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    1. Union Government has appointed Swadeshi


    Jagaran Manch co-convenor Swaminathan
    Gurumurthy and businessman Satish
    Kashinath Marathe to the Central Board of
    the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

    2.  Ivan Duque was sworn in as Colombia’s


    youngest 60th President. 

    3. Harivansh has been elected as the new Deputy Chairman of


    Rajya Sabha. He was an NDA candidate.

    4. Justice Gita Mittal became the first-ever woman Chief Justice of Jammu
    and Kashmir High Court.

    5.  NCW member Rekha Sharma, who recently stoked a controversy by


    suggesting the abolition of confessions in churches, has been appointed
    as the chairperson of the National Commission for Women.

    6.  The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has extended the term of
    Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) Chairman R.S. Sharma till
    September 2020.

    7.  Justice Manjula Chellur  has been appointed as  Chairperson of


    Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) by the power ministry.

    8.  Subrata Dutta was elected as a vice president of the newly


    formed South West Asian Football Federation (SWAFF).

    9. Ramesh Powar  has been appointed as head coach of


    the women’s national cricket team.

    10.  Ramesh Powar  has been appointed as head coach of the  women’s
    national cricket team.
    11. Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet (66) was appointed
    as next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Right.

    1.    Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar


    launched Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan
    Yojana for the empowerment of women.
    The scheme will provide Rs 54,100 from the
    birth of a girl child till she graduates.

    2. Developed by the  Federation of Indian


    Export Organizations (FIEO), Niryat Mitra –
    mobile App to provide wide range of information for export and import was
    recently launched by  Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and
    Aviation Suresh Prabhu. 

    3.  Parijat Urja Chakra  in collaboration with  Krishi Vigyan Kendras


    (KVKs) organized a special campaign at  Ambala in Haryana to create
    awareness about the ill effects of crop residue burning and
    management.

    4. President of India inaugurated ‘One District one Product’ Summit


    in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. It is a first of its kind summit in the country
    to boost trade of the MSMEs. 

    Amazon partnered with UP government to provide support to MSME


    entrepreneurs across nine districts.

    5. Chhattisgarh has become the first state in India to provide Right


    to Skills’ Development to the youth. The Chattisgarh government has
    flagged off 15 Skill Chariots to launch ‘Skills on Wheels’ project in
    Chhattisgarh.

    6.  Union Government has constituted four-member Group of


    Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Minister of Commerce and
    Industry Suresh Prabhu to decide on 16-member Regional Comprehensive
    Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations.

    7. The Digital North East Vision 2022 was released in Guwahati,


    Assam by Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Ravi
    Shankar Prasad. Under Digital North East, Union government will invest
    nearly Rs. 10,000 crore in the region over next 4 years to implement
    more than 400 projects.

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    1.  State Bank of India  launched  a payments


    machine called MOPAD. The full form of MOPAD
    is  Multi Option Payment Acceptance
    Device. It is a Point of Sale (PoS)
    terminal  that will allow transactions from
    cards to QR code-based payments.

    2.    HSBC has launched a new digital


    platform- "Mydeal" to simplify the capital raising process through
    capital markets by providing real-time access to information such as
    investors' feedback, profiles, client orders and deal pricing.

    3. Axis bank has become the first bank in the country to introduce
    Iris Scan Authentication feature for Aadhaar -based transactions through
    its micro ATM tablets.

    4. RBI's survey of inward remittances for 2016-17 has stated that the


    UAE is the top source of inward remittances, and Kerala has
    received the maximum funds sent from abroad.

    5.  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has transferred surplus


    (dividend) of Rs. 50,000 crores to Government for the year ended in
    June 2018, over 63% more than Rs 30,659 crore which it transferred in
    2017.

    6. Exim Bank has signed a multilateral cooperation agreement with


    member development banks of BRICS to undertake “collaborative
    research” in distributed ledger/blockchain technology.

    1.  Online payment service provider PayU India


    has partnered with Reliance Money to offer
    instant app-based personal loans, via
    LazyPay. 

    2.  Bajaj Allianz General Insurance entered


    into a bancassurance deal with Vijaya
    Bank.

    3.  Online payment service provider PayU India has partnered with
    Reliance Money to offer instant app-based personal loans, via
    LazyPay. 
    1.  The Khangchendzonga Biosphere
    Reserve has become the 11th Biosphere
    Reserve from India that has been included
    in the UNESCO designated World Network of
    Biosphere Reserves (WNBR).

    2.  Ease of Living Index, released by Union


    Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
    ranks Pune as the best city to live in. The
    survey rated 111 cities in India.

