• The 7th meeting
of SAARC Interior Minister's Conference has started in - Islamabad
• The singer who
will be awarded with the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award is - Shubha
Mudgal
• The 7th SAARC
Immigration Authorities meeting was recently held in - Islamabad, Pakistan
• Person who
resigned as Managing Director of JM Financial Ltd in August 2016 - Nimesh
Kampani
• Sudhanshu Mani
has been appointed as the General Manager of - Integral Coach Factory
• Bill passed by
Rajya Sabha in August 2016 to introduce the goods and services tax - The
Constitution (122nd Amendment) (GST) Bill, 2014
• Facility launched
by Union Government in August 2016 that allows people to sign documents
digitally from remote places - eSignDesk
• Person appointed
as the Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) of Kerala - VS
Achuthanandan
• The Union
Government has decided to raise a CRPF battalion consisting of scheduled tribe
candidates from - Bijapur, Dantewada, Narayanpur and Sukma districts in
Chhattisgarh
• The Communist
Party of Nepal-Maoist Chairperson who has been elected the 39th Prime Minister
of Nepal is - Pushpa Kamal Dahal
• Ahmed Zewail, the
Egyptian-American scientist who died in the United States on 2 August 2016 won
the Nobel Chemistry Prize in 1999 for - his pioneering work in femtochemistry
• Union Cabinet on
3 August 2016 gave its approval to Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill, 2016 that
seeks to improve - Road Safety in the country
• The Olympic
Participant from India who’s named was cleared for participation in Rio
Olympics by United World Wrestling (UWW) – Narsingh Yadav
• Following
Constitutional Article was referred by Delhi High Court to hold that Lt.
Governor is the administrative head of the National Capital Territory - Article
239 & 239AA
• The 7th meeting
of SAARC Interior Minister's Conference has started in - Islamabad
• The 1979-batch
IRS officer of the I-T cadre who taken over as the Chairperson of Central Board
of Direct Taxes is - Rani Singh Nair
• The Indian
translator who won the 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants for English
translation of Hindi novel Simsim by Geet Chaturvedi is - Anita Gopalan
• Person named as
the President of Microsoft India by the parent company Microsoft Inc in August
2016 - Anant Maheshwari
• Person appointed
as the Managing Director of Mondelez International's India Business in August
2016 - Deepak Iyer
• Bill passed by
Lok Sabha in August 2016 for reconstruction of Financial Assets - Enforcement
of Security Interest & Recovery of Debts Laws & Miscellaneous
Provisions (Amendment) Bill, 2016
• The team defeated
by Patna Pirates that won the fourth edition of Pro Kabaddi League is - Jaipur
Pink Panthers
• The team that won
the fourth edition of Pro Kabaddi League is - Patna Pirates
• National Disaster
Response Force Director General, OP Singh laid the foundation stone for a
permanent NDRF station at Sudumbare village of - Pune
• Book R D
Burmania: Panchamemoirs is authored by - Chaitanya Padukone
• The Olympic bound
wrestler who was given clean chit by National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) and can
now participate in Rio Olympics beginning on 5 August 2016 is - Narsingh Yadav
• She won the
women’s singles title in the 2016 Rogers Cup - Simona Halep
• He won the men’s
singles title in the 2016 Rogers Cup - Novak Djokovic
• The Air Marshall
who has recently assumed the charge of Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel is - B
Suresh
• The former
Japanese Defence Minister who has been elected as the first woman governor of
Tokyo is - Yuriko Koike
• The F1 racer who
won 2016 German Grand Prix is - Lewis Hamilton
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