International Current Affairs-July,2010

• Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete (22) was crowned Miss Universe 2010.
• Uruguay reached World Cup Semi finals in 2010.
• Bronislaw Komorowski has been sworn in as new president of Poland.
• Iveta Radicova becomes the first female Prime Minister of Slovakia.
• Former Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) recently in connection with the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
• Former cricketer Greg Chappell became Australia’s the first full-time selector after being appointed as National Talent Manager by the Cricket Boar
• Rajasthan state bans plastic carry-bags
• Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has been named world’s highest paid athlete.
• India and Nepal two country have agreed to strengthen their respective National Action Plans under the Global Tiger Forum for tiger conservation in a time-bound implementation.
• Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will host a quadrilateral summit with leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan to discuss the situation in Af-Pak region.
• Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi was the Chief Minister undergone a complicated double heart surgery at the Asian Heart Institute recently.
• Anil Khanna resigned Commonwealth Games OC treasurer for CWG 3- 14, 2010 Games.
• Sahal Kaushik was the 14-year-old the youngest entrant into IIT-Kanpur’s prestigious MSc physics programme.
• No more time for sorrow’ written by Robert Beeman The author predict that terrorist will set off an atom bomb in the USA by 2013.
• Netherlands won World Cup final in 2010.
• Paes-Black won Wimbledon mixed doubles title.
• The Andhra Pradesh High Court has granted bail to former Satyam managing director Rama Raju, former chief financial officer Vadlamani Srinivas and three others accused in the multi-crore rupee accounting scam on July 20, 2010.
• Russia and U.S.A. countries conducted a major spy exchange on chartered planes at an airport in Vienna, Austria on July 9, 2010.
• Runners-Up: Netherlands, Third: Germany, Fourth: Uruguay took places of Runner-Up, third and Fourth Places in Fifa World Cup 2010.
• Spain won FIFA World Cup 2010 in final.
• Private airline Air Blue flight airliner from Karachi carrying 150 people crashed in a ball of flames densely wooded hills above Islamabad.
• Benigno Aquino III has been sworn in as the 15th president of Philippines.
• Roy Hodgson was named as the new Coach and manager of the English Premier League club ‘Liverpool’.
• Christian Wulff was sworn in as Germany’s 10th President on July 1, 2010?
• Cashew seed extract has anti-diabetic properties says a pharmacology professor at the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Medicine.
• Mano Menezes was named coach of the Brazil national soccer team, replacing the fired Carlos Dunga.
• Argentina country became the first Latin American country recently to legalize same-sex marriage.
• Rosa Otunbayeva is the first female president of Kyrgyzstan.