Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 9 to 16 August 2022

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August Weekly One Liner Current Affairs Part 2

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Nowadays, the general awareness/current affairs portion is a crucial deciding factor in competitive examinations, as it decides the overall marks.

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Our weekly one-liner current affairs is basically a summary of the week’s most important news in one line.

We have given weekly one-liner current affairs below to help you study for general awareness / current affairs section and remain up to date on current events.

National News

Defence Expo to be held in Gandhinagar from Oct 18 to 22
Google launched ‘India Ki Udaan’ to celebrate 75 years of independence
Telangana launched ‘Nethanna Ku Bima’ Scheme for weavers
Samudrayaan mission to send humans 6,000 meters deep in ocean
Microsoft becomes first company to join ONDC network
Maharashtra Governor inaugurated 22nd ‘Bharat Rang Mahotsav’
Amit Shah launched onboarding of cooperatives on GeM portal
PM Modi dedicated 2nd Generation Ethanol Plant in Panipat
World’s highest railway bridge ‘Golden joint’ inaugurated on Chenab in J&K
Agasthyamalai declared as fifth elephant reserve of Tamil Nadu
Centre has revised the Atal Pension Yojana rules
India to start supplying petrol with 20% ethanol from April 2023
Odisha Government signed an MoU with National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) for protecting coastline
India added 11 more wetlands to its list of Ramsar sites; now a total 75 Ramsar sites
Bharat Biotech completed trials for India’s first intranasal vaccine
J&K Government launched Village Defence Guards Scheme
Assam CM launched 1,000 model Anganwadi centres

Banking and Financial

RBI imposed Rs 2.33 crore monetary penalty on Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd
Indian Bank signed an MoU with SRM University-AP for starts up
American Express launched Global Pay, cross border payments platform
SBI formalized policy to finance makers of lab-grown diamonds
HDFC Bank partnered with M1xchange for Trade receivables Discounting System (TReDs)
EPFOs’ Rs 1.59 lakh crore investment in ETFs rises to Rs 2.26 lakh crore
IDFC FIRST Bank partnered with LetsVenture to support startups
RBI canceled the license of Rupee Co-operative Bank, Pune
Paytm partnered with Piramal Finance to offer loans
CPI-based Retail Inflation declined to 6.71% in July 2022
Kotak Mahindra Bank launched lifestyle-focused corporate salary account “Kotak Crème”
YES Bank joined hands with IBSFIN tech to provide digital services
SBI launched Utsav fixed deposit scheme
India can be USD 5 trillion economy by FY29 if GDP grows at 9% for 5 years: Former RBI Governor D Subbarao

Appointment and Resignation

Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia’s first leftist President
Sanjay Agarwal appointed as Assistant Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Pramod Kumar appointed as CFO of Power Grid Corporation
James Marape sworn in as prime minister of Papua New Guinea
Gopal Vittal re-appointed as managing director of Airtel
Rishabh Pant appointed as brand ambassador of Uttarakhand
Argentina’s Guillermo Pablo Rios appointed as head of United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)
Government re-appointed 4 independent directors; Satish Kashinath Marathe, Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Revathy Iyer, and Sachin Chaturvedi on central board of RBI
Government appointed 11 new High Court Judges in Punjab & Haryana

Awards

Dalai Lama honoured with Ladakh’s highest civilian award
Prof Ramadhar becomes first Indian psychologist on US Heritage Wall of Fame
Aarya Walvekar crowned Miss India USA 2022
Marina Tabassum won Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Lifetime Achievement Award
Shashi Tharoor received France’s highest civilian honour Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur
1082 Police personnel awarded Police Medals in 2022

Defence

Indian Army launched ‘Him Drone-a-thon’ programme
India and USA commenced joint exercise ‘Vajra Prahar 2022
India conducted bilateral exercise ‘Udarashakti’ with Malaysia

Science

ISRO launched India’s 1st virtual space museum named SPARK

Sports

CWG 2022: Lakshya Sen won gold medal in men’s singles badminton
CWG 2022: Satwik and Chirag pair won gold in men’s doubles badminton
CWG 2022: Sharath Kamal won gold medal in Table Tennis men’s singles
CWG 2022: India finished fourth with 61 medals comprising 22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze
Prabath Jayasuriya and Emma Lamb won ICC Player of the Month Awards for July 2022
Tennis legend Serena Williams announced retirement
44th Chess Olympiad concluded; India’s men & women team won bronze medal
Sunil Chhetri and Manisha Kalyan named AIFF Footballer of Year
Bhavani Devi won gold medal at Commonwealth Fencing Championships 2022
First edition of Women’s IPL will be held in March 2023
1st Khelo India Women’s Hockey League (U-16) to be held in New Delhi
Asia’s Oldest tournament Durand Cup starts on August 16

Book and Author

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) published new book titled ‘Field Guide, Birds of India’

Important day

9 August – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (Theme 2022 – The Role of Indigenous Women in the Preservation and Transmission of Traditional Knowledge)
8 August – Quit India Movement Day
10 August – World Biofuel Day
10 August – World Lion Day
12 August – International Youth Day (Theme – Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages)
12 August (Shraavana Poornima): World Sanskrit Diwas 2022
13 August: International Lefthanders Day
13 August: World Organ Donation Day (Theme 2022: “let’s pledge to donate organs and save lives”.)
14 August: Partition Horrors Remembrance Day
15 August 2022 – Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary