Yak August 2017 Electrical Flow Affairs Highlights (One-Liners)

Friends, hither are the Major Current Affairs Highlights of August 2017. These one-liners comprehend all of import International, National, MOUs, Indexes, Banking, Technology, Books & Authors, Committees too Sports affairs of August calendar month (from 1st to 31st August  2017). We will  supply the pdf version soon, but nosotros advise y'all to write these on your ain hence that y'all wont forget them again. All the Best too Happy Reading :)

August 2017 Current Affairs Highlights (One-Liners) 

• ‘I am HIV positive, hence what ?’, a mass on the career of Manipur’s highly-acclaimed bodybuilder, K Pradipkumar Singh, known for his personal struggle against HIV AIDS, was of late released. This mass was written yesteryear : Jayanta Kalita.
  
• 10th India-European Union Counter Terrorism Dialogue was of late held at New Delhi. During this dialogue, Republic of Republic of India too the European Union have got agreed to strengthen cooperation betwixt their safety too tidings agencies to scrap the threat of terrorism too banking company check terror financing.
• 12th August 2017 was observed equally the International Youth Day with the Theme “Youth Building Peace”.
• 15th edition of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical too Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) ministerial coming together was of late held inward Kathmandu, Nepal. Union External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj represented India.
• 15-year-old shooter Shapath Bharadwaj has move India's youngest athlete to characteristic inward government's Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme.
• 16-year-old Indian-origin educatee Kavya Kopparapu with her squad has developed an AI scheme to recognise signs of a diabetic complication that damages blood vessels inward the eye.
• 18-year-old India's junior para-athlete Rinku Hooda has won Silver medal inward the Javelin throw F46 at the 1st World Para Athletics Junior Championships inward Switzerland.
• 19 acres of solid reason which housed or hence seventy authorities purpose buildings inward Chattisgarh’s Raipur is existence converted into India's outset micro woods inward club to create an oxy-zone.
• 19th August 2017 was observed equally the World Humanitarian Day (WHD) with the Theme “#NotATarget”.
• 19th August 2017 was observed equally the World Photography Day with the Theme “Understanding clouds”.
• 3 Indian companies featured inward the Forbes' List of 'World’s Most Innovative Companies 2017. They are : Hindustan Unilever - seventh Rank (Highest-ranked Indian company), Asian Paints - eighth Rank too Airtel - 78th Rank.
• 5 Judge bench of Supreme Court declared the practise of Triple Talaq equally 'unconstitutional', too ordered a ban on it.
• 7 Indian chess players including old World Champion Viswanathan Anand volition last taking constituent inward the Chess World Cup to last held inward Tbilisi, Georgia, from September 2 to 27.
• 72nd anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing was observed on sixth August 2017.
• 91-year-old Queen Elizabeth II of United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland is going to resign from her throne at the historic period of time of 95. Upon her abdication, the Queen's eldest boy Prince Charles volition move the King.
• 9th August 2017 was observed equally International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples with the Theme "10th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples"
• 9th August 2017 was observed equally Kranti Diwas (Quit Republic of Republic of India Day) inward Republic of Republic of India with the Theme “Sankalp se Siddhi- the attainment through resolve”.
• A 5-member special commission has been constituted yesteryear the Delhi authorities to prepare the Final parking policy for the city. The panel volition last headed yesteryear : Om Prakash Agarwal (CEO of World Resources Institute (WRI), India)
• A Panel that was laid upwards to expect at all aspects of topographic point finance inward Republic of Republic of India has recommended that PAN bill of fare should last required for all gilt transactions. The panel was chaired yesteryear : Tarun Ramadorai (Professor of financial economics).
• A laid of 6 caves housing over 50 artefacts from the in conclusion Ice Age has move the 42nd UNESCO World Heritage Site inward Germany.
• A United States courtroom has ruled that politicians cannot block people on social media equally it violates their correct to liberty of speech.
• According to of late released provisional census data, Pakistan's population has surged to over 20 crore, a 57% spike since the in conclusion census inward 1998.
• Afghanistan has requested Republic of Republic of India to launch a special satellite only for its use. The satellite volition last used inward areas of telecommunications, tv set services, mines too other sectors.
• American sprinter Allyson Felix has move the Most decorated athlete inward world championships with xv medals, breaking Usain Bolt's shared all-time tape of nigh medals at the biennial athletics event.
