1. The National Sports Day is celebrated on 29th August.
* 29 August is the birthday of hockey player Dhyan Chand.
* Dhyan Chand was famously known as 'The Wizard'.
2. India and World Bank sign 300 million dollar loan agreements for India Energy Efficiency scale up programme.
* World Bank gives 220 million dollar loan agreement and 80 million guarantee agreement.
* HQ of World Bank is in Washington DC.
* President of World Bank is Jim Yong Kim.
3. Noted Malayalam film director KK Haridas died.
4. Neeraj Chopra has become the Indian Javelin thrower to win a gold medal in Asian games.
5. Google Tez rename its app as Googel Pay.
6. Google launches 'Navlekha' to help Indian language publishers.
* Navlekha is a Sanskrit word meaning 'a new way to write'.
7. Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K. Palaniswani has inaugurated India's tallest film studio at Paiyamur.
8. Sushma Swaraj inaugurated 'Jaipur Foot' camp in Hanoi, Vietnam.
9. India's first interstate connected wind power project established in Bhuj, Gujarat.
* Energy generated from this will be purchase by Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand and U.P.
* Capacity will be 1000 MW.
10. Satya S Tripathi appointed as the Assistant Secretary General and Head of New York office of UNEP.
* UN Chief is Antonio Gueterres.
* UNEP HQ is in Nairobi, Kenya.
11. The first SAARC Agri Cooperative business forum begins in Kathmandu, Nepal.
12. World Bank and the Central Government with Rajasthan government signed 250 dollar million loan to Rajasthan in impowering the performance of its Electricity distribution sector.
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