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Current Affairs August 2018 Monthly PDF Capsule:<\/h1>\n

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Important Appointments August 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>
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Re-elected as the President of Zimbabwe<\/td>\nEmmerson Mnangagwa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elected as President of Columbia<\/td>\nIvan Duque<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Re-elected as President of Mali<\/td>\nIbrahim Boubacar Keita<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elected as the President of Paraguay<\/td>\nMario Abdo Benitez<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as new Ambassador of India to Russia<\/td>\nD Bala Venkatesh Varma<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Elected as the Chair of International Nitrogen Initiative<\/td>\nN Raghuram<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
First Indian to be appointed as member of ICANN panel<\/td>\nAjay Data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Vice President of South West Asian Football Federation<\/td>\nSubrata Dutta<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Re-appointed as chairperson of TRAI till 2020<\/td>\nR S Sharma<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Part time members on board of Reserve Bank of India<\/td>\nS Gurumurthy and Satish Marathe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as members of Central Board of Direct Taxes<\/td>\nAditya Vikram
\nPramod Chandra Mody<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Director and General Manager of United India Insurance Company Ltd<\/td>\nS Gopakumar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as CEO of PM Fasal Bima Yojana<\/td>\nAshish Kumar Bhutani<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as the deputy chairperson of Rajya Sabha<\/td>\nHarivansh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Head Coach of Indian Women Cricket Team<\/td>\nRamesh Powar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as the Director (Finance) of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd<\/td>\nC B Ananthakrishnan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Re-appointed as the Non- Executive Director on board of HDFC<\/td>\nDeepak Parekh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as MD of Dedicated Freight Corporation of India Ltd<\/td>\nAnurag Sachan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Chairman of Marine Products Export Development Authority<\/td>\nK S Srinivas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed Independent Director of India Bulls Housing Finance<\/td>\nS S Mundra
\nFormer
\nRBI Deputy Governor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Government of India has approved extension of tenure of Non- Executive Chairman of Canara Bank<\/td>\nNarayanasamy Manoharan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Government of India has approved extension of tenure of Non- Executive Chairman of Bank of India<\/td>\nGopalraman Padmanabhan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Chief Justice of Madras High Court<\/td>\nJustice Vijaya Kamlesh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as the Chief Justice of J and K High Court<\/td>\nGita Mittal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court<\/td>\nAniruddha Bose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court<\/td>\nRajendra Menon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Chief Justice of Patna High Court<\/td>\nM R Shah<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Chief Justice of Odisha High Court<\/td>\nKalpesh Satyendra Jhaveri<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Chairman of Appellate Tribunal for Electricity<\/td>\nManjula Chellur<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as chairperson of National Commission for Women<\/td>\nRekha Sharma<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appointed as Member, National Commission for protection of Child Rights<\/td>\nR G Anand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Download\u00a0Countries \u2013 Capitals \u2013 Currencies recently in News PDF<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Chief Justices of High Courts and Judges in Supreme Court<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Judges of High Court appointed as the Judges in Supreme Court<\/p>\n

Chief Justices of
\nMadras High Court<\/strong>
\nIndira Banerjee
\nUttarakhand High Court<\/strong>
\nKM Joseph
\nOdisha High Court
\nVineet Saran<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\nAdditional Charge as Governor of Chhattisgarh\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2013 Anandiben Patel<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nImportant Awards and Recognitions August 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Indian Australian Mathematician, who won prestigious fields medal at the International Congress of Mathematics in Rio de Janeiro<\/td>\nAkshay Venkatesh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Recipient of the 2018 UEFA President\u2019s award by the European football governing body<\/td>\nDavid Beckham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2013<\/td>\nDr. Najma Heptullah<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2014<\/td>\nHukum Dev Narayan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2015<\/td>\nGhulam Nabi Azad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2016<\/td>\nDinesh Trivedi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2017<\/td>\nBhartruhari Mahtab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
As per a poll conducted by BBC History Magazine, Nobel award winning scientist who has topped the \u201cwomen who changed the world list\u201d<\/td>\nMarie Curie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
India\u2019s first tribal language to get its own Wikipedia edition in Ol chiki script<\/td>\nSanthali<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nao Sena Gallantry Award approved by president of India for all six women crew members of the Indian vessel team which circumnavigated the globe<\/td>\nINS Tarini<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Legion of Merit bestowed by the government of USA on which Indian army personnel<\/td>\nGeneral Dalbir Singh Suhag
\nRetired Chief of Army Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Recipient of the WHO World No Tobacco 2018 prize<\/td>\nS K Arora<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Recipient of the 2018 Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award<\/td>\nGopal Krishna Gandhi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Bank which has been adjudged as the World\u2019s best bank for digital innovation by global finance magazine<\/td>\nDBS Bank, Singapore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the years 2013 \u2013 2017 awarded by president<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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Indian Banking Conclave 2018 which was organized by Center for Economic Policy Research was held in the city, NITI Aayog was the knowledge partner<\/td>\nNew Delhi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The bank which has surpassed Yes Bank as the 7th<\/sup> most valuable country in India in terms of market capitalization<\/td>\nBandhan bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A unified payment terminal POS machine \u2013 MOPAD, has been launched by which of the following banks recently<\/td>\nState Bank of India<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pay U signed an MoU with which organizations for offering personal loans via LazyPay<\/td>\nReliance Money<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The first of its kind in India, an Iris based authentication for Aadhaar enabled transactions has been introduced by which bank<\/td>\nAxis Bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A renewed version of UPI (Unified Payment Interface) UPI 2.0 has been recently unveiled by whom,
\nfour new features have been added
\na) Invoice in the Inbox
\nb) Signed Intent\/ QR
\nc) UPI Mandate with block of funds
\nd) UPI for overdraft account<\/td>\n		Dr. Urjit Patel<\/p>\n