• American lawn tennis instrumentalist Serena Williams has topped the Forbes' listing of highest paid woman soul athletes of 2017, with $27 1000000 inward earnings betwixt June 2016 too June 2017.
• As constituent of its special focus on Indian languages, the Oxford University Press has launched online dictionaries inward Tamil too Gujarati.
• Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has agreed to give the Sikh community inward the province a 'Micro Minority status'.
• Australian province authorities has approved the world's biggest unmarried tower solar thermal might plant, a 150-megawatt construction to last built inward South Commonwealth of Australia yesteryear 2020.
• Axis Bank of late launched a crusade titled 'Experience Axis' featuring Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone.
• Bangladesh is going to bear Indian Ocean Naval Symposium’s (IONS) Maiden International Maritime Search too Rescue Exercise (IMMSAREX) inward Nov 2017 at the Bay of Bengal.
• Brazil's Neymar has move the world's nigh expensive footballer, with Paris Saint-Germain signing him for a five-year bargain from Barcelona for a fee of ₹1,680 crore (€222 million).
• Britain is going to pay upwards to €40 billion equally constituent of a bargain to leave of absence the European Union.
• Canadian citizens who do non topographic point equally Male or Female volition shortly last able to grade "X" on their passports too other identity documents.
• Central Park located inward Delhi's Connaught Place volition acquire facial recognition surveillance equally constituent of a collaboration betwixt New Delhi Municipal Corporation too NEC Corporation India.
• China formally opened its outset overseas armed forces base of operations inward Africa's Djibouti. Republic of Djibouti also hosts US, Japanese, too French bases.
• China has been drafting a constabulary on the appropriate usage of its National Anthem yesteryear introducing criminal prosecution for violators.
• China is going to launch the World's outset nuclear might plant, the Sanmen Nuclear Power Station, that is immune to meltdown.
• China is relaunching the Fastest bullet trains inward the world, which run at 350 kilometres per hour.
• China's State Administration for Industry too Commerce (SAIC) has banned companies from registering strange too long names.
• Deepwater Horizon thespian Mark Wahlberg has topped Forbes 2017 listing of World's Highest Paid Actors, earning $68 1000000 during the 12-month scoring period.
• Delhi authorities has announced a consummate ban on manual cleaning of sewers.
• Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan was sentenced to 20 years inward prison theatre for rape yesteryear a special CBI courtroom inward Haryana.
• Digital payments too ecommerce fellowship Paytm has rebranded Postcard, its digital version of gifting money inward an envelope on festive occasions, to Lifafa (which way envelope inward Hindi) after Republic of Republic of India Post sent a notice to the fellowship to halt using the term 'postcard'.
• Distance runner Mo Farah won the concluding runway race of his career, clinching a win inward 5,000-metre concluding with a margin of 0.04 seconds at the Diamond League.
• Double Paralympics gilt medalist Devendra Jhajharia has became the 1st Para Ahlete to last awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honour.
• During it's bi-monthly policy review, the Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) has cutting Repo charge per unit of measurement yesteryear 25 footing points to 6%, the lowest inward to a greater extent than than six-and-a-half years.
• England football game captain Wayne Rooney announced his retirement from international football, after appearing for England inward 119 matches.
• External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj of late inaugurated India's outset 'Videsh Bhavan' inward Mumbai. The Bhavan integrates all Ministry of External Affairs offices inward Maharashtra nether i roof, too volition reportedly assist inward effective management.
• Finance Minister Arun Jaitley launched 'Bharat 22' exchange-traded-fund (ETF) to divest authorities assets inward 22 state-run too individual firms. ICICI Prudential volition deal the fund.
• Flipkart of late completed its merger with eBay India's operations.
• For the outset fourth dimension inward history, BJP became the largest political political party inward Rajya Sabha after pushing Congress to the minute spot.
• Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has penned a mass titled 'I Do What I Do'.
• Georgia began the 'Noble Partner' armed forces exercise with the United States too partner countries despite Russia's before objections to the drills claiming they could destabilise the region.
• Germany has exam launched surveillance cameras with biometric confront recognition capability at i of Berlin's railway stations.
• Goa cabinet passed an amendment granting Coconut Palm the status of “State tree”.
• Google has announced 'Oreo' equally the advert for the latest version of the Android operating system, continuing the dessert-themed names.
