Monthly Current Affairs Master Key Points Capsule PDF August 2021

Monthly Master Key Points - August 2021
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1. Banking & Finance 03
2. Business & Economy 07
3. National News 08
4. State News 15
5. International News 19
6. Summits and Conferences 21
7. Ranks and Indices 23
8. Appointments 24
9. Agreements and MoU signed 27
10. Apps & Services 29
11. Acquisitions & Merge 30
12. Sports News 30
13. Defence News 34
14. Awards & Honours 36
15. Science and Technology 39
16. Books and Authors 41
17. Important Days and Themes 43
18. Obituaries 45
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Banking & Finance
• UPI ➔ new record in July month ➔ 3.24 billion transactions in July ➔ 15.7 per cent more from
June
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi ➔ launch a new digital payment solution ➔ e-RUPI
• PhonePe ➔ UPI-based AutoPay functionality ➔ mutual fund SIP investments
• Bank of Baroda ➔ supports Andhra Pradesh state government in setting up 100 aqua hubs ➔
under the brand name “Fish Andhra”
• SBI ➔ initiates ➔ ‘SIM Binding’ feature ➔ YONO App
• LIC Cards Services Limited (LIC-CSL) + IDBI Bank ➔ 'Lumine' Platinum Credit Card and 'Eclat'
Select Credit Card on the RuPay platform.
• The RBI in June ➔ raised the interchange fee for financial transactions from Rs 15 to Rs 17➔
while for non-financial transactions the increase was from Rs 5 to Rs 6 ➔ Bulk clearing round the
clock 24/7
• GyanDhan ➔ India’s first education financing platform stated it has received ➔ NBFC license from
the Reserve Bank of India
• HDFC Bank ➔ ‘Dukandar Overdraft Scheme’ ➔ overdraft facility for small retailers
• The government ➔ cut the loans disbursement target under the PM Mudra Yojana (PMMY) to Rs 3
lakh crore for the current financial year FY22 ➔ against Rs 3.21 lakh crore sanctioned in FY21.
• Reserve Bank of India ➔ imposed a penalty of Rs 50.35 lakh on Janalaxmi Co-operative Bank,
Nashik ➔ non-compliance with certain regulatory requirements.
• IndusInd Bank ➔ empanelled by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to act as an 'Agency Bank' ➔
facilitate transactions related to government businesses.
• Suryoday Small Finance Bank (SSFB) ➔ launched “Suryoday Health and Wellness Savings
Account”
• The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ➔ approved Carlyle Group's proposed Rs 4000 crore
➔ investment in PNB Housing Finance.
• ICICI Prudential Life Insurance ➔ partnered with the government payments corporation National
Payments Corporation of India or NPCI ➔ provide the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) AUTOPAY
facility to customers.
• The RBI ➔ imposed a penalty of Rs 6 lakh ➔ Hewlett-Packard Financial Services (India) Private
Ltd, Bengaluru ➔ non-compliance with certain directions issued by it.
• The Central Board for Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC) ➔ launched ➔ Indian Customs
Compliance Information Portal (CIP) at www.cip.icegate.gov.in/CIP ➔ providing free access to
information on all Customs procedures
• Axis Bank ➔ one million customers on WhatsApp banking
• SBI General insurance ➔ partners with SahiPay
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• SEBI ➔ nods ➔ payments banks to act as investment bankers
• Central Bank of India ➔ entered into a strategic Co-lending Partnership with Dhanvarsha Finvest
(DFL) ➔ offer loans against gold ornaments under priority sector to MSME borrowers at competitive
rates.
• Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) ➔ ‘Digital Prayaas’ ➔ App based end to end
digital lending tool platform resulting in loan sanction accorded by the end of the day.
• Union Bank provide ➔ Rs 30 crore loans ➔ support MSMEs
• RBI ➔ levy penalty Rs 10,000 per ATM on ATMs that run out of cash ➔ from October 1
• The Reserve Bank of India ➔ notified the enhancement of collateral free loans ➔ self-help groups
(SHGs) from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh ➔ under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural
Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).
• The Finance Ministry ➔ informed the Rajya Sabha ➔ over 5.82 crore Jan Dhan (PMJDY) accounts
are inoperative.
• The 21 para-athletes who are part of the IndusInd Bank’s ‘Para Champions Programme’ ➔
represent the country at the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games ➔ held in Tokyo between 24 August
and 5 September.
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ➔ imposed a penalty of Rs 1 crore ➔ Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A.
➔ deficiencies in regulatory compliances.
• RBL Bank + Amazon Web Services (AWS) ➔ cloud provider to strengthen its AI powered banking
solutions
• Deutsche Bank ➔ IFSC Banking Unit ➔ GIFT City
• The Reserve Bank ➔ canceled the license ➔ Raigad based Karnala Nagari Sahakari Bank Limited
➔ Maharashtra.
• The Indian Navy (MoU) IDFC FIRST Bank ➔ ‘Honour FIRST’➔ Banking solution for serving
personnel and veterans of the Indian Navy.
• Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB) ➔ launched ➔ ‘Farmer Registration and Unified
Beneficiary Information System’ (FRUITS) portal.
• HDFC Bank ➔ Raise capital by additional tier- I (AT1) bonds in the overseas market to fund its
business growth.
• HDFC ➔ ‘Green & Sustainable’ fixed deposit
• The Reserve Bank of India ➔ Financial Inclusion Index (FI-Index) ➔ FI-Index for the period ending
March 2021 is 53.9
• Kotak Mahindra Bank + Creditas Solutions ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY) Digital Repayment Platform
• RBI ➔ launches ➔ ‘Regulatory GAAR’ for round tripping
• SBI Life Insurance ➔ introduces ➔ New Age Protection Plan 'eShield Next'
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• The Reserve Bank ➔ revised guidelines ➔ hiring of lockers under which the liability of banks will
be limited to 100 times its annual rent in case of fire, theft, building collapse or frauds by bank
employees.
• NPCI + Mashreq Bank ➔ UPI in the UAE
• RBI ➔ Platform for Regulated Entities for Built-in Supervision and Monitoring (PRISM) ➔ web-
based end-to-end workflow automation system
• Paytm + HDFC Bank ➔ deliver financial solutions across India.
• The Government of India + Asian Development Bank (ADB) ➔ $500 million loan ➔ metro rail
network in Bengaluru ➔ 56 km in length.
• Honda Cars ➔ ties up with Canara Bank
• PayPal ➔ allow ➔ UK users to buy, hold and sell crypto currencies through the payment platform
for the first time.
• RBI ➔ extends card payment tokenisation facility ➔ laptops, wearable devices
• RBI includes ➔ PM SVANidhi Scheme beneficiaries ➔ under Payments Infrastructure
Development Fund (PIDF) scheme in tier 1 and 2 centers
• DBS Bank India ➔ enter credit card business this year
• PhonePe ➔ gets in-principle grant ➔ as an account aggregator from RBI
• Karnataka Bank ➔ KBL FASTag ➔ seamless toll deduction
• The Reserve Bank ➔ hiked the ceiling on remittances per transaction from India to Nepal ➔ Rs.2
lakh from Rs.50, 000
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ➔ increased incentives for banks for the distribution of coins to
the general public ➔ Rs 65 per bag with effect from September 1.
• LIC ➔ ANANDA mobile app for Agents/Intermediaries
• RuPay ➔ introduced ➔ #FollowPaymentDistancing campaign ➔ promote and encourage
contactless payments
• PhonePe ➔ direct broking licence ➔ Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
(IRDAI).
• IDBI Bank ➔ divest its entire 19.18% stake ➔ Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Ltd (ARCIL).
Business & Economy
• The central government's fiscal deficit ➔ stood at Rs 2.74 lakh crore or 18.2 percent of the full
year's Budget ➔ estimate at the end of June.
• The Goods and Service Tax (GST) ➔ collections for the month of July 2021 ➔ Rs 87,422 crore.
• IMF ➔ approves historic $650 billion allocation of Special Drawing Rights ➔ boost global liquidity.
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• The Indian government, the Central Water Commission, representatives from 10 participating
states, and the World Bank ➔ signed a $250 million project ➔ long-term dam safety programme ➔
improving the safety and performance of existing dams across various states.
• India ➔ approved ➔ US major Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) single dose Covid-19 vaccine for
emergency use.
• The Agriculture Ministry ➔ In the crop year 2020-21, India’s foodgrain production is projected to rise
by 3.74 per cent ➔ to a new record of 308.65 million tonnes.
• The consumer price index (CPI) based Retail inflation ➔ declines to 5.59% in July from 6.26% in
June
• NITI Aayog ➔ released a handbook to guide ➔ state governments and local bodies to frame
policies and norms towards ➔ setting up charging networks for electric vehicles.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi ➔ Vehicle Scrappage Policy ➔ in Gujarat Investor Summit.
• Confederation of Indian Industry, CII ➔ welcomed the announcement of Remission of Duties and
Taxes on Export Products-RoDTEP rates by the Government.
