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- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit Noida 9 july will inaugurate the New Mobile Manufacturing Plant of Samsung at Noida.
- With the begnining of this New Plant India's Make In India and Skill India Will get a major Push in the country.
- Samsung has Invested close to 5,000 Crore Rupees in this plant and aims to Manufacture 12 Crore Mobile Handsets annually which will result is massive job creation.
- With this visit, relatioins between India and South Korea will not only reach new height but Make In India & skill India will also get a major Boost.
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- Returning to action after a long lay-off of nearly two years due to injury, India's premier gymnast Dipa Karmakar clinched the gold medal in the vault event of FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin, Turkey on 8 july.
- The 24-year-old from Tripura, who had finished fourth in the vault event at the 2016 Rio Olympics, scored 14.150 to win gold on 8july.
- This is Karmakar's first medal in a World Challenge Cup.Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Dipa Karmakar for her gold in vault event in Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Turkey.
- Extending his congratulations on her winning a well-deserved gold, PM in a tweet said that India is proud of Dipa Karmakar.
- PM said this win is a prime example of her tenacity and never-say-die attitude.
- Union Sports Minister Rajyvardhan Singh Rathore also extended his congratulatiosn to Dipa Karmakar. Rathore in a tweet said that "Dipa Karmakar is the stuff champions are made of! After battling an injury for the past 2 yrs, she makes a heroic comeback by clinching her first gold medal in the Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Turkey. Many Congratulations to her for making India proud!"
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- An environmental pressure group claimed 9july that Chinese factories are illegally using ozone-depleting CFCs, which have recently seen a spike in emissions that has baffled scientists
- The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) campaign group said 18 factories in 10 Chinese provinces they looked into admitted to using banned chlorofluorocarbons.
- Producers and traders told EIA researchers posing as buyers that the majority of Chinese companies manufacturing foam in high demand as an insulator in the booming construction sector continue to use CFC-11 because of its better quality and lower price.
- CFCs are chemicals that deplete the ozone layer, the thin gaseous shield that protects life on Earth from dangerous solar rays.
- They were banned under the internationally binding 1987 Montreal Protocol and production of CFCs officially ended in developing countries in 2010.
- Chinese authorities said the country successfully ended the industrial practice of using CFCs in 2007. The environment ministry in Beijing could not immediately be reached for comment
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- British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigned on 9 july amid a deepening political crisis over the UK's Brexit strategy.
- Johnson's decision to leave the government came hours after the resignation of Brexit secretary David Davis. The latter quit citing differences with Prime Minister Theresa May over the terms on which the country will leave the EU.
- The move leaves Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to for Britain's future relationship with the EU in tatters, just three days after it was agreed with her divided Cabinet, the BBC reported.
- In a statement, No. 10 thanked Johnson for his work and said a replacement would be announced shortly. "This afternoon, the Prime Minister accepted the resignation of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary," the statement said.
- "His replacement will be announced shortly. The Prime Minister thanks Boris for his work."
- Davis resigned late on 8 july night, declaring he could not support May's Brexit plan as it involved too close a relationship with the EU and gave only an illusion of control being returned to the UK after it left the EU.
- "It seems to me we're giving too much away, too easily, and that's a dangerous strategy at this time," Davis said after resigning.
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- पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदी आणि दक्षिण कोरियाचे राष्ट्राध्यक्ष मून जे इन यांनी जगातल्या सर्वात मोठ्या मोबाइल फॅक्टरीचे उद्घाटन केले. नोएडाच्या सेक्टर ८१ मध्ये सॅमसंगची ही फॅक्टरी आहे. सॅमसंगने या फॅक्टरीसाठी ४,९१५ कोटी रुपयांची गुंतवणूक केली आहे.
- 'या फॅक्टरीमुळे भारतीयांच्या सबलीकरणात योगदान आणि मेक इन इंडियाला गती मिळेल,' असं मोदी उद्घाटनानंतर केलेल्या भाषणात म्हणाले. भारतात तयार झालेले मोबाइल जगात सर्वत्र निर्यात करण्यासाठी सॅमसंगने 'मेक फॉर द वर्ल्ड' चेही उद्घाटन केले आहे.
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- या युनिटच्या उद्घाटनावेळी उत्तर प्रदेशचे मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ आणि उद्योगमंत्री सुरेश प्रभुदेखील उपस्थित होते.
