August Current affairs 2023

Announced the Prime Minister on 15 August 2023 and approved the Cabinet on 16 August 2023.
Financial outlay: Rs. 13,000 crores for 5 years from 2023-24 to 2027-28
Aim of the scheme: To strengthen and nurture the Guru-Shishya parampara or family-based practice of traditional skills artisans and craftspeople working with their hands and tools.

The Norwegian chess player has won the 2023 FIDE Chess World Cup defeating Indian chess player R. Praggnanadhaain the finals at Baku, Azerbaijan

Host City: Johannesburg
Host Country: South Africa
The 15th BRICS Summit was held under the Chairship of South Africa from 22 to 22 August 2023.

The failed Russian lunar lander mission Roscosmos which crashed on the Moon’s surface after a failed orbital maneuver

The social activist and founder of Sulabh International who passed away on 15 August 2023

India’s star javelin thrower and golden boy Neeraj Chopra has won the gold medal in the World Athletics Championship 2023 performing brilliantly. With this, Neeraj Chopra has become the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal in the World Athletics Championships. The World Athletics Championship was organized in Budapest, Hungary. Neeraj has also become the first Indian to win more than one medal in the Athletics Championships. He won this medal with a throw of 88.17 meters.

India’s star badminton player H. S. Prannoy has won bronze medal in BWF World Championship 2023. He has become the fifth Indian to win a medal in the men’s singles matches of the World Championships. PM Modi has also congratulated him on his victory. India has so far won one silver and 4 bronze in men’s singles in the history of the World Badminton Championships.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced to celebrate August 23 as ‘National Space Day’. Chandrayaan-3 made a successful soft landing on the South Pole of the Moon on 23 August. To make this day historic, it has been declared as National Space Day. Also, the point (surface) of Chandrayaan-3 mission’s Vikram Lander on the Moon’s south pole was named as ‘Shiv Shakti Point’. The point at which the hard landing of Chandrayaan-2 took place in 2019 has been named as ‘Tiranga’ point.

Max Verstappen of the Red Bull team has won the Dutch Grand Prix Formula One race for the third consecutive year. With this, Verstappen has also equaled Sebastian Vettel’s all-time record of nine consecutive F1 wins. The race was held on August 27, 2023 at Zandvoort Circuit in Netherlands. At the same time, Fernando Alonso of the Aston Martin team was second in the race.