Which country has declares state of emergency on 5 July 2015 after beach attack?: Tunisia
Explanation: The North African state, which has seen an exodus of tourists, has admitted its security services were unprepared for the seaside attack in Port El Kantaoui and that police were too slow to respond. Thus, the jihadist attacks have dealt a heavy blow to the tourism industry, which contributes between seven and eight percent of Tunisia's GDP.
The sector accounts for 400,000 jobs, directly and indirectly, and is a key source of foreign revenue for a country where the local currency, the dinar, is non-convertible. Therefore, State of Emergency is declared to counter this threat and safe guard the country’s economic and peace condition. A state of emergency, granting special powers to the police and army, was in force for three years up until March 2014, following longtime secular president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's ouster in a 2011 revolution. Apart from allowing the barring of strike action, the measure allows the authorities to carry out raids on homes at any time of the day and to keep tabs on the media.
Colombia okays first mercy killing for cancer patient. What is the name of the patient?: Ovidio Gonzalez
Explanation: Ovidio Gonzalez – 79 years, is a cartoonist known in Colombia as "Matador" suffers from an aggressive cancer in his face that can no longer be productively treated. Thus, a committee of experts at a hospital in the central Colombian city of Pereira has authorised the first mercy killing in the country. Gonzalez, told the media that one of the hospital's doctors "said that to fulfill that right he (the patient) had to be completely debilitated, and with the way things are he can live a while longer".
India including 5 countries on 3 July 2015 abstain from a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) vote for adoption of a UN Inquiry Commission report on Israel's 'Operation Protective Edge' in Gaza last year. Name the only country who is against of this?: United States
Explanation: Four other countries who abstained were Kenya, Ethiopia, Paraguay and Macedonia while 41 countries (including most of the European Union) voted in favour of adopting the report. The reports are on Israel's 'Operation Protective Edge' in Gaza last year, which also calls upon both Israel and Palestine to prosecute perpetrators of war crimes. However, MEA of India was quick to issue a statement saying there was no change in India's "long standing position on support to the Palestinian cause'' besides when the Centre had come under fire in 2014 when it voted in favour of another UNHRC resolution seeking a probe into Israel's Gaza offensive.
UNESCO on 4 July 2015 listed which two vineyards as world heritage site?: Champagne and Burgundy vineyards
Explanation: In a double victory for French wine, corks were also popping in Burgundy after its vineyards were crowned with the same prestigious distinction by the UN cultural body in the German city of Bonn. Unesco notified that the champagne world heritage status covers "the places sparkling wine was developed using a second fermentation method in the bottle from the beginning of the 17th century until its early industrialisation in the 19th century." The World Heritage Committee meeting in Bonn until July 8 was also considering giving the distinction to the legendary Alamo battleground in Texas, having already rubberstamped the Tusi tribal mountain landscape of southwest China, the Arab-Norman architects of Palermo in Sicily, and 10,000-year-old rock art in Saudi Arabia.
The United Nations (UN) issued which first-of-its-kind guidance for countries on 1 July 2015? – Health risks associated with heat-waves
Explanation: Heat-waves have become more frequent and deadlier over the last 50 years, recently killing over 3,000 people in India and Pakistan and now several European countries like France and Belgium are also reeling under heat-waves. Thus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) joined forces to issue guidelines against the heat wave that have turned out to be more hazardous due to climate change.The joint guidance mentioned that the principal concern is how to assess the level of heat stress associated with the meteorological or climate forecast, translate this into an estimate of a likely health outcome and identify a critical heat-stress threshold for a graded plan of action.
Which International petroleum company reaches $18.7 billion settlement over deadly 2010 spill on 2 July 2015?: BP
Explanation: In the largest corporate settlement in US history, BP Plc will pay up to $18.7 billion in penalties to the US government and five states to resolve nearly all claims from its deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill five years ago. The reason for the settlement was because of the rig explosion on April 20, 2010, the worst offshore oil disaster in US history, which killed 11 workers and spewed millions of barrels of oil onto the shorelines of several states for nearly three months. Under the agreement with the US Department of Justice and the states, BP will pay at least $12.8 billion for Clean Water Act fines and natural resource damages, plus $4.9 billion to states. The payouts will be staggered over as many as 18 years. The preliminary settlement, subject to all sorts of variables, avoids a substantial amount of further litigation.
Matti Makkonen is died at the age of 63 on 30 June 2015. He was founder member of which electronic service, which revolutionize the way of sending messages in the world?:Short Message Service (SMS)
Explanation: The Finnish tech pioneer Matti Makkonen worked for Nokia Networks and Tele Finland, and was CEO of Finnet Oy between 2003 and 2005. In 2008 he was named a winner of The Economist's Innovation awards, for his work on the message standard. Matti died the age of 63 on 30 June 2015. He was also called as “Reluctant Father of SMS” as in 1984, he pitched the original idea for SMS while working as a civil servant, over a pizza at a telecoms conference in Copenhagen. Though the 160 character format was determined in 1985 by communications researcher Friedham Hillebrand, for instance, and it wasn't until 1992 that Neil Papworth sent the first message to Vodafone's director Richard Jarvis at a work party.
Which country has became the first country to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to baby as announced by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 1 July 2015?: Cuba
Explanation: Cuba has achieved zero instances for babies born with HIV, transmitted to the baby through the affected mother thus WHO described this as one of the greatest public health achievements ever achieved. In 2013, only two babies were born with HIV in Cuba, and only five born with congenital syphilis. HIV and syphilis testing for pregnant women and their partners, caesarean deliveries and substitution of breastfeeding have also contributed to the breaking of the infection chain in Cuba.
Which country becomes the 1st country in 21 century, which is declared as defaulter by the IMF on 30 June 2015 after failing to return the 1st Installment?: Greece
Explanation: Greece Debt Crises arisen when Greece has rejected to repay the money received from IMF. Thus Greece fell into default on its debt to the International Monetary Fund after missing a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) payment on 30 June 2015. The IMF has confirmed that SDR 1.2 billion repayment due by Greece to the IMF, has not been received till 30 June 2015 which was the last date decided by the IMF to submit the 1st installment. However, European Union has offered their help to Greece but country has rejected the offer. Therefore, now as per the IMF, Greece is now in arrears and can only receive IMF financing once the arrears are cleared. Therefore, now Greece may face "thrown out" of Eurozone and thus huge economic crises will occur.
In an accident a Military transport plane was crash in the major city killing more than 100 people and injured many on 30 June 2015. Which country is this?: Indonesia
Explanation: The Hercules C-130 Military Transport plan came down in a residential area of Medan, a city of two million on the island of Sumatra killing more than 100 people and injured many. According to the military, the plane took off at 12:08 pm (0508 GMT) from the airbase and crashed in the city about two minutes later, about five kilometres from the base.
