
CURRENT AFFAIRS
2013
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• The first Britisher to perform a space walk, who retired from NASA in the second week of August 2013- Colin Michael Foale
• Name of the largest blast furnace of India which was operationalised by SAIL on 10 August 2013- Durga
• Female tennis player to win The Rogers Cup 2013 and capture her 54th WTA singles title- Serena Williams
• Technology used by the researchers to find that autism affected the brains of males and females in a different way- Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Name the captain of the 18-member hockey squad of India in the Asia Cup hockey tournament 2013- Sardar Singh
• Date on which International Lefthanders Day is celebrated across the world - 13 August
• Name of the First Twitter Hotel opened in Spain by the Melia brand of hotels - Social Wave House
• Name of the oldest Penguin who on 12 August 2013 turned 36 years old - King Penguin Missy
• Body which proposed first season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) - Badminton Association of India (BAI)
• Name of the host country of 7th Asian Junior Wushu Championships - Philippines
• Name the fossil of the oldest known ancestor of modern rats recently unearthed in China- Rugosodon eurasiaticus
• Name of one of the most endangered bird species of the world that made a comeback in the US- Puerto Rican parrot
• Place at which The Travel & Tourism Fair (TTF) 2013, the biggest travel trade show of I ndia started- Ahmadabad, Gujarat
• The former Prime Minister of Nepal who died on 15 August 2013 after battling with lung cancer- Marich Man Singh Shrestha
• Name the person who was termed as the Beast of Ukraine. He was the serial killer who recently d ied in prison- Anatoly
Onoprienko
• Name of the US actress who passed away on 25 August 2013 at the age of 87 years and holds the record of most Tony awards wi n-
Julie Harris
• India’s under-23 cricket team won the Asian Cricket Council Emerging Teams Cup in Singapore on 25 August 2013, after defeating-
Pakistan
• Indian tennis player who lifted the women’s doubles trophy at the WTA New Haven Open along with her partner Jie Zheng of
China- Sania Mirza
• Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology 2013 awarded to- Vinod Prakash Sharma
• Name the tribal community of Sri Lanka that was felicitated on 9 August 2013 by Mahinda Rajapaksa on the occasion of the World
Indigenous Peoples Day- Veddas
• The eminent Indian classical singer and music director known as the vocalist of Jayadeva’s Gita Govind, who passed away in
Bhubaneswar- Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi
• Nelson Mandela on 27 August 2013 was honoured with the first Lifetime Campaigner for Peace and Freedom of- the Mahathir
award for Global Peace