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Index No. of Chapter Topic Name

Appointment (National, International) Awards (National, International)

Government Scheme/ campaign

Summit/ Conference

Partnership/ Agreement

Ranking Index

Loan

App/Website/Portal

Important MoU

GDP Forecasting

Current Affairs (National) In Short

Current Affairs (International)

Banking & Financial Committee Defence News Sports News Book and Author

Important Day

Science

Obituary

Chapter 1: Appointment (National, International) (National)

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Organization Person Deepak Das Controller General of Accounts (CGA) (Update 2 Aug) SN Ghormade New Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (Update 2 Aug)

Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation of Mini Ipe India (Update 4 Aug) Himanshu Kapania Non-Executive Chairman of Vodafone Idea (Update 5 Aug)

Stepped down as the Non-Executive Director and Kumar Mangalam Birla Non-Executive Chairman of the Vodafone Idea (Vi) Board (Update 5 Aug) Dhriti Banerjee Note: About ZSI 1st woman Director of Zoological Survey of India Founded: 1 July 1916 (ZSI) Headquarters: Kolkata (Update 6 Aug) John Abraham Eurosport India’s MotoGP™ Brand Ambassador (Update 9 Aug) Rajiv Gauba Cabinet Secretary of India [1-year extension] (Update 9 Aug) MS Dhoni First brand ambassador of HomeLane (Update 10 Aug)

Ambassador for RBI’s digital banking fraud public Neeraj Chopra awareness campaign (Update 10 Aug) Rekha Sharma Chairperson of the National Commission for Women [3-year extension] (NCW) (Update 11 Aug)

New chairman of National Pharmaceutical Pricing Kamlesh Kumar Pant Authority (NPPA) (Update 12 Aug)

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Rajkummar Rao First brand ambassador of Cashify (Update 12 Aug) Priyanka Chopra Jonas Chairperson of Jio MAMI Film Festival (Update 18 Aug) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu Brand ambassador of Amway India (Update 18 Aug) Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh Brand ambassador of Kerala adventure tourism (Update 20 Aug)

New President of Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) N K Singh Society (Update 21 Aug) Shanti Lal Jain MD and CEO of Indian Bank (Update 22 Aug) Nakul Chopra About Broadcast Audience Research Council Chief Executive Officer of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India Founded: 2010 Headquarters: Mumbai (Update 23 Aug) La Ganesan Governor of Manipur (Update 24 Aug) Sandeep Bakhshi MD & CEO of ICICI Bank (Update 25 Aug) Abhay Kumar Singh Joint secretary in Ministry of Cooperation (Update 25 Aug) Ajay Kumar Executive director (ED) of RBI (Update 26 Aug)

Brand ambassador for Samsung India’s Galaxy Z Alia Bhatt Series foldable smartphones (Update 27 Aug)

Brand ambassador for the Delhi government’s Sonu Sood ambitious ‘Desh Ke Mentor’ initiative (Update 27 Aug)

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Carol Furtado Note: About Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

Interim CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank • Headquarters: Bengaluru; • Founder: Samit Ghosh;

• Founded: 28 December 2004. (Update 27 Aug) Hitendra Dave

Note: About HSBC Bank India Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HSBC Bank (India) • Headquarters: Mumbai

• Founded: 1853 (Update 27 Aug)

(International) Organization / Country Person Nikol Pashinyan Note: About Armenia Re-appointed as Prime Minster of Armenia Capital: Yerevan Currency: Armenian dram. (Update 3 Aug) Min Aung Hlaing Note: About Myanmar Myanmar’s interim Prime Minister Capital: Naypyitaw Currency: Kyat

(Update 3 Aug) Global brand ambassador of Italian luxury Priyanka Chopra Jonas brand Bvlgari (Update 4 Aug)

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Mohammad Mokhber Note: About Iran First Vice President of Iran Capital: Tehran Currency: Iranian toman

(Update 11 Aug) Hakainde Hichilema Note: About Zambia Zambia's new president Capital: Lusaka Currency: Zambian kwacha

(Update 17 Aug) Ismail Sabri Yaakob

Note: About Malaysia Malaysia’s Prime Minister • Capital: Kuala Lumpur

• Currency: Malaysian ringgit

(Update 20 Aug) Mansukh Mandaviya Chairperson of Stop TB Partnership Board (Update 29 Aug)

Chapter 2: Awards (National, International) (National) Award Person/Organization Purpose/ Field The Maharashtra Bhushan Selection Committee chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has unanimously selected legendary playback singer Maharashtra Bhushan Asha Bhosle Asha Bhosle for the prestigious award. award 2021 Asha Bhosle is best known for her playback singing in Hindi cinema, although she has a wider repertoire. The founder of the Serum Institute of India National Lokmanya (SII) in Pune will be commended for his work Cyrus Poonawala Tilak Award 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic and how his company helped save many lives by creating the Covishield vaccine and then making provided

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the medicine to the citizens of the country at an affordable price. The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) Trust has selected two renowned economic scholars for the Prof. C.R. Rao Centenary Gold Medal C.R. Rao Centenary Jagdish Bhagwati and C award. Renowned economists Jagdish Bhagwati Gold Medal award Rangarajan and C Rangarajan have been conferred with the inaugural Prof CR Rao Centenary Gold Medal (CGM). Indian Wrestler Labhanshu Sharma won the Bharat Kesari Wrestling Dangal 2021 Bharat Kesari organised in Tamil Nadu. 20 years since the Labhanshu Sharma Wrestling Dangal 2021 formation of Uttarakhand, Labhanshu has broken the drought and won the title of Bharat Kesari for the state. Maharashtra government has announced for creation of a new award named “Rajiv Gandhi Award for Excellence in Information Rajiv Gandhi Award for Technology (IT)”. Excellence in According to Minister of State for Information and Information Technology, Satej Patil, award will be given to Technology (IT) institutions and companies for their outstanding performance in information technology sector on the occasion of birth anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Mohammad Azam from Karimnagar district in Telangana has been awarded the National Youth Award recently by the Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur in Delhi for displaying exemplary leadership qualities. National Youth Award Mohammad Azam 2021 He has conducted many service programmes like blood donations, plantation drives and awareness programmes about population control, earning him several awards. He received the ‘Indira Gandhi NSS Award’ from then President of India Pranab Mukherjee.

(International)

Award Person/Organization Purpose/ Field

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An influential US lawmaker from New York on 16th August reintroduced a resolution in the US House of Representatives to posthumously award the US Congressional Gold Mahatma Gandhi prestigious Congressional Gold Medal to Medal Mahatma Gandhi in recognition of his promotion of peace and nonviolence.

The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian award in the United States.

EASE Reforms Index Award 2021 Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman has announced the EASE 3.0 Awards. State Bank of India is the Overall winner of the EASE Reforms Index Award 2021 (EASE 3.0 Awards).

• Smart Lending for Aspiring India: Bank of Baroda

• Tech-enabled ease of Banking: SBI

• Institutionalised Prudent Banking: Bank of Baroda

• Governance and Outcome centric HR: Union Bank of India

• Deepening FI and Customer Protection: Union Bank of India

Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Awards 2021 The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) was founded in 2012. It is a State Government of Victoria funded annual festival based in Melbourne. It is presented by Film Victoria, and the provider is chosen through a tender process. The current tender provider is Mind Blowing Films, run by Mitu Bhowmick Lange.

Here is the full list of winners of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021:

• Best Feature Film – Soorarai Pottru

• Best Performance Male (Feature) – Suriya Sivakumar (Soorarai Pottru)

• Best Performance Female (Feature) – Vidya Balan (Sherni) & Honourable mention to Nimisha Sajayan (The Great Indian Kitchen)

• Best Director – Anurag Basu (Ludo) & Honorary Mention Prithvi Konanur (Pinki Elli?)

