Current Affairs August 2011
* All-party meeting in West Bengal decided to rename the state as Paschimbanga.
* Stealth frigate Statpura commissioned into navy.
* Historian and Indologist Ram Sharan Sharma died.
* Leader Paes and Mahesh Bhupati won the doubles title at Cincinnati tennis match.
* Government and Team Anna held talks to reach truce.
* Haryana lifted ceiling on non-farm land.
* Baichung Bhutia brought down the curtain on his international career.
* Fast attack warship INS Karuva inducted into Navy.
* K. Rosaiah appointed new Tamil Nadu Governor.
* Birla Corp suspended mining in Rajasthan.
* Indian Finished 8th in the WSF men’s world team squash championship held in Germany.
* Juvenile Justice (amendment) Bill introduced in Lok Sabha.
* Sucheta 33 year old women from Pune became first Indian woman to cross Gobi desert.
* Former TN Governor and political analyst PC Alexander died.
* Lok Sabha passed SBI Subsidiary Banks Bill.
* BrahMos Varian Block III supersonic cruise missile test-fired successfully.
* Indian cricket team lost the No. 1 Test rank to England.
* Veteran actor Shammi Kapoor died.
* PM Manmohan Singh addressed the nation on 65th Independence Day.
* New Indian Chief suspended over credit over for Paramount Air.
* N A K Browne has been takes charge as the 23rd chief of the Indian Air Force.
* Coal India Ltd. Dethroned Reliance Industries Ltd. as most valued firm.
* National Sports awards announced.
* Ronjan Sodhi has been ranked world No.1 in double trap shooting as per the ISSF world rankings.
* HDFC bank has launched a service of accepting income tax payment through ATMs.
* Gagan Narang Ace Indian shooter is set to get Khel Ratna.
* Prahaar missile was recently test-fired successfully at Chandipur, Orrisa.
* Rahul Dravid became 2nd highest run scorer in Test cricket surpassing Ricky Ponting’s record.
* Former Supreme Court Judge Shivraj V.Patil has been appointed as Lokayukta of Karnataka to succeed Santosh Hegde.
* Shammi Kapoor bollywood actor passed away recently.
* Month-long monsoon session of Parliament began.
* Centre agreed to a Rs.19000 Crore ballout package for West Bengal.
* The first-ever Kashmir Premier League (KPL) T-20 Chinar Cup-2011 ended.
* DV Sadananda Gowda sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka.
* SC partially lifted mining ban in Bellary.
* Indian archers won three silver medals in the Archery World Cup in Ogden.
* N-E body sought national drink status for tea.
* Indian wrestlers won 49 medals in the commonwealth wrestling championship in Melbourne.
* Aditya Mehta clinched the 78th National Snooker Championship title.
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