Weekly G.K Updates from (July 8,2015 - July 14,2015)

Weekly G.K Updates from (July 8,2015 - July 14,2015)

• World Bank has ranked the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) as the world’s largest public works programme.

• Ashok Haldia appointed MD and CEO of PTC India Financial Services.

• India and Kazakhstan launched the first exploratory drilling at Satpayev oil block owned by India’s ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) and Kazakhstan company KazMunaiGaz.

• eMudhra launches eSign Services. -- ESign is an online electronic signature service which can facilitate an Aadhaar holder to digitally sign a document within seconds. The signatures generated by eSign are legally valid and secure under the Information Technology Act, 2000.

• Credit Information Bureau India Ltd (CIBIL), India’s leader in credit information, has appointed Satish Pillai as its new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer on July 9,2015

• Professor Lord Kamlesh Patel has become the first British Asian to be appointed as Director of England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

• Union government has appointed Sriram Kalyanaraman as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Housing Bank (NHB) for a period of five years.

• Sanjeev Nandan Sahai appointed as Delhi's new Home Secretary 

• Uttarakhand gets India’s first earthquake early warning system in its capital Dehradun which will issue warnings 1-40 seconds before earthquakes of magnitude 5 or more occur.

• Air India on Friday formally became a member of Star Alliance, a conglomeration of 26 overseas airlines.

• Tata Steel’s West Bokaro Division conferred with Golden Peacock Environment Management Award 2015

• Book - "Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India"- written by Jairam Ramesh

• IPL scam: Apex court suspends Rajasthan Royals, CSK for two years.

• Lt General Man Mohan Singh Rai appointed as Vice-Chief of Indian Army

• The Income Tax (IT) Department on 13 July 2015 launched One Time Password (OTP) based e-filing verification system for taxpayers. This OTP will help in ending the practice of sending paper acknowledgement, called ITR-V, through post to the I-T Central Processing Centre (CPC) based in Bengaluru.