August 2022 Flashcards
VINBAX 2022
Vietnam-India bilateral army exercise at Chandimandir, Haryana
Har Ghar Jal Certificate
1st State & UT to be certified-Goa & Dadra & Nagar Haveli & Daman & Diu
Aqua Bazar App
Launched by Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (Shri Parshottam Rupala)
1st completely functionally literate district in India (Tribal dominated)
Mandla Madhya Pradesh
Vaccine Didi (trans woman) to dispel fears about covid vaccine in her community
Kanchan Sendre
New defense systems of Indian Army’s Modernization Plans
F-INSAS, the Nipun mines, the Landing Craft Assault (LCA)
Snailfish
survive in icy Arctic. Found in Iceland habitat (Greenland)
first indigenous aluminium freight train rake flagged off
from Bhubaneshwar. Made in collaboration with Besco Limited Wagon Division and aluminium major Hindalco. Lifetime carbon saving of train is 8-10 tonnes. Save 14,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Sir Syed Excellence Award ‘22
Barbara Metcalf (American historian)
Awarded by Aligarh Muslim University on 205th birth anniversary of its founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
New Delhi inaugurated as nation’s capital
February 1931
Modi inaugurates One Nation, One Fertilizer Scheme+600 Kisan Samridhi Kendras
+ 12th installment of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi. Rs 16,000 crore will be credited into bank accounts of over 8.5 crore farmers.
Fertilizers would be rebranded as BHARAT and prices of major fertilizers reduced as transport cost regulated
MILLETS YEAR 2023 Centre would promote cultivation of millets. New varieties of seeds were also being produced to meet the challenges of climate change.
Poverty Population-India largest followed by Nigeria
Global Hunger Index 2022
India rank-107 out of 121 countries
Booker Prize 2022
Shehan Karunatilaka 2nd novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sri Lanka)
Ministry of Railways announces closure of COFMOW
Central Organization for Modernization of Workshops, New Delhi
Booker Shehan 2nd Sri Lankan only after
Michael Ondaatje who won for The English Patient in 1992
He wrote the 1st book about Jean Paul Sartre’s work
Iris Murdoch
Nobel Laureate was nominated 4 times for Booker Prize before he finally won
Kazuo Ishiguro
Author’s booker winning book touches upon relation between politics and homosexuality
Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty
launches mission to save critically endangered vultures
Tamil Nadu
Iranian climber women boulder finals Asian Championships of the IFSC in Seoul, S. Korea without hijab
Elnaz Rekabi
1st Indian Greco Roman wrestler to win medal at U-23 world championships at Pontevedra (Spain) beating Ukraine’s Dmytro Vasetskyi on ‘criteria’ BRONZE
Sajan Bhanwala
junior women’s air rifle World Championship in Cairo, Egypt GOLD
Ramita Jindal beats Shen Ying of China
3 female referees Men’s world cup in Qatar FIFA 36 referees + 3 asst. referees will also be there
Frappart (France), Mukansanga (Rwanda), Yamashita (Japan)
Modi in presence of Guterres launched mission for sustainable and healthy lifestyle at Statue of Unity at Modi announced at COP26 Nov 2021
Pro Planet people by 2027
Mission LiFE (Lifestyle For Environment)
Honesty shops
Kerala Ernakulam district as part of Student Police Cadet (SPC) project.
SPC launched in 2008
Lok Adalat in jail initiative
Chhattisgarh
PMAY-U awards 2021
1st- UP
2nd- MP
3rd- TN
Gujarat- 5 special category awards
ISRO, Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Vijnana Bharati (swadeshi science organization linked to RSS). 2 day conference
theme - AKASH TATVA in Dehradun
Science minister-Jitendra Singh
Kashi-Tamil Sangamam as part of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat
Union Education Minister- Dharmendra Pradhan
Shiv Nadar claimed title of India’s most generous-according to EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2022
Wipro’s Azim Premji - 2nd
Gautam Adani - 7th
First ever AQUACULTURE project using ‘state of the art’ ISRAELI technology
inspired by Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY), the Technology Development Board (TDB)
It envisages enhancing fish production to 220 lakh metric tons by 2024-25, at an average annual growth rate of about 9%.
The ambitious scheme also aims to double the export earnings to Rs.1,00,000 crore and generate about 55 lakhs direct and indirect employment opportunities in the fisheries sector over a period of the next five years.
TILAPIA FISH
Technology Development Board (TDB) is a statutory body under the Ministry of Science and Technology.
AK-203 assault rifles
Indo-Russian joint venture at Amethi (UP) for its production
Super Vasuki
freight train—-3.5 km long——–(longest and heaviest)
Sutr Santati Exhibition
bring together diverse textile traditions as part of AKAM
India’s 1st electric double decker bus
Swithch Eiv 22
Manisha Kalyan
1st Indian footballer to ‘play’ at UEFA Womens Champions League for Apollon Ladies FC (European Club). Organized in Engomi Cyprus. She is from Hosiarpur (Punjab)
1st Indian Player to be signed
Dangmei Grace —— Gokuklam (Kerala) —— Uzbek Outfit FC Nasaf
Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Chandigarh Intl airport to be renamed after Bhagat Singh by agreement b/w Punjab CM and Haryana Deputy CM —- Dushyant Chautala
Egypt Post released commemorative postage stamp to celebrate 75 yrs of diplomatic relations b/w Egypt and India.
Egypt recognized the Independence of India on 18th August 1947 (3 days after Independence)
EGYPT
Capital—Cairo
Currency—-Egyptian Pound
President—-Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
Dahi Handi
recognized as official sports of Maharashtra
Govindas will get a job under sports category
insurance—-10 lakh life loss & 5 lakh Partial Handicap
HDFC opened all-women branch in kozhikode, north kerala
branch was inaugurated by city Corporation Mayor Beena Philip
HDFC
Founded—August 1994 HQ—-Mumbai
CEO—-Sashidhar Jagdishan
MD—–Aditya Puri (since inception)
65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference—–in Halifax, Canada from August 20 to 26 2022
Indian Parliamentary Delegation led by Om Birla
Pakistan out of FATF grey list
Financial Action Task Force (intl. watchdog on terror financing and money laundering)
India tests indigenous new generation medium range ballistic missile AGNI PRIME from Odisha Coast
DRDO
A conservation reserve has been notified in Palk Bay for this marine animal
Dugong
this endangered animal has 52 designated reserves across the country
Tiger
This species of finch get its name from a city in the country
Green avadavat or green munia (Amandava formosa)
this is the only floating park in the world
Keibul Lamjao Naional Park (Manipur)
This bovid is the State animal of both Goa and Bihar
Gaur
Dachigam national park herbivore
Hangul (Kashmir stag)
Sukapaika river in Odisha
dried 1950s and revived
Rishi Sunak
Britain’s 1st non-white PM
42 yrs old
former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Britain’s youngest PM in recent times
1st British Indian PM
KITE
Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education, state govt agency
city considered the birthplace of the UN charter
San Francisco
Name UN was coined by
Franklin D. Roosevelt
6 official languages of the UN
Chinese, English, French, Arabic, Russian, Spanish
link b/w Geneva, Vienna, Nairobi
UN has regional offices in these cities
in this UN organ, all member states have equal representation
General Assembly
only Secretary General from the Americas
Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru)
this event commence on Tuesday of 3rd week in September
Regular session of the General Assembly
5 permanent members of the Security Council
China, France, Russia, UK, US