Important Current Affairs 28th August 2017 with PDF Banking, SSC and Insurance aspirants can now read the Important General Awareness in PDF. Here is an update containing all the important current affairs for 28th August July 2017. You can download the Important Current Affairs 28th August 2017 with pdf capsule too. You can also attempt daily important current affairs quiz for yesterday: Current Affairs Quiz - 27th August 2017 Important Current Affairs 28th August 2017 Cristiano Ronaldo wins award o Real Madrid and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lieke Martens were named the UEFA Players of the Year 2017. o Lieke Martens was named UEFA Women’s Player of the Year after leading the Netherlands to the 2017 Women’s Euro title this summer on home soil. o The awards ceremony was held in Monaco Managing Off-Shore Funds o Central Board of Direct Taxes has recently notified the revised rules for a safe harbour regime. o The government and CBDT have taken steps in the past for making India a tax- certain jurisdiction and creating a positive business climate. o Safe harbour provisions were introduced under the Income-tax Act, 1961 by the Finance Act, 2015. India lift SAFF Under-15 Championship 1 | P a g e o Lalrokima and Vikram struck in the second half to guide India to SAFF Under-15 Championship title win as India beat Nepal. o The India team, which had players from AIFF's Regional Academy, trailed by a goal at the interval but Lalrokima and Vikram's timely strikes saved the day for India. o The match was held in Kathmandu. Tobe Hooper passes away o Tobe Hooper, best known for his work in the horror film genre, passed away at the age of 74. o He rose to prominence after his 1974 fantasy thriller "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." o He continued working in television and film throughout the 1990s and 2000s. o He made his directorial debut with the movie, "Eggshells" in 1969. Arun Jaitley hands over missile to Navy o Defence Minister Arun Jaitley handed over the Long-Range Surface-to-Air Missile jointly developed by India and Israel, to the Indian Navy, at Bharat Dynamics Ltd here. o LRSAM is an advanced combat suit for missile defence against air targets and missiles. o Public sector BDL is the missile production agency for the three armed forces. World Badminton Championships 2017 o Denmark's Viktor Axelsen defeated Lin Dan in straight games to claim the men's singles gold at the World Championships in Glasgow. o Axelsen is the third Dane to claim the men's singles crown. o Flemming Delfs won the inaugural 1977 title and Peter Rasmussen was a winner, also in Glasgow, 20 years ago. Ahmed Khan passes away o Ahmed Khan, a member of India's gold winning football team at the first Asian Games in 1951 passed away at the age of 91 after prolonged illness.. o A prolific striker, Khan represented India in two Olympic Games – in 1948 and in 1952. 2 | P a g e o Khan, who played as a striker, represented India in 11 matches and made his debut against France in the London Olympics. o He was known as East Bengal legend. India, China agree to withdraw troops o China and India have agreed to end a lengthy stand-off at the Sikkim border that began in June. o The decision to disengage their troops comes ahead of a crucial BRICS summit being hosted by China in September, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend. o In June 2017, Indian troops stopped China's People's Liberation Army from constructing a road on the Doklam plateau. Uber chooses new CEO o Uber has chosen Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. o The embattled ride-hailing startup has been without a CEO since founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick resigned in June. o Khosrowshahi was not among those reported to have been in the running. The short list included Jeff Immelt, the former CEO of General Electric, and Meg Whitman, the head of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Dipak Misra sworn in as CJI o Justice Dipak Misra was sworn in as the 45th Chief Justice of India. o He is succeeding Justice JS Khehar, who retired as CJI on August 27. o Chief Justice Misra will retire on October 2, 2018. o He was administered the oath of office by President Ram Nath Kovind BEML’s metro manufacturing facility o Defence Minister Arun Jaitley launched BEML’s third Line ultra modern metro manufacturing facility in Bengaluru. o BEML had forayed into manufacturing and supply of hi-tech metro cars during 2002 and as a leading rolling stock supplier has so far supplied over 1000 metro cars to Delhi, Bengaluru and Jaipur Metro Corporations. o The contract is scheduled to be completed by December 2018. PV Sindhu wins silver 3 | P a g e o PV Sindhu won the silver medal at the 2017 World Championship. She was defeated by Nozomi Okuhara of Japan. o Nozomi became the first Japanese women's singles champion while Sindhu is the second Indian after Saina to secure silver. o The summit clash lasted an unbelievable and incredible one hour and 50 minutes. A new score in waste management o Scientists from CSIR’s National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram have been able to turn waste into wealth. o They have produced ethanol from discarded cotton-stalks by using a combination of chemical and biological techniques. o The results were published in Bioresource Technology. 56th annual aerospace conference o The 56th annual three-day conference of the Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine is being held in Bengaluru. o It is being held at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine on Old Airport Road. o The Conference is being attended by service delegates, civilian delegates and foreign delegates with 15 scientific sessions. A snappy kidney function test o The Indian Institutes of Technology, Bombay and Indore, have jointly developed a biosensor that makes it possible to detect kidney disorders in less than eight minutes. o The biosensor can accurately measure both the pH and urea concentration with a single drop of urine. o The sensor has been developed by Rashmi Chaudhari, Abhijeet Joshi, and Rohit Srivastava. India bans sodium nitrite from China o The Finance Ministry has imposed a five year anti-dumping duty on Sodium Nitrite imports from China. o It was imposed based on recommendations of Directorate General of Antidumping and Allied Duties. 4 | P a g e o Sodium Nitrite is an oxidising and also a reducing agent. It is a white crystalline powder mostly used in the pharmaceutical and dye industries. Indian Ocean Conference o External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to Colombo to participate in the two-day Indian Ocean Conference to be held from August 31. o It will see participation from around 35 countries and have speakers from 25 countries. o The theme of the conference is peace, progress and prosperity o This will be second IOC conference. The first was held in Singapore last year. Lewis Hamilton wins Belgian GP o Lewis Hamilton defeated Formula 1 title rival Sebastian Vettel in the Belgian Grand Prix to close the gap in the championship to seven points. o This was Hamilton's fifth success in 12 races this season, and 58th of his career. o Sebastian Vettel finished second for Ferrari, 2.3 seconds behind Hamilton while Daniel Ricciardo took third place for Red Bull. First player to score 350 La Liga goals o Barcelona star Lionel Messi became the first player to pass 350 goals in La Liga with a double for Barcelona in the 2-0 win against Alaves. o He is only the second player in European football to reach the 350-goal mark. o He has 66 more than Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, his closest challenger in the all-time list. IRDAI launches central database o Insuranace Regulatory & Development Authority of India has launched a Central Database of all Insurance Sales Persons in the country. o Envoy, the database will ensure that all licensed insurance sales persons working for insurers & intermediaries do not work with multiple insurers & intermediaries in same business category. o The Insurance Information Bureau of India hosts the central database. Attempt Current Affair Quiz for 28th August 2017 5 | P a g e .