Current Affairs 22nd August 2017
NATIONAL
- Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will arrive on a four-day trip to India
- Smriti Irani has inaugurated Jharkhand’s first textiles manufacturing and export unit ‘Orient Craft Ltd’
INTERNATIONAL
- India and US have established new two-by-two (2 by 2) ministerial dialogue to enhance strategic coordination
- 12-year-old Indian-origin boy Rahul Doshi has been crowned as the UK’s ‘Child Genius’
BANKING & ECONOMY
- Country’s largest lender, SBI Tops Share of Wilful Default to PSBs
- First regional centre of the New Development Bank Opens in South Africa
AGREEMENT
- Power Grid Corp announced to get USD 500 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Nestle India has tied up with Amazon India for the launch of its new Nutrilicious range of Maggi Noodles
AWARD
- Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has been selected for the prestigious Agriculture Leadership Award-2017
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- British scientists have developed the world’s smallest surgical robot
DEFENCE
- Union Ministry of Defence Approves Delegation of Powers to Border Roads Organisation
- US and South Korea began a 10-day-long annual military exercise, The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drill
- Under project Navika Sagar Parikrama : Indian Navy’s All women Team to Circumnavigate Globe on an Indian-built sail boat INSV Tarin
