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.
Related news: Read up on organisations such as ISRO, CSIR, ICMR, etc and recent news related to them.
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.
- UNESCO- founded in 1945.
- Headquarters- Paris, France.
- UNESCO director-general: Audrey Azoulay.
Related news: Read up on recent prizes like the Nobel Prizes in different fields.
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.
- CCI- established in 2003.
- CCI Chairman- Ashok Kumar Gupta
- CCI consists of 6 members and 1 chairperson. Preparing for CLAT? Check out our posts on the current affairs section. All the best!