• Best Series – Mirzapur Season 2

• Best Actress in a Series – Samantha Akkineni (The Family Man 2)

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• Best Actor in a Series – Manoj Bajpayee (The Family Man 2)

• Equality in Cinema (Short Film) – Sheer Qorma

• Equality in Cinema Award (Feature Film) – The Great Indian Kitchen

• Best Indie Film – Fire in the Mountains

• Diversity in Cinema Award – Pankaj Tripathi

• Disruptor Award – Sanal Kumar Sasidharan

• Best Documentary Film – Shut Up Sona Gallantry Awards 2021: list of 144 gallantry awards announced President Shri Ram Nath Kovind, who is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, has approved 144 Gallantry awards to Armed Forces, police and paramilitary personnel on the eve of Independence Day 2021. These include one Ashok Chakra, one Kirti Chakra, 15 Shaurya Chakras, four Bar to Sena Medals (Gallantry), 116 Sena Medals (Gallantry), five Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry) and two Vayu Sena Medals (Gallantry). President approves 144 Gallantry Awards to Armed Forces, police & paramilitary personnel

• One Ashok Chakra

• One Kirti Chakra

• Fifteen Shaurya Chakras

• Four Bar to Sena Medals (Gallantry)

• One hundred sixteen Sena Medals (Gallantry)

• Five Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry)

• Two Vayu Sena Medals (Gallantry)

• Also approves 28 Mention-in-Despatches to Army personnel Ashok Chakra

• ASI Babu Ram, J&K Police (Posthumous) KIRTI CHAKRA

• Shri Altaf HUSSAIN BHAT, CONstable, j&K Police (Posthumous) Shaurya Chakra -Total 15

• Maj Arun Kumar Pandey, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Maj Ravi Kumar Chaudhary, Grenadiers, 55 Rr

• Capt Ashutosh Kumar, 18 Madras (Posthumous)

• Capt Vikas Khatri, Mech Inf, 16 Rr

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• Rfn Mukesh Kumar, Raj Rif, 9 Rr

• Sep Neeraj Ahlawat, Jat, 34 Rr

• Captain Sachin Reuben Sequeira – Navy

• Group Captain Perminder Antil (26686) Flying (Pilot) – Air Force

• Wing Commander Varun Singh (27987) Flying (Pilot) – Air Force

• Chitesh Kumar, Deputy Commandant, Crpf

• Manjinder Singh, Sub Inspector, Crpf

• Sunil Choudhary, Constable, Crpf

• Debasis Sethy, Commando, Odisha Police (Posthumous)

• Sudhir Kumar Tudu, Commando, Odisha Police (Posthumous)

• Shahbaz Ahmad, Special Police Officer, J&k Police (Posthumous) Bar To Sena Medal (Gallantry)- Total 5

• Lt Col Krishna Kant Bajpai, Sm**, 6 Rajput

• Maj Surendra Singh Lamba, Sm, Grenadiers, 29 Rr

• Maj Rahul Balamohan, Sm, Mahar, 1 Rr

• Maj Ankit Dahiya, Sm, Punjab, 22 Rr Sena Medal (Gallantry)- Total 116

• Lt Col Dhirendra Pratap Singh Rawat, 3/11 Gr

• Lt Col Bhagat Akshay Suresh, Kumaon, 50 Rr

• Lt Col Manpreet Singh, Sikh Li, 19 Rr

• Lt Col Chetan Kaushik, 37 (I) R&o Flt

• Maj Bharat Singh Jhala, Jat, 34 Rr

• Maj Yashovardhan Bhati, Grenadiers, 29 Rr

• Maj Ankit Thakur, Arty, 6 Assam Rif

• Maj Rakesh Ranjan, 3 Gr, 32 Rr

• Maj Rohit Sharma, Grenadiers, 29 Rr

• Maj Anil Kandpal, Engrs, 44 Rr

• Maj Ajit Pal Singh, 8 Sikh

• Maj Govind Joshi, 5 Gr, Hq Sff

• Maj Anil Kumar Rangi, Grenadiers, 29 Rr

• Maj Gaurav Anand Bourai, Engrs, 1 Rr

• Maj Vipranshu Pandey, Engrs, 42 Rr

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• Maj Gaurav Choudhary, 10 Para (Sf)

• Maj Tapan Kumar Tamang, Jak Rif, 52 Rr

• Maj Narender Kumar, Sigs, 24 R&o Flt

• Maj Abhishek Kumar, Arty, 32 Rr

• Maj Ashutosh Kumar, Engrs, 2 Rr

• Maj Randeep Singh, Jak Rif, 3 Rr

• Maj Mahendra Singh, Asc, 42 Rr

• Maj Rahul Dutta, Arty, 32 Assam Rif

• Maj Satish Kumar Gupta, Sigs, 44 Rr

• Maj Sahil Sharma, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Maj Mayank Vishnoi, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Maj Athul James, Engrs, 1 Rr

• Maj Rohit Kumar Upreti, Engrs, 34 Rr

• Maj Pathak Saket, Eme, 44 Rr

• Maj Ankesh Jarial, Engrs, 3 Rr

• Maj Naorem Chingthangkhomba Singh, Kumaon, 50 Rr

• Maj Kundan Kumar, Engrs, 42 Rr

• Maj Harjeet Singh, 5 Rajput

• Maj Manish Kumar Verma, Sigs, 19 Rr

• Maj Vibhore Joshi, Kumaon, 50 Rr

• Maj Abhishek Ghosh, Eme, 55 Rr

• Capt Aaditya Anand Tyagi, Assam, 42 Rr

• Capt Surya Prakash, Armd, 53 Rr

• Capt Neil Silas Lobo, Armd, 55 Rr

• Capt Sanjay Kumar Khanka, Jat, 34 Rr

• Capt Rohit Kumar Swami, 19 Garh Rif

• Capt Snehashish Paul, Sigs, 3 Rr

• Capt Manoj Kumar Kataria, 18 Jak Rif

• Sub Sukhdev Singh, 16 Grenadiers (Posthumous)

• Sub Amar Pal Singh, Jat, 34 Rr

• Sub Satwarg Singh, 15 Sikh Li

• Sub Balkar Singh, Sikh Li, 19 Rr

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• Nb Sub Anil Kumar, 38 Fd Regt

• Nb Sub Ravinder, 16 Grenadiers (Posthumous)

• Nb Sub Sukhwinder Singh, 8 Sikh

• Nb Sub Rajwinder Singh, 1 Sikh Li (Posthumous)

• Nb Sub Pushakar Raj, 18 Jak Rif

• Dfr Ranjit Kumar, Armd, 22 Rr

• Hav Gurjeet Singh, 9 Para (Sf)

• Hav Suresh Dewan, Jak Rif, 3 Rr

• Hav Rakesh Kumar Tiwary, Mech Inf, 50 Rr

• Hav Hardhan Chandra Roy, 59 Med Regt (Posthumous)

• Hav Cheekala Praveen Kumar, 18 Madras (Posthumous)

• Hav Mahaveer Singh, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Hav Kayam Singh, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Hav Gokaran Singh, 21 Kumaon (Posthumous)

• Hav Ajit Singh, 15 Sikh Li

• Hav Guljar Singh, Mahar, 1 Rr

• Hav Showkat Ahmad Sheikh, 9 Para (Sf)

• Nk Rakesh Kumar, Jak Rif, 3 Rr

• Nk Radhe Shyam, Mech Inf, 42 Rr

• Nk Govind Singh, Punjab, 22 Rr

• Nk Rajwinder Singh, Punjab, 53 Rr (Posthumous)

• Nk Sayar Khan, Grenadiers, 29 Rr

• Nk Shaitan Singh Meena, Grenadiers, 29 Rr

• Nk Jeevan Singh, Kumaon, 50 Rr

• Nk Shivaji, Kumaon, 50 Rr

• Nk Gurpreet Singh, Sikh Li, 19 Rr

• Nk Baljit Kumar, Mahar, 1 Rr

• L/nk Nongmaithem Dhanabir Singh, 21 Para (Sf)

• L/nk Himmat Singh, Kumaon, 50 Rr

• L/nk Brij Mohan, Mech Inf, 16 Rr

• L/nk Kuldeep Kumar, Rajput, 44 Rr

• L/nk Dileep Kumar Yadav, Kumaon, 50 Rr

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• L/nk Rajendra Singh Dosad, Kumaon, 50 Rr

• L/nk Surya Bahadur Soti, 3/3 Gr

• Sep Jahaneer Ahmad War, Sikh Li, 163 Inf Bn (Ta)

• Sep Mohit Bhadana, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Sep Samsad Ali, Mech Inf, 42 Rr

• Sep Gautam Tamang, Mech Inf, 9 Rr

• Sep Prashant Sharma, Mech Inf, 50 Rr (Posthumous)

• Sep Manish Kumar, Armd, 55 Rr

• Sep Kuldeep Singh, Armd, 55 Rr

• Sep Rohin Kumar, 14 Punjab (Posthumous)

• Sep Ryada Maheshwar, 18 Madras (Posthumous)

• Sep Ashish Kumar, Grenadiers, 55 Rr

• Sep Hawa Singh, Grenadiers, 55 Rr

• Sep Lachchhu Singh, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Sep Gaurav Kumar Tomar, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Sep Jitendra Singh Jodha, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Sep Anuj Mavi, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Sep Anuj Rana, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Sep Rajesh Singh Kasana, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Sep Deepak Kumar, Jat, 34 Rr

• Sep Elonthung N Patton, Assam, 42 Rr

• Sep Ramandeep Singh, Sikh Li, 19 Rr

• Sep Tanveer Ahmed, Jak Li, 55 Rr

• Rfn Rohit, Jak Rif, 3 Rr

• Rfn Naranjan, Jak Rif, 3 Rr

• Rfn Sajad Hussain Khan, Jak Li, 9 Rr

• Spr Bibin C, Engrs, 44 Rr

• Spr Sivakumar G, Engrs, 44 Rr

• Spr Burla Anjaneyulu, Engrs, 1 Rr

• Gdr Vikash Kumar Ram, Grenadiers, 29 Rr

• Gdr Ravi Kumar Singh, Grenadiers, 29 Rr (Posthumous)

• Gdr Prashant Singh, Grenadiers, 29 Rr (Posthumous)

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• Gnr Bhupender, 327 Med Regt (Posthumous)

• Gnr Subodh Ghosh, 59 Med Regt (Posthumous)

