Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (Aug 22nd to 31st Aug 2022)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs of Aug 22nd to 31st Aug 2022. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming SBI Clerk 2022 and other competitive exams can make use of it.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS

• August 23 is marked as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
• World Water Week 2022 will take place from August 23 to September 1 & the theme is: “Seeing the unseen: The value of water”.
• Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 every year, to mark the day when the Amendment giving women the right to vote was adopted.
• The 29th of August is celebrated as National Sports Day in India each year.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: NATIONAL NEWS

• Solar capacity installations in the country rose by 59 percent to a record 7.2 gigawatts (GW) during the first half of 2022, according to Mercom India Research.
• In Himachal Pradesh, the 10th National Conference of Women Police will begin in Shimla.
• Jitendra Singh launched India’s first truly indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus developed by KPIT-CSIR in Pune.
• Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G), the flagship program of the Government of India recorded another milestone – of 101462 villages declaring themselves as ODF (open defecation free) Plus.
• To augment skill training in tribal communities for their inclusive and sustainable growth, National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in partnership with Seva Bharti and Yuva Vikas Society launched the second phase of the Grameen Udyami Project.
• Shri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairy presented the “Aqua Bazar” online marketplace feature in the “MatsyaSetu” mobile app during the 9th general body meeting of the National Fisheries Development Board.
• The 17th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas 2023 will take place in Indore in January of next year, according to Arindam Bagchi, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of External Affairs.
• The government has announced it has set a target to raise the share of natural gas in the energy mix to 15%, from 6.3% currently, in 2030.
• Darshana Jardosh, the Union Minister of State for Textiles, formally inaugurated the Silk Mark Expo in New Delhi.
• Amos Masondo, the head of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), and a distinguished group of MPs will serve as the 65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference’s (CPC) leaders.
• Union Minister of State (Independent Representative) for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh approved an initial loan of Rs 1.15 crore to M/s TGP Bioplastics for commercialization of ‘compostable’ plastics and thereby reduce the use of single-use plastics (SUP).
• Anurag Thakur, a Union Minister, has unveiled “Azadi Quest,” a collection of online instructional games themed on India’s liberation movement and created in partnership with Zynga India.
• Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi formally opened the 2,600-bed Amrita hospital in Faridabad, which is the largest hospital in Asia.
• The 23rd Central Zonal Council Meeting was presided over by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Bhopal.
• The Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) will be expanded to include transgender people, according to the Indian government
• According to a survey by Bank of America Securities India, the total length of all national roads in India is predicted to be 1.8 lakh kilometers, while the total length of railway lines would be 1.2 lakh kilometers by 2025.
• The Government of Telangana will host the 20th edition of BioAsia 2023, the major event of BioAsia 2023 for life sciences and health tech, on February 24-26, 2023.
• A 300-bed Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Center have been inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Mullanpur, Mohali, Chandigarh.
• The Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100 will be unveiled in New Delhi by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM).
• The first 3D-printed post office in India is expected to open in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and it will only cost around one-fourth as much as a conventional facility.
• The Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the Central TB Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare have now decided on 75 tribal districts where targeted interventions will be run over the next few months to make them TB-free after having run an active case-finding campaign to detect instances of TB among tribal populations over the past six months.
• Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana has been in operation for eight years and has met all of its key objectives.
• Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha formally launched the 8th India International MSME Start-up Expo & Summit 2022 in New Delhi.
• At Bhuj in Gujarat, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated Smruti Van, the nation’s first earthquake monument.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• The Government of India (GoI) has nominated the dance form Garba to be inscribed on United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage list.
• India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Government of Japan, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced a new initiative to accelerate climate action in 10 states and Union Territories (UT) across India.
• The 3rd Joint Committee Meeting (JCM) 2022 between the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME), GoI, and Ministry of Business, Enterprises, and Cooperatives of the Republic of Mauritius for cooperation in the field of MSMEs was held in New Delhi, Delhi.
• The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, laid the foundation stone of the Indo-Israel Center of Excellence (CoE) for Vegetables in Chandauli Uttar Pradesh through video conferencing.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: STATE NEWS

• Engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) commissioned a new green hydrogen plant at Hazira in
• The Central government has planned to collaborate with the Government of Arunachal Pradesh to develop a “district good governance portal”.
• Punjab and Haryana governments agreed to name the Chandigarh international airport after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
• Assam Chief Minister Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma has launched a project ‘Vidya Rath- School on Wheels’ at a function held at the premises of Gauhati High Court in Assam.
• Sikkim Chief Minister Shri Prem Singh Tamang announced schemes for the welfare of women at Bhaichung Stadium in Namchi, Sikkim.
• As part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Shri Yogi Adityanath launched ‘Radio Jaighosh’ to mark the anniversary of Kakori Train Action.
• The government has awarded a geographical indication (GI) tag to ‘Mithila Makhana’, from Bihar in a bid to help farmers get the maximum price for their premium produce.
• First, the Government of Uttar Pradesh is set to build an education township that will be developed on the idea of ‘Single Entry, Multiple Exit’.
• Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Shri Arvind Kejriwal launched a “mission to make India No. 1” at the Talkatora stadium, New Delhi, Delhi.
• Chhattisgarh Government will set up 300 rural industrial parks in the state to create a source of additional income for rural poor families
• The Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has become the first amongst States/UTs to establish an Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL) in partnership with the government think tank National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog.
• Tata Steel Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Punjab to establish a75 million tonne per annum (MnTPA) long products steel mill using a scrap-based electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant in Ludhiana.
• The world’s largest religious monument, the Temple of Vedic Planetarium in Mayapur, West Bengal, will join India’s list of iconic buildings.
• The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE), Government of India (GoI), established the first “Divyang Park” for Divyangjan’ under the Assistance to Disabled Persons (ADIP) Scheme of MoSJE at Reshimbagh Ground in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
• The Government of Uttar Pradesh (UP) has decided to develop Kannauj as a perfume tourism destination.
• The Government of Andhra Pradesh has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United States (US)-based Parley for the Oceans, to clean the shores of the State and make Andhra Pradesh plastic free by 2027. 
• Karnataka Chief Minister Shri Basavaraj Bommai, announced that the State Cabinet meeting has decided to extend the Vidyanidhi scheme to the children of agricultural laborers in Ranebennur, Haveri, Karnataka.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BANKING & FINANCE

• State-owned Central Bank of India, a Public Sector Bank (PSB) has entered into a co-lending partnership with Protium Finance and lncred Financial Services Limited (IFSL) to offer loans to Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) borrowers.
• As per the latest Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, the remittance by Indians under the liberalized remittance scheme (LRS) increased 64.75% in the first quarter(Q1) of FY23 to over $6.04 billion from $3.67 billion in Q1FY22.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 32 Lakh on the Indian Bank, for failing to submit a Flash Report for fraud involving amounts of at least 5.00 crore to the RBI as required by Section 47A(1)(c) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
• The market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has joined the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) Account Aggregator framework, which will allow customers to share information about their mutual fund and stock holdings with financial service providers.
• The Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) has issued fresh instructions barring recovery agents from resorting to intimidation of borrowers as well as calling them before 8 am and after 7 pm.
• The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) is set to roll out an upgraded version of the Integrated Grievance Redressal System (IGRS), a revamped grievance redressal mechanism as Bima Bharosa. 
• Private sector bank major HDFC has opened its first all-women branch on Cherootty Road, Kozhikode, north Kerala region.
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India signed a USD 96.3-million loan agreement to provide safe drinking water and improve water supply and sanitation services in Himachal Pradesh.
• Muthoot Finance Limited has launched Milligram Reward Programme for its customers wherein transactions with the company will be rewarded with a certain amount of milligram reward points.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) emerged as the net seller of the United States (US) dollar in June 2022 after selling 719 billion USD on a net basis.
• KreditBee, one of India’s leading fintech platforms, has partnered with Cashfree Payments, India’s leading payments and API banking solutions company, to offer customers an option to convert their online purchases into Equated Monthly Installment (EMIs) for its non-credit card holders.
• Rajasthan accounted for the highest share in the total cost of projects sanctioned by banks and financial institutions in 2021-22, retaining the top place for two consecutive years.
• Non-life Insurer Universal Sompo General Insurance Company Limited has partnered with Repco Home Finance Ltd to offer insurance against home loans.
• Edelweiss General Insurance has partnered with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) to help create digital health IDs Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission for all in India.
• Punjab National Bank (PNB) has launched a new pre-qualified credit card along with an overdraft facility of fixed deposit (FD).
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a discussion paper on payment charges that has dissatisfied the trade and analysts alike, because it raises several questions however it doesn’t provide options or take any stance on them, resulting in continued uncertainty.
• BASIX Social Enterprise Group launched BASIX Farmers’ Market (BFM), an agritech platform, in partnership with Mastercard.
• In the exercise of powers vested in it under sub-section (1) of Section 35 A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, read with Section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued directions to Thodupuzha Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd, Kerala for six months.
• India’s first super app of the Tata Group, Tata Neu and HDFC Bank partnered to launch co-branded credit cards in two variants: Tata Neu Plus HDFC Bank Credit Card and Tata Neu Infinity HDFC Bank Credit Card.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lifted business restrictions imposed on American Express Banking Corp (AEBC) citing satisfactory compliance demonstrated by the entity to RBI rules.
• According to the data collated by PGA Labs, State Bank of India (SBI) remained the top player with a 30% market share of debit cards as of June 2022, despite a 6% decline in year-on-year (Y-o-Y) growth
• BOB Financial Solutions Limited (BFSL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of Baroda (BoB) and the Indian Army has launched a co-branded RuPay credit card for the Indian Army personnel, in collaboration with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
• Tata Power’s wholly owned subsidiary TP Renewable Microgrid (TPRMG) has partnered with the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) to set up 1,000 green energy enterprises across India under a joint innovative program to support rural entrepreneurs.
• Bangladesh country head of operations Mr. Amit Kumar represented the State Bank of India (SBI) & the Deputy High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Dr. Binoy George represented the High Commission of India signed the agreement to would manage the Indian Visa Application Center (IVAC) in Bangladesh for two more years at the functioning of the IVAC center in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 2.33 crore on Hyderabad-based Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd for non-compliance with the guidelines on pricing loans for non-banking financial companies – microfinance institutions (NBFC-MFIs).
• HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited, a leading private sector general insurance company, has launched ‘All Things EV,‘ India’s first one-stop-solution portal for Electric Vehicles (EV). 
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty on eight banks & non-banking finance companies (NBFC).
• Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs and Education Shri Rajkumar Ranjan Singh ceremonially handed over a cheque of USD 1 million for the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Secretariat’s operational budget.
• ICICI Bank has partnered with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to launch a range of credit cards on the payments network RuPay.
• PGIM India Mutual Fund has launched a new investor education and awareness website: MoneyAndMe – https://moneyandme.pgimindiamf.com/.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BUSINESS NEWS

