1. Former Law Minister Ashwani Kumar has been appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as his Special Envoy to visit Japan in the rank of a Cabinet Minister.
2. Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana appointed as the new Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.
3. Nishi Vasudeva became the first woman to be selected as the head of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd.
4. Ratan Thiyam was appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama Society.
5. Senior IPS officer Dilip Trivedi was appointed the Director General of CRPF by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
6. D.Bala Venkatesh Varma was appointed as the next Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva.
7. Rakesh Sethi took charge as the Executive Director of the Union Bank of India.
8. Raghuram Govind Rajan, the Chief Economic Adviser was appointed as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a time period of three years.
9. Arundhati Bhattacharya was appointed the managing director and chief financial officer of the State Bank of India.
10. Rajeev Rishi took over as the Chairman and Managing Director of Central Bank of India.
11. The former South African President Nelson Mandela was honoured with the first Lifetime Campaigner for Peace and Freedom of the Mahathir award for Global Peace while former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir received the Lifetime Campaigner for Gloabal Peace award from the Mahathir Global Peace Foundation.
12. Tata Steel was adjudged the Best Performing Integrated Steel Plant in the country for the year 2011-12.
13. Harshwanti Bisht was selected to receive the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal.
14. Vijay Singh was named a recipient of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American
Society of Civil Engineers Environmental and Water Resources Institute.
15. Andhra Pradesh Greyhounds inspector Prasad Babu was named for the highest peace time gallantry award, the Ashok Chakra, posthumously on 15 August 2013. Greyhounds is an elite commando force of Andhra Pradesh created to combat left-wing extremists.
16. Barack Obama, the US President would confer the Presidential Medal of Freedom on former US President, Bill Clinton and talk show queen, Oprah Winfrey. Clinton and Winfrey are among the 16 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for the year 2013.
17. Sugathakumari, the Malayalam poetess won the prestigious Saraswati Samman 2012 for Manalezhuthu (the Writings on the Sand), a collection of poems in Malayalam. The award was instituted by KK Birla Foundation.
18. Yasin Bhatkal, the primary conspirator in various bomb blasts in India as well as the co-founder of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), was arrested from the India-Nepal border in Bihar’s Raxaul town on 29
August 2013.
19. Malala Yousafzai won the International Children’s Peace Prize 2013. She will receive the award from
2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner and women's rights campaigner Tawakkol Karman at a ceremony in The Hague on 6 September 2013.
20. Bollywood actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan joined the UN and its
humanitarian partners to promote The World Needs More global campaign.
21. Robert Mugabe, the incumbent President of Zimbabwe sworn in for his seventh term as the President of the country.
22. Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf was indicted by an anti-terrorism court in the 2007
assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto.
23. The Delhi Police arrested one of India's 20 most wanted terrorists, Abdul Karim Tunda, from Indo-
Nepal border.
24. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won Mali's Presidential elections.
25. Hassan Rouhani took oath as the new President of Iran in the ceremony held at the Iranian Parliament in Tehran. He succeeded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the President.
26. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award was given to Ronjon Sodhi for shooting.
27. Egypt’s Vice President Mohamed Elbaradei resigned in protest over the attacks on pro Mohamed Morsi supporters in Cairo.
28. The Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Karim Khalili, was on an Official Visit to India.
29. Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki visited India as a part of four day state visit.
30. The 3rd meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs was held in New Delhi on 23-24 July 2013.
31. ComScore stated in its report that India is the world’s third largest Internet user after China and USA. At present, India has almost 74 million Internet users which is a 31 percent increase over March 2012. Significantly, three-fourths of its online population is under 35.
32. Union Ministry for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Delhi state government launched IGL Suraksha
Yojana, a group accident insurance scheme for nearly 2.5 lakh drivers of CNG run public transport vehicles in Delhi. Under the scheme, a sum of 1.5 Lakh rupees would be paid to the nominee in case of Death of a Driver.
33. Nasa’s Curiosity rover celebrated its first anniversary on Mars on 6 August 2013.
34. The three member committee that was constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment & Forests to enquire into the Adverse Environmental impact of the alleged illegal sand mining in Gautam Budh Nagar of Uttar Pradesh submitted its report to the Government. This committee was headed by Dr. Saroj.
35. GSAT–7, the first Indian exclusive defence satellite was successfully launched on 29 August 2013 by
the European space consortium Arianespace’s Ariane 5 Rocket from the Kourou Spaceport of French Guiana. This launch will push ahead India’s maritime security.
36. The government announced to release a national e-mail policy to protect privacy of email users in India. In the proposed policy all government departments and Indian embassies are being asked to use NIC server for their email correspondence. NIC server is located in India and it cannot be accessed by any foreign agency.
37. The Indian Air Force landed its C-130J Super Hercules Transport Plane at the recently-activated airstrip of Daulat Beg Oldie Sector in Ladakh. Daulat Beg Oldie lies in the area across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), where Indian and Chinese army troops faced a stand-off of about 21 days in April 2013.