• Haryana barred all authorities schoolhouse teachers from stepping within the classrooms with mobile phones.
• Home Minister Rajnath Singh has attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) coming together on disaster prevention which was held at Kyrgyzstan from 24th August 2017.
• Hurricane Harvey became the nigh powerful tempest to hitting US' Texas inward to a greater extent than than 50 years.
• In a bid to constitute equality too a ameliorate criterion of living for every citizen inward the state, the Andhra Pradesh authorities is going to supply Pension to the Transgender community. Important Note : Odisha was the outset Indian province to give social welfare benefits such equally pensions to the transgender community.
• In club to incentivise digital transactions the authorities is planning to offering 2% discount over the applicable GST charge per unit of measurement on bills upwards to ₹2,000.
• India too People's Republic of Bangladesh have got confirmed that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj volition see Dhaka inward the outset one-half of September to attend the fourth Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting.
• India too Cathay have got agreed to withdraw their troops from Doklam after existence inward a standoff for over 2 months.
• India too FRG have got signed an understanding on technical cooperation nether the Indo-German Energy Programme – Green Energy Corridors (IGEN-GEC).
• India too Russian Federation for outset fourth dimension are going to bear Indra Tri-Services Exercise, involving their Armies, Navies too the Air Forces inward Oct 2017 to farther ramp upwards armed forces ties.
• India too the USA have got agreed to rear peace too stability inward the Indo-Pacific part yesteryear establishing a novel two-by-two ministerial dialogue.
• India too the United States are going to co-host the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Hyderabad ( Telangana) from 28th to 30th Nov 2017. United States President Donald Trump’s missy too adviser Ivanka Trump volition last leading the American delegation at the three twenty-four hours summit.
• India too USA have got established novel Two-byTwo (2 yesteryear 2) ministerial dialogue to rear strategic coordination betwixt the 2 countries too maintaining peace too stability inward the Indo-Pacific region.
• India has gifted xxx ambulances too 6 buses to Nepal for it's hospitals, charitable organisations too educational institutions on the occasion of Independence Day.
• India has ratified the 2nd commitment period of time of the Kyoto Protocol that commits nations to trim emission of greenhouse gases (GHG).
• India has received the first-ever shipment of unsmooth fossil oil from the United States inward August 2017.
• India has signed a loan understanding with Cathay led-Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for financing of $329 1000000 for Gujarat Rural Roads Project (GRRP).
• India is going to host the adjacent steering commission coming together of the proposed 1,814 kilometre-long Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) Gas Pipeline.
• India won South Asian Football Federation Under-15 Championship defeating host Nepal yesteryear 2-1 inward the concluding at Kathmandu.
• India’s outset individual sector missile sub-systems manufacturing facility Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems (KRAS) flora was inaugurated nigh Hyderabad, Telangana.
• Indian basketball game squad captain Amritpal Singh became the outset Indian instrumentalist to last picked upwards yesteryear an Australian National Basketball League team, after signing for the Sydney Kings.
• Indian boxer Neeraj Goyat defended his WBC Asia Pacific Welterweight entitle against Philippines' Allan Tanada after a 12-round contender inward Mumbai.
• Indian boxer Vijender Singh won his career's minute professional person title, defeating China's Zulpikar Maimaitiali to win the WBO Oriental Super Middleweight belt inward Mumbai.
• Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX) commenced operations equally the World's outset diamond futures exchange. The telephone commutation is backed yesteryear companies similar Reliance Capital too MMTC.
• Indian Government has inked United States $24.64 1000000 Grant Agreement from the GEF (GEF) of the World Bank for Ecosystem Service Improvement Project.
• Indian Navy’s minute LCU Mark IV L52 ship was commissioned at Port Blair, uppercase of Andaman too Nicobar Islands. LCU L52 is the minute LCU Mk-IV course of study ship to last inducted into the Indian Navy. LCU - Landing Craft Utility.
• Indian couple of Kynan Chenai too Shreyasi Singh win bronze inward mixed squad trap trial of Asian Shotgun Shooting Championship inward Kazakhastan.
• Indian shooter Ankur Mittal bagged the Gold medal inward Men's double trap at the seventh Asian Shotgun Championship inward Astana, Kazakhstan.
• Indian shooter Maheshwari Chauhan won a Bronze medal at the ongoing seventh Asian Shotgun Championships inward Kazakhstan.
• Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal settled for a Bronze medal after crashing out of the Badminton World Championships inward the semifinals.
• India's outset indigenous sniper rifle was launched at the Rifle Factory inward West Bengal's Ishapore.
• India's outset museum on Partition of the Indian subcontinent was opened inward Amritsar (Punjab), equally Republic of Republic of India too Islamic Republic of Pakistan celebrate seventy years equally independent nations.
• India's outset 'Railways disaster administration village', to last developed at a cost of ₹44.42 crore, on the outskirts of Bengaluru yesteryear Dec adjacent year.
• India's Lakshya Sen, who is currently the world number i junior shuttler, won the Republic of Bulgaria Open International Series entitle a twenty-four hours after turning sixteen inward Sofia, Bulgaria.
• India's largest lender State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) has cutting its workforce yesteryear 6,622 people inward the outset quarter of this fiscal, driven yesteryear natural attrition such equally retirements too voluntary retirement scheme.
• India's Ravindra Jadeja surpassed the likes of Anil Kumble too Kapil Dev to move the 2nd fastest Indian to gain 150 wickets inward Test cricket.
• IndusInd Bank became the sixth Indian banking company whose marketplace topographic point capitalisation soared yesteryear the ₹1 lakh crore-mark. HDFC Bank is the country's nigh valued banking company with a marketplace topographic point cap of ₹4.6 lakh crore, followed yesteryear State Bank of India, too ICICI Bank.
• Israel has successfully launched Venus satellite (Vegetation too Environment Monitoring New Micro-Satellite), its outset spatial environmental enquiry vehicle designed for orbital monitoring of Earth's vegetation.
• ISRO too NASA are jointly working on a mission titled NISAR to co-develop too launch a dual frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite yesteryear 2021. NISAR - NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar.
• ISRO's regional positioning scheme NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation), India's real ain substitute for the Global Positioning System (GPS), volition right away rely on high-precision atomic clocks developed yesteryear Delhi-based National Physical Laboratory.
• Japan, the world's tertiary largest economy, expanded at an annualised charge per unit of measurement of 4% inward the April-June quarter, making it the Fastest growing economic scheme alongside the G7 nations.
• Karnataka Government has launched an experimental cloud seeding Project titled "Varshadhari" inward Bengaluru. Under this project, an aircraft volition spray chemicals to get rainfall.
• Karnataka Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with software giant Microsoft Republic of Republic of India to develop a unique “farm toll forecasting model.”
• Karnataka authorities volition last merging the existing 7 health schemes to launch a unified scheme- 'Arogya Bhagya'.
• Lebanese President Michel Aoun has signed the country's outset brute welfare mouth into law, guaranteeing the legal protection of domestic too wildlife from abuse.
• Lebanon abolished a constabulary that allowed rapists to escape penalisation yesteryear marrying their victims. Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan too Tunisia banned similar laws before this year.
• Market Regulator SEBI laid upwards a commission on 'fair marketplace topographic point conduct'. Head of this commission : T K Viswanathan (former constabulary secretary)
• Mercedes' British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton registered his 58th career race win after claiming the Belgian Grand Prix title.
• Messaging app WhatsApp is going to start WhatsApp Payments, a facility for instant money transfer via the Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
• Mexico volition create a novel segmentation of the Federal Police to save too secure its cultural heritage.
• MoS for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir approved a proposal to rename the Mughalsarai railway station inward UP after RSS ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya.
• Mozilla, the maker of Firefox spider web browser, has launched a cross-browser tool called 'Send', which lets users percentage self-destructing files of upwards to 1 GB.
• NASA is planning to shipping microbial life on its Mars 2020 rover mission, which would usage Mars' atmospheric carbon dioxide to create oxygen.
• Nepal has criminalised an ancient practise known equally 'Chhaupadi' that banishes women from homes during menstruation.
• Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was on a 5-day see to India. This see aims to acquire Republic of Republic of India committed to post-earthquake reconstruction too infrastructural expansion inward the country.
• Odisha Government has launched a grid-connected rooftop solar programme through net-metering scheme at the State Secretariat inward uppercase urban core of Bhubaneswar.
• On the occasion of World Elephant Day (12th August) the Union Ministry of Environment too Forest has launched a nationwide crusade titled Gaj Yatra to protect elephants.
