DAILY FREE CURRENT AFFAIRS 22 JULY 2015

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 22 July 2015

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1.  MAURIC OBSTFELD BECOMES CHIEF ECONOMIST OF IMF:

i.   Maurice Obstfeld of USA is appointed as Chief Economist of IMF.

ii.  Maurice Onstfeld will succeed outgoing IMF Economist Oliver Blanchard

IMF – International Monetary Fund

Head Quarter – Washington DC ,USA

Member – 188 countries

2.  IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS:

Name	Appointed as	Replaced
Bhanu Pratap Sharma	Chairperson of ISSAI	Was handling additional charge until now.
Pankaj Munjal	CMD of Hero Motors	O.P.Munjal

CMD- Chairman and Managing Director

FSSAI- Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

3.  DRISHTI, INSTALLED AT IGI AIRPORT:

i. Indigenous visibility Measuring System, DRISHTI, installed at IGI Airport.

ii. The CAT III B IGI Airport, New Delhi, is now the first airport in the country to have 10 indigenous systems operating in all its three runways.

iii.  Drishti System is very cost effective and is a Mandatory System required at all airports as per International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

4. PAMARTHY SHANKAR WON GRAND PRIX WORLD PRESS CARTOON 2014 AWARD:

i. Telugu Cartoonist Pamarth Shankar won Grand Prix World Press Cartoon 2014 Award.

ii.  Pamarth Shankar won the award for sketching Nelson Mandela.

5.  INDIAN RAILWAYS AND ODISHA GOVERNMENT SIGNED MOU:

i.  An MoU is signed between Indian Railways and Odisha Government for Dasappla-Balangir Railway line.

ii.  The agreement was signed by Ved Parkash Dudija ,Executive Director (works) Ministry of Railways and Sanjay Rastogi, commissioner-cum-secretary, Commerce and Transport Department, Odisha Government.