Current Affairs 13th & 14th August 2018

Current Affairs 13th & 14th August 2018

NATIONAL

• Santhali Becomes India’s 1st Tribal Language To Get Own Wikipedia Edition
• Piyush Goyal Released 3rd Party Survey Report On Station Cleanliness
• IT Minister Released ‘Digital North East Vision 2022’ in Guwahati
• Government Provides Fund of Rs 66000 crore To Increase Country’s Forest Cover
• Israel Opens Visa Application Centre In Kolkata

INTERNATIONAL

• Nepal-India Literature Festival 2018 Begins in Birgunj
• Meeting Of Senior Officials Of BIMSTEC Held
• BBC’s ‘Women Who Changed The World’ List: Marie Curie Tops, Mother Teresa 20th

APPOINTMENT

• Justice Manjula Chellur is New Chairperson of Appellate Tribunal for Electricity

BANKING & ECONOMY

• Exim Bank Signs MoU With BRICS Development Banks

SPORTS

• Rafael Nadal Lifts Rogers Cup 2018

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Nasa Launches Parker Solar Probe To ‘Touch Sun’
• India To Launch 2nd Lunar Mission ‘Chandrayaan-2’ on January 3, 2019

OBITUARY

• Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee Passes Away
• VS Naipaul: Nobel Prize Winner Dies At 85