• Parliament has passed the Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2017. This mouth volition supersede the Banking Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 promulgated yesteryear President inward May 2017.
• PM Narendra Modi volition last on a see to Cathay from 3rd to fifth September 2017. During this visit, he volition attend the ninth BRICS Summit.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 1.4-kilometre long hanging span across the river Chambal inward Rajasthan's Kota.
• Qantas Airways is laid to offering a 20-hour non-stop flying from Sydney to London, making this the world's longest non-stop commercial flight.
• Qatar has approved a novel job constabulary which limits unusual domestic staff to a maximum of 10 hours function a day, the outset such protection for foreigners working inward the country.
• Qatar has approved an unprecedented constabulary that volition grant permanent residency to expats (persons who lives exterior their native country) fulfilling sure as shooting conditions.
• Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University, India's outset aviation university, was inaugurated on August xviii at Raebareli (Uttar Pradesh).
• 'Rayichapalu', a regular select handgrip of for fishermen inward Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam, has been declared equally One of the rarest species of fish inward the world.
• Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has surpassed Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing to move Asia's second-richest soul with a $35.2 billion (₹2.25 lakh crore) fortune, equally per Bloomberg.
• Russia has settled the concluding debt of $125.2 1000000 that it inherited from the Soviet Union. It was the money the Soviet Union owed to old Yugoslavia equally a constituent of a merchandise bargain betwixt the 2 countries.
• Russian entrepreneur Viacheslav Semenchuk has announced plans for an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) of the world's outset digital currency aimed specifically at Jewish communities across the globe.
• Russian theatre Tactical Missiles Corporation is developing Artificial Intelligence-powered missiles that tin can create decisions similar choosing a target yesteryear itself.
• Sanjivani Jadhav, a 20-year-old marathon runner from Nashik, won the Silver medal inward the women's 10,000-metre at the 29th World University Games inward Taipei.
• Shah Rukh Khan has been named India's highest paid thespian with ₹243.7 crore ($38 million) earnings inward the list.
• Shapath Bharadwaj, a 15-year-old from Meerut, won a Bronze medal inward the double trap trial at the ISSF Junior Shotgun World Cup inward Italy.
• Shuttler PV Sindhu became the 2nd Indian to win a Silver medal at the Badminton World Championships, losing to Japan's Nozomi Okuhara inward the women's singles concluding inward Glasgow.
• Software giant Microsoft has announced its Project Brainwave deep learning acceleration platform for real-time artificial tidings (AI).
• South Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea too Republic of Republic of India celebrate their Independence Day on the same twenty-four hours (15th of August).
• Spain based Real Madrid defeated Manchester United 2-1 to elevator the UEFA Super Cup title. This is their fourth UEFA Super Cup title.
• Sri Lanka has signed a $1.1-billion bargain to lease its southern Hambantota port to China.
• Starting from September, PNB (Punjab National Bank) is going to accuse customers for depositing cash to a higher topographic point ₹5,000 inward non-base branches, fifty-fifty if these are located inward the same city.
• State-owned fossil oil marketing fellowship Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) has announced that it has increased the commission offered to dealers upwards to 50% with trial from August 1.
• Swiss president Doris Leuthard was on 3-day see to India. During this visit, Republic of Republic of India too Switzerland held extensive talks on entire gamut of bilateral human relationship including on ways to ramp upwards merchandise too investment ties.
• The 2030 Water Resources Group (2030WRG) has decided to assist the Maharashtra Government to rear $270 1000000 from the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
• The seventh Meeting of the Financial Stability too Development Council (FSDC) was of late held inward New Delhi nether the Chairmanship of the Union Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley.
• The Adivasi Will Not Dance, a mass of curt stories yesteryear Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, has been banned yesteryear the Jharkhand authorities on the grounds that it is offensive to the dignity of Santhal women.
• The annual La Tomatina festival was held inward Castilian town Buñol, amid increased safety next several terror attacks. Considered the Biggest nutrient create do inward the world, thousands of participants threw an estimated 160 tonnes of tomatoes at each other.
• The Baltic land of Republic of Estonia is considering starting its ain virtual currency called 'estcoin' to boost its economy.
• The Bengaluru International Airport, inward partnership with Thumby Aviation Private Limited, volition shortly have got India's outset helicopter-taxi service. The "HeliTaxi service: would ensure quick too seamless transfers to too from airport.
