Current Affairs, August 2014

Current Affairs August 2014

Current Affairs, 18th August 2014

• Narendra Modi-may replace Planning Commission by five-member think tank soon.
• Indian-origin student have discover and measures mysterious black hole of the universe.
• WikiLeaks founder Assange will have to leave Ecuador embassy 'soon'.
• Cong, SP slam Mohan Bhagwat of RSS for calling India as Hindu nation.
• 8,000-year-old one gene is key to Tibetans' high altitude adaptation.
• Facebook have offered free internet access to Zambians.
• Gujarat bypolls will be litmus test for CM Anandiben Patel.
• The Mongol conqueror Ghengis Khan was died on 18th Aug 1227. 
• The "Evening Post" of Boston, MA, was published on 18th Aug 1735 for the first time. 
• The Bureau of Immigration was established on 18th Aug 1894 by the U.S. Congress.
• Abraham Lincoln's birthplace was became a national shrine on 18th Aug 1916.
• 71 German aircraft were shot down on 18th Aug 1940 above England
• "Lolita" the Vladimir Nabokov's novel was published on 18th Aug 1958. 
• The very first pictures of earth was taken from moon orbit were sent on 18th Aug 1966 back to the U.S.

Current Affairs, 17th August 2014

• Ace number theorist Manjul Bhargava, who have recently won the Fields Medal, says Make teaching in India more creative.
• Pak anti-govt protesters have demanded 'corrupt' PM Sharif to step down.
• A statue of Mahatma Gandhi would be soon erected outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
• Home Minister Rajnath promises unbiased cooperation to all states.
• Sensex reclaims 26,000 mark once again; it is up by 3% to end at 3-week high.
• The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia on 17th Aug 1790 from New York City.
• British parliament started accepting registration of birth/marriage/death from 17th Aug 1836.
• The nationalists of Indonesia had declared their independence on 17th Aug 1945 from the Netherlands.
• Koreas was divided on 38th parallel on 17th Aug 1945 with US occupying the southern area.
• The Communist East Germany government on 17th Aug 1961 had completed the construction of the Berlin Wall.
• Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel on 17th Aug 1988 were killed in a plane crash.

Current Affairs, 16th August 2014

• Amit Shah BJP chief has announced new team, Varun Gandhi is dropped as general secretary.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has commissioned INS Kolkata, India's largest built warship indigenously, at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.
• Bypoll on Sept 13 to seats which is vacated by Modi, Mulayam.
• Jihadists killed dozens in north Iraq, massacre on, say officials
• Singham Returns is biggest opener of 2014, earns Rs. 30 crore on day one.
• Precious metal Gold and silver have edges up on modest investment offtake.
• Google Inc is now buying JetPac Inc, the company designs social travel applications.
• Some whitening creams used in food may contain toxic mercury.
• Gold first discovered in Klondike, on 16th Aug 1896 at Bonanza Creek, Alaska
• Edwin Prescott had patented his roller coaster on 16th Aug 1898.
• Fiat Motors had ordered on 16th Aug 1955 the 1st private atomic reactor.
• Cyprus was granted independence on 16th Aug 1960 by Britain.
• Chandrika Kumaratungo's party had won the Sri Lanka elections on 16th Aug 1994.

Current Affairs, 15th August 2014

• PM Modi vision in I-Day speech as Skilled India is our mission.
• 'Zero defect, zero effect' to 'Make in India', wow effect of Modi's jugglery with words.
• MERC has granted 25-year power distribution licence to Tata Power.
• Kerala school have not given permission to sing Vande Mataram in a dance programme.
• Asteroid which ‘could wipe out human life’ heading towards Earth, scientists found out.
• Rains creates havoc again in Uttarakhand, 16 were killed.
• 176 Kanpur schoolchildren were reported ill after eating I-Day sweets.
• Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was killed on 15th Aug 1057 by the son of King Duncan. 
• Panama City was founded on 15th Aug 1519.
• Victory over Japan Day by US, on 15th Aug 1945 the end of World War Two.
• India received independence on 15th Aug 1947 from Britain and it was divided into 2 countries of India and Pakistan. India was under British rule for about 200 years. 
• "The Republic of Korea" was proclaimed on 15th Aug 1948. 
• 8.6 magnitude earthquake occured in India on 15th Aug 1950 which killed 20,000 to 30,000 people.
• Bahrain gained independence on 15th Aug 1971 from Britain

