Current Affairs of August 2013 Month on Various Topics Like Sports, Science and Technology, National and International Events, Books and Authors, Awards, Appointments, Summits and Schemes.
Appointments
- Rajeev Rishi is new CMD of Central Bank
- Arundhati Bhattacharya Appointed managing director of SBI
- Robert Mugabe re-elected as president of Zimbabwe
- Hassan Rohani sworn in as Iran’s president.
- Raghuram Rajan appointed as the New Governor of RBI.
- Dilip Trivedi has been appointed as the new chief of the country’s largest paramilitary force CRPF.
- Ashwani Kumar appointed as prime minister’s special Envoy to Japan.
- Nishi Vasudeva selected as the First woman to head the Oil company, HPCL.
- D. Bala venkatest varma appointed Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmanment.
- Vinay Mittal appointed as Union Public Service Commission(UPSC) Member.
Summits and Schemes
- Karnataka Launched “Ksheera Bhagya” Scheme.
- Rajya Sabha passed ‘Companies Bill 2013’.
- Uttar Pradesh launched ‘Bhumi Sena Scheme’.
- Rajya sabha passed the ‘Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill’ 2012.
- India & Bangladesh signed MoU on Textiles cooperation.
- Sonia Gandhi launched ‘Food Security Scheme’ in Delhi.
- The third meeting of the WMCC on India- China Border talks held in New Delhi.
Persons in News
- SAARC Goodwill Ambassador Runa visited India.
- Former union minister Devendra Prasad yadav Died.
- Chad foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat visited India.
- Former Nepal Prime Minister Man Singh Shrestha died.
- Former cricketer Kalyan Mitter died.
- Kapil Dev’s former coach Desh Prem Azad died.
- Vice president of Afghanistan Mohammed Karim Khalili visited India.
- Taukelina Finikaso, the foreign Minister of Tuvalu visited India.
National
- Indian’s DRDO Launches explosive detection kit in US
- Karnataka Becomes first state to Establish Calamities relief fund.
- Union Cabinet approved the setting up of ‘Bharatiya Mahila Bank’.
- India Signs DTAC protocol with Morocco.
- Ibrahim Boubacar Keita wins Mali presidential election.
- India become the world’s third largest Internet user country.
International
- Australia’s most powerful super computer, Raijin, was unveiled.
- Japan sends world’s first talking robot into space.
- Egypt vice presinder ELBaradei resigned.
Sports
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- India won Bronze Medal at junior women Hockey world cup.
- Parimarjan Negi won politiken cup.
- Franklin wins record 6 Golds at world swimming championships.
- Samantha Stosur won Carlsbad open Tennis Title.
- Sharapova Tops ‘Forbes’ list of Best paid female athletes.
- PV Sindhu won Bronze medal at world badminton championships.
- Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon won women’s singles title after defeated Li Xuerui in the final at the world badminton championships at Guangzhou.
- China’s Lin Dan reinforced his claim to being the greatest badminton player in history after he defeated arch rival Malanusian Lee Chong wei in the world championship final to become the first man to win five world singles titles.
- China’s top seeds Xiaoli Wang and Yang Yu won the women’s doubles title after defeated south korea’s Hye Won Eom and Ye Na Jang in final.
- Hendra Setiawan and Muhammad Ahsan ( Indonesia ) won the title ,after defeated Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen (Denmark) in the final.
- Tontowi Ahmad and Lilyana Natsir (Indonesia) won the title ,after defeated Xu Chen and Ma Jin (China) in the final.
- Arjun Award for virat Kohli, PV Sindhu and Ronjan Sodhi gets Khel Ratna Award.
- Marion Bartoli retires from Tennis.
Science and Technology
- Astronomers discovered lowest mass exoplanet around a Sun like star.
- India launched first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier ‘INS Vikrant’.
- India successfully test fired capable ‘Prithvi-II’ Missile.
- Astronomers solved Mystery of Magellanic Stream’s origin.
Books and Authors
- “My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions” by Abdul Kalam released.
- Hamid Ansari released Book entitles Ghalib & His Times, a book by Ghalib Institute.
- The Moonballer book by Nirupama Vaidyanathan launched.
Awards and Honours.
- Nelson Mandela, former South African President won the insugiral Mahathir Award for global peace.
- Vijay Singh was names a Recipient of 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Important Dates
- The French government announced 19 August as the World Photography Day.
- 12 August is observed as the International Youth Day.
- International Day of the world’s Indigenous people observed on 9 August.
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