• The Cabinet also approved an MOU to laid upwards United States $40 1000000 India-Israel Industrial R&D too Technological Innovation Fund (I4F).
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved renaming of SAMPADA (Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing too Development of Agro-Processing Clusters) equally Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY). Objective of this Scheme : To supplement agriculture, modernize processing too decrease agricultural-waste.
• The key authorities made Aadhaar mandatory for the registration of deaths too announced that the conclusion volition come upwards into trial from Oct 1, 2017.
• The Defence Ministry has granted additional administrative too financial powers to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to speed-up the construction of roads along the Indo-China border.
• The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) inward the Union Commerce Ministry has banned duty costless imports of Gold, Silver items from South Korea.
• The FIFA Under-17 World Cup official winner's trophy was of late displayed at the Republic of Republic of India Gate. The tournament's winner volition elevator the trophy on Oct 28. The trial volition last India's outset official FIFA tournament.
• The French Presidency announced an official purpose for Brigitte Macron (President Emmanuel Macron's wife). This is the outset fourth dimension a husband of France's caput of province has been given an official purpose (official First Lady title).
• The Geographical Indications Registry (GIR) has granted Geographical Indication (GI) status to Gobindobhog rice, a speciality from Burdwan district of West Bengal.
• The authorities has accepted 65 out of 99 recommendations of the Lt General DB Shekatkar-led committee, which volition outcome inward the redeployment of 57,000 Indian Army personnel for diverse other required duties.
• The authorities has ordered state-run fossil oil companies to rear subsidised cooking gas (LPG) prices yesteryear ₹4 per cylinder every month, effective June 1.
• The Haryana authorities volition organise Digital Haryana Summit inward Gurugram on September xv to mouth over issues similar digital governance, smart living inward cities too villages, citizen partnership, too entrepreneurship alongside others.
• The Home Ministry has given its approving for the construction of a 32 kilometres long route inward Ladakh. This route volition last built betwixt Marsimik La to Hot Spring, the old existence or hence 20 kilometres away from the Pangong Lake.
• The Independence Day this twelvemonth (15th August 2017) was observed equally 'Sankalp Parva', or 'Day of Resolve'.
• The India-ASEAN Youth Summit was of late held inward Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh to commemorate 25th anniversary of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)–India dialogue partnership inward the ongoing year.
• The Indian Army has developed a mobile application titled 'Humraaz' through which serving soldiers tin can runway details similar postings too promotions.
• The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) too Ministry of Health inked Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) to collaborate on vaccine enquiry too development.
• The Indian men too women's wheelchair basketball game teams won Bronze at the fourth Bali Cup International Tournament for Wheelchair Basketball.
• The Indian Men's Hockey squad defeated Netherlands 2-1 inward the minute tally of the two-match Rabo Super Serie to clinch the serial 2-0.
• The Indian Railways has signed its 1st EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) contract with Larsen too Turbo (L & T) for electrification of railway lines.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to launch a full-fledged niche globe Observation (EO) satellite titled the Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite (HySIS). Its launch volition allow ISRO to come inward the domain of operational hyperspectral imaging from reason orbit.
• The isle of Tuvalu was the to the lowest degree visited province inward 2016, according to a study yesteryear the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
• The ISRO Telemetry Tracking too Command Network (ISTRAC) too CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have got signed MoU to create indigenous regional positioning system-NavIC independent from the United States clock system.
• The Jharkhand authorities cleared a draft Anti-conversion mouth which aims to ban religious conversion through forcefulness or allurement.
• The Karnataka authorities has decided to rename 100 Morarji Desai authorities residential schools after old PM Indira Gandhi.
• The Karnataka authorities volition shortly come upwards out with an 'Electric Vehicle too Energy Storage Policy' aimed at reducing pollution too promoting healthy environment.
• The Kerala High Court lifted BCCI's lifetime ban imposed on cricketer S Sreesanth from the sport over the IPL 2013 spot-fixing case.
• The Lok Sabha has also passed the State Banks (Repeal too Amendment) Bill, 2017. The mouth seeks to repeal the 2 Acts namely State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959, too State Bank of Hyderabad Act, 1956.
• The Lok Sabha has passed the Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2017 yesteryear phonation vote. This mouth seeks to amend the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 to insert provisions for treatment cases related to stressed assets of banks.
