Top Current Affairs For 1st – 17th August 2023: Check out the full month’s worth of current events for August 2023, prepared specifically for those who wish to enhance their general knowledge or are taking competitive exams.
We have reported on both national and international news.
Top Current Affairs For 1st – 17th August 2023: From 1 to 5 August 2023 Current Events
- World Wide Web Day is celebrated on August 1.
- The fourth of August is observed as US Coast Guard Day.
- The GI label was granted to seven new Indian products, including Bikaner Usta Kala Craft, Jodhpur Bandhej Craft, Bikaner Kashidakari Craft, Udaipur Koftgari Metal Craft, Goan Bebinca, Goa Mankurad Mango, and Jalesar Dhatu Shilp.
- In Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, has inaugurated the ‘Unmesha’ and ‘Utkarsh’ festivals.
- Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, will attend the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, from August 22 to 24.
- Jyotiraditya Scidia, minister of the Union, has revealed the new logo of the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC).
- Assam’s chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, has released the ‘Amrit Brikshya Andolan’ application.
6 to 9 August 2023 News and Current Events
- National Handloom Day will be celebrated on August 7, 2023.
- The date of Quit India Movement Day is August 8, 2023.
- Nagasaki Day will be celebrated on August 9, 2023.
- Vaibhav Taneja is now Tesla’s new chief financial officer.
- On August 22, 2023, Hun Manet will assume his new position as Cambodia’s premier.
- Alex Hales has resigned from international cricket.
10 to 11 August 2023 News and Current Events
- World Biofuel Day will be celebrated on August 11, 2023.
- World Steelpan Day will be celebrated on August 11, 2023.
- In 2023, Karnataka will have the greatest number of elephants with 6,395.
- The majority of Jan Dhan beneficiaries reside in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu.
- The GI label is applied to Mushqbudji Rice from Anantnag and Rajouri Chikri Wood Craft from Rajouri.
- Amit Jhingran will be the new managing director and chief executive officer of SBI Life Insurance Company Limited.
- Sanjay Kumar Agarwal is the new CBIC Chairman.
- Subhasis Talapatra is the new Orissa High Court Chief Justice.
Top Current Affairs For 1st – 17th August 2023: August 12th, 2023 Current events
- International Youth Day is currently being observed.
- Today is Elephant Day around the globe.
- Khuon Sudary will serve as President of the Cambodian National Assembly.
- Kerala may become known as Keralam.
- Kareena Kapoor Khan is the company’s newest investor and brand ambassador.
14 August 2023
- Today is Observance of Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.
- New Amravati Station is Central Railway’s third Pink Station.
- The Indian Home Minister, Amit Shah, has introduced the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, which will supersede the Indian Evidence Act of 1872, in the Lok Sabha.
- Bikash Sinha, a Padma Bhushan-awarded physicist, died on August 11, 2023. He had 78 years of age.
Current Affairs For 1 to 9 August 2023
August 15, 2023 Current events
- Today marks the 77th anniversary of India’s independence.
- On the occasion of Vishwakarma Jayanti (17 September 2023), the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, proclaimed the launch of a new programme called Vishwakarma Yojana.
- Gandhinagar will host the Traditional Medicine Global Summit on the 17th and 18th of August.
- Elvish Yadav has won the second season of Big Boss OTT.
Top Current Affairs For 1st – 17th August 2023: August 17th, 2023 Current events
- Goan government hospitals will provide complimentary IVF treatment.
- From the 8th to the 11th of August, India and the United Arab Emirates participated in the bilateral naval exercise ‘Zayed Talwar’ in Dubai.
- Anwarul Haq Kakar is now Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister.
- On August 15, 2023, former Indian football captain Mohammed Habib passed away. He was aged 74 years.
- R Doraiswamy is now Life Insurance Corporation’s Managing Director.