Important Current Affairs August 6 2018 – One liner
August 6 – Hiroshima Day
- The National Academy of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi(LKA), established by the then Education Minister MaulanaAbulKalam Azad, celebrated its 64th Foundation Day, the 6th August, 2018. The event was inaugurated by Minister of State for Culture (I/c), Mahesh Sharma.
- Shri Hardeep S Puri, Minister of State (I/C) for Housing and Urban Affairs launched the official trailer, music and poster of Bollywood film “Halkaa” under the aegis of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), in New Delhi.
- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will unveil the world’s first-ever thermal battery in his Andhra Pradesh manufactured by the Bharat Energy Storage Technology Private Limited (BEST).
- The transit campus of the Central University of Andhra Pradesh inaugurated and dedicated by Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar at the IT Business Incubation Centre at the JNTU.
- Syria’s government is to set up a committee to coordinate repatriating millions of its nationals who fled the country’s seven-year conflict.
- China successfully tested its first cutting-edge hypersonic aircraft (The Xingkong-2 or Starry Sky-2) which could carry nuclear warheads and penetrate any current generation anti-missile defence systems.
- IIT- Madras has developed the first of a family of six industry-standard microprocessors. The initial batch of 300 chips named RISECREEK and produced under Project Shakti, have been fabricated free at Intel’s facility at Oregon, U.S., to run the Linux operating system.
- Ranchi Ranjit Srivastava has developed Indian version of ‘Sophia,’ a social humanoid robot developed by a Hong Kong based company, named Rashmi which can speak Hindi, Bhojpuri and Marathi along with English.
- NITI Aayog’s International Conference on “Sustainable Growth through Material Recycling: Policy Prescriptions” was inaugurated by the Union Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi.
- Startup India launched the Startup Academia Alliance programme, a unique mentorship opportunity between academic scholars and startups working to reduce the gap between scientific research and its industrial applications in order to increase the efficacy of these technologies and to widen their impact.
- NITI Aayog has identified 117 districts as ‘Aspirational Districts’ under Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) Scheme.
- Ishan Vikas is coordinated by IIT Guwahati, selected school children from North Eastern States are brought in close contact with the IITs, IISERs and NIAS. Ishan Uday Scholarship Scheme is administered by University Grants Commission (UGC).
- Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme aims to increase Research & Development in Electronics and Information Technology.
- Exercise Maitree is a joint military exercise between Indian Army and Royal Thai Army in Thailand.
- Government has announced that it will bring out an industry friendly Defence Production Policy 2018 to promote domestic production by public sector, private sector and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
- Shri Nitin Gadkari launched Bidder Information Management System (BIMS) and Bhoomi Rashi and PFMS linkage – two IT initiatives of the Road Transport & Highways
- Justin Thomas won the World Golf Championships (WGC) Bridgestone Invitational golf.
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