Daily Current Affairs August 30

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August 30 | Daily Current Affairs 2021

IMPORTANT DAYS – Daily Current Affairs August 30

1. International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances is observed on which date?
A) 22 August
B) 23 August
C) 29 August
D) 25 August
E) 30 August
Answer: E) 30 August

• International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances is marked every year on August 30 to honour and pay tribute to people who have faced enforced disappearances.
• According to the UN, more than 6,000 people were registered as missing in Kosovo since 1999.
• Hence, the resource centre for missing persons in Kosovo has also been initiated by the UN.

SPORTS – Daily Current Affairs August 30

2. Avani Lekhara becomes first Indian woman to win gold at Paralympics. She was related to which sports?
A) Shooting
B) Tennis
C) Table Tennis
D) Hockey
E) Paddler
Answer: A) Shooting

• Shooter Avani Lekhara scripted history as she became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics, firing her way to the top of the podium in the R-2 women’s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event here.
• The 19-year-old from Jaipur, who sustained spinal cord injuries in a car accident in 2012, finished with a world record equalling total of 249.6, which is also a new Paralympic record.
• She is only the fourth Indian athlete to win a Paralympics gold after swimmer Murlikant Petkar (1972), javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia (2004 and 2016) and high jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu (2016).

India at Paralympics: Jhajharia, Gurjar win silver and bronze in javelin throw F46:

• Two-time gold-winning javelin throw veteran Devendra Jhajharia clinched a stupendous third Paralympic medal, a silver this time, while discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya also finished second as India surpassed its best-ever medal tally at the Games.
• Sundar Singh Gurjar also chipped in with a bronze, finishing behind Jhajharia in the men’s javelin throw F46 final.

Yogesh Kathuniya wins silver in men’s discus throw F56 event:

• Discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya clinched a silver medal in the men’s F56 event in the Paralympics here as athletics remained India’s happy hunting ground at the Games.
• The 24-year-old, a B.Com graduate from New Delhi’s Kirorimal College, sent the disc to a best distance of 44.38m in his sixth and last attempt to clinch the silver.

3. Stuart Binny has announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket. He was related to which country?
A) India
B) UAE
C) Hungary
D) Spain
E) Ireland
Answer: A) India

• India all-rounder Stuart Binny has announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket.
• Binny played 6 Tests, 14 ODIs, and 3 T20Is for the country and he also recorded figures of 6-4 in an ODI match against Bangladesh in his career.
• Stuart Binny was picked for India’s ODI team for the tour of New Zealand in 2014.
  He played his first ODI during that tour.
• On June 17, 2014, Binny scalped six wickets conceding only four runs surpassing Anil Kumble to have the best bowling record for any Indian bowler.
• He made his Test debut against England in the tour of England 2014 and he then made his T20I debut for India against Zimbabwe in 2015.

4. Who won Belgian Grand Prix?
A) Valtteri Bottas
B) Max Verstappen
C) Michael Masi
D) George Russell
E) Lewis Hamilton
Answer: B) Max Verstappen

5. P Iniyan won the Noisiel International Open 2021 Chess Tournament. He was related to which state?
A) Karnataka
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Kerala
D) Uttar Pradesh
E) Assam
Answer: B) Tamil Nadu

OBITUARY – Daily Current Affairs August 30

6. Former President of which organisation Jacques Rogge has passed away?
A) IOC
B) UNICEF
C) UNESCO
D) WHO
E) UNDP
Answer: A) IOC

• Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has died at the age of 79, the IOC said. Rogge served as the IOC’s eighth president from 2001 to 2013 and went on to become the organisation’s honorary president.
• He went on to become President of the Belgian and European Olympic Committees before being elected IOC president, and served as a Special Envoy for Youth, Refugees and Sport to the United Nations after his IOC presidency.

BANKING AND FINANCE – Daily Current Affairs August 30

7. Which company gets IRDAI license to serve as direct insurance broker?
A) U GRO Capital
B) BharatPe
C) PhonePe
D) Innoviti
E) Dvara E-Registry
Answer: C) PhonePe

• Digital payments platform PhonePe said it has been issued an insurance broking license from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI).
• Now, with this new ‘direct broking’ license, PhonePe can distribute insurance products from all insurance companies in India.
• The new broking license also allows PhonePe to start offering personalised product recommendations to its 300-plus million users, and offering a much more diverse portfolio of insurance products for Indian consumers.

8. Aceware FinTech Services has launched QR-based unified payments interface (UPI) payments in which state?
A) Karnataka
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Kerala
D) Madhya Pradesh
E) Assam
Answer: C) Kerala

• Aceware FinTech Services, a fintech start-up mentored by the Kerala Start-up Mission and registered with Start-up India, has launched QR-based unified payments interface (UPI) payments in Kerala. Aceware FinTech Services, a subsidiary of Aceware, is the first Kerala-based company to launch UPI/QR payments.
• Registered in 2020, the Kochi-based start-up offers ATM to home and neobanking services, beside UPI/QR payments.