Current Affairs, 14th August 2014

• Parliament has approved historic law to overturn the collegium system.
• ISIS militants have seized many towns and villages in Syria.
• India have asked hospital in Nigeria to return Indian doctors' passports to return back to country.
• Nitish-Lalu reunion against BJP after 23 years a ‘flop show’
• President Mukherjee says in I-Day-eve speech that the Signs of economic revival are visible. 
• 400 Flipkart employees are become crorepatis within 10yrs.
• Cisco to lay off 6,000 people worldwide now India turn to also see job cuts.
• Two sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit from Kolhapur Maharashtra,  may become the first women to be hanged in India
• July WPI inflation has hit five-month low at 5.19%
• 1st US eye hospital,in the US, the NY Eye Infirmary,was openedon 14th Aug 1820 in NYC
• Japan's first patent was issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint on 14th Aug 1885.
• Social Security Act had become law in US on 14th Aug 1935
• Pakistan became independent before India from British rule on 14th Aug 1947. 

Current Affairs, 13th August 2014

• Shanti Bhushan questioned Kejriwal for his 'competence' AAP defends Kejeriwal.
• Iran-born Maryam Mirzakhani a Stanford professor and first woman to win Nobel Prize of maths, she is a Harvard-educated mathematician and professor at Stanford University in California.
• Eduardo Campos, a Brazilian presidential candidate today died in jet crash.
• Top 5 richest Indians accounts for half of the nation's billionaire wealth. 
• After Nitish Laloo handshake Mayawati has reject Mulayam's alliance proposal.
• Railway ministry have launched next gen e-ticketing system.
• IIT-Bombay launched three MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)  services and it could be the answer for world’s huge student population. 
• iBerry will be launching smartphone with fingerprint sensor.
• The American Flag on 13th Aug 1846 for the first time was raised in Los Angeles, California. 
• Invention of stainless steel on 13th Aug 1913 by Harry Brearley took place in Sheffield, England.
• The first two-way conversation on 13th Aug 1960 via satellite was undertaken using Echo 1.
• Construction of the Berlin Wall was started on 13th Aug 1961 in East Germany.
• Iraq transferred on 13th Aug 1990, $3-4 billion in bullion, currency, and other seized goods from Kuwait to Baghdad. 

Current Affairs, 12th August 2014

• PM Narendra Modi has condemn Pakistan for waging 'proxy war' against India.
• Defence Minisater Arun Jaitley says US is the biggest arms supplier to India in last 3 years. 
• At population of 240 million, India has one third of child marriages in the world.
• Test all-rounder in latest ICC rankings finds that R Ashwin is numbero Uno.
• Sonia blame Modi govt over spurt in communal violence, allegations were negated by minister.
• No panic movement yet by Indians from west Africa on account of Ebola outbreak.
• Bangalore teacher have abused at least 7 girls for 45 days.
• Oh Captain, My Captain!: RobinWilliams is no more, RIP to RobinWilliams.
• Now, VIP jab is ready that can protect against malaria.
• New 9.7-inch iPad tablets soon be produced by Apple suppliers.
• Chicago was founded on 12th Aug 1833.
• Thomas Edison had invented the phonograph and on 12th Aug 1877 made the first sound recording.
• The Soviet Union secretly tested on 12th Aug 1953 its first hydrogen bomb. 
• IBM had launched on 12th Aug 1981 its first PC.
• A Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed on 12th Aug 1985 into a mountain all 520 people were killed.
• Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion on 12th Aug 1998 as restitution to Holocaust victims of World War II .

Current Affairs, 11th August 2014

• TRS MP Kavitha has Sedition case against her over Telangana, J-K comments, that she   booked for saying Telangana and J&K forcefully annexed to India.
• Nitish, Lalu alliance again vs BJP, its new political drama and see who Bihar will bet on?
• Justice Katju just after couple of weeks drops another blog bomb, targets ex-CJI Balakrishnan.
• Scientists have generated electricity from silk worm cocoons.
• Varun Gandhi says that The real shoots of economic revival depend on agriculture. 
• Coca-Cola will have Rs. 1,000-crore bottling plant in Telangana.
• Rajan RBI Governor backs govt idea to have bank accounts for all.
• Hyundai launches Elite i20 to suite wider market at Rs. 4.89 lakh as starting price.
• Spanish Ebola patient will gets experimental drug.
• Newsreel pictures of U.S. presidential candidates were taken on 11th Aug 1924 for the first time. 
• Al-Qaeda was formed on 11th Aug 1988.
• Voyager 2 had discovered 2 partial rings of Neptune on 11th 1989.
• 11/08/1995 - President Clinton had banned all U.S. nuclear tests. 

