★☆★ August 2013 Current Affairs Bytes - Part I ★☆★ *************************************** ✔ Dinesh K Sarraf Recommended to be Next ONGC Chief. ✔ Nobel Laureate Irish writer Seamus Heaney died ✔ Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana Appointed New Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. ✔ Justice K.N.Basha Appointed as Chairman of the Intellectual Property Appellate Tribunal. ✔ 30 August was declared as the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances by the UN General Assembly. ✔ Robert Mugabe sworn in for 7th term as President of Zimbabwe. ✔ Telugu writer, novelist and columnist, Malathi Chandur, died in Chennai on 21 August 2013. ✔ 30-AUG-2013: GSAT-7, the first Indian defence satellite was launched by the European Arianespace’s Ariane 5 Rocket from the Kourou Spaceport of French Guiana. ✔ Typhoon Trami affected 3.61 Lakh People in China ✔ Scientists discovered new Super-Heavy Element with Atomic Number 115. The scientists have not named it yet but for time being it will be referred as, Ununpentium. ✔ Yasin Bhatkal, the Co-Founder of Indian Mujahideen, Arrested From Bihar. ✔ China and Pakistan to hold Joint Air Exercise called Shaheen (Eagle)-2. ✔ China rejected the proposal of Japan to hold talks on disputed Sekaku and Diaoyu islands. ✔ National Sports Day Observed on 29 August ✔ Nelson Mandela became the First Recipient of the Mahathir Award for Global Peace. ✔ Kerala state government laid the foundation stone of a Life Sciences Park, called Bio 360. ✔ Kapil Parakh Selected for White House Fellowship 2013-14. #VishnuPriya
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:00:01 +0000
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