National Affairs
Union Health Minister JP Nadda has launched a nationwide breastfeeding campaign called MAA (Mother's Absolute
Affection).
A
total of ₹30 crore has been allocated for the programme, which will help
reduce the under-five mortality rate.
Punjab
government has reconstituted a state-level
drugs advisory committee to suggest ways and means to curb drug abuse in
the state which is going to polls early next year.
The
ten-member panel is headed by Punjab's Commissioner of Food and Drug
Administration as its Chairman.
The
term of the committee would be for two years.
Minister
of Law and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad today launched the MyGov app ahead of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s first-ever 'townhall'
style event in Delhi.
The
launch marked two years of MyGovIndia,
an online citizen engagement website of the Indian government.
In
the Townhall Meet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the PMO mobile application, the
government's online citizen engagement platform.
The
newly-launched app was reportedly developed with ideas from citizens and will
allow mobile users to connect with the website of the Prime Minister’s Office.
There is one doctor
for every 893 patients in India if allopathic doctors and those
practising Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathy streams are considered together, Lok
Sabha was informed today.
By
pumping 100 cusecs of water from
tubewells into a dug-up channel, the Haryana government today recreated the lost river ‘Saraswati’.
The water was released from Uncha Chandna village in Yamunanagar
which the officials believe will flow up to Kurukshetra, now deemed to
be Saraswati’s route.
Note
: The Saraswati river supposedly dried up 5,000 years ago.
The Odisha
government has started work on the installation of an Early Warning Dissemination System (EWDS)
in six coastal districts prone to disasters like floods and cyclones.
The
system, to be implemented at a cost of ₹66 crore, will involve 122 warning towers that will cover 22
calamity sensitive blocks, and blow sirens two hours prior to any calamity.
Indian Railways today launched 'Rail Geet', a three-minute
song with moving trains visuals, as an ode to its employees and to
establish a connect with the public.
The
song has been composed by Shravan and
sung by Udit Narayan and Kavita
Krishnamurti.
Titled
'Indian
Railways, we love Indian Railways', the song will be played now at every
railway function's beginning.
Science & Technology
Orkut Büyükkökten, creator
of Google's social networking platform Orkut, has launched a new social network
'Hello' to connect people who
share the same passions across the world.
New Appointments
Vijay
Rupani was declared the new Chief Minister of Gujarat
Nitin
Patel to be the Deputy Chief Minister.
Business & Economy
India
approves
$318 million loan for Sri Lanka Railways to upgrade its
communications system and rolling stock in the Tamil-dominated north.
Uttarakhand
has
emerged as the top state in India
in terms of growth in industry and
service sectors during 2004-05 to 2014-15, an Assocham study said.
It
posted the highest compounded annual growth rate of 16.5% and 12.3% in industry
and services respectively.
Note
: The state outperformed the nearly 7% national average
growth, the study added.
Recent Committees in News
Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) today announced that they had set up a committee to study why Indians spend a large
sum of money on gold and also understand their household financing
patterns.
The Committee will be chaired by : Tarun Ramadorai (Professor of Financial Economics, University of Oxford)
Science & Technology
China
has
successfully launched the first satellite dubbed as The Tiantong-01 for mobile telecommunication.
It
was launched on-board of the Long March-3B carrier rocket from Xichang
Satellite Launch Centre.
General Knowledge
World’s
first website was created by World Wide Web's inventor Tim Berners-Leeon this day (August 6)
in the year 1991.
The
website, which is still running, was dedicated to the World Wide Web project
and was hosted on Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer.
It
described the basic features of the web, how to access other people's documents
and how to set up a server.
A Japanese man Tsutomu
Yamaguchi is the only officially
recognised person to have survived both the atomic bomb explosions.
Yamaguchi
was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 when the first bomb detonated, and left for
Nagasaki upon surviving, where the next bomb was dropped three days
later.
The
survivor died in 2010 at the age of 93.
The 1936 Berlin
Olympics were the first to be
televised live, with a special black-and-white telecast arranged for
athletes in the Olympic Village, besides screenings in 25 special viewing rooms
in Berlin and Potsdam.
The
1960 Rome Olympics were the first to be broadcast live across Europe, while
Tokyo 1964 were the first Games to be telecast worldwide.
Deaths
Eminent Assamese litterateur Mahim Bora (92) passed away.
He
was a prolific short story writer and a poet.
He
had received the Sahitya Akademi award for his most popular work Edhani Mahir
Hanhi in 2001.
Actor David
Huddleston (85), who is known for his title role as the millionaire in
the 1998 film 'The Big Lebowski',
has passed away.
Huddleston's
wife Sarah Koeppe said that he died of advanced heart and kidney disease in
Santa Fe, USA. "Things were not important to him (Huddleston) – people
were," said Koeppe.
Sports
The 2016 Summer
Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have
officially been declared open by Brazil's
Acting President Michel Temer.
Former
Brazilian long-distance runner Vanderlei
Cordeiro de Lima, who won the bronze medal at Athens Olympics in 2004, lit the Olympic Cauldron during the
opening ceremony.
The
Games will run up to August 21, featuring
306 events in 28 sports.
Five-time Olympian and gold medallist at the 2008 Beijing
Olympics, Abhinav Bindra led the
biggest ever Indian Olympic contingent as it entered the Maracanã Stadium in
Rio today.
USA
became
the first nation to register a Gold
Medal at the Rio Olympics 2016,
after 19-year-old Virginia Thrasher won
gold in the 10-metre air rifle on
Day One of the event held today.
Thrasher
finished ahead of China's Du Li and Yi Siling, who won the silver and bronze
medals to open China's medals tally at the event.
Indian
Men's Hockey team defeated Ireland 3-2.
South
Korean archer and former world number one Kim Woo-jin set a new world
record, during the ranking round of the men’s individual archery competition on
Friday.
Woo-jin scored the first-ever 700 in archery recurve,
beating the previous record of 699 set by compatriot Im Dong-Hyun at London
2012. Meanwhile, Indian archer Atanu Das finished fifth in the ranking round.
The Indian Railways has
announced a ₹1 crore cash award for its athletes who win a gold
medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. In total, 35 athletes from the Indian Railways
will take part in the Games.
Further,
silver medallists will get ₹75 lakh, bronze medallists ₹50 lakh, and any top-eight finish athlete will receive a
reward of ₹30 lakh.
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