Daily Current Affairs Update August-14 2017
1. The 9 year old KaamyaKarthikeyan became the youngest person to reach the summit of the 6,153 metres-high Mt StokKangri in Kashmir.
2. All state-run universities in Rajasthan will not observe a holiday on October 2 on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti this year
3. Gurdeep Singh Sappal has resigned as RajyaSabha TV CEO and PrasarBharati CEO ShashiShekharVempati has been given the additional charge of the channel.
4. Canada based researchers have discovered fossils of a new species of arrow-shaped marine animals.
#They have translucent bodies and it makes them difficult to spot
5.Anthropologists in Kenya have discovered a 13 million year-old baby ape skull that reveals what the common ancestor of all living humans and apes would have looked like.
6. MaheshwariChauhan has won an individual bronze medal at the 7th Asian Championship Shotgun in Astana, Kazakhstan.She becomes the first Indian to win a medal in women’s skeet at the top international level in Astana, Kazakhstan.
7.International Lefthanders Day – August 13
13. The India-ASEAN Youth Summit begins in Bhopal.The exercise will mark the 25th anniversary of the ASEAN-India dialogue partnership in the ongoing year and also the commemorative year’s theme of “Shared Values, Common Destiny”.
14. Ministry of Culture Organizes 'Sankalp Se Siddhi Program' in Coimbatore.
15. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Somalia free of polio
#Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan are the remaining countries where polio is still being recorded.
16. Gabriel Chundan won the 65th edition of the prestigious Nehru Trophy (Boat Race) held at the Punnamda Lake in Kerala.
17. The greatest sprinter of modern times, Usain Bolt form Jamaica retired from the Athletics world. But at farewell Race, he injured himself while running the last lap of the men's 4x100m relay race in the World Athletics Championships in London
18. According to recent study conducted by scientists, the monster El Nino of 2014-16 caused over 3 billion tonnes of carbon to get released into the atmosphere, pushing carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration to record levels.The study was based on analysis of data collected by NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite
#El Nino is a complex periodic climate event that causes waters to warm up in east-central Pacific Ocean. The warming of ocean causes huge changes in wind directions which bring less rain to south-east Asia and Indian subcontinent, while increasing rain in other parts of the world.
19. Indian Ocean Naval Symposium’s (IONS) maiden International Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise (IMMSAREX) will be held in November 2017 in the Bay of Bengal under the chairmanship of Bangladesh.
#China, India and Pakistan will participate in the exercise.
20. Scientists from US have developed the world’s first plant-based Zika vaccine that may be more effective, safer and cheaper than other vaccines against the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
#The vaccine was developed using proteins derived from Tobacco plant.
21. India and Russia for first time are going to conduct Indra tri-services exercise, involving their armies, navies and the air forces in October 2017 to further ramp up military ties .
22. Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot has inaugurated Inclusive Independence Day celebrations organized by the National Trust
23. Pakistan hoisted a 400-feet high national flag the largest in its history at the Attari-Wagah border with India to mark the country’s 70th Independence Day.
2. All state-run universities in Rajasthan will not observe a holiday on October 2 on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti this year
3. Gurdeep Singh Sappal has resigned as RajyaSabha TV CEO and PrasarBharati CEO ShashiShekharVempati has been given the additional charge of the channel.
4. Canada based researchers have discovered fossils of a new species of arrow-shaped marine animals.
#They have translucent bodies and it makes them difficult to spot
5.Anthropologists in Kenya have discovered a 13 million year-old baby ape skull that reveals what the common ancestor of all living humans and apes would have looked like.
6. MaheshwariChauhan has won an individual bronze medal at the 7th Asian Championship Shotgun in Astana, Kazakhstan.She becomes the first Indian to win a medal in women’s skeet at the top international level in Astana, Kazakhstan.
7.International Lefthanders Day – August 13
International Left-Handers Day is being observed on 13th August. International Left-Handers Day is designated by Lefthanders International
8. World Organ donation day
Organ Donation Day is observed every year on 13th of August
9. As a step in this direction, second Seminar on ‘MAKE’ projects for Indian Army was held on 12 Aug 17 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi jointly under aegis of Indian Army and Confederation of Indian Industry (Cll).
#The Make in India initiative was launched by Prime Minister in September 2014.
10. A three-day annual cultural festival named ‘Fete de Puducherry’ organised by the government of India begins in Puducherry.
11. Infusion Nurses Society (INS), a global authority in infusion therapy launched India's first online course on Infusion Therapy for nurses. Under this, it aims to train over 3,000 nurses in the vital medical procedure
12. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis launched Namo Yuva Rojgar Kendra an initiative providing job opportunities to unemployed youth in Mumbai. There are various schemes like farmers weekly market, farmers mobile market and mother’s Tiffin, under this Yuva Rojgar Kendra.
13. The India-ASEAN Youth Summit begins in Bhopal.The exercise will mark the 25th anniversary of the ASEAN-India dialogue partnership in the ongoing year and also the commemorative year’s theme of “Shared Values, Common Destiny”.
14. Ministry of Culture Organizes 'Sankalp Se Siddhi Program' in Coimbatore.
15. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Somalia free of polio
#Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan are the remaining countries where polio is still being recorded.
16. Gabriel Chundan won the 65th edition of the prestigious Nehru Trophy (Boat Race) held at the Punnamda Lake in Kerala.
