1. Ashwani
Lohani was appointed as the Chairman of Railway Board.
Mittal’s resignation came hours after Delhi-bound Kaifiat Express got derailed
in UP’s Auraiya district early on 23rd Aug 2017
2. The
Union Government has given a directive to print the new 200 rs
note . According to Finance Ministry, Arun Jaitley , RBI will be
deciding the date for issuing of the new currency notes.
3. Jat
community of Dholpur and Bharatpur districts of
Rajasthan were brought under OBC category
4. The
United States has announced plans to install radar system in
Palau, an independent nation south west of Guam , the Us
territory the North Korea has threatened to target with its intercontinental
Ballistic Missiles.
5. England
striker Wayne Rooney retires from International Foot ball , ending a
14 year career. He is former England captain. With this, Rooney also leaves as
England’s most –capped outfield player with 119 apperances.
6. Union
Government names Rajiv Bansal as CMD of Air India, since
Lohani was appointed as chairman of Railway Board.
7. The Union
Government has finalized a new policy for cadre
allocation of IAS, IPS, and other officers with the aim of
ensuring national integration in the country’s top bureaucracy.
8. Odisha Government has launched
a grid-connected rooftop solar programme , which aims at
harnessing renewable solar capacity through people’s participation to further
strengthen the grid and reduce power losses and benefit the public. It will
also help state to targets in addressing the climate change action plan through
net-metering system at the State Secretariat in capital city of Bhubaneswar.
9. The Cabinet
Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved renaming of SAMPADA (Scheme for
Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters) as Pradhan
Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY). The SAMPADA scheme was approved
by the CCEA in May 2017 for the period of 2016-20 coterminous with the 14th
Finance Commission cycle. The objective ofthe scheme is to supplement
agriculture, modernize processing and decrease agricultural-waste.
10. Karnataka Government has signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with software giant Microsoft India to
develop a unique “farm price forecasting model. It will aid farmers
from states to predict farm prices in advance and deal effectively with the
unpredictable market. The proposed initiative is claimed to be the
first-of-its-kind in the country.
11. India and Nepal
have signed 8 MoUs in various fields, including Housing grant, prevention of drugs, post-earthquake
reconstruction packages in health and education sectors. The two leaders also
jointly inaugurated the Kataiya-Kusaha and Raxaul-Parwanipur cross border
Transmission lines.
12. The nine-judge
Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India
JS Khehar in a landmark unanimous decision has declared right to
privacy a fundamental right under the constitution. The apex court
ruled that right to privacy is an intrinsic part of Right to Life and
Personal Liberty under Article 21 and entire Part III of the
Constitution. With this, the apex court overruled its own previous
eight-judge Bench and six-judge Bench judgments of M.P. Sharma and Kharak Singh
delivered in 1954 and 1961, respectively, both of which had pronounced that the
right to privacy is not protected under the constitution.
13. Australia beats Iran to
clinch 2017 FIBA Asia Cup. FIBA Asia Cup is an
International Basketball Tournament. On the other hand South Korea clinched
third place over New Zealand.
14. The Union
government raised the creamy layer ceiling of OBC’s to Rs. 8 lakhs per annum
from the existing Rs 6 lakhs for central government jobs. It sets up a
committee to examine sub categorization within OBC’s
15. Nepal launched
its first climate snow- leopard landscape management plan. The plan
aims to safeguard the endangered species of snow leopard and its
habitat . This is the first climate smart landscape
management plan for snow- leopard conservation in the World.
16. The Union Cabinet gave its
approval for a pact between India and Nepal on resolving the issue of
illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
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