IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS OF
AUGUST 21st , 2018
Q.1 NOTA Option Not Applicable For Rajya Sabha Elections:
Supreme Court
i. The Supreme Court ruled
that the ‘None of The Above’ (NOTA) option will not be applicable for
voting in the Rajya Sabha elections. The ruling was made by a bench of
Justices comprising CJI Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY
Chandrachud.
ii. The
bench held that the NOTA option is meant only for universal adult suffrage and
direct elections and not for the polls held by the system of proportional
representation by means of the single transferable vote as done in the Rajya
Sabha.
Q. 2. Historic Esala Maha Perehera Festival Begins in Sri
Lanka
i. In Sri Lanka, the
ten-day festival of the historic Esala Maha Perehera began in Kandy
with a grand procession. The procession set off from the biggest Buddhist
temple in Sri Lanka, Sri Dalada Maligawa at an auspicious time.
ii. The Esala Perahera is one of the oldest and grandest of all Buddhist festivals in Sri Lanka, featuring dancers, jugglers, musicians, fire-breathers and lavishly decorated elephants.
ii. The Esala Perahera is one of the oldest and grandest of all Buddhist festivals in Sri Lanka, featuring dancers, jugglers, musicians, fire-breathers and lavishly decorated elephants.
Q.3 Paytm Partners With Alibaba
i. Digital payments firm Paytm has partnered with China's
Alibaba to launch AI-based cloud
computing platform 'Paytm AI Cloud'.
ii. The
platform will offer business-centric apps to developers, startups and
enterprises that need cloud-computing solutions including customer engagement
and easy-to-integrate payments. It will process and store all consumer data
locally in servers located only in India.
Static/Current Takeaways Important for Indian Bank PO Exam
2018-
·
Alibaba’s Cloud
computing business, which opened its first India data centre in Mumbai in
January.
·
Vijay Shekhar Sharma is
the Founder of Paytm.
·
Jack Maa is the founder
of Alibaba.
Q. 4 Novak Djokovic Wins Western and Southern Open 2018
i. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat Roger Federer (Switzerland) in straight sets, high-profile
championship match at the 2018 Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati.
ii. With this win,
Djokovic became the first men's tennis player in history to win all
nine Masters 1,000 tournaments after finishing as the runner-up in
Cincinnati five different times.
Static/Current Takeaways Important for Indian Bank PO Exam
2018-
·
Cincinnati is a city in
Ohio, on the Ohio River.
Q.5 Saurabh Chaudhary Wins 10m Air Pistol Gold
i. 16-Year-Old Saurabh Chaudhary became only the fifth Indian
shooter to claim a gold in the Asian Games history, beating a field of
multiple world and Olympic champions in the 10m air pistol finals in
Indonesia
ii. Another
Indian making his international debut, 29-year-old Abhishek Verma, shot 219.3
to secure bronze.
Static/Current Takeaways
Important for RRB PO/Clerk Exam 2018-
·
The Host cities
for Asian Games 2018 are Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.
·
Bhin
Bhin, Kaka, and Atung are the mascots of
the 2018 Asian Games.
Q. 6 Vinesh Phogat, 1st Indian Woman Wrestler To Bag Gold At Asian Games
Q. 6 Vinesh Phogat, 1st Indian Woman Wrestler To Bag Gold At Asian Games
i. India got its second Gold medal at the 18th Asian Games in
Indonesia when Vinesh Phogat defeated Japan’s Yuki Irie in the final
of freestyle 50 kg category in Women’s Wrestling.
ii. With
this victory, Vinesh created history as she is the first Indian woman
wrestler to win gold in the Asian Games.
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