Current Affairs 22nd August 2017

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