Current Affairs. 29th August 2015.

Current Affairs. 29th August 2015.

- Sania Mirza conferred with India's highest sports award Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.

- Vodafone India Ltd, India's 2nd largest telco, will launch 4G services by the end of the year.

- Nasa launches online tools to let users explore Mars.
_Mars Trek simulates 3-D based actual data from Curiosity and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, giving users first-hand experience in a day in the life of a Mars rover

- Pak set to have world's third largest nuclear arsenal in 10 years. Currently behind USA, Russia, France, UK and China, and marginally ahead of  India.

- After LPG now Govt to transfer food and kerosene Subsidies  directly into the bank accounts of beneficiaries under DBT Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme to eliminate fraud and eliminate Subsidies.

- Kudos, Indian women's hockey team qualifies for the Olympics after a long gap of 36 years as it qualified for next year's Rio Games, courtesy England making it to the final of the ongoing EuroHockey Championships in London.
_International Hockey Federation (FIH) confirmed that Indian women's team qualified for the Rio Games.

- Barcelona's Lionel Messi wins UEFA Best Player in Europe award.

- Mo Farah of Britain poses after winning the men's 5000 metres final at the 15th IAAF Championships at the National Stadium in Beijing, China.

- 7th pay commission is to be implemented from January 2016
_Targe audience- 50 lakh central government employees including railways nd defence
_Head- Retd SC judge Ashok kumar mathur
_Members- Vivek Rae, Rathin Roy, Meena aggarwal.

- NASA robot to build biggest rocket parts for Mars mission
_ giant robot is helping Nasa engineers to build the largest, lightweight composite rocket parts ever developed for future space vehicles to deeper manned missions including Mars exploration.
_The robot installed at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Centre in Alabama, is one of the largest composites manufacturing robots
created in America.

- Nasa launches online tools to let users explore Mars
_Mars Trek simulates 3-D based actual data from Curiosity and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, giving users first-hand experience in a day in the life of a Mars rover
_Mars Trek is a free, web-based application that provides high-quality, detailed visualisations of the planet using real data from 50 years of Nasa exploration and allowing astronomers, citizen scientists and students to study the red planet’s features.

-  NASA year long Mars isolation Mission Started.
_NASA Mars Mission. Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping Nasa prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars.