As the Jalandhar Improvement Trust failed to repay the loan taken against Guru Gobind Singh Stadium, PNB sealed the stadium. The price of this land is around Rs 300 cr. The bank had earlier issued a notice to repay the amount of Rs 105 crore
Tagline of PNB - The name you can bank upon; HQ - New Delhi
Nandamuri Harikrishna, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and son of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N T Rama Rao, passed away in a car accident. Harikrishna, the fourth son of NTR, was also a popular Telugu actor, director and producer.
He launched his own party, Anna Telugu Desam Party, in 1999
The Indian men’s table tennis team settled for a historic bronze medal after losing to South Korea in semi-final. The team comprised G. Sathiyan, Achanta Sharath Kamal and A. Amalraj. India had defeated Japan 3-1 in the quarterfinals.
India did not have a single medal in Asian Games Tennis.
In a social audit conducted by the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) only 54 of 2,874 children's homes received positive reviews. NCPCR is auditing under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
Audit is being conducted in compliance with an SC order in 2017.
CBSE has decided to provide digital documents to students, whose academic documents have been lost or damaged in the Kerala floods. CBSE with NeGD, developed digital academic repository called ‘Parinam Manjusha’. It is integrated with DigiLocker.
DigiLocker is a national Digital Locker System launched in 2015
ISRO plans to launch Chandrayaan-2, in Jan 2019.The Mission will have an orbiter weighing 2379 kg, lander named Vikram weighing 1471 kg and a rover weighing 27 kg.It will require a GSLV MkIII rocket for launch. ISRO aims to launch 19 missions upto Mar 2019
Chandrayaan-1 was India's first lunar probe Oct 2008-Aug 2009
Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways inaugurated Smart Railway Conclave organised by FICCI, in New Delhi. Indian Railway is working on putting a GPS device on every locomotive so that every train can be tracked on mobile phones and smarter signalling
FICCI is Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
India and World Bank signed a $220 mn Loan Agreement and a $80 mn Guarantee Agreement for the India Energy Efficiency Scale-Up Program. Aim is to avoid lifetime greenhouse gas emissions of 170 mn tons of CO2 and 10 GW of additional generation capacity.
It is implemented by the Energy Efficiency Services Limited-EESL
National Sports Day is celebrated on 29 August. It marks the birthday of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand who won gold medals in Olympics for India in the years 1928, 1934 & 1936. Arjuna and Khel Ratna awards are conferred by the President on this day
This year, the date for awards has been postponed to Sep 25
The government of Rajasthan and World Bank signed a $250 mn Development Policy Loan (DPL) to support it in improving the performance of its Electricity Distribution Sector under the State’s 24x7 Power for All program. The First Loan closed in March 2017.
Loan from IBRD has a 3-yr grace period, & a maturity of 21 years