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Current Affairs of August 2014

Latest Current Affairs updated 31 August 2014

The Kabaddi league team owned by Abhishek Bachcahn which has won the inaugural STAR
ProKabaddi League tournament defeating U Mumba in the finals at Mumbai
The institute at which foundation stone for world's first Natural World Heritage Centre was laid by
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate
Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar
The Indian badminton player who has won the bronze medal at World Badminton Championships
(at Copenhagen, China) losing to Ratchanok Inthanon of Thailand in the semifinals

Jaipur Pink
Panthers
Wildlife Institute
of India,
Dehradun
P.V. Sindhu

Eight (Bodo,
Dogri, Hindi,
The number of languages covered by .bharat domain name launched by Government of India in the
Konkani, Maithili,
Devanagari script
Marathi, Nepali,
and Sindhi)
NASA probe launched in January 2006, which passed planet Neptune's orbit on 25.08.2014,
nearly 25 years after Voyager 2 spacecraft executed the first-ever flyby of faraway Neptune and its New Horizons
icy moon Triton
World's largest e-retailer which has acquired video-game streaming service site Twitch for 970
Amazon
million dollars
Thailand' army chief who assumed power as the country's new Prime Minister three months after Gen Prayuth
having seized power in a military coup in May 2014
Chan-ocha
The noted English actor, film director, film producer who died on 24.08.2014 (he was the director Richard
and producer of the award winning film, Gandhi)
Attenborough
The indigenously built (by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers) stealth anti-submarine warfare
corvette which has been commissioned into the Indian Navy by the Defence Minister Shri Arun
INS Kamorta
Jaitley
The well-known writer and critic in Kannada language, Jnanpith Award winner (1994) and Padma U.R.
Bhushan (1998) who died in Bengaluru on 22.08.2014
Ananthamurthy

The well-known filmmaker and poet who has been awarded the 2014 Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Muzaffar Ali
Award
The renowned yoga teacher, Padma Vibhushan (2014), Padma Bhushan (2002), who died in Pune
B.K.S. Iyengar
on 20.08.2014 at the age of 95
The Indian born British author who has been awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award by
Salman Rushdie
Denmark
The place in Rajasthan at which India's first skill development centre was inaugurated by the Chief
Jaipur
Minister Vasundhara Raje
The scheme launched by the Prime Minster Mr. Narendra Modi to help the poor open bank
Pradhan Mantri
accounts which with a facility of a debit card and an insurance cover of Rs 1 lakh is named
Jan Dhan Yojana
American actor, comedian, winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his
performance in Good Will Hunting who died on 11.08.14 (his films included Mrs. Doubtfire,
Robin Williams
Jumanji, Night at the Museum)
The Italian cofee brand which has decided to exit from coffee shop business in India by selling off its
Lavazza
Barista brand to Carnation Hospitality
The Indian atomic power station which has become the second nuclear plant in the world, after
Rajasthan Atomic
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station at Ontario, Canada to run continuously for 739 days
Power Station
Pran Kumar
The creator of lovable comic character Chacha Chaudhary, who breathed his last on 06.08.2014
Sharma
The African nation which has become the second nation to declare an Ebola emergency after the
disease showed no signs of slowing(Note: 1. Earlier in July, Sierra Leone had declared similar
emergency 2. WHO has also declared Ebola outbreak as an international health emergency. 3.
Liberia
Guinea, which was the first country to be hit by Ebola has also declared a national emergency and
so has Nigeria)
The woman Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court who has adminstered oath of office by Governor
Manjula Chellur
Keshari Nath Tripathi
The spacecraft launched in 2004 by European Space Agency which has reached the Comet 67P/
Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) after a journey of 10 years, 5 months and four days crossing a
Rosetta
distance of 6.4 billion km
India's first multi-sensor moored observatory (designed and developed by ESSO-NIOT and
ESSO-NCAOR with ESSO-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS),
IndARC
Hyderabad) which was successfully deployed in Kongsfjorden Fjord of the Arctic from the
Norwegian Polar Institute's research vessel R.V. Lance
Advanced Light
The type of helicopters of the Indian Air Force which were temporarily grounded following a
Helicopter
helicopter crash in Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh
(Dhruv)
The province located in the south-west China where a 6.5 magnitude earthquake has left over 400
Yunnan province
people dead (its epicentre was at Longtoushan Township, Ludian County)
The noted film maker, social worker and sufi poet who has been chosen for the Rajiv Gandhi
Muzaffar Ali
National Sadbhavana Award
The senior IRS officer who has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Central Board of Direct
KV Chowdhary
Taxes (CBDT) following the retirement of Shri RK Tiwari
The ship belonging to environmental organisation Greenpeace which was released by Russian
authorities after being held for nearly a year when two Greenpeace activists boarded a Russian oil

