Important Current Affairs August 11,12 2018 – One liner
August 12 – International Youth Day
- Santhali (Santali), a tribal language primarily spoken in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, received global recognition when it got a Wikipedia edition in its own script.
- Union Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan dedicated India’s only facility for conservation of endangered species in Hyderabad
- Israel Opens Visa Application Centre in Kolkata
- Scientists say the powerful Indonesian earthquake that killed more than 300 people lifted the island it struck by as much as 25 centimeters (10 inches).
- NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, mankind’s first mission to ‘touch’ the Sun will perform the closest-ever observations of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona.
- A new Clot buster, PEGylated Streptokinase – a Novel Biological Entity developed by Dr. Girish Sahni, DSIR and his team of inventors at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR-IMTECH), Chandigarh is all set to revolutionize the treatment of ischemic strokes.
- Astronomers have used an Indian telescope Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in Pune to discover the most distant radio galaxy ever known, located at a distance of 12 billion light-years.
- Using zebrafish, researchers at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) have successfully discovered a pathway that regulates hepcidin hormone The hepcidin hormone, released by the liver, is a central regulator of iron in the body.
- The Indian Space Research Organisation will have a year-long Vikram Sarabhai centenary celebration starting in August 2019. It plans to roll out a dedicated ISRO TV channel. Jammu, Agartala to get Space Research Technology Centres.
- The International Skeletal Society (ISS) reached out to 45 young radiologists from across the country to build interest in them to take up musculoskeletal sub-specialisation.
- Senior lawyer B.S. Prasad – New Telangana Attorney General
- Film-maker Shaji N. Karun – General secretary of the Purogamana Kalasahitya Sangham
- Justice MR Shah – New Chief Justice of Patna High Court
- Rekha Sharma – Chairperson of the National Commission for Women
- Justice Rajendra Menon – Chief Justice of Delhi High Court
- Gita Mittal – First woman chief justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court
Eighth International HALF (Haiku Amateur Little Film) Festival
- Krishnanunni – Fourth Insight award for lifetime achievement
- Bebak Baat book – Vijay Goel [Union MoS Parliamentary Affairs and Statistics and Programme Implementation]
- Vigyan Prasar, has launched the India Science Technology and Innovation portal for information about the organisations carrying out research, those funding them.
- Viraj Madappa, the 20-year-old becomes the youngest Indian to win an Asian Golf Tour title.
- Indian shuttler Ajay Jayaram finishes runner-up at the Vietnam Open after losing the final to Shesar Hiren Rhustavito of Indonesia.
- Barcelona defender Gerard Pique confirmed that he has retired from Spain’s football national team.
- New Delhi to host shooting World Cup in 2020
- The Gay Games in Paris is not just a chance to celebrate sport and diversity: they offer crucial respite to gay athletes.
- Niki Poonacha beat Michael Look of Australia in the final of the ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament in Indonesia.
- England pace bowler James Anderson became the first man to take 100 Test wickets at Lord’s.
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