Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: August 12, 2021

– Parliament passes Constitution (127th) Amendment Bill to restore the states’ power to make their own OBC lists

– India, USA sign agreement on monsoon data analysis and cooperation to improve weather forecasts

– Maharashtra announces Rajiv Gandhi Award for Excellence in Information Technology (IT)

– Wreckage of Army’s Advanced Light helicopter (ALH) that crashed into the Ranjit Sagar reservoir in Kathua, (J&K), on August 3 located

– SC gives Centre, States 8 weeks to fill up vacancies in consumer disputes redressal commissions

– Renowned Ayurvedacharya Balaji Tambe passes away at 81 in Pune

– CEC inaugurates 11th Annual Meeting of the Forum of the Election Management Bodies of South Asia (FEMBoSA) for 2021

– Parliament passes bill allowing privatisation of state-run general insurance companies

– India’s foodgrain production estimated to rise 3.74% to a new record of 308.65 million tonnes in the crop year 2020-21 (July-June)

– Ethiopia’s govt. summons all capable citizens to join war against embattled Tigray region

– Algeria: Wildfires killed 42 people including 25 soldiers

– Afghanistan: Capitals of 3 more provinces — Badakhshan, Baghlan and Farah — have fallen to the Taliban, putting nine out of the country’s 34 in their hands

– China recalls Lithuania ambassador over Taiwan office row; an office will be opened in capital Vilnius under the name of Taiwan rather than “Chinese Taipei” angering Beijing