• In the first quarter of FY23, outgoing transfers made a significant comeback under the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) liberalized remittance scheme (LRS), as Indians increased their expenditure on gifts, international vacations, and the upkeep of close relatives.
• The HPCL Compressed Biogas Project makes use of the industry’s first waste-to-energy portfolio, which utilizes 100 tonnes of dung per day to produce biogas that can be utilized as fuel for vehicles.
• According to the UN trade and development organization UNCTAD, 15 of the top 20 economies in terms of the percentage of the population that owns cryptocurrencies are from developing nations in 2021.
• Even though impressive GST revenues would aid in the accretion, states’ revenue growth will only reach 7-9% in FY23, according to research.
• According to S&P Global Ratings, India has created protections against cyclical problems and has enough foreign exchange reserves to resist pressure on credit quality.
• Maruti Suzuki, India’s leading manufacturer, has been in business for 40 years.
• At the company’s 45th annual general meeting, Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), disclosed investment plans worth Rs 3.5 lakh crore.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS

• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet appointed Rajesh Verma as secretary to President Droupadi Murmu.
• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has appointed Indian philanthropist Mr. Ashish Dhawan, founder and CEO of Convergence Foundation, to its board of trustees.
• Shareholders of One97 Communications, which operates under the Paytm brand, have approved the re-appointment of Mr. Vijay Shekhar Sharma as managing director and chief executive officer of Paytm.
• The Center has extended the tenure of Mr. Meenesh C Shah, an executive director of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), to hold a charge as the Chairman of NDDB for another six months until November 30, 2022.
• Disney’s international content and operations group has appointed Sajith Sivanandan as executive vice president and head of Disney+ Hotstar.
• Senior Odia scientist Debasisa Mohanty was appointed as the Director of the National Institute of Immunology (NII).
• Indian diplomat Mr. Vikram K Doraiswami has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom (UK).
• The military of Mali has appointed Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga as the interim Prime Minister of the country.
• Adidas has announced that Kasper Rorsted will step down from his role as chief executive officer (CEO) in 2023.
• Distinguished scientist Samir V Kamat was appointed as Secretary of the Department of Defence Research and Development and Chairman of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
• Based on the recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, the board of directors of Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) Limited has appointed Mahendra N Shah as the Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with effect from October 1, 2022, till September 30, 2023.
• Credit Suisse has appointed Dixit Joshi as a chief financial officer (CFO) with effect from October 1, 2022, and Mr. Francesca McDonagh as group chief operating officer (COO) from September 19, 2022.
• The Government of India (GoI) has appointed former Chief Economic Adviser Mr. K V Subramanian as the Executive Director for India at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• Indian financial services firm SBICAP Securities, a unit of SBI Capital Markets and part of the government-owned State Bank Group, has appointed Deepak Kumar Lalla as the new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
• The private sector lender RBL Bank has appointed Gopal Jain and Dr. Sivakumar Gopalan as the non-executive directors.
• A sports experiences and travel platform, DreamSetGo has appointed Sourav Ganguly as its first brand ambassador.
• Justice Shri Uday Umesh Lalit took oath as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI).
• Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman has been appointed as interim head coach of Team India in Dubai for the 2022 Asia Cup.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: AWARDS AND HONOUR

