✅ CAMPAIGN IN NEWS 2023

🔶 January to August 2023 🔶

🔸SAI Launched Short Movie Series ‘Halla Bol’ Under ‘Cheer4India’ Campaign

🔸‘Meri Mati Mera Desh’ Campaign To Be Launched In Run-Up To Independence Day

🔸Manoj Ahuja Launched A New Campaign Called BHARAT For Banks Under Agri Infra Fund

🔸Federal Bank Launches ‘I Am Adyar, Adyar Is Me’ Campaign In Chennai

🔸RBI Launches ‘100 Days 100 Pays’ Campaign To Settle Unclaimed Deposits

🔸Giriraj Singh Launches SAMARTH Campaign To Promote Digital Transactions At Gram Panchayat Level

🔸“Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi” Campaign: Improving Early Childhood Education In India

🔸WhatsApp Launches ‘Stay Safe’ Campaign To Educate On Online Safety

🔸Kotak MF Launches ‘DigitALL’ Campaign To Celebrate International Women’s Day

🔸‘Catch The Rain 2023’ Campaign To Be Launched By President Murmu

🔸UNDP’s “Don’t Choose Extinction” Climate Campaign Wins Two Anthem Awards

🔸Meta Launches #DigitalSuraksha Campaign In Partnership With MeitY For The G20 Campaign

🔸UP Government Launched ‘Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan’ Campaign

🔸Bandhan Bank Launched ‘Jahaan Bandhan, Wahaan Trust’ Campaign

🔸Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Launched ‘Didir Suraksha Kavach’ Campaign

✅12 AUGUST : International Youth Day.


• Theme 2023 : “Green Skills for Youth: Towards a Sustainable World”

💠 This day was observed for first time on 12 August, 2000

💠 12 January : National Youth Day
🔷 Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekanand

🟢 NEWS
🔷IIT Kanpur To Host Youth20 Consultation On Global Concerns

🔶Rural Development Ministry Introduces Captive Employer Scheme For Rural Youth

🔷National Youth Conclave 2023 (NYC 2023) Organized Under India’s G20 Presidency

🔶National Youth Parliament Festival Fourth Edition

🔷5th Khelo India Youth Games 2022: Maharashtra Topped The Medal Tally

🔶India Bags 11 Medals In World Archery Youth Championships, 2023

🔷Youth Co:Lab National Innovation Dialogue 2022

🔶Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Program (PMEGP): Creating Employment Opportunities For India’s Youth

🏢 Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports
▪️Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
▪️Hamirpur (HP)

✅First Indian Awardees of International Awards


🥇1st Indian to be awarded the Nobel prize in any field (literature)
👮Rabindranath Tagore (1913)

🥇1st Indian to be featured as the Person of the Year by Time magazine
👮Mahatma Gandhi (1930)

🥇1st Indian to be awarded the UNESCO's Kalinga Prize
👮Jagjit Singh (1963)

🥇1st Indian to receive the Booker prize (British citizen)
👮Salman Rushdie

🥇1st Indian woman (and also first Indian citizen) to receive the Booker prize
👮Arundhati Roy

🥇1st Indian to receive the Pulitzer prize (Reporting category)
👮Gobind Behari Lal

🥇1st Indian recipient of International Cricket Council's Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy
👮Rahul Dravid

🥇1st Indian scientist to be awarded the Nobel prize
👮CV Raman (1930)

🥇1st Indian to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan
👮Morarjee Desai

🥇1st Indian to be awarded Magsaysay Award
👮Vinoba Bhave

🥇1st Indian to be awarded the Bangladesh Swadhinata Sammanona
👮Indira Gandhi

🥇1st Indian and Indian Organisation to be awarded the Right Livelihood Award
👮Ela Bhatt of SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association) (1984)

🥇1st recipient of World Food Prize instituted By Norman Borlaug
👮MS Swaminathan (1987)

🥇1st Asian recipient of Hoover Medal (America's prestigious award for outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity)
👮APJ Abdul Kalam (2008)

🥇1st Indian recipient of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
👮Jeet Thayil (2013)

🥇1st Indian recipient of Priztker Prize (referred to as Nobel Prize of Architechture)
👮Balkrishna Doshi(2018)

✅India to host Quad summit in 2024

🔷 India will host the Quad summit in 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in 2023, with the Quad summit to be held on the margins of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.

🔶The Quad is a multilateral grouping of four countries- India, Australia, the United States and Japan, which aims to ensure and support a "free, open and prosperous" Indo-Pacific region.

🔶 The grouping was formed in 2017 and poses a tough challenge to China's expansionist policies.

🔶 This year's Quad summit was originally scheduled in Australia but was held in Japan after US President Joe Biden had to postpone his trip to Australia due to ongoing debt ceiling talks in Washington.

🔶 Japan is hosting the G7 summit and all the leaders of the group are currently visiting the country.

🔶 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the first to pitch for the formation of the Quad in 2007.

