1 August 2014 : Operation Protective
Edge : A 72 hour ceasefire brokered by the UN and USA which began at 08:00
falls apart with each side accusing the other party of breaching the ceasefire.
An Israeli soldier is kidnapped and several killed during a suicide bomber attack
at 09:30, according to Israeli officials. 91 Palestinians were killed in the
city of Rafah south of Gaza according to the Gaza Officials since the Israeli
solider was captured. The UN and USA strongly condemn the attack. The ceasefire
was cancelled.sadad
2 August 2014 : Indian athletes won 15 gold medals at Glasgow Games 2014
3 August 2014 :
India participated in the 2014 Commonwealth
Games at Glasgow,Scotland, United Kingdom held from 23 July
to 3 August 2014.
- India fielded a strong 215 member contingent, their
second largest ever.
- The sports ministry cleared the 215 athletes from 14
sporting disciplines,including seven para-athletes, at government cost,
along with a contingent of 90 officials, coaches and support staff.
- The Glasgow Games had 18 sports and 261 medal events.
India did not be fielded athletes only in three
disciplines—netball, rugby sevens and triathlon.
- Vikas Gowda won a gold in the Men's Discus
throw event, thus winning the first gold medal for India in men's
athletics in 56 years.
- Joshana Chinappa and Dipika
Pallikal scripted history by winning the first gold for India
in Squash at Commonwealth Games.
- Kashyap Parupalli won a gold in Badminton
Men's Singles, becoming the first Indian male shuttler in 32 years to win
a gold medal in the singles event at the Commonwealth Games.
3 August 2014 : The Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seizes the Yazidi-dominated town of Sinjar. Yazidi are a
Kurdish religious community who practice an ancient religion linked to
Zoroastrianism and ancient Mesopotamian religions. They live primarily in the
Nineveh Province of northern Iraq, a region once part of ancient Assyria. Yazidis
are monotheists, believing in one God, who created the world and entrusted it
into the care of a Heptad of seven Holy Beings, often known as Angels or heft
sirr (the Seven Mysteries).
4 August 2014 : The first US–Africa
Leaders Summit begins held in Washington, D.C.
5 August 2014 : Renowned Japanese scientist Yoshiki Sasai commits suicide, after the discrediting of certain experimental results he supervised, regarding stem cells.
6 August 2014 : After ten years of
chasing, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft became the first
ever to intercept and go into orbit around a comet. Now scientists can begin
the next step in one of the most exciting investigations into how the Solar
System formed that we’ve seen so far. ESA scientists brought Rosetta to within
100km of the comet – a 3km by 5km rock called 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko – and
established a stable orbit by slowing it down with its thrusters. Perhaps
surprisingly, while it’s taken ten years to get there, 67P was only discovered
50 years ago, but while not as famous a comet as Halley it’s just as
scientifically interesting. Comets are considered to be primitive building
blocks of the Solar System, and relics of the formation of the planets, while
some even believe that they provided Earth with both water and other key
ingredients too which were necessary for igniting the evolution of life.
6 August 2014 : Pran Kumar Sharma,
creator of iconic comic book characters like Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu, is
dead. He was 75 years.
6 August 2014 : A proposal which
will empower the Juvenile Justice Board to decide whether a juvenile above 16
years involved in heinous crimes such as rape is to be sent to a observation
home or tried in a regular court is learnt have been cleared by the Union
Cabinet on 6 August 2014.
8 August 2014 : The World Health
Organization (WHO) has declared Ebola as Global Health Emergency. Ebola virus
is a virus that causes ebola virus disease. It is a virological taxon species
included in the genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae, members are called
Filovirus, the order is Mononegavirales.
The five characterised Ebola species
are :
1. Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV;
previously ZEBOV) : Also known simply as the Zaire virus, ZEBOV has the highest
case-fatality rate of the ebolaviruses, up to 90% in some epidemics, with an
average case fatality rate of approximately 83% over 27 years.
2. Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV;
previously SEBOV) : Like the Zaire virus, SEBOV emerged in 1976; it was at
first assumed identical with the Zaire species.
3. Reston ebolavirus (RESTV;
previously REBOV) : Discovered during an outbreak of simian hemorrhagic fever
virus (SHFV) in crab-eating macaques from Hazleton Laboratories (now Covance)
in 1989.
4. Côte d'Ivoire ebolavirus (TAFV;
previously CIEBOV) : Also referred to as Taï Forest ebolavirus and by the
English place name, "Ivory Coast", it was first discovered among
chimpanzees from the Taï Forest in Côte d'Ivoire, Africa, in 1994.
5. Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV;
previously BEBOV) : On 24 November 2007, the Uganda Ministry of Health
confirmed an outbreak of Ebolavirus in the Bundibugyo District.
Ebola virus was first introduced as
a possible new "strain" of Marburg virus in 1977 by two different
research teams. At the same time, a third team introduced the name Ebola virus.
In 2000, the virus name was changed to Zaire Ebola virus, and in 2005 to Zaire
ebolavirus. However, most scientific articles continued to refer to Ebola virus
or used the terms Ebola virus and Zaire ebolavirus in parallel. Consequently,
in 2010, the name Ebola virus was reinstated. Previous abbreviations for the
virus were EBOV-Z (for Ebola virus Zaire) and most recently ZEBOV (for Zaire
Ebola virus or Zaire ebolavirus). In 2010, EBOV was reinstated as the
abbreviation for the virus
8 August 2014 : According to the UN
website reported that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW) August 7, said Ellesmere Port in the country to destroy chemical weapons
in Syria by the British in charge of the work has been completed so far, all
the chemical Syria weapons stockpiles have been destroyed in the three
quarters. British government took part in the destruction of chemical weapons
in Syria project of international cooperation, and in Ellesmere Port, England
destroyed 190 tons of chemical weapons from Syria, which accounts for 15% of
all shipped out Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles.