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will receive the Liberty Medal 2022 this fall.
• Bangladesh-born The US Insider online magazine Fahmida Azim has been chosen to receive the Pulitzer Prize in 2022.
• Angela Merkel, a former German chancellor, has been given the 2022 Unesco Peace Prize for “her efforts to welcome migrants”
• At a ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey, Karim Benzema, and Alexia Putellas received the UEFA men’s and women’s player of the year awards in recognition of their remarkable seasons.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: ACQUISITIONS & MERGERS

• The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) approved the amalgamation of Bharat Gas Resources Limited (BGRL), a 100% subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL).
• The Norwegian Climate Investment Fund, managed by Norfund (the Norwegian Government’s development finance institution) and Norway’s largest pension company, KLP has agreed to take a 49%  stake in a 420 MW solar energy project Thar Surya 1 for approximately Rs 2.8 billion in Rajasthan.
• The Adani Group’s media arm AMG Media Networks Limited (AMNL) announced that it would indirectly acquire a 29.18% stake in New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV).
• Bharti Airtel promoter, Bharti Telecom Limited (BTL) will buy a 3.33% stake from Singtel (Singapore-based telecommunications company) for 2.25 billion Singapore dollars (around Rs 12,895 crore) in 90 days.
• TVS Motor Company will acquire a 48.27% stake in NKars Mobility Millennial Solutions Pvt Ltd (NMMSPL) for Narain Karthikeyan’s pre-owned two-wheeler startup ‘DriveX’ for a consideration of Rs 85 crore.
• India’s largest private sector lender HDFC Bank Limited entered into an “indicative and non-binding term sheet to acquire 9.94% stake in Go Digit-Life Insurance for an amount between Rs 49.9 crore to Rs 69.9 crore, in two tranches, by subscribing to equity shares of the Company.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: DEFENCE NEWS

• The Indian Air Force joined Pitch Black 2022, a joint military exercise in Australia.
• The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy successfully flight tested Vertical Launch Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: MOUS AND AGREEMENT

• National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) signed a tripartite MoU with the Union Territory of Ladakh and Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) by which it will manage the entire operations of Ladakh Milk Federation for five years and implement a structured dairy development program for the region.
• NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has signed an MoU with PayXpert for acceptance of the payment solutions in the UK.
• A memorandum of understanding was signed by the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) and the Mahatma Phule Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Technology Ltd. (MAHAPREIT), a fully owned subsidiary of MPBCDC (49% owned by the Government of India and 51% owned by the Government of Maharashtra).
• An MoU was signed between the governments of Assam, Manipur, and Tripura and Godrej Agrovet, a diversified agribusiness conglomerate, to expand and promote oil palm cultivation in the region as part of the National Mission on Edible Oils-Oil Palm effort.
• The government of Jharkhand and The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), British High Commission, New Delhi will enter into a partnership to award the Chevening Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda Scholarship to five meritorious scholars from ST/SC, OBC, and minorities community.
• The Intangible Cultural Heritage of India, starting with the Himalayas, is being promoted and protected by Royal Enfield in collaboration with UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization).
• An Indian manufacturer of electric scooters, Hero Electric, has announced a collaboration with Jio-BP to offer EV charging and battery swapping services in India.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: RANKING AND INDEX

