International
Current Affairs
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To reduce video game and social media addiction
among teens, the Malaysian government is
planning to ban internet from 12 am to
6 am daily for teenagers under 17 years of age.
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Today (14th August) is the Independence Day of Pakistan.
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Nepal-India
Literature Festival 2018 Begins in Birgunj.
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Meeting Of Senior Officials Of BIMSTEC Held in Nepal.
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BBC’s ‘Women Who
Changed The World’ List: Marie Curie
Tops, Mother Teresa 20th.
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National
Current Affairs
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The Supreme Court today accepted a proposal seeking
to issue hologram-based coloured
stickers for vehicles in Delhi based
on the fuel used.
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Santhali Becomes India’s 1st Tribal Language To Get Own
Wikipedia Edition.
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Piyush Goyal Released 3rd Party Survey Report On Station
Cleanliness.
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Defence Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman inaugurated a strategically important bridge in Hussainiwala village, Punjab.
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Government Provides Fund of Rs 66000 crore To Increase
Country’s Forest Cover.
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Pune has been ranked first
in the Ease of Living Index launched by Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry. Navi Mumbai has been ranked second and while Delhi at 65th place in
the list.
Awards
& Honors
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Rajasthan's Jodhpur
railway station was ranked the Cleanest station in the A1 Category
in a cleanliness report released by the Ministry of Railways today.
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Annie Zaidi was awarded the
prestegious Hindu Playwright Award 2018 for
her play 'Untitled-1'.
Science
& Technology
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SpaceX rival Arianespace is going to launch three
heavy Indian satellites of ISRO over the next 9 months.
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The Defence
Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Defence
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman approved procurement of 6
indigenously designed and manufactured Next
Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels (NGOPVs) for Indian Navy.
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Nasa Launches Parker
Solar Probe To ‘Touch Sun’.
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India to Launch 2nd Lunar Mission ‘Chandrayaan-2’ on January
3, 2019.
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Iran has unveiled Fateh
Mobin (Bright Conqueror) next generation short-range ballistic missile
capable of striking targets on land and sea.
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All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) has signed MOU
with IIT-Delhi to boost research in
traditional
medicine.
Recent
Committees in News
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A recent report by the Parliamentary Standing Committee
on Commerce, has called for different weightage to different sectors
of the industry by credit rating agencies, to ensure that banks don't
deprive the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) of credit.
o
The observations came after the
committee noted that the rules introduced by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to help banks to counter the non
performing asset (NPA) problem have hit the MSMEs very hard.
o Head of this Committee : Naresh Gujral (Shiromani Akali Dal
leader)
Banking,
Business & Economic Affairs
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The Indian
Rupee hit a record low of 70 against the US dollar for the first time today.
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Allahabad Bank's MD and CEO Usha Ananthasubramanian was fired on her
last day in office today, in relation to the PNB scam.
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Bajaj Allianz General
Insurance has signed a Bancassurance agreement with Vijaya Bank.
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Exim Bank Signs MoU with BRICS Development Banks.
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Axis Bank has introduced iris authentication
for Aadhaar-based transactions.
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Smitha V. Crishna, a
third-generation heir of the Godrej family, ranked 1st in the Kotak Wealth
Hurun-Leading Wealthy Women 2018 list with
an estimated wealth of ₹ 37,570 crore.
New
Appointments
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1992 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, Ashish
Kumar Bhutani has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY).
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Indian origin online transportation network company Ola has appointed former Google Europe COO
Ben Legg as Managing Director of its UK operations.
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Justice Manjula Chellur took oath as Chairperson of Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (ATE), Ministry of Power.
Deaths
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Chhattisgarh Governor Balram Das Tandon (90)
passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Sports
Current Affairs
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Complete winners of 2018 Rogers Cup / Canadian Open Tennis
Tournament
o Men's Singles : Spain Rafael Nadal
o Women's Singles : Romania Simona Halep
o Men's Doubles : Henri Kontinen (Finland) /
John Peers (Australia)
o Women's Doubles : Ashleigh Barty (Australia)
/ Demi Schuurs (Netherlands)
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Madappa became the youngest
Indian to win Asian Tour title.
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All India Football
Federation senior vice president Subrata Dutta has been elected as a vice
President of the newly
formed South West Asian Football Federation.
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