11th August Current Affairs: Persons in news 1. German striker Miroslav Klose, the all-time World Cup top scorer, announced his retirement from international football. • The 36-year-old leaves the German national team as a World Cup winner after last month helping Joachim Loews side to their first global crown since 1990 when they defeated Argentina 1-0 in the Rio-hosted final. • The Lazio frontman picked up his 16th goal, in what was his fourth World Cup, to surpass Brazilian Ronaldo as the tournaments leading scorer. 2. TRS MP Daughter of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhara Rao, K Kavitha booked for sedition for saying J&K Telangana forcefully annexed to India. Appointments 1. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki was dealt a severe blow in his contentious quest for a third term when the country’s president and its leading political bloc called on another lawmaker to form a new government. The move was immediately backed by Washington, which has soured on Maliki. • With Iraq’s government deadlocked and the nation confronting a grave threat from Islamic militants, President Fouad Massoum nominated Haider Abadi, the deputy parliament speaker, to be Iraq’s next prime minister, the nation’s most powerful post. Banking 1. ICICI bank is now also the leading bank in the list of share in mobile banking payments in the country. The bank has managed to gain over Rs 1000 crore through Mobile banking. • Reports shown that the total value of transactions across banks in the month of June via the mobile banking channel was Rs 3985 crore. Deaths 1. Oscar Winning Actor Robin Williams Died • Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams was found dead at his home in Tiburon, California on 11 August 2014. • He was 63. Robin Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 21 July 1951. Williams earned an Oscar award for his performance in Good Will Hunting as a supporting actor. • In his lifetime, Williams received four four Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards. • He was voted 13th on Comedy Central’s list “100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time” in 2004. 2. Reshamlal Jangade, the member of First Lok Sabha, Died • Reshamlal Jangade, the veteran politician and a member of the countrys first Lok Sabha from undivided Madhya Pradesh, died on 11 August 2014. • He died at a private hospital in Raipur following a prolonged illness. He was 90. • He dedicated his entire life for betterment of farmers, labourers and the people belonging to the last row of the society. 3. Goalkeeping great Vladimir Beara of Croatia died at 85 • Goalkeeping great Vladimir Beara of Croatia died in city Split of Croatia on 11 August 2014. He died after a series of strokes over the past year. He was 85. • He was considered to be one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time in Football history. • In 1963 legendary Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin while receiving FIFA’s Golden Ball had reportedly said, “I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is Vladimir Beara.” Economy 1. Tata-Singapore Airlines (SIA) named its upcoming joint venture airline as Vistara and will start its operation from October 2014. SIA on 11 August 2014 disclosed the name of their airline. • Vistara is an inspiration from Sanskrit word, Vistaar that means limitless expanse. It has drawn inspiration from the brand’s domain – the limitless sky. Vistara: • They first made an attempt to launch a domestic carrier in 1995, but the project failed • In 2013 this project got approal from Foreign Investment Promotion Board • The two companies will initially invest a combined US$100 million to start the carrier, with Tata Sons owning 51 per cent and Singapore Airlines (SIA) owing the remaining 49 per cent. • Vistara will start its operation with an Airbus 320 aircraft and would add 20 aircraft in next first five years of operations. • Headquaresrs : Delhi • Slogan : Atithi Devo Bhava 2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced special Central assistance of Rs. 8,000 crore for construction of four important surface communication projects in Jammu and Kashmir • And center will also writing off the State’s liability of Rs. 60 crore towards Food Corporation of India. International 1. China pushes ‘border model’ in a booming Russian trade zone • China is building a sprawling, modern $ 500 million trade zone along its border with Russia in an indication of the two countries’ increasingly close ties, bolstered by a recent landmark energy deal and a trans-continental railway project aiming to link the two economies. National 1. National Nutrition Mission (NNM) • An expenditure of Rs. 123.00 crore was made under the National Nutrition Mission in the year 2013-14 against an expenditure of Rs. 55.69 crore in the year 2012-13. The National Nutrition Mission has following two components:- a) Multi-sectoral Nutrition programme to address Maternal and Child under Nutrition in 200 high-burden districts, which aims at prevention and reduction in child under-nutrition and reduction in levels of anaemia among young children, adolescent girls and women has been launched in January 2014. b) Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign against malnutrition: To create awareness about nutrition challenges and promote home-level feeding practices a Nationwide Information, Education and Communication campaign against malnutrition has been launched during 2012-13. 2. PM dedicates Chutak hydropower station to the nation in Kargil. • Prime Minister Narendra Modi while dedicating to the nation the 44MW Chutak hydropower station at Kargil, said about 30 percent of the population of the state of Jammu and Kashmir is displaced, and his Government is committed to rehabilitate them in a planned way. 3. Bio-Metric Attendance Monitors installed for employees of urban ministries • To ensure punctuality at work, Bio-Metric Attendance Marker Systems have been installed for employees of the Ministries of Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation located in the Nirman Bhawan. • Eight such systems known as ‘Aadhar Based Bio-Metric Attendance Systems (AEBAS)’ have been installed at six gates of Nirman Bhawan. The Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) has provided the machines and the attendant software and authentication devices for the wall mounted systems. Sports 1. Ravichandran Ashwin No. 1 All-rounder, Kumar Sangakkara Top Batsman. The top 5 Test & ODI Player is as follows: Rank Test Player Team ODI Player Team 1 Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka AB de Villiers South Africa 2 AB de Villiers South Africa Hashim Amla South Africa 3 Hashim Amla South Africa Virat Kohli India 4 David Warner Australia George Bailey Australia 5 Angelo Mathews Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka The top 5 All-rounders is as follows: Rank Player Name Team 1 Ravichandran Ashwin India 2 Vernon Philander South Africa 3 Shakib Al Hasan Bangladesh 4 Stuart Broad England 5 Mitchell Johnson Australia The top 5 Team Test & ODI: Rank Test Team ODI Team 1 South Africa Australia 2 Australia India 3 Pakistan Sri Lanka 4 India South Africa 5 England England 2. Deepika Kumari-led womens archery recurve team wins gold, India bag 5 medals. Deepika beat Tatiana Segina of Russia to gain a 6-2 victory clinching the bronze medal. Deepika and Jayanta then took on the team from Belarus in the recurve mixed team pair event to win the bronze-medal match. • The Deepika Kumari-led women archers team clinched the recurve team gold after routing Mexico 6-0 in the final as India returned with five medals in the Archery World Cup Stage IV in Wroclaw, Poland. • Deepika won 3 of these medals as she a won a bronze each in the recurve womens individual event and recurve womens individual event and recurve mixed team pair event with partner Jayanta Talukdar. • The mens recurve team has clinched the silver medal after they lost to Mexico in a 3-5 battle in the final. Indian mens team comprising Abhishek Verma and Puvasha Shende have gained the silver medal following a tough fight with the Mexican team. State 1. A suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus, which surfaced in Chennai on 10 August night, has galvanised health authorities from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to start the groundwork to meet exigencies in Hyderabad and elsewhere. • While authorities maintained that there was no ‘clear and present’ danger from Ebola virus, precautionary measures, however, are mandatory. • Senior doctors, who have handled a similar swine flue (H1N1) outbreak in 2009-10 in Hyderabad, pointed out that there was a need to strengthen surveillance at airports by making mandatory screening of passengers coming from the four West African countries that include Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. • According to WHO, 1,800 cases of Ebola positive cases were reported from the four countries till August 6, out of which 961 were fatalities
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