Current Affairs, 10th August 2014

• Barack Obama US president warns of ‘long-term’ Iraq strikes,  says ending Iraq crisis could be a 'long-term project'.
• Narendra Modi, calls Amit Shah man of the match of LS polls 2014.
• US offers defence tech to India with big data cyber security. 
• US defence secretary narrates that only in India a tea-seller's son can become PM.
• Zuckerberg 'threatened', a published Book says, to behead under-performing staff with sword. 
• No compromise will be accepted on peace and harmony matters, says Modi.
• IIT-H will ready to hike up student intake to 9k by 2021.
• CAT 2014 has to make scaling process public before exams.
• China will be launching remote-sensing satellite soon.
• British Traveler John Cabot tells his trip to "Asia" to King Henry VII on 10th Aug 1497.
• In Boston, MA, on 10th Aug 1859 the first milk inspectors were appointed. 
• Parliament Act in Britain on 10th Aug 1911 had reduced power of House of Lords.
• Austria-Hungary during World War I on 10th Aug 1914 invaded Russia. 

Current Affairs, 9th August 2014

• India, US are agreed on arms deal, but technology transfer has remain the key issue.
• US warplanes had bomb Islamist fighters when marching on Iraq's Kurdish capital.
• Women have taken up night patrolling to keep thieves away in Bihar village.
• Sebi has fined Reliance Ind. Rs. 13 crore for earning dilution.
• Maharashtra is ready to detect Ebola-infected air passengers before entering into the country.
• CBI have launched probe into IDBI Bank which have given loan to Kingfisher airline.
• Pankaj Parakh,  NCP corporator from Yeola had wore a 4-kg gold shirt worth Rs 1.40 crore for his 45th birthday celebration also flaunted gold ornaments of weight approx 2.25kg. 
• Captain Cook reached Australia on 9th Aug 1778 to Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits.
• 1st US steam engine train had ran between Albany to Schenectady in NY on 9th Aug 1831.
• The escalator was patented on 9th Aug 1859 by Nathan Ames. 
• A.J. Fisher had received a patent on 9th Aug 1910 for the electric washing machine. 
• The U.S. dropped second atomic bomb on 9th Aug 1945 on Nagasaki after Hiroshima on 6th Aug 1945 . Almost 74,000 people were reported killed later Japan surrendered on August 14. 
• The first network television broadcast was occurred in Washington, DC on 9th Aug 1945. The program was announced the bombing of Nagasaki.
• Singapore received its independence from the Malaysian Federation.

Current Affairs, 8th August 2014

• Obama authorizes targeted airstrikes against Islamic militants in Iraq to stop 'genocide' by ISIS jihadists.   
• Govt says that Kamla Beniwal has caused Rs. 1,200 crore loss to the Gujarat as governor. 
• Congress Party says that they want Priyanka's leadership role in the party.
• SpiceJet promoter Maran wants to sell majority stake of the airline and have offered first to original owner.
• BSF jawan Satyasheel Yadav, was swept into Pakistan by strong Chenab river currents and Pakistan Rangers picked up him, may be released today.
• HC have decides 3-year-old murder case in just 30 minutes.
• Nirbhaya effect? Delhi have 30% drop in foreign tourists due to the nirbhaya effect.
• Ex-BJP leader Jaswant Singh in coma and he is in 'very critical' condition.
• Minister Maneka Gandhi has endorsed Akshay Kumar's Entertainment slogan for using dog 'with respect'.
• The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya was crowned on 8th Aug 1509, marking the beginning of the Vijayanagara Empire.
• Red Cross society was formed in Geneva on 8th Aug 1864.
• Thomas Edison had patented mimeograph on 8th Aug 1876.
• A.T. Marshall had patented The refrigerator on 8th Aug 1899. 
• India agreed to give Bhutan 32 sq miles on 8th Aug 1946.
• Bhutan, land of Dragon, on 8th Aug 1949 became an independent monarchy
• The U.N. Security Council had approved on 8th Aug 1991 North and South Korea for UN membership. 

