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• Thousands of people held hands to form a human chain of peaceful protest against a suspended extradition bill.


• Demonstrators believe the bill could undermine Hong Kong's legal freedoms and might be used to intimidate or silence dissidents.


• There have been nearly three months of pro-democracy protests.


• Clashes between police and demonstrators have led to claims that some police have used brute force.

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• Six EU countries have agreed to take in 356 African migrants aboard the rescue ship Ocean Viking, which has not been allowed to dock in Italy or Malta.


• The migrants, mostly from Sudan, cheered and danced on hearing the news. Malta's navy will ferry them ashore, but Malta will not let them stay.


• France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Romania will host them.

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• Russia has launched a pioneering floating nuclear power station, which will sail 5,000km (3,000 miles) from the Arctic port of Murmansk to Chukotka in the far east.


• The nuclear agency Rosenergoatom says the Akademik Lomonosov's mobility will boost the power supply to remote areas.


• One of its targets is to power the Chaun-Bilibin mining complex in Chukotka, which includes gold mines.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday arrived in the UAE where he will discuss bilateral and regional issues with the top leadership.


• Mr. Modi reached UAE capital Abu Dhabi from Paris on the second leg of his three-nation tour to France, UAE, and Bahrain.

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• The Supreme Court on Friday asked Nirmohi Akhara whether it can have rights on the Ramjanmabhoomi at variance with or independent of the rights of Ayodhya’s infant deity.


• The Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi was responding to submissions made by Nirmohi Akhara that it was the shebait of the deity, entrusted to protect the interests of the infant Ram Lalla.

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• Thirteen of the 27 States and Union Territories have improved their water management practices from last year, an analysis by the NITI Aayog has revealed.


• Gujarat, though it dropped a point, topped the rankings for the second year in a row with a score of 75 out of a maximum possible 100.

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• Experts claim the initiatives should not be focused only on class 9-12 but a change in teaching learning-pedagogy is needed.


• Many also argue that making things too simple might make it harder for students to accept challenges in real-life. Parents, however, believe new pattern will be more scoring and fair.

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• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asked fair market regulator the Competition Commission of India to guard Indian businesses and consumers against foreign companies, which have no presence in India, by taking suo motu action against them.


• “Physical borders no longer determine competition within a country and that way we are not dealing with fair play, as it is.


• We are dealing with an entity which is outside, probably legally, complying with many of the requirements in the jurisdiction in which it exists, but having an unfair impact, on the consumers here. If that is not abuse, then what can be? And if that abuse is being felt by Indians?

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• It comprises of government officials, members of Indian Olympic Association (IOA), National Sports Federations (NSF), private bodies and fitness promoters.


• It has 12 members from the government, including secretaries of Sports, Secondary Education, Ayush, Youth Affairs, among others.


• IOA President Narinder Batra and seven NSF heads, including those of boxing, athletics, football, and cycling are also the part of the committee.

• Headquarters: New Delhi


• Child Agency: Sports Authority of India (SAI)


• Constituency of Sports Minister: Arunachal West, Arunachal Pradesh

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• Currently, Bhalla serving as an officer on special duty in the home ministry.


• Bhalla worked as the Union power secretary, before being appointed as an officer on special duty on July 24, 2019.
  The home secretary is an administrative head of the Ministry of Home Affairs and is the principal adviser to home minister on all matters of policy and administration within the Home Ministry.
  As a Secretary to Government of India, the Home Secretary ranks 23rd on Indian Order of Precedence.

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• Former opener Vikram Rathour will be replacing Bangar as India's new batting coach.


• Arun and Sridhar were retained as bowling and fielding coaches respectively.


• Physio Patel is all set for a comeback pipping Leipus, who is second on the shortlist.

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• Akshay Kumar is the highest-paid actor of 2019 list.


• The National Award-winning actor has made it to the fourth position on the Forbes magazine’s World’s Highest-Paid Actors of 2019 list.


• Forbes’ recently released list of Highest-Paid Actors 2019 and the superstar ranks fourth after Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Chris Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr.


• The magazine reports that Akshay earned a monstrous $65 million between June 1, 2018, and June 1, 2019.

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• BJP stalwart and former finance minister Arun Jaitley died on Saturday at AIIMS. He was 66.


• In a brief statement, the hospital said Jaitley died at 12.07 pm.


• It is profound grief that we inform about the sad demise of Arun Jaitley, former Finance Minister of Government of India, at 12.07 pm on August 24, the AIIMS said.


• Jaitley was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on August 9 and was treated by a multi-disciplinary team of senior doctors.