• Lionel Messi-led Argentina beat Neymar’s Brazil 1-0 to win the Copa America final match, held at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
• With this win, Lionel Messi has secured his first major International trophy.
• The 2021 Copa America was the 47th edition of the annual international men’s football championship organised by South America’s football ruling body CONMEBOL.
• Earlier the tournament was scheduled to be held in July 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• It was the first time since 1991 that no guest nation took part in the tournament.

• International Cricket Council (ICC) CEO Manu Sawhney has resigned from his position on July 08, 2021, with immediate effect. 
• Geoff Allardice will continue as the Acting CEO of ICC, until fresh appointment.
• Sawhney replaced Dave Richardson as the CEO of ICC in 2019 for a tenure till 2022.
• It must be noted that ICC had suspended Sawhney since March 2021, due to a disciplinary inquiry after he came under scrutiny for his “abrasive behaviour” with colleagues.

• The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari, inaugurated India’s first private Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility plant at Nagpur in Maharashtra, on July 11, 2021.
• The plant has been set up on Kamptee Road near Nagpur Jabalpur Highway, by Baidyanath Ayurvedic Group, the makers of Ayurvedic medicines.
• Once operational, this LNG filling station in Nagpur will be first such facility to operate on commercial basis.
• LNG is a clean, pollution-free and cost effective liquid fuel, which is also easy to store and reduces the logistics cost.

• In Tennis, Novak Djokovic defeated Matteo Berrettini in the Wimbledon final, 6-7(4-7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3, to win his sixth Wimbledon title and 20th Grand Slam trophy. 
• With this win, he has equalled his total major men’s singles titles record with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, with each of them winning 20 titles.

Complete List of Winners

• Men’s Single – Novak Djokovic (Serbia) defeated Matteo Berrettini
• Women’s Single – Ashleigh Barty (Australia) defeated Karolína Plíšková (Czech Republic)
• Men’s Double – Nikola Mektic  and Mate Pavic defeated Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos
• Women’s Double – Hsieh Su-wei  and Elise Mertens defeated  Veronika Kudermetova and Elena Vesnina
• Mixed Double – Neal Skupski and Desirae Krawczyk defeated Joe Salisbury and Harriet Dart.

• India’s first cryptogamic garden, with around 50 different species grown, has been inaugurated on July 11, 2021, in Deoban area of Dehradun in Uttarakhand.
• The garden is situated at a height of 9,000 feet, and is spread over an area of three acres.
• Cryptogams are the non-seed bearing plants. These primitive plants do not reproduce through seeds.
• For example algae, bryophytes (moss, liverworts), lichens, ferns and fungi are the best-known groups of cryptogams that require moist conditions to survive.

• The United Nations designated 12 July to be observed as World Malala Day, on July 12, 2013, in honour of the young Pakistani human rights activist, Malala Yousafzai.
• July 12 also marks the birth anniversary of Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.
• On her 16th birthday, on 12 July 2013, Yousafzai delivered speech at the United Nations (UN) headquarters on the need for gender equality in education, following which the day was declared as the World Malala Day by the UN.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the first copy of the book titled ‘The Ramayan of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji’ authored by Late Baljit Kaur Tulsi.
• The author is the mother of Rajya Sabha MP and noted lawyer Shri KTS Tulsi Ji.
• The book has been published by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi.
• Guru Gobind Singh was the tenth and last of Sikh gurus in human form. He was born in Patna in 1666.
• He was a spiritual master, warrior, poet, and philosopher, who was enthroned at the ‘Guru Gaddi’ at the age of 9 after his father Guru Tej Bahadur Ji, the 9th Guru.