Current Affairs for CLAT 2023: August (Part II)

Taking CLAT this year and wondering how to prepare for the current affairs section? Here’s a list of important current affairs for the month of August 2022 with tips and tricks on how you can score more.

1. Jammu and Kashmir becomes the first state/UT to establish Atal Tinkering Labs.

• Established in partnership with NITI Aayog.
• NITI Aayog will replicate this in all parts of India on a 50:50 cost sharing basis.
• Atal Innovation Mission: Flagship initiative of the Government to promote a culture of innovation and tinkering.
• AIM: Set up in 2016 under NITI Aayog.
• Niti Aayog Chairperson: Narendra Modi.
• CEO: Shri Parameswaran Iyer.
• AIM- Mission Director: Dr. Chintan Vaishnav.

2. New DRDO chairman appointed.

• New DRDO Chairman: Dr. Samir Kamat.
• He succeeded Dr. G Sateesh Reddy.
• Appointed by the Ministry of Defence.
• Also appointed as the Secretary of Department of Defence R&D.
• DRDO- Defence, Research and Development Organisation
• DRDO headquarters- New Delhi
• Founded in 1958.

3. Angela Merkel wins 2022 UNESCO peace prize.

• Angela Merkel who is a former German Chancellor was awarded the Felix Houphout-Boigny UNESCO Peace Prize.
• This was done for her decision to welcome more than 1.2 million refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Eritrea.
• She became Germany’s 1st female chancellor in 2005.
• She held this office for 16 years, and resigned in 2021.
• UNESCO Peace Prize- Started in 2019.
• First recipients of this prize- Nelson Mandela and Frederick De Klerk.

4. Scotland became the first country to make period products free for all.

• 1st country to legally protect the right to get free period products.
• Passed a law- Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021.
• Scotland first minister- Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon.
• Scotland capital- Edinburgh. 5. Competition (Amendment) Bill approved by Union Cabinet.
• After approval from the Union Cabinet, it will now be presented in the parliament.
• This bill will make the Competition Commission of India more flexible.