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1. Important Books and Authors ❖ Indian Council for cultural relations

(August 2022)
❖ Journey of a nation : 75 years of Indian
economy : Reemerge, Reinvest , Re-
engage - Sanjay Baru
❖ Indian's at Herod's Gate - Navtej
Sharma
Distinguished indologist for 2021 -
Jeffrey Armstrong
❖ State to receive Presidential colours
Award - Tamil Nadu
❖ dPal rNgam Duston award - Dalai Lama

❖ Man of Steel - general Manoj Pandey ❖ World women entrepreneurs award

institute by the junior chamber
❖ Madam Sir : The story of Bihar's first International Hong Kong - Sangeeta
woman IPS officer - Manjari Jaruhar Abhyan

❖ A new India : Selected writings 2014- ❖ Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur

19 - Arun Jaitley award - Shashi Tharoor

❖ India's economy From Nehru to Modi : ❖ Lisbon Triennale Millennium BCP

A brief history - Pulapre Balakrishnan
❖ Free fall : My Experiments with living -
Mallika Sarabhai
❖ Golden Boy : Neeraj Chopra - Navdeep
Gill
Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 -
Marina Tabassum from Bangladesh
❖ On the occasion of independence Day
2022 how many police person I
awarded the presidential police
medals - 1082

❖ National CSR Awards 2020 has been

2. Important Awards (August 2022)
❖ Best performance state in the recently
held Agriculture infrastructure fund
awards ceremony 2022 - Madhya
Pradesh
announced by - Ministry of corporate
Affairs
❖ 2022 Liberty Medal by National
Constitution Centre , USA - Volodymyr
Zelenskyy

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❖ How many teachers will be awarded
the national teachers awards 2022 on
5th September 2022 - 46
❖ UNESCO peace prize 2022 - Angela
Merkel
3. Important Sports Affairs
(August 2022)
❖ Durand Cup is related to - Football
❖ The state which has recognised the
'Dahi - Handi' as an official sport -
Maharashtra
❖ Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2022 will be
held in - Malaysia
❖ National Sports day - 29 August
❖ Mukhyamantri Udiyaman Khiladi
Unnayan Yojana launched by -
Uttarakhand
❖ BWF World Championship men's
singles title 2022 - Viktor Axelsen
❖ BWF World Championship women's
singles title 2022 - Akane Yamaguchi
❖ Bronze medal in the BWF World
Championship 2022 in Men's doubles
title - Chirag Shetty & Satwikrsairaj
Rankireddy
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❖ First Indian and just the second player
oral in international cricket history to
have played 100 matches each in all
three format of the game - Virat Kohli
❖ UEFA player of the year 2022 -
❖ Men's - Karim Benzema
❖ Women's - Alexia Putellas
❖ UEFA Coach of the year 2022
❖ Men's - Carlo Ancelotti
❖ Women's - Sarina Wiegman
❖ Serena Williams retired from which
sport - Tennis
4. Important Days and Themes
(August 2022)
❖ World Breastfeeding Week - 1st - 7th
August
Theme - Steps Up for Breastfeeding
: Educate & Support.
Started - 1991
❖ World Lung Cancer Day - 1st August
❖ Muslim Women’s Right Day - 1 August
❖ 146th Birth Anniversary of Pingali
Venkayya - 2 August
❖ International Traffic Light Day - 5
August
❖ Hiroshima Day - 6 August
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❖ National Handloom Day - 7 August
❖ Javelin Throw Day - 7 August
❖ Quit India Day - 8 August
Slogan : Do or Die
❖ Nagasaki Day - 9 August
❖ International Day Of World’s
Indigenous People - 9 August
Theme - The Role Of Indigenous
Women In the Prevention &
Transmission of Traditional
Knowledge.
❖ World BioFuel Day - 10 August
Theme - BioFuels Towards a Carbon ❖ Indian Akshay Urja Day - 20 August
Neutral World.
❖ World Lion Day - 10 August
❖ International Youth Day - 12 August
Theme - Intergenerational
Solidarity : Creating A World For All
Ages.
❖ World Elephant Day - 12 August
❖ World Sanskrit Day - 12 August
❖ Partition Horrors Remembrance Day -
14 August
❖ Independence Day - 15 August
❖ World Humanitarian Day - 19 August
Theme - It takes a Village.
❖ World Photography Day - 19 August
Theme - Pandemic Lockdown
Through The Lens.
❖ World Mosquito Day - 20 August
Theme - Harness Innovation to
reduce the Malaria disease burden
& save Lives.
❖ International Day of Remembrance &
Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism - 21
August
❖ The World Senior Citizens Day - 21
August
❖ International Day for the
Remembrance of the slave Trade & Its
Abolition - 23 August
Theme : Decolonisation.