• TCS ➔ 2nd Indian company to cross m-cap ➔ Rs 13 lakh crore
• China ➔ state firms started to invest ➔ TikTok sibling, Weibo chat app
• India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) ➔ GDP growth rate to 9.4 per cent for FY22 from its earlier
estimate of 9.6 per cent.
• Facebook India ➔ "Small Business Loans Initiative" ➔ partnership with online lending platform
Indifi
• India’s foreign exchange reserves ➔ decrease ➔ USD 2.099 billion
• The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ➔ imposed a penalty of Rs.200 crore ➔ Maruti Suzuki
India Limited (MSIL) ➔ indulging in anti-competitive conduct.
• Infosys shares hit $100 billion m-cap ➔ fourth Indian firm to reach milestone
• BharatPe ➔ introduces peer-to-peer (P2P)lending app ➔ ‘12% Club’
• HDFC Bank ➔ divests over 2% stake ➔ Central Depository Services (India) Ltd (CDSL) for Rs
222.71 crore
• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ➔ reviews performance of PSBs ➔ launches Enhanced
Access and Service Excellence (EASE 4.0)
• Yahoo ➔ shuts down its news sites ➔ India
• The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) ➔ banned ➔ Kotak Mahindra Asset
Management Company ➔ from launching fixed maturity plan (FMP) schemes for six months.
• Amazon India ➔ introduces ➔ Karigar Mela ➔ partnership with Tribes India
National News
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• PM Modi ➔ launched ➔ multiple educational initiatives ➔ including the Academic Bank of Credit
that will provide multiple entry and exit options for students in Higher education.
• Dr Jitendra Singh ➔ released ➔ “Biotech-PRIDE (Promotion of Research and Innovation through
Data Exchange) Guidelines” ➔ developed by ➔ Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of
Science and Technology.
• The Rajya Sabha ➔ passed ➔ Coconut Development Board (Amendment) Bill, 2021➔ create the
post of 'non-executive chairman' for the board.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi ➔ address ➔ IPS probationers ➔ Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National
Police Academy (SVPNPA).
• Health Minister Shri. Mansukh Mandaviya ➔ launched ➔ National Health Adaptation Plan on Air
Pollution ➔ 112th Annual Day celebrations of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
• NITI Aayog and Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) ➔ completed ➔ two month long, exclusive and
digital skills entrepreneurship ➔ named ATL Tinkerprenuer summer bootcamp and was held across
India.
• Government ➔ launched ➔ Secured Logistics Document Exchange (SLDE) along with a
Calculator for GreenHouse Gas Emission ➔ improve ease of doing business, logistics efficiency,
reduce logistics cost, and promote multi-modality and sustainability.
• Lok Sabha ➔ passed ➔ General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2021
• Lok Sabha ➔ passed ➔ Essential Defence Services Bill-2021 on August 3
• The government of India ➔ Team CLAW to lead a team of people with disabilities ➔ scale Siachen
Glacier ➔ as part of ‘Operation Blue Freedom’
• The Culture Ministry ➔ launched a unique programme ➔ celebrate Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav on
Independence Day this year.
• Eco-tourism ➔ identified as one of the niche tourism areas ➔ for development in the country by the
Ministry of Tourism.
• Government ➔ allocated over 756 crore rupees ➔ under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of
Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, FAME scheme till June this year.
• Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar ➔ launched a website on the 75th Independence Day
Celebrations 2021 ➔ (indianidc2021.mod.gov.in) in New Delhi.
• Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu➔ witnessed a demonstration by the AICTE officials ➔ unique
tool that translates English language content into 11 different Indian languages.
• Government signs ➔ US $ 250 million loan agreement with World Bank ➔ 2nd phase of Dam
Rehabilitation & Improvement Project (DRIP)
• Union Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R.K. Singh ➔ launched an e-certification
programme ➔ “Reform and regulatory knowledge base for power sector” on virtually.
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• The Union Territory of Ladakh ➔ launched a month-long campaign 'Pani Maah' ➔ raise awareness
about clean water.
• India’s first Heart Failure Biobank ➔ Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and
Technology (SCTIMST) in Kerala
• ‘My Handloom My Pride Expo’ ➔ Launched at Dilli Haat, New Delhi
• Union Minister of Culture G Kishan Reddy ➔ inaugurated an exhibition on the Quit India Movement
in New Delhi ➔ organized on its 79th anniversary.
• ICMR ➔ Covishield-Covaxin combination works better than 2 doses of same vaccine
• Karnataka ➔ become the first state in the country to issue the order with regard to the
implementation of ➔ National Education Policy-2020.
• The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance has released ➔ 5th monthly installment of Post
Devolution Revenue Deficit (PDRD) ➔ Grant of Rs. 9,871 crore to the States
• The Supreme Court asked the Centre to submit ➔ action taken report within two weeks on the
recommendations of court-appointed National Task Force (NTF) ➔ on allocation of oxygen to
states and Union Territories amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
• PM Modi ➔ declared Rs 11,000 crore National Edible Oil Mission-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) ➔ make
India self-sufficient in cooking oils, including palm oil
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi ➔ address the industry of government and businesses working
together for a self-reliant India ➔at the annual meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
• First Internet Governance Forum of India ➔ New Delhi
• PM Modi ➔ interacts with women self-help groups (SHGs) ➔ under the “Aatmanirbhar Narishakti
se Samvad”
• Union Minister Bhupender Yadav ➔ releases protocol ➔ All India elephant and tiger population
estimation in 2022
• Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), Ministry of Finance ➔ Rolled out 60th annual Public
Enterprises Survey
• The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) ➔ launched a brand and logo ➔ SonChiraiya
➔ marketing the products of urban self-help groups (SHGs).
• India’s renewable energy capacity ➔ crossed the milestone ➔ 100 gigawatts (GW).
• Dr. Jitendra Singh ➔ released ➔ “IndiGau’ ➔ India’s first Cattle Genomic Chip
• The Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani ➔ launched 2nd phase
of SAMVAD (Support, Advocacy & Mental health interventions for children in Vulnerable
circumstances And Distress) programme in Bengaluru
• On the occasion of 75thIndependence Day ➔ Union Minister for Social Justice and
Empowerment Dr. Virendra Kumar ➔ flagged off a pioneering expedition ➔ ‘Operation Blue
Freedom’.
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• AIIMS Delhi ➔ first Indian hospital to house fire station inside premises
• Government ➔ Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021 ➔ Phase out single use
plastic by 2022
• PM announces ➔ Rice provided under any scheme will be fortified by 2024
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi ➔ All Sainik Schools in the country ➔ Open for girls also.
• The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs ➔ approved proposals for construction of 16,488 houses
➔ 55th meeting of Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee ➔ under Pradhan Mantri Awas
Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U).
• Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh
Sekhawat and Minister of State for Jal Shakti Prahlad Singh Patel ➔ launched ➔ Season-2 of ‘Rag
Rag Mein Ganga’.
• Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw ➔ launched ➔ Amrit
Mahotsav Shri Shakti Challenge-2021➔ encourage technology solutions developed by Women
Entrepreneurs that facilitate Women’s Safety and Empowerment.
• The Ministry of Textiles ➔ 10 more Handloom Design Resource Centres ➔ set up in the country ➔
To build and create design-oriented excellence in the Handloom sector.
• The Civil Aviation Ministry ➔ Conditional permission to 10 organizations ➔ including Mahindra and
Mahindra, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Bayer Crop Science ➔ use drones for various
purposes.
• NITI Aayog’s AIM ➔ launches ➔ Student Entrepreneurship Program (SEP) 3.0
• Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan ➔ inaugurates Centre for Research & Innovation in Artificial
Intelligence ➔ IIT-Hyderabad
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh ➔ Defence India Startup Challenge (DISC) 5.0 ➔ New Delhi
• The Delhi High Court ➔ Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations
Fund (PM CARES Fund) a 'State' under the Constitution.
• Ministry of Road Transport & Highways ➔ Announces ➔ Electronic Monitoring and Enforcement
of Road Safety.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) ➔ approved ➔ Rs 77.45 crore package for
the revival of state-run ➔ North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation Ltd.
• The Uttar Pradesh government ➔ decided to set up a training centre ➔ Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS)
commandos in Saharanpur's Deoband
• Delhi-Chandigarh Highway ➔ first EV-friendly highway ➔ inaugurated in India at the Karnal Lake
Resort.
• The Union Cabinet ➔ approved ➔ National Mission on Edible Oils - Oil Palm Implementation
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh ➔ flagged off five trauma care ambulances donated to the Army ➔
by a non-profit group for deployment in Jammu and Kashmir.
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• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ➔ launch the National Monetization Pipeline (NMP) ➔ New
Delhi.
• Ministry of Panchayati Raj ➔ National Webinar on ‘Zero Hunger by 2030’
• Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ➔ launched ➔ ‘Ubharte Sitaare Fund’ -USF at
Lucknow ➔ by Exim Bank and SIDBI.
