August 2018 current affairs

# Summer Olympics: Los Angeles to host 2028 Games and Paris gets 2024.

# Usain Bolt was beaten by Justin Gatlin and in100m race final at IAAFWorld Championships in London.

# The Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University (RGNAU) - India’s first-ever aviation university- Fursatganj in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh.

# Manipur’s Nungthang Tampak has become India’s second 100 percent computer literate village.

# The apex court has banned fireworks manufacturers from using five substances - lithium, antimony, mercury, arsenic and lead.

# Preethi Srinivasan, the former State under-19 cricket captain, was awarded Kalpana Chawla Award from Tamil Nadu.

# India’s first private sector missile sub-systems manufacturing facility, a joint venture between the $2.5 billion Kalyani Group and Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd., was inaugurated near Hyderabad.

# 75 years of Quit India Movement.

# PM interacted with Young Entrepreneurs at the "Champions of Change" initiative organised by NITI Aayog

# Navika Sagar Parikrama is a project wherein a team of women officers of the Indian Navy would circumnavigate the globe on an Indian-built sail boat INSV Tarini.

# The government has cleared the proposal of developing Ghantasala village inKrishna District, Andhra Pradesh as one of the prime Buddhist tourist spots.

# The Supreme Court has given the verdict in Aadhar case that the individualinformation is Fundamental Right according to the Indian Constitution.

# YUVA is a skill development programme and an initiative by Delhi Police under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY).

# The 15th BIMSTEC ministerial meeting was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 11 August.The Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline (TAPI), also known as Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, is a natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank.

# The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. global nuclear watchdog, opened a uranium bank in Kazakhstan.

# The Finance Ministry has imposed a five year anti-dumping duty on Sodium Nitrite imports from China.

# The government launched a portal, e-RaKAM, to provide a platform to sell agricultural produce.

# The National Biopharma Mission, named Innovate in India (i3), is the first ever Industry-Academia mission to accelerate biopharmaceutical development in India in India.

# ISRO and NASA are working towards realisation of NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission by 2021.

# Microsoft launches Project Brainwave for real-time Artificial Intelligence.

# Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry launched ‘Gaj Yatra’ , a nationwide campaign to protect elephants on the occasion of World Elephant Day (August 12).

# Cabinet has given the approval for the completion of North Koel reservoir project in Jharkhand and Bihar.

# ‘Indira Canteen Scheme’ was launched in Bengaluru, Karnataka

# Coconut palm declared as State tree of Goa.

# India’s first micro forest will be built in Raipur, Chattisgarh.

# Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched 'She Means Business' programme of Facebook for women entrepreneurs in Odisha.

# Gobindobhog rice, a specialty from Burdwan district of West Bengal, has got the geographical indication (GI) status.

# Renowned scientist Pushpa Mitra Bhargava, the founder director of CSIR-Centre for Cellular Molecular Biology (CCMB) Hyderabad, passed away.

# Ustad Hussain Sayeeduddin Dagar, one of the foremost exponents of the Dhrupad tradition, died.

# Sprint legend Milkha Singh has been appointed as the World Health Organisation's goodwill ambassador for physical activity in South-East Asia Region (SEAR).