• Ptr Manmohan Singh, 4 Para (Sf)

• Swr Jilajeet Yadav, Armd, 53 Rr (Posthumous)

• Scout Tashi Namgyal Lepcha, 11 Gr, 1 Sikkim Scouts Nao Sena Medal (Gallantry) -Total 5

• Captain Prashant Handu – Navy

• Commander Sunil S Korti – Navy

• Commander Bipin Panikar – Navy

• Lieutenant Commander Raj Krishna Manu – Navy

• Prahlad, Mca (Fd) Ii – Navy Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry)

• Wing Commander Uttar Kumar – Air Force

• Squadron Leader Deepak Mohanan – Air Force Mention-in-despatches

Operation Rakshak

• Col Jasbir Singh Maan, 666 Army Avn Sqn (R&o)

• Lt Col Shiv Bahadur Singh, 112 Engr Regt

• Maj Swapnil Zende, Arty, 34 R&o Flt

• Maj Deepak Kumar Singh, Asc, 3 Rr

• Maj Partha Sarathi Batabyal, Arty, 29 Rr

• Maj Pradip Shukla, 11 Garh Rif

• Maj Aditya Bhadauria, Kumaon, 50 Rr

• Maj Himanshu Pradhan, 8 Sikh

• Capt Shivam Dagur, Sigs, 1 Rr

• Capt Sachin Malhotra, 33 R&o Flt

• Lt Harinder Jit Singh, 4 Grenadiers

• Hav Kuljinder Singh, Sikh Li, 2 Rr

• Nk Roshan Singh, 628 Sata Bty

• Nk Karuppa Samy K, 872 Lt Regt

• Nk Aneesh Thomas, 17 Madras (Posthumous)

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• Nk Mandle Pradip Sahebrao, 10 Mahar (Posthumous)

• Nk Kuldeep Kumar, Jak Li, 19 Rr

• Nk Sartaj Ahmad Wagay, Jak Li, 50 Rr

• Nk Rayees Ahmad Magray, Jak Li, 42 Rr

• Nk Vikram Singh, 11 Garh Rif

• L/nk Gaurav Singh, 8 Garh Rif

• L/nk Kamlesh Pant, Kumaon, 50 Rr

• Sep Ladhu Singh, Rajput, 44 Rr

• Sep Khuvendra Singh, Armd, 55 Rr Operation Snow Leopard

• L/dfr Vikram Singh, 90 Armd Regt (Posthumous) Operation Rhino

• Maj Soubam Kinobabu Singh, Jak Li, 15 Assam Rif

• Nb Sub Prem Kumar Tamang, 3/11 Gr

• L/nk Anal Jyoti Nath, Assam, 166 Inf Bn (Ta)

Chapter 3: Government Scheme/ campaign SCHEME PURPOSE

The Reserve Bank of India has announced to include street vendors of tier-1 and tier-2 centres, identified as part of the PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi Scheme) as PM SVANidhi Scheme beneficiaries under the Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) Scheme. (RBI) Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) Scheme was launched by RBI to encourage deployment of Points of Sale (PoS) infrastructure (both physical and digital modes) in tier-3 to tier-6 centres and northeastern states.

‘Mission Niryatak Bano’ The Rajasthan government’s industries department and the Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment (Rajasthan Government) Corporation (RIICO) have launched the ‘Mission Niryatak Bano’ campaign to promote aspiring exporters in the state. 'Gati Shakti' Infra Scheme Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 15th Aug announced an ambitious ₹100 lakh crore holistic infrastructure development

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(Central Government) programme ''Gatishakti'', which is aimed at boosting employment opportunities and productivity of industries. Gatishakti will be a national master plan which will lay the foundation of the overall infrastructure in the country and give an integrated and holistic path to the economy. 'Naadu-Nedu-2' Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on 16th August launched the second phase of the Nadu-Nedu initiative at ZP High School in (Andhra Pradesh) P Gannavaram mandal in East Godavari district, with a budget of Rs 4,500 crore to remodel 16,000 government schools across Andhra Pradesh. Earlier, he also started the distribution of Jagananna Vidya Kanuka kits to 4.73 crore students studying in government and aided schools for the academic year 2021-22. ‘Ubharte Sitaare Fund’ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched an ambitious ‘Ubharte Sitaare Fund’ on August 21, 2021. It will be launched for (Finance Ministry) export-oriented firms and startups.

Ubharte Sitaare fund has been set up jointly by Exim Bank and SIDBI. ‘Rajiv Gandhi Grameen provision of ₹200 crores benefiting 12 lakh landless families. Bhumihin Majdur Nyay Yojana’ The aim of the scheme is to support rural landless labourers with minimum wages so that they can access basic amenities. The (Chhattisgarh) beneficiaries are expected to receive their benefits before the end of this financial year, on March 31, 2022.

The families of the beneficiaries will each be ensured the amount of ₹6,000 annually. There is also in place a mechanism to resolve any discrepancy related to a beneficiary’s bank account, within 15 days. ‘SUJALAM’ Campaign Ministry of Jal Shakti has launched a ‘100 days campaign’ named SUJALAM to create more and more Open Defecation Free (Ministry of Jal Shakti) (ODF) Plus villages by undertaking wastewater management at the village level. SAMRIDH programme “Start-up Accelerators of MeitY for pRoduct Innovation, Development and growth (SAMRIDH)” programme. (Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology) The programme was launched by Shri Ashwini Vaishnav, Union Minister MeitY. The objective of the SAMRIDH programme is to create a conducive platform to Indian Software Product start-ups to enhance their products and securing investments for scaling their business. Mission Vatsalya Maharashtra government launched a special mission called “Mission Vatsalya” in order to help women who lost their

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(Maharashtra) husbands to COVID-19. Mission Vatsalya will provide several services and some 18 benefits under one roof to those women.

Under this mission, schemes like Sanjay Gandhi Niradhar Yojana and Gharkul Yojana will benefit those for women.

Chapter 4: Summit/ Conference Summit/Conference Location About Meenakashi Lekhi, the Minister of State for Culture of India participated in the G20 Culture Ministers’ Meeting on behalf of the Government of G20 Culture Ministers’ Hosted by Italy India. Meeting The two-day meeting was hosted by Italy on July 29 and 30 July 2021, during their ongoing Presidency of G20 in 2021. The Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju has virtually 8th SCO Meeting of Hosted by attended the eighth meeting of Ministers of Justice Ministers of Justice Tajikistan of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The three days’ meeting was hosted by Tajikistan. The Minister of State for External Affairs, Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh led India’s delegation to the 28th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Foreign Ministers Meeting. The Meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Brunei Darussalam. 28th ASEAN Regional Hosted by Forum Ministerial Meeting Brunei The ARF Ministers adopted a Joint Statement on Promoting the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda. India engages actively in ARF activities and initiatives on Maritime Security; Counter- Terrorism; Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs); Disaster Relief etc. The World Economic Forum’s annual Sustainable WEF’S Sustainable Development Impact Summit will take place on Geneva, September 20-23, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland. Development Impact Switzerland The United Nations General Assembly, the summit Summit 2021 convenes under the theme “Shaping an Equitable, Inclusive and Sustainable Recovery”.

Chapter 5: Partnership/ Agreement Partnership/ Agreement Aim

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Indian Bank signed an MoU with SINE, for funding Start-ups and MSMEs. IIT Bombay Indian Bank, entered into an MOU with Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT Bombay an initiative of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay for extending exclusive credit facility to Start-ups and MSMEs. ICICI Prudential Life tied up with NPCI to provide a Unified Payments Interface Autopay facility to its customers. The UPI Autopay e-mandate can be activated by customers by using their smartphones to make regular renewal premium payments in a paperless format. SBI General partnered with SahiPay to increase insurance penetration in the rural markets. SahiPay, the fastest growing tech-enabled financial inclusion platform of Manipal Business Solutions, provides digital and financial services to customers in semi-urban and rural India. Indian Navy has inked an MoU with the to initiate ‘Honour FIRST’, a premium banking solution for Infrastructure Development Finance serving personnel and veterans of the Indian Navy. Company (IDFC) FIRST Bank With zero – balance salary account feature, Honour FIRST account holders will receive up to 5 per cent interest per annum and a net banking and customised mobile app. Indian Bank signed an MoU with as one of the banking partners of the Paralympic Games Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) which commenced from August 24 in Tokyo, Japan. The President of the Paralympic Committee of India is Deepa Malik. Paytm & HDFC Bank tie-up to build comprehensive solutions across payment gateway, point of sale machines and credit products. This includes Paytm Postpaid which is a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) solution, Eazy EMI and Flexi Pay. The partnership will also deliver enhanced SmartHub solutions to the market. HDFC Bank SmartHub solutions is an integrated platform offering merchants a one-stop solution shop for all their business needs payments. Intel has collaborated with CBSE, announced the launch of the AI For All initiative with the Ministry of Education purpose of creating a basic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) for everyone in India. Based on Intel’s AI For Citizens program, AI For All is a 4- hour, self-paced learning program that demystifies AI in an inclusive manner.