17. The greatest sprinter of modern times, Usain Bolt form Jamaica retired from the Athletics world. But at farewell Race, he injured himself while running the last lap of the men's 4x100m relay race in the World Athletics Championships in London
18. According to recent study conducted by scientists, the monster El Nino of 2014-16 caused over 3 billion tonnes of carbon to get released into the atmosphere, pushing carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration to record levels.The study was based on analysis of data collected by NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite
#El Nino is a complex periodic climate event that causes waters to warm up in east-central Pacific Ocean. The warming of ocean causes huge changes in wind directions which bring less rain to south-east Asia and Indian subcontinent, while increasing rain in other parts of the world.
19. Indian Ocean Naval Symposium’s (IONS) maiden International Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise (IMMSAREX) will be held in November 2017 in the Bay of Bengal under the chairmanship of Bangladesh.
#China, India and Pakistan will participate in the exercise.
20. Scientists from US have developed the world’s first plant-based Zika vaccine that may be more effective, safer and cheaper than other vaccines against the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
#The vaccine was developed using proteins derived from Tobacco plant.
21. India and Russia for first time are going to conduct Indra tri-services exercise, involving their armies, navies and the air forces in October 2017 to further ramp up military ties .
22. Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot has inaugurated Inclusive Independence Day celebrations organized by the National Trust
24. The Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) honoured Roda Mehta with this year's AAAI Lifetime Achievement Award.
25. The country’s first aviation university at Fursatganj in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli district is all set for inauguration on August 18.
26. The world’s visually impaired will be the subject of some serious discussions at the upcoming 2nd World Congress of Optometry to be held in Hyderabad International Convention Centre during September 11-13
27. iBuild Innovations India, an organisation established to facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship through startup hubs spread across the country, is setting up an internet of things (IoT) incubation centre in Basar in collaboration with Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT)
28. After the successful launch of the country’s first indigenously developed robot ‘BRABO’ in April 2017, TAL Manufacturing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Motors, has launched ‘Robo Whiz’, an education cell designed for universities and polytechnics.
29. Stanford scientists have developed a low-cost and highly sensitive blood test that may quickly detect cancer growth and spread. The test called single colour digital PCR can detect genetic mutations in minute amounts of DNA released from cancer cells into the blood.
30. Nizamabad Government Polytechnic College bagged Haritha Mitra award for 2017, for planting saplings and maintaining them. College representatives will receive the award from Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Independence Day.
31. In a glittering function held at New Delhi, Skill Development Institute, Visakhapatnam has been adjudged the ‘Best Institute-Innovation of Skill Development’.
32. The Indian duo of Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Rashmmi Rathore eked out a narrow 28-27 win over the Chinese pair of Liu Jiangchi and Gao Jianmei bags Gold At Asian Shotgun Championship.
33. An unusual breed of fruit bat has now officially been recognised as a new species.
40. Under-19 cricket Asia Cup, scheduled to be held in Bengaluru, has been moved to Malaysia following Pakistan Cricket Board’s objection to the tournament being held in India.
41. BSEs India INX has received an approval from SEBI to commence trading in gold options contracts from August 30.
#INX, a wholly owned subsidiary of BSE, is located at International Financial Services Centre, GIFT City.
42. According to leader in broadband testing Ookla, Norway has the fastest mobile Internet in the world.
43. India’s first ‘Railways disaster management village’ is expected to come up on the outskirts of Bengaluru by December next year.
The bat, previously nicknamed 'Yoda' due to its resemblance to the Star Wars Jedi Master, has been renamed the happy (Hamamas) tube-nosed fruit bat.
#The ‘Yoda’ bat was discovered in a remote rainforest of Papua New Guinea.
34. A paper published by a research team from Edinburgh University revealed that there are 91 volcanoes under the ice sheets in the west of Antarctica. These are in addition to the 47 already known in the region.
35. The 'India Day' was hosted by the 'India Club' two days before the Independence Day at the popular Zoo Lake resort in this city – Johannesburg
36. The Central government is prepared to consider an exemption of one year from the NEET system for students of government colleges in Tamil Nadu if the state brings forward an ordinance.
#The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET-UG is an entrance examination in India, for students who wish to study any graduate medical course (MBBS/dental course (BDS) or postgraduate course (MD/MS) in government or private medical colleges in India.
37. The International Space Station is expected to get its first supercomputer next week. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will launch a supercomputer into space on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, as part of a joint experiment with the US space agency NASA.
38. Shobha Sen, veteran theatre personality and wife of late thespian Utpal Dutt, passed away.
39. India is deploying along its volatile border with Pakistan a smart Israel-developed fencing system.The fencing system has a ‘quick response team’ mechanism which strikes when CCTV-powered control room detects an infiltration attempt.
40. Under-19 cricket Asia Cup, scheduled to be held in Bengaluru, has been moved to Malaysia following Pakistan Cricket Board’s objection to the tournament being held in India.
41. BSEs India INX has received an approval from SEBI to commence trading in gold options contracts from August 30.
#INX, a wholly owned subsidiary of BSE, is located at International Financial Services Centre, GIFT City.
42. According to leader in broadband testing Ookla, Norway has the fastest mobile Internet in the world.
43. India’s first ‘Railways disaster management village’ is expected to come up on the outskirts of Bengaluru by December next year.
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