August 2013- Latest Current Affairs
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Q1. Who was appointed as the 23rd
Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a time period of three years on
6 August 2013?
Ans. Raghuram
Govind Rajan
Note: He is the
Chief Economic Advisor to the government of India and he succeeds D. Subbarao
who demits the office on 4 September 2013. He is 50 years of age and so far, he
is the youngest person to become the Governor of the Central Bank of India.
Q2. Who became the first Indian bowler
to top the bowlers' chart in the latest ICC ODI Player Rankings after former
captain Anil Kumble claimed the top position in the ODI Rankings in 1996?
Ans. Ravindra
Jadeja
Q3. Name the India's first indigenous
nuclear submarine which became active on 10 August 2013?
Ans. INS Arihant
Q4. Which house of Parliament passed the
historic companies Bill 2012 on 8 August 2013?
Ans. Rajya Sabha
Note: The new
legislation, which would replace the nearly 57-year-old Companies Act of 1956
and would encourage the companies to undertake social welfare voluntarily
instead of imposing the social responsibility. The bill was passed by the Lok
Sabha on 18 December 2012.
Q5. Who has created a new
history for India on 10 August 2013 by becoming the first women to win a medal
for India in the World Badminton Championship?
Ans. PV Sindhu
Note: She won a
Bronze medal. World’s third position
player Ratchanok Inthanon defeated Sindhu in the semi finals.
Q6. Which tennis player topped the
Forbes list of highest-paid female athletes for the ninth straight year?
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Ans. Maria
Sharapova
Q7. Indian Junior Women Hockey team won
its first ever Bronze medal in ERGO Hockey Junior World Cup on 4 August 2013.
Where was the event held?
Ans.
Monchengladbac, Germany
Note: India beat England by 3-2 in a penalty shoot-out
Q8. Name the World’s first talking robot
which was successfully sent into space on 4 August 2013 by Japanese Scientists?
Ans. Kirobo
Q9. Government approved setting up of
all-women bank on 08 August 2013. What will be its name?
Ans. Bhartiya
Mahila Bank Ltd
Q10. Which team retained the Ashes
Series after the draw of third test held in Old Trafford, England?
Ans. England
Note: England leads the five match series 2-0 after three
test.
Q11. Name the biggest warship since
World War II unveiled by Japan on 6 August 2013? Visit- http://currentaffairs4examz.blogspot.in/
Ans. Izumo
Q12. NASA is all set to launch its next
mission to Mars in November 2013 from Florida. What will be the project called?
Ans. Mars
Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)
Q13. Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology inaugurated Data portal of India in New Delhi on 8
August 2013. Name the URL of the website?
Ans.
www.data.gov.in
Note: It is aimed
at sharing more and more data as it empowers and connects to policy making.
Q14. Name the indigenously developed
rockets which were successfully test-fired by India on 7 August 2013from a
multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) from a base at Chandipur-on-sea near
Balasore, off the Odisha coast?
Ans. Pinaka rockets
Note: Pinaka is an area weapon system with a range of 40 km.
Q15. Which team won the Nehru Trophy Boat
Race 2013 held in Kerala?
Ans. Shree Ganeshan
Chundan
Note: The Nehru
Trophy Boat Race is conducted every year on the second Saturday of August. The
tradition of the boat race started in 1952 after the first Prime Minister of
India Jawaharlal Nehru visited Punnamada Lake in Alleppey (Alappuzha), Southern
Kerala.
Q16. Name the Professional Snooker
Player of India who won a Gold Medal in 2013 World Games in Snooker discipline?
Ans. Aditya Mehta
Q17. Where was the World Games 2013 took
place where Aditya Mehta, the Professional Snooker Player won a gold medal for
India?
Ans. Cali, Colombia
Q18. Who took charge as the Executive
Director of the Union Bank of India on 5 August 2013? Visit- http://currentaffairs4examz.blogspot.in/
Ans. Rakesh Sethi
Q19. India and Pakistan exchanged fire
at which area of Poonch Sector of Jammu and Kashmir on 6 August 2013 killing
five Indian Soldiers?
Ans. Chakan Da Bagh
Q20. Who took oath to the office of US
ambassador to United Nations on 2 August 2013?
Ans. Samantha Power
Q21 Who won the men's 10,000m at
the World Athletics Championships held in Moscow?
Ans. Mo Farah
Q22. 14th World Championships in
Athletics started on 10 August 2013. Where was it being held?
Ans. Moscow,
Russia.
Q23. Name the Kadapa MP and YSR Congress
party President who resigned from his position on 10 August 2013 due to the
decision taken by congress regarding Telangana?
Ans. Jaganmohan
Reddy
Q24. Indian Police Wrestlers won five
gold medals on 5 August 2013 (the fifth day) in the World Police and Fire
Games. At which place the games were held?
Ans. Belfast,
England
Q25. Union Cabinet on 9 August 2013
approved the proposal for establishment of which new Wing in the Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting?
Q26. Gitanjali, the collection of poems
(song offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore was released in 14 different languages
at Kolkata. Who hasa released it?
Ans. Mamata
Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal
Q27. Who were selected to be conferred
with US Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Ans. Former US
President, Bill Clinton and talk show queen, Oprah Winfrey
Q28. NGT on 5 August 2013 banned mining
or removal of sand from river beds across the country without licence and
Environmental Clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests.
What is the full form of NGT?
Ans. National Green
Tribunal
Q29. World observed the International
Day of the World's Indigenous People on 9 August 2013. What was the theme
selected for the year 2013?
Ans. Indigenous
peoples building alliances: Honouring treaties, agreements and other
constructive arrangements.
Q30. Name the Bill introduced by
Government in Rajya Sabha for stricter enforcement of laws to protect wildlife?
Ans. Wild Life
(Protection) Amendment Bill, 2013
Q31. Nasa’s Curiosity rover celebrated
its first anniversary on 6 August 2013. Name the planet on which it is on
mission?
Ans. Mars
Q32. New International Terminal
constructed at whic airport started its operation on 7 August 2013?
Ans. Chennai
airport
Q33. Which country on 6 August 2013
successfully completed a Trial Run of World's Deepest Rail Tunnel under the
Bosphorus Strait connecting Istanbul's European and Asian sides?
Ans. Turkey
Q34. Who took oath as the new President
of Iran on 4 August 2013?
Ans. Hassan Rouhani
Q35. The first case of the
human-to-human transmission of which flu was reported on 6 August 2013 from
China?
Ans. H7N9
Q36. Where was the first public sector
breast milk bank inaugurated on 07 August 2013? Visit- http://currentaffairs4examz.blogspot.in/
Ans. Kolkata
Q37. A company from Maryland, USA
Sanaria has developed a malaria vaccine that has become the first in providing
100% protection against malaria. What is its name?
Ans. PfSPZ.
Q38. Which chess player from India won
the Denmark's Politiken Cup on 5 July 2013 at Copenhagen, Denmark by gaining 9
out of the total possible 10 points?
Ans. Grandmaster
Parimarjan Negi
Q39. Name the founder and Chief
Executive Officer of Amazon who on 5 August agreed to buy the newspaper assets
of the Washington Post Company for 250 million US dollar?
Ans. Jeffrey P
Bezos
Q40. Who on 9 August 2013 won the Gujar
Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology 2013?
Ans. Vinod Prakash
Sharma
Note: He is an
eminent scientist. The award was instituted by the G.M. Modi Foundation in the
memory of industrialist Rai Bahadur Gujar Mal Modi in 1988.
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