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Haryana govt signed an MoU with to create a pathway for Indian MSMEs’ products to move Walmart Vriddhi and ‘Haqdarshak’ to the international markets. To promote MSMEs apart from large industries, many important concessions have been given to investors in ‘Haryana Enterprises and Employment Policy-2020’. BRICS signed a deal with ISRO Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) signed an agreement for cooperation in remote sensing satellite data sharing, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). IIM Ahmedabad has partnered with to launch a Centre for Digital Transformation (CDT). The Bank of America Centre aspires to become a knowledge hub for academia, policymaking, and the private sector by facilitating cutting- edge research on digital transformation and innovation.

Chapter 6: Ranking Index Index Index India’s Rank 1st Rank released by

List of 7 Indian Companies 1st: Walmart • Reliance Industries (155) • State Bank of India (205) Country wise rank: Fortune Global Fortune • Indian Oil (212) 1st China (143 Companies) 500 list for 2021 • Oil & Natural Gas (243) 2nd U.S. (122) • Rajesh Exports 3rd Japan (53) (348) • Tata Motors (357) • Bharat Petroleum (394) Rank 1: Singapore

Rank 2: Slovenia “Global Youth Commonwealth Development Secretariat in Rank 122nd Index 2020” London Rank 3: Norway

Rank 4: Malta

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Rank 5: Denmark

The list of India’s Rank 1: Doha Hamad airports in World’s Top 100 Airports 2021 Rank 2: Tokyo Haneda World’s 100 best Delhi at number 45 Rank 3: Singapore Changi airports list Skytrax 2021 Hyderabad at 64 Rank 4: Seoul Incheon Mumbai at 65 Rank 5: Tokyo Narita

Bengaluru at 71 Most Polluted city in the world Top 4 Polluted country in the Rank 1: Hotan, Xinjiang world ‘Most polluted province, China cities’ in the British company Rank 2: Ghaziabad, India Rank 1: Bangladesh world in 2020 HouseFresh report Cleanest city in the Rank 2: Pakistan world Rank 3: India Rank 1: Judbury, Australia

Top 6 Companies:

1. Apple (USD 2,443 billion)

2. Microsoft

3. Amazon

Reliance Industries (USD 4. Alphabet Hurun Global 188 billion) ranked at 57 500 Most 5. Facebook Valuable Hurun 6. Tencent Companies list India is ranked 9th with 2021 12 companies Top countries:

US - 243 companies China - 4 Japan - 30

UK - 24

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Rank 1: China

Rank 2: India Cushman Global Cushman & Rank 2: India Manufacturing Wakefield Rank 3: US Risk Index 2021 Followed by Canada, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Lithuania, Thailand, Malaysia and Poland. World’s top 10 Safest cities

1. Copenhagen

2. Toronto

3. Singapore

4. Sydney Economist Safe Cities Index New Delhi at 48th 5. Tokyo Intelligence Unit 2021 (EIU) Mumbai at 50th 6. Amsterdam 7. Wellington

8. Hong Kong

9. Melbourne

10. Stockholm Bottom of the index: Yangon (Myanmar)

Chapter 7: Loan Organization/Bank Loan Amount Purpose

The Government of India, the Central Water Commission, government representatives from 10 participating states and the World Bank signed a World Bank $250 million $250 million project for long-term dam safety program and improving the safety and performance of existing dams across various states of India. ADB has approved a USD 300 million loans as additional financing for the ongoing Maharashtra Asian Development Bank USD 300 million Rural Connectivity Improvement Project for upgrading rural roads and connecting remote areas with markets.

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India has signed a USD 500 million loans agreement with the ADB in order to expand metro rail network in Bengaluru. Asian Development Bank USD 500 million Metro Rail Network in Bengaluru will be expanded with the construction of two new metro lines of 56 kilometers.

Chapter 8: App/Website/Portal App/ Company / Department Purpose Website/Portal PM Modi launched e-RUPI on August 2. The electronic voucher-based digital payment system has been developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on its UPI platform. National Payments e-RUPI E-Rupee: E-Rupee is a cashless and contactless Corporation of India (NPCI) means of digital payment. It is a QR code or SMS string-based e-voucher, which is delivered to the mobile of the beneficiaries. With the help of e-RUPI payment service, a user will be able to redeem the voucher without a card, digital payments app, or internet banking access. to safeguard the interest of its customers. The new version of these platforms will protect ‘SIM Binding’ feature customers from various digital frauds. in YONO and YONO SBI With the SIM Binding feature YONO and YONO Lite Lite will work only on those devices which have SIM of mobile numbers registered with the bank. an app-based digital-lending platform to facilitate loans to entrepreneurs from low- income groups. “Digital Prayaas” SIDBI lending platform The objective is to sanction a loan by the end of the day. The platform has engaged in the promotion, financing and development of MSMEs.

Platform for a web-based end-to-end workflow automation system, to strengthen compliance by Regulated Entities for Reserve Bank of India supervised entities (SEs). This is aimed Integrated at helping supervised entities to strengthen

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Supervision and their internal defences and resilience and Monitoring (PRISM) bringing focus on root cause analysis (RCA). It is a Do It Yourself (DIY) Digital ‘Neo Collections’ Repayment Platform for missed loan Digital Repayment Kotak Mahindra Bank repayments. Kotak Mahindra Bank has platform launched the Neo Collections platform in tie-up with Creditas Solutions. mobile application of LIC’s digital paperless solution, “ANANDA” for LIC agents. ANANDA ANANDA mobile app LIC stands for Atma Nirbhar Agents New Business Digital Application. This mobile app project was sponsored by Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Earthquake Early Authority (USDMA). Warning (EEW) IIT Roorkee Earthquake early warning system will alert Mobile App for people regarding the onset of calamity on Uttarakhand mobile application. It can detect onset of the Earthquake and issue warnings before significant tremors take place in state. Dr. Virendra Kumar, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment has launched ‘PM-DAKSH’ Portal and ‘PM- DAKSH’ Mobile App. ‘PM-DAKSH’ Portal Ministry for Social Justice and ‘PM-DAKSH’ This portal and app has been developed by the and Empowerment Mobile App Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, in collaboration with NeGD, to make skill development schemes accessible to the target groups of Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes and Safai Karamcharis. for improving the safety and security of the UN UNITE Aware Tech India in collaboration with peacekeepers. The launch of the UNITE AWARE platform came as India assumed the Platform UN Presidency of the 15-nation UN Security Council for the month of August. next phase of the Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) titled “WEP Nxt” to foster women entrepreneurship in India. “WEP Nxt” Women Entrepreneurship NITI Aayog and Cisco WEP, which was launched by NITI Aayog in Platform 2017, is a first-of-its-kind, unified portal that brings together women from diverse backgrounds and offers them access to a multitude of resources, support, and learning.

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Chapter 9: Important MoU Between MoU Which About Countries The Government of India is funding the implementation of GMCP through a USD 400 million Line of Credit (LoC) and USD 100 million grant. The USD 400 million LoC will be provided by the Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank). MoU on mega Greater India & Maldives Male Connectivity Project The Greater Male Connectivity Project (GMCP) comprise of 6.74 km long bridge and causeway link that will connect the national capital Male with three neighbouring islands namely: Villingili, Gulhifahu and Thilafushi. The project will be developed by Indian construction and engineering firm, AFCONS, based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. MoU on disaster Bangladesh has decided to accept the invitation to management, resilience India & join the Coalition for Disaster Resilient and mitigation on a Bangladesh Infrastructure (CDRI). priority basis

Chapter 10: GDP Forecasting

Organization 2020-21 FY 22 (2021-22)

Fitch (-)9.4% (Update-8 Dec) 9.5% (Update 7 May)

HSBC Bank 11.2%

RBI forecasted (-)7.5%(Update-4 Dec) 9.5% (Update 5 june)

Moody (-)7%(Update-25feb) 9.6% (2021), 7%(2022)

(Update 23 June)

Asian Development Bank (ADB) (-)8%(Update-15 Dec) 10% (Update 20 July) World Bank (-)9.6%(Update-6 Oct) 8.3% (Update -13 June) World Economic Outlook (-)8% (Update-27th Jan 2021) 9.5%(Update -28 July 2021) released by International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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FICCI (-)8% (Update 27Jan) Organisation for Economic Co- (-)9.9% (Update-2dec) 9.9% (Update 1 June 2021) operation and Development (OECD) DBS Bank (-)6% (Update 22 July) Goldman Sachs (-)10.3% (Update 18 Nov) 11.1% (Update 4th May 2021) CRISIL (-)7.7%(Update 15 Dec) 9.5% (Update 7th June) UN (United Nation) (-)9.6%(Update 26th Jan 7.5%(Update 12 May) 2021) Confederation of Indian Industry between (-)0.9 per cent and 9.5% (update 18 June) (CII) 1.5 per cent India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) (-)7.6% 9.4% (Update 19 Aug) Economy Survey (-)7.7 11% (Update 1 feb) National Council of Applied (-)7.3%(Update-26 Dec) Economic Research (NCAER) Standard & Poor’s (S&P) (-)7.7% Update-14 Dec) 9.5% (Update 25 June) ICRA (-)7% (Update-26 feb) 8.5%(Update 15 June) State Bank of India (SBI) (-)7(Update-11 Feb) 7.9%(Update 1 June,2021) Morgan Stanley 10.5% (Update 1 sept2021) CARE Ratings (-)8% (Update-14 sept) 8.8 to 9%%(Update 27 July 2021) Normura -6.7% (Update-14th Jan 2021) 10.8% (Update 11 May 2021) Oxford Economics 10.2% Brickwork Ratings 11% (Update 12 Jan) UBS -7.5% (Update-14 Jan 2021) 10% (Update 19th April 2021) Barclays 7.7% (Update 26May 2021)

