August 2024, Month Current Affairs / Top news of August/Competition Affairs / Top Highlights
We add important Current Affairs of August, 2024 / Top news of August / Competition Affairs like politics, economics, science, technology and culture etc for students those prepare for Govt Exam, Competitive exam. Also in August has several important festivals and days in this month including Onam, Raksha Bandhan, Independence Day, World Photography Day, World Humanitarian Day, World Mosquito Day, Sadbhavana Diwas, etc.
August 1, 2024 : A seven-judge constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, headed by chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, in a majority judgment holds that the states have the right to sub-classify scheduled castes notified in the Presidential list to provide them more preferential treatment in public employment and education.
August 2, 2024 : The Delhi High Court orders a CBI probe into the death of three civil services aspirants due to drowning at the basement of an IAS coaching centre in the national capital last week.
August 3, 2024 : The Ministry of Finance has mandated all public sector undertaking (PSU) insurance companies to extend all hands, in supporting the victims of the tragic landline in the state of kerala.
August 4, 2024 : At least 98 persons, including 14 policemen are killed and hundreds injured in fierce clashes between protesters demanding, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and the ruling party supporters in different parts of Bangladesh, forcing authorities to cut-off mobile Internet and enforce a nationwide curfew for an indefinite period.
August 5, 2024 : After four weeks of violent street protests against her government, Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina resigns.
August 6, 2024 : Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolves the 12th Parliament formed through the January 7 nations election, and assures the country that fresh elections will be held as soon as possible.
August 7, 2024 : Nobel laureate Prof Mohammad Yunus, the designated head of Bangladesh’ s interim government fervently appealed everyday “to stay calm and refrain from all kinds of violence” as the country witnesses a major reshuffle in the security establishment following the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina government.
August 8, 2024 : A 17-member interim government in Bangladesh under the leadership of Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, is sworn in, three days after Sheikh Hasina steps down as Prime Minister and left the country amid mass protests.
August 9, 2024 : The Union government announces a 31-member Joint Parliamentary committee to examine the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024
August 10, 2024 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that the centre would provide all possible help in the relief and rehabilitation work in the landslides-hit areas of wayanad in Kerala.
August 11, 2024 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi releases 109 high-yielding, climate-resilient and biofortified verities of crops at an event at India Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi.
August 12, 2024 : The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras is the best educational institution in the country for the sixth time since 2019. Shows the overall ranking based on parameters indentified and defend in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)
August 13, 2024 : The Supreme Court closes contempt proceedings against yoga guru Baba Ramdev, his close associate Acharya Balkrishna and Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, for company they c0-founded, for defying a court undertaking to not publish misleading advertisements of their herbal products in violation of the Drugs and Magic Remedies Act.
August 14, 2024 : Seasoned diplomat Parvathaneni Harish is appointed as India’s next ambassador to the United Nations in New York.
August 15, 2024 : In his 11th successive Independence Day address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives a renewed push to the BJP’s ideological aim of a Uniform Civil Code, reframing in idea as a “secular” civil code” enshrined in the constitution and a way of ensuring equality before law for all.
August 16, 2024 : The first Jammu and Kahsmir Assembly election in a decade will be held in three phases on September 18, 25 and Oct 1 the Election Commission (EC) announces.
August 17, 2024 : Calling for unity in the Global South to tackle challenges such as health, food and energy security, PM Narendra Modi proposes the creation of a “Global Development Compact” based on priorities sets by developing countries.
August 18, 2024 : The Supreme Court takes 540 motu cognisane of the rape and murder of a doctor in the state-run RG Kar Hospital Kolkata that has outraged the nation and triggered nationwide protests by doctors.
August 19, 2024 : A CRPF Inspector from Haryna is killed when a group of armed terrorists attack a joint patrol party in Udhampur district.
August 20, 2024 : Following a request from the centre, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) cancels the process of lateral recruitment of officials to middle and senior levels in the Union government.
August 21, 2024 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi departs on a three-day visit to Poland and Ukraine, hopoing fo ran early return of peace and stability in the region.
August 22, 2024 : India and Poland elevate their relations to a strategic partnership as PM Narendra Modi and his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk explores ways to expand cooperation in defence and security, trade and investment, and digitalization.
August 23, 2024 : The ongoing war in Ukraine was high on the agenda in the meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
August 24, 2024 : The Union Cabinet led by PM Narendra Modi approves a new pension policy for nearly 2.3 million central government employees.
August 25, 2024 : Around 100 Israeli fighter jets carry out “pre-emptive” air strikes on Hezbollah across southern Lebanon.
August 26, 2024 : The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance creates five new districts for Ladakh, taking the total number of districts in the UT to seven.
August 27, 2024 : A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to US President Joe Biden, he called up Russian President Vladimir Putin to exchange notes on ending the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
August 28, 2024 : The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approves Rs 28,602 crore green-field industrial smart city projects in 12 locations across 10 states.
August 29, 2024 : India and China conduct the 31st meeting of the working Mechanism of the working Mechanism for consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) in Beijing.
August 30, 2024 : Signalling a moderation in the economy’s growth momentum, India’s real GDP rises 6.7% in the April to June 2024 quarter the slowest in five quarter and well been the Reserve Bank of India’s expectation of a 7.1% uptick as well as the 7.8% uptick registered in the proceeding quarter.
August 31, 2024 : At least 47 Indians trapped in cyber scam centres in Laos have been rescued from Bokeo province of the country, the Indian Embassy in the South east Asian country says.