• MyGov + UN Women ➔ Amrit Mahotsav Shri Shakti Challenge 2021 on Women’s Safety and
Empowerment
• NITI Aayog + World Resources Institute (WRI) ➔ Launch ➔ ‘Forum for Decarbonising Transport’ in
India
• India’s Evacuation Mission ➔ ‘Operation Devi Shakti’ ➔ carrying out people from Afghanistan
• Ministry of Education ➔ launches the booklet ➔ One-year New Education Policy (NEP)
• Jal Shakti Ministry ➔ 100-day campaign ➔ Sujalam ➔ as part of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’
• Minister of Electronics & IT ➔ Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw ➔ initiates ➔ SAMRIDH programme “Start-
up Accelerators of MeitY for product Innovation, Development and growth”
• Government ➔ replaces ➔ UAS Rules with the liberalised Drone Rules, 2021
• Government ➔ increase ➔ Bank Employees Family Pension to 30% of last salary drawn
• NITI Aayog + Cisco ➔ launches ➔ Women Entrepreneurship Platform ➔ “WEP Nxt”
• All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) + Bureau of Police Research and Development
(BPR&D) ➔ MANTHAN 2021 hackathon
• Textile Ministry ➔ approved ➔ Scheme for Capacity Building in Textile Sector (SAMARTH) ➔
Scheme for Capacity Building
• India ➔ elected to the Council of Administration (CA) ➔ 27th Universal Postal Union (UPU)
Congress in Abidjan.
• The Ministry of Textiles + NIFT, Delhi and Design Smith ➔ launched ➔ India Size project at Select
City Mall, Saket.
• Election Commission ➔ organizes 2-day Consultation Workshop ➔ SVEEP Systematic Voters’
Education and Electoral Participation
• President ➔ inaugurates ➔ 65-day long ➔ Ramayana conclave in Ayodhya
• Army Sports Institute, Pune ➔ named ➔ “Neeraj Chopra Stadium”
• The government extended ➔ making payments under the direct tax dispute resolution scheme
Vivad Se Vishwas ➔ September 30.
• Government launches ➔ “Bharat series (BH-series)” registration ➔ seamless transfer of vehicles
• Government grants ➔ News Broadcasters Federation - Professional News Broadcasters
Standards Authority (NBF-PNBSA) ➔ self-regulatory body for news media
• The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) ➔ completed seven years ➔ 430 million accounts
opened as on August 18, 2021.
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• Union Minister Anurag Thakur ➔ launches e-Photo Exhibition ➔ “Making of the Constitution” and
Virtual Film Poster Exhibition “Chitranjali@75”
• As the Jallianwala Bagh massacre marked 102 years ➔ Prime Minister Narendra Modi ➔
dedicated a renovated complex of Jallianwala Bagh Smarak to the nation.
• Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) ➔ enhances the entry age in
National Pension System (NPS) ➔ 70 years
• Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu ➔ launch ➔ digital quiz contest ➔ Amrit Mahotsav With Khadi in
New Delhi ➔ The Quiz has been designed by Khadi and Village Industries Commission
State News
• Odisha capital Bhubaneswar ➔ first city in India ➔ achieve hundred percent vaccination of its
people against covid-19.
• Lakshadweep ➔ soon have three premium Maldives style water villa ➔ claimed to be the first of its
kind in the country.
• The Assam cabinet ➔ decided that no new cases will be registered against the Gorkha community
in the state at the Foreigners’ Tribunals ➔ already registered cases will be withdrawn.
• The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) ➔ constructed the world’s highest motor-able road at
Umling La Pass in Eastern Ladakh ➔ height of 19,300 feet.
• Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha ➔ flagged off Cyclothon
event ‘Pedal for Dal’ ➔ from the shores of the Dal Lake in the run-up to the Independence Day
celebrations.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi ➔ launch Ujjwala 2.0 (Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana - PMUY) ➔
by handing over LPG connections at Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh
• Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani ➔ launched eNagar mobile application and portal.
• The Uttar Pradesh government ➔ renamed a landmark freedom movement event as Kakori Train
Action
• Chhattisgarh➔ 1st state to recognize community forest resource rights
• Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ➔ informed ➔ Indore ➔ first "water plus"
city of India under the Swachh Survekshan 2021.
• Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha ➔ inaugurated ➔ Bungus Awaam Mela ➔
celebrate the 75th year of Independence at Bungus valley in Kupwara district.
• Nitin Gadkari stated ➔ 42 works costing Rs.615.48 crores were sanctioned at the request of the
Uttarakhand government ➔ under the Central Road Infrastructure Fund
• Indian Air Force (IAF) ➔ Built one of the world’s highest mobile air traffic control (ATC) towers ➔
Advanced Landing Ground in Ladakh’s Nyoma area.
• Assam's Kaziranga National Park (KNP) ➔ first national park in India ➔ equipped with satellite
phones.
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• Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray ➔ launched the e-crop survey initiative ➔
implemented jointly by the department of revenue and agriculture and Tata Trusts
• Four new sites in India added ➔ Ramsar list as ‘wetlands of International importance’ ➔ These
sites are Thol and Wadhwana from Gujarat and Sultanpur and Bhindawas from Haryana.
• The Kerala Police ➔ launch a first-of-its-kind Drone Forensic Lab and Research Centre to address
a rising security threat.
• Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel ➔ announced the creation of four new districts in the
state as well as development of parks exclusively for women in all districts of the state.
• Tamil Nadu government ➔ State Level Credit Guarantee Scheme ➔ enable more MSMEs,
particularly micro enterprises to access credit.
• Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik ➔ The Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana ➔ enable each family
to get up to Rs.5 lakh as treatment cost a year.
• Tamil Nadu government ➔ appointed trained aspirants of all castes ➔ priests in temples
• Tamil Nadu will ➔ third state ➔ after Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh ➔ have a separate
agricultural budget.
• Tamil Nadu➔ first state to cut petrol price in 2021-22 ➔ by Rs. 3/litre
• The Vice President of India Shri M Venkaiah Naidu ➔ unveiled the foundation stone of Innovation
and Development Centre of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, JNCASR
i➔ Bengaluru.
• Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar ➔ inaugurated the world's
second-largest refurbished National Gene Bank ➔ National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources,
Pusa in New Delhi.
• Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha ➔ launched ➔ PROOF 'Photographic
Record of On-site Facility' app.
• Maharashtra's Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray ➔ inaugurated the charging facility for
electric vehicles ➔ at the parking lot of Mumbai’s Kohinoor building.
• Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray launched the e-crop survey initiative
• House Fresh ➔ Ghaziabad in UP is world’s second most polluted city of 2020 ➔ Bangladesh was
the most polluted country
• The Chhattisgarh government ➔ Rs 6,000 per year to landless agricultural labourer families of rural
areas in a major move ➔ under 'Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Bhumiheen Krishi Mazdoor Nyay Yojna'.
• Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ➔ inaugurate ➔ country's first smog tower ➔ Baba Kharak Singh
Marg, Connaught Place, Delhi
• Faridabad Smart City Limited ➔ roped in ➔ comic hero Chacha Chaudhar ➔ promote its initiatives
on social media
• PM Modi ➔ inaugurates and lays foundation stone of multiple projects ➔ Somnath Temple,
Gujarat
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• The Aligarh district panchayat ➔ sent a proposal to the Uttar Pradesh government ➔ seeking a
change in the name of the city to 'Harigarh'.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh has ➔ Separate Civil Services Exam Centre ➔ Ladakh to be located
at Leh.
• The Tamil Nadu government ➔ constituted ➔ seven-member committee ➔ study the exploration
of hydrocarbon projects ➔ Headed by Sultan Ahmed Ismail
• India's highest altitude herbal park ➔ Uttarakhand's Chamoli district ➔ launched.
• Assam ➔ rolling out ➔ One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) scheme.
• Assam ➔ learning history and geography ➔ mandatory in class 9 and 10 in schools.
• Assam ➔ COVID relief package where drivers and helpers of privately operated buses will get ➔
one-time relief of Rs 10,000.
• NTPC Limited ➔ India’s largest floating solar PV project ➔ Simhadri thermal station in
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
• The Chief Minister of Haryana Shri Manohar Lal Khattar ➔ rename ➔ Hisar Airport as Maharaja
Agrasen International Airport.
• The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation -GHMC ➔ novel initiative ➔ get rid of diseases like
Malaria and Dengue, implementing ‘Every Sunday at 10 AM for 10 mnts” campaign.
• Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray inaugurates ➔ Covid Care Centre for children ➔ IT Park in
Mumbai University’s Kalina campus
• Onam ➔ harvest festival ➔ Kerala.
• Madhya Pradesh ➔ Talent Search Campaign in the field of sports.
• Manipur CM ➔ launched ➔ COVID-19 Affected Livelihood Support Scheme
• Assam ➔ Wanchuwa Festival 2021
• India’s first green hydrogen electrolyser manufacturing unit ➔ launched at Bengaluru, Karnataka
➔ by Ohmium International, a US-based renewable energy start-up
• Karnataka ➔ first state ➔ implement the National Education Policy (NEP)
• Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy ➔ inaugurated a mega-tourism event ➔ “Ladakh: New Start,
New Goals” in Leh.