Chapter 11: Current Affairs (National) In Short Bhubaneswar became first Indian city Chhattisgarh became 1st state to to vaccinate 100% against COVID-19 recognise Forest Resource Rights in Bhubaneswar has become the first Urban Region Indian city to achieve 100 per cent Chhattisgarh became the first state to COVID-19 vaccination. The recognise Community Forest Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation Resource Rights in an urban area, with (BMC) had launched a massive the state government recognising the vaccination drive against Covid-19. rights of residents of Dhamtari district India nuclear power capacity is over 4,127 hectares of forests. Under expected to reach 22,480 MW by 2031 Forest Rights Act, 2006, Community India’s nuclear power capacity is Forest Resource Right gives gram sabhas expected to reach 22,480 Mega Watts the right to protect, regenerate or by 2031 from the current 6,780 conserve or manage any forest resources MegaWatts. Ten (10) nuclear power used by the entire community, or village. reactors with 8000 MW capacity Kakori Train Conspiracy renamed to (including 500 MW PFBR being Kakori Train Action implemented by Bharatiya Nabhikiya The Uttar Pradesh government has Vidyut Nigam Limited {BHAVINI}) are renamed a landmark freedom under construction. movement event as Kakori Train

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Action while paying tributes to the PM Modi has set 2047 target for revolutionaries who were hanged for becoming 'energy independent' robbing a train at Kakori to buy weapons Prime Minister Narendra Modi on in 1925. The new name was used in 15th August set a target of becoming official communications to refer to the 'energy independent' by 2047 through event, usually described as the ‘Kakori a mix of electric mobility, gas-based train robbery’ or the ‘Kakori train economy, doping ethanol in petrol and conspiracy’. making the country a hub for hydrogen G Manoj Sinha inaugurated “Bungus production. Awaam Mela” in J&K Kaziranga became India’s first Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant national park with satellite phones Governor, Manoj Sinha has Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in inaugurated the Bungus Awaam Mela Assam has become the first national with grand arrangements for village park in India to be equipped with games, exhilarating local performances, satellite phones. Assam Chief Secretary and other activities to celebrate the Jishnu Barua handed over 10 satellite 75th year of Independence at Bungus phones to the forest personnel of the valley in Kupwara district. Kaziranga National Park. BSNL will be India Celebrated 75th Independence the service provider of these phones. Day 75 new Vande Bharat trains will As the country celebrates 'Azadi ka connect all parts of India Amrit Mahotsav' marking the 75th Prime Minister Narendra Modi Independence Day, Prime Minister addressed the nation on the occasion of Narendra Modi today hoisted the 75th Independence Day and national flag and delivered the announced that 75 ‘Vande Bharat’ customary address to the nation from trains would connect different parts of the ramparts of the Red Fort in New the country in 75 weeks of the Delhi. celebration of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. Four more Indian wetlands added to The 75 Vande Bharat trains will connect Ramsar list every corner of the country, in 75 weeks Four more wetlands from India have of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, which been added to the Ramsar list and have is being celebrated from March 12, been recognized as wetlands of global 2021, upto August 15, 2023. importance in accordance with the 'Nation First, Always First,' theme of Ramsar Convention. With the latest 75th Independence Day addition, the number of Ramsar sites in The theme of the 75th Independence India have reached to 46. Day this year is 'Nation First, Always Four sites that have been included First' to honour the sacrifices made by are: our freedom fighters for the nation. Thol from Gujarat, Rice under all scheme will be fortified Wadhwana from Gujarat, by 2024 Sultanpur from Haryana and While addressing the nation on 75th Bhindawas from Haryana. Independence Day, Prime Minister Bharat Petroleum launched door-to- Narendra Modi announced to provide door delivery of ‘High-Speed Diesel’ fortified rice to poor under various Bharat Petroleum Corporation schemes. The government will provide Limited (BPCL) has launched door-to- fortified rice with nutrition them. door delivery of 'High Speed Diesel' to Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel meet the growing demand. announced 4 new districts

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Hisar Airport as Maharaja Agrasen Baghel has announced the creation of International Airport. four new districts and 18 new tehsils The Hisar Airport is a domestic airport in the state. The four new districts are: and the first DGCA licensed Public Mohla Manpur, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh, Aerodrome of the State. Shakti, Manendragarh. Now, the total Assam celebrated Wanchuwa Festival number of administrative districts in 2021 the state have reached 32. This festival is celebrated by Tiwa Six lakh villages will get internet tribesmen to mark their good connectivity by 2024 harvest.Tiwa tribesmen perform their According to Union Minister of State traditional dnac eas they take part in for Skill Development and Wanchuwa Festival in Assam. It comes Entrepreneurship, Rajeev with songs, dances, a bunch of rituals and Chandrashekhar, six lakh villages in people clad in their native attires. India will get internet connectivity NTPC launched India’s largest floating by 2024 under the Bharat Net solar project in Simhadri programme. According to the minister, State-run electricity producer NTPC about 2.8 lakh villages have got internet Limited began commercial operations at facility as of now. India’s largest floating solar PV India’s highest herbal park project at its Simhadri thermal station inaugurated in Uttarakhand in Visakhapatnam, Andhra India’s highest altitude herbal park Pradesh on 21 Aug. situated at a height of 11,000 feet was The project was declared open after inaugurated on 21st August at Mana commissioning a 15 MW floating solar village close to the Indo-China border project, taking the total installed in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, capacity at the facility to 25 MW. The officials said. Mana is the last Indian floating solar project is the to be set up village in Chamoli bordering China and is under the Flexibilisation Scheme, adjacent to the famous Himalayan notified by the Government of India in temple of Badrinath. 2018. Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated India’s Evacuation Mission from world’s second-largest refurbished Afghanistan named as ‘Operation Devi gene bank Shakti’ The Union Minister for Agriculture The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh has given a name to India’s complex Tomar has inaugurated the world’s mission of evacuating its citizens from second-largest National Gene Bank at war-torn Afghanistan, as ‘Operation the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Devi Shakti’. Resources (NBPGR), Pusa, New Delhi. Govt introduced “Bharat series (BH- The refurbished state-of-the-art series)” registration National Gene Bank provides the Ministry of Road Transport & facility for germplasm, to secure the Highways has introduced a new heritage of seeds for years in minus 20 registration mark for new vehicles i.e. degrees Celsius temperature. “Bharat series (BH-series)”. The Hisar Airport has been renamed as vehicles bearing the BH-series mark will Maharaja Agrasen International not have to require the assignment of a Airport new registration mark when the owner Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal of the vehicle shifts from one State to Khattar has announced to rename the another.

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This facility is available on a voluntary Framework Agreement after basis to Defense personnel, employees of amendments to it entered into force Central Government/ State on 8th January 2021, opening its Government/ Central/ State Public Membership to all Member States of the Sector Undertakings and private sector United Nations. companies/organizations, which have Afghanistan govt transferred power their offices in four or more States/Union to Taliban; Ghani stepped down territories. The Afghanistan government Format of Bharat series (BH-series) transferred the power to the Taliban. Registration Mark: Diplomatic sources said Ali Ahmad Jilali, YY – Year of first registration former Afghan interior minister, is likely BH- Code for Bharat Series to be named to head an interim ####- 0000 to 9999 (randomized) administration in Kabul. Afghan XX- Alphabets (AA to ZZ) President Ashraf Ghani resigned. Taliban fighters entered Kabul on 15th Aug and Chapter 12: Current Affairs sought the unconditional surrender of (International) the central government. India took over UNSC presidency for Chapter 13: Banking & August 2021 India took over from France to Financial assume the presidency of the United GST collection recovered to a 3-month Nations Security Council (UNSC) for high of Rs 1.16 lac Crores in July the month of August 2021. The Goods and services tax (GST) This is the first presidency for India collection recovered to a three-month during its 2021-22 tenure as a non- high in July, exceeding the Rs 1.1 permanent member of the UNSC. Prime trillion mark, as economic activity Minister Narendra Modi will be the first resumed with most states easing Covid- Indian PM to preside over a meeting of 19 restrictions, official data showed on 1 the UNSC. August. The GST mop-up in July stood at Narendra Modi: 1st Indian PM to chair Rs 1,16,393 crore, as against Rs 92,849 UNSC debate crore in June, according to the data Prime Minister Narendra Modi will released by the finance ministry. virtually preside over an open debate at HDFC Bank launched ‘Dukandar United Nations Security Council Overdraft Scheme’ (UNSC) on August 9, 2021. HDFC Bank announced the launch of Shehroze Kashif became world’s an overdraft facility for small youngest mountaineer to scale K2 retailers in partnership with CSC SPV. A 19-year old Pakistani climber Known as ‘Dukandar Overdraft Shehroze Kashif became the youngest Scheme’. The scheme by HDFC Bank is person in the world to reach the aimed at helping shopkeepers and summit of K2, the second-highest peak merchants ease their cash crunch. in the world. According to the bank, retailers Shehroze Kashif from Lahore achieved operating for a minimum of three years the feat of scaling the 8,611-metre high are eligible for the scheme by providing peak with the aid of bottled oxygen. six months bank statement from any Germany became 5th country to sign bank. ISA Framework Agreement HDFC Bank will approve an overdraft Germany became the 5th country to limit from a minimum of Rs 50,000 to a sign the International Solar Alliance

