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July 14, 2020

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has said that Indian Railways will be the largest Railway in the world to have 100 percent electrification replacing diesel at the India Global Week-2020.
It will be the world’s first Green Railways running on 100 percent clean energy by 2030.
The government has opened up for bidding for additional 151 trains inviting private participation so the passengers can enjoy world-class facilities and high-speed journeys.

July 14, 2020

NITI Aayog presented India’s second Voluntary National Review (VNR) at the United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development, 2020.
The India VNR 2020 report was titled Decade of Action: Taking SDGs from Global to Local.
The report was presented by Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog.
The HLPF is the foremost international platform for countries to present its follow-up and review of progress on achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
It is organized annually in July for eight days under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the UN

July 14, 2020

The Second Counter-Terrorism Week 2020 at the United Nations was observed from 29 June to 3 July 2020 at the UN Headquarters, New York.
This 2020 Counter-Terrorism Week was planned to include the Seventh Biennial Review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, the first-ever United Nations Global Congress of Victims of Terrorism, as well as the Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States.
The Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week will be held from 6-10 July and convened under the overarching theme of “Strategic and Practical Challenges of Countering Terrorism in a Global Pandemic Environment”.

July 14, 2020

Lewis Hamilton started in pole position and held the lead throughout as he won Austria’s Styrian Grand Prix.
The six-time world champion finished ahead of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas by nearly 14 seconds and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by 33 in partly cloudy conditions a day after heavy rain in qualifying.

July 14, 2020

Renowned cartoonist Avad Bin Hassan Jami, popularly known as “Jami” passed away in Jamnagar. He was 77.
His cartoons regularly published in leading Gujarati daily newspapers and news magazines “Abhiyan” for more than two decades.
He was a drawing teacher at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Jamnagar, and became a full-time cartoonist after retirement.

July 14, 2020

Veteran Gujarati journalist, columnist, writer and political critic Nagindas Sanghvi has passed away in Surat. He was 100.
Sangvi was conferred Padma Shri award in the year 2019.
He had written many books on Mahatma Gandhi, Gujarat and other subjects. Besides writing in Gujarati language, Sangvi also wrote in English and Hindi languages.

July 14, 2020

English footballer Jack Charlton, who was the part of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup has passed away following a “long-term” illness. He was 85.
He spent his entire club career of over two decades with Leeds United from 1950 to 1973.

July 14, 2020

Arunachal Pradesh filmmaker Kezang D Thongdok has bagged the Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2020 for a short documentary “Chi Lupo”. Chi Lupo, documented by Kezang D Thongdok is a short documentary on honey hunting.
Chi Lupo sketches the tradition of honey hunting practiced in the Shertukpen community in which “Chi” means honey while “Lipo” means hunters.

July 14, 2020

A new book by world-renowned author Ruskin Bond, titled “A Song of India” is scheduled to hit the stands on July 20, to mark the 70th year of Mr. Bond’s literary career.
The book has been published by Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House India.
In ‘A Song of India’, Ruskin Bond tells the story of his 16-year-old self and how he was struggling to begin his writing journey before he became a successful author.

July 14, 2020

Vidhu P Nair, Foreign Service Officer of batch 2002, has been appointed as the next ambassador of India to Turkmenistan, as per the Ministry of External Affairs.
Nair is presently serving as the Director in the ministry.

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