August Month Current Affairs 2014

1st August 2014

Government of India conferred Navratna status to CONCOR i.e. container

corporation of India Ltd. This company provides the logistics solution and has largest
network of 62 inland container depots in India.
RIP Robert Frederick: Robert Frederick Panara was a pioneer of the deaf studies
passed away in Rochester US. In 1965, he establishes the first American technical
college for the deaf as national Technical Institute for deaf.
Announcement of RBI deputy governor: S S Mundra takes the charge of RBI deputy
governor for a three-year
year term. He was the CMD of Bank of Baroda.
2014 Ramon Magsaysay award was announced: The award was conferred to five
individuals and one organisation. The awardee are Saur Marlina Manurung from
Indonesia , Randy Halasan from Philippines , Hu Shuli from china , Omara Khan
Masoudi from Afghanistan and Wang Canfa from china. The organisation who
received award is The Citizen
itizen Foundation from Pakistan.

2nd August 2014

Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali is selected for Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award 2014.
The award is given every year for contribution in the promotion of communal
harmony and social goodwill.
NASA released the list of payloads to be sent over the Mars Rover by 2020. The rover
will perform the geological and atmospheric survey of the mars landscape. The total
of seven payloads are to be sent.
Researchers have found evidence to explain why the suns outer atmosphere is
much hotter than its surface. Scientist has concluded that infinite number of
nanoflares has heated up the solar material in the atmosphere.

3rd August 2014

China unveiled its intercontinental

tercontinental Ballistic Missile the Dongfend-41
Dongfend 41 that range up to
12000km and is the worlds longest
longest-range
range missile. It is capable of carrying three
nuclear warheads.
Right to Research foundation (R2R) was launched to promote the Indian researchers.
The foundation
oundation is launched at Punes biotech part. The researchers named it as a
Intelligent Reserve Brain Drain.

India stood fifth in the 2014 Glasgow commonwealth games. India won total of 64
medals. England topped the list by winning 174 medals out of which
which 58 were gold
medals.

4th August 2014

Scientist have identified the new species of the Australian Humpback Dolphin. The
scientific name of the dolphin is Sousa Sahulensis. This dolphin group is widespread
from west coast of Africa to the north coast of Australia.
PM Narendra Modi visited Nepal to boost the neighbouring country relationship with
India. He was the first Indian PM to visit Nepal after 17 years. He gave Nepal the HIT
formula showing the Indias willingness to help Nepal.
According to Bank of American report, the reserve bank of India will continue to buy
the dollars to enhance the foreign exchange currency to boost the Indias import.

5th August 2014

Arvind Gupta is appointed as a deputy National security advisor. He was a ex

ex- Indian
foreign officer.
Bharathiya Mahila bank won the core banking initiative award 2014. The award
ceremony was help in Singapore. CMD of Bharathiya Mahila bank Usha received the
award.
PM Narendra Modi to induct countrys largest warship INS Kolkata. It is a 6800
tonnes warship and forms the giant leap in ship building technology.

6th August 2014

Cartoonist Pran kumar Sharma died in Gurgaon. He was given a title of Walt Disney
of India.
NASA Mars rover 2020 mission will have MOXIE to generate oxygen on the mars. It
will produce oxygen in mars by using the Martin atmospheric carbon dioxide. It is
among the seven selected instrument to be sent on the mars.

7th August 2014

Government
ment of India plan to set up the Telecom finance corporation. It would be
considered as a non banking finance companies and non deposit finance companies
would be set u[ in 12th five year plan. It would be a public sector unit under the
department of telecom.
Micromax became the Indias largest mobile supplier in 2014. It dethrones the
Samsung in its supply chain. It is considered to be the 10th largest mobile brand in
the mobile shipments.
Liberia
eria declared state of emergency as the out break of the deadly disease Ebola
virus.

8th August 2014

Arjun award selection committee to be head by the kapil Dev. Ajitpal the hockey
player is also to be in the charge of the selection committee.
Union government introduced the two labour reforms bills. The two bills are the
factories bill 2014 and the Apprentices bill 2014. This bill was introduced to ensure
the safety and welfare of the workers at the work place.
Researchers have discovered the Indias first jellyfish lake in Gujarat. Biologist found
that the bottom of the lake is carpeted with the type of jellyfish known as a upside
down jellyfish.

