Monthly Current Affairs August 2022

RBI, Banking and Economy

• Monetary Policy Committee Meeting – hikes repo rate by 50 bps

• RBI allows invoicing & payments for international trade in Indian Rupee

• All 12 public sector banks joined the account aggregator network

SEBI and FINANCIAL AWARENESS

• SEBI restructures market data advisory committee

• SEBI announced Ananth Narayan as the 4th Whole-time Member

• IRDAI eases firm registration process from 8 to 2 months

NABARD & AGRICULTURE

• NABARD’S RIDF to fund UAS for setting up R&D millet incubation centre in Raichur

• Centre hikes sugarcane FRP by Rs 15 per quintal for 2022-23 season

• India’s agricultural and processed food products exports up by 31 percent in first three months of 2022-23

NATIONAL

• The Central allocation of ₹66,750 crore for AMRUT 2.0 projects have been distributed

• Air India brings new policy; allows pilots to fly for 5 yrs after retirement

• India added some more wetlands designated as Ramsar sites to make total 75 sites

INTERNATIONAL

• Rare pink diamond, likely the largest in 300 years, discovered in Angola

• Khulna-Mongla railway line to open by December

• Fuel crisis prompts Bangladesh to cut govt office hours to save energy

STATES

• Chhattisgarh to flag off ‘Mahtari Nyay Rath’

• Bihar’s Langat Singh College astronomy lab included in the Unesco heritage list

• Haryana government developed the Cheerag programme for EWS Students

REPORTS AND INDEXES

• Cybercrime against women up 28% since 2019, Karnataka's share highest: NCRB

• Nature Index Rankings 2022

• IT, BPM industry to add more 300,000 jobs by FY2023: TeamLease report

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• IIT Madras launches ‘Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat’ to promote Indian language technology

• AzaadiSAT: ISRO to launch a satellite built by 750 school girls on 7th August

• SPARK: New Virtual Space Museum Launched By ISRO

DEFENCE

• Joint Exercise “EX VINBAX 2022”

• JIAF to take part in ‘Pitch Black’ in Australia

• INDIAN AIR FORCE TO PARTICIPATE IN BILATERAL EXERCISE HOSTED BY MALAYSIA

EVENTS

• Shumang Leela, the traditional form of theatre celebrated in All Manipur Shumang Leela Festival 2021-2022

• World Breastfeeding Week 2022

AWARDS AND REWARDS

• DSF institutes first of its kind Dinesh Shahra Lifetime Award for Excellence in Music

• Shashi Tharoor honoured with the Highest French Civilian Honour - Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur

• Puneeth Rajkumar to be conferred Karnataka Ratna posthumously

SPORTS

• James Anderson becomes most successful pacer in international cricket

• Serena Williams announces her retirement from tennis

• Ireland all rounder Kevin o’Brien retires