-Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal regains the No. 1 spot in world Badminton rankings.
-FM A Jaitley launched two funds schemes by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
Two funds-
1.)India Aspiration Fund (IAF) with Rs 2000 crore.
2.) SIDBI Make In India Loan For Enterprises (SMILE) scheme with an investment size of Rs 10,000 crore.
-Moon's atmosphere contains Neon - NASA.
NASA spacecraft confirmed for the first time that the Moon's thin atmosphere contains neon, a gas commonly used in electric signs on Earth because of its intense glow.
-China successfully tests power system for largest space rocket
China successfully tested Power system (engines) of its stated to be the largest space launch vehicle viz. Long March-5 carrier.
- Three Indian companies among
world's most innovative firms:
Forbes : Hindustan Unilever Limited, TCS and Sun Pharma.
-20 August is observed as Sadbhavna Divas. The day is birthday of Rajiv Gandhi.
-NASA satellites to predict
hurricane paths by studying
their cores.
NASA is building CYGNSS (Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System), a flock of eight microsatellites that should
track hurricanes more effectively.
First ever satellites to look at the inner core of a storm, giving them a good estimate of the wind speeds and thus the path of those swirling air currents.
-The US will help Uttar Pradesh in developing Allahabad as a 'smart city' , US Ambassador to India Richard R. Verma.
-Australia's Retired Cricketer's Adam Gilchrist to be Australia Education Ambassador to India.
-UPSC Aspirants those who didn't appeared in 2011 to get one more chance. Central Administrative Tribunal.
-Gabala- the place in Azerbaijan which recently hosted the shooting World Cup 2015.
-SDG- stands for Sustainable Development Goals of UN that entail 17 goals and 169 targets applicable from January 1, 2016 which will replace the Millennium Development Goals 2015. These goals are to be met by 2030 by 192 countries.
-BrahMos- the new series of this missile has been renamed BrahMos-II(K)-the K in its stands as tribute to former President APJ6Abdul Kalam who fired India's missile and nuclear programme.
-60- the shortest first innings score in Test history which was scored by Australia recently in the fourth Test match against England at Nottingham.
-Planet discovered three times larger than Jupiter.
Discovered BY:
Chilean astronomer Maritza Soto.
Location:
Around 290 million light years from Earth.
New Designation: HD 110014 c. Work Published in a journal of the London Royal Astronomical Society.
-US Army launched the largest NATO airborne drills in Europe since the end of the Cold War, to enhance '' security and stability in the region.
-FIPIC Summit.
The 2nd Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) Summit, being hosted by India in Jaipur. India is expected to push for deeper engagement with 14 resource-rich Pacific Island nations strategically important South Pacific region where China has strong presence.
-RBI grants 'in-principle' approval to 11 applicants for payments banks.
Valid for 18 months.
A payments bank is a type of non-full service niche bank in India. A bank licensed as a payments bank can only receive deposits and provide remittances. It can't carry out lending activities. Created to help India reach its financial inclusion targets.
-Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE), celebrated the 40th anniversary of its launch on August 1. Marking the first major India-U.S. partnership in space, SITE and NASA's s first direct broadcasting satellite to beam television programmes to remote Indian villages.
-The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant II (Kanupp II) with the capacity to produce 1,100 MW electricity is being built with the assistance of China.Nawaz Sharif inaugurated construction work on a China-backed $10 billion nuclear power plant.
-The Allahabad High Court had ordered that all government employees, public representatives and judges have to mandatory send their children to government schools.
-Russia agreed to sell four MI-35 attack helicopters to Pakistan,
India is also having 20 MI-35 HIND E attack helicopters , which may be replaced by Boeing AH-64D Apache.
-PAK refuses to Commonwealth meet venue changes from Islamabad to New York :Commonwealth Parliamentary Union.
-BIG acronym for Bhuvan, Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) and GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN).
Bhuvan Ganga Mobile Application will enable people to shoot pictures of polluted area along the Ganga. Pictures can be sent to National Mission for Clean Ganga server for necessary action.
-NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has a first up-close look at Pluto and sends photos and signals back from Pluto from almost 5 billion kilometres away.
Pluto is the first Kuiper Belt object visited by a mission from Earth.
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