1. Maharashtra reported its first-ever Zika virus case on August 1, 2021 after a 50-year-old woman from Belsar village in Purandar Tehsil (Pune) was diagnosed with the infection.
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched e-RUPI, an electronic voucher promoting digital payment solution, through video conferencing on August 2, 2021. E-RUPI is a prepaid, cashless and contactless instrument for digital payment. It is a QR code or SMS string-based e-Voucher, which can be sent on the mobile of the beneficiaries.
3. Under Rajya Sabha’s Rule 267, any member, with the consent of the Chairperson, can issue a notice seeking to set aside the upper house’s listed business of the day to discuss the subject raise by one or more members.
4. Ultra-conservative cleric and judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi has swearing in as Iran’s eighth president on August 3, 2021. Ebrahim Raisi replaces moderate President Hassan Rouhani who was not allowed run for a third consecutive term by the Iranian constitution. He congratulated the people for their choice after Raisi’s win.
5. A huge asteroid will fly past Earth very closely on August 21, 2021, reported Earth sky. It will not hit Earth. The asteroid, named 2016 AJ193, is reportedly is rushing inward towards the sun in its 5.91-year orbit. Earth is in its approximated path but it will not hit the planet.
6. The Central Government informed on August 2, 2021, that the Youth Affairs and Sports Ministry has decided to set up 1,000 Khelo India Centers in India. Out of them, 360 centres have already been notified.
7. Bhubaneswar in Odisha has become the first city in India to achieve 100 percent vaccination coverage against COVID-19, said Anshuman Rath, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Zonal Deputy Commissioner of South-East, Bhubaneswar.
8. Denmark’s State Serum Institute on August 2, 2021, said that combining the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with the second dose of mRNA vaccines either Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccines offers a ‘good protection’.
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