38. India successfully test-fired indigenously-developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface 350 Km range Prithvi-II missile from Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore district off Odisha coast.
39. India successfully test-fired two rounds of indigenously developed Pinaka rockets from a multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) from a base at Chandipur-on-sea near Balasore, off the Odisha coast. Pinaka is an area weapon system with a range of 40 km.
40. The Director of Agni Missile Project Tessy Thomas announced that the Agni V missile would become operational by 2015, with two or three successful test firings.
41. Economic growth in India in the April-June quarter of this fiscal slipped to 4.4%, the slowest pace in at least four years, dragged down by a contraction in manufacturing and mining sectors.
42. Rating agency Moody's said Food Bill is credit negative for the Indian government because it will raise government spending on food subsidies to about 1.2% of GDP per year from an estimated
0.8% currently. Moody's currently assigns 'Baa3' rating on India, with a stable outlook. The annual financial burden after its implementation is estimated to be about Rs 1.30 lakh crore at current cost.
43. Land Acquisition Bill that aims to give a fair deal to farmers for their land for industrial use was passed by the Lok Sabha. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012"
stipulates mandatory consent of at least 70% for acquiring land for Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects and 80% for acquiring land for private companies.
44. As the Indian rupee fell below the 68-mark and global agencies painted a gloomy outlook for the economy, the government sought to reassure investors by saying there was no need for panic as the decline in the domestic currency was a reflection of "irrational sentiment."
45. Cabinet Committee on Investment cleared 36 projects worth R1.83 lakh crore across sectors such as power, roads, railways, petroleum and
natural gas. The projects approved by the CCI include 18 power projects with an investment of Rs 83,772 crore.
46. Housing prices in 22 major cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, are witnessing downward trend in April-June period compared to the previous quarter due to slowdown in demand, National Housing Bank said.
47. Railway freight traiff will go up from October 1 due to the increase in fuel cost but passenger fares will remain untouched.
48. The government set up seven member Tax Administration Reform Commission under chairmanship of Parthasarathi Shome to review tax laws and suggest ways for a stable and non-adversarial tax administration.
49. The per capita income in the country increased by 6.7% per annum during 2004-05 to 2011-12, while the percentage of poor declined by 2.2% over the period.
50. Among various religious groups, Muslims have the lowest and Sikh have highest living standard with an average per capita spending of just R32.66 and Rs 55.30 per day in a day, says an NSSO study titled “Employment and Unemployment Situation Among Major Religious Groups in India”.
2. Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana appointed as the new Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.
3. Nishi Vasudeva became the first woman to be selected as the head of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd.
4. Ratan Thiyam was appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama Society.
5. Senior IPS officer Dilip Trivedi was appointed the Director General of CRPF by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
6. D.Bala Venkatesh Varma was appointed as the next Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva.
7. Rakesh Sethi took charge as the Executive Director of the Union Bank of India.
8. Raghuram Govind Rajan, the Chief Economic Adviser was appointed as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a time period of three years.
9. Arundhati Bhattacharya was appointed the managing director and chief financial officer of the State Bank of India.
10. Rajeev Rishi took over as the Chairman and Managing Director of Central Bank of India.
11. The former South African President Nelson Mandela was honoured with the first Lifetime Campaigner for Peace and Freedom of the Mahathir award for Global Peace while former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir received the Lifetime Campaigner for Gloabal Peace award from the Mahathir Global Peace Foundation.
12. Tata Steel was adjudged the Best Performing Integrated Steel Plant in the country for the year 2011-12.
13. Harshwanti Bisht was selected to receive the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal.
14. Vijay Singh was named a recipient of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American
Society of Civil Engineers Environmental and Water Resources Institute.
15. Andhra Pradesh Greyhounds inspector Prasad Babu was named for the highest peace time gallantry award, the Ashok Chakra, posthumously on 15 August 2013. Greyhounds is an elite commando force of Andhra Pradesh created to combat left-wing extremists.
16. Barack Obama, the US President would confer the Presidential Medal of Freedom on former US President, Bill Clinton and talk show queen, Oprah Winfrey. Clinton and Winfrey are among the 16 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for the year 2013.
17. Sugathakumari, the Malayalam poetess won the prestigious Saraswati Samman 2012 for Manalezhuthu (the Writings on the Sand), a collection of poems in Malayalam. The award was instituted by KK Birla Foundation.
18. Yasin Bhatkal, the primary conspirator in various bomb blasts in India as well as the co-founder of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), was arrested from the India-Nepal border in Bihar’s Raxaul town on 29
August 2013.
19. Malala Yousafzai won the International Children’s Peace Prize 2013. She will receive the award from
2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner and women's rights campaigner Tawakkol Karman at a ceremony in The Hague on 6 September 2013.
20. Bollywood actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan joined the UN and its
humanitarian partners to promote The World Needs More global campaign.
