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➤Important awards and their Recipient :
• Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar 2020 - Dr. Rajendra Kishore Panda
• Pulitzer Prize 2021 - Megha Rajagopalan
• Nature TTL Photography Awards 2021 - Thomas Vijayan
• India Biodiversity Award 2021 - N.M. Shaji
• Whitley Awards 2021 - Y. Nuklu Phom
• UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2021 - Maria Ressa
• Wild Innovator Award 2021 - Krithi Karanth
• Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award 2021 - Rumana Sinha Sehgal
• International Ranger Award 2021 - Mahinder Giri
• World Food Prize 2021 - Shakuntala Haraksingh
1. Vice Admiral SN Ghormade has assumed charge as the Vice Chief of Naval Staff at a formal ceremony in New Delhi.
• He succeeds
Vice Admiral G Ashok Kumar who retired
on July 31, 2021, after
more than 39 years of illustrious service.
➤About Indian Navy :
The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the Indian Armed Forces & their primary objective is to safeguard the nation's maritime border.
• Founded - 1947
• Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) - Admiral Karambir Singh
• Indian Navy Day is celebrated every
year on December 4 to commemorate the attack on the Karachi
harbour during the India-Pakistan war in 1971.
1. The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is marked every year in the first week
of August, between 1 to 7 August, to raise awareness on the importance of breastfeeding for mothers and infants.
• The theme of the World Breastfeeding Week 2021 is “Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility”.
➤About World Alliance for Breastfeeding
• World Alliance for Breastfeeding Headquarters: Penang, Malaysia
• World Alliance for Breastfeeding Founder: Anwar Fazal
•
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Founded:
14 February 1991
➤Important Days of August :
• World Breastfeeding Week - 1 - 7 August
• International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples - 9 August
• International Youth Day - 12 August
• World Elephant Day - 12 August
• Independence Day - 15 August
• World Humanitarian Day - 19 August
• World Mosquito Day - 20 August
• International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
- 23 August
• National Sports
Day - 29 August.
1. Indian shuttler
P V Sindhu has won the bronze medal in the women’s
singles match in Tokyo Olympics.
• She becomes
the first Indian woman
and second Indian to
win two medals
in Olympics.
• She defeated
He Bing Jiao of China
by 21-13 and 21-15 in the bronze
medal match.
• She has also won silver at Rio Olympics 2016.
• Wrestler Sushil Kumar is the first and only other Indian to win two Olympic medals.
• Saikhom Mirabai
Chanu has claimed
the silver medal in the Women’s 49kg category at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
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