Current Affairs of July 2012

The Indian cricketer who has topped the list of the world's highest earning cricketers compiled by Forbes magazine (The list has six Indians in the top-10)	MS Dhoni
India’s southernmost naval air station which was formally opened by the Indian Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma at Campbell Bay in Andaman and Nicobar Islands is named	INS Baaz
The African country in which outbreak of the deadly viral disease Ebola has been confirmed	Uganda
The new operating system launched by Apple for its Mac range of personal computers, which is fully integrated into social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, is named	X Mountain Lion
The founder of Integrated Village Development Project (IVDP) in Krishnagiri (Tamilnadu) who has been chosen for the 2012 Ramon Magsaysay Award	Kulandei Francis
The veteran environmental philosopher and activist who has been chosen for this year's Fukuoka Grand Prize by Fukuoka City Yokatopia Foundation	Vandana Shiva
The world's 9th largest economy whose President has signed the country’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after approval by its parliament earlier in July 2012	Russia
Mukta Vidya Vani, a modern interactive, participatory and cost effective programme, on the World Wide Web, launched by the Union HRD Minister Shri Kapil Sibal is an initiative of the	National Institute of Open Schooling
Suresh Saraiya, who died on 19 July 2012 was a renowned	Cricket commentator
The city in Punjab where a metro project has been approved by the Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal in July 2012	Ludhiana
The Indian sportsperson (a bronze medallist in wrestling at the Beijing Games) who has been chosen to be the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent at the upcoming London Olympics	Sushil Kumar
The airline company which has won the prestigious SKYTRAX World Airline Awards of best low-cost airline in India and Central Asia for the third time in a row	Indigo
The new Chief Minister of Karnataka who took over the office from Shri DV Sadananda Gowda	Shri Jagadish Shettar
The city in which ISRO is hosting the event, the 39th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) with the theme 'Space - for the benefit of Mankind' (COSPAR 2012) a congregation of over 2500 scientists from 75 countries.	Mysore
The Australian city which has been selected to hold G-20 Summit in 2014	Brisbane
The state which has banned production, sale, distribution and storage of gutka and paan masala in the state	Maharashtra
The place where India and UNESCO have agreed to establish the Mahatma Gandhi Institute Of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development	Paris
The place in Andhra Pradesh where India's first Mega Food Park was inaugurated by the Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister, Shri Sharad Pawar	Chittoor
The software developed by Navanath Saharia and Kishori Mohan Konwar for using the Assamese language in an Unicode compatible format is named	Luitpad
The venue of Summit on Family Planning hosted by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with UNFPA on 11 July 2012	London
The Asian country which has been designated by the United States as its major non-NATO ally	Afghanistan
The Tennis player from Switzerland who has won the Wimbledon Men's Singles title by defeating Andy Murray of U.K. (This is his 7th Wimbledon and 17th Grand Slam title)	Roger Federer
The Indian badminton player who has become the first Indian to win the girls' singles title in the Asian Youth Under-19 Championships held at Gimcheon, Korea.	P.V. Sindhu
The Tennis player from United States who has won the Wimbledon Women's Singles title by defeating Agnieszka Radwańska of Poland. (This is her 5th Wimbledon title)	Serena Williams
The organisation which has been awarded the Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award for promoting environment conservation practices	Airport Authority of India
The Indian Chess player who has become the 28th Indian to attain the Grandmaster title	M.R. Venkatesh
Sahitya Akademi Award winning poet Hiren Bhattacharya who died on 04 Jul 2012 was poet of	Assamese language
The city in Kerala which will be its first city to have a metro rail after the Cabinet cleared the project on 03 July	Kochi
The hill range in India which has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage list for its exceptionally high level of biological diversity	Western Ghats
The team which has won the Euro Cup 2012 by defeating Italy in the finals at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine	Spain
The new President of World Bank who took over office from outgoing President Mr. Robert Zoellick of the US	Jim Yong Kim