Current Affairs: Daily GK Update 11th July 2017- Ideticedu

11 July In History

World Population Day: 11 July

World Population day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987-approximately the date on which the world’s population reached five billion people.

11 July Current Affairs

1.World Population Day is being observed globally on 11th July.

Theme – ‘Family Planning- Empowering People, Developing Nations’.

2. Khaltmaa Battulga elected as Mongolian president

capital of Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar

  Currency of Mongolia – Mongolian togrog.

3.  The new name for urban development & housing ministry – MoHUA
Minister of urban development, and housing and urban poverty alleviation –  Venkaiah Naidu