• Health Minister J P Nadda on 5 August 2016 launched a nation-wide programme for promoting breastfeeding - MAA - Mothers’ Absolute Affection
• The 31st Summer
Olympic Games officially began on 5 August 2016 with inaugural ceremony held at
- the Maracana Stadium in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro
• The 2016 Mohun
Bagan Ratna has been conferred on - Syed Nayeemuddin
• The far eastern
border district of Afghanistan that was declared free of Islamic State
militants after a month long offensive is - Kot district in Nangarhar province
• Aadi Perukku
festival, celebrated on 18th of Aadi month in Tamil calendar year in gratitude
to water bodies especially Cauvery River, is being celebrated today with
traditional gaiety in - Tamil Nadu
• The country that
enforced a new legislation that grants sweeping powers to its National Security
Council (NSC) is – Malaysia
• The National
Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2016
that was passed in Parliament wants to establish the National Institute of
Technology in - Andhra Pradesh
• He was sworn-in
as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court - Justice Dilip Babasaheb
Bhosale
• A skydiver with
18000 jumps, who became first person to jump from 25000 feet (7620 meters)
without a parachute or a wing suit - Luke Aikins
• India’s flag
bearer during parade at 2016 Rio Olympics opening ceremony - Abhinav Bindra
• Person appointed
as the Head of Online and E-commerce of Lenovo India in August 2016 - Rajesh
Thadani
• Indian State that
signed MoU with Japan to develop food value chain in the state - Andhra Pradesh
• Book titled India
Rising: Fresh Hope, New Fears is authored by - Ravi Velloor
• Intelligence and
security agency of India that was added to the Second Schedule of the RTI Act,
2005 leading to its exemption from the purview of the Act - Strategic Forces
Command (SFC)
• International
Kabaddi Federation on 31 July 2016 selected a country to host The 2016 Kabaddi
World Cup – India
• Railway Minister
Suresh Prabhu flagged off maiden broad-gauge train service between Agartala and
Delhi - ‘Tripura Sundari Express’
• The 47-day-long
annual monsoon trawling ban from venturing into the Arabian Sea was lifted midnight
31 July 2016 in - Kerala
• The Tamil Nadu
Assembly on 1 August 2016 unanimously passed a resolution to rename the Madras
High Court as - the Tamil Nadu High Court
• The typhoon that
is expected to hit south China's Guangdong Provinceis - Typhoon Nida
• The AIADMK Member
of Parliament in Rajya Sabha who was expelled from the primary membership of
the party by AIADMK Chief Jayalalithaa is - Sasikala Pushpa
• The state’s Board of Secondary and Higher
Secondary education has decided to delete a lesson based on Russian tennis star
Maria Sharapova from the next edition of a school textbook is - Goa
• He lit the 2016
Olympic cauldron - Vanderlei de Lima
• They were elected
as the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat - Vijay Rupani and
Nitin Patel respectively
• The Eastern Zonal
Cultural Centre (EZCC), an autonomous organization under Government of India's
Ministry of Culture, has organized a 64-day-long theatre festival in - Kolkata
• The country that
has decided not to host the European Road Cycling Championships, planned for 14
to 18 September 2016, for security reasons is - France
• Olympics 2016
opens with a glittering ceremony in Rio De Janerio, with the theme - Peace and
Environment
• The country
banned the Pokemon Go app because of unspecified security concerns - Iran
• The theme of the
World Breastfeeding Week 2016 is - Breastfeeding: A key to Sustainable
Development
• Former Meghalaya
Chief Secretary who Was appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner of
Meghalaya is - P B O Warjri
• The founder of
Slingbox, a TV streaming media device, who died recently is - Blake Krikorian
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