9th August 2014

The international day of Indigenous people was observed on this day. The theme for
this day was Bridging the gap: implementing he rights of indigenous people. This
event is celebrated to promote the right for the indigenous populations.
World health organisation declared the disease Ebola as the international
emergency. The disease was out break in Guinea in 2014 and it claimed at least 932
lives. The WHO appealed for the global aid to affected countries.

10th August 2014

Indian womens team won the gold medal at the Archery world cup stage IV in
Poland. India bagged a total of five medals at the last day of the event. The mens
team settled for silver medal.

Uttarkhand government forms a committee on the industries using a silica dust. The
committee will be headed by the additional chief secretary S Raju. The committee
decided to conduct the
e health check up camp to know the health about the workers
in the industries.
China ban to use coal in its capital city Beijing by 2020. The city drew nearly 25% of
its energy consumption by coal. Since the coal fired and heating is the major
contribution of the greenhouse gas emission. The huge pressure on the china
government to clean up the polluted environment. Hence the main and top agenda
of the china government is to protect and clean up the environment.

11th August 2014

Lok Sabha passed the SEBI [Securities Exchange board of India]] 2014 bill. The bill
includes that it provides express powers for the settlement. It provides SEBI powers
of recovery of amounts.
Actor and comedian Robin Williams died at California. He won Oscar award for his
performance
ce in Good will hunting as a supporting actor.
Bombay high court has banned the children below age of 18 in Govindas Dahi handi
festival. The court also restricted the height of the pyramid to 20 feet.

12th August 2014

The world elephant day was observed across the world for the protection of
elephant s. It is celebrate to create awareness around the plight of African and
Asian elephants.
President Pranab Mukherjee presented the outstanding parliamentarian awards to
finance minister Arun Jaitleys , Karan
Karan Singh and Sharad Yadav. It was given for
discharge of the parliamentarian duties.

13rd August 2014

The international Political Science Association has honoured the Delhi university
professor Dr Sunil Kumar The award was given in the 23rd world congress of political
science held in Montreal.

Russian group of hackers CyberVor has stolen 1.2 billion usernames and passwords
belonging to more than 500 million email addresses. The hacked information
belongs to 4,20,000 websites.
Rosetta became the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the comet. It has
traversed around 6bn km almost three times around the earth.

14th August 2014

The union government has appointed the former RBI governor Bimal Jalan as the
head of the expenditure management commission.
Himachal Pradesh is selected as a venue for hosting the Para-gliding world cup. First
time India is going to host this event.

15th August 2014

S M Swathi general manager of the corporation bank is appointed as a executive

director of the Bharatiya mahila bank.
Rajni Razdan is selected as the chairman of the union public service commission. He
is a former IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
PM Narendra modi inaugurated the hydel power projects at Leh in Jammu and
Kashmir. It is a 45MW project on the river Indus.

16th August 2014

Sikkim has become the most favoured destination place for foreign tourist.
Indias highest peacetime award Ashok Chakra is awarded to Major Mukund
Varadarajan. He was leading the anti terrorist operation search operation in jammu
and Kashmir.
Indian origin person Manjul Bhagrava won the fields medal 2014. It is the nobel prize
for the mathematics.

17th August 2014

Vistara is a brand name of Tata SIA joint venture airlines. It is joint venture of Tata
and Singapore international airlines.
Government has relaunched the varishtha pension bima yojana for the benefits of
the citizen of aged 60 and above.

18th August 2014

Haryana government has increase the age of retirement from 58 to 60 years. It also
increased the 25% in dearness allowance.
Roger Federer of Switzerland won the Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament mens
singles title. Serena Williams of U.S has won her first Cincinnati title at the sixth
attempt with a convincing 6-4
6 6-1 victory over Ana Ivanovic of Sebia.

