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Mo Important Days,
Schemes, Awards,

E N T Military Exercises,

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Appointments, Sports,
CBPSC, UPFPCS,
A I R Books & Author’s

F Railway & All Govt. Exams

 August Important Days

Hiroshima Day – 6 August

Nagasaki Day – 9 August World Humanitarian Day – 19 Aug

National Handloom Day – 7 Aug World Senior Citizens – 21 Aug

World Lion Day – 10 August World Sanskrit Day – 22 August

World Biofuel Day – 10 August National Sports Day – 29 August

International Youth Day – 12 Aug

World Elephant Day – 12 August
 Important Current Affairs

Q. In which country is the world's first fossil free steel (जीवाशम मुक्त स्टील)
manufactured ?
Ans – Sweden
- Sweden Topped in Energy Transition Index 2021, India (87th)

Q. In which state or UT’s the world's first moving cinema theater has
opened ?
Ans – Ladakh
- State Animal – Snow Leopard, State Bird – Black Necked Crane
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Q. Which State has reopened the 150-Year-old Gartang Gali Wooden
Bridge for Tourists after 59 Years ?
Ans – Uttrakhand (CM- Pushkar singh Dhami)
- First Lichen Park of India, India's first cryptogamic garden

Q. What has Rajnath Singh renamed as the Army Sports Institute based in
Pune ?
Ans – Neeraj Chopra Stadium (Gold in Tokyo Olympic 2020)
- India's first athlete to win a gold in track and field in the Olympics.
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Q. The Kapil Sharma Story पुस्तक के लेखक कौन है ?
Ans – Abhitabh Bose

Q. Who is the Author of the Book ‘Mission Domination :

Unfinished the Quest’
Ans – Boria Majumdar & Kushan Sarkar

Q. Who is the Author of the Book ‘Accelerating India : 7 Years

of Modi Government ?
Ans – K. J Alphons
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Q. Who has won the title of 'Belgiam Grand Prix 2021' ?

Ans – Max Verstappen

Q. Who was the flag bearer of India in the opening ceremony of

Tokyo Paralympics 2020 ?
Ans – Tek Chand (Javelin Throw), Mascot – Somiety
- Mariyappan Thangavelu (Silver in High Jump)
 List of Winners of Formula One (F1) Grand Prix 2021

- Bahrain Grand Prix 2021 - Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain)

- Portuguese Grand Prix 2021 - Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-GB)
- Spanish Grand Prix 2021 - Lewis Hamilton
- British Grand Prix - Lewis Hamilton
- French Grand Prix - Max Verstappen (Red Bull – Netherlands)
- Monaco Grand Prix - Max Verstappen
- Austrian Grand Prix - Max Verstappen
- Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Sergio Perez (Mexico- Red Bull)
- Hungarian Grand Prix - Esteban Ocon (Renault – France)
 Important Current Affairs

Q. Who has been appointed as the Director General of the BSF ?

Ans – Pankaj Kumar Singh
- Sanjay Arora takes charge as new DG of Indo-Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP)

Q. Who has become the new Chairman & MD of 'Bharat Earth

Movers Limited’ ?
Ans – Amit Banrjee (Founded – 1964, HQ – Bengaluru)
- Nalin Singhal MD & CEO of BHEL
 Important Current Affairs
Q. Sultanpur National Park and Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary has
been declared as Ramsar site, in which state ?
Ans – Haryana (first time, two wetlands of Haryana)
- Thol Lake Wildlife Sanctuary and Wadhvana Wetland from Gujarat
(4 New Ramsar Sites Declared, Now 46 in India)
- Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of Ramsar sites in India
- Ramsar Convention is a convention on wetlands that was signed in
1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar.
- Finally it came into Force in 1975, 2 Feb World Wetlands Day
 Important Current Affairs
Q. Which State has Launched the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Bhumihin
Krishi Majdur Nyay Yojana ?
Ans – Chhattisgarh
- Guru Ghasidas National Park fourth 'tiger reserve’,
- Achanakmar, Udanti-Sitanadi and Indravati Tiger Reserve.

