CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 9th AUGUST 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF  9^th  AUGUST 2022

1. International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is celebrated on 9 August across the world. The theme of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2022 is “The Role of Indigenous Women in the Preservation and Transmission of Traditional Knowledge”.
2. Japan commemorates the 9th of August every year as Nagasaki day. On 9 August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
3. The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) celebrated 7 August as the National Javelin day to honour Neeraj Chopra.
4. The Chennai-based chess prodigy V Pranav became India’s 75th Grandmaster by winning a tournament in Romania.
5. Uttar Pradesh government announced that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s ‘Panchamrut Yojana’ will help to achieve the goal of doubling farmers’ income through the introduction of cost-effective technical measures and the promotion of the co-cropping method.
6. The Indian women’s cricket team has created history and secured the country’s first-ever medal in cricket in the history of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022. India won silver medal after losing to Australia.
7. Indian American from Virginia, Aarya Walvekar has crowned Miss India USA in 2022 in New Jersey.
8. Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama was honoured with the ‘dPal rNgam Duston’ award, the highest civilian honour of Ladakh.
9. P.V. Sindhu defeated Michelle Li of Canada in the final badminton match of women’s singles at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, to win a gold on 8 August, 2022.
10. India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty on 8 August, 2022 won the Gold medal in the Badminton men’s doubles final at Commonwealth Games 2022.
11. The Indian Army in collaboration with the Drone Federation of India launched the ‘Him Drone-a-thon’ programme on 8 August, 2022 to develop high impact drone for Indian soldiers.
12. Google has launched an online project named ‘India Ki Udaan’ to celebrate India’s 75 years journey of independence.
13. The Andhra Pradesh cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy approved the renaming of Konaseema as Dr BR Ambedkar Konaseema district that was carved out of the East Godavari district in the 1^st week of April 2022.