Top GKToday’s News Headlines – 13 August 2019

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Here are the top News Headlines of 13 August 2019 for all competitive examinations of India.

Bar Council of India imposes 3-year moratorium on the opening of new institutions barring national law universities
Chandrima Shaha elected as the first woman president of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA)
Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria returns to India, days after Islamabad expelled him
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Year-long birth centenary celebration of ISRO founder Dr. Vikram Sarabhai started in Ahmedabad
Exhibition ‘Space on Wheels’ held at Gujarat University Convention & Exhibition Center, in Ahmedabad
Coffee Table book and a photo album of on life and work of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai unveiled by ISRO
Centenary celebration to conclude at Thiruvananthapuram on August 12, 2020

Awards conferred by Union Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports (I/C) Kiren Rijiju in New Delhi
20 individuals (aged between 15-29 years) and 3 organizations awarded
Given for excellent work and contribution in different fields of development and social service

Reliance Jio enters into a long-term alliance with Microsoft to launch cloud data centres

Hong Kong: Anti-China protests enter tenth week
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing
Alejandro Giammattei elected new President of Guatemala

Indian women’s football team given special third-placed trophy at the COTIF Cup in Valencia, Spain
Wrestler and Commonwealth gold medallist Babita Phogat and her father Mahavir Singh Phogat join the BJP
Virat Kohli (11,406 runs in 238 ODIs) becomes 2nd highest run-getter for India in ODIs behind Sachin Tendulkar (18,426 runs)
Aishwarya Pissay is 1st Indian to claim a world title in motorsports, wins FIM World Cup in the women’s category at Varpalota (Hungary)