Current Affairs Recap of the Day: 11 July 2016

Jul 11, 2016, 19:26 IST

The recap of the day covers important current affairs of the day like Euro UEFA 2016 football tournament, 2016 Wimbledon and Governor of Arunachal Pradesh among others.

The recap of the day covers important current affairs of the day like Euro UEFA 2016 football tournament, 2016 Wimbledon and Governor of Arunachal Pradesh among others.

•    The animal that was recently declared as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature is - Bornean orangutan

•    The Hungarian city that will host the 2020 European Aquatics Championships is - Budapest

•    The theme of the 2016 World Population Day is - Investing in teenage girls

•    The first professional full-time football coach of India who died recently is - Amal Dutta

•    The Mercedes driver who won the 2016 British Grand Prix title of Formula One is - Lewis Hamilton

•    The Master of the oil products tanker Sampurna Swarajya who was selected for the 2016 International Maritime Organization Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea is - Radhika Menon

•    Sushila Karki recently was endorsed by Nepal’s Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee as the first woman  - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

•    The anti-missile system that will be deployed in the Korean Peninsula by United States and South Korea - THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense)

•    He won the 2016 Wimbledon title by defeating Milos Raonic of Canada 6-4, 7-6(3), 7-6(2) - Andy Murray

•    This nation lifted the Euro 2016 football championship at Saint-Denis in Paris after defeating France 1-0 is- Portugal

•    She won the women’s singles title of 2016 Wimbledon - Serena Williams

•    They won the women’s doubles title of 2016 Wimbledon - Serena Williams and Venus Williams

•    They won the mixed doubles title of 2016 Wimbledon - Heather Watson (Britain) and Henri Kontinen (Finland)

•    They won the men's Doubles title of 2016 Wimbledon - Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut (France)

•    He was sworn-in as the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh - Tathagata Roy

•    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party that on 11 July 2016 claimed victory in an election for the upper house of parliament National Diet is - Liberal Democratic Party

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