Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1 August to 8 August 2021
Dear students,
We all know how essential the General Awareness/ Current Affairs portion is in every exam, whether it’s for SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, LIC, SSC, Railway, or any other government exam. As a result, we’ll be providing weekly one-liner current affairs for any future exam featuring a GA portion.
Weekly one-liner current affairs condense the most important news into a single line, which is required reading for all exams. Weekly current affairs are presented below, which will keep you updated with the weekly one-liner current affairs.
National News
- Intel launches ‘AI For All’ initiative in collaboration with CBSE
- Rajasthan Government launches ‘Mission Niryatak Bano’
- Bhubaneswar becomes first Indian city to vaccinate 100% against COVID-19
- IIT Roorkee launches Earthquake Early Warning Mobile App for Uttarakhand
- India nuclear power capacity is expected to reach 22,480 MW by 2031
- India sign MoU with Bangladesh in disaster management
International News
- Meenakashi Lekhi leads Indian delegation at G20 Culture Ministers’ Meeting
- India takes over UNSC presidency for August 2021
- Narendra Modi to become 1st Indian PM to chair UNSC debate
- Nikol Pashinyan Re-appointed as PM of Armenia
- Myanmar Military Chief, Min Aung Hlaing appointed as interim Prime Minister
- Shehroze Kashif becomes world’s youngest mountaineer to scale K2
- Germany becomes 5th country to sign ISA Framework Agreement
Banking and Financial
- GST collection recovers to a 3-month high of Rs 1.16 lac Cr. in July
- PM Modi to launch e-RUPI no need for card, net banking to redeem voucher
- Indian Bank signs MoU with SINE, IIT Bombay, for funding Start-ups and MSMEs
- SBI launches ‘SIM Binding’ feature in YONO and YONO Lite
- HDFC Bank launched ‘Dukandar Overdraft Scheme’
- RBI imposes penalty of Rs 50.35 lakh on Janalaxmi Co-operative Bank
- India and World Bank sign $250 million project to make existing dams safe and resilient
- RBI authorizes IndusInd Bank to act as an ‘Agency Bank’
- 7 Indian Companies Feature in Fortune Global 500 list for 2021, Reliance Industries tops in India
- RBI revises retail inflation projection for FY22 to 5.7%
- ICICI Prudential Life ties up with NPCI for UPI Autopay
- SEBI allows payments banks to act as investment bankers
- SBI General partners with SahiPay to offer general insurance products
Appointment and Resignation
- Deepak Das appointed as new Controller General of Accounts
- Mini Ipe appointed as LIC MD
- Bvlgari appoints Priyanka Chopra as its global brand ambassador
- Kumar Mangalam Birla steps down as Non-Executive Chairman of Vodafone Idea
- Vice Admiral SN Ghormade appointed New Vice Chief of the Naval Staff
- Dhriti Banerjee becomes 1st woman Director of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)
Awards
- Asha Bhosle to get prestigious Maharashtra Bhushan award 2021
- Cyrus Poonawala to receive Lokmanya Tilak Award
- Jagdish Bhagwati and C Rangarajan won R. Rao Gold Medal award
Defence
- 36th edition of CORPAT between India and Indonesia begins
- Operation Blue Freedom: Team of Special Forces Veterans
Science
- ISRO-NASA joint mission NISAR Satellite to be launched in 2023
- Indigenously designed INS Vikrant leaves port for maiden sea trials
Sports
- PV Sindhu bags bronze, beats He Bingjiao of China
- Sri Lanka’s Isuru Udana announces retirement
- Esteban Ocon won Hungarian GP 2021
- USA beats Mexico 1-0 to won CONCACAF Gold Cup
- Lovlina Borgohain won boxing bronze at Tokyo Olympics
- India won bronze medal in Tokyo, first Olympic medal in hockey since 1980
- Ravi Kumar Dahiya won silver in Men’s wrestling
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award renamed as Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
- Neeraj Chopra won Olympic gold medal in Javelin throw
- Bajrang Punia clinches bronze medal in men’s 65 kg wrestling at Tokyo Olympics
Book and Author
- A new book titled “Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Pulwama” is written by Manan Bhatt
- Book titled “My Own Mazagon” by Captain Ramesh Babu
Important day
- 1st August: “Muslim Women Rights Day”
- 1st August: National Mountain Climbing Day
- 22nd August: World Sanskrit Day 2021
- 6th August: Hiroshima Day
- 6th August (First Friday of August): International Beer Day
- 7th August: National Handloom Day
- 8th August: Quit India Movement Day
Obituary
- Former England bowler Mike Hendrick passes away
- World Masters gold medal winner athlete Man Kaur passes away
- Padma Shri awardee Dogri writer and poet Padma Sachdev passes away
- Olympian footballer S.S. ‘Babu’ Nayaran passes away
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