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23rd Aug 2018 Pocket News


  • Hanuma Vihari (AP) and Prithvi Shaw (Maharastra) selected for Cricket Team India.
  • Team India gives 1.26cr aid to Kerala.
  • Forbes: Highest-Paid Female Athletes. 
             First - Serena Williams (Tennis)
             Seventh - P.V.Sindhu (Badminton) - 8.5mn
  • Asian Games Updates
            Shooting: Rahi Sarnobat (Maharastra) - Gold - 25m pistol.
            Wushu:  Narender Grewal (65kg); Surya Bhanu Prathap (60kg); Santhosh                                   Kumar (56kg); Norem Roshi Bina Devi (Women's 60kg);
                           --- All are win Bronze 
            Wrestling: Completed--- 2gold; 1 bronze;
            Men's Hockey: India defeats HongKong.
  • LaljiTandon Sworn in as governor of Bihar.
  • President Ram Nath Kovind to inaugurate International Buddist Conclave In Delhi Today.
  • Befitting memorial of Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be built in Mumbai.
  • UGC directs all varsities and higher education institutions to ban the sale of junk food on their campuses.--- CBSE already followed. 
  • Chhattisgarh govt to rename state's new capital city of Naya Raipur as "Atal Nagar" in memory of late PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.


 

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