Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 1 July 2015

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Nationwide mobile number portability, which will allow customers to keep their existing mobile phone numbers while shifting between States and circles, will be operational from July 3, a senior telecom official said.

Liberian authorities on Tuesday quarantined the Nedowein area where the corpse of a 17-year-old boy was found with Ebola, sparking fears this West African country could face another outbreak of the disease nearly two months after being declared Ebola-free.
The World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free on May 9, after it went 42 days without a new case. Liberia had been hardest hit before by the outbreak with a death toll of more than 4,800 people.
The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control have been meeting with health officials about the new case.

The cricket World Cup co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand this year was the most popular ever and generated $(A) 1.1 billion ($844 million) in economic benefits, an official analysis showed on Tuesday.
Fourteen teams played in the hugely successful tournament in February and March, with Australia winning a fifth world crown after beating New Zealand by seven wickets in front of a record crowd of 93,013 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
An economic impact and benefits analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers showed the event generated more than $(A) 1.1 billion in direct spending and created 8,320 full-time jobs.
More than one million fans attended games, with 145,000 international visitors, mostly from Asia, with wide media coverage around the world.
Cricket World Cup 2015 chief executive John Harden said the direct spending converted into an increase in gross domestic product of $(A) 460 million across the two countries

Jamaica’s anti-doping agency has announced that it has started collecting blood samples to test athletes on the Caribbean island that produces the world’s dominant sprinters.
Carey Brown, the executive director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission, said blood testing began this month with the guidance of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.
With the assistance of the Canadian non-profit and others, Jamaica has rebuilt its drug-testing programme following revelations of a complete lack of out-of-competition testing leading up to the 2012 London Olympics and an audit by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The leadership of Jamaica’s anti-doping agency has been recast, while the budget for drug testing was boosted amid an austerity plan in the economically struggling country
The adoption of blood testing in Jamaica is important because the island’s track and field athletes have won 28 medals over the past three Summer Olympics.
The sport’s biggest name, Usain Bolt, has won six Olympic gold medals and nine World championship golds and will be going for more at this year’s World championships in China and next year’s Summer Games in Brazil.