GA One Liner Of 1st & 2nd July 2018.

• India gets its 37th WORLD UNESCO World HERITAGE SITE "Victorian and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai ”

• MoS for Agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat announced linkage of 22,000 rural markets to e-NAM portal by 2020 in AgriVikas 2018 event in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

• Telangana CM lays foundation stone for Rs 554-crore Gattu irrigation project.

• Central Reserve Police Force launches 24 hour 'Madadgaar helpline' in Jammu & Kashmir.

• Bhitarkanika national park has become the largest habitat of the endangered estuarine crocodiles in India.

• Mumbai Airport Among Least Punctual Airports In The World: Study by OAG.

• ICC elects 3 Board Associate Member Directors , Imran Khwaja, Mahinda Vallipuram and Tony Brian .

• Indian American Seema Nanda appointed CEO of Democratic National Committee (DNC) of United States.

• Harmeet Singh -- the first Sikh to become a newscaster in Pakistan

• K B Vijay Srinivas appointed Director& GM of United India Insurance Company

• National Doctors' Day – July 1

• International Joke Day – July 1

• 1st July 2018 celebrated as ‘GST day’, to commemorate the first year of the unprecedented reform of Indian taxation

• Union Agriculture Minister chairs inter-session meeting of consultative committee on “Marine Fisheries-Mariculture in India” at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu.

• Ravindra Dholakia committee: Government forms panel to upgrade norms for state, district level economic data collection.

• 9th meeting of Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Indo-Nepal relations held in Kathmandu.

• NSE & Nasdaq to work together for post-trade delivery technology .

• First stainless steel bodied Mainline Electric Multiple Unit(MEMU) launched by Integral Coach Factory.

• NRL becomes 1st oil PSU to introduce online legal compliance .


• CCI gives nod for Bharti Infratel & Indus Towers merger.

• Artist Anjolie Ela Menon conferred the Kalidas Award for visual arts.


• The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) approved Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India’s proposal to hike its stake to 51 per cent in IDBI Bank from 10.8 per cent.

• Himachal Pradesh gets national award for best performance under PMSMA (Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritav Abhiyan).

• Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican Leftist elected as Mexico’s new President

•SBI appointed Arijit Basu as MD

• Saraswati Prasad assumes charge as SAIL CMD

• P K Shrivastava new director general and chairman of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)

• Successful launch of SES-12 satellite to help fast-track Digital India

•India wins six-nation Kabaddi Masters Dubai title in Dubai

•Max Verstappen wins Austrian Grand Prix in Austria

• World Sports Journalists Day – July 2

•World UFO day – July 2