One Liners Current Affairs- August 12, 2021
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- Low-cost airline Go First takes delivery of its 49th Airbus A320neo aircraft.
- Dr. R. Velraj, the newly appointed Vice Chancellor of Anna University, has pledged to help students win the Nobel Prize.
- Peer Baba Day is observed in Kashmir’s Machhal hamlet in the Kupwara district.
- By 2025, Samsung plans to utilise recycled materials in new mobile devices.
- The third phase of Mission Shakti in Uttar Pradesh begins on August 21.
‘* Sawan Jhula’ festivities in Ayodhya are being toned down.
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- New Zealand lays out a strategy for border opening next year.
- The UP High Court has ordered an investigation into the bogus degree allegation levelled against Dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya.
- India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-F10 (GSLV-F10) rocket took off from the Sriharikota spaceport, carrying the country’s first Geo-Imaging Satellite (GISAT-1) (Andhra Pradesh)
- On Wednesday, Vice President M. Venkiah Naidu celebrated four years in office, and the VP’s Secretariat published an e-book to commemorate the event.
- Despite a stalemate with the opposition, Rajya Sabha productivity is just 28 percent.
- 13 additional kidnapped children and Assamese women recovered from Sikkim
- The much-anticipated launch of India’s first Geo-Imaging Satellite (GISAT-1) dubbed EOS-03 fell through.
- The Modernization of Police Forces (MPF) programme has been extended and will run until 2020-21.
- Naseer Hussain and Chhaya Verma have been selected as Congress whips in the Rajya Sabha.
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- Google has released Android 12 beta 4 with new user-friendly features.
- Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik will perform during the ‘Indian Idol 12’ finals.
- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) encourages Hamas to respect the “inviolability” of its Gaza facilities.
- Israel’s Green Pass will be available to everyone above the age of three.
- The Indian space programme suffered a major blow on Thursday when its GSLV-F10 rocket failed halfway through its mission to launch the Geo-Imaging Satellite-1 into orbit (GISAT-1)
- Cuba is preparing for Tropical Storm Fred.
- Moderna is 76 percent effective against Delta, whereas Pfizer is 42 percent effective: study
- Creative Galileo, an EdTech pioneer, has surpassed 3 million downloads since its launch last year.
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- Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla has been given a one-year extension.
- On a six-month pregnant pancreatic cancer patient from Afghanistan, doctors at Fortis Hospital in Delhi conducted a life-saving Whipple operation, a first in India.
- An online bomb-making module has been decommissioned in Bangladesh.
- Uttar Pradesh’s Yogi Adityanath administration hopes to emulate the success of the Balinee milk business.
- Facebook has banned a Russian network for saying that a vaccination would transform people into chimpanzees.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah and his family members worshipped at the Sri Mallikarjuna Swamy temple in Srisailam, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh.
- Website for microblogging Twitter redesigns its website and app with a new typeface.
- The Israeli government unveils a strategy to combat crime in Arab community.
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- On September 3, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will face his first litmus test.
- Iran disputes that border commerce with Afghanistan has been halted.
- Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States (US) William Burns meet with a focus on Iran.
- Due to the increase in coronaviurs cases, New Zealand classified Fiji and Indonesia as “extremely high-risk nations.”
- In the past ten days, 499 youngsters in B’luru have tested positive for Covid.
- Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s next president, has submitted a list of prospective ministers.
- K’taka plans to build an industrial city in the Kolar Gold Field.
- A 7.3 magnitude earthquake jolts Davao Oriental province in the Philippines’ southernmost region.
- Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan, and Sonu Nigam collaborate on the patriotic soundtrack ‘Hum Hindustani.’
- Morocco and Israel sign three memorandums of understanding.
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- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has requested that a thorough land survey be completed by June 2023.
- Joel R. Reifman, the US Consul General in Hyderabad, pays a visit to the Cherlapally Jail.
- The health department of Haryana’s Nuh district, in collaboration with the M3M Foundation, launched the ‘Jan Swasthya Chetna Yatra,’ a vaccination and awareness campaign.
- Karnataka is also under threat from the Zika virus, which has spread to Kerala and Maharashtra.
- On Thursday, the Telangana state-owned Singareni Collieries Company Ltd issued orders raising the retirement age of its workers from 60 to 61 years.