CURRENT AFFAIRS- 2018 August 01 -10 (Chapter -1)

1. This country hosted the communication exercise "Pacific Endeavor-2018 (PE-18)" under the Multinational Communications Interoperability Program (MCIP), recently.
Nepal

2. Who has been re-appointed as TRAI Chairman till September 2020?
Ram Sewak Sharma

3. Which country’s U-20 football team has won the 2018 Cotif Cup football tournament ?
India

4. Ivan Duque was sworn-in as the President of which country?
Colombia

5. Which bank launched a payments machine called MOPAD & allows to facilitate transactions from cards to QR code based payments?
SBI

6. Who was all set to ring the iconic Lord's bell for the first time to indicate the start of the second Cricket Test match between India and England at Lord's on August 9?
Sachin Tendulkar

7. Which city to host the 22nd edition of ‘Parampara series – National Festival of Music and Dance’ festival 2018?
New Delhi 

8. When is the National Handloom Day celebrated in India?
August 7

9. The 22nd edition of 'Parampara series - National Festival of Music and Dance' festival 2018 was held in __________.
New Delhi

10. Who has been elected for the Rajya Sabha's new Deputy Chairman post, which fell vacant after the retirement of Congress' PJ Kurien on July 1?
Harivansh Narayan Singh

11. The world’s first-ever thermal battery plant has been inaugurated in which Indian state?
Andhra Pradesh

12. When was the 76th anniversary of Quit India movement observed?
August 9

13. Which country's women team has clinched gold in the Blitz event at the Asian Nations Chess Cup 2018?
India

14. Who won International Geography Bee World Championship ?
Avi Goel

15.  Which IIT institute has developed the first indigenous microprocessors ‘RISECREEK’ under Project Shakti?
IIT Madras 

16. Which team won the gold medal in the Women's Hockey World Cup 2018?
Netherlands

17. Who has become the first woman shuttler to win the women’s singles World Badminton Championships for a third time?
Carolina Marin

18. August 9th is observed as 
August Kranti Day

19. Name of the Indian tennis player who won a bronze medal in the 2018 Hang Seng Hong Kong Junior and Cadet Open, in Hong Kong.
Swastika Ghosh

20. In Tokyo 2020 Olympics, what kind of technology is to be introduced for the security check for the participants?
Facial recognition

21. The 10th annual conference on oral implantology has recently held in which city?
New Delhi

22. Which state government has launched "Horn Not Ok" awareness campaign?
Himachal Pradesh

23. An eighth-century stone sculpture of Goddess Durga Mahishasuramardini will be returned to India by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest museum in the US. This sculpture was donated to the museum in
2015

24. Which state government has launched “Horn Not Ok’’ awareness campaign?
Himachal Pradesh

25. This country became 3rd Asian nation to get Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA - 1) status from US.
India

26. Rashida Tlaib set to become the 1st Muslim woman to be elected to the parliament of
United States

27. The Mughalsarai junction has recently renamed as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya railway station. It is located in which state?
Uttar Pradesh

28. Who launches Academia Alliance Programme, to fulfil the Government of India's mission to promote the spirit of entrepreneurship in the country,
Startup India

29. Which country won the U-16 West Asian Football Federation Cup in Amman, Jordan?
India

30. The Election Commission of India has conducted the first-ever Orientation Workshop on Election Management for IAS Asstt Secretaries in which city?
New Delhi
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