International Current Affairs – August 2022

India ranks 3rd at International Astronomy Olympiad
South Korea breaks its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate
External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar attended the 8th India-Brazil Joint Commission Meeting
South Korea signed USD 2.25 billion deal with a Russian nuclear company
Mac Rutherford becomes the youngest person to fly solo around the world

Gautam Adani becomes 3rd Richest Person in World
The UK becomes the first country to approve the Omicron vaccine
65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference to be held in Canada
Greece exits EU’s ‘enhanced surveillance’ framework
Uttar Pradesh government to build India’s first education township
Zimbabwe launched gold coins as legal tender to tackle inflation
US Senate approved Sweden and Finland joining NATO’s membership
South Korea launched the first Moon mission, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also known as Danuri.
William Ruto elected as the new president of Kenya
Simon Stiell was appointed as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Alkesh Kumar Sharma appointed to high-level UN internet panel
Pranay Verma appointed as India’s next High Commissioner to Bangladesh
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand was appointed as Deputy President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE)
Gustavo Petro was sworn in as Colombia’s first leftist President
Sanjay Agarwal appointed as Assistant Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Pramod Kumar appointed as CFO of Power Grid Corporation
James Marape was sworn in as prime minister of Papua New Guinea
Dixit Joshi appointed as new CFO of Credit Suisse
Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga elected as interim PM of Mali
Vikram Doraiswami appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the UK

PNB Housing Finance interim CFO Kaushal Mithani resigned
Gopal Jain and Sivakumar Gopalan were appointed as non-executive directors of RBL Bank
The government extended the tenure of Meenesh Shah as National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Chairman for 6 months
Sourav Ganguly was appointed as its first brand ambassador DreamSetGo
K Subramanian was appointed as Executive Director for India at International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Mahendra Shah appointed as new MD of IDFC
Ananth Narayan Gopalakrishnan appointed as a whole-time member of SEBI
Ana Brnabic re-elected as Prime Minister of Serbia
Adele Sumariwalla appointed as interim President of the Indian Olympic Association
Fahmida Azim won the Pulitzer Prize 2022 in Illustrated Reporting
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be conferred with Liberty Medal
Angela Merkel was awarded the UNESCO Peace Prize in 2022
Karnataka’s Divita Rai becomes Miss Diva Universe 2022