13 exam-relevant headlines, written simply. Read the bold fact in each — that's what exams ask.
India's women's fours team - Rupa Rani Tirkey, Nayanmoni Saikia, Lovely Choubey and Pinki Singh - won gold in lawn bowls at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games on August 2, 2022, India's first-ever CWG medal in the sport.
NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar, then Governor of West Bengal, won the vice-presidential election on August 6, 2022, defeating opposition candidate Margaret Alva by 528 votes to 182 - the biggest margin since 1992. He took oath as the 14th Vice President on August 11, 2022.
ISRO's maiden flight of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D1) on August 7, 2022 failed to place its satellites - EOS-02 and the student-built AzaadiSAT - into the planned circular orbit due to a software glitch; both satellites were lost.
Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem won the men's javelin at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games on August 7, 2022 with a Games-record throw of 90.18 m; Grenada's Anderson Peters (88.64 m) took silver. India's Neeraj Chopra, the defending Olympic champion, did not compete due to injury.
India ended the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (July 28-August 8) fourth on the medal table with 61 medals, including 22 gold. P. V. Sindhu won badminton singles gold, while table tennis star Sharath Kamal was India's most successful athlete with three golds and a silver.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar resigned on August 9, 2022 after the JD(U) broke from the BJP-led NDA, and was sworn in again the next day leading a 'Mahagathbandhan' government with the RJD and Congress support - his eighth term as chief minister.
US President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act on August 9, 2022, authorising about $280 billion overall - including $39 billion in subsidies for chip manufacturing on US soil and a 25% investment tax credit - to strengthen domestic semiconductor production.
As India marked 75 years of independence, the government ran the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign (August 13-15, 2022) under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, urging citizens to hoist the tricolour at home, with the Ministry of Culture coordinating the drive.
US President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act on August 16, 2022 - the largest climate and clean-energy investment in US history, with roughly $391 billion for energy security and cutting greenhouse gas emissions, alongside healthcare and tax provisions.
India's teenage grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen in three consecutive classical games at the FTX Crypto Cup in Miami in August 2022, a rare feat against the Norwegian.
Pakistan declared a national emergency on August 25, 2022 amid monsoon floods that eventually killed about 1,700 people and affected roughly 33 million, with damage estimated in the tens of billions of dollars.
Justice U. U. Lalit took oath as the 49th Chief Justice of India on August 27, 2022, a day after Justice N. V. Ramana retired. His tenure ran until November 8, 2022.
The illegally built Supertech twin towers Apex (about 103 m) and Ceyane (about 97 m) at Sector 93A, Noida were demolished by controlled implosion on August 28, 2022 using over 3,700 kg of explosives - India's largest building demolition.
From exactly the headlines above. If you read the month, you should score 8+.
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