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1. Union Government has appointed Swadeshi

Jagaran Manch co-convenor Swaminathan
Gurumurthy and businessman Satish
Kashinath Marathe to the Central Board of
the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

2.  Ivan Duque was sworn in as Colombia’s

youngest 60th President. 

3. Harivansh has been elected as the new Deputy Chairman of

Rajya Sabha. He was an NDA candidate.

4. Justice Gita Mittal became the first-ever woman Chief Justice of Jammu
and Kashmir High Court.

5.  NCW member Rekha Sharma, who recently stoked a controversy by

suggesting the abolition of confessions in churches, has been appointed
as the chairperson of the National Commission for Women.

6.  The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has extended the term of
Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) Chairman R.S. Sharma till
September 2020.

7.  Justice Manjula Chellur  has been appointed as  Chairperson of

Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) by the power ministry.

8.  Subrata Dutta was elected as a vice president of the newly

formed South West Asian Football Federation (SWAFF).

9. Ramesh Powar  has been appointed as head coach of

the women’s national cricket team.

10.  Ramesh Powar  has been appointed as head coach of the  women’s
national cricket team.
11. Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet (66) was appointed
as next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Right.

1.    Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

launched Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan
Yojana for the empowerment of women.
The scheme will provide Rs 54,100 from the
birth of a girl child till she graduates.

2. Developed by the  Federation of Indian

Export Organizations (FIEO), Niryat Mitra –
mobile App to provide wide range of information for export and import was
recently launched by  Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and
Aviation Suresh Prabhu. 

3.  Parijat Urja Chakra  in collaboration with  Krishi Vigyan Kendras

(KVKs) organized a special campaign at  Ambala in Haryana to create
awareness about the ill effects of crop residue burning and
management.

4. President of India inaugurated ‘One District one Product’ Summit

in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. It is a first of its kind summit in the country
to boost trade of the MSMEs. 

Amazon partnered with UP government to provide support to MSME

entrepreneurs across nine districts.

5. Chhattisgarh has become the first state in India to provide Right

to Skills’ Development to the youth. The Chattisgarh government has
flagged off 15 Skill Chariots to launch ‘Skills on Wheels’ project in
Chhattisgarh.

6.  Union Government has constituted four-member Group of

Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Minister of Commerce and
Industry Suresh Prabhu to decide on 16-member Regional Comprehensive
Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations.

7. The Digital North East Vision 2022 was released in Guwahati,

Assam by Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Ravi
Shankar Prasad. Under Digital North East, Union government will invest
nearly Rs. 10,000 crore in the region over next 4 years to implement
more than 400 projects.

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1.  State Bank of India  launched  a payments

machine called MOPAD. The full form of MOPAD
is  Multi Option Payment Acceptance
Device. It is a Point of Sale (PoS)
terminal  that will allow transactions from
cards to QR code-based payments.

2.    HSBC has launched a new digital

platform- "Mydeal" to simplify the capital raising process through
capital markets by providing real-time access to information such as
investors' feedback, profiles, client orders and deal pricing.

3. Axis bank has become the first bank in the country to introduce
Iris Scan Authentication feature for Aadhaar -based transactions through
its micro ATM tablets.

4. RBI's survey of inward remittances for 2016-17 has stated that the

UAE is the top source of inward remittances, and Kerala has
received the maximum funds sent from abroad.

5.  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has transferred surplus

(dividend) of Rs. 50,000 crores to Government for the year ended in
June 2018, over 63% more than Rs 30,659 crore which it transferred in
2017.

6. Exim Bank has signed a multilateral cooperation agreement with

member development banks of BRICS to undertake “collaborative
research” in distributed ledger/blockchain technology.

1.  Online payment service provider PayU India

has partnered with Reliance Money to offer
instant app-based personal loans, via
LazyPay. 

2.  Bajaj Allianz General Insurance entered

into a bancassurance deal with Vijaya
Bank.

3.  Online payment service provider PayU India has partnered with
Reliance Money to offer instant app-based personal loans, via
LazyPay. 
 1.  The Khangchendzonga Biosphere
Reserve has become the 11th Biosphere
Reserve from India that has been included
in the UNESCO designated World Network of
Biosphere Reserves (WNBR).

