Daily Current Affairs 20th August 2013 GK News
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1. Delhi government is all set to launch food security programme from 20 August 2013. Delhi will be the first state in India to launch Union government’s food security programme.
2. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 19 August, 2013 aborted the launch of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), the GSLV-D5 mission that was to place in orbit an advanced communication satellite from Sriharikota.
3. 37 people were crushed to death at Dhamara Ghat railway station in Bihar’s Khagaria district by a superfast express train on 19 August, 2013. Which train was involved in this accident?
Saharsa – Patna Rajya Rani Express
4. A software tool that can control and reduce the outbreak of Mosquito-borne diseases by data mining (Knowledge Discovering) has been developed by scientists of the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) Hyderabad.
5. Who recently took over as the new Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament at Geneva? – D. Bala Venkatesh Varma (Varma is a 1988-batch officer of the India Foreign Service (IFS))
6. Kush Kumar of India won gold in Men’s Singles Squash at the second Asian Youth Games in Nanjing, China on 19 August 2013. This is the India’s first gold in and overall fourth medal at the second Asian Youth Games.
7. Usain Bolt of Jamaica equalled the world record of highest golds after winning the 4x100m relay at the World Athletics Championships on 18 August 2013 at Moscow, Russia.
8. The Supreme Court of India in the third week of August 2013 directed the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the State of Uttarakhand not to grant (any further) environmental/forest clearances to any of the hydroelectric power projects in Uttarakhand, till further orders.
9. Scientists from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) explained that seagrass can play a crucial role in fighting against the climate change because the plant is 35 times better in locking the carbon than the rainforests.
10. A CAG report tabled in the Parliament on 13 August 2013 concluded that the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) failed to spend a single rupee between 2009 and 2012 from the Relief to and Rehabilitation of Rape Victims.
11. Thirty-Seven pilgrims which included women as well as children were killed when the Saharsa-Patna Rajyarani Express ploughed on them at the speed of 80 kmph on 19 August 2013. The accident took place at Bihar's Khagaria district.
Read Also: Current Affairs 21st August 2013
Read Also: Current Affairs 19th August 2013
1. Delhi government is all set to launch food security programme from 20 August 2013. Delhi will be the first state in India to launch Union government’s food security programme.
2. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 19 August, 2013 aborted the launch of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), the GSLV-D5 mission that was to place in orbit an advanced communication satellite from Sriharikota.
3. 37 people were crushed to death at Dhamara Ghat railway station in Bihar’s Khagaria district by a superfast express train on 19 August, 2013. Which train was involved in this accident?
Saharsa – Patna Rajya Rani Express
4. A software tool that can control and reduce the outbreak of Mosquito-borne diseases by data mining (Knowledge Discovering) has been developed by scientists of the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) Hyderabad.
5. Who recently took over as the new Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament at Geneva? – D. Bala Venkatesh Varma (Varma is a 1988-batch officer of the India Foreign Service (IFS))
6. Kush Kumar of India won gold in Men’s Singles Squash at the second Asian Youth Games in Nanjing, China on 19 August 2013. This is the India’s first gold in and overall fourth medal at the second Asian Youth Games.
7. Usain Bolt of Jamaica equalled the world record of highest golds after winning the 4x100m relay at the World Athletics Championships on 18 August 2013 at Moscow, Russia.
8. The Supreme Court of India in the third week of August 2013 directed the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the State of Uttarakhand not to grant (any further) environmental/forest clearances to any of the hydroelectric power projects in Uttarakhand, till further orders.
9. Scientists from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) explained that seagrass can play a crucial role in fighting against the climate change because the plant is 35 times better in locking the carbon than the rainforests.
10. A CAG report tabled in the Parliament on 13 August 2013 concluded that the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) failed to spend a single rupee between 2009 and 2012 from the Relief to and Rehabilitation of Rape Victims.
11. Thirty-Seven pilgrims which included women as well as children were killed when the Saharsa-Patna Rajyarani Express ploughed on them at the speed of 80 kmph on 19 August 2013. The accident took place at Bihar's Khagaria district.
Read Also: Current Affairs 21st August 2013
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