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Current Affairs:
- ICICI Lombard, Bharti AXA to merge general insurance businesses
- Axis Bank launches hiring initiative named ‘Gig-a-Opportunities
- Ashwani Bhatia becomes new Managing Director of SBI
- Jacques Kallis, Zaheer Abbas & Lisa Sthalekar inducted into ICC Hall of Fame
- United Nations observes 23 August every year as “International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
- A book titled ‘One Arranged Murder’ authored by Chetan Bhagat
- A book titled “Gastric Cancer” released by Jitendra Singh
- Uttar Pradesh partners Israel to resolve Bundelkhand Water Crisis
- HSBC India launches “Green Deposit Programme”
- Rajiv Kumar appointed as new Election Commissioner
History on the Date:
(2008) Summer Olympics in Beijing becomes the most watched event on TV ever – nearly 5 billion, 70% of world’s population