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Current Affairs 23 August 2018

  1.  The 65-year-old BJP leader, Arun Jaitley has resumed charge as the Finance Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs after taking a break for three months to undergo a kidney transplant.
  2. Maharashtra govt to build a befitting memorial to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
  3.  As per the RoutesOnline company report, Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), Bengaluru is next to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport which is the world’s fastest growing airport, in terms of actual growth in number of passengers.
  4. Global financial services firm DBS has raised the real GDP forecast for the current financial year to 7.4 percent.
  5. Prashant Agrawal has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Namibia.
  6. President Ram Nath Kovind to inaugurate International Buddhist Conclave in New Delhi
  7. Satyapal Malik, the newly-appointed Governor of J&K, will be taking the oath and resume his office on 23rd August as he arrived in Srinagar.
  8. The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has given recognition to India’s indigenous sport of Kho-Kho.
  9. New Zealand All-rounder Grant Elliott has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.
  10. Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Gurudas Kamat passes away at 63.

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