    3.  UK-based online market research and data analytics firm YouGov
    announced SBI to be the most patriotic brand. SBI is followed by
    Tata Motors. 

    4.  Annie Zaidi was awarded the Hindu Playwright Award 2018 for
    her play Untitled-1, at the launch of the 14th edition of The Hindu Theatre
    Fest.

    1.    51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting


    was held in Singapore.

    2.  Pacific Endeavor-2018 (PE-18), a


    communication exercise under
    the  Multinational Communications
    Interoperability Program (MCIP) was held in Kathmandu, Nepal. The
    event was organized by    Nepali Army and the United States Pacific
    Command.

    3. International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples – August 9

    4. World BioFuel Day: August 10

    5. 18th International Youth Day: August 12

    Theme: “Safe space for Youth”.

    6. International left-handers day: August 13

    1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, launched


    PARIVESH (Pro-Active and Responsive
    facilitation by Interactive, Virtuous and
    Environmental Single-window Hub) on the
    occasion of World Biofuel Day.

    It is a single registration and single sign-in for all


    types of clearances (i.e. Environment, Forest,
    Wildlife and CRZ clearances).

    2. Gurugram has been declared as India’s most


    polluted city out of  62  cities in the country
    by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in
    its Air quality index (AQI).

    3. "Operation “Madad” has been launched by the Southern Naval


    Command (SNC) at Kochi since 09 Aug 2018 for assisting the state
    administration and undertaking disaster relief operations due to the
    unprecedented flooding experienced in many parts of Kerala.  Indian army
    has also launched Operation Sahyog.

    4. The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu released the


    book ‘Bebak Baat’, authored by the Minister of State for Parliamentary
    Affairs and Statistics & Programme Implementation, Shri Vijay Goel.

    5.  Santhali has become the first Indian tribal language to get a
    Wikipedia edition in its own script after the Santhali Wikipedia went live
    earlier this month.

    6.  India’s only lab for the conservation of endangered species,


    National Wildlife Genetic Resource Bank (NWGRB) inaugurated by Dr.
    Harsh Vardhan in Hyderabad.

    7.  Punjab  government started a  ‘Tatkal Sewa’  for property


    registration across the state.

    8.  Railway minister Piyush Goyal announced that Jodhpur in


    Rajasthan topped in the cleanest railway station in the recent ranking
    of the ‘Swachh Rail’.

    9.  Chandrayaan-2 lander would be named ‘Vikram’ after Vikram


    Sarabhai, the father of Indian space programme.

    10.  Madhya government had decided to honor families of martyrs of


    Madhya Pradesh so,  Shaheed Samman Diwas was observed in all
    districts of Madhya Pradesh.

    11. The NITI Aayog and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have


    signed a MoU on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and entered
    into a three-year partnership.

    1. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie


    was adjudged the most influential woman
    in history, through a poll conducted by BBC
    History Magazine.

    2.  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, the world’s


    first mission to touch the Sun, was launched
    from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape
    Canaveral Air Force Station, in the United States.

    1. Tokyo 2020 will be the first Olympics to


    deploy facial recognition technology to
    increase security.

    2. Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra was


    India’s flag bearer in the opening ceremony of
    the upcoming Asian Games 2018.

    3.  18-year old Mosaad Aldossary from


    Saudi Arabia has been crowned champion of the FIFA e-World Cup
    Grand Final.

    4.  Rafael Nadal won the Toronto Masters by defeating Stefanos


    Tsitsipas.

    5.  Viraj Madappa became the youngest Indian to win on the Asian
    Tour, as he won his first title on the Asian Tour at Take Solutions Masters in
    Bengaluru.

    1.  DMK chief and five-time Chief Minister


    of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi died at the age
    of  94  in Chennai. He was popularly referred to
    as Kalaignaror the artist.

    Maanavanesan  was his first manuscript


    magazine.

    2. Sumatheendra R. Nadig, a Kannada writer, poet, critic and


    translator passed away recently in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

    3. Indian-origin British author VS Naipaul died at his residence in London.

    4.  Former Speaker of the Lok Sabha and 10 times MP, Somnath
    Chatterjee died following multiple organ failure, in Kolkata.

    5.  Asian Games gold medallist athlete Hakam Singh who won the
    race walk event at 1978 Asian at Bangkok died due to liver and kidney
    ailments in Sangrur, Punjab.
    6.  Chhattisgarh Governor Balramji Das Tandon, died following a
    heart attack, in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

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