Daily Current Affairs 26th August 2022

Women's Equality DAY - 26th  August 

Theme 2022 - Gender Equality Today For a Sustainable Tomorrow 

1) Former Indian Cricketer Debasish Mohanty Will Received Biju Pattnaik Sports Award For Lifetime Achievement.

2) Rajasthan Kumbhalgarh And Chittorgarh Fort Received The  Silver Award In The Category Of Best Heritage Destination In INDIA At The Outlook Travellers Award 2022.

3) Veteran Filmmaker Saawan Kumar Tak Passed Away. 

4) Footballer Karim Benzema Of Real Madrid Named UEFA Player Of The Year And Carlo Ancelotti Wins Coach Award. 

5) Jimmy Anderson Of England, First Player To Play 100 Home Test Matches. 

6) Former Chief Economic Adviser Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian Appointed As The Executive Director At The International Monetary Fund (IMF) For 3 Years. 

7) Samir V Kamat Has Been Appointed As The DRDO Chief. 

8) Lt General Dhiraj Seth Assumed The Command Of Delhi Area. 

9) Sudan Singh Appointed As Chief Election In Charge And Devendra Singh Rana Appointed As Election Co In Charge For Himachal Pradesh. 

10) Rajib Bhattacharya Appointed As The Tripura BJP President. 

11) Bhupendra Singh Appointed As The Uttar Pradesh BJP President. 

12) India's First Indigenously Built Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant. 

13) Punjab Government Recommends Three Time Olympic Gold Medalist Hockey Legend Balbir Singh Sr. For The Bharat Ratna. 

14) Bangladeshi Fahmida Azim Won The Pulitzer Prize For 2022. 

15) Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel Won The UNESCO's Peace Prize In 2022. 

16) World's First Fleet Of Hydrogen Powered Passengers Train Launched By Germany. 

17) India's First Nocturnal Zoo Set Up In Uttar Pradesh At Kukrail Forest Region. 

18) Seeing The Unseen - Theme Of World Water Week 2022. 

19) James Web Space Telescope Recently Captured New Images Of Jupiter Planet. 

20) Dixit Joshi Has Been Appointed As The CFO Of Credit Suisse. 

21) South Korea Is The Host Of Ulchi Freedom Shield Military Exercise. 

22) IIT Guwahati Has Developed a New Method For The Production Of Sugar Substitute XYLITOL. 

23) MINIOPTERUS PHILIPS A New Species Of Long fingered Bats Has Been Found In India And Sri Lanka. 

24) 4th Edition Of The India Clean Air Summit (ICAS) Held At Bengaluru. 

25) Volodymyr Zelensky Has Been Honored With The Liberty Medal 2022. 

26) Mack Rutherford Become The Youngest Pilot To Fly Solo Around Globe , Who Breaks Guinness World Record. 

27) Anurag Thakur Launched Azadi Quest a Online Educational Game. 

28) Nagaland State Has Launched CM's Micro Finance Scheme. 

29) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited Commenced Its Cow Dung To Compressed Biogas Project At Sanchore, Rajasthan. 

30) As Per National Family Health Survey 2019-21 India's Sex Ratio At Birth is 108. 

31) Saudi Arabia To Host The 2nd Edition Of Global AI Summit. 

32) A New India Selected Writing 2014-19 Book By - M Venkaih Naidu 

33) Sourav Ganguly Has Been Appointed As The First Brand Ambassador Of Dream Set Go. 

34) Sajith Sivanandan Has Been Appointed As The Executive Vice President And Head Of Disney Hotstar. 

35) Colonel Abdoulaye Elected As The Interim Prime Minister Of Mali.