*CURRENT AFFAIRS (19:07:2014)

1. German Captain Philipp Lahm hangs his boot on international
football after helping his country to the world title.
- The defensive midfielder featured in 113 international games for
Germany scoring 5 goals.
2. DRDO to launch a chilli spray named Capsispray.
- It has been developed by the DRDO's Tejpur laboratory known as
Defence Research Laboratory (DRL).
- It is an eco-friendly non-lethal chilli spray for personal
protection and self-defence.
- It contains Oleoresin Capsicum extracted from the world's hottest
chilli, the Bhut Jolokia (Capsicum Assamicum), largely cultivated in
Assam and other parts of North Eastern states of India.
- The product will be launched in the market after the mandatory
testing for several toxicology parameters.
3. Centre has appointed B Sriram and VG Kannan as the Managing
Directors of the State Bank of India.
- B Sriram, earlier the Managing Director of the State Bank of Bikaner
& Jaipur, will head International Banking
- VG Kannan will be in charge of Associates and Subsidiaries wing of
the nation's largest bank.
He was MD and CEO of SBI Capital Markets.
- They replaces Hemant Contractor and S Vishvanathan as such respectively.
4. Sunil Gavaskar absolved from his duty as the BCCI interim President
by Supreme Court.
- He can seek remuneration from the BCCI for the job done by him as such.
- Supreme Court earlier had appointed him as the interim president to
conduct season 7 of IPL following the embargo on regular president 'N
Srinivasan' due to match-fixing scandal.
- BCCI vice-president (South Zone) Shivlal Yadav will continue to be
the interim president for all administrative purposes.
5. Nikesh Arora quits Google to join Japan's SoftBank Corp as vice chairman.
- The India-born executive was the Chief Business Officer of
Internet-giant Google.
6. National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) is an independent
body authorized to fix the retail price of drugs under DPCO, 2013.
- These medicines are specified in the National List of Essential
Medicines, 2011 - numbering, at present, at 348 drugs covering 680
formulations.