- या युनिटच्या सहाय्याने सॅमसंग आपले मोबाइल उत्पादन दुप्पट करण्याचा विचार करत आहे. सध्या सॅमसंग देशात सुमारे ७ कोटी स्मार्टफोन तयार करतं, २०२० पर्यंत ही संख्या १२ कोटींपर्यंत वाढवण्याचा कंपनीचा मानस आहे
- सॅमसंग भारतात २००७ सालापासून मोबाइल उत्पादन करत आहे. सॅमसंग इंडियाचे मुख्य कार्यकारी अधिकारी एच. सी. हाँग म्हणाले, 'नोएडाची आमची ही फॅक्टरी जगातली सर्वात मोठी मोबाइल फॅट्करी आहे. हे भारत सरकारच्या 'मेक इन इंडिया' च्या यशाचं उदाहरण आहे. आम्ही या फॅक्टरीला जगातलं मोबाइल निर्यातीचं हब बनवणार आहोत.'
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- The Gujarat government will grant the status of religious minority to Jews in the state and a notification to this effect will be issued soon, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said on Thursday, fulfilling a long-pending demand of the community.
- This was revealed by Chief Minister Rupani during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu here.
- During the 45-minute long meeting, Rupani told Netanyahu that "an in principle decision has been taken to grant Gujarati Jews the status of religious minority".
- A notification to this effect shall be issued soon by the government, he said.Gujarat has a small Jewish community comprising less than 200 members.
- The main stronghold of the Jews in Gujarat has pre-dominantly been Ahmedabad, where Magen Abraham Synagogue is located.
- Rupani is on a six-day visit to Israel. It is his first trip abroad as chief minister and comes months after he hosted Prime Minister Netanyahu in Gujarat in January.
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- Indian farmers’ cooperative IFFCO on ९ july tied up with South Korean firms specialising in agri equipment and agri finance to explore business opportunities in India.
- IFFCO has entered into a strategic partnership with LS Mtron Ltd, a South Korean agriculture equipment manufacturer, and NH Capital co. Ltd., South Korea’s leading financial services provider, whose leaders were part of the business delegation accompanying visiting South Korean President Moon Jae-in, IFFCO said in a statement.
- According to MD US Aswasthi, IFFCO together the Korean firms, would explore business opportunities involving supply, sales and distribution of agricultural machinery and finance to fulfil the market demand in India.
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- China on 9 july successfully launched two remote sensing satellites for Pakistan, marking the first international commercial launch for the Long March-2C rocket in about 19 years.
- The satellites PRSS-1 and PakTES-1A were launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 11:56 am, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
- The PRSS-1 is China's first optical remote sensing satellite sold to Pakistan. It is the 17th satellite developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) for an overseas buyer, it said.
- A scientific experiment satellite, PakTES-1A, developed by Pakistan, was sent into orbit via the same rocket.After entering orbit, the PRSS-1 is in good condition with its solar panels unfolded smoothly, according to the CAST.
- The PRSS-1 will be used for land and resources surveying, monitoring of natural disasters, agriculture research, urban construction and providing remote sensing information for the Belt and Road region.
- The satellite, which has a designed life of seven years, is equipped with two panchromatic/multispectral cameras, with a resolution up to a meter and a coverage range of 60 km.
- Designers say the two cameras are among the best exported remote sensing cameras made by China. They can be used to monitor plant diseases and pests, the report said.
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- Satyarup Siddhanta has become the second Indian mountaineer after Malli Mastan Babu to climb Mt Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the world
- Ojos del Salado is a stratovolcano (a volcano built up of alternate layers of lava and ash) in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border and the highest active volcano in the world at 6,893 metres (22,615 ft).
- Satyarup is also set to be the first Indian to climb Mt Sidley, the highest volcano of Antarctica, which will help him realise the dream of scaling seven summits and seven volcanic summits
- He skied the last degree to South Pole and hoisted the Indian flag at -40 degree centigrade.
- Such is his passion for climbing that Satyarup didn't think twice to leave his regular job before making his first attempt to scale the Mt Everest in 2015
- He suffered financial losses after being forced to cut short his ascent due to a massive earthquake followed by an avalanche in the base camp. But he managed to scale it in 2016
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- Shivaprasad Varmudi, a farmer near Perla on the border with Kerala, has cultivated 104 varieties of jackfruit on two acres. He told The Hindu that 22 trees which are four years old began yielding from this year.
- The orchard has 140 grafted plants. He said that the grafting was done after he personally tasted the fruits of different varieties in various places including in jackfruit festivals.
- Mr. Varmudi’s plantation is about 4.45 km away from Perla town.
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