Rakesh Sharma appointed as MD and CEO of Canara Bank.
- Prior to this appointment, he was the MD and CEO of Lakshmi Vilas Bank since March 2014.
Jeremy Corbyn elected as leader of Bitish Labour Party.
- Corbyn won with nearly 59.5% of first-preference votes, beating rivals Andy Burnham, who trailed on 19%, and Yvette Cooper who received 17%.
- The “Blairite” candidate Liz Kendall came last on 4.5%.
National Highway to grow by 50000 km in next 6 months.
- This addition within two years of the Narendra Modi government will be more than twice the length NDA-I had added in its six years and over three times of what UPA added in its 10-year rule.
JK Tyre , Singapore arm to buy 100 percent in Cavendish Industries Ltd (CIL) at value of Rs. 2200 crore.
- CIL houses a tyre business undertaking located at Haridwar (Laksar) which manufactures a range of tyres, tubes and flaps.
- JK Group has agreed for this acquisition at an enterprise value not exceeding ₹2,200 crore.
CAD narrows to 1.2 percent of GDP in april june.
- A decline in merchandise imports helped the country narrow its current account deficit to 1.2 per cent of GDP in the first quarter of the current financial year compared with 1.6 per cent in the year ago period.
- The reduction in the CAD was also enabled by higher net earnings through services exports and lower outflow on account of primary income (profit, dividend and interest), according to RBI data on balance of payments
Vice President of India Hamid Ansari released Book titled “Feminist and Orientalist Perspectives- A study of Lady Mary Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters”.
- The Book is authored by Dr. Farha Hiba Parvez
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US Open Mixed Doubles Title 2015 : Leander Paes and Martina Hingis win the title.
- The fourth seeded Indo-Swiss pair defeated unseeded Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 in a tricky final which lasted for one hour and seventeen minutes.
- With this victory, they became the first team since 1969 to win three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in the same season at the US Open.
- They defeated Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic in the Australian Open final 2015 and beat Alexander Peya and Timea Babos in the Wimbledon title match 2015 itself.
People’s Action Party , Singapore’s ruling party won the election, retruns to power.
- People’s Action Party got 83 of the 89 seats in Parliament while the opposition Workers’ Party captured six.
Russian Astronaut returns to earth making the record of spending most time in space.
- His mission lasted 168 days, bringing his total to 879 days in space over five trips.
- This is two months longer than the previous record set in 2005 by Russian Sergei Krikalev over six missions.
- Mr Padalka and two other members from the International Space Station (ISS) landed safely in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz spacecraft just before sunrise.
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Indian Golfer Aditi Ashok clinches Singha Thailand Amateur Title.
- Bengaluru’s 17-year-old Aditi opened the final round with bogeys on 2nd and 3rd before firing birdie on 11th and then dropped another shot on 14th followed by a birdie on 16th to claim the title at the Par-72 Panya Indra Golf Club.
- This is the third International victory in 2015 for the current leader of Indian Golf Union ladies order of merit after the St. Rule Trophy at St. Andrews in June and Ladies British Amateur Stroke Play Championship in England last month.