Q. Which State Government launched Indira Gandhi Urban

Credit Card Scheme-2021 ?
Ans – Rajasthan (Former UP CM & Rajasthan governor Kalyan
Singh passed away)
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Q. Who has been awarded Ashok Chakra Posthumously, on the eve

of Independence Day 2021 ?
Ans – Babu Ram (By President)
- the highest peacetime military decoration.

Q. Who become the 69th Grandmaster of India in Chess ?

Ans – Harshit Raja (Maharashtra)
- Arjun Kalyan 68th , Tamilnadu & Leon Mendonca 67th, Goa
- Abhimanyu Mishra, become the world's youngest chess grandmaster
 Important Current Affairs
Q. Which city has been declared as the ‘First Water’ Plus City of
India under Swachh Sarvekshan 2021 ?
Ans – Indore

Q. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the second phase

of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana- Ujjwala 2.0 from which
place of Uttar Pradesh ?
Ans – Mahoba
- PMUY Launched 1st May 2016
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Q. India first Drone Forensic Lab will be established in which State ?
Ans – Kerala
- India's first Labour Movement museum to come up in Kerala

Q. The First Ever Alcohol Museum of India “All about alcohol” has
opened in which state ?
Ans – Goa (Governor – P. S Sridharan Pillai)
- CM Pramod Sawant announced that the state will become the 1st state
in the country to supply water free of cost to its citizens
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Q. Which City of Uttar Pradesh will be renamed as Kush
Bhawanpur ?
Ans – Sultanpur
- Faizabad that was named as Ayodhya and Allahabad which became
Prayagraj.

Q. Which State has launched a special mission called “Mission

Vatsalya” in order to help women who lost their husbands to
COVID-19 ?
Ans – Maharashtra (Rajiv Gandhi Award for IT Sector)
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Q. Who has been appointed as the MD & CEO of Indian Bank ?

Ans – Shanti Lal Jain
- Founded - 15 August 1907, HQ – Chennai, Tamilnadu
- Allahabad Bank merged from 1 April 2020,

Q. Which Ministry has launched PM-DAKSH Portal & Mobile

App ?
Ans – Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
- Sugamya Bharat App, SAGE Project , CBID Program
 Important Current Affairs

Q. Which highway has become India's first electric vehicle

friendly highway?
Ans – Delhi – Chandigarh Highway
- The network of stations was set up by Bharat Heavy
Electricals Limited (BHEL) under the FAME-1 (Faster
Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid) & Electric Vehicles)
scheme of the Ministry of Heavy Industries.
- Minister of Heavy Industries – Mahendra nath Pandey
 Important Current Affairs
Q. The Union Government will set up a Sindhu Central
University in which of the following States or UT’S ?
Ans – Ladakh (LG – Radha Krishna Mathur)
- Ladakh will get India's first geothermal power project
- India’s largest national park – Hemis National park

Q. India will buy the AK-103 Series of Assault Rifles from which
Country ?
Ans – Russia
 Important Current Affairs

Q. Who has become the youngest person in the World to reach K2 ?

Ans – Sajid Ali Sadpara (Pakistan),
K2 – 8,611 metres, is the Second-highest mountain on Earth, after
Mount Everest, It Lies in the Karakoram Range

Q. Who has been Crowned Miss India USA 2021 ?

Ans – Vaidehi Dongre
Miss Universe 2020 – Andrea Meza (Mexico)
 Important Current Affairs
Q. Who has been appointed as the first brand ambassador of
Cashify?
Ans – Raj Kumar Rao
Q. Who has been appointed as the first brand ambassador of
Homelane ?
Ans – Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Q. Who has been appointed as the chairperson of 'Jio MAMI'
Film Festival ?
Ans – Priyanka Chopra
 Important Current Affairs
Q. What is the rank of India in the Global Youth Development
Index 2020 ?
Ans – 122/181, Topped by – Singapore, Released By –
Commonwealth Secretariat

