Current Affairs August 2013: Important Days, Awards Announced/Presented, New Appointments
& Resignation/Retirements during August 2013
Important
Days observed during August 2013
6th August - Hiroshima Day
9th August - Quit India Movement Day
9th August - International Day of the
World's Indigenous People.
12th August - International Youth Day
Theme: "Youth Migration: Moving
Development Forward"
13th August - International Lefthanders
Day by the Left-Handers Club.
14th August – Pakistan’s Independence Day
15th August - India's Independence Day
19th August - World Photography Day
Theme: “Communicating withPhotography”.
20th August - Sadbhavana Diwas
20th August - The Earth Overshoot Day
29th August - National Sports Day
(Dhyanchand's Birth Day)
30th August - Small Industry Day
30th August - International Day of the
Victims of Enforced Disappearances by the
UNGeneral Assembly.
Awards
Announced/Presented during August 2013
Saraswati
Samman 2012: Sugathakumari, the Malayalam Poetess on
2nd August, 2013 won the prestigious Saraswati Samman 2012 for Manalezhuthu
(the Writings on the Sand), a collection of poems in Malayalam. Manalezhuthu
was published in the year 2006. The award was instituted by KK Birla
Foundation. This is the 22nd samman, conferred in the history of the Award.
Mahathir
Award for Global Peace: Former South African President Nelson
Mandela on 27th August, 2013 won the inaugural Mahathir Award for Global Peace.
Sir
Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal 2013: Harshwanti Bisht
was selected to receive the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal 2013.
Gujar
Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology 2013:
VP Sharma won the Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology 2013.
Prem
Bhatia Award: Shalini Singh, a Deputy Editor of The
Hindu, on presented with the Prem Bhatia Award 11th August, 2013.
Vijay Singh was named a recipient of the
2013 Lifetime Achievement Award by
ASCE-EWRI on 16th August, 2013.
New Appointments during
August 2013
Raghuram
Govind Rajan: Was on 6th August, 2013, appointed as the
Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a time period of three years.
Hassan
Rohani: Sworn in as the Iran's President on 4th August, 2013.
Samantha
Power: Sworn as new US ambassador to United Nations on 2nd
August, 2013.
Arundhati
Bhattacharya: She was appointed the Managing Director
and Chief Financial Officer of the State Bank of India (SBI) on 2nd August,
2013.
Dilip
Trivedi: Senior IPS officer Dilip Trivedi on 17th August, 2013
was appointed the Director General of CRPF.
Robert
Mugabe: Sworn in for 7th term as President of Zimbabwe on
21st August, 2013.
Nishi
Vasudeva: She became the
first woman to be selected as the head of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL)
on 22nd August, 2013.
Rajeev
Rishi: took over as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD)
of Central Bank of India on 1st August, 2013.
Rakesh
Sethi: took charge as the Executive Director of the Union
Bank of India on 5th August, 2013.
Vinay
Mittal: appointed as Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)
member on 8th August, 2013.
D.Bala
Venkatesh Varma: was appointed the next Ambassador and
Permanent Representative of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament.
Ali
Akbar Salehi: Iranian President appointed outgoing
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to head of the Atomic Energy Organisation.
Ratan
Thiyam: was appointed as the Chairperson of the National
School of Drama Society on 19th August, 2013 by the President of India.
Ashwani
Kumar: appointed as Prime Minister's Special Envoy to Japan.
Justice
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana: Appointed New Chief Justice of the
Delhi High Court.
Birendra
Prasad Baishya: Appointed As the Chairman of the Ethics
Commission of the IWF.
Resignations/Retirements
during August 2013
Mohamed
Elbaradei: Egypt's Vice President Mohamed Elbaradei resigned in
protest over the attacks on pro Mohamed Morsi supporters in Cairo.
Colin
Michael Foale: the First British to Perform a Space
Walk, retired from NASA.
Jagan
Reddy: resigned as MP over split of Andhra Pradesh.
Ali
Asghar Soltanieh: Iran's representative to the UN
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 2005, announced his resignation
on 22nd August, 2013.
Antonio
Patriota: Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota resigned
on 26th August, 2013 in the backdrop of helping the Bolivian senator to cross
into Brazil.
