August Current Affairs 2013

Current Affairs August-2013

Third  Week

15th August:

• Death toll from Egypt political violence rises to 525.
• The atomic energy regulatory Board (AERB) has given clearance for the unit one amongst the Kudankulam atomic energy Plant (KNPP) to produce 500MW of power.
• Wimbledon Women’s Singles 2013 winner Marion Bartoli declared her retirement.

16th August:

• Supreme Court issues notice to Centre and twelve state governments on their response on preventing Bihar mid-day meal like tragic incidents and providing sanitary food to children.
• A Street in Canada's Winnipeg town has been named after Gandhi on the occasion of India's 67th Independence Day.

    August Second Week Current Affairs 2013 

17 August:

• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has discovered a panel of seven-member to assess the standing of normal Tribes, to form certain their progress in socio-economic, health and education fields. The committee ar headed by National advisory member Virginius Xaxa.
• For the first time, committee will use the record system in conjunction with the Electronic vote Machines among the Nagaland by-election regular to be persisted Sept four.In this technique, once the national presses a button on the EVM to select out the party he needs to vote for, atiny low slip bearing the name and image of the party will appear on the connected VVPAT system.
• IPS Dilip Trivedi appointed the Director General of CRPF.
• Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins his third sequent world 200 meters title with nineteen.66 seconds at 2013 World Championships in Moscow.

19th August:

• A train killed a minimum of thirty 5 pilgrims crossing a railway track in Dhamara station, 100 and eighty km east of Patna, the capital of state.
• Till presently Indian Navy recovered seven victims found from the fire-devastated INS Sindhurakshak.
• ISRO referred to as off GSLV launch with merely associate hour to travel before the launch as a "leak" had been detected in fuel tank.
• Usain Bolt became the foremost prosperous jock in world championship history once he anchored Jamaica to triumph among the 4x100 meters relay. Bolt with eight gold medals in World Championship equals american trio runner, Michael Johnson and Allyson Felix but the Jamaican enraptured ahead by virtue of his two silvers from 2007.

20th August:

• Three bills regarding the first national women's university, associate aviation university associate degreed Associate in Nursing aviation authority were introduced among the Lok Sabha. every the Women's University and thus the Aviation University area unit setup in Rae Bareli.
• Delhi becomes sixty four state to clear the food security theme as Sonia Gandhi launches food security ration cards to beneficiaries.
• A court in Islamic Republic of Pakistan has formally indicted former military dictator Pervez Musharraf with the murder of former premier Benazir Bhutto.

21st August:

• Maharashtra regime clears anti-superstition ordinance.
• Indian Rupee crashes to record low of sixty four.55 against sixty four.
• A court ordered the discharge of kick out Egyptian leader Mubarak.
• The fifth and last match of Ashes Series begins in Oval, London.