❖ World Organ Donation Day - 13 August ❖ Internaut Day - 23 August

❖ World Water Week - 23 August to 1
❖ International Lefthanders Day - 13 September
August Theme : Seeing the Unseen: The
Value of Water.
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❖ World Gujarati Language Day - 24 ❖ Maki Kaji - who created the popular
August numbers puzzle Sudoku

❖ International Dog Day - 26 August ❖ Tamil star - Anandha Kannan

❖ Women’s Equality Day - 26 August ❖ Japanese actor - Sonny Chiba

❖ National Sports Day - 29 August ❖ Renowned athletics coach - O.M

Nambiar
❖ International Day Against Nuclear Test
- 29 August ❖ Rudi Koertzen - former international
umpire
❖ International Day of The Disappeared -
30 August ❖ Rakesh Jhunjhunwala - veteran stock
market investor
❖ National Small Industry Day - 30
August ❖ Syed Sibtey Razi - former Governor of
Jharkhand & Assam
5. Important Obituaries (August 2022)
❖ Gira Sarabhai - co-founder of the ❖ Samar Badru Banergee - football
renowned National Institute of Design player
in Ahmedabad
❖ Abdul Gaffar Nadiawala - Film
❖ Centenarian sprinter - Man Kaur producer

❖ Noted author and Padma Shri awardee 6. Important Appointment

Padma Sachdev - the first modern (August 2022)
woman poet of Dogri language, ❖ India's brand ambassador to Bhutan -
Sudhakar Dalela
❖ German football legend - Gerd Muller
❖ New Delhi police commissioner IPS -
❖ Former India defender - Chinmoy Sanjay Arora
Chatterjee
❖ Principal director general of press
information bureau - Satyendra
Prakash
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❖ Central vigilance commissioner -
Suresh N. Patel
❖ Country director for India by World
Bank - Auguste Tano Kouame
❖ Chairman and MD of oil India limited -
Ranjit Rath
❖ Director of prime ministers office -
Shweta Singh
❖ High commissioner of India to Kenya -
Namgya C. Khampa
❖ Secretary to president of Draupadi
murmu - Rajesh Verma
❖ India's new high commissioner to the
United Kingdom - Vikram K.
Doraiswami
❖ Director of the National institute of
immunology - Devashish Mohanty
❖ Inspector general of national security
guard - major general Praveen
Chhabra
❖ Chairman of DRDO - Sameer v. Kamat
❖ Executive director for India at the
international monetary fund - KV
Subramanian
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❖ All time member of security and
exchange board of India - Ananth
Narayan gopalkrishnan
❖ Interim president of the Indian
Olympic Association - Adille
Sumariwala
❖ 14th vice president of india - Jagdeep
Dhankar
❖ Deputy president of the international
chess federation - vishwanathan
Anand
❖ Elected as Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association treasurer
from India - Anurag sharma
7. Important Govt. Schemes and
Projects (August 2022)
❖ CHEERAG Scheme (chief minister equal
education relief assistant and grant ) -
Haryana
❖ State University research excellence
scheme science and engineering
research board
❖ Egg and milk scheme for Anganwadi
children Kerala
❖ Family First - Samjavat nhi Sarmanu
scheme - Gujarat
❖ Orunodoi Scheme - Assam
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❖ PARVAZ Market Linkage scheme,-
Jammu and Kashmir
❖ Bathukamma Saree scheme -
Telangana
❖ Utsav Fixed Deposit Scheme - State
Bank of India
❖ NAMASTE Scheme by union
Government for - Sanitation workers
❖ Sovereign Gold Bond scheme - RBI
❖ Parivar Kalyan card scheme - Uttar
Pradesh
❖ Mukhyamantri Udiyaman Khiladi
Unnayan Yojana - uttrakhand
8. India's Rank in various index and
Reports (August 2022)
❖ Rank of India in terms of medals in the
commonwealth games 2022 - 4th
❖ Top position in the latest nature index
2022 ranking in India - University of
Hyderabad
❖ In the recently released report "Air
Quality and Health in cities" by the US
based Health Effect Institute the Indian ❖ India's clean air submit 2022 was held
city which was ranked first among the
most polluted cities with respect to
PM 2.5 levels - Delhi
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❖ Highest number of districts experience
conditions in the recently released
heredity anomaly Outlook index for
July 2022 - Uttar Pradesh
❖ Who has become Asia richest women
as per the real time Bloomberg
Billionaires index – Savitri Jindal
❖ Financial Inclusion Index ( FI-Index)
released by - Reserve Bank of India
❖ Food price index is released by - Food
and agriculture Organisation
❖ Consumer price index in July 2022 -
6.71%
9. Important Summits (August 2022)
❖ International dairy Federation world
dairy submit 2022 will be held in - New
Delhi
❖ The tiger range country Summit 2022
will be held in - Russia
❖ Global artificial intelligence Summit
2022 will be held in - Saudi Arab
❖ Theme - artificial intelligence for the
good of humanity
in - Bengaluru
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❖ United nation security council meeting
on counter terrorism in October 2022
will be held by which country - India

❖ ASEAN - India Foreign Minister's Thanks

Meeting 2022 was held in - combodia
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Aayog held in New Delhi was cheared
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❖ Central zonal council meeting held in

Bhopal was chaired by - Amit Shah

❖ 4th G20 education working group

meeting and educational minister
meeting will be held in - Indonesia

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