• President ➔ foundation stone ➔ Uttar Pradesh's first Ayush University in Gorakhpur
• Union Minister Rajnath Singh ➔ inaugurates Army Sports Institute’s stadium in Pune ➔ named
Neeraj Chopra
• World’s Highest Altitude Movie Theatre ➔ altitude of 11,562 feet ➔ Paldan area of Leh in Ladakh.
• Maharashtra state government ➔ launches special programme for women ➔ who lost their
husbands due to COVID
• First commercial batch of Covaxin ➔ released from Bharat Biotech’s ➔ new plant at Ankleshwar in
Gujarat’s Bharuch district
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International News
• Guido Bellido ➔ Marxist-Leninist Free Peru Party ➔ New Prime Minister of Peru
• On July 28 ➔ Peru will commemorate 200 years of independence ➔ from the erstwhile Spanish
Empire.
• The first goods train ➔ carrying stone chips to Bangladesh through the revived Haldibari (West
Bengal) –Chilahati (Bangladesh) rail link ➔ leave from Damdim station of Alipurduar Division in
Northeast Frontier Railway
• A hotline was established ➔ between ➔ Indian Army at Kongra La in North Sikkim and the
People's Liberation Army of China at Khamba Dzong ➔ Tibetan Autonomous Region.
• Ismail Haniyeh ➔ re-elected ➔ leader of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas which rules the Gaza
Strip
• Military ruler Gen. Min Aung Hlaing ➔ Prime Minister of Myanmar
• The US administration ➔ imposed sanctions on Cuba’s police force and two of its leaders ➔
recent protests on the island against the communist government.
• Germany ➔ 5th country ➔ sign the International Solar Alliance Framework Agreement
• China ➔ opened a newly constructed terminal ➔ stated to be the biggest in Tibet ➔ at the
provincial capital Lhasa
• India nods foreign nationals ➔ get Covid-19 vaccine through ➔ CoWIN
• UNICEF India + Facebook collaborate ➔ make a safer online world for children
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ➔ released the Working Group I contribution to
the Sixth Assessment Report titled ➔ "Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis".
• Afghanistan President ➔ Ashraf Ghani ➔ steps down
• The World Health Organization (WHO) ➔ created a new advisory group ➔ The International
Scientific Advisory Group for Origins of Novel Pathogens, or SAGO.
• Malaysia's Muhyiddin Yassin ➔ stepped down as prime minister
• Zambia Presidential Election 2021 ➔ Hakainde Hichilema Won
• India declared new visa for Afghans ➔ "e-Emergency X-Misc Visa".
• India + UN ➔ launches tech platform for peacekeepers ➔ UNITE AWARE platform
• The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and
Textiles, Shri Piyush Goyal ➔ chaired the 5th BRICS Industry Ministers Meeting
• President-Designate of 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) Alok Sharma ➔
welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's global leadership in setting up the ➔ International Solar
Alliance.
• Ismail Sabri Yaakob ➔ Prime Minister of Malaysia
• World Bank ➔ launches ➔ New Cyber security Multi-Donor Trust Fund
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• Sweden’s HYBRIT ➔ World’s First fossil-free steel manufactured in the country
• World’s tallest observation wheel ➔ ‘Ain Dubai’ ➔ UAE
• Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission ➔ bans ➔ PubG, Free fire apps
• Dubai ➔ specialised court ➔ combat money laundering
• Pakistan ➔ receives $2.75 billion ➔ from IMF
Summits & Conference
• The 6th meeting of the BRICS Counter Terrorism Working Group (CTWG) ➔ virtually on 28-29 July
2021 ➔ under the Chairship of India ➔ Chaired by Mr. Mahaveer Singhvi Joint Secretary for
Counter Terrorism, Ministry of External Affairs
• The first G20 Culture Ministers Meeting ➔ Rome, Italy.
• On behalf of the Government of India ➔ Meenakashi Lekhi, Hon’ble Minister of State for Culture of
India ➔ participated in the G20 Culture Ministers’ Meeting ➔ hosted by Italy
• India ➔ assumed the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) ➔ for the month
of August.
• The 2nd Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Range
Technology (ICORT-2021) ➔ inaugurated by the Chairman ➔ DRDO Dr G Satheesh Reddy.
• The Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju ➔ attended the eighth meeting of Ministers of Justice of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) virtually.
• Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi ➔ first India PM chaired the United Nations Security Council
(UNSC) open debate via video conferencing ➔ Theme of the debate : ‘Enhancing Maritime Security
– A Case for International Cooperation’.
• India ➔ host ➔ 1st Internet Governance Forum in October 2021
• 28th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Foreign Ministers Meeting ➔ Minister of State for External
Affairs Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh led India’s delegation ➔ held virtually under the Chairmanship of
Brunei Darussalam.
• Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ➔ addressed the Investor Summit in Gujarat ➔ video
conference.
• India organized ➔ IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) Tourism Ministers’ meeting through
Virtually ➔ chaired by the Union Minister of Tourism of India, Shri G. Kishan Reddy
• Chief Election Commissioner of India & Chairman of FEMBoSA, Sushil Chandra ➔ inaugurated the
11th Annual meeting of the Forum of the Election Management Bodies of South Asia (FEMBoSA)
for the year 2021 Virtually.
• Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare ➔ chaired ➔ Aarogya
Dhara- 2.0 ➔ mark the completion of 2 Cr treatments under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan
Aarogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).
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• Minister of State for Culture Arjun Ram Meghwal ➔ participated in the 18th SCO Culture Ministers
Meeting ➔ hosted by Tajikistan
• Smriti Irani addresses ➔ 1st ever G20 ministerial conference ➔ women’s empowerment held in
Italy
• Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar ➔ chaired the 11th
Meeting of BRICS Agriculture Ministers ➔ Theme : “BRICS Partnership for Strengthening Agro
Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Security”.
• The militaries of China, Pakistan, Mongolia and Thailand ➔ multinational peacekeeping exercise ➔
“Shared Destiny-2021”.
• The Election Commission of India ➔ organized a two-day SVEEP (Systematic Voters’ Education
and Electoral Participation) Consultation Workshop
Ranks & Indices
• Fortune’s Global 500 list ➔ Walmart has topped with a revenue of USD 524 billion ➔ Mukesh
Ambani’s oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd 155th position with revenues of nearly
$63 billion.
• Global Youth Development Index ➔ released by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London ➔ India
Ranks 122nd among 181 countries ➔ Singapore was ranked first
• The Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar ➔ “Best Airport in the World” ➔2021 Skytrax
World Airport Awards ➔ Delhi airport ranked 45th
• The number of billionaires in India came down ➔ 136 in 2020-21 from 141 in 2019-20 ➔ based on
the gross total income declared in the income tax return.
• State Pollution Control Board of Odisha & Telangana ➔ ranked No-1 ➔ Transparency Index rating
➔ Center for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi.
• Dr Bibek Debroy ➔ unveils ➔ 'Quality of Life for Elderly Index' 2021
• Hurun Global 500 Most Valuable Companies list 2021 ➔ Apple most valuable company ➔ followed
by Microsoft & Amazon
• 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index by blockchain data platform Chainalysis ➔ India ranks second
Position ➔ Vietnam Tops
• Shanghai Ranking Consultancy ➔ Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2021 ➔
Harvard bags 1st rank Globally ➔ IISC Bangalore Top Institute in India
• HDFC Life ➔ latest Life Freedom Index 2021 report
• Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Safe Cities Index 2021➔ Copenhagen tops ➔ New Delhi ranks
48th
• Global Manufacturing Risk Index 2021 ➔ China tops ➔ 2nd India
• NITI Aayog ➔ 1st North-Eastern Region District Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Index and
Dashboard 2021–22 ➔ East Sikkim tops
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• 2021 Global DeFi Adoption Index ➔ US Tops ➔ India ranks 6th Position
• Rabobank 2021 Global Dairy ➔ Top 20 Report ➔ Top- Lactalis, Amul ranks 18th
Appointments
• Civil Accounts Service officer Deepak Das ➔ Controller General of Accounts (CGA) ➔ under the
Department of Expenditure.
• Vice Admiral SN Ghormade ➔ New Vice Chief of the Naval Staff
• Nikol Pashinyan ➔ re-appointed ➔ Armenia's Prime Minister
• Bvlgari ➔ appointed ➔ Priyanka Chopra as its global brand ambassador
• Mini Ipe ➔ appointed ➔ New Managing Director of LIC
• Upendra Tripathy v appointed ➔ Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan (OAVS) chairman
• Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) appointed ➔ Gulshan Rai, former cybersecurity
coordinator ➔ advisory board member.
• Kirloskar Brothers Limited ➔ appointed ➔ Rama Kirloskar ➔ Joint Managing Director of the
company
• Rekha Sharma ➔ Gets Three-Year Extension ➔ Chairperson of National Commission for Women
• MS Dhoni ➔ first brand ambassador of Home Lane
• Ebrahim Raisi ➔ President of Iran
• Indian billionaire industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla ➔ steps down ➔ Non-Executive Chairman of
Vi
• RBI gave ➔ re-appoint ➔ Prakash Chandra ➔ Non-Executive Chairman of RBL Bank
• Amarjeet Sinha ➔ resigned ➔ Advisor in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO),
• Former Prasar Bharati chief executive and TMC leader Jawhar Sircar ➔ takes charge ➔ Rajya
Sabha member
• Dhriti Banerjee ➔ appointed ➔ director of the Zoological Survey of India.
