National And International Current Affairs For The Monthe Of August


  • French scientists had detected the subtype virus which causes AIDS. This virus belong to Monkeys.

  • Deep Joshi, who had struggled for the development of village people was selected for the 2009 Raman Megasasay award.

  • Srilanka had won the ODI series against Pakistan.

  • Spanish football club had insured the leg of Christiano Ronaldo for 90 crores.

  • Ahmedi Nejad had sworn in as the President of Iran for the 2nd time.

  • Union Law minister of Turkey, Mehmut Ali was elected as the new president by the Turkey parliament.

  • Tehrik-e-Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in the drone attacks of America.

  • 7th peace mayors summit was commenced in Washington on August 8.

  • India origin lawyer Khanna was appointed as the Deputy minister for the International finance department of America.

  • Indian President will visit Britian for 3 days from October 27 on invitation from the Queen Elizabeth.

  • Indian origin Preet Bharara was appointed as the Attorney of Manhattan in New York city.

  • Typhoon Morakot had hit the Taiwan, which cause great damage to property and life.

  • G.Rajakarthikeya was appointed in the "Democrcacy International of America" organisation, which is set up to probe the Afghan elections which will commence on August 20.

  • Jharkhand governor had announced the state as drought hit.

  • Nandita Das was appointed as the president of children movie association.

  • Under the supervision of Santan Agarwal IIT Kanpur students had designed the nano satellite named "Jugnu" which gives the information about floods and droughts that happen on Earth.

  • India's first Swine flu death was recorded when 14year old Reeda Sheikh was died in Jehangir hospital, Pune(Maharashtra).

  • 'Khabar Lehariya', news paper published by the Uttar Pradesh woman was selected for "King Sezang" literary prize of UNO.

  • Parliament has approved the Free and Compulsory Primary education bill on August 5.

  • Banker T.Narayanaswami was apponted as the M.D and C.E.O of United Stock Exchange.

  • World news papers and Publishers association (WAN-INFRA) had presented the world young readers award fo the magazine Malayala Manorama of Kerala.

  • Marathi director Paresh Mokashini was selected fot he "Gollapudi Srinivas International" award.

  • Indian governament had agreed to buy the Camov-31 helicoptors from Russia.
  • Margaret Alwa was sworn in as the governor of Uttarakhand.

  • M.P Prakash Javadekar was nominated as the member of Press council of India.

  • Nalsar university has awarded honorary doctorate to the Union Law minister Verappa Moily.

  • World Badminton championship games are started on August 9 in Hyderabad.

  • Raja-Laxmi award 2009 is announced to the director of Centre for Science and Environment, Sunita Narayan.
  • World Athletic Championships Berlin 2009:
    • Usain Bolt had created world record by completing 100mts in 9.58secs on August16.
    • Shelly Aan Fraser had completed 100mts in 10.73secs to win the title on August 18.
    • Usain Bolt had completed 200mts in 19.19secs to create another world record on August 20.
    • Keninisa Bekele of Ethiopia had created world record as the first sprinter to won two Gold medals. He had won both 500mts and 1000mts.

  • In an ODI between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe batsmen Coventry had scored 194* to equal the record of highest score in ODI's by Saeed Anwar.
  • Ying Yang Yun of South Korea became the first Asian to win a PGA championship. He had defeated Tiger Woods in the final.
  • Former South Korean president Kim Daa Zang was passed away on August 18.
  • The John Amos Cominious award of UNESCO was presented to the former president of NCERT J.S.Rajput.
  • German chancellor Angela Morkel had topped the list of Forbes '100 most powerful women of the world'
  • Shilpa Shetty is giving publicity to Mike Bloom, who is competing in the mayor elections of New York.
  • England had won the Ashes test series against Australia by 2-1.
  • In the 58th Miss universe competetions held in South Africa, Stephania Fernandez of Venezula had won the crown of Miss Universe.
  • South Korea had succcessfull test fired for the first home made satellite.
  • Indian origin Kamlesh Sharma was apponted as the Vice-Chancellor of Queensland.
  • Edward Kennedy, the longest served Senator of United States was passed away on August 26.
  • Lahore court had ordered the Pakistan governament to release the Atomic scientist Khadir Khan from the house arrest.
  • Forbes India driver Fisichella had acqured the Poll Position in the Belgium grand prix.
  • World Badminton championships had came to end in Hyderabad, Lindan had won the mens title and Lulan had won the womens title. Both belong to China.
  • Jinnah-India Partition-Independence, the book written by Jaswanth Singh was released on Agust 17.
  • Gujarat government had enunciated the 'Epidemic diseases control act-1907' to battle against Swine Flu.
  • Thailand queen Mahachakri Sirindarn had presented the 42nd Gyanpith award 2006 to Sanskrit writer Satyavratha Sastri.
  • Indian boxer Vijender Singh was ranked second in the 75kgs department of world boxing. Emilio of Cuba was ranked first.
  • Four Indian women in the list of the forbes 100 most powerful women in the world are Pepsico Chairman Indra Nooyi(3), UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi(13), ICICI CMD Chanda Kochchar(20), Biocon MD Kiran Majundar Shah(91).
  • Central cabinet had announced that it is establishing 'Indian community welfare fund' in the foriegn countries.
  • Sourav Ganguly is appointed as the chairman of CAB, which is newly setup by Bengal cricket association.
  • Baichung Bhutia became the first Indian player to play 100 International Football matches. He had completed his 100th goal against Kirgisthan in the Nehru cup.
  • Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was selected for the 'Asian of the Year' award, which is to be presented by Financial Times.
  • C.Y.Prabhu was appointed as the CMD of Oriental Bank Of Commerce.
  • IACD had stated that America-India trade meet will be conducted on October 10 and 11 in New York.
  • Padmasri Vijay Kumar Chopra, Editor in chief of 'Hindu Samachar' group was appointed as the chairman of 'Press Trust of India'.
  • Dr.Vijay Kumar Saraswat was appointed as the technical advisor of DRDO deputy general.
  • The committe established to probe the murder of Rajiv Gandhi, 'Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency', had increased its time period by one year.
  • The lifespan of Chandrayan-1 had came to an end when its radio contacts were cut off from the ground station on August 29. Chandrayan-1 was launced by PSLV-C3 rocket on October 29 2008.

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