Daily Current Affairs Update August-22 2017
1. Government of India’s Street Lighting National programme (SLNP) has illuminated 50,000 KM of Indian roads with installation of 30 lakh LED street lights across the country. With this milestone Energy Efficiency Services Limited has become the world’s largest street light management company.
2. To prevent adulteration and revenue leakage, the Assam government has decided that country liquor would be grain-based, undergo chemical tests and be branded and make it mandatory for the bottles to sport a hologram as in the case of IMFL.
3. Delhi Metro has opened a facility to recycle the waste produced during its demolition and construction work.
4. Utrecht, Netherlands has opened the world’s largest bicycle parking garage. The parking lot is spread in an area of over 17,100 sq m and three storeys.
5. Dick Gregory was a comedian who played a prominent role in the 1960s civil rights movement after becoming one of the first black comics to perform for white audiences. He died on 19th of August 2017
6. Para athlete Devendra and hockey player Sardar Singh will be honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
7. FDI jumps 37% to $10.4 billion during April-June 2017 .
8. The board of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp, ONGC, has given 'in-principle' approval to acquire government's 51 (point) 11 per cent stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd. The government had approved the sale of its 51.11 per cent stake in oil refiner HPCL to India's largest oil producer ONGC. The deal will be completed within a year
The government had also constituted a committee headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and comprising oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan and road minister Nitin Gadkari to work out the modalities of the sale.
16. The Telangana government has recently launched an exclusive 24×7 helpline ‘181’ for women welfare.
17 The 8th World Renewable Energy Technology Congress & Expo-2017 has started in New Delhi from August 21, 2017. The theme of the 3-day annual conference is “Renewable Energy: What Works”,
18. The book “I am HIV positive, so what?” has been authored by journalist Jayanta Kalita and published by Bloomsbury. The book is based on the life of Manipur’s acclaimed bodybuilder Khundrakpam Pradip kumar Singh, who is known for his struggle against HIV-AIDS.
19. The Mrugavani National Park (MNP) is located at Chilkur in Hyderabad, Telangana .
20. The Parambikulam Tiger Reserve (PTR) is a protected area located in Chittur taluk in Palakkad district of Kerala.
21. Arun Jaitley, the Union Minister of Finance, Defense and Corporate Affairs, was the Chief Guest at the National Conference on ” Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Changing Paradigm”, which was held at Mumbai
22. Tata Power its joint venture company Adjaristsqali Georgia LLC (AGL) synchronized 186 MW Shuakhevi Hydro Project in Georgia
AGL is a Tata Power joint venture with Norway’s Clean Energy Invest AS Norway (Clean Energy) and IFC InfraVentures (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.
23. The 10th round of negotiations for the proposed free trade agreement between India and Canada started in New Delhi.
24. US Based Indian Doctor Discovers New Way To Prevent Sepsis In New Born Babies.
25. August 22nd is the 413thbirthday of Sri Guru Granth Sahib the eleventh guru of Sikhs
26. Forex Reserves to hit USD 400 Billion: Impact on Indian Economy.
27. British scientists create world’s smallest surgical robot named Versius.
28. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Commerce and Industries, on 21 August 2017 announced that the construction work of Asian Trilateral Highway will commence shortly to catalyze the Act East policy.
The Asian Trilateral Highway is a highway under construction that will connect Moreh, India with Mae Sot, Thailand via Myanmar.
29. A Festival of India is being organized in Cote d’Ivoire and concurrently accredited countries of Liberia and Guinea from 15 August, 2017 – 28 January, 2018.
30.The Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM), a professional body under the aegis of the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, is organizing a three-day workshop on Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) from 22nd – 24th August, 2017, in New Delhi.
31. HCL Infosystems has announced that it has signed a distributor agreement with Apple for iPhones and other products in India.
32. The first meeting of the team of experts & officials of Pancheshwar Development Authority has begun at Kathmandu.
33. NITI Aayog will launch the Mentor India Campaign, a strategic nation building initiative to engage leaders who can guide and mentor students at more than 900 Atal Tinkering Labs, established across the country as a part of the Atal Innovation Mission.
34. Gurugram civic body has announced plans to start online applications for registration and certification of marriages
35. Tripura Cricket Association will build a world-class cricket stadium, with a seating capacity of 25,000, in collaboration with BCCI at Narsinghgarh.
36. Delhi Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam announced a blanket ban on manual cleaning of sewers and warned that anyone found violating the rule will be booked under culpable homicide
2. To prevent adulteration and revenue leakage, the Assam government has decided that country liquor would be grain-based, undergo chemical tests and be branded and make it mandatory for the bottles to sport a hologram as in the case of IMFL.