• Retired Justice V M Kanade ➔ appointed as Lokayukta of Maharashtra
• Ram Subhag Singh ➔ appointed as Himachal Pradesh chief secretary
• Louis van Gaal again ➔ appointed as Netherlands Football team coach
• Eurosport India ➔ appointed ➔ John Abraham ➔ MotoGP Brand Ambassador
• Centre Approves ➔ One-Year Extension ➔ Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba’s term
• The Union government ➔ unveiled the draft of a bill to replace higher education regulator
University Grants Commission (UGC) with a Higher Education Commission.
• RBI ➔ appointed ➔ Neeraj Chopra for banking fraud awareness campaign
• First Vice President of Iran ➔ Mohammad Mokhber
• Senior bureaucrat ➔ Kamlesh Kumar Pant ➔ chairperson of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing
Authority (NPPA)
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• Cashify ➔ appointed ➔ Actor Rajkummar Rao ➔ 1st brand ambassador
• Senior IPS officer ➔ Sudhir Kumar Saxena ➔ appointed ➔ Secretary (Security), Cabinet
Secretariat.
• Godrej Industries Limited (GIL) Chairman ➔ Adi Godrej ➔ step down ➔ board of Godrej
Consumer Products Limited.
• Amway India ➔ Olympian Saikhom Mirabai Chanu ➔ Brand ambassador for its Nutrilite range of
products.
• Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami ➔ appointed Team India's hockey player
Vandana Katariya ➔ Brand ambassador of the state's Department of Women Empowerment and
Child Development.
• MAMI film festival ➔ Chairperson ➔ Priyanka Chopra Jonas
• Olympian P.R. Sreejesh ➔ brand ambassador of adventure tourism in Kerala.
• Nitin Chugh ➔ resigned ➔ MD & CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
• Lalit Kumar Chandel ➔ appointed ➔ government nominee director on Bank of Maharashtra board
• Shanti Lal Jain ➔ appointed ➔ MD and CEO of Indian Bank
• 15th Finance Commission chairman ➔ NK Singh ➔ President of the Institute of Economic Growth
(IEG) Society
• Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) ➔ CEO ➔ Nakul Chopra
• Apurva Chandra ➔ secretary of information and broadcasting ministry.
• Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) ➔ re-appointed ➔ T M Bhasin ➔ chairman of the Advisory
Board for Banking and Financial Frauds (ABBFF)
• Senior BJP leader from Tamil Nadu ➔ La Ganesan ➔ Governor of Manipur.
• Abhay Kumar Singh ➔ Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Cooperation
• RBI ➔ N. S. Vishwanathan Panel constituted on Urban Co-operative Banks
• RBI ➔ Appointed ➔ Sandeep Bakhshi ➔ MD and CEO of ICICI Bank
• Ujjivan Small Finance Bank ➔ appointed ➔ Carol Furtado ➔ officer on special duty (OSD).
• RBI ➔ appointed ➔ Hitendra Dave ➔ CEO of HSBC India
• The Reserve Bank of India ➔ appointed ➔ Ajay Kumar ➔ Executive Director (ED)
• Central Coalfields Ltd director ➔ Bhola Singh ➔ elected as chief of Coal India arm
• Delhi govt ➔ appointed ➔ Sonu Sood ➔ brand ambassador ➔ ‘Desh ke Mentors’ Programme
• Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare ➔ Mansukh Mandaviya ➔ Chairperson of Stop TB
Partnership Board.
• Neeraj Bansal ➔ quits Indian Revenue Service (IRS) ➔ joined as CEO of Adani Ports-owned
Dighi Port
• Sona Comstar’s Sunjay Kapur ➔ appointed ➔ Automotive Component Manufacturers Association
(ACMA) President
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• Ramachandra Rao ➔ acting Chief Justice ➔ Telangana High Court
• President ➔ appointed T➔ N Governor Banwarilal Purohit ➔ Governor of Punjab
• IAS Officer Pramod Kumar Meherda ➔ MD In National Food Security Mission
• Iran ➔ appointed former Roads Minister Mohammad Eslami ➔ head of nuclear agency
• Nine new judges, including three women ➔ administered oath of office as judges of the Supreme
Court by Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana.
• Government ➔ sets up panel ➔ develop technological platform ➔ streamlining revenue litigation
➔ Head ➔ Ashish Shiradhonkar
• Former SBI Chief Rajnish Kumar ➔ Independent director of HSBC Asia
Agreements & MoUs Signed
• State-owned Indian Bank ➔ memorandum of understanding (MoU) ➔ Society for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT Bombay ➔ extending exclusive credit facility to startups and small
businesses.
• Confederation of Indian Industry, CII + Serum Institute of India (SII) ➔ speed up the vaccination
program in partnership with industry including health care providers.
• Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ➔ Indian Institute of Space science and Technology (IIST)
and The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) ➔ carrying out the Academic programmes and
Research activities involving students and faculty members in each institution signed on April 09,
2021 and May 17, 2021 at respective institutes and exchanged by email.
• Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) ➔ signed
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with University of Agricultural Science (UAS) Bangalore ➔
Boost agricultural and processed food products exports especially from Karnataka
• Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) ➔ signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Uttar
Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (EIDA).
• India ➔ emphasized the implementation of the recently-signed memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with Bangladesh ➔ over disaster management, resilience and mitigation on a priority basis.
• Asian Development Bank ➔ approved a USD 300 million loan ➔ ongoing Maharashtra Rural
Connectivity Improvement Project that is upgrading rural roads and connecting remote areas with
markets.
• GIFT City + India Insurtech Association ➔ signed an ink pact ➔ collaborate on building thought
leadership in the field of insurance and promoting GIFT City for Indian and foreign insurance
companies.
• Delhi board of school education (MoU) International Baccalaureate ➔ paving the way for students
from government schools to access educational facilities of the highest level.
• The B Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI) and Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati ➔
Memorandum of Understanding ➔ Cancer research collaborations.
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• Indian and American bodies ➔ agreement ➔ monsoon data analysis and cooperation to improve
weather forecasts in the region.
• National Health Authority (NHA) MOU with IIT Delhi ➔ strengthen India's response to Covid
crisis
• Indian Bank (MoU) with Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) ➔ one of the banking partners of the
Paralympic Games
• Bangladesh MoU China ➔ COVID vaccine co-production
• Tata Motors partnered Bank of Maharashtra ➔ Retail financing for its passenger vehicles.
• MoU ➔ India and Bangladesh ➔ Disaster Management
• The UK government ➔ wrapping up a quick “interim” trade deal with India ➔ which could see tariffs
slashed on products like Scotch whisky before a full agreement is in place.
• The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) ➔ $500 million loan to expand
the metro rail network ➔ Bengaluru
• The Ministry of Tourism ➔ Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ➔ MakeMyTrip (India) Private
Limited and Ibibo Group Private Limited
• The Assam government ➔ MoU ➔ 38 microfinance institutions (MFI) and banks ➔ give relief to
poor women borrowers.
• Poonawalla Fincorp Limited (Formerly Magma Fincorp Limited) ➔ MoU ➔ Institute of Company
Secretaries of India (ICSI) ➔ collateral-free term loans to ICSI members as well as its employees.
• Ajit Doval ➔ Chair ➔ 11th BRICS National Security Advisor Virtual Meeting
• The Spices Board + Embassy of India, Bangkok ➔ organized ➔ International Buyer Seller Meet
(IBSM) and a webinar.
• India & Maldives ➔ Greater Male Connectivity Project
Apps & Services
• Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami ➔ launched the country’s first early warning
mobile application ➔ ‘Uttarakhand Bhookamp Alert’
• Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Dr Virendra Kumar ➔ launched PM-DAKSH Portal and
PM-DAKSH Mobile App ➔ make the skill development schemes accessible to the target groups.
• HCL Foundation ➔ launched an online portal ➔ ‘My e-Haat’ virtually.
• The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment ➔ launched an online portal ➔ Training for
Augmenting Productivity and Services, or TAPAS.
• Amitabh Bachchan ➔ India’s First Celebrity ➔ voice for Amazon’s Alexa.
• Kotak Mahindra Bank ➔ launches ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY) repayment platform ➔ ‘Neo Collections’
• The Geological Survey of India (GSI) ➔ GSI Mobile App (Beta Version).
• Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) ➔ AI-enabled chatbot, Urja.
• Jammu & Kashmir ➔ 1st Union Territory ➔ activates online grievance redressal portal
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• Union Minister Jitendra Singh ➔ launches New Portal ➔ under Bhuvan “Yuktdhara”
• Minister for Labour and Employment, Shri Bhupender Yadav ➔ launched ➔ e-Shram Portal-
National Database ➔ Unorganised Workers.
