Current Affairs – 23 August 2022

  • Antim Panghal becomes India’s first U20 female world champion in wrestling
    • Antim is 18 years old and is from Baghana, Haryana
    • She is her parents’ 4th daughter and was named ‘Antim’ meaning ‘Last’ because her parents wanted her to be the last female child they would have

  • New species of bent-toed Gecko found at Agasthyamalai in Tamil Nadu
    • Geckos are small, carnivorous lizards
    • Its scientific name is Cyrtodactylus Aravindi
  • Account Aggregator System (AAS)
    • Framework is combined dashboard of all bank accounts of the user at one place
    • SEBI has now joined this RBI‘s framework
    • It will provide user’s all bank, financial, investment, insurance etc details at one place
  • Chandigarh Airport to be named after Shaheed Bhagat Singh

  • Singapore ends ban on Gay sex
  • Recent study has found that yield of a Chinese rice variety increased by around 40% after adding a second copy of one of its own single geneOsDREB1C