August 2021 Current Affairs- Week 4- Download Free PDF

Nobody can deny the fact that Current Affairs play a vital role in banking, government and insurance exams. It is quite important even beyond these competitive exams. This is one of the most scoring sections and if prepared well, candidates can achieve a very good score in this section. Usually all exams ask questions from past 6 to 7 months of current affairs. In order to help the aspirants with the exam preparation for the current affairs section, we have these current affairs weekly PDFs which we keep sharing with you on a weekly basis. These PDFs have been prepared by subject matter experts who keep an eye on the different types of questions asked in competitive exams. In this article, we have come up with Current Affairs of August (Week 4) 2021.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

• India’s first smog tower launched in Delhi as a pilot project by the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
  at Baba Kharak Marg, Connaught Place. It was developed by IIT-Delhi and IIT- Bombay.

• India is all set to host the 2nd United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress
  (UNWGIC) in October 2022 in Hyderabad, Telangana on the theme ‘Towards Geo-enabling the
  Global Village’.
• It will be organized as a part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (Celebration of 75 Years of Indian
  Independence)’.

• As a part of the Nationally Determined Contributions-Transport Initiative for Asia (NDC-TIA)
  project, NITI Aayog and World Resources Institute (WRI), India has jointly launched the ‘Forum
  for Decarbonizing Transport’ in India.

• The forum will act as a channel to bring in the diverse needs to adopt an integrated
  approach for greening the transport sector in India.
• Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog inaugurated the forum over the virtual event.

• Microsoft India has entered into a partnership with Invest India to support the tech startups in
  India. Under this partnership, Microsoft will work with Invest India and Accelerating Growth of
  New India’s Innovations (AGNIi) Mission to support the ‘Microsoft for Startups’ programme.

• This collaboration combines the reach of AGNii Mission with the tech and business
  resources of Microsoft for Startups to boost the startup ecosystem in India.

• Government of India (GoI) has launched the Startup Accelerator of Meity for Product
  Innovation, Development & Growth (SAMRIDH) programme to support 300 Information
  Technology (IT) enabled Startups for a period of 6 months.

• It aims to create 100 unicorns out of the selected IT Startups by providing Seed funding,
  Mentorship and Market access.

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