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CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 22nd AUGUST 2022

Editor1 Aug 23 2022 Current Affairs

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF  22nd AUGUST 2022

  1. International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or belief, observed on 22 August.  
  2. India has launched the first indigenously-developed RT-PCR kit for testing monkeypox disease.
  3. Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has launched the ‘Vidya Rath-School on Wheels’ project.
  4. Museums in the Scottish city of Glasgow on 19 August, 2022 signed an agreement with the Indian govt to repatriate seven stolen artefacts to India.
  5. National Skill Development Corporation in partnership with Seva Bharti and Yuva Vikas Society on 20 August, 2022 launched the 2nd phase of the ‘Grameen Udyami Project’ in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
  6. Former Governor of Jharkhand, Syed Sibtey Razi passed away on 20 August, 2022 in Lucknow.
  7. The Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) has signed an MoU with the Chhattisgarh govt for setting up a regional testing laboratory in Raipur district.
  8. Vijay Shekhar Sharma has been reappointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of financial services platform Paytm.
  9. The Maritime Partnership Exercise (MPX) between the navies of India and Australia concluded on 20 August, 2022. 
  10. 17 year old wrestler, Antim Panghal on 19 August, 2022 became the first Indian woman wrestler to win the Gold medal at the U-20 World Wrestling Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
  11.  Indian para shuttlers Pramod Bhagat and Sukant Kadam won the Gold medal at the Thailand Para-Badminton International tournament held in Pattaya.
  12.  Chhattisgarh govt has announced to set up 300 rural industrial parks in the state to boost and strengthen the village economy.
  13.  A new book titled ‘NETAJI: Subhas Chandra Bose’s Life, Politics and Struggle’ penned by late scholar and former Member of Parliament Krishna Bose was unveiled on the eve of 76th Independence Day.
  14.  Rajesh Verma, a 1987-batch Odisha cadre IAS officer has been appointed as the Secretary to the President of India Droupadi Murmu by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
  15. A new species of bat named Miniopterus Phillipsi has been discovered in India and Sri Lanka by a team of 13 renowned researchers using DNA barcoded specimens.

 

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