2. Former Indian Cricketer Vikram Rathour Has Beee Appointed As India's New Batting Coach, Replacing Sanjay Bangar
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Current Affairs - Aug 2019 Month All Type All 175 Current Affairs were found in Period - Aug 21 - 31, 2019 for Type - All Appointments 1. Abdalla Hamdok is appointed as prime minister of Repiblic of Sudan (Northeast Africa). 2. Former Indian Cricketer Vikram Rathour has beee appointed as India's new batting coach, replacing Sanjay Bangar. Bharath Arun and R. Sridhar were retained as bowling and fielding coaches. Ravi Shastri was earlier retained as head coach. 3. Govt. appointed Ajay Kumar Bhalla as Union Home Secretary. Previous Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba was recently appointed as cabinet secrtetary. 4. Govt. made several key Appointments - 1. Rajiv Gauba as Cabinet Secretary, for 2 years term. 2. Ajay Kumar as Secretary in Department of Defence (Ministry of Defence) (called defence secretary). 3. Brij Kumar Agarwal as Secretary to the Lokpal. 4. Subash Chandra as as Secretary in Department of Defence Production (Ministry of Defence). 5. Karnataka Chief Minister Yediyurappa appointed Govind Makthappa Karajol, Ashwath Narayan CN and Laxman Sangappa Savadi as deputy chief ministers. Its first time that 3 deputy CMs have been appointed in state. 6. Lionel Aingimea has been appointed as new president of pacific nation Nauru. 7. Misc. Appointments (August 2019) - 1. Govt. appointed Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat as New Indian Ambassador to Republic of Cyprus. 2. PSU Power Grid Corporation appointed Kandikuppa Sreekant as its chairman and managing director. 3. Global Financial Firm HSBC appointed Noel Quinn as interim CEO. 4. Indian IT Firm Mindtree appointed Debashis Chatterjee as its new MD & CEO. 5. Government extended tenure of State Bank of India (SBI) Managing Director (MD)Dinesh Kumar Khara by 2 years. 6. Government appointed Ghotu Ram Meena as New Indian Ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo (Central Africa). 7. Elangbam Valentina Devi, a 9-year-old girl from Manipur was made the ambassador of ‘Chief Minister’s Green Manipur Mission’. She had planted two Gulmohar trees near her house in Kakching district of Manipur when she was in class 1. She wept immensely when she saw the trees uprooted after coming from school. 8. Yes Bank appointed Anurag Adlakha as Group Chief Financial Officer and Raj Ahuja as Group Chief Strategy Officer. 9. Former New Zealand Cricketer Brendon McCullum appointed as head coach of IPL Team Kolkata Knight Riders, replacing Jacques Kallis. 10. Financial Firm Paytm Appointed Madhur Deora as its President. 11. National Housing Bank (NHB) appointed Jaishankar R. Padmanabhan as Executive Director (special grade). 12. Shavendra Silva is appointed as Sri Lankan Army Chief. He has earlier been accused of war crimes. 13. HDFC Bank appointed Srinivasan Vaidyanathan as Chief Financial Officer. 14. Ms. Padmaja appointed as New India High Commissioner to Cook Islands. 15. Government appointed Pavan Kapoor as New Indian Ambassador to United Arab Emirates(UAE). 16. Pramod Agrawal will be appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Coal India Limited. 17. Former Delhi HC Judge Sunil Gaur has been appointed as Chairperson of PMLA Appellate Tribunal. 18. Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Shalija Dhami became 1st female officer to be appointed as flight commander of a flying unit, after she took over a Chetak helicopter unit at Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad. 19. Govt. approved extension of tenure of CBDT Chairman Pramod Chandra Mody, by one year. 8. New Governors Appointed - 1. Himachal Pradesh - Bandaru Dattatreya 2. Kerala - Arif Mohammad Khan 3. Maharashtra - Bhagat Singh Koshyari 4. Rajasthan - Kalraj Mishra 5. Telangana - Tamilisai Soundararajan (First Separate Governor of Telangana). 9. P.K. Sinha has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty in Prime Minister's Office, after Nripendra Misra, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister submitted his resignation. 10. Russell Domingo (South Africa) has been head coach of Bangladesh Cricket Team (Men), replacing Steve Rhodes(England). Top Awards 1. PM Narendra Modi conferred Yoga awards to winners of PM’s Award for Outstanding Contribution for Promotion and Development of Yoga. 1. He also released 12 commemorative postal stamps to acknowledge great work of great Master Healers of AYUSH Systems. 2. He also launched 10 AYUSH Health and Wellness Centres (AYUSH HWCs) in Haryana, in line with Ministry of AYUSH’s commitment to make 12,500 AHWCs functional in next three years. 3. Winners of 2019 Yoga Awards - 1. Swami Rajarshi Muni of Life Mission (Gujarat) - Individual - (National) 2. Antonietta Rozzi (Italy) - Individual (International) 3. Bihar School of Yoga (Munger, Bihar) - Organisation (National) 4. Japan Yoga Niketan (Japan) - Organisation (International) 4. Winners of 2018 Yoga Awards - 1. Vishwas Mandalik (Nasik) - Individual (National) 2. Yoga Institute (Mumbai) - Organisation (National). 2. CPWD Director General Prabhakar Singh chosen for ‘Eminent Engineer Award for the Year 2019’ by the Institution of Engineers (India) for his exemplary Service in field of Engineering and Technology. It will be conferred to him on the ‘Engineers Day’ on September 15. 