• Health Effects Institute (HEI) released “Air Quality and Health in Cities” on air quality.
• In the medal standings of the 15th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Indian team placed third (IOAA).
• According to a report by Cushman and Wakefield, Bengaluru ranks second place among the top IT centers in the Asia Pacific region, only behind Beijing in China.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• A first-of-its-kind Composite Indoor Shooting Range (CISR) was inaugurated by Vice-Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief,  Eastern Naval Command (ENC) at Indian Naval Ship (INS) Karna on the eastern seaboard, near Bheemili, Visakhapatnam, Andra Pradesh (AP).
• India has developed the first indigenously-developed RT-PCR kit for testing monkeypox disease at the Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone (AMTZ)
• Union Minister of State Science & Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh approved a StartUp loan of Rs 1.15 crores to M/s TGP Bioplastics for commercializing “compostable” plastic and thus also mitigating the usage of Single Use Plastics (SUP).
• India’s first commercial space situational awareness observatory, to track objects as small as 10 cm in size orbiting the earth, will be set up in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand by a space sector start-up, Digantara.
• Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) announced that India’s first adenoviral intranasal vaccine (BBV154) has proven to be safe, well-tolerated, and immunogenic in subjects in controlled clinical trials for Covid-19.
• AirAsia India and Canadian Aviation Electronics (CAE) have announced their collaboration to integrate the CAE Rise™ Training System into the airline’s simulator training program.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BOOKS AND AUTHOR

• Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has released Sathya Sodhana Mahatmuni Athmakatha, a Telugu translation of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography ‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’, published by Tirupati MLA Bhumana Karunakar Reddy.
• Netanyahu’s Autobiography ‘Bibi: My Story’ Due Out in November 2022.
• On the anniversary of Arun Jaitley’s demise, former vice president and union minister Venkaiah Naidu published a book called “A New India: Selected Writings 2014–19,” which is a collection of some of his best writings.
• A new book by Pulapre Balakrishnan titled “India’s Economy From Nehru To Modi: A Brief History” will soon be released.
• Mallika Sarabhai, a renowned classical dancer, and activist bare all in her new self-help memoir “Free Fall: My Experiments with Living.”

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SPORTS NEWS

• Manisha Kalyan a young striker for Apollon Ladies FC, became the first Indian player to compete in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
• The first Indian woman to hold this title is Antim Panghal, a 17-year-old wrestler from Haryana who won the Under-20 world championship by defeating Kazakhstan’s Atlyn Shagayeva 8-0.
• Magnus Carlsen, the current world chess champion, was defeated by Indian chess expert Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in the FTX Crypto Cup in Miami.
• According to sources in the investigating agency, Tamara Walcott, a female powerlifter from Maryland in the United States, broke the record for the heaviest cumulative lift for bench/squat and press in competition (female) after lifting a combined total of 737.5 kg across three compound lifts—the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift.
• Mack Rutherford, a 17-year-old pilot, became the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a tiny plane after landing in Bulgaria, where his voyage began five months ago.
• Pooja Ojha of Madhya Pradesh won silver in the VL1 women’s 200m race at the Para Kayaking and Canoeing Sprint World Championships in Halifax, Canada.
• Neeraj Chopra, an Olympic champion and javelin thrower made history by being the first Indian to win a Lausanne Diamond League championship.
• The All India Football Federation (AIFF) ban, which was put in place as a result of improper third-party involvement, has been lifted by the FIFA Council Bureau.
• The 28th Dhabi Masters Chess Tournament was won by Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi with 7.5 points.
• The Youth Affairs and Sports Ministry will organize the “Meet the Champion initiative” on National Sports Day in 26 schools around the country.
• At the World Championships, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty became the first Indian team to take home a medal in the men’s doubles tournament.
• Viktor Axelsen of Denmark defeated Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand to win the men’s singles championship at the BWF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, for the second time.
• The Belgian Formula 1 Grand Prix 2022 was won by Max Verstappen of Red Bull.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: OBITUARIES

• Senior Indian National Congress leader and former Jharkhand and Assam governor Syed Sibte Razi passed away at the age of 83.
• Former India football team captain Samar ‘Badru’ Banerjee Passed away at the age of 92.
• Veteran film producer Abdul Gaffar Nadiadwala passed away on Monday at the age of 91.
• Former Vijaya Bank chairman & founder and serving Chairman of Soham Group of Companies, K. Sadananda Shetty passed away at the age of 85 In Nice City, France.
• Renowned economist and former Planning Commission member, Abhijit Sen has passed away at age of 72.

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