CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH AUGUST 2015

CORPORATE AFFAIRS, TECHNOLOGY AND E-COMMERCE

1. Reliance Jio Infocomm to raise another Rs 10,000 Crores in debt to fund its business expansion.
2. Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg is expecting a baby girl after 3 miscarriages.
3. Uber Valued at $ 50 billion as Microsoft invests $ 100 million.
4. Footwear Brand Bata India is launching a new line of products for E-commerce business with the aim of increasing sales five times.
5. Snapdeal appoints Anup Vikal as the New Finance Head who was the CFO of Aircel.
6. Rupert Murdoch owned Star Network exits Balaji for Rs 108 Crores Which is sold to Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India.
7. Netflix announced that new mothers and fathers get a unlimited paid parental leave for a year.
8. Shoppers Stop, Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL) have announced a strategic partnership to extend femina into the consumers product space.
9. Flipkart to sell furniture now priced between Rs2000 and Rs150000 with free shipping and installation.
10. Pharma company Abbott India pays Rs 950 Crores for space in Godrej BKC which is biggest commercial transaction this year.
11. National Aluminium Company wants to set up an aluminium smelter plant worth $ 2.6 billion in Iran.
12. Deutsche bank group has entered into a deal to sell its Rs 20,000 Crores asset management business in India Pramerica Asset Managers.
13. Apple Inc shells out $700,000 per year to protect Tim Cook.
14. Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer signed a pact with Maharashtra to invest $ 5 billion over 5 years in semi-conductor manufacturing facility.
15. Naresh Goyal chairman of Jet Airways Brother Surinder Kumar Goyal Passes away.
16. OLA value doubles to Rs 3200 crores in 6 months.
17. Housing.com may lay off 600 employees in next 3 months.
18. FoxConn to start maharashtra Manufacturing by 2018.
19. Chinese handset maker Xiaomi may set up plant in Andhra Pradesh which will be its 1st in India.
20. Carnival Group buys Leela Infopark in Thiruvanthapuram for Rs 142 Crores.
21. Aricent buys chip design company SmartPlay for Rs 1,100 crores.
22. Private Equity Chrys Cap acquires IT company for Rs 403 Crores.
23. Domestic organized Pharma retail market crossed Rs 90,000 Crores.
24. Car sales grow 17% in July, highest in 3 months.
25. Everstone Capital to buy Musli Power for Rs 125 Crores.
26. Government sues Nestle for Rs 640 Crores for selling unsafe and hazardous products.
27. Posco to set up 1st steel plant in India for $ 1 billion.
28. Landmark group has appointed Deputy CEO of its Lifestyle store as Jacob John who is currently the COO of Louis Philippe.
29. Hero Cycles acquires UK based cycle distributor Avocet Sports.
30. Sun Pharma appointed Yashwant Mahadik as its HR head who is the former Philips Executive.
31. Beverages maker Coke signs 3 year deal with Sourav Ganguly.
32. Tata Sons has increased its stake in AirAsia India from 30% to 41%.
33. Tata Motors has taken Indigo Airlines to court for using the name Indigo.
34. Uber may hit $ 11 billion bookings in 2015 and $ 26 billion in 2016.
35. India is No.2 Investment country for Amazon.
36. Private equity firms CX partners to buy 48% stake in Cremica for Rs 650 Crores.
37. Ashwani Lohani to be the next Air India Chairman and MD.
38. Nestle plans to bring back Maggi by the end of this year.
39. Indian Oil Corporation sell off to take April-Oct divestment kitty to Rs 12,600 Crores.
40. Adani Group to invest Rs 25000 Crores in Chhattisgarh.
41. Australia Coffee Chain Di Bella Cofffee will invest $5 Million (Rs 33 Crores) in next 1 year.
42. Philips appoints 1st Indian Madhavan Hariharan as CFO.
43. Flipkart to launch support centres in 20 centres in 20 cities by year end named ' Flipkart One Stop'.
44. Jewellery retailer Carat lane to spend Rs 60 Crores on Marketing.
45. C and C Alpha Group sells UK based hospitals Chain to Cygnet healthcare for Rs 970 Crores.
46. Lenskart.com to invest Rs 60 Crores to set up a new facility.
47. Vishal Sikka buys 9,116 shares as part of restricted stock units.
48. HDFC life plans IPO to sell 25% stake for Rs 6000 Crores.
49. Sanjay Kapoor Chairman of Micromax quits.
50. Snapdeal appoints Rajiv Mangla as its Chief Technology Officer.
51. Nusli Wadia sells 19 Lakh shares for Rs 12 Crores.

Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Crimes, Economy and World

1. The government has unvieled a Rs 70,000 Crores capitalisation plan for state run banks over 4 years.
2. A study level shows that more women are becoming graduate with 116% as compared to men which is 65%.
3. Supreme Court's Deputy Registrar Anup Surendranath quits over Yakub Memon's hanging.
4. CAT aspirants to get 10 minutes extra this year.
5. Government has asked Telecom operators and International Service providers to block 857 adult sites.
6. Usman Naved alias Kasim is 1st suspected Pak militant to be captured alive in India after kasab in 2008.
7. 4,400 dropouts in 3 years at IITs, NITs.
8. Janhavi Gadkar gets bail after 58 days in jail.
9. Commuters left Rs 5 lakhs cash, 90 Laptops, 45 Cell-Phones, 485 Gram of Gold or ornaments in 1st 7 months of this year.
10. Air Passenger ( Domestic) traffic up by 16.3% in June.
11. Tiger Memon rang up family on July 30 just one and a half hour before Yakub was to be hanged at 5.35 am.
12. Close aid of Dawood Ibrahim died in Karachi named Yakub Khan due to heart attack.
13. Maharashtra tops list of states in cyber crimes.
14. 19 year old Paridhi Verma with 10% vision is youngest to join IIM- Lucknow.
15. Rickshaw puller Mohammed Aabid Qureshi returns Rs 1.17 Lakhs found on road to police.
16. BCCI man gets D-Company Rs 100 Crores extortion call as protection money.
17. 35000 died due to air pollution in 10 years.
18. Airtel rolls out 4G services Pan India.
19. Ram Tarneja former MD of Times Group dead.
20. Bombay high court has directed to use yellow sodium vapour lights along the marine drive promenade.
21. AICTE announced that CMAT will be conducted only once in a year.
22. BEST recovered Rs 22 Lakhs from ticketless commuters from April 1 to June 30 around 26,059 ticketless commuters.
23. North Korea will set its clock back 30 minutes and create its own time zone 'Pyongyang' behind those of South Korea and Japan.
24. Navi Mumbai 3rd on national cleanliness list and Mumbai ranks 147th on the list out of 476.
25. National Lok Adalats clear 63,000 cases in a day.
26. Lions territory saw four times growth in 10 years in Gujarat.
27. Coal India limited to spend Rs 10600 Crores to ramp up production.
28. Amitabh Bachchan to be Maharashtra's new tiger conversation ambassador.
29. The Rajasthan High Court called ' Santhara' which is practiced in Jain Community as illegal and punishable. ' Santhara' means a person stops drinking water and food and awaits death.
30. Minimum daily wages may increase by up 25%.
31. Colleges may raise no of seats by 5%.
32. Cricketer Rohit Sharma buys flat in worli for Rs 30 Crores.
33. In China 2.8 billion tonnes of waste dumped in sea.
34. TRAI reports a seven-fold increase in call drops on 2G network.
35. RBI has paid a dividend of almost Rs 66,000 crores.
36. Maharashtra Government appointed 10 IAS officers for smart cities project.
37. 5.7 Lakh people affected due to Assam Floods.
38. Government 10% stake sale in IOC may fetch Rs 9500 crores.
39. Skymet, the nation's sole private weather forecaster asked social media users to spread monsoon forecast.
40. Urban kids now have First brush with sex by 14 years.
41. Murders count in India lowest since 1960.
42. Lahore HC bans Bollywood film ' Phantom' on JuD chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
43. Maharashtra CM directs cops to probe Octroi evasion.
44. Women in Saudi Arabia are registering to vote for the 1st time in the history.
45. Scientists have discovered  fossil of a monkey's partial skull dating back more tahn 2 million years ago.
46. Centre allocates Rs 4000 crores to upgrade UP railways.
47. Bandhan, a first micro-finance institution to turn into Universal Bank.
48. Sensex plunges 1,625 points and investors lose Rs 7 Lakh Crores wealth wiped out.
49. Fadnavis government gets Rs 370 crores donations in 10 months.
50. Muslim share of population up by 0.8% and Hindu population down by 0.7%.
51. FDI increases 6.5% to $ 2.05 billion.
52. Saina Nehwal back as world no 1 and signs Rs 25 Crores deal.
53. 32% BEST buses broke down in June 2015.
54. The Nirmal Nagar Police has lodged an FIR against CEO of slum Authority Rehabilitation And CEO of Shivalik ventures for grabbing defence land in Bandra East.
55. Iron Man Star Robert Downey is world's top earning actor on Forbes while Amitabh Bachchan is 7th and Salman Khan is 8th.