21. Robert Mugabe, the incumbent President of Zimbabwe sworn in for his seventh term as the President of the country.
22. Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf was indicted by an anti-terrorism court in the 2007
assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto.
23. The Delhi Police arrested one of India's 20 most wanted terrorists, Abdul Karim Tunda, from Indo-
Nepal border.
24. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won Mali's Presidential elections.
25. Hassan Rouhani took oath as the new President of Iran in the ceremony held at the Iranian Parliament in Tehran. He succeeded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the President.
26. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award was given to Ronjon Sodhi for shooting.
27. Egypt’s Vice President Mohamed Elbaradei resigned in protest over the attacks on pro Mohamed Morsi supporters in Cairo.
28. The Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Karim Khalili, was on an Official Visit to India.
29. Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki visited India as a part of four day state visit.
30. The 3rd meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs was held in New Delhi on 23-24 July 2013.
31. ComScore stated in its report that India is the world’s third largest Internet user after China and USA. At present, India has almost 74 million Internet users which is a 31 percent increase over March 2012. Significantly, three-fourths of its online population is under 35.
32. Union Ministry for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Delhi state government launched IGL Suraksha
Yojana, a group accident insurance scheme for nearly 2.5 lakh drivers of CNG run public transport vehicles in Delhi. Under the scheme, a sum of 1.5 Lakh rupees would be paid to the nominee in case of Death of a Driver.
33. Nasa’s Curiosity rover celebrated its first anniversary on Mars on 6 August 2013.
34. The three member committee that was constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment & Forests to enquire into the Adverse Environmental impact of the alleged illegal sand mining in Gautam Budh Nagar of Uttar Pradesh submitted its report to the Government. This committee was headed by Dr. Saroj.
35. GSAT–7, the first Indian exclusive defence satellite was successfully launched on 29 August 2013 by
the European space consortium Arianespace’s Ariane 5 Rocket from the Kourou Spaceport of French Guiana. This launch will push ahead India’s maritime security.
36. The government announced to release a national e-mail policy to protect privacy of email users in India. In the proposed policy all government departments and Indian embassies are being asked to use NIC server for their email correspondence. NIC server is located in India and it cannot be accessed by any foreign agency.
37. The Indian Air Force landed its C-130J Super Hercules Transport Plane at the recently-activated airstrip of Daulat Beg Oldie Sector in Ladakh. Daulat Beg Oldie lies in the area across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), where Indian and Chinese army troops faced a stand-off of about 21 days in April 2013.
38. India successfully test-fired indigenously-developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface 350 Km range Prithvi-II missile from Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore district off Odisha coast.
39. India successfully test-fired two rounds of indigenously developed Pinaka rockets from a multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) from a base at Chandipur-on-sea near Balasore, off the Odisha coast. Pinaka is an area weapon system with a range of 40 km.
40. The Director of Agni Missile Project Tessy Thomas announced that the Agni V missile would become operational by 2015, with two or three successful test firings.
41. Economic growth in India in the April-June quarter of this fiscal slipped to 4.4%, the slowest pace in at least four years, dragged down by a contraction in manufacturing and mining sectors.
42. Rating agency Moody's said Food Bill is credit negative for the Indian government because it will raise government spending on food subsidies to about 1.2% of GDP per year from an estimated
0.8% currently. Moody's currently assigns 'Baa3' rating on India, with a stable outlook. The annual financial burden after its implementation is estimated to be about Rs 1.30 lakh crore at current cost.
43. Land Acquisition Bill that aims to give a fair deal to farmers for their land for industrial use was passed by the Lok Sabha. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012"
stipulates mandatory consent of at least 70% for acquiring land for Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects and 80% for acquiring land for private companies.
44. As the Indian rupee fell below the 68-mark and global agencies painted a gloomy outlook for the economy, the government sought to reassure investors by saying there was no need for panic as the decline in the domestic currency was a reflection of "irrational sentiment."
45. Cabinet Committee on Investment cleared 36 projects worth R1.83 lakh crore across sectors such as power, roads, railways, petroleum and
natural gas. The projects approved by the CCI include 18 power projects with an investment of Rs 83,772 crore.
46. Housing prices in 22 major cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, are witnessing downward trend in April-June period compared to the previous quarter due to slowdown in demand, National Housing Bank said.
47. Railway freight traiff will go up from October 1 due to the increase in fuel cost but passenger fares will remain untouched.
48. The government set up seven member Tax Administration Reform Commission under chairmanship of Parthasarathi Shome to review tax laws and suggest ways for a stable and non-adversarial tax administration.
49. The per capita income in the country increased by 6.7% per annum during 2004-05 to 2011-12, while the percentage of poor declined by 2.2% over the period.
50. Among various religious groups, Muslims have the lowest and Sikh have highest living standard with an average per capita spending of just R32.66 and Rs 55.30 per day in a day, says an NSSO study titled “Employment and Unemployment Situation Among Major Religious Groups in India”.
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