AUGUST 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS ARE HERE. TAKE A LOOK. ----------—-----—------—-------—---- 1)Pak army chief Gen Raheel Sharif appointed as mediator to diffuse political crisis. 2)Yohan Diniz broke 50km walk record at European athletics championship 3)Noted historian Bipin Chandra passed away. He was recently awarded ITIHAS RATNA 4)Baba Kalyani re-nominated as co- chairman of India-Japan Business Leaders Energy 5)Adani Enterprises bought Charmichael Australia coal mine royalty rights from LincEnergy/ 6)Samsung unveiled 12 sports ratna for 17thAsian Games. The theme of the program bySamsung was Our Games Our pride 7)Harry Belafonte receives Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Oscar 8)ONGC board approved 5219 crore rupeesinvestment in Daman Gas field 9)Supreme court rejects the plea of Gujaratgovt on moving Gir lions rom Gir National park to Kuno Palpur wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh 10)Centuries old Omari Mosque in Gaza destroyed 11)National Sports Day - 29th August 12)CCEA approved urea production from naptha 13)God of Antarctica written by 13 yr oldYashwardhan Shukla 14)PM Narendra Modi launched Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna Minimum Insurance amount - Rs. 100000/- Minimum overdraft amount - Rs. 5000/- Type - No frills Account Tag line - Mera Khata Bhagya Vidhata 15)CCEA approved swapping of SOS village land in Borjhar,Assam with AirportAuthority of Samsung Mobile India (AAI) airport land 16)Shah Rukh khan became ambassador ofturn back crime campaign of interpol 17)Tata Value Homes and Snapdeal tied upt0 sell homes online 18)Albania, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Italy, France and UK joined USA in arming kurdish forces of Iraq against ISIS. 19)DLF limited to pay 630 crore Rupees as imposed by CCI 20)Union Finance Ministry ordered forensic audit of Dena Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce and UCO Bank 21)Cox & Kings Ltd got outsourcing contract of Deccan Odessey for 5 yrs. 22)Reliance Jio Infocomm signed tower sharing deal with BSNL . 23)Archaeologists found two ancient mayan cities Lagunita and Tamchen 24)C.S.Verma - First president of Indian Steel Association 25)AVIA INDRA 2014 - Indo Russian maiden aerial exercise at Astrakhan 26)Historic Maharishi Valmiki swami jee temple faces demolition in Pakistan 27)Accenture obtained contract t o build an IT platform for crowd funding PM Narendra Modis dream project Statue of Unity 28)Statue of Unity (182 metre statue of Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel) to be built bt L&T Limited at Narmada district of Gujarat 29)Ramesh Chand Tayal - CRPF director General 30)R.N.Ravi - Chief of Joint Intelligence 31)Not just an Accountant authored by former CAG Vinod Rai 32)Japan to offer anti-viral drug Favipiravir to treat Ebola 33)Google is building Knowledge Vault that stores information readable by both human and machine 34)Seema Malhotre - Shadow Minister of UK 35)Richard Attenborough, the Oscar winning film GANDHI passed away 36)Textile Ministry signed MoU with Flipkart to provide marketing platform to handloom weavers. 37) Indias first IIEST (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology) inaugurated by Pranab Mukherjee in West Bengal 38)INS Kamrota India 1st indigenously built stealth warship comissioned to Indian Navy 39)PM Narendra Modi announced Pradhan Mantri Krishi Seenchayi Yojna 40) Weightlifter Ragala Venkat Rahul won first medal for India at 2nd youth Olympics 41)T.M Bhasin - Chairman of Indian Banking Association 42) Guru Hanuman Akhara - 2014 Rashtriya Khel protsahan purashkar 43)Faisalabad Agri University conferred MS Swminathan (Father of Indian green revolution) with a honorary degree. 44)Glenmark Pharma unveiled new anti- cancer drug GBR1302 45)Muzaffar Ali - Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award 46)Manipur court orders release of Irom Sharmila Chanu (Iron Lady of Manipur). However she was again arrested foe her sucidal tendency. 47)worlds 1st Hindu eco-temple - Swami Narayan Mandir in UK 48)India to be launch pad for AMAZONs plan to deliver using drones. 49)ICICI Bank - First bank in India to launch EMI facility on Debit Card 50)Yoga guru B.K.S.Iyengar passed away
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