Legal News 16.08.2023

Daily Current Affairs 15.08.2023 & 16.08.2023.pdf

Daily Current Affairs 18.08.2023.pdf

Legal News 17.08.2023.pdf

Legal News 18.08.2023.pdf

✅19th August : World Photography Day.

Theme23 : "LANDSCAPES"

📸The aim of this day is to encourage people to express their feelings, emotions and social thinking through their photography skills

🔰The chemical used as a ‘fixer’ in photography is - Sodium Thiosulphate

🔰Silver Bromide is used in photography as a component of an emulsion that helps develop a photographic image.

🔰The primary colors in photography are - Red, Green and Blue

🔰 Worldwide Pinhole Photography Dayfalls on- 26 April

🟢 NEWS
🔷Union MoS Dr L. Murugan Confers 8th National Photography Awards

🔶13th edition of Greenstorm Global Photography Award 2022- Mohamad Reza Masoumi

🔷Amber Bracken won the "2022 World Press Photo of the Year" award for "Kamloops Residential School"

🔶Bird Photographer of the Year 2022 - Erlend Haarberg

✅20th August : Sadbhavana Diwas (harmony day) is celebrated commemorating the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister (PM) Rajiv Gandhi.

🔶2023 commemorates the 79th birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi.

🔶Rajiv Gandhi is the 6th as well as the youngest PM of India

🔶Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award - Given to an Indian for his/her outstanding contribution towards promotion of communal harmony, national integration & peace.

🔶The Vir Bhumi is a memorial dedicated to the former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi who was assassinated in 1991.

✅Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) :-

➢ Founded : 15 August 1969
➢ HQ : Bengalore, Karnataka
➢ Founder / 1st Chairman : Vikram Sarabhai
➢ 10th Chairman : S Somanath
➢ Aryabhata India's first satellites Launched on 19 April 1975.
➢ GSAT-1 India's first commercial satellite.
➢ SLV-3 was India's first experimental satellite launch vehicle.
➢ Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment, (APPLE) first communication satellite in India 19 June
1981.
➢ Udupi Ramachandra Rao : satellite Man of India

✅FAMOUS AWARDS AND HONOURS IN NEWS 2023 :-

➢ Goan writer Damodar Maujo has been honoured with the 57th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour.

➢ Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov won the 2023 International Booker Prize for his novel "Time Shelter".

➢ The novel was translated into English by Angela Rodel.

➢ Cochin Porthas been awarded the prestigious Sagar Shreshta award for the year 2023.

➢ Argentina's World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi was named Laureus Sportsman of the Year.

➢ World Sportswoman of the Year Award: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

➢ World Breakthrough of the Year Award: Carlos Alcaraz.

➢ Tata Group Chairman N. Chandrasekaran has recently been awarded France's highest civilian honor 'Knight of the Legion of Honour'.

➢ Maria Stepanova, a Russian author currently living in Berlin, has won the prestigious Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding in 2023 for her poetry collection 'Girls Without Clothes'.

➢ British-Indian Meera Syal to be awarded BAFTA TV fellowship.

➢ Ratan Tata has received the Order of Australia (AO), Australia's highest civilian honour.

➢ Dalai Lama personally received the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award known as the "Nobel Prize of Asia".

✅ 21st August : International Day of Remembrance and tribute to the Victims of Terrorism.

🕯 To honour and support the victims and survivors of terrorism and to promote and protect the full enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms.

🇺🇳 UNITED NATIONS (UN)
▪️Founded - 24 oct 1945
▪️HQ - New york US
▪️S.G - Antonio Guterres (Portugal)
▪️Deputy S.G - Amina J Mohammad (Nigeria)
▪️MC - 193

Daily Current Affairs 19.08.2023 to 21.08.2023.pdf

✅DRONE IN NEWS 2023


➢ India's First 'Police Drone Unit' Launched in Chennai for Enhanced Aerial Surveillance and Quick
Detection of Criminal Activities.


➢ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari unveiled the country's first drone-air traffic management system "Sky UTM".


➢ Meghalaya Government launches ‘Asia's first Drone delivery hub for easy access to healthcare’.


➢ India’s defence ministry on 15th June approved the acquisition of 31 MQ-9B armed drones from
the US.


➢ Tech startup firm IG Drones has developed India's first 5G-enabled drone capable of vertical take-
off and landing. This drone has been named Skyhawk.


➢ Garuda Aerospace becomes first drone company ever to get double certification by DGCA for
‘Kisan Drones’.


➢ Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has recently successfully tested the delivery of blood bags
by drone under its iDrone initiative.

✅Environmental Related Days

World Wetlands Day-- February 2
World Wildlife Day--March 3

World Forest Day -- March 21
World Water Day-- March 22
World Meteorological Day-- March 23

World Earth Day-- April 22
World Biodiversity Day--May 22

World Environment Day-- June 5
International Climate Change Day - June 21

International Tiger Day--July 29
International Elephant Day-- August 12

World Animal Day-- October 4
International Day of Climate Action--October 24

World Fisheries Day-- November 21

Daily Current Affairs 23.08.2023.pdf