Acquisition & Merge
• Razorpay ➔ acquired artificial intelligence (AI)-based risk analysis platform TERA Finlabs.
• Competition Commission of India (CCI) approves ➔ acquisition of Bikaji Foods International
Limited by Lighthouse Funds
• Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL), Adani Road Transport Ltd (ARTL➔ acquire ➔ 49 percent stake of
Maharashtra Border Check Post Network Ltd (MBCPNL)
• The government of India ➔ sell up to 25 percent stake in National Seeds Corporation (NSC) ➔
initial public offering (IPO).
• Rakesh Jhunjhunwala ➔ picks up ➔ 1.59% stake in Canara Bank
Sports News
• Hockey India (HI) ➔ launched its own player-oriented web-based engagement platform ➔ ‘Heroes
Connect’.
• 28 years old judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou (France) ➔ Olympic gold medal in women's -63 kg
weight class Judo final ➔ defeating Slovenian Tina Trstenjak
• Indian badminton player PV Sindhu ➔ defeated China’s He Bingjiao ➔ win the bronze medal in
women’s singles event at the Tokyo Olympics.
• Sri Lanka left-arm fast bowling all-rounder ➔ Isuru Udana ➔ retired from international cricket
effective immediately.
• Alpine’s Esteban Ocon ➔ won the Hungarian Grand Prix 2021 ➔ held at Hungaroring in
Mogyoród, Hungary.
• Italy’s 26 year old Lamont Marcell Jacobs ➔ won the men’s 100 metres gold ➔ at the Tokyo
Olympics.
• Germany’s tennis ace Alexander Zverev beat Russian Karen Khachanov ➔ win the men’s singles
gold medal ➔ at the Tokyo Olympics.
• Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur ➔ launched the Paralympic theme song ➔ “Kar De Kamaal
Tu” in New Delhi ➔ composed and sung by divyang cricket player Sanjeev Singh, from Lucknow.
• The U.S. Men’s National Team ➔ crowned champion of the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup in football ➔
after defeating Mexico 1-0 in extra time.
• In 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela ➔ wins women's triple jump gold ➔ Yulimar
Rojas jumped 15.67 metres on her final
• Pakistan‘s wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan ➔ surpassed Paul Stirling’s record to claim
the record for scoring the most runs in T20 internationals in a single calendar year.
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• Paras Khadka ➔ Nepali cricket ➔ retired from international cricket.
• Indian Wrestler ➔ Labhanshu Sharma ➔ bagged the Bharat Kesari Wrestling Dangal 2021
organised in Tamil Nadu.
• 2021 FIDE World Cup ➔ Poland's Jan-Krzysztof Duda beats GM Sergey Karjakin
• Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir ➔ won the women's marathon at 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
• England’s James Anderson ➔ Third Highest Wicket-Taker in Test Cricket.
• The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) ➔ decided to name August 7 ➔ ‘Javelin Throw Day’ in India
➔ honour Neeraj Chopra’s first historic Olympic gold.
• Asia’s oldest and world’s third oldest football tournament ➔ Durand Cup’s 130th Edition ➔ to be held
at Kolkata
• The International Cricket Council ➔ confirmed it will campaign for the inclusion of the sport ➔ 2028
Los Angeles Olympics.
• Gold medallist Neeraj Chopra ➔ 2nd rank in the World Athletics ranking 2021 ➔ after winning the
gold medal in Tokyo.
• All-rounder and captain of the West Indies women ➔ squad Stafanie Taylor and Bangladesh all-
rounder➔ Shakib Al Hasan ➔ winners of the ICC Player of the Month Awards
• Former India U-19 World Cup-winning captain ➔ Unmukt Chand ➔ retired from Indian cricket.
• 2021 World Archery Youth Championships ➔ India won 3 gold medals in the compound cadet
women's and men's and mixed team events ➔ Wroclaw, Poland.
• In World Archery Youth Championships 2021 ➔ Komalika Bari became the new under-21 recurve
world champion in Wroclaw, Poland.
• 20-year-old Harshit Raja ➔ India’s 69th Chess Grandmaster
• Indian Grandmaster Raunak Sadhwani ➔ wins Spilimbergo Open chess 2021
• German GM Alexander Donchenko ➔ wins International Chess Festival “RTU Open 2021”
• Odisha Government ➔ Sponsor Indian National Hockey Teams ➔ For 10 More Years
• Carli Lloyd ➔US Soccer player ➔ announced her retirement.
• U20 World Athletics Championships ➔ Nairobi, Kenya
• The Indian 4x400m mixed relay team ➔ bronze medal ➔ World Athletics U20 Championships in
Nairobi, Kenya.
• India’s Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran ➔ won the mixed doubles title ➔ 2021 WTT
Contender ➔ Hungary’s Budapest.
• Karnataka ➔ makes panel to pick ➔ 75 players for Paris Olympics 2024
• Shaili Singh ➔ won silver medal ➔ U-20 World Athletics Championships in Nairobi
• Princepal Singh ➔ first Indian ➔ part of NBA title-winning team.
• India’s Amit Khatri ➔ silver medal ➔ men’s 10,000 m race walk ➔ World Athletics U20
Championships in Nairobi.
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• Indian shot-putter Tek Chand ➔ flag-bearer ➔ opening ceremony of Paralympics in Tokyo.
• All-India Chess Federation (AICF) + Chess Association of India ➔ administer the sport in India.
• India Grand Master ➔ Erigaisi ➔ wins chess tourney in Portugal
• Indian Grandmaster ➔ GM Sethuraman ➔ wins Barcelona Open 2021
• Indian table tennis player Sathiyan Gnanasekaran ➔ wins ITTF Czech Open title 2021
• Indian paralympic shooter Avani Lekhara ➔ won country’s first gold medal in shooting at the Tokyo
Paralympics ➔ women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 event.
• Tokyo Paralympics ➔ India's Bhavinaben Patel wins silver in table tennis
• Tokyo Paralympics ➔ India’s High Jumper Nishad Kumar wins silver medal
• Red Bull's Max Verstappen ➔ winner of Belgian Grand Prix.
• Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur ➔ launches ➔ FIT India Mobile App
• Indian cricketer ➔Stuart Binny ➔ retirement from all forms of cricket.
• India’s Sumit Antil ➔ won gold medal ➔ World Record throw of 68.55m in javelin throw F64 at 2020
Summer Paralympics.
• India’s Devendra Jhajharia ➔ won Silver medal ➔ men’s javelin throw – F46 final event with a new
World record throw of 68.55m.
• Indian discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya ➔ clinched the silver medal with a throw of 44.38m ➔
Men's Discus Throw Final (F56) at the Tokyo Paralympics.
Defence News
• Indian Naval Ship (INS) Saryu ➔ undertaking coordinated patrol (CORPAT) ➔ with Indonesian
Naval Ship KRI Bung Tomo.
• The 12th edition of exercise ➔ INDRA NAVY ➔ Indian Navy and Russian Navy was held in the
Baltic Sea.
• 36th edition of CORPAT ➔ between India and Indonesia navies ➔ held in the Indian Ocean
region.
• The Indian Air Force (IAF) ➔ inducted Rafale aircraft into 101 Squadron of the Eastern Air
Command (EAC) ➔ at the Hasimara Air Force Station (AFS) in West Bengal.
• Indian Naval Ship Khanjar ➔ first Indian Navy ship ➔ call at the heritage coastal port of Gopalpur
in Odisha.
• India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) Vikrant ➔ set out on its maiden sea trials for making
military equipment within India.
• 12th edition of India-Russia joint military training Exercise ➔ INDRA 2021 begins in Volgograd,
Russia
• US Army's Chief of Staff, General James C McConville ➔ two-day visit to India.
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• Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria ➔ visits Israel to discuss the military ties
and cooperation between two countries.
• India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Navies ➔ carried out a naval exercise ➔ 'Zayed Talwar
2021' Off Abu Dhabi Coast.
• The Ministry of Defence (MoD) ➔ announced that 101-member contingent of the Indian Army ➔
participate in International Army Games 2021 at Russia
• India and Saudi Arabia ➔ all set to conduct their first-ever naval exercise Al-Mohed Al-Hindi 2021
• For the first time, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) ➔ inducted two women officers ➔ Prakriti
and Diksha who have been commissioned as combatised officers.
• Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur ➔ launch the Nationwide
programme of Fit India Freedom Runs 2.0 ➔ part of the celebration of "Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav-
India@75".
• The Indian Navy ➔ participated in the U.S. Navy-led Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training
(SEACAT) military exercise in Singapore ➔ organised by the U.S. Navy, in Hybrid format.
• Pakistan Army ➔ successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile ➔
Ghaznavi ➔ range up to 290 kilometres.
• INS Tabar ➔ participating ➔ Exercise Konkan 2021 ➔ between the Indian Navy and Britain's
Royal Navy in Portsmouth, UK.