• The Lok Sabha has passed the National Bank for Agriculture too Rural Development (Amendment) Bill, 2017 yesteryear phonation vote. The mouth enables move out of the Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) from the National Bank for Agriculture too Rural Development (NABARD) too increment authorised uppercase of the evolution establishment 6 times to Rs 30000 crore.
• The Maharashtra authorities is going to innovate cycling tracks along the arterial roads of 10 cities including Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, too Latur.
• The Multi Commodity Exchange Ltd (MCX) has received markets regulator Securities too Exchange Board of India's (Sebi) approving to launch India's outset Gold options contract.
• The National Aeronautics too Space Administration (NASA) has successfully launched Tracking too Data Relay Satellite-M (TDRS-M) into orbit.
• The National Payments Corporation of Republic of Republic of India (NPCI) has given a nod to Spice Digital Ltd. for processing mouth payments nether the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) equally a Bharat Bill Payment Operating Unit (BBPOU).
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) has announced only 1.4% of old ₹1,000 notes have got non come upwards dorsum into the banking scheme postal service demonetisation.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) has imposed a ₹3 crore penalty on state-owned Union Bank of Republic of Republic of India for "non-compliance" of Know Your Customer (KYC) norms inward 2 dissever cases.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) volition shortly number novel banknotes of ₹ 50 rupee denomination inward the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series. The base of operations color of the novel notes volition last Fluorescent Blue too its dimension volition last 66 mm x 135 mm.
• The Russian Air Force volition laid out preparation woman soul armed forces pilots for the outset fourth dimension since the autumn of the Soviet Union inward 1991.
• The State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) accounts for over 27% of the total amount owed to world sector banks yesteryear wilful defaulters, with 1,762 such defaulters owing equally much equally ₹25,104 crore to it equally on March 31.
• The State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) has realised ₹235.06 crore equally penalty from 3.88 crore accounts for non maintaining monthly average remainder inward the outset quarter.
• The Supreme Court barred firework manufacturers from using 5 chemicals that atomic number 82 to air too vibrations pollution, that would farther outcome inward diminished sparkle effects too audio inward crackers. Those chemicals are : Lithium, Antimony, Mercury, Arsenic, too Lead
• The Supreme Court, inward a historic verdict, declared Right to Privacy a fundamental correct inward the Indian Constitution. Privacy is protected yesteryear Article 21 too constituent three of the Constitution.
• The Telangana authorities has launched an exclusive 24x7 helpline '181' for women.
• The Tripura Cricket Association (TCA) inward association with BCCI volition build a cricket stadium, with a seating capacity of 25,000, at Narsinghgarh.
• The Union Cabinet cleared a proposal to extend the proxy voting facility to Non-Resident Indians. Until now, the choice of proxy voting was only available to service personnel inward the country.
• The Union Cabinet gave its approving for raising Extra Budgetary Resources of upwards to Rs, 9,020 crore for Long Term Irrigation Fund (LTIF) during the financial twelvemonth 2017-18.
• The Union Cabinet has apprised Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed betwixt Republic of Republic of India too Brazil for cooperation inward fields of Zebu Cattle Genomics too Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs).
• The Union Cabinet has approved Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) betwixt Republic of Republic of India too Sweden on cooperation inward the plain of Intellectual Property (IPRs).
• The Union Cabinet has approved the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) betwixt Republic of Republic of India too Myanmar for conservation of earthquake-damaged pagodas at Bagan, Myanmar.
• The Union Government has launched e-Rashtriya Kisan Agri Mandi (e-RaKAM) portal to supply a platform for farmers to sell agricultural produce. e-RaKAM is a outset of its form first that leverages applied scientific discipline to connect farmers from the smallest villages to the biggest markets of the world through internet.
• The Union HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar launched ‘Swasth Bachche, Swasth Bharat’ Programme inward Kochi, Kerala. Aim of this programme : To supply a comprehensive too inclusive study bill of fare for children roofing all historic period of time groups too children of dissimilar abilities.
• The Union Ministry of Commerce too Industry has constituted a Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for India’s Economic Transformation. Head of this Task Force : Dr. V. Kamakoti
• The Union Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITY) has constituted an adept Committee to study too topographic point key information protection issues too recommend methods for addressing them. The 10-member commission volition last headed yesteryear : Justice B north Srikrishna (Supreme Court Judge (retired))
• The Union Ministry of Sports too Youth Affairs is going to constitute National Sports Museum at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi. This volition last outset of its form sports museum inward India.
