gk updates Satish Babu, Director, International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), has been elected to the 2014 Nominating Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN). The city of Incheon in South Korea has been named World Book Capital for the year 2015 by an international committee of experts representing the book industryand the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Incheon is the 15th city to be designated World Book Capital following: 1. Madrid (2001), 2. Alexandria (2002), 3. New Delhi (2003), 4. Antwerp (2004), 5. Montreal (2005), 6. Turin (2006), 7. Bogota (2007), 8. Amsterdam (2008) 9. Beirut (2009), 10. Ljubljana (2010), 11. Buenos Aires (2011), 12. Yerevan (2012), 13. Bangkok (2013), and 14. Port Harcourt (2014). Deeshit Salat, a 24-year-old youth succeeded in applying henna (mehndi) on 420 hands in 27 hours, breaking the existing Guinness world record. Salat applied henna on 234 people from Saturday morning at 8 am until 11 am on Sunday, beating current world record holder Dipti Desai of Ahmedabad, who had applied henna on 140 hands (70 people) in 24 hours and 45 minutes, in 2011. Crown Prince Philippe has been sworn in as the new Belgian king after the emotional abdication of his father Albert II. The Delhi High Court on Monday introduced online payment of court fee, the first such facility in the country which will save litigants from standing in long queues at the counter. US Vice President, Joe Biden has arrived New Delhi.Trade and economic ties, defence cooperation, energy and climate will be focus of his engagements with Indian leaders. Devendra Jhajharia became the first differently-abled Indian to win a gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships by winning the javelin throw at the sixth edition of the event in Lyon, France.The 32-year-old Rajasthan athlete, whose world record stands at 62.15m, led the eleven-athlete field from the very beginning as he opened with a throw of 54.71m Purav Raja and Divij Sharan of India on 20 July 2013 clinched their first ever ATP tour doubles title by defeating Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France and Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands in the final match of Claro Open in Bogota, Colombia. Serena Williams on 21 July 2013 won Swedish Open title by defeating Johanna Larsson in the final of the Swedish Open at Bastad in Sweden. ii. The win is her 53rd WTA title and 51st match win of the year. She defeated Johanna Larsson with a 6-4, 6-1 success. L Brojeshori Devi, the Olympian judo player passed away at Coimbatore on 22 July 2013. She was 32 years of age. She took part in 2000 Sydney Olympic Games apart from 2002 Asian and Commonwealth Games. She secured gold medals in South Asian Games held in 2006 and 2010. India finished at fourth Position in the Archery World Cup Stage 3 on 21 July 2013 with Deepika Kumari winning gold and bronze medal on the concluding day, of Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia. Remembering Chandra Shekhar Azad on his 106th birth anniversary .He was born on July 23, 1906 to Sitaram Tewari and Jagrani Devi in Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh. Planning Commission: Poverty ratio in India declines to 21.9 % in 2011-12 Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla has resigned from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board to avoid any conflict of interest as one of his group firm is in the race for a new banking licence. India and Nigeria signed agreement for Solar Power Plants. Padma Vibhushan Awardee, C.P. Srivastava died.
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