Current Affairs, 7th August 2014

• New Bill have introduced to let minors be tried as adults for heinous crimes.
• 44,700 Indians living in different countries which are affected by Ebola, the govt is taking  precautionary measures to prevent this disease from spreading to India.
• 'Unconditional Extension' was backed by Israel of Gaza ceasefire, Hamas says yet no agreement.
• Kamla Beniwal the Mizoram governor was axed for ‘misuse’ of Gujarat office. 
• Report says 70% from India, China students are in US of international engineering colleges. 
• UK Sikhs have demanded a monument recognizing Sikh contribution in World War I.
• Goodbye Pran: Creator of Chacha Chaudhry and the gang died yesterday. 
• The U.S. War Department & Lighthouse Service was established on 7th Aug 1789 by U.S. Congress. 
• 1st potatoes were planted in Hawaii on 7th Aug 1820.
• IBM introduced the first program-controlled calculator best known as the Harvard Mark I, was introduced on 7th Aug 1944 and it was the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator.
• 1st computer chess tournament was organised on 7th Aug 1970.
• "The Washington Star" after 128 years of publication, ceased on 7th Aug 1981 all its operations. 
• 200,000 people were evacuated from Shanghai China on 7th Aug 2012 in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui.

Current Affairs, 6th August 2014

• Friends and equals: Modi's trip to Nepal has brought neighbour Nepal closer to India.
• Govt has tpday called all-party meet to save insurance bill; Oppn holds firm
• Indian security agencies have identified almost 10 Young Indian men have joined ISIS call for jihad in West Asia
• Door Darshan, after 55 years, goes global, signs MoU with a German firm.
• Ratan Tata may invest personal investment in e-tailer Snapdeal.
• India is home of 14,800 multimillionaires. Mumbai, the only Indian city to enter in the top 30 cities. 
• UPSC exam row over Civil Services Aptitude Test, a compulsory part of Civil Services Examination: Ex-bureaucrats opposes govt's move on English.
• Britain may review students visa policy which may affect Indian students.
• RBI have injected Rs 40,000 crore to holds rates.
• 1945 -Enola Gay, The American B-29 bomber, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area on 6th Aug 1945. The bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped (8:16am Japanese time) at the center of Hiroshima, Japan.  Over 140,000 people were killed in the city.  
• US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on 6th Aug 1965 prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities.
• Timothy Dalton Licence to Kill fame became the fourth actor on 6th Aug 1986 to be named "James Bond."
• President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn on 6th Aug 1990 dismissed Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan.

Current Affairs, 5th August 2014

• RBI retains the key rates so home, auto loan EMIs will remain intact.
• UK's 1st Muslim woman minister Sayeeda Warsi quits over the govt's Gaza policy
• Milk price went up by 14.50% in last 1 year where as GDP is expected to grow 5.5% in the current fiscal year.
• Israel withdraws ground force troops, 72-hour Gaza truce begins now.
• 44 Kerala nurses from Libya today arrived in Kochi.
• One lakh engineering seats are still vacant in Tamil Nadu state.
• Salman Khan has toppled Aamir's record, movie "Kick" enters the Rs. 200-crore club.
• BJP holds the UPA government responsible for UPSC row of CSAT.
• Fiat car Manufacturer is to launch a compact car Punto Evo @ Rs. 4.55 lakh.
• Henry I was crowned as King of England on 5th Aug 1100 in Westminster Abbey.
• 1st partition of Poland took place on 5th Aug 1772 between Austria, Russia & Prussia.
• 1st travelers checks were issued on 5th Aug 1891 by American Express.
• The electric traffic lights on 5th Aug 1914 were installed in Cleveland, (Ohio) in US. 
• Britain, USA & USSR had signed a nuclear test ban treaty on 5th Aug 1963.

Current Affairs, 4th August 2014

• In Gwalior a woman additional district and sessions judge has quit her job after accusing of sexual harassment by a judge of Gwalior bench in M P HC .
• English marks won't be counted says Govt, UPSC aspirants vow to continue fight and want 'scrapping' of CSAT paper.
• CWG: Charges against Indian officials, IOA secretary general Rajeev Mehta and wrestling referee Virender Malik,  were dropped due to lack of evidence.
• 44 nurses from Libya will be reaching Kerala tomorrow. 
• Thailand wants to expand its railway to link to India and China.
• Modi's two-day visit in over 17 years, first by an Indian prime minister , has been marked as a milestone to take the tenuous relations between the two neighbours to new heights.
• PM Narendra Modi had visited Pashupatinath temple and offered 2,500 kg of sandalwood.
• Today is 100 years on from World War 1 so Lights to go out across Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has asked the Citizen. 
• British landmarks like Trafalgar Square will be dark from 10pm and all Britons to switch off all but a single light in their homes for an hour.
• George Washington in US has become a Master Mason on 4th Aug 1753. 
• Saturday Evening Post's 1st edition was published on 4th Aug 1821 and published until 1969.
• US government collected its 1st income tax on 4th Aug 1862.
• Britain declared war on 4th Aug 1914 on Germany in World War I but The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality.
• The first potato flake plant was established on 4th Aug 1958 in Grand Forks, ND.