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RBI imposed Rs 1 crore penalty on August 17, 2021. The Financial Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A. Inclusion Index will be used to capture Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 13th the extent of financial inclusion in India. Aug said it has imposed a penalty of Rs This index was part of the 1 crore on Cooperatieve Rabobank announcements made in first bi-monthly U.A. for deficiencies in regulatory monetary policy of April 2021. compliances. The penalty has been About: Financial Inclusion Index has imposed for contravention of certain been conceptualised as a comprehensive provisions of the Banking Regulation index comprising the details of banking, Act, 1949 and directions related to insurance, investments, postal and 'transfer to reserve funds'. pension sector in consultation with RBI canceled licence of Karnala government and sectoral regulators. Nagari Sahakari Bank, Panvel in Infosys became 4th Indian company Maharashtra to touch $100 billion m-cap The Reserve Bank has cancelled the Infosys crossed the $100 billion mark licence of Karnala Nagari Sahakari in terms of market capitalisation on Bank, Panvel in Maharashtra for not 24th Aug, becoming the fourth Indian having adequate capital and being company. Reliance Industries (m-cap of unable to pay its present depositors in $140 billion), Tata Consultancy Services full. The licence of the bank is cancelled (m-cap $115 billion) and HDFC Bank (m- as it does not have adequate capital and cap $100.1 billion) are the other Indian earning prospects, RBI said, adding that firms in the club with Infosys. the lender has failed to comply with the RBI extended card payment requirements of various sections of the tokenisation facility to laptops, Banking Regulation Act, 1949. wearable devices SBI Life launched new-age term In 2019, RBI had permitted authorized insurance policy “SBI Life eShield card payment networks to offer card Next” tokenisation services to any token SBI Life Insurance announced the requestor (i.e., third-party app launch of a unique new age protection provider) through mobile phones and solution called ‘SBI Life eShield Next’, tablets. which ‘levels up’ the protection coverage Now RBI has extended the scope of as the insured achieves life’s major tokenization to include consumer milestones. devices – laptops, desktops, wearables RBI will introduce ‘Regulatory GAAR’ (wristwatches, bands, etc.), Internet for round-tripping of Things (IoT) devices, etc. The The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has permission for tokenization extends to come up with a draft rule with various channels [e.g., Near Field modifications in the existing Communication (NFC) / Magnetic Secure regulation related to foreign Transmission (MST) based contactless investment to discourage round- transactions, in-app payments, QR code- tripping. The central bank is looking to based payments, etc.] or token storage tweak the existing regulations and has mechanisms (cloud, secure element, come up with draft rules around round- trusted execution environment, etc. tripping. RBI enhanced limit under Indo-Nepal RBI introduced Financial Inclusion Remittance Facility to Rs 2 lakh Index The Reserve Bank of India has The Reserve Bank of India introduced increased the limit of fund transfer the financial inclusion index on under the Indo-Nepal Remittance

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Facility Scheme from Rs 50,000 per Flipkart-owned digital payments transaction to Rs 2 lakh per platform PhonePe has received an transaction. Earlier there was a ceiling insurance broking licence from the limit of 12 transactions in a year. This Insurance Regulatory and limit has also been removed. However, Development Authority of India for cash-based transfers under the Indo- (IRDAI). This means that with the new Nepal Remittance Facility, the per ‘direct broking’ licence, PhonePe can transaction limit of Rs 50,000 will still be now distribute insurance products from present with a maximum number of all insurance companies in India, on its transfers in a year allowed at 12. platform. PhonePe receives direct broking licence from IRDAI

Chapter 14: Committee Committee Headed by Purpose RBI appointed panel under the chairmanship of N. S. Vishwanathan suggests 4-tier structure for Urban Co-operative Banks; minimum CRAR (Capital to Risk- Weighted Assets Ratio) for them could vary from 9 per cent to 15 per cent.

A Reserve Bank-appointed committee has suggested a Committee on suggesting four-tier structure for the urban cooperative banks 4-tier structure for N. S. Vishwanathan (UCBs) depending upon the deposits and prescribed Urban Co-operative different capital adequacy and regulatory norms for Banks them based on their sizes.

The RBI committee said that UCBs can be split into four categories — Tier-1 with deposits up to Rs 100 crore; Tier-2 with deposits between Rs 100-Rs 1,000 crore, Tier-3 with deposits between Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 10,000 and Tier-4 with deposits of over Rs 10,000 crore.

Chapter 15: Defence News Operation Blue Freedom: Team Of India’s first indigenous aircraft Special Forces Veterans carrier, Vikrant set sail to begin its The government of India has accorded first sea trial. INS Vikrant was designed sanctions to Team CLAW to lead a by the Indian Navy’s Directorate of team of people with disabilities to Naval Design (DND) and built at scale Siachen Glacier. It will be a new Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL). INS world record for the largest team of Vikrant has 75 per cent indigenous people with disabilities. This expedition content and will be commissioned into is being undertaken as part of the Eastern Naval Command. It will be ‘Operation Blue Freedom’. commissioned into the Indian Navy by Indigenously designed INS Vikrant August 2022. had left port for maiden sea trials ITBP inducted its first women officers in combat

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For the first time, India-China LAC India finalised deal with Russia to guarding the Indo-Tibetan Border procure AK-103 rifles Police (ITBP) force has commissioned India has finalised a deal with Russia its first two women officers in combat. to buy a sizeable number of AK-103 The two women officers, Prakriti and series of assault rifles for the Indian Diksha will be posted as company Army under the provisions of emergency commanders in ITBP battalions. procurement. Indian Army contingent will NSG commandos undertook counter- participate in International Army terrorist drills ‘Gandiv’ across Games 2021 in Russia country The 7th edition of the International Multiple cities in Uttar Pradesh, Army Games, 2021, will be held from Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and the 22 August to 04 September 2021 in National Capital Region are hosting Russia. The competition will be hosted synchronised commando drills as in eleven countries in the 2021 Games. part of a national mock exercise being Over 280 teams from 42 countries will carried out by the counter-terrorist force compete in the game to show their National Security Guard (NSG) to check combat skills, professionalism and its response time and reaction to hostage determination to win. and hijack-like situations. The third The International Army Games also edition of the week-long annual exercise referred to as ‘War Olympics’, is an called ‘Gandiv’ was launched at these international military sports event, locations by the NSG. which aims to strengthen military-to- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh military cooperation between countries Commissioned Indigenously built and trust between the participating ICGS ‘Vigraha’ nations. Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh has DRDO Successfully Test-Fired Nirbhay dedicated to the nation, the indigenously Missile built Coast Guard Ship ‘Vigraha’ in The Defence Research and Chennai, Tamil Nadu. According to the Development Organisation (DRDO) defence ministry, the 98-meter vessel has successfully test-fired medium- will be based in Andhra Pradesh’s range subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay Visakhapatnam (Vizag) and will be from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at operated by a company of 11 officers and Chandipur, off Odisha coast. Nirbhay is 110 sailors. India’s first Indigenous Technology The ship has been designed and built Cruise Missile (ITCM). indigenously by Larsen & Toubro Ship Joint Guidance for the Australia – Building Limited. India Navy to Navy Relationship Indian, Vietnam navies has Indian Navy and Royal Australian undertaken bilateral maritime Navy signed a ‘Joint Guidance for the exercise in South China Sea Australia- India Navy to Navy In continuation with the ongoing Relationship’ document on August 18, deployment of Indian Navy ships in the 2021. South China Sea, INS Ranvijay and INS Joint Guidance will serve as a guideline Kora undertook bilateral maritime document in order to showcase the exercise with Vietnam People’s Navy determination of both the Navies in (VPN) frigate VPNS Ly Thai To (HQ- order to work together bilaterally or 012) on 18 Aug 21. multilaterally. A Joint Exercise Between Indian Navy and Royal Bahrain Naval Force

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The Maritime Partnership Exercise India and Germany conducted joint between the Indian Navy and Royal maritime exercise in Gulf of Aden Bahrain Naval Force (RBNF) is set to The Indian Navy and the German Navy begin in the Persian Gulf on 18th carried out a joint exercise in the Gulf of August. Aden near Yemen, in the Indian Ocean INS Kochi, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral leg of Indo-Pacific Deployment 2021. The Ajay Kochhar, Flag Officer Commanding Indian Navy was represented by frigate Western Fleet (FOCWF) has reached “Trikand” while the German Navy was Manama, Bahrain as part of its Persian represented by frigate “Bayern”. Gulf deployment.