19th August 2014

A team of university of Utah discovered a method to turn the small needle into a 3D
microscope.
The United Nations (UN) World Humanitarian Day was observed across the world to
honour the humanitarians who worked for the promotion of the humanitarian
cause,

20th August 2014

The All India Football Federation (AIFF) announced that Jammu and Kashmir will host
Football Federation Cup in August 2015. The Federation Cup is an annual club level
football tournament of India. It was started in 1977.
World-renowned
renowned yoga guru Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja (BKS) Iyengar died in
Pune. He authored 14 books on yoga practice.
K.V.Thomas is appointed as a chairman of the Public accounts committee
committee. He was
th
the 94 chairman of the PAC.

21st August 2014

Union cabinet has approved the Nagpur metro rail project, which is 38.21km long.
The project has two corridors i.e. northnorth south and east-west
west corridor. It will be
implemented as a joint venture between
between central government and state government.
Andhra Pradesh government has decided to make Vijayawada as a ad-hoc
ad hoc capital of
the state.
Justice R Banumathi became the first women Supreme Court judge from Tamil Nadu.

Roger Federer a tennis star became the first man to win 300 matches at ATP masters
of 1000 level.

22nd August 2014

Kannada writer U R Ananatmurthy died in Bangalore. He was the recipient of

jnanpith award. He became a recipient of Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2004.
T M Bhasin CMD of Indian bank became the chairman of the Indian banks association
for 2014-15.
According to the survey conducted by the academic ranking of world universities, th
Indian institute of science is the only Indian institute to be in the top 500 universities
of the world.

23rd August 2014

Ragala Venkat Rahul is the Indias first medal in second youth Olympic games in
mens 77kg weightlifting category.
PM Narendra Modi announced Pradhan Mantri krishi Seenchayi yojana to meet the
irrigation needs of all farmers.

24th August 2014

British film director Richard Attenborough died at England. He was the Oscar winner
for his film Gandhi.
India with help of Singapore aim to build 100 smart cities, they are trying to
expertise in urban planning and water management strategies.

25th August 2014

A private company with joint venture with the state government operates first seaplane
service to lonavala from Mumbai.
Yamaha motor launches the new project to build the worlds most affordable bikes called as
a Project Indra. INDRA is based on the Innovative and New development based on
responsible analysis.
According to the state level bankers committee the Punjab state has low level of Credit ratio
compared to other state.

26th August 2014

Central government has launched the Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana for senior
citizen aged60 years and above. It provides financial security by giving regular
income to the old age people.
President of India has appointed the governor of the four states they are: Kalyan
Singh as the Governorr of Rajasthan; Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala as the Governor of
Karnataka; Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao as the Governor of Maharashtra; Mridula
Sinha as the Governor of Goa

28th August 2014

R N Ravi is appointed as a new chief of Joint Intelligence Committee , a1976 batch

IPS officer. It operates under the national Security Council secretariat.
Great Yoga Guru BKS Iyengar died at pune. His yoga was known as a Iyengar yoga
and he was regarded as a bible of yoga.
India and Czech republic signed an MoU in the field of technical cooperation in
railway sectors.

29th August 2014

The union minister of consumer affairs has announced the Rajiv Gandhi national
quality award : the best of all award was given to Rail wheel factory in Bangalore,
Large scale manufacturing
manufacturin Industry to Sakthi masala Ltd in Tamil nadu.

Kerala government has ratified new liquor policy, it was to shut down the bars attached to
hotels.

30th August 2014

Union government has launched a new Dot Bharat domain in devanagiri script. Its launched
for non- English speaking people.

An Indian researcher Partha Mitra has been awarded a prestigious award named as a
research grant under president of US barrack obama. It was given for mapping the human
brain.
New PM of turkey is Ahmed Davutoglu. He was the foreign minister since 2009.
An Indian origin British Seema malhotra is appointed as a shadow minister of labours party
in UK. Her responsibility is on working with womens and girls safety.
The green bus project is the Indias first ethanol run public bus
bus is launched at Nagpur. It is a
environment friendly bus. The buses are ,manufactured by a Swedish company.