1. Dipak Misra, took oath as 45^th Chief Justice of India.
2. Bharti Airtel announced strategic partnership with Symantec Corp. To provide cybersecurity solutions to businesses in India.
3. Punjab Chief Minister- captain Amarinder Singh.
4. Head of Dera Sach Sauda Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh awarded two consecutive sentences of ten years rigorous imprisonment in two rape cases and a fine of Rs. 15 lakh in each case.
5. Doklam standoff ends as India and China agreed to disengage from the Doklam plateau

1. U.S. distance runner Shalane Flanagan awarded her silver medal from the 2008 Olympic Games 10,000m following a doping ban against Turkish second place finisher Evan Abeylegesse.
2. India is the ninth biggest trading partner of the U.S. and India had a trade surplus of around $26 billion with the U.S. in goods trade alone last year.
3. ASCON– Army Static Switched Communication Network is the army’s telecom network backbone. ASCON network currently uses bulk encryption.
   DWDM– Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing- is an optical multiplexing technology used to increase bandwidth over existing fibre network by combining and transmitting multiple signals simultaneously at different wavelength on the same fibre.
4. Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Committee, a Bhagalpur based NGO, accused of siphoning off hundereds of crores meant for welfare scheme in collusion with State government officials.
   The scam was carried on by depositing government cheques into the account of the NGO that, in turn, would invest these amounts in bank deposits to earn interest. This scam is to the tune of Rs. 1000 crore.
5. Nepal Prime Minister– Sher Bahadur Deuba, recently on a visit to India.
   
6. Turkey President- Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

7. Supreme Court declared instant Triple Talaq unconstitutional.
8. Mongoose– Is a protected species under Schedule II and part II of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 and any trade of its body parts involves similar punishment as is laid down for tigers and rhinoceros
   WCCB– Wildlife Crime Control Bureau

1. Udaipur boy, Kalpit  Veerwal, has made Limca Book of Records by scoring 360 out of 360 in the Jee-Mains exam this year. He is the first ever student to have scored 100% in JEE-Mains.
2. Artificial Intelligence may imperils about 6.4 lakh low skilled jobs in IT industry alone by 2021. New job roles that will dominate the ITworkforce are within digital domains such as big data, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and cyber security, according to report released by Simplilearn.
3. UAPA– Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
4. China set to relaunch one of World’s fastest bullet train having speed of approx 350 kmph. China has the world’s longest high speed rail network of over 22,000 LM, about 60% of world’s total.
5. Bangladesh prime minister Shiekh Hasina
6. CCTNS– Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems Project, may be used to dispense physical police verification for getting a passport.
7. Pangong lake is in Ladakh.
8. Choices: Inside the Making of India’s Foreign Policy book by former NSA Shivshankar Menon

1. A six member women’s team of the Indian Navy will set sail in early September to circumnavigate the globe on the sailin vessel, INSV Tarini. This is the first ever circumnavigation of the globe by an all woman crew from India.
2. Global Entrepreneurship Summit will take place in Hyderabad.
3. All toll plazas on national highways will have electronic toll collection devices, known as FASTags, beginning from September 1.
   FASTags is a device that can be installed on the windshield of any vehicle and toll payments can be made directly from the pre-paid account linked to it. The dedicated FASTags lanes will become operational at all 371 national highways from September
   NHAI- Chairman- Deepak Kumar.
4. Vishal Sikka, CEO and MD of Infosys, resigned from his post .

Sports:

1. The 12 year old Praggnanandhaa became the youngest chess player ever to cross 2500 FIDE Elo rating points.
2. Former Olympic and World Champion of Cycling, Stephen Wooldridge, aged 39, passed away.

Business:

1. The cabinet committee on economic affairs has extended the benefits for industrial units in the north eastern and hill states till March 2027. Earlier units in the North-eastern states, Sikkim, Uttrakhand, Himanchal Pradesh and J&K enjoyed excise duty benefits for 10 years.
2. Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) banned exports of gold jewellery, medallions and other articles with purity above 22 carats in a bid to check round tripping of the precious metal.

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