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held on 30 and 31 July 2021, in the Indian Ocean region. 36th edition of India and The basic aim of CORPAT is to keep the Indian Ocean CORPAT Indonesia Region safe and secure for commercial shipping, international trade and conduct of legitimate maritime activities.

The Indian Navy and UAE Navy conducted the bilateral ‘Zayed Talwar 2021’ India and UAE naval exercise ‘Zayed Talwar 2021’ on August 07, 2021, off the coast of Abu Dhabi.

first-ever naval exercise between these two countries AL-Mohed AL-Hindi India and Saudi Indian Navy's guided-missile destroyer INS Kochi reached 2021 Arabia Saudi Arabia on 10th August for the "Al-Mohed Al-Hindi 2021" exercise.

conducted the annual Malabar naval exercises, from August 21, off the coast of Guam, in the Indo-Pacific. India, US, Japan Malabar 2021 and Australia The objective of the Malabar series of Exercises is to increase the interoperability of naval powers of the four QUAD countries.

The Indian Navy participated in the U.S. Navy-led Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT) multinational military exercise in Singapore, to SEACAT exercise Organized by US demonstrate its maritime manoeuvres. The 20th edition of 2021 the exercise was organised by the U.S. Navy, in Hybrid format, and included 20 other partner nations from the Indo-Pacific region, including India.

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The Indian Navy’s Talwar-class frigate, INS Tabar, took part in exercises with the British Royal Navy. Konkan 2021 India and UK It was docked into Portsmouth harbour and started the annual bilateral exercise Konkan 2021 on 12 August.

The 5th edition of Indo- Kazakhstan Joint Training India and Exercise, “KAZIND-21” will be held from August 30 to “KAZIND-21” Kazakhstan September 11, 2021, at Training Node, Aisha Bibi, Kazakhstan.

Chapter 16: Sports News PV Sindhu bagged bronze, beaten He 2017 and avenged a defeat to Mexico in Bingjiao of China 2019 final. India’s star shuttler PV Sindhu beat Lovlina Borgohain won boxing bronze China’s eighth seed He Bingjiao in at Tokyo Olympics women’s singles bronze medal match Lovlina Borgohain won India’s third on Sunday in Tokyo. She wins 21-13, medal – a bronze – at the Tokyo 21-15. Sindhu becomes the first Indian Olympics after losing to Turkish world female Olympian to win two medals. In champion Busenaz Surmeneli in their 2016 Rio Games, she had won the silver 69kg semifinal bout on 4th August. medal. She becomes only the second Indian Sri Lanka’s Isuru Udana announced woman pugilist and third overall, after retirement Vijender Singh (bronze in 2008) and Sri Lanka National Player Isuru Udana Mary Kom (bronze in 2012) to climb the announced his retirement from podium. national duties, with immediate effect. India won bronze medal in Tokyo, Udana has represented Sri Lanka in 21 first Olympic medal in hockey since ODIs and 35 T20I matches and picked 18 1980 and 27 respectively. India men's hockey team defeated Esteban Ocon won Hungarian GP 2021 Germany to won the bronze medal at Esteban Ocon, Alpine-Renault/ the Tokyo Olympics on 5th August. France, has won the Hungarian Grand This is India's first Olympic medal in Prix 2021, at the Hungaroring in hockey since they won the gold medal in Mogyoród, Hungary. This is the maiden the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. F1 race win for Esteban Ocon. Sebastian Indian men's hockey team at Vettel (Aston Martin- Olympics: Mercedes/Germany) came second. Gold: 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great 1956, 1964, 1980 Britain) finished third. Silver: 1960 USA beat Mexico 1-0 to won Bronze: 1968, 1972, 2020 CONCACAF Gold Cup Ravi Kumar Dahiya won silver in United States clinched an exhilarating Men's wrestling 1-0 extra-time win over defending Ravi Kumar Dahiya won silver in the champion Mexico to claim a seventh Men's 57Kg Freestyle category. It was CONCACAF Gold Cup. This was the a tough match against defending world American team’s first Gold Cup title since champion Zavur Uguev as he won 7-4. Ravi became the second Indian wrestler,

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Tokyo Olympic 2020: All you need to know about The 32nd edition of the Olympics (Tokyo Olympics 2020) has come to a close after 15 days of nonstop action. Indian players made history in the Tokyo Olympics. Tokyo Olympics 2020 has been the most successful Olympic Games in the history of India, with seven medals — one gold, two silvers, and four bronze. So, this Tokyo Olympic will be an important part of the upcoming competitive exams like banking, insurance, railways, etc. Here we are providing all the details and highlights of the recently completed Tokyo Olympics 2020 in a single article. This “Tokyo Olympics 2020: All you need to know about” article is a must read because it will boost your marks in the upcoming examination, as many questions will definitely be asked in the exams. Highlights

• 32nd Summer Olympic Games

• Opening-23 July 2021

• Closing-8 August 2021

• Host city-Tokyo, Japan

• Motto-United by Emotion

• Nations-205 (+ EOR team)

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• Olympic 2024 (Next): Peris, France

• of Athletes-11,090

• of sports are there in Olympics– 33

• Opened by-Emperor Naruhito

• Cauldron-Naomi Osaka

• Stadium- Olympic Stadium

• Flag Bearer Opening Ceremony: Manpreet Singh & Mary Kom

• Flag Bearer Closing Ceremony: Bajrang Punia

• Most Olympic medals by country 2021– 113 (39 Gold, 41 Silver, 33 Bronze)

• Number of players participating in Olympics 2020 from India- 127 (18 sporting events)

• Total medals won by India in Olympics 2020– 7 (1 Gold, 2 Silver, 4 Bronze)

• First Gold Medalist of Tokyo 2020: Yang Qian (10 M AIR RIFLE, China)

• First Medalist of Tokyo 2020 form India : Mirabai chanu (49KG Weighlifting)

• Number of maximum gold won by individual in Olympic 2020: Caeleb Dressel (5 Gold, Swimming, USA)

Note: The 2020 Games are the fourth Olympic Games to be held in Japan, following the Tokyo 1964 (Summer), Sapporo 1972 (Winter), and Nagano 1998 (Winter) games. INDIA in Olympic 2020 (Tokyo)

• Neeraj Chopra-Javelin throw (GOLD)

• Saikhom Mirabai Chanu– Weightlifter (49Kg, Silver)

• Ravi Kumar Dahiya– Wrestler (57 kg category, Silver)

• PV Sindhu-Badminton (Bronze)

• Lovlina Borgohain-Boxer (Women’s welterweight, Bronze)

• Men’s Hockey (Bronze)

• Bajrang Punia- Wrestle, (65-kg Weight category, Bronze)

Top 10 Ranking 2020 Summer Olympics medal table Rank Team Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 United States 39 41 33 113 2 China 38 32 18 88

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3 Japan* 27 14 17 58 4 Great Britain 22 21 22 65

5 ROC 20 28 23 71 6 Australia 17 7 22 46 7 Netherlands 10 12 14 36 8 France 10 12 11 33 9 Germany 10 11 16 37 48 India 1 2 4 7 Totals (93 teams) 340 338 402 1080

Here Is A List Of World Records That Have Been Broken At The Tokyo Olympic Games So Far:

• Women’s Track Cycling Team Pursuit – Germany (4:04.242)

• Men’s Track Cycling Team Pursuit – Italy (3:42.032)

• Tatjana Schoenmaker, Women’s 200-meter breaststroke – South Africa (2:18.95m)

• Caeleb Dressel, Men’s 100m Butterfly – USA (49.45 seconds)

• Men’s 4×100m Medley Relay – USA (3:26.78m)

• Aleksandra Miroslaw, Women’s Speed Climbing – Poland (0.12 seconds)

• Lasha Talakhadze, Men’s Weightlifting – Georgia (488 kg)

• Women’s 4×100m Freestyle Relay – Australia (3:29.69)

• Yulimar Rojas, Women’s Triple Jump – Venezuela (15.67 meters)

• Karsten Warholm, Men’s 400m Hurdles – Norway (45.94 seconds)

• Women’s Team Sprint – China (31.804 seconds)

• Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay – China (7:40.33 minutes)

• Shi Zhiyong, Men’s 73kg Weightlifting – China

• Sydney McLaughlin, Women’s 400m Hurdles – USA (51.46 seconds)

• Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Men’s Olympic 1500m – Norway (3min 28.32sec)

• Faith Kipyegon, Women’s 1500m – Kenya (3min 53.11sec)

List of 127 Player participating in Olympics 2020 from India Archery

• Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve

• Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve

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• Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve

