Current affairs Aug 2010

• Tejaswini Sawant became the first Indian woman shooter to win a gold at the World Championships with a world-record equalling score in the 50m rifle prone event in Munich.
• Bangladesh Saturday inked a $1 billion loan agreement with India to finance several projects in the country.
• Bangladesh Prime Minister--------Sheikh Hasina
• Lokamanya Tilak Award--------Sheela Dikshith
• The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry would be allocated Rs 2.31 lakh crore over the next three years to establish infrastructure for implementing the Right to Education (RTE) law.
• Chief Election Commissioner----Mr. Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi.
• Organised Committee of the Commonwealth Games is Suresh Kalmadi
• AK Mattoo has been named the treasurer of the Common Wealth Games organising committee
• Bollywood actor and former Miss World Priyanka Chopra will be appointed the National Ambassador of UNICEF.
• Amitabh Bachchan, is the 'Goodwill Ambassador' of UNICEF.
• Sharath Kamal became 1st Indian to breach the top-50 of the World ranking to be placed at 45th, after winning US Open and Egypt Open Table Tennis Tournament
• Vidya Stokes has been elected Hockey India President defeating former national captian Pargat Singh
• Cisco has been ranked number 1 vendor in the Wireless LAN equipment market in revenues for the year 2009
• Aircel launches Wireless Internet Phone(WIP)
  (WIP: An instrument with QWERTY keyboard, modem, browser and 3.5inch colour touch-screen, priced at Rs.3,300)
• Google to introduce multi-account(maximum of 3 accounts) sign-in in same browser session
• V.Vaidyanathan quits as MD and CEO of ICICI Prudetial Life Insurance, to join Kishore Biyani's Future Group. Sandeep Bakshi, the Deputy Managing Director of ICICI Bank is likely to head ICICI Prudential Life Insurance