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY – Daily Current Affairs August 30

9. Which company announced the launch of Karigar Mela in partnership with Tribes India will feature a dedicated storefront for traditional tribal and local Indian handicrafts?
A) Accenture
B) Infosys
C) TCS
D) Microsoft
E) Amazon India
Answer: E) Amazon India

APPOINTMENTS – Daily Current Affairs August 30

10. Rajnish Kumar as a non-executive director for HSBC Asia. He served as Chairman of which Bank?
A) Kotak Mahindra Bank
B) IndusInd Bank
C) State Bank of India
D) SBM Bank India
E) Bank of Maharashtra
Answer: C) State Bank of India

• Banking giant HSBC has appointed former SBI chairman Rajnish Kumar as a non-executive director for its Hong Kong-headquartered Asia unit.
• Kumar, who retired from the country”s largest lender after four decades of service in October last year, was previously appointed as senior advisor by Baring Private Equity Asia and an advisor to Kotak Investment Advisors.

AWARDS – Daily Current Affairs August 30

11. Which state Government announced The Life Time Achievement Award for the year 2020 is being given to Padmashri Mr Abhay Chhajlani?
A) Karnataka
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Kerala
D) Madhya Pradesh
E) Assam
Answer: D) Madhya Pradesh

• Madhya Pradesh government announced state level sports awards.
• 28 sportspersons given Sports Awards in different categories.
• Tokyo Olympic bronze medal winner India hockey team’s Vivek Sagar is among 10 sportspersons, who have been selected for Vikram award.

12. Yashodhara Mishra won The Sahitya Akademi award in which language?
A) Telugu
B) Odia
C) Malayalam
D) Tamil
E) Bengali
Answer: B) Odia

• The Sahitya Akademi named authors Yashodhara Mishra and Omcherry N.N. Pillai as the winners of the 2020 awards for their works in Odia and Malayalam, respectively.
• In another statement, Sahitya Akademi said Mr. Pillai was awarded for his work Akasmikam Omcheriyute Ormmakkurippukal.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY – Daily Current Affairs August 30

13. Which IIT develops app that will alert when Covid vaccination slots are available?
A) IIT-Mumbai
B) IIT-Mandi
C) IIT-Hyderabad
D) IIT-Madras
E) IIT-Bombay
Answer: E) IIT-Bombay

• To help people book a Covid-19 vaccination slot conveniently, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), have designed an app that allows applicants to set up alerts for the availability of slots nearby.
• CoVaccinator is a mobile application for android phones designed by researchers from Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), IIT-B, that can access data from the servers of the Co-Win portal.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS – Daily Current Affairs August 30

14. Who inaugurated the Goa Startup Conclave Entrepreneurship Summit “Anth Prerana”?
A) Parshottam Rupala
B) Pramod Sawant
C) Jitendra Singh
D) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
E) Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Answer: B) Pramod Sawant

• Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant inaugurated the Goa Startup Conclave Entrepreneurship Summit “Anth Prerana” at a function organized by the Startup Promotion Cell in Collaboration with Goa Institute of Management at Panaji.
• The conclave will give an opportunity for enabling direct startup- Investors.
• There would be experience-sharing sessions by successful startups.
• The central government and state government representatives would be explaining various facets of enabling startups growth.

15. Who inaugurated the newly constructed 132/33/11 kV Mohanpur Sub-station in Tripura?
A) Parshottam Rupala
B) Pramod Sawant
C) Jitendra Singh
D) Nirmala Sitharaman
E) Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Answer: D) Nirmala Sitharaman

• Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the newly constructed 132/33/11 kV Mohanpur Sub-station in Tripura on 27th August 2021, in presence of the Chief Minister of Tripura, Mr Biplab Kumar Deb, Dy. CM of Tripura, Mr. Jishnu Dev Varma and Minister of Education, Tripura, Mr. Ratan Lal Nath.
• This Sub-station has been constructed by Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID), a Maharatna CPSU under Ministry of Power, Government of India for Tripura under North Eastern Region Power System Improvement Project (NERPSIP).

16. Who chair a meeting at the UN Security Council on the situation in the Middle East?
A) Parshottam Rupala
B) Pramod Sawant
C) Jitendra Singh
D) Harsh Vardhan Shringla
E) Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Answer: D) Harsh Vardhan Shringla

• Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will chair a meeting at the UN Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, as part of wrap-up sessions of India’s month-long presidency of the Security Council.
• India’s Permanent Representative to the UN T S Tirumurti received the Foreign Secretary in New York.
• After the engagements in New York, the Foreign Secretary will go to Washington DC for bilateral consultations.

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