Sunday, 7 August 2022

Daily Current Affairs One Liner August 2022 Part 7

 

Daily Current Affairs One Liner

August 2022 Part 7

Important Facts

 

*   7th Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog to be chaired by Prime Minister in New Delhi.

*   AD Ports Group & Adani Ports And SEZ Ltd Sign MoU For Joint Infra Investments In Tanzania

*   AP Government Signs MoU with NISG

*   Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet approves the naming of the Under Construction Greenfield Airport as “Donyi Polo Airport, Itanagar

*   Assam Govt. Sign Four MoUs with HCL, Walmart, Flipkart on various fields

*   At least 10 people including top commander of Palestinian militant group killed by Israeli air strikes in Ghaza strip.

*   At the Commonwealth Games, Indian athletes Avinash Sable and Priyanka Goswami win silver medals in respective events; India also claims silver in Men's Lawn Bowls.

*   Birmingham Commonwealth Games: Murali Sreeshankar wins silver in men’s long jump

*   Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba given one-year extension in service

*   Centre Launches State University Research Excellence Scheme to Create Robust R&D Ecosystem

*   Centre launches web-based registration facility to enable homeless people, destitutes, migrants and other eligible beneficiaries to apply for ration cards.

*   CHIEF OF THE AIR STAFF FLIES INDIGENOUS AIRCRAFT AT BANGALORE

*   China Launches Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Monitoring Satellite

*   China sanctions Pelosi and family over Taiwan visit, cancels range of exchanges with US including climate change

*   DRDO Successfully Test Fires Indigenously Developed Laser-Guided ATGMs

*   Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav urges people to stop use of single-use plastic to contain menace of plastic pollution.

*   Export of India’s agricultural and processed food products rises by 31 percent in first three months of current financial year.

*   Former West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee and his close associate Arpita Mukherjee remanded to judicial custody till August 18  in SSC recruitment scam.

*   French Govt Honours Indian Publisher Kannan Sundaram with Chevalier Award

*   Government to make 1.5 lakh Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness centres functional by December this year.

*   Har Ghar Tiranga Campaign: Post Offices to remain open on all days including on holidays till Independence Day

*   HDFC Raises USD 1.1 Billion Social Loan for Financing Affordable Housing Projects

*   Health Budget of the country to be hiked to 2.5 percent of GDP from existing 1.9 percent.

*   Highlights of President of Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih visit to India

*   In Men's Cricket; fourth T20 International between India and the West Indies at Florida in the US tonight.

*   India assured of three more medals in Wrestling and Boxing each.

*   India beat Bangladesh 5-2 to lift SAFF Under-20 football championship trophy in Bhubaneswar.

*   India calls for early completion of the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway and its extension to Cambodia

*   India clinches 6 medals including 3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze on the day 8 of Commonwealth Games 2022

*   India’s agricultural and processed food products exports up by 31 percent to USD 7408 Million in first three months of current fiscal (2022-23) compared to the same period last year.

*   Indian Army conducts 5-day “Skylight” exercise to test operational readiness of its space-based assets

*   Indian Navy’s all-women crew completes 1st independent surveillance mission over Arabian Sea

*   Indian Women's Cricket team enters final of Commonwealth Games, defeating England by 4 runs, confirming another medal for the country.

*   Max Life Insurance Launches 3-in-1 Protection Plan – Smart Secure Easy Solution

*   Missiles fall in Japan’s EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) during China’s military exercises

*   Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) increases policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 50 basis points to 5.40%

*   NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar elected as 14th Vice President of India.

*   NHA partners with QCI to Accredit Health Solutions Integrated with ABDM

*   NITI Aayog’s response to the statement of Shri K C Rao, CM Telangana

*   PM congratulates Avinash Sable on winning Silver Medal in the Men's 3000m Steeplechase event

*   PM congratulates Jaismine for winning Bronze Medal in women's 60 KG Boxing

*   PM congratulates Lawn Bowl Men's team for clinching Silver Medal

*   PM congratulates Mohit Grewal for winning the Bronze medal in 125 kg wrestling at CWG 2022

*   PM congratulates race walking champion, Priyanka Goswami for winning the coveted Silver Medal

*   PM congratulates Shri Jagdeep Dhankar on being elected as Vice President

*   PM extends best wishes to the wrestler, Divya for winning Bronze medal in Women's 68 KG wrestling at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

*   PM extends best wishes to wrestler, Deepak Punia on winning Gold Medal at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

*   PM Modi speaks to Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on phone

*   PM Narendra Modi Inaugurates & Lays Foundation Stone of Various Projects of Shrimad Rajchandra Mission in Valsad, Gujarat

*   Premature redemption under Gold Monetisation Scheme payable only in rupees: RBI

*   President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers and several leaders extend wishes to Mr Dhankhar on his victory.

*   Prime Minister addresses the 3rd meeting of National Committee on “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”

*   Prime Minister Narendra Modi to chair meeting of Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers on Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav in New Delhi .

*   RBI proposes to enable BBPS (Bharat Bill Payment System) to accept cross-border inward payments from NRIs

*   Review Planning & Monitoring (RPM) meeting held with States and State Power Utilities

*   RPF undertakes month long Pan India Drive under ‘Operation Yatri Suraksha’ to enhance security of passengers

*   SEBI constitutes 15-member committee to attract foreign investment; Former Chief Economic Advisor K V Subramanian appointed Chairman.

*   South Korea launches its first lunar orbiter Danuri (“enjoy the Moon”) from Florida (US)

*   South Korea Launches its First Moon Mission: Danuri

*   Sports Authority of India NSNIS Patiala felicitates Indian Weightlifting contingent after stellar Commonwealth Games 2022 performance

*   TN Forest Department set up 1st of its kind Urban Animal Rescue Centre at Guindy National Park, Chennai

*   UGC asks all Universities and Colleges to observe August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.

*   Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah congratulates Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar on his election as Vice President of India

*   Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh says, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) achieved a disposal rate of 91% in five years and there continues to be a steady rise in the disposal o...

*   Union Rail Minister Inaugurates Badi Sadri-Mavli Gauge Converted Rail Section

*   UP Government Intends to Boost Farmers’ Income Through Panchamrut Yojana

*   Uttarakhand tourism department to develop ‘Modi circuit’ at Corbett reserve

*   Vice President visits various holy places in Dwarka and Somnath during his one-day tour to Gujarat

*   Village Engineers programme to be rolled out in Gujarat soon

*   Wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Deepak Punia and Sakshi Malik clinch Gold medals at Commonwealth Games.

 

Compiler
PrabhuNath Singh (PNS)

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