Current Affairs july 2013 {PERSONS IN NEWS}

A) APPOINTMENTS

1) Who was appointed as the new Lt. Governor of Puducherry on 1 July 2013?
Ans:-  Virendra Kataria

2) Who was appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of IDBI Bank by the Union Govt.?
Ans:- M.S. Raghavan

3) Who was appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of public sector Syndicate Bank?
Ans:- Sudhir Kumar Jain

4) Who took over as Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) on 1 July 2013?
Ans:-Lieutenant General Anil Chait

5) Who is the Pakistan Chief selector resigned his on 4 July 2013?
Ans:-  Iqbal Qasim

6) Who was appointed as the Coach of the Senior Men’s Hockey team of India, on 10 July 2013?
Ans:- Maharaj Krishan Kaushik

7) Who was announced as the new director of Kalakshetra on 10 July 2013?
Ans:- Priyadarsini Govind

B)RESIGNS

1) Who is the Syria’s rebel interim prime minister has announced his resignation , nearly four months after his appointment and having failed to form a government on 8 July 2013 ? Ans:- Ghassan Hitto

C) DEATHS

1) Douglas Engelbart, who passed away on 2 July 2013, was associated with invention of which part of the PC?
Ans:- Mouse

2) Name the acknowledged food scientist and the former Director of the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) who died on 9 July 2013 ?
Ans:- H.A.B. Parpia

3) One of India’s senior-most ophthalmologists, who performed the first corneal transplant operation in Northern India, passed away on 12 July 2013. Who was he?
Ans:-  Dr. Dhanwant Singh Grewal

4) Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, who passed away in Milan on 13 July 2013, was main accused in which scam?
Ans:- Bofors scam

D) VISITORS

1) In which country India’s External Affairs Minister, Salman Khurshid, visited on 9th July 2013 ?
Ans:- Nepal

2) Who is the US Vice President visited India from 22 – 25 July 2013 ?
Ans:- Joe Biden

E) MISCELLANEOUS

 1) Name the Egypt’s first democratically elected President who was on 3 July 2013 ousted from his office in a military coup?
Ans:-  Mohamed Morsi

2) Wikileaks founder Julian Assange launched his political party on 25 July 2013 in Australia to contest the general elections later this year. What is the name of this party?
Ans:-  Wikileaks Party

3) What name was announced for the newborn son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Prince William and Kate Middleton)?
Ans:-  George Alexander Louis