Important Current Affairs August 8 2018 – One liner
- Ahead of Independence Day, the Centre has urged all citizens not to use national flag made up of plastic and asked states and Union Territories to ensure strict compliance of the flag code.
- ‘Independent India – 70’, a memorial to commemorate the 70th Independence Day, by Mallasajjana Vyayamashala in front of Gandhi Bhavan, Karnataka will be inaugurated on August 9.
- A new breastfeeding policy has come into effect in Rajasthan for encouraging the rural communities to promote exclusive breastfeeding along with its early initiation.
- The Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve, Sikkim has become the 11th Biosphere Reserve from India that has been included in the UNESCO designated World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR).
- ‘Kalaignar’ M. Karunanidhi, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief, passes away aged 94.
- Pakistan and Russia have signed an agreement to allow Pakistani troops to receive training at Russian military training institutes.
- Tokyo 2020 will be the first Olympics to deploy facial recognition technology to increase security around all venues.
- Astronomers pooled data from NASA’s Kepler and the ESA’s Gaia space telescopes. They confirmed existence of these 44 exoplanets and described various details about them.
- The government doubled import duty on as many as 328 textile products to 20 per cent to provide a boost to the manufacturing of these items in the country.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) on August 21, 2018.
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will transfer Rs.50,000 crore surplus to the government of India for the year ended June 30, 2018.
- The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approvedS. retail giant Walmart’s proposed acquisition of Flipkart.
- Samsung to invest billions in artificial intelligence, biopharmaceuticals.
- Maharashtra Government has announced a special assistance of 500 crore rupees for OBC community to help them develop employment opportunities for the youth at the 3rd National Convention of Rashtriya OBC Mahasangh.
- Gurumurthy & Satish Kashinath Marathe – Part time non-official directors on the central board of Reserve Bank of India
Jal Bachao, Video Banao, Puraskar Pao Contest
- Shreshth Sahu, Satish Mewada and Gopal Prajapati – For spreading awareness about water conservation
- Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Aviation Suresh Prabhu launched Niryat Mitra, mobile App in New Delhi developed by the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO).
- Britain registered an historic sprint double at the European Championships, winning the gold medal in the men’s and women’s 100 m races at the same edition of the event for the first time.
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