19 August 2014 : TN Suresh Kumar, a
senior ISRO scientist has become the first Indian to visit the
stratosphere, the second layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. Kumar, who is
working with ISRO’s Master Control Facility in Hassan, on August 15, 2014
travelled to an altitude of 17,100 metres in a MIG-29 from Sokol Airbase near
Nizhny Novgorod in Russia. To achieve this feat, he paid a hefty fee of around
Rs 15 lakh.
Reaching the stratosphere in 48
minutes, the aircraft reached to a maximum speed of 1850 km per hour during the
travel. Kumar also becomes the 259th person of the world to take the flight
ever since the Country of Tourism Ltd., an agency conducting space travel in
Russia, started the journey called ‘Edge of Space’ six years ago.
Kumar was also one of the four
people selected by ISRO to travel to space in 1985. Unfortunately, that didn't
happen as the flight had to be cancelled following the explosion of space
shuttle ‘Challenger’, in February 1986.
19 August 2014 : DLF’s upcoming
project Mall of India in Noida, projected to be one of the largest in
the country, has been served a notice to stop all construction activities till
a clearance from the National Board for Wildlife is obtained. The notice has
been served by the UP pollution Control Board.
According to people close to the development, DLF already has
‘consent to establish’ since 2007-08. The company recently applied for renewal
because of increased floor area ratio (FAR) and the application has yet not
been cleared as the project falls within 10-km radius from the Okhla bird
sanctuary.
According to an order by the National Green Tribunal, the area coming under the
10-km radius around the Okhla bird sanctuary is to be considered eco-sensitive.
The order has impacted various real estate projects in the area, which are now
pending for the want of a completion certificate.
23 August 2014 : Tripura governor
Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya and Sangeet Natak Akademi chairman Leela Samson
presented the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar awards for 2012 here Saturday
to 32 young artists from across the country. The awards, which carry Rs. 25,000
and a citation, for the first time have been given at a function outside Delhi.
A five-day-long national festival of music, dance and drama featuring the
recipients of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for 2012 was also inaugurated
Saturday by Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar.
Sangeet Natak Akademi is endeavoring
to find out talented artists in music, dance and drama including folk and
traditional performing arts of northeastern region, Sangeet Natak Akademi's
secretary Helen Acharya told reporters here Saturday.
To encourage the young artists, the
Sangeet Natak Akademi since 2006 has been awarding Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva
Puraskar. So far 192 awards have been given to young artists from across the
country by the Akademi.
The seventh Ustad Bismillah Khan
Yuva Puraskar for 2012 were given to eight musicians, eight dances and eight
theatre artists and eight practitioners of folk and traditional performing
arts.
The Sangeet Natak Akademi had set up
the Sattriya Kendra (a centre for Sattriya dance, music, and theatre
traditions) in Assam's main city of Guwahati in July 2008 to promote, propagate
and preserve these traditions.
The Sangeet Natak Akademi had also
set up its northeast centre in Shillong in August 2008, for the purpose of
preserving the traditional and folk performing art traditions of northeastern
India. The centre has recently moved to Guwahati and is housed in the Sattriya
Kendra premises.
Sattriya or Sattriya Nritya is one
among the eight principal classical Indian dance traditions. In the year 2000,
the Sattriya dances of Assam received recognition as one of the eight classical
dance forms of India. Where as some of the other traditions have been revived
in the recent past, Sattriya has remained a living tradition since its creation
by the founder of Vaishnavism in Assam, the great saint Srimanta Sankardev, in
15th century Assam.
Sattriya comes from Assam, the
northeast state geographically separated from most of India by Bangladesh and
Bhutan like an eastern peninsula. Like another of the eight classical styles,
Manipuri (from the neighboring state of Manipur), Sattriya looks Indian even
while suggesting several different cultural qualities and different rhythms.
The
following is a list of some leading exponents of Sattriya.
1.
Bapuram Barbayan Atai
2.
Maniram Dutta Muktiyar Barbayan
3.
Gahan Chandra Goswami
4.
Jibeshwar Goswami
5.
Pradip Chaliha
6.
Lalit Chandra Nath Ojha
7.
Gopiram/Gupiram Bargayan
8.
Raseshwar Saikia
9.
Haricharan Saikia
10.
Kosha Kanta Deva Goswami
11.
Ananda Mohan Bhagawati
12.
Gunakanta Dutta Barbayan
13.
Prabhat Sarma
14.
Jatin Goswami
15.
Paramananda Barbayan
16.
Manik Barbayan
17.
Ghanakanta Bora Barbayan
18.
Jibanjit Dutta
19.
Tankeshwar Hazarika Barbayan
20.
Muhi Kant Borah Gayan Barbayan
21.
Bhabananda Barbayan
22.
Paramananda Kakoty Barbayan
30 August 2014 : Lesotho Prime
Minister Tom Thabane was deposed by the military coup led by army commander
Lieutenant-General Tlali Kamoli.
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