• The Indian Navy ➔ bilateral maritime exercise with Vietnamese Navy ➔ South China Sea
• A 400 Km ➔ “JAZBAA-E- TIRANGA” Relay Marathon ➔ Organized by Army in the Union Territory
of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Indian Naval Ship INS Kochi ➔ Participate in the four-day Maritime Partnership Exercise ➔ Manama
in Bahrain.
• Chiefs of the Indian and Australian navies ➔ signed a Joint Guidance for the Australia- India Navy
➔ Navy Relationship document.
• Fifth edition of Indo- Kazakhstan Joint Training Exercise ➔ KAZIND-21 ➔ Aisha Bibi in Kazakhstan.
• 2nd India-Qatar bilateral maritime exercise ➔ ‘Zair-Al-Bahr’ ➔ Persian Gulf
• Lockheed Martin ➔ bags ➔ USD 328 million Indian contract to support C-130J aircraft fleet
• India & Philippines navy ➔ naval exercise ➔ South China Sea
• Indian Naval Ships Shivalik and Kadmatt ➔ participating in the annual Exercise MALABAR-21 ➔
along with the US Navy (USN), Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF) and the Royal
Australian Navy (RAN).
• The Indian Army ➔ received the first batch ➔ Multi-Mode Hand Grenades (MMHG) manufactured
by Economic Explosives Limited (EEL)
• The India Pavilion ➔ at the International Military Technical Forum – ARMY 2021 ➔ organised in
Moscow, Russia
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• National Security Guard (NSG) commandos ➔ undertake counter-terrorist drills ➔ ‘Gandiv’
• Union defence minister Rajnath Singh ➔ L&T built Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) ➔ ICGS Vigraha
into the Indian coast guard.
• Navies of India and Germany ➔ joint exercise in the Gulf of Aden.
• Mahindra Defence Systems Limited (MDS) ➔ bagged a contract worth ₹1,349.95 crore ➔
manufacturing of Integrated Anti-Submarine Warfare Defence Suite (IADS) ➔ modern warships of
the Indian Navy.
Awards & Honours
• Businessman Cyrus Poonawalla ➔ founder-chairperson of the Pune-based Serum Institute of India
(SII) ➔ Lokmanya Tilak National Award for 2021.
• Mumbai-based graphic artist Anand Radhakrishnan ➔ Will Eisner Comic Industry Award,
considered the Oscars equivalent of the comics world.
• Hyderabad based Sai Life Sciences ➔ Golden Peacock National Training Award 2021.
• Kasturba Hospital, Manipal ➔ ‘IMC RBNQ Efficiency Excellence Trophy 2020’ in the healthcare
sector ➔ from IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj Nationwide High quality Award Belief, Mumbai.
• Chitkara University, Patiala, Punjab ➔ recognized as the ‘District Green Champion’ for the
academic year 2020-21 ➔ by the Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education
(MGNCRE), Ministry of Education, Government of India.
• DBS ➔ honored as the global winner for Most Innovative in Digital Banking ➔ Financial Times
publication, The Banker
• The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) Trust ➔ conferred the inaugural Prof CR Rao Centenary
Gold Medal (CGM) to two distinguished Indian scholars ➔ Dr Jagdish Bhagwati and Dr C
Rangarajan.
• Bhutan’s India-assisted ➔ Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project ➔ conferred with the Brunel Medal
awarded by the London-based Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi ➔ announced that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award ➔ as Major
Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.
• Edtech major Byju's ➔ announced ➔ Rs 2 crore cash reward for Olympic gold medallist Neeraj
Chopra.
• Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education ➔announced a national award for Andhra
Loyola College, Vijayawada ➔ for environmental best practices and conducting Swachh
programmes.
• Maharashtra’s minister of state for Information and Technology Satej Patil ➔ stated the Rajiv
Gandhi IT award will be given yearly on August 20, his birth anniversary.
• Nagaland ➔ bagged seven prestigious national awards in the Van Dhan Vikas Yojana (VDVY) and
Minimum Support Price (MSP) schemes for exemplary performance in various categories.
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• The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) ➔ successfully test-fired 1,000-km
range Nirbhay cruise missile ➔ Chandipur testing facility in Odisha.
• The Quad navies ➔ Malabar naval exercises ➔ coast of Guam, in the Indo-Pacific.
• ‘Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation’ award for 2021 ➔ honoured to 152
officers
• President Ram Nath Kovind ➔ conferred the Shaurya Chakra ➔ Air force officers, Wing
Commander Varun Singh Flying
• Air Force Officer Group Captain Perminder Antil ➔ conferred with Shaurya Chakra.
• Air Force Officer Squadron Leader Deepak Mohanan and Wing Commander Uttar Kumar ➔
conferred with the Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry)
• Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin ➔ presented ➔ Kalpana Chawla Award for Courage and
Daring Enterprise ➔ P. Shanmuga Priya, posthumously
• Bengaluru girl Manasa Gonchigar ➔ one of the 10 young winning entrepreneur teams of the agri-
enterprise challenge ➔ S.O.L.V.E.D (Social Objectives-Led Volunteer Enterprise Developed)
• Social activist ➔ Mohammad Azam from Karimnagar district, Telangana ➔ received the National
Youth Award
• Eminent poet Prabha Varma ➔ selected for this year’s ➔ Padmaprabha Literary Award.
• Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal ➔ conferred the National Intellectual Property
Awards at an virtual event in New Delhi.
• Malayalam writers Sethu and Perumbadavam Sreedharan ➔ Kerala Sahitya Akademi fellowships
for the year 2020.
• The Mahatma Gandhi National Council for Rural Education (MGNCRE) ➔ recognised ➔ Manipal
Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) ➔ District Green Champion
• MeitY-NASSCOM ➔ Start-up ➔ Women Entrepreneur Awards 2020-21 ➔ partnership with UN
Women announced
• World Photography Day on 19 August, 2021 ➔ a biopic of acclaimed photographer-photo journalist,
Raghu Rai will be streamed by Films Division on its website and YouTube channels ➔ The film
titled “Raghu Rai : Hearing Through the Eyes”
• Odia author Yashodhara Mishra ➔ Sahitya Akademi Award – 2020
• KM Anthru International Literary Award ➔ Author and noted critic Jack Foley
• Karnataka government ➔ Sri Basava International Award ➔ Sri Basavaliga Pattaddevaru, senior
seer of Bhalki Hiremath.
• Indian men’s hockey player ➔ Amit Rohidas ➔ Biju Patnaik Sports Award
• 65 schools v Andhra Pradesh ➔ bags sports excellence award
• National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Ramagundam ➔ Confederation of Indian Industry
(CII) Energy Leader Award-2021.
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Science & Technology
• Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh ➔ stated ➔ The ISRO-NASA joint mission NISER (NASA-
ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite ➔ aimed at making global measurement of land surface
changes ➔ using advanced radar imaging, is proposed to be launched in early 2023.
• IIT Madras ➔ AI tool NBDriver ➔ study cancer causing mutations
• Russia ➔launched ➔ Multipurpose Laboratory Module ➔ Nauka ➔ International Space Station
atop a Proton-M rocket ➔ from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ➔ selected ➔ SpaceX ➔ Europa
Clipper mission ➔ investigations of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
• The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee ➔ introduced ➔ seven new academic programs
for the academic session 2021-2022.
• The Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli (OFT) ➔ launched a new weapon ➔TriCa (Trichy Carbine)
➔ it is a mini version of the Trichy Assault Rifle (TAR).
• The world’s 1st commercial reprogrammable satellite ➔ Eutelsat Quantum ➔ launched by
European Space Agency (ESA) into space aboard Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana.
• The draft of the Indian Satellite Navigation Policy – 2021 (SATNAV Policy – 2021) ➔ presented on
the official website of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ➔ public consultation.
• Google celebrated ➔ 10-year anniversary of its Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) ➔ Google
launched a new bug bounty platform ➔ bughunters.google.com.
• Delhi University researchers ➔ discover new species of frog Minervarya Pentali ➔ Western
Ghats
• The United States ➔ approved the sale of Harpoon Joint Common Test Set (JCTS) and related
equipment to India for an estimated cost of $82 million.
• Indonesia’s most volatile volcano ➔ Mount Merapi ( Literally Known as Fire Mountain ) ➔ erupted
on the densely populated island of Java.
• Indian Space Research Organization ➔ set to launch a INS-2B Bhutanese satellite in December
2021.
• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ➔ set to launch its most advanced geo-imaging
satellite, the Earth observation satellite (EOS) - GISAT-1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre
(SDSC) at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
• Chairman of ISRO Dr K Sivan ➔ inaugurated ➔ ‘Health QUEST study (Health Quality
Upgradation Enabled by Space Technology of ISRO)’ through videoconferencing.
• Chandrayaan-2 ➔ ISRO's second lunar mission ➔ detected the presence of water molecules on
the moon.
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• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ➔ GSLV-F10 failed to place Earth Observation
Satellite (EOS-03) into earth’s orbit ➔ Launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR,
Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay ➔ novel method of using infra-red technology to rapidly
test which patients are most at risk of becoming severely unwell from Covid-19.
• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) ➔ successfully carried out the Ground Run and Low Speed
Taxi Trials (LSTT) of the Hindustan-228 (VT-KNR) aircraft ➔ Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
• Three new species of wild balsam reported ➔ Kerala
• A rare orchid species Cephalanthera erecta var. Oblanceolata ➔ discovered in the Mandal area of
Uttarakhand
• Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) ➔ developed ➔ advanced chaff
technology ➔ safeguard fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) against threats.
• Central University of Punjab, Bathinda ➔ discovered a new species of marine green algae ➔
Acetabularia jalakanyakae from Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
• Brachystelma R.Br ➔ Species found in Tumakuru, Karnataka.
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) ➔ developed ➔ India’s first indigenous motorised
wheelchair vehicle ➔ NeoBolt
• GoI & BRICS Group ➔ Setup ➔ Network of Genomic Surveillance and Study the Overlap of
SARS-CoV-2 with tuberculosis
• The National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB) Hyderabad and National Centre for Cell
Science (NCCS), Pune ➔ upgraded as Central Drug Laboratories (CDLs) ➔ support by PM-
CARES funds.
• Pakistan ➔ successfully test fired ➔ indigenously developed guided multi-launch rocket system
➔ Fatah-1
Books & Authors
• Former Cricketer Michael Anthony Holding ➔ Authored Why We Kneel, How We Rise ➔ Published
by Simon & Schuster limited.
• Kunal Basu ➔ authored ➔ In An Ideal World ➔ published by Penguin Random House India.
• Captain Ramesh Babu ➔ authored ➔ My Own Mazagon ➔ Published by Indus Source Books.
• Luciano Wernicke ➔ authored The Most Incredible Olympic Stories ➔ Published by Niyogi Books
• Leopard Diaries – the Rosette in India ➔ author ➔ Wildlife Biologist Sanjay Gubbi ➔ published by
Westland.
• Ramesh Narayan ➔ released his book titled ‘A Different Route to Success’ : It Could Be Yours. ➔
Published by Notion Press.
• "Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Pulwama" ➔ written by Navy veteran Manan Bhatt ➔
published by Garuda Prakashan
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• A Begum and A Rani : Hazrat Mahal & Lakshmibai in 1857 ➔ authored by Rudrangshu
Mukherjee ➔ published by Penguin House.
• The Year That Wasn’t – The Diary of a 14-Year-Old” ➔ written by a 14-year-old girl, Brisha Jain &
➔ published by Vitasta Publishing Pvt Ltd.
• Popular children’s author Sudha Murty ➔ launches a new book titled How The Earth Got Its Beauty
➔ published by Penguin Random House imprint Puffin ➔ illustrations by Priyanka Pachpande.
• Author Anuradha Roy’s ➔ 'The Earthspinner' ➔ Published by Hachette India.
• Rijula Das ➔ authored ➔ A Death in Shonagachhi ➔ Published by Picador India.
• Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu ➔ released ➔ ‘Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi
Government’ ➔ Published By OakBridge Publishing Pvt. Ltd
• Ramrao: The Story of India's Farm Crisis ➔ authored by Journalist Jaideep Hardikar ➔ Published
by HarperCollins India.
• Art Cinema And India’s Forgotten Futures: Film And History in the PostColony” ➔ authored by
Rochona Majumdar ➔ Published by Columbia University Press
• The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan ➔ written by Bimal Prasad and
Sujata Prasad ➔ Published by Penguin Random House India
• Manreet Sodhi Someshwar ➔ authored ➔ Lahore: Book 1 of the Partition Trilogy ➔ Published by
HarperCollins India.
• ‘Operation Khukri’ ➔ written by Major General Rajpal Punia & co-authored by his daughter, Damini.
➔ published by Penguin Random House India
• Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest ➔ authored by Boria Majumdar & Kushan Sarkar ➔
Published by Simon & Schuster Publisher India Private Limited
• 'Let's Go Time Travelling Again' ➔ author Subhadra Sen Gupta ➔ released by Puffin Books
• ‘Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the time of COVID’ ➔ Author Ritu Menon ➔ published
under the imprint ‘Women Unlimited.
• Vishram Bedekar ➔ authored a book titled ‘Battlefield’
• The Kapil Sharma Story ➔ authored by Ajitabha Bose.
• Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Government ➔ Written by Former Union Minister, Shri K J
Alphons ➔ published by OakBridge Publishing
• An Invitation to Die: A Colonel Acharya Mystery' ➔ authored by Tanushree Podder ➔ Published by
HarperCollins
Important Days& Themes
• August 1 ➔ Muslim Women Rights Day
• August 1 to 7 ➔ World Breastfeeding Week ➔ Theme: Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared
Responsibility.
• August 4 ➔ United States Coast Guard Day
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• August 6 ➔ Hiroshima Day ➔ 76th anniversary
• August 6 ➔ 34th foundation day of Tribal Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (TRIFED)
• August 7 ➔ National Handloom Day ➔ Theme: “Hand Loom – An Indian Legacy.”
• August 8 ➔ 79th anniversary of Quit India movement
• August 9 ➔ International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples ➔ Theme “Leaving no one
behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract.”
• August 9 ➔ Nagasaki Day 76th anniversary
• August 10 ➔ World Lion Day
• August 10 ➔ World Biofuel Day
• August 12 ➔ International Youth Day Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human
and Planetary Health
• August 12 ➔ World Elephant Day
• August 13 ➔ World Organ Donation Day
• August ➔ 13 International Left Handers Day
• August 14 ➔ Partition Horrors Remembrance Day
• August 15 ➔ 75th Indian Independence Day 2021
• August 19 ➔ World Humanitarian Day ➔ Theme: #TheHumanRace: a global challenge for
climate action in solidarity with people who need it the most.
• August 19 ➔ World Photography Day ➔ Theme: Pandemic lockdown through the lens.
• August 20 ➔ Akshay Urja Diwas
• August 20 ➔ Sadbhavana Diwas (Harmony Day) ➔ 77th birth anniversary of former PM Rajiv
Gandhi
• August 20 ➔ World Mosquito Day ➔ Theme: Reaching the zero malaria targets
• August 21 ➔ World Senior Citizens Day ➔ Theme: “Pandemics: Do They Change How We
Address Age and Ageing?”
• August 21 ➔ International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
• August 19 to August 25 ➔ Sanskrit Week
• August 22 ➔ World Sanskrit Day or Sanskrit Diwas
• August 22 ➔ International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion
or Belief
• August 23 ➔ International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
• August 23 – 29 ➔ Iconic Week as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav
• August 23-27 ➔ World Water Week 2021 ➔ Theme: “Building Resilience Faster”.
• August 26 ➔ Women's Equality Day
• August 27 ➔ International Dog Day 2021
• August 29 ➔ National Sports Day
• August 29 ➔ International Day against Nuclear Tests
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• August 30 ➔ National Small Industry Day 2021
• August 30 ➔ International Day of the Disappeared
• August 31 ➔ International Day for People of African Descent
Obituaries
• Man Kaur ➔ World Masters gold medal winner Passes away ➔ 105 years old.
• Legendary Dogri poet and Padma Shri awardee ➔ Padma Sachdev ➔ passed away ➔ She was
81.
• Olympian footballer ➔ Shankar Subramaniam Narayan ➔ part of the Indian football team ➔
passed away.
• Veteran actor ➔ Anupam Shyam ➔ Passed away ➔ He was 63.
• Cartoonist, sculptor and folk singer ➔ P.S. Banarji ➔ passed away ➔ He was 41.
• War hero Commodore ➔ Kasargod Patnashetti Gopal Rao ➔ passed away ➔ He was 94.
• Legendary Renowned Ayurvedacharya ➔ Balaji Tambe passed away ➔ He was 81.
• Malayalam actress ➔ Saranya Sasi ➔ Passed away ➔ She was 35.
• Former international hockey player ➔ Gopal Bhengra passed away ➔ He was 75.
• Footballer Gerd Muller ➔ Bayern Munich and Germany legend passed away ➔ He was 75.
• Former India defender ➔ Chinmoy Chatterjee Passed away ➔ He was 68.
• Prominent Gujjar leader and Padma Bhushan awardee ➔ Mian Bashir Ahmed Passed away ➔ He
was 98.
• Maki Kaji ➔ the creator of puzzle Sudoku passed away ➔ He was 69.
• Renowned athletics coach & Sprint queen P.T. Usha’s coach ➔ O.M. Nambiar ➔ passed away ➔
He was 89.
• Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister ➔ Kalyan Singh passed away ➔ He was 89.
• Olympic footballer and former National coach ➔ Syed Shahid Hakim passed away ➔ He was 82.
• Former Indian football team captain and Olympian ➔ O Chandrasekharan Passed away ➔ He was
66.
• Noted agricultural scientist and recipient of Padma Shri award ➔ B.V. Nimbkar Passed away ➔ He
was 90
• Former England Test captain ➔ Ted Dexter passed away ➔ He was 86.
• Renowned Kerala chef and film producer ➔ Naushad passed away ➔ He was 55.
• Noted Bengali writer ➔ Buddhadeb Guha passed away ➔ He was 85.
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10. Apps & Services 29

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