• The USA too Cathay have got signed an understanding to improve communication betwixt the militaries of the 2 countries too trim the "risk of miscalculation".
• The USA saw its outset coast-to-coast solar eclipse after 99 years on 21st August 2017 with the path of totality passing through fourteen states from Oregon to South Carolina.
• The Uttar Pradesh authorities has made the registration of marriages compulsory for all religions too castes inward the state.
• The function on converting Bengaluru's Puttenahalli lake into a aeroplane reserve was of late began.
• To connect Beijing with Zhangjiakou city, Cathay is constructing a 12-km-long high-speed educate tunnel through i of the portions of its iconic Great Wall. [Zhangjiakou is going to co-host 2022 Winter Olympics.]
• To curb infiltration yesteryear Pakistan, the Indian authorities is going to install a 24/7 seamless virtual debate with sensors along the India-Pakistan border.
• To keep cleanliness along banks of Ganga River, the Uttar Pradesh Government launched an awareness drive titled "Namami Gange Jagriti Yatra".
• To educate women entrepreneurs inward the state, the Odisha authorities too social networking giant Facebook have got jointly launched a programme titled ‘SheMeansBusiness’.
• Turkey has begun constructing a wall along the 500-km-long border with Iran.
• UK-based broadcaster BBC has introduced a novel font titled BBC Reith.
• Ukraine has removed all 1,320 statues of the communist revolutionary Lenin equally constituent of a authorities drive to rid the province of Soviet-era symbols.
• UK's 96-year-old Prince Philip of late retired from world duty after serving for over 65 years equally the Captain General of the Royal Marines.
• Undefeated professional person boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced his retirement after knocking out MMA Champion Conor McGregor inward the 'richest create do inward history'.
• Under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), the Delhi Police has launched a science evolution programme titled YUVA. The ‘YUVA’ first aims to connect with youth yesteryear upgrading their science equally per their competencies.
• Union habitation government minister Rajnath Singh has launched a Digital policing portal, making it possible to electronically apply too seek verifications for tenants, domestic helps too fifty-fifty passports.
• Union Minister for Environment, Forest too Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan launched a novel crusade titled “Harit Diwali, Swasth Diwali”. Aim of this crusade : To trim adverse environmental conditions peculiarly pollution inward the province after postal service Diwali celebrations due to excessive bursting of crackers which contributes significantly to air too vibrations pollution.
• US Defence Department has ordered an Army-wide ban on all consumer drones made yesteryear the world's largest drone manufacturer DJI (Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science too Technology Co., Ltd), over "cyber vulnerabilities associated with its products".
• US President Donald Trump signed an Anti-Russia sanctions mouth into constabulary after negotiating its "critical elements". This is the outset measuring that Trump has taken against Russia, which reportedly helped him move United States President.
• US province Hawaii is going to ban pedestrians using mobile phones spell crossing the street inward Honolulu from October.
• US-based cab-hailing startup Uber launched in-app messaging characteristic along with multi-destination rides for users inward India.
• US-Norwegian fellowship Kolos is laid to build World's largest information centre inward Arctic Norway, powered yesteryear 100% sustainable energy.
• Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath of late launched 'Swachh Uttar Pradesh, Swasth Uttar Pradesh' campaign. Aim of this crusade : To create do encephalitis, adding that its prevention starts with sanitation.
• Western Asian province Qatar has launched a novel straight body of body of water route betwixt its Hamad Port too Pakistan's Port of Karachi.
• With an aim to select transparency inward recruit inward authorities jobs, the Uttar Pradesh Government has decided to do away with interview inward the recruitment of non-gazetted officers from Class II to IV.
• With over 5,300 recipients betwixt 2004 too 2017, Republic of Republic of India is the largest beneficiary of the Erasmus scholarships for higher instruction offered yesteryear the European Union (EU) fellow member states.
• World Badminton Championships, also known equally 2017 BWF World Championships were of late held from held from 21st August 2017 to 27th August 2017 at Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Scotland.
• World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) was observed from 1 to 7 August inward to a greater extent than than 120 countries. Theme of World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) 2017 : "SUSTAINING BREASTFEEDING TOGETHER"
• World's fourth richest soul Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has move the biggest shareholder of US' minute largest bank, Bank of America, with a 6.6% stake.

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