• Deepika Kumari, Women’s Recurve Athletics

• KT Irfan, Men’s 20km race walking

• Sandeep Kumar, Men’s 20km race walking

• Rahul Rohilla, Men’s 20km race walking

• Bhawna Jat, Women’s 20km race walking

• Priyanka Goswami, Women’s 20km race walking

• Avinash Sable, Men’s 3000m steeplechase

• Murali Sreeshankar, Men’s long jump

• MP Jabir, Men’s 400m hurdles

• Neeraj Chopra, Men’s javelin throw

• Shivpal Singh, Men’s javelin throw

• Annu Rani, Women’s javelin throw

• Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Men’s shot put

• Dutee Chand, Women’s 100m and 200m

• Kamalpreet Kaur, Women’s discus throw

• Seema Punia, Women’s discus throw

• 4×400 Mixed Relay

• Men’s 4x400m Relay Badminton

• PV Sindhu, Women’s singles

• B Sai Praneeth, Men’s singles

• Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Men’s doubles

Boxing

• Vikas Krishan (Men’s, 69kg)

• Lovlina Borgohain (Women’s, 69kg)

• Ashish Kumar (Men’s, 75kg)

• Pooja Rani (Women’s, 75kg)

• Satish Kumar (Men’s, 91kg)

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• Mary Kom (Women’s, 51kg)

• Amit Panghal (Men’s, 52kg)

• Manish Kaushik (Men’s, 63kg)

• Simranjit Kaur (Women’s, 60kg) Fencing

• Bhavani Devi became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics. Golf

• Anirban Lahiri

• Udayan Mane

• Aditi Ashok Gymnastic

• Pranati Nayak is only the second Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. Hockey Men’s National Team

• Goalkeepers: P. R. Sreejesh

• Defenders: Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, Surender Kumar, Amit Rohidas, Birendra Lakra

• Midfielders: Hardik Singh, Manpreet Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Nilakanta Sharma, Sumit

• Forwards: Shamsher Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Mandeep Singh Women’s National Team

• Goalkeepers: Savita

• Defenders: Deep Grace Ekka, Nikki Pradhan, Gurjit Kaur, Udita.

• Midfielders: Nisha, Neha, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Monika, Nanjot Kaur, Salima Tete.

• Forwards: Rani, Navneet Kaur, Lalremsiami, Vandana Katariya, Sharmila, Devi. Judo

• Sushila Devi Likmabam will be India’s only participant in Judo at Tokyo 2020. Rowing

• Arjun Jat

• Arvind Singh

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Sailing For the first time, India will have more than two sailors at the Olympics, including Nethra Kumanan, the first Indian woman sailor. For the first time India will be competing in more than one sailing event – Laser Radial, Laser Standard and 49er.

• Nethra Kumanan, Laser Radial

• Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard

• KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar, 49er Shooting India will have its largest Shooting contingent with 15 shooters.

• Anjum Moudgil, 10m Women’s Air Rifle

• Apurvi Chandela, 10m Women’s Air Rifle

• Divyansh Singh Panwar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle

• Deepak Kumar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle

• Tejaswini Sawant, 50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position

• Sanjeev Rajput, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position

• Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position

• Manu Bhaker, 10m Women’s Air Pistol

• Yashaswini Singh Deswal, 10m Women’s Air Pistol

• Saurabh Chaudhary, 10m Men’s Air Pistol

• Abhishek Verma, 10m Men’s Air Pistol

• Rahi Sarnobat, 25m Women’s Pistol

• Chinki Yadav, 25m Women’s Pistol

• Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Men’s Skeet

• Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Men’s Skeet Swimming

• Sajan Prakash

• Srihari Nataraj

• Maana Patel Table Tennis Four Indian table tennis players qualified for the Olympics at the Asian qualifiers in Doha in March, including Sharath Kamal, who will be making his fourth appearance at the Games.

• Sharath Kamal

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• Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

• Sutirtha Mukherjee

• Manika Batra Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra will also compete together in the mixed doubles after earning their Olympic berths at the Asian qualifiers. Tennis Sumit Nagal gets last minute entry in the Tokyo Olympics 2021 after some players withdraw their names. Sania Mirza qualified for Tokyo 2020 via her protected ranking and she will partner with Ankita Raina in the women’s doubles.

• Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina, Women’s Doubles

• Sumit Nagal, Men’s singles Weightlifting

• Mirabai Chanu will be India’s only representative in weightlifting at Tokyo 2020. Ranked second in the world, the former world champion is among the favourites for a medal in the women’s 49kg weight division. Wrestling India is sending seven wrestlers to Tokyo. With Sonam Malik winning the quota in the 62kg category, Rio 2016 bronze medallist Sakshi Malik will not be wrestling at the Tokyo Olympics.

• Seema Bisla, Women’s Freestyle, 50kg

• Vinesh Phogat, Women’s Freestyle 53kg

• Anshu Malik, Women’s Freestyle 57kg

• Sonam Malik, Women’s Freestyle 62kg

• Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Men’s Freestyle 57kg

• Bajrang Punia, Men’s Freestyle 65kg

• Deepak Punia, Men’s Freestyle 86 kg

Chapter 17: Book and Author

Book Author “Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Manan Bhatt Pulwama” “My Own Mazagon” Captain Ramesh Babu “The Earthspinner” Anuradha Roy

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'Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Released by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Government’ “The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Bimal Prasad and Sujata Prasad Jayaprakash Narayan”

Vishram Bedekar, translated from the Marathi ‘Battlefield’ original Ranaangan by Jerry Pinto.

Chapter 18: Important Day

Date Day Theme/Importance

Government enacted the law against Triple 1 August Muslim Women Rights Day Talaq on 1st August, 2019.

1 August National Mountain Climbing Day

On this day in 1945, the United States dropped the very first deployed nuclear bomb in the city of Hiroshima. The Manhattan Project, commissioned by the 6 August Hiroshima Day US, created two atomic bombs. The first one, called 'The Little Boy' was dropped in the city of Hiroshima while the second one, dubbed 'The Fat Man', was dropped in Nagasaki by the US on August 6 and 9, respectively. 6 August (First Friday International Beer Day of August)

7 August National Handloom Day

Athletics Federation of India (AFI) decides to 7 August Javelin Throw Day name August 7 as 'Javelin Throw Day' in India to honour Neeraj Chopra’s historic gold. The Quit India Movement also known as the Bharat Chhodo Andolan was launched by 8 August Quit India Movement Day Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, 1942 at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC).

9 August Nagasaki Day

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Theme 2021: “Leaving no one behind: International Day of the World's 9 August Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social Indigenous Peoples contract.”

10 August World Lion Day

10 August World Biofuel Day Theme 2021: “Transforming Food Systems: 12 August International Youth Day Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health”.

12 August World Elephant Day

Lefthanders International Inc. founder Dean 13 August International Lefthanders Day R Campbell first observed the day in 1976.

13 August World Organ Donation Day

14 August Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

19 August World Photography Day

Theme 2021: #TheHumanRace: a global 19 August World Humanitarian Day challenge for climate action in solidarity with people who need it the most. to commemorate the birth anniversary of 20 August Sadbhavna Diwas or Harmony Day former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

20 August World Mosquito Day Theme 2021: “Reaching the zero malaria target”. 20 August Indian Akshay Urja Day

21 August World Senior Citizen Day

21 August World Entrepreneurs’ Day

International Day of Remembrance 21 August and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism It is celebrated on Shraavana poornima, that is 22 August World Sanskrit Day the full moon day of the Shraavana month in the Hindu calendar. International Day Commemorating 22 August the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief

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International Day for the 23 August Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

23-27 August World Water Week 2021 Theme 2021: ‘Building Resilience Faster’.

26 August International Dog Day It is celebrated to make the anniversary of 26 August Women’s Equality Day the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution giving women the right to vote. As a tribute to Dhyan Chand, his birthday is 29 August National Sports Day commemorated as National Sports Day. International Day Against Nuclear 29 August Tests

30 August National Small Industry Day

The International Day for People of African International Day for People of 31 August Descent is celebrated for the first time on 31 African Descent August 2021.

Chapter 19: Science ISRO-NASA joint mission NISAR Satellite will be launched in 2023 The ISRO-NASA Joint Mission NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite, which aims to measure changes in the earth’s surface globally using advanced radar images, is scheduled to be launched in early 2023. NISAR is one of the important cooperation projects between ISRO and NASA. GSLV-F10 failed to launch earth observation satellite into intended orbit The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) 's GSLV-F10 rocket that blasted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, some 100 km from Chennai on August 12, 2021 morning failed to launch earth observation satellite EOS-3 into the intended orbit. Chapter 20: Obituary

Person About Former England and Derbyshire bowler Mike Hendrick Six-time world masters championship gold medalist Man Kaur and multiple Asian Masters Championship medalist athlete

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Padma Shri awardee Dogri writer and poet Padma Sachdev

Shankar Subramaniam, alias “Babu” Two-times Olympian footballer Nayaran Veteran actor Anupam Shyam Malayalam film and television actor Saranya Sasi Renowned Ayurvedacharya, spiritual leader and Dr Balaji Tambe proponent of Yoga Former India footballer Chinmoy Chatterjee Tamil actor Anandha Kannan Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Governor of Kalyan Singh Rajasthan Godfather of Sudoku Maki Kaji Malayalam actor Chithra Former national football player Syed Shahid Hakim Former England captain Ted Dexter Renowned cricket coach Vasoo Paranjape Eminent writer Buddhadeb Guha

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