Akshar Primary &Junior High School

Current affairs sheet

Class-4th
• A 14-year-old Indian girl from Maharashtra's Aurangabad, Diksha Shinde has been
selected as a panelist on NASA's MSI Fellowships Virtual Panel.
• In India, “Muslim Women’s Rights Day” is celebrated across the nation on August 01
to celebrate the enactment of the law against Triple Talaq.
• India’s star shuttler PV Sindhu becomes the first Indian female Olympian to win two
medals.
• Sanjeev Singh, a Divyang cricket player from Lucknow is the composer and singer of
the theme song for the Indian Paralympic contingent ‘Kar De Kamaal Tu’.
• A 19-year old Pakistani climber Shehroze Kashif became the youngest person in the
world to reach the summit of K2, the second-highest peak in the world.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award will
be renamed as Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.
• The International Biofuel Day (World Biofuel Day) is observed every year on August
10.
• World Lion Day is observed globally on August 10 every year.
• The Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in New Delhi has found place among
world’s top 50 best airports in 2021 Skytrax World Airport Awards.
• The World Organ Donation Day is celebrated every year on August 13.
• Mahatma Gandhi is the first Indian to receive the highest civilian award in the United
States.
• Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will inaugurate the country’s first smog tower on August
23, 2021, at Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi.
• Man Kaur was an Indian track-and-field athlete. She got Nari Shakti Puraskar award at
the age of 103. She was nicknamed as the “Miracle Mom from Chandigarh”.
• Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to let his country become Europe's
refugee warehouse.
• Vice Admiral SN Ghormade appointed as the new Vice Chief of Naval Staff.