on.
• Maruti Suzuki Alto K10 new model launched at Rs 3 lakh on August 4, 2010.
• Interceptor is the missile that India successfully test-fired on July 26, 2010 .
• Diamond merchant Manoj Punamia was accused in Koda scam.
• Ed Thomas’s family recieved Arthur Ashe ESPY Courage Award in 2010.
• YS Rajeshekar Reddy birth anniversary is on July 8.
• Thomas MUELLER is the winner of the Best Young Player Award award in fifa 2010.
• Andres INIESTA has been elected as Man of the Match in Fifa World Cup 2010.
• Iker CASILLAS is the winner of the adidas Golden Glove award in Fifa World Cup 2010.
• Thomas MUELLER is the winner of the adidas Golden Shoe award in Fifa World Cup 2010.
• Diego FORLAN is the winner of the adidas Golden Ball award in 2010.
• Madhuri Gupta was chargsheeted on July 20, 2010 for passing secret info to ISI.
• Indian-origin Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oxford Prof. Aditi Lahiri has been elected as Fellow of the British Academy, the national academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Sunil Ekka is the Former India hockey star attacked umpire.
• Sanjay Dhawan has been appointed as CEO of Symphony Service Corporation.
• 28th Number is the current number of world heritage sites in India as of August 2010.
• Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is the Congress MP high command warning resumed his controversial ‘Odarpu yatra’ in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh on July 8, 2010.
• Face book social networking website officially announced that it had surpassed 500 million users around the world.
• Indian-American Nisha Desai Biswal is appointed as assistant administrator for Asia in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
• Madhya Pradesh’s Health Minister Anoop Mishra resigned recently after being charged with the allegations that some of his close relatives were involved in the killing of a youth over a land dispute near his home town Gwalior.
• Assam and Arunachal Pradesh two state decided to dismantle bunkers set up by their police forces on either side of the border between them as a confidence building measure to resolve a violent boundary row.
• Sheila Dixit has been received the Lokmanya Tilak Award in 2010.
• United Nations Court recently ordered retrial of former Prime Minister of Kosovo on murder and torture charges related to the country’s 1998-99 war with Serbia. Ramush Haradinaj of that former Prime Minister.
• Recently, Sajjan Kumar was the politician charged in anti-Sikh riots case.
• Gita Gopinath is the first Indian-origin woman professor in the institution’s history.
• Maria Rebello became the first Indian woman referee to officiate in men’s football match.
• Rudi Koertzen- Rudi is 61 years old and started officiating in international cricket from 1992. His first Test and ODI was against India in 1992. Koertzen went on to umpire in 106 Tests, and a record of 209 ODIs and 14 Twenty20 internationals.
• Arjun Atwal Becomes the first Indian to win on the U.S. PGA Tour.
• Ratan Tata has been selected ‘Businessman of the decade.
• 145 including 101 in the group stage goals are scored in the World Cup Football-2010.
• CWG OC terminates Darbari’s services: Acting on the persistent plea of the sports ministry, the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee on Monday terminated the services of its tainted Joint Director General TS Darbari in the wake of the corruption scandal that has rocked the event.
• TDP- TDP bandh was made to protest the arrest of party chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who began a hunger strike against Maharashtra stopping his visit to the Babhli barrage site.
• Pearl spot, a costly fish variety known for its unique taste is locally known as “Karimeen” This is the biggest spy swap since the Cold War.