Today's Event – 23rd August 2021

• 1799 – Napoleon I of France left Egypt for France to seize power

• 1839 – the United Kingdom captured Hong Kong as a base to prepare for the First Opium War with the Qing dynasty of China.

• 1866 – Austro-Prussian War ended with the Treaty of Prague.

• 1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened up

• 1904 – First automobile tire chain was patented

• 1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first-ever mid-air refuelling on De Havilland DH-4B, making an endurance flight record of 37 hours.

• 1948 – World Council of Churches was formed by 147 churches representing 44 countries.

• 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon

• 1970 – The Salad Bowl strike, the largest farmworker strike in U.S. history, began

• 1973 – Stockholm Syndrome was named when a robbery in Sweden failed and the hostages felt sympathetic towards their captors

• 1990 – Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with Western "guests" (hostages) in order to stop the Gulf War

• 1990 – Armenia declared its independence from USSR

• 1990 – West and East Germany announced their reunion as a united Germany on October 3.

• 1991 – The World Wide Web was opened for public

• 2007 – Last remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia were discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia

• 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown after National Transitional Council forces took control of the Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.

National Events- 

•  India’s first-ever smog tower inaugurated by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

•  Koli community of Mumbai celebrated Narali Purnima

•  34k cases of covid 19 and 357 deaths recorded in India

•  Fear, trauma and panic prevails over Afghan students in Goa

• Shivajirao Kadam Institute of Technology and Management of Indore holds a seminar on cybersecurity during lockdown

International Events- 

•  Afghan tricolour flag becomes a symbol of resistance against the Taliban

•  Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want militants disguised as refugees

•  Hostilities arise as Hamas sites are affected by Israel’s missile fire on Gaza

•  New Zealand has extended a nationwide lockdown to tackle the covid issue

• No comfort for Afghan women despite Taliban’s law of Sharia

Job alerts-

• Indian Air Force Jobs for group C and other posts. Last date 21st September 2021

• NTPC Jobs for Medical Assistants, Assistant officers and other posts. Last date 2nd September 2021

• HAL Jobs for medical superintendent, senior medical officer and other posts. Last date 4th September 2021

• Coast guard Jobs for group B, chargeman and other posts. Last date 13th September 2021

• BSF Jobs for GD Constable and other posts. Last date 22nd September 2021

Sports-

•  Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar urges people to support Paralympian athletes

•  Jasprit Bumrah channels anger to rain damage on England during the Test series. People compared his performance to Zaheer Khan’s performance during 2007’s Nottingham series

•  USA cricket chief Paraag Marathe prefer the T20 format for cricket in the Olympics but is open to other formats

•  Real Madrid ends the match with a 3-3 draw against Levante

• Cricketers Yuzvendra Chahal and K Gowtham tested covid positive

Awards and honours-

•  TBA

Technology-

•  Google removed 10 cryptocurrency apps due to hacking and stealing money

•  Nokia 3.4 received an Android 11 update

•  Motorola postponed the launch of Edge 20 phones in India till August 27th 2021

•  South Korea’s Sejong City is utilizing drones to deliver pizza

• Buying and selling process has been initiated by PayPal in the UK

Economy – 

•  Sensex low at 55,408; Nifty down at 16,455

•  Petrol at Rs. 101.64; diesel at Rs. 89.07

•  Bitcoin jumped above 50k dollars for the first time since May

•  Indian government against merging of Vodafone Idea and BSNL-MTNL

• HDFC and PayTM team up to provide payment solutions to their merchant trader

Environment –

• 21% SURPLUS rainfall recorded in Delhi 

• 22 dead and many people missing after 17 inches of rainfall in Tennessee, US 

•  Artificial lake in Dehradun, Uttarakhand has caused fear of flood in the state

Local –

• New Town subway to be open this week in Kolkata, West Bengal 

•  Gangs of 10 chain snatchers busted in Goa

•  Former UP CM Kalyan Singh’s funeral to be held in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh

•  Fuel prices in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) were reduced by 20 paise

• Tamil Nadu’s covid cases rise to 26 lakhs accompanied by 19k fatalities

Person in News – 

•  TBA

GK – 

Which organization has launched a new initiative called the Small Business Loans Initiative?

[A] Facebook
[B] Google
[C] State Bank of India
[D] Bank of Baroda

Which organization has launched Urja, an AI-enabled virtual assistant?

[A] Hindustan Petroleum
[B] NTPC Limited
[C] Power Grid Corporation of India
[D] Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

Which organization has partnered with Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE)-IIT Bombay to launch Plugin Alliance, a first-of-its-kind industry-technology alliance?

[A] Facebook
[B] Microsoft
[C] Intel
[D] Google

Which organization has launched Google Cloud Garages?

[A] Infosys
[B] Tata Consultancy Services
[C] Accenture
[D] Deloitte

Which organization, working towards the revival of Udupi sari weaving, has been awarded as one among three ‘NGOs associated with NABARD?’

[A] Rural Development Trust
[B] Kadike Trust
[C] Gram Vikas Parishad
[D] National Resources Centre for Women Development