3. Govt. Announced Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2018, given in 4 categories - 1. Land Adventure - Aparna Kumar, Dipankar Ghosh, Manikandan K 2. Water Adventure - Prabhat Raju Koli 3. Air Adventure - Rameshwar Jangra 4. Life Time Achievement - Wangchuk Sherpa 5. Awardees will receive statuettes, certificate and award money of Rs. 5 lakh each. 4. Industrial Awards (August 2019) - 1. Vinayak S Hiremath from Karnataka has been felicitated with ‘Pride of Nation Award’ by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. 2. Co-founder and director of Einfolge Technologies Pvt Ltd, Ruhan Rajput was honoured as entrepreneur of the Year 2019 for his excellence in service sector. 3. Indian Actor Shah Rukh Khan conferred with an honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, by La Trobe University (Australia). 4. Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs instituted PMAY(U) Awards for Beneficiariesfor the first time to recognise the contribution of States/UTs, Urban Local Bodies and Beneficiaries. 1. PMAY(U) has achieved a significant milestone of approving more than85 Lakh houses against a demand of about 112 Lakh houses in urban areas. Out of these, 50 Lakh houses are at various stages of construction and over 26 Lakh houses have already been completed. 5. Rajasthan won best innovation and initiative leadership award for its achievements in higher education, at World Education Summit-2019 in New Delhi. 6. Indian-American teenager Navneeth Murali won 2019 South Asian Spelling Bee contest and earned a grand cash prize of USD 3,000. 7. IIT-Delhi-incubated start-up working on development of inclusive learning resources for visually impaired people won the award for developing a multisensory kit. The device narrates the content in the picture when a visually impaired person touches it.Ankita Gulati, founder of TouchVision was awarded the NCPEDP-Mphasis Universal Design Award 2019. 8. Indian documentary film "I'm Jeeja" has won award in Under 30 minute category at 14th edition of 'We Care Film Festival on Disability Issues'. 9. Maitri App created by Students from Amity International School Noida won bronze medal at global tech competition called ‘Technovation Challenge’ in San Francisco (US). This app connects children at orphanages with senior citizens in old-age homes. 10. ONGC CMD Shashi Shanker honoured with Distinguished Fellowship of Institute of Directors (IOD) 2019 during 29th Institute of Directors (IOD) Annual Day Ceremony in New Delhi. 11. Kalinga-FCC Awards for Excellence in Journalism for 2019 as first of their kind Annual awards in India - 1. Print Journalist and Digital Journalist - Team at Reuters 2. Television Journalist - Rajini Vaidyanathan( BBC’s India Correspondent) 3. Photo Journalist - Harish Tyagi (EPA) 4. Video Journalist - Rakesh Nagar (PBS NewsHour) 12. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs 's Deendayan Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) has been conferred SKOCH Governance Gold Award for its Portal for Affordable Credit and Interest Subvention Access (PAiSA). 13. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited won award for the ‘ Best Navratna‘ in the ‘ Manufacturing Sector ‘ for 2nd time at 6th edition of Dun & Bradstreet PSU Awards in New Delhi. 14. Phoebe Waller-Bridge will be felicitated by Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year by British Academy Los Angeles branch. 5. JNU Professor Meeta Narain has been conferred ‘Pushkin Medal - 2019, as highest honour given to an Indian scholar by Russian government. Pushkin Medal is given to a scholar of Russian language and literature for outstanding contribution to Russian studies abroad. 6. Vivek Menon, head of Delhi-based conservation non-profit, Wildlife Trust of India has been awarded Clark R Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award 2019 in Geneva (Switzerland), during 18th meeting of Conference of Parties to CITES. Top Books 1. Minister of State (IC) for Culture and Tourism, Prahlad Singh Patel launched book the Diary of Manu Gandhi (1943-44). 1. Originally in Gujarati, the book has been edited and translated by Tridip Suhrud. 2. Manu Gandhi (Mridula) was a grand niece of M K Gandhi , daughter of his Nephew Jaisukhlal Amritlal Gandhi, and stayed with M K Gandhi till his assassination. 2. A new book by Mihir Dalal, titled Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story, recounting story of building up of Indian e- Commerce Firm Flpkart has been released. Flipkart was founded by Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal. 3. Book titled ‘Jin Dhoondha Tin Paaiyan’ written by O P Singh (IPS) has been released. 4. Book titled “A Short History of Indian Railways”, written by Rajendra B Aklekar has been released. 5. New book on Former US Prez Barack Obama titled “Obama: The Call of History”, written by Peter Baker has been released in India. Top Committees 1. Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) formed a 4 member Advisory Board for Banking Frauds (ABBF), to look into bank fraud cases of over 50 crore rupees. It will be headed by former Vigilance Commissioner T M Bhasin. ABBF was previously called as Advisory Board on Bank, Commercial and Financial Frauds.