Q. Which city of India has been ranked as second most polluted City
out of the 50 ‘most polluted cities‘ in the world in 2020 by a report
prepared by British company HouseFresh ?
Ans – Ghaziabad (Most Polluted Country Bangladesh)
Q. "A Dream of Revolution : A Biography of Jayaprakash
Narayan" पुस्तक के लेखक कौन हैं ?
Ans – Bimal Prasad & Sujata Prasad

Q. 'Ramrao : The Story of India's Farm Crisis, पुस्तक के लेखक कौन हैं ?
Ans – Jaideep Hardikar

Q. Balakot Air Strike : How India Avenged Pulwama पुस्तक के लेखक

कौन हैं ?
Ans – Manan Bhatt (Operation Bandar)
 Important Current Affairs
Q. Who can become the first Indian to receive the "Congressional
Gold Medal", the highest civilian honor of America?
Ans – Mahatma Gandhi (International Day of Non-Violence)

Q. The Second edition of exercise Zaid-Al-Bahr took place

between India & Which Country ?
Ans – Qatar (Zayed Talwar With UAE)
- Naseem-Al-Bahr with Oman
- Al-Mohed Al-Hindi with Saudi Arabia
 Important Current Affairs
Q. India in Collaboration with the UN has launched which
Technology Platform to ensure the Safety & Security of
Peacekeepers ?
Ans – UNITE AWARE
- International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers – 29 May
- India’s Permanent Representative : T. S. Tirumurti
- United Nations HQ – New York
- Current Secretary‑General - António Guterres
 Important Current Affairs

Q. Ismail Sabri Yakub has become the ninth Prime Minister of

which country ?
Ans – Malaysia
- Hq of Badminton World Federation (BWF) – Kuala Lumpur

Q. Who has been elected as the president of the Institute of

Economic Growth (आर्थिक विकास संस्थान) Society ?
Ans – N. K Singh (15th Finance Commission Chairman)
 Important Current Affairs

Q. O M Nambiar who passed away recently was the famous

coach of which sports ?
Ans – Athletics (P. T Usha)

Q. In which country was the World Athletics U-20

Championships 2021 held?
Ans – Nairobi, Kenya
- UNEP & UN-HABITAT Hq in Nairobi
 Important Current Affairs
Q. In which sports India's Bhavina Patel has won silver medal in
the 16th Paralympic Games 2020 held in Tokyo ?
Ans – Table Tennis (China’s National Sports)

Q. Avani Lekhara related to which sports ?

Ans – Shooting (Gold in Tokyo Paralympics 2020)
- Avani Lekhara became the first Indian woman to win a gold
medal at the Paralympics
- Tokyo Paralympics 2020 Mascot – Somiety
 Important Current Affairs
Q. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award has been renamed as _________?
Ans – Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
- His Birthday 29th August Celebrated as National Sports Day
- Goal! Autobiography of Hockey Wizard Dhyan Chand.

Q. Who has become the third Highest wicket taker in the history
of Test Cricket ?
Ans – James Anderson (620th Wicket is K. L Rahul)
- No. 1 Muttiah Muralitharan – 800 Wickets
- No. 2 Shane Warne – 708 Wickets
 Important Current Affairs
Q. When is Sadbhavna Diwas celebrated every year in India ?
Ans – 20 August (Rajiv Gandhi Birthday)
- Anti Terrorism Day - May 21, the death anniversary of former
prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. (समाधि स्थल – वीर भूमि)

Imp - Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that August 14 will be

remembered as 'Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Diwas' or Partition
Horrors Remembrance Day in memory of those who lost their
lives during Partition.
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Q. The Government of India has constituted an 8-member
committee under whose chairmanship to promote the
handloom sector ?
Ans – Sunil Sethi

Q. Who has become the new governor of Manipur ?

Ans – La Ganeshan (CM - N.Biren Singh)
- Keibul Lamjao National Park is the only floating national
park in the world.
- Loktak Lake (largest freshwater lake in Northeast India)
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