29 AUG 2020

  Sports

1. India plans to host BRICS Games in 2021

  • Sports Ministry is planning to host BRICS Games 2021 that will be aligned with the Khelo India Games schedule.
  • It will be held at the same venue as Khelo India Games
  • BRICS Games were formed at 8th BRICS Summit held in Goa, India in 2016
  • First edition of the BRICS Games were held in Guangzhou, China in 2017
  • BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
  • BRICS Headquarters: Shanghai, China
  • BRICS President: Marcos Prado Troyjo
  • Sports Minister: Kiren Rijiju

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 Important Dates

2. National Sports Day being observed today

  • National Sports Day is observed on 29 August in India every year marking the birth anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand.
  • It was first celebrated in 2012.
  • Every year, it is being celebrated across the nation with President conferring National Sports Awards to players who have performed well for our nation.
  • Major Dhyan Chand Singh was a legendary hockey player, who won Olympics gold medals for India in the years 1928, 1932 and 1936.

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 Honours & Awards

3. Marieke Lucas Rijneveld won International Booker Prize 2020

  • Dutch Author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld won 2020 International Booker Prize for her fiction book titled as ‘The Discomfort of Evening’.
  • She became the youngest author to win the prize at the age of 29.
  • The book depicts fictional story of Jas, a girl in a devout Christian farming family, whose brother dies in an accident after she wishes he would die instead of her rabbit.
  • The book was originally written in Dutch in 2018 and was translated into English by Michele Hutchison.

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 National Affairs

4. Centre launches national GIS-enabled land bank system

  • Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has launched National GIS-enabled Land Bank System.
  • It is database of industrial areas/clusters across the states that will help in providing real-time information about the availability of industrial land and resources in India
  • It is developed by integrating Industrial Information System (IIS) with state GIS (Geographic Information System)
  • It is initially launched for 6 states and will reach all other states/ UTs by Dec 2020.

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 State Affairs

5. Kerala gets First marine ambulance boat ‘PRATHEEKSHA’

  • Kerala’s CM Pinarayi Vijayan has inaugurated the first ever marine ambulance titled as ‘PRATHEEKSHA’ via videoconferencing.
  • It is built by Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) and designed by Central Institute of Fisheries Technology with a cost of Rs. 6.08 crore
  • Prathyasha’ and ‘Karunya’ are the other two boats that were launched in the series of 3 fully equipped marine ambulance boat
  • It will be deployed at Vizhinjam village of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

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 Summits & Conferences

6. Piyush Goyal addresses ASEAN-India Virtual Business Council Meet

  • Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal addressed ASEAN-India Business Council virtual meet with impetus on 3Cs: Cooperation, Collaboration and Commitment
  • The business council meet provided a platform to discuss wide range of concerns for achieving a target of $300 billion trade.
  • India and ASEAN also inked free trade agreement (FTA) and agreed to review ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement signed in 2009.
  • ASEAN HQs: Jakarta, Indonesia.

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 Summits & Conferences

7. 14th India-Singapore Defence Policy Dialogue held

  • 14th edition of India-Singapore Defence Policy Dialogue (DPD) was held via video conferencing.
  • DPD was co-chaired by India’s Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar and Singapore’s Permanent Secretary (Defence) Chan Heng Kee.
  • Issues related to bilateral defence engagements between India and Singapore were discussed at DPD
  • India also signed Implementing Arrangement on Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief (HADR) with Singapore.
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 Honours & Awards

8. Sudha Painuli selected for National Award to Teachers 2020

  • Sudha Painuli has been selected for National Award to Teachers 2020
  • The teachers are selected by Independent Jury at National Level, constituted by Ministry of Education, Dept of School Education Literacy.
  • She is the Vice-Principal of Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) Dehradun, Uttarakhand established under Ministry of Tribal Affairs
  • She has been selected for her innovative experiments like Birthday Garden, Theatre in Education, Tribal Museum, etc.

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 Obituaries

9. Veteran athletics coach Purshottam Rai passes away

  • Veteran athletics coach Purshottam Rai (79 years) passed away in Bengaluru due to cardiac arrest
  • He served as the coach of top athletes like Olympian quartermiler Vandana Rao, heptathlete Pramila Aiyappa, Ashwini Nachappa, Murali Kuttan, MK Asha, EB Shyla, Rosa Kutty and GG Pramila.
  • He began his coaching career in 1974.
  • He was to be conferred with prestigious Dronacharya Award in the lifetime category on National Sports Day (August 29).

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 International Affairs

10. Longest Serving Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe resigns

  • Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe (65 years) has announced his resignation due to poor health conditions. 
  • He is the longest serving Prime Minister in Japanese history, who served world’s third-biggest economy for a record 7 years and eight months.
  • He was serving as Japan’s PM since 26 December 2012.
  • Prior to this, he served as Japan’s PM for a short period between July 2006 to Sept 2007, becoming the youngest PM of Japan.

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 National Affairs

11. Electronics and Information Technology Minister launches ‘Chunauti’

  • Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad has rolled out ‘Chunauti’-Next Generation Startup Challenge Contest.
  • It  is aimed at boosting startups and software products with special attention on Tier-II towns
  • The contest will identify 300 startups engaged in areas like Edu-tech, agri-tech, logistic, fin-tech, etc will be offered fund of upto Rs. 25 Lakh along with other facilities
  • It has a budget of Rs. 95.03 Crore.

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