Arctic Sunrise

rig to protest againsts oil drilling plans in the Arctic

New Governors
Rajasthan : Shri Kalyan Singh
Karnataka : Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala
Maharashtra : Ch. Vidyasagar Rao
Goa : Mridula Sinha

RBI's new directive on use of ATMs

1. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reduced free transactions for savings bank account holders at other-bank
ATMs from five to three a month in six metros.
2. This is applicable for transactions done at ATMs in Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and
Hyderabad.
3. The reduction will not apply to customers having no-frills or small basic savings bank deposit account (BSBDA)
type of accounts as well as for transactions done by savings bank account holders at ATMs situated outside
these six metros.
4. The banks are free to offer free transactions above this mandated limit.
5. The RBI has also advised banks to provide their savings bank account holders with at least five free transactions
a month at their own ATMs.
6. Banks can levy transaction charges (not exceeding Rs 20 plus taxes per transaction), which are decided in a
transparent manner for transactions above the free limit.

International Mathematical Union Awards 2014

The following are the winners of various awards at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of
Mathematicians 2014 on August 13, 2014.
Fields Medal (started in 1936): Artur Avila, Manjul Bhargava, Martin Hairer, Maryam Mirzakhani
Rolf Nevanlinna Prize 2014 (started in 1982): Subhash Khot
Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics 2014 (started in 2006): Stanley Osher
Chern Medal Award 2014 (started in 2010): Phillip Griffiths
Leelavati Prize 2014 (started in 2010): Adrian Paenza

Ramon Magsaysay Award Winners 2014

Awardee Employment/Occupation
Hu Shuli

Saur
Marlina
Manurung
Omara
Khan
Masoudi

Awarded for
For her unrelenting commitment to truthful, relevant, and unassailable
Founder and Editor-injournalism, her fearless promotion of transparency and accountability in
chief, Caixin Media
business and public governance, and her leadership in blazing the way for
Group, Beijing, China
more professional and independent-minded media practices in China.
For her ennobling passion to protect and improve the lives of Indonesias
Director and Co-Founder,
forest people, and her energizing leadership of volunteers in SOKOLAs
SOKOLA, Bekasi,
customized education program that is sensitive to the lifeways of indigenous
Indonesia
communities and the unique development challenges they face.
For his courage, labor, and leadership in protecting Afghan cultural heritage,
Director, National
rebuilding an institution vital for Afghanistans future, and reminding his
Museum of Afghanistan countrymen and peoples everywhere that in recognizing humanitys shared
patrimony, we can be inspired to stand together in peace.

For the social vision and high-level professionalism of its founders and those
Non-government
who run its schools, in successfully pursuing their conviction that, with
The Citizens
organization based in
sustained civic responsiveness, quality education made available to all
Foundation
Pakistan
irrespective of religion, gender, or economic statusis the key to Pakistans
brighter future.
For his discerning and forceful leadershipthrough scholarly work,
Founder and Standing
disciplined advocacy, and pro bono public interest litigationin ensuring that
Wang
Director, Beijing Huanzhu
the enlightened and competent practice of environmental law in China
Canfa
Law Firm (BJHZLF),
effectively protects the rights and lives of victims of environmental abuse,
China
especially the poor and the powerless.
Randy
School In-Charge,
For his purposeful dedication in nurturing his Matigsalug students and their
Halasan, for Pegalongan Elementary
community to transform their lives through quality education and sustainable
Emergent School, Davao City,
livelihoods, doing so in ways that respect their uniqueness and preserve their
Leadership Philippines
integrity as indigenous peoples in a modernizing Philippines.

Commonwealth Games - Points to Remember

Venue: Glasgow, Scotland
No of participating countries: 71
The maximum number of medals were won by P. Bezzoubenko of Canada in Gymnastics Rhythmic and E. McKeon of
Australia in Swimming - 6 each.

Medals Tally
Rank Country
1.
England
2.
Australia

Gold Silver Bronze Total

58 59
57
174
49 42
46
137

3.
4.
5.
6.

Canada
32
Scotland
19
India
15
New Zealand 14

16
15
30
14

34
19
19
17

82
53
64
45

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