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1. Today is World Humanitarian Day. This day is observed on the 19th of August every year to recognise those people who have lost their lives working for humanitarian causes. The theme for this year is – The World Needs More.
2. Business leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are meeting here Monday to identify specific measures to eliminate barriers to growing trade and investment.
Prominent business leaders from 19 other African countries are also taking part in the first BRICS Business Council meeting at the Sandton Convention Centre.
3. The insurance arm of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group has announced its entry into India’s agriculture insurance business, saying it would offer farmers insurance cover for their crops against adverse weather conditions.
4. Shri Ratan Thiyam has been appointed as the Chairperson of the NationalSchool of Drama Society. The President of India has appointed Shri Thiyam for a period of four years as per the relevant Rules and Regulations of the Society. Also known as Thiyam Nemai, Ratan Thiyam is known for writing and staging plays that use ancient Indian theater traditions and forms in a contemporary context.
5. India and Bangladesh today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further enhance cooperation in the textiles sector.
iThe pact was signed at the end of delegation level talks between Textiles Minister K.S.Rao and his visiting Bangladesh counterpart Abdul Latif Siddique.
6. Professor of economics, conservationist and mountaineer Harshwanti Bisht was selected on 12 August 2013 to receive the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal.
7. Second seed Victoria Azarenka defeated World No. 1 Serena Williams to win her first Western and Southern Open tennis title.
8. At least 35 pilgrims were killed and over a dozen injured on Monday when they were run over by a speeding train in Bihar’s Khagaria district.
9. The Indian space agency Monday called off the launch of its heavy rocket geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-D5) due to leak in the second-stage engine.
10. Continuing its free fall, the Indian rupee today breached 63-mark the US dollar to end at record low of 63.13, recording the decade’s worst single-day fall of 148 paise, heightening fears that more capital control steps could be in the offing.
1. Today is World Humanitarian Day. This day is observed on the 19th of August every year to recognise those people who have lost their lives working for humanitarian causes. The theme for this year is – The World Needs More.
2. Business leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are meeting here Monday to identify specific measures to eliminate barriers to growing trade and investment.
Prominent business leaders from 19 other African countries are also taking part in the first BRICS Business Council meeting at the Sandton Convention Centre.
3. The insurance arm of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group has announced its entry into India’s agriculture insurance business, saying it would offer farmers insurance cover for their crops against adverse weather conditions.
4. Shri Ratan Thiyam has been appointed as the Chairperson of the NationalSchool of Drama Society. The President of India has appointed Shri Thiyam for a period of four years as per the relevant Rules and Regulations of the Society. Also known as Thiyam Nemai, Ratan Thiyam is known for writing and staging plays that use ancient Indian theater traditions and forms in a contemporary context.
5. India and Bangladesh today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further enhance cooperation in the textiles sector.
iThe pact was signed at the end of delegation level talks between Textiles Minister K.S.Rao and his visiting Bangladesh counterpart Abdul Latif Siddique.
6. Professor of economics, conservationist and mountaineer Harshwanti Bisht was selected on 12 August 2013 to receive the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal.
7. Second seed Victoria Azarenka defeated World No. 1 Serena Williams to win her first Western and Southern Open tennis title.
8. At least 35 pilgrims were killed and over a dozen injured on Monday when they were run over by a speeding train in Bihar’s Khagaria district.
9. The Indian space agency Monday called off the launch of its heavy rocket geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-D5) due to leak in the second-stage engine.
10. Continuing its free fall, the Indian rupee today breached 63-mark the US dollar to end at record low of 63.13, recording the decade’s worst single-day fall of 148 paise, heightening fears that more capital control steps could be in the offing.