Current Affairs, 3rd August 2014

• River Kosi flood threat, Bihar on alert and seeks Army help, massive evacuation to start for  around 1.5 lakh people.
• In the Glasgow Games India has won total 13 gold, 23 silver and 16 bronze medals so far, Dipika, Joshana win gold in doubles, give India first squash medal in CWG.
• India has granted residential visa to Taslima Nasreen, controversial writer of Bangladesh.
• CBI have arrested Syndicate Bank CMD for taking bribe. 
• China has started expanding the world's deepest underground laboratory in southwest Sichuan province, where experiments on mysterious "dark matter" are conducted by scientists.  
• Microsoft sues South Korean giant Samsung in US, alleging breaching a contract for licensing of technology used in the competitive smartphone.
• In Delhi more than 11,000 buses and ring railway to be introduced to help reduce air pollution.
• Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in US was founded by Mr. Firestone on 3rd Aug 1900. 
• Bedloe's Island had changed its name to Liberty Island on 3rd Aug 1956. 
• Hurricane "Celia" has become the most expensive Gulf storm in history on 3rd Aug 1970.
• 1994 - 1st Jordanian plane was flew over Israeli airspace on 3rd Aug 1994 and it was piloted by King Hussein.

Current Affairs,2nd August 2014

• "I am more concerned about the small Indian farmer, even though I believe the trade facilitation agreement is good for India," says Modi as India stays firm and blocks WTO deal on food subsidy. 
• 103% productivity recorded of the 16th Lok Sabha, which is sharp contrast to the 15th Lok Sabha that had worked for only 61% of the scheduled time.
• Natwar Singh's another remark on Gandhi family says that Fire missing in Rahul Gandhi's belly. 
• US Senate has approved $225m for Israeli 'Iron Dome' system.
• Sheila Ex CM of Delhi has spent Rs. 3,000 crore on regularisation of illegal colonies to provide the most basic amenities such as roads and drainage, sewer and water lines in Delhi but failed, the CAG has said.
• Ebola Virus, the deadly virus in blood moving faster than control efforts and toll reaches 729 in west Africa, found WHO. 
• HC asks HRD ministry to consider lateral entry into IITs/NITs.  
• Tamil Nadu is soon to introduce 163 new courses in Arts and Science colleges
• Day 9 of CWG 2014: India have won 3 silvers and 2 bronzes; 5 more medals may be assured.
• Centre eyes on zero-tax rate on petro products under unified GST, which is also known as VAT or the value added tax in amny countries.
• 1st US census was conducted on 2nd Aug 1790 that counted for population of 3,939,214, 697,624 are slaves. 
• 1st Lincoln head pennies in the US was minted on 2nd Aug 1909.
• Fifth Avenue in New York City, was opened today on 2nd Aug 1824. 
• Albert Einstein signed a letter on 2nd Aug 1939 to President Roosevelt urging that the U.S. should have an atomic weapons research program. 

Current Affairs, 1st August 2014

• Kerry offers to partner in India's growth of Modi’s vision, but US snooping on BJP is unacceptable as Sushma opposes US spying on India.
• WTO deal on customs rules 'stuck' as India demanded concessions and holds its ground, which fails WTO to reach $1 trillion deal.
• Landslide tragedy: It seems Maharashtra has ignored ecological warnings on Malin.
• K Natwar Singh, former Gandhi family loyalist, coined up another political storm on  Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origins. 
• CWG Day 8, Gowda wins gold for discus whereas wrestlers Yogeshwar and Babita shine. 
• Gurgaon flat owners awarded Rs. 33cr by Consumer court for faulty elevators.
• Lower home sales affected DLF quarterly profit to falls 29%.
• The Goldfinch, Pulitzer winning novel will be on the big screen soon.
• Christopher Columbus was landed on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela) on 1st Aug 1498. 
• Bank of England's foundations was laid on 1st Aug 1732. 
• British empire  outlawed the Slavery on 1st Aug 1834 with an emancipation bill.
• Andrew S. Hallidie had successfully tested a cable car on 1st Aug 1873.
• Shredded wheat was patented on 1st Aug 1893 by Henry Perky and William Ford. 
• The first Jeep was produced on 1st Aug 1941.
• The first aluminum-faced building was completed on 1st Aug 1953, It was the first of its kind in America.