2.  Ease of Living Index, released by Union

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
ranks Pune as the best city to live in. The
survey rated 111 cities in India.

3.  UK-based online market research and data analytics firm YouGov
announced SBI to be the most patriotic brand. SBI is followed by
Tata Motors. 

4.  Annie Zaidi was awarded the Hindu Playwright Award 2018 for
her play Untitled-1, at the launch of the 14th edition of The Hindu Theatre
Fest.

1.    51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

was held in Singapore.

2.  Pacific Endeavor-2018 (PE-18), a

communication exercise under
the  Multinational Communications
Interoperability Program (MCIP) was held in Kathmandu, Nepal. The
event was organized by    Nepali Army and the United States Pacific
Command.

3. International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples – August 9

4. World BioFuel Day: August 10

5. 18th International Youth Day: August 12

Theme: “Safe space for Youth”.

6. International left-handers day: August 13

1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, launched

PARIVESH (Pro-Active and Responsive
facilitation by Interactive, Virtuous and
Environmental Single-window Hub) on the
occasion of World Biofuel Day.

It is a single registration and single sign-in for all

 types of clearances (i.e. Environment, Forest,
Wildlife and CRZ clearances).

2. Gurugram has been declared as India’s most

polluted city out of  62  cities in the country
by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in
its Air quality index (AQI).

3. "Operation “Madad” has been launched by the Southern Naval

Command (SNC) at Kochi since 09 Aug 2018 for assisting the state
administration and undertaking disaster relief operations due to the
unprecedented flooding experienced in many parts of Kerala.  Indian army
has also launched Operation Sahyog.

4. The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu released the

book ‘Bebak Baat’, authored by the Minister of State for Parliamentary
Affairs and Statistics & Programme Implementation, Shri Vijay Goel.

5.  Santhali has become the first Indian tribal language to get a
Wikipedia edition in its own script after the Santhali Wikipedia went live
earlier this month.

6.  India’s only lab for the conservation of endangered species,

National Wildlife Genetic Resource Bank (NWGRB) inaugurated by Dr.
Harsh Vardhan in Hyderabad.

7.  Punjab  government started a  ‘Tatkal Sewa’  for property

registration across the state.

8.  Railway minister Piyush Goyal announced that Jodhpur in

Rajasthan topped in the cleanest railway station in the recent ranking
of the ‘Swachh Rail’.

9.  Chandrayaan-2 lander would be named ‘Vikram’ after Vikram

Sarabhai, the father of Indian space programme.

10.  Madhya government had decided to honor families of martyrs of

Madhya Pradesh so,  Shaheed Samman Diwas was observed in all
districts of Madhya Pradesh.

11. The NITI Aayog and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have

signed a MoU on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and entered
into a three-year partnership.

1. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie

was adjudged the most influential woman
in history, through a poll conducted by BBC
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2.  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, the world’s

first mission to touch the Sun, was launched
from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station, in the United States.

1. Tokyo 2020 will be the first Olympics to

deploy facial recognition technology to
increase security.

2. Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra was

India’s flag bearer in the opening ceremony of
the upcoming Asian Games 2018.

3.  18-year old Mosaad Aldossary from

Saudi Arabia has been crowned champion of the FIFA e-World Cup
Grand Final.

4.  Rafael Nadal won the Toronto Masters by defeating Stefanos

Tsitsipas.

5.  Viraj Madappa became the youngest Indian to win on the Asian
Tour, as he won his first title on the Asian Tour at Take Solutions Masters in
Bengaluru.

1.  DMK chief and five-time Chief Minister

of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi died at the age
of  94  in Chennai. He was popularly referred to
as Kalaignaror the artist.

Maanavanesan  was his first manuscript

magazine.

2. Sumatheendra R. Nadig, a Kannada writer, poet, critic and

translator passed away recently in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

3. Indian-origin British author VS Naipaul died at his residence in London.

4.  Former Speaker of the Lok Sabha and 10 times MP, Somnath
Chatterjee died following multiple organ failure, in Kolkata.

5.  Asian Games gold medallist athlete Hakam Singh who won the
race walk event at 1978 Asian at Bangkok died due to liver and kidney
ailments in Sangrur, Punjab.
6.  Chhattisgarh Governor Balramji Das Tandon, died following a
heart attack, in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

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