# Key General Awareness Points contd.... 16.Vinod Kumar Duggal resigned as Manipur Governor. 17.Sheila Dikshit submitted her resignation as Kerala Governor to The President of India. 18.President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards. i.BJP leader Arun Jaitley received the award for the year 2010 ii.Congress Veteran Karan Singh received the award for the year 2011 iii.JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav received the award for the year for 2012 19.Maharashtra governor K Sankaranarayanan resigned. 20.Nuri al-Maliki resigned as the Prime Minister of Iraq and accepted the candidacy of Dr. Haider al- Abadi, who was nominated by the President of Iraq Fouad Masoum to form the new government. 21.Mamta Sharma, Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) demitted office. 22.Deputy National Security Adviser Nehchal Sandhu. 23.Syrian Golan Heights was in news in the fifth week of August 2014 after forty-three UN Peacekeepers from Fiji were held as hostage by an armed group of rebels. 24.Indian Army discovered a tunnel in the Pallanwalla sector along the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir. 25.Bipan Chandra, former professor of history, died. 26.Oscar-winning British filmmaker and actor Richard Attenborough died. Richard Attenborough was renowned for his critically-acclaimed biopic on Mahatma Gandhi. 27.UR Ananthamurthy, an eminent Kannada writer died. 28.World-renowned yoga guru B. K.S Iyengar died. 29.Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams was found dead at his home. 30.Pran Kumar Sharma, the eminent cartoonist who created the comic book character like Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu died.
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