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Daily Current Affairs of 25th July 2018
International Current Affairs
- China has invited Bhutan to join the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), following the visit of China's Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou to the country.
- This was the first high-level visit by a Chinese politician to Bhutan since the Doklam standoff between India and China last year.
- Note : The Doklam region is claimed by both China and Bhutan.
- The Parliament today passed Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, 2018.
- This is an anti-corruption Bill that provides punishment to bribe givers and takers, and extends prior nod for prosecution to former public officials with the Lok Sabha giving its assent to the law.
- The Bill provides for imprisonment from three to seven years, besides fine, to those convicted of taking bribes.
- Bribe givers have also been included in the legislation for the first time and they can be punished with imprisonment up to seven years, fine, or both.
- The month of September to be celebrated as National Nutrition Month every year
Awards & Honors
- Deshna Jain, a 20-year-old girl from Tikamgarh was crowned with Miss Deaf Asia 2018 title.
MOUs & Agreements
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of the Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame witnessed signing of 8 Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) between the two countries.
- The Signed MOUs are :
- MoU on Cultural Exchange Program for year 2018-22.
- MoU on Agricultural Research and Education between RAB and ICAR.
- MoU on Collaboration in the Areas of Leather and Allied Sectors between NIRDA and CSIR-CLRI.
- Agreement on Trade Cooperation Framework.
- LoC Agreement for US $ 100 million for development of Industrial Parks and expansion of Kigali Special Economic Zones.
- LoC Agreement for US $ 100 million for Agriculture irrigation scheme in Rwanda.
- Amendment on MoU on Cooperation in field of Agriculture and Animal Resources.
- Agreement on Cooperation Defence on Capacity Building, Defence, Industry, Science and Technology.
- India and Uganda signed 4 MoUs in the areas of defence cooperation, visa exemption for official and diplomatic passport holders, cultural exchange programme and material testing laboratory. The singed MOUs are :
- MoU on Defence Cooperation
- MoU on Visa exemption for Diplomatic and official passport holders.
- MoU on Cultural Exchange Programme.
- MoU on Material Testing Laboratory.
Deaths
- Pulitzer Prize-Winning food critic, Jonathan Gold (57), has passed away.
- He became the 1st food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in the year 2007.
New Appointments
- Bajaj Auto Ltd. has appointed Rakesh Sharma as its first Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) to complement the offices of the ED and the CTO.
Sports Current Affairs
- India Under-19 batsman Pavan Shah slammed 282 runs off 332 balls against Sri Lanka Under-19 to record the highest-ever score by an Indian in a Youth Test.
- Note : The 18-year-old overtook Tanmay Srivastava's nearly 12-year-old record of 220 runs scored against Pakistan at Peshawar.

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