Daily Current Affairs 8th August 2022

RBI, Banking and Economy

• India's market capitalisation to GDP goes past 100% again

• SIDBI partners with regional rural bank APGB in Andhra Pradesh for refinancing

SEBI and FINANCIAL AWARENESS

• Flipkart to handhold MSMEs, weavers, from Varanasi under Samarth programme for growth via e-commerce

• IRDAI to revamp grievance redressal mechanism

NATIONAL

• India offers domain names for Rs 75 under ‘Har Ghar Digital, Har Jeevan Digital’ campaign

INTERNATIONAL

• Colombia’s first leftist president

• World Bank to provide USD 300 million to Bangladesh for urban area resilience to Covid 19 and future crisis

STATES

• PARVAZ Market Linkage scheme

REPORTS AND INDEXES

• Literacy rate for STs improved from 47.1% in 2001 to 59% in 2011: Census

• India's outbound tourism to surpass $42 billion by 2024- report by Nangia Andersen LLP & FICCI

• 85 per cent of Indian children have experienced cyberbullying- McAfee Cyberbullying report

AWARDS AND REWARDS

• ICCR’s ‘Distinguished Indologist for 2021’ award

SPORTS

• Chess prodigyV Pranav becomes India’s 75th Grandmasterby winning a tournament in Romania