Current Affairs Update – 8th August, 2015

Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the Important Current Affairs of 8th August, 2015. These are important for the upcoming Insurance Exams and IBPS RRB 2015.

• Global electronic manufacturing giant Foxconn today
  announced it will invest $five billion over the next five years in Maharashtra,
  which has given the Taiwan-based company 1,500 acres of land for its plant.
• Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou said the facility in Maharashtra
  will focus on research and development as well as manufacturing, and the
  company has chosen the state for being a financial centre, availability of
  quality talent and software-hardware integration facilities.
• Foxconn will look for tie-ups with local partners for its
  presence in this state, Gou said, while adding that this MoU with the
  Maharashtra Government was different from the already announced joint venture
  with the Adani Group.
• At an event organised to announce the investment and a memorandum
  of understanding in this regard between the company and the State Government,
  Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said Foxconn will be given 1,500
  acres of land.
• Foxconn will create direct employment of 50,000 people
  through this MoU, Fadnavis said.

• Coal India Ltd. (CIL), the largest producer of the fuel in
  the country, will invest over Rs.62,500 crore in the next five years with an
  aim to ramp up annual production to 908 million tonnes by 2019-2020, the
  government has said.
• The State-run miner in 2014-15 had produced 494 million
  tonnes of coal. Even though this was three per cent lower that the targeted 507
  million tonnes, the production registered an incremental growth of record 32
  million tonnes, as compared with cumulative growth of 31 million tonnes in the
  four year period from 2010 to 2014.
• Additionally, in the first quarter (April-June) of the
  current fiscal, CIL registered a growth of 12.3 per cent in production at 121
  million tonnes — the highest growth for any quarter in the history of the
  company. This, Coal Secretary Anil Swarup said, was mainly on the back of
  speedy environmental clearances and other policies of the Modi-Government.

• Senior BJP leader Ram Nath Kovind and Acharya Dev Vrat were
  on Saturday appointed as Governors of poll-bound Bihar and Himachal Pradesh
  respectively.
• The 69-year-old Mr. Kovind, who had been a two-time Rajya
  Sabha member between 1994 and 2006, hails from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
• His appointment comes barely few months ahead of the
  Assembly elections due in Bihar. West Bengal Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi was
  holding additional charge of Bihar.
• A lawyer by profession, Mr. Kovind had also been BJP
  Scheduled Caste Morcha chief.
• The appointments will take effect from the dates the
  incumbents assume charge of their respective offices, it said.
• Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh was holding the additional
  charge of Himachal Pradesh.

• Rekha M Menon on 7 August 2015 was appointed as the
  chairperson of Accenture India. She will take the charge of the company from 21
  August 2015.
• Rekha replaced Avinash Vashista who was both Chairman and
  Managing Director of Accenture India, since 2011.
• She has been associated with the US-based global software
  major as Managing Director, Human Resources and was driving Accenture’s human
  capital strategy for Asia-Pacific, West Asia, Africa, Russia, Turkey and Latin
  America.
• Besides, the 30 billion US dollars outsourcing firm also
  appointed Anindya Basu as Managing Director of Accenture India who will take
  the charge from 21 August 2015.

• Australia captain Michael Clarke will retire from
  international cricket at the end of the current Ashes series.
• The 34-year-old saw his team surrender the Ashes after
  losing to England by an innings and 78 runs at Trent Bridge.
• He averages only 16 from eight innings and Australia are 3-1
  behind with one match left at The Oval on 20 August.
• Clarke made his Test debut in October 2004 and he has played
  114 matches, scoring 8,628 runs at an average of 49.30.
• This summer’s Ashes defeat is the fourth he has endured
  playing in England.
• He took over the Australia captaincy from Ricky Ponting in
  March 2011 and has presided over 46 matches, winning 23 and losing 16.

• The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday
  formed an ad-hoc committee for cricket administration in the states of Bihar
  and Uttarakhand.
• The committee formed to look after cricket affairs in Bihar
  will be spearheaded by its chairman Niranjan Shah and will also include Vinod
  Phadke (secretary, Goa Cricket Association), Sourav Dasgupta (secretary,
  Tripura Cricket Association), Bharat Zaveri (executive member, Gujarat Cricket
  Association) and Ratnakar Shetty (general manager — Game Development, BCCI).
• The panel for Uttarakhand will be chaired by M.P. Pandove
  and will also have Vishal Marwaha (secretary, Himachal Pradesh Cricket
  Association), Subir Ganguly (joint secretary, Cricket Association of Bengal),
  Vinod Shah (vice-president, Maharashtra Cricket Association), K.V.P. Rao
  (manager — Game Development, BCCI).

• Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today announced that the
  national-level Kala Utsav for students studying in CBSE schools would be held in
  Delhi in December every year.
• Addressing a campaign function here on various insurance and
  financial security initiatives of the NDA Government, Irani said Kala Utsav, on
  the lines of Kerala state school youth festival, would be held at Siri Fort
  Auditorium in the national capital.
• It was a long pending demand of CBSE students to have a Kala
  Utsav at the national level.

• Tendong Lho Rum Faat (Prayer of the Tendong Mountain), an
  ancient and natural festival of the ethnic Lepcha tribe of Sikkim was
  celebrated with traditional devotion and fanfare on 9 August 2015. It is an annual
  festival celebrated in the month of July-August.
• On this day, the tribe worships the Mount Tendong, which,
  according to the folklore, is the saviour for them. The Lepchas, said to be the
  aboriginals of the State, are worshippers of nature.

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