Governor
\nReserve Bank of India<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

As per the third bi-monthly policy review by RBI
\nKey Policy Rates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Repo Rate<\/td>\n6.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reverse Repo Rate<\/td>\n6.25%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bank Rate<\/td>\n6.75%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marginal Standing Facility<\/td>\n6.75%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cash Reserve Ratio<\/td>\n4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Statutory Liquidity Ratio<\/td>\n19.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Foreign Bank which received Reserve Bank of India\u2019s approval recently to operate in the country<\/td>\nSBM Bank (India)
\nState Bank of Mauritius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reserve Bank of India has recently barred a payments bank from accepting new customers after its violation of norms regarding deposits taken by the payments bank in existing accounts<\/td>\nFino tech payments bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
As per the RBI\u2019s annual report published in august 2018, country which remained as the top source of inward remittances for 2017-18<\/td>\nUAE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reserve Bank of India has transferred how much amount to government of India as a surplus for the year 2017-18<\/td>\nRs 50,000 Crore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
As per the recent estimate of growth of India\u2019s GDP by RBI, what is the expected GDP growth rate for the year 2018-19<\/td>\n7.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NABARD has sanctioned how much amount for 8 water projects in the state of Haryana from the rural infrastructure development fund<\/td>\nRs 722 Crore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The small finance bank which has launched an overdraft facility for medium and small enterprises<\/td>\nUjjivan Small Finance Bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Some important points to note from the recently \u00a0published All India financial inclusion survey 2016-17<\/p>\n

NABARD which was released by Rajiv Kumar Vice Chairman \u2013 NITI Aayog<\/td>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Agricultural house holds accounted 48% of rural households<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 88.1% of the rural households have a bank account
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Average monthly income of the total rural households for 2015-16 is Rs 8059<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

World\u2019s first block chain public bond \u201cBondi bond\u201d introduced and being managed by which international financial institution<\/td>\nWorld Bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Public Sector Bank which topped the list of total number of digital transactions as per the recent report published by department of financial services<\/td>\nPunjab National Bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Company which has launched the commodity trading with MCX<\/td>\nAxis Securities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Government of India has recently signed a loan agreement of USD 250 million with world bank for supporting electrical DISCOM companies in which state<\/td>\nRajasthan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Government of India has signed a loan agreement of how much amount with Asian development bank for providing safe and sustainable drinking water facilities in the state of West Bengal<\/td>\nUSD 245 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
India\u2019s GDP growth estimate for the year 2019-20 by International Monetary Fund<\/td>\n7.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
India\u2019s GDP growth estimate for the year 2018-19 by National Council of Applied Economic Research<\/td>\n7.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
India\u2019s GDP growth estimate for the year 2018-19 by FICCI\u2019s economic outlook survey<\/td>\n7.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
India\u2019s GDP growth estimate for the year 2018-19 by India Ratings Research<\/td>\n7.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
India\u2019s GDP growth estimate for the year 2018-19 and 2019-20 by Moody Investor Services<\/td>\n7.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Company which has partnered with Indian railways IRCTC rail connect for facilitating convenient payments<\/td>\nPhone Pe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Organized which has launched an initiative RUCO \u2013 (repurpose used cooking oil) for collecting and converting of used cooking oil into biofuel<\/td>\nFSSAI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Country which has surpassed japan as the country with the world\u2019s largest current account surplus as per IFO institute<\/td>\nGermany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
First Indian company to surpass Rs 8 trillion market capitalization<\/td>\nReliance Industries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Government of India has signed a loan agreement of how much amount with the world bank for improving the energy efficiency programme in India<\/td>\nUSD 300 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Government of India has signed a loan agreement of USD 375 million with which international organizations \u00a0for improving the irrigation projects in Madhya Pradesh<\/td>\nAsian Development Bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

National Affairs August 2018<\/span>
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