Current Affairs 15th July 2017

Current Affairs 15th July 2017

NATIONAL

• Railways Ministry launches RailCloud Project, NIVARAN-Grievance Portal and CTSE Scheme
• J P Nadda launched the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination (2017-22)
• India is set to get its first high-speed rail training center at Gandhinagar, Gujarat
• Delhi Police will be the first state police in India who will get ‘super cop belt’
• The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) to set up India’s first TISC in Punjab
• Maharashtra has become the first state to make social boycott
• Union cabinet has approved to set up ISARC in varansi
• Maharashtra government has launched a medical insurance scheme up to 10 lakh rupees

INTERNATIONAL

• 22nd World Petroleum Congress (WPC) International Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey
• Malta became the 24^th country to legalise same-sex marriage

DEFENCE

• Chinese troops are headed to Djibouti to set up China’s first overseas military base

OBITUARY

• China’s most famous political prisoner, the Nobel laureate and democracy icon Liu Xiaobo, has died