Current Affairs - August 25, 2021 Current Affairs

A new book titled "Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest" has been authored by Boria Majumdar & Kushan Sarkar. The book was published by Simon & Schuster Publisher India Private Limited.

The Central Government has awarded three cities from Andhra Pradesh with 'Water Plus' certification. It has been done under the Swachh Bharat Mission and Swachh Survekshan assessment.

The World Water Week 2021 has been organised from 23-27 August, in entirely digital format. The theme for World Water Week 2021 is 'Building Resilience Faster'.

Egypt closed its main border crossing point with Gaza Strip on August 23, 2021, because of tensions with Hamas rulers.

The Chief Minister of Manipur, N. Biren Singh, has launched COVID-19 Affected Livelihood Support Scheme on August 23, 2021.

Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) has developed India's first indigenous motorised wheelchair vehicle called NeoBolt.

Wanchuwa festival is celebrated by Tiwa tribesmen to mark their good harvest. Tiwa tribesmen perform their traditional dance as they take part in Wanchuwa Festival in Assam. It comes with songs, dances, a bunch of rituals and people clad in their native attires.

India has emerged as a global manufacturing hub and effectively surpassed the United States to become the world's second most desired manufacturing destination.

Abhay Kumar Singh has been appointed as joint secretary in the Ministry of Cooperation.

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt Nirmala Sitharaman launched the asset monetisation pipeline of Central ministries and public sector entities: 'National Monetisation Pipeline' worth Rs 6 lakh crore.

A book titled 'Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the time of COVID' has been authored by Ritu Menon.

Reserve Bank of India had appointed a committee headed by N. S. Vishwanathan to make suggestions on structure for the urban cooperative banks (UCBs). The Panel was set up to suggest structure based on deposits, prescribed different capital adequacy as well as regulatory norms for them to their sizes.

The World Economic Forum's annual Sustainable Development Impact Summit will take place on September 20-23, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Swedish green steel venture HYBRIT had made the 'world's first' customer delivery of steel produced without using coal.

A book titled 'Battlefield' has been authored by Vishram Bedekar, translated from the Marathi original Ranaangan by Jerry Pinto.

Indian naval ship (INS) Shakti reached Sri Lanka on August 22, 2021, carrying 100 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) in a bid to help the island nation in combating the Covid-19 pandemic.

Japan's space agency has been planning on bringing soil samples back from the Martian Moon 'Phobos' by 2029.

NITI Aayog and World Resources Institute (WRI), India, jointly launched the 'Forum for Decarbonizing Transport' in India.

The government launched a new geospatial planning portal called 'Yuktdhara' under Bhuvan. It was launched by Giriraj Singh, Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.

India pitched its indigenously built fighter aircraft at the International Military-Technical Forum 'ARMY-2021' in Moscow, Russia.