3. Delhi Metro has opened a facility to recycle the waste produced during its demolition and construction work.
4. Utrecht, Netherlands has opened the world’s largest bicycle parking garage. The parking lot is spread in an area of over 17,100 sq m and three storeys.
5. Dick Gregory was a comedian who played a prominent role in the 1960s civil rights movement after becoming one of the first black comics to perform for white audiences. He died on 19th of August 2017
6. Para athlete Devendra and hockey player Sardar Singh will be honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
7. FDI jumps 37% to $10.4 billion during April-June 2017 .
According to the figures of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), India had received USD 7.59 billion FDI during April-June 2016-17.
The government had also constituted a committee headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and comprising oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan and road minister Nitin Gadkari to work out the modalities of the sale.
- Dinesh K Sarraf is the Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC).
9. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry on 21 August 2017 constituted a 40-member 'preview committee’ for the International Film Festival of India 2017, which is going to be held in Goa.
While filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has been chosen as the convenor of the committee.
- International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is scheduled to be held in Goa from 20 – 28 November 2017.
10. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) deepen bilateral cooperation in telecom and broadcasting regulation.
11. The seventeenth Meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) was held in New Delhi under the Chairmanship of the Union Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley.
12. The International Seabed Authority (ISA) (Its headquarters are in Kingston, Jamaica.) in its 23rd session recently held at Kingston, Jamaica has extended India’s exclusive rights to explore polymetallic nodules from seabed in Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB).
13. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Ministry of Health inked Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) to collaborate on vaccine research and development.
14. Karnataka Government has launched clouding seeding Project Varshadhari in Bengaluru under which an aircraft will spray chemicals to induce rainfall.
15. Indian Navy’s second CU (landing craft utility) Mark IV L52 ship was commissioned at Port Blair, capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
16. The Telangana government has recently launched an exclusive 24×7 helpline ‘181’ for women welfare.
17 The 8th World Renewable Energy Technology Congress & Expo-2017 has started in New Delhi from August 21, 2017. The theme of the 3-day annual conference is “Renewable Energy: What Works”,
18. The book “I am HIV positive, so what?” has been authored by journalist Jayanta Kalita and published by Bloomsbury. The book is based on the life of Manipur’s acclaimed bodybuilder Khundrakpam Pradip kumar Singh, who is known for his struggle against HIV-AIDS.
19. The Mrugavani National Park (MNP) is located at Chilkur in Hyderabad, Telangana .
20. The Parambikulam Tiger Reserve (PTR) is a protected area located in Chittur taluk in Palakkad district of Kerala.
21. Arun Jaitley, the Union Minister of Finance, Defense and Corporate Affairs, was the Chief Guest at the National Conference on ” Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Changing Paradigm”, which was held at Mumbai
22. Tata Power its joint venture company Adjaristsqali Georgia LLC (AGL) synchronized 186 MW Shuakhevi Hydro Project in Georgia
AGL is a Tata Power joint venture with Norway’s Clean Energy Invest AS Norway (Clean Energy) and IFC InfraVentures (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.
23. The 10th round of negotiations for the proposed free trade agreement between India and Canada started in New Delhi.
24. US Based Indian Doctor Discovers New Way To Prevent Sepsis In New Born Babies.
25. August 22nd is the 413thbirthday of Sri Guru Granth Sahib the eleventh guru of Sikhs
26. Forex Reserves to hit USD 400 Billion: Impact on Indian Economy.
27. British scientists create world’s smallest surgical robot named Versius.
28. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Commerce and Industries, on 21 August 2017 announced that the construction work of Asian Trilateral Highway will commence shortly to catalyze the Act East policy.
The Asian Trilateral Highway is a highway under construction that will connect Moreh, India with Mae Sot, Thailand via Myanmar.
29. A Festival of India is being organized in Cote d’Ivoire and concurrently accredited countries of Liberia and Guinea from 15 August, 2017 – 28 January, 2018.
30.The Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM), a professional body under the aegis of the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, is organizing a three-day workshop on Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) from 22nd – 24th August, 2017, in New Delhi.
31. HCL Infosystems has announced that it has signed a distributor agreement with Apple for iPhones and other products in India.
32. The first meeting of the team of experts & officials of Pancheshwar Development Authority has begun at Kathmandu.
33. NITI Aayog will launch the Mentor India Campaign, a strategic nation building initiative to engage leaders who can guide and mentor students at more than 900 Atal Tinkering Labs, established across the country as a part of the Atal Innovation Mission.
34. Gurugram civic body has announced plans to start online applications for registration and certification of marriages
35. Tripura Cricket Association will build a world-class cricket stadium, with a seating capacity of 25,000, in collaboration with BCCI at Narsinghgarh.
36. Delhi Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam announced a blanket ban on manual cleaning of sewers and warned that anyone found violating the rule will be booked under culpable homicide
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