• National

Piyush Goyal has released a report on Station Cleanliness .

• Minister of Railways, Coal, Finance & Corporate Affairs, Piyush Goyal has released a report on Station Cleanliness conducted by Quality Council of India (QCI).
• This is the third such audit cum survey which has been conducted by Railways to increase the level of cleanliness by identifying unclean spots/gaps and to improve cleanliness standards and also to propel healthy competition among railway stations.

• National

Ravi Shankar Prasad released the document ‘Digital North East Vision 2022’ in Guwahati, Assam.

• Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad released the document ‘Digital North East Vision 2022’ in Guwahati, Assam.
• The Document emphasizes leveraging digital technologies to transform the lives of people of the northeast and enhance the ease of living.

• International

CBPMC has won contracts to print currencies of many countries.

• The state-owned China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBPMC) has won contracts to print currencies of countries like India, Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, CBMPC President Liu Guisheng has said.
• The world’s largest money printer by scale, CBMPC, was short of work for most of last year is currently working at full capacity, reports claimed.

• Economy and Business

RBI continued to remain a net seller of the U.S. dollar in June 2018.

• RBI continued to remain a net seller of the U.S. dollar in June 2018, after it sold $6.184 billion of the U.S. dollar in the spot market, RBI data showed.
• In June 2018, the RBI bought $4.020 billion of U.S. dollar, while it sold $10.204 billion in the spot market.

• Sports

Rafael Nadal clinched his fourth Canadian Masters 1000 title at the Rogers Cup in Toronto.

• 17-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal clinched his fourth Canadian Masters 1000 title at the Rogers Cup in Toronto.
• He defeated Greek teenager Stefanos Tsitsipas.

• Sports

James Anderson became the first bowler to take 100 Test wickets at the Lord’s Cricket Ground.

• England fast bowler James Anderson became the first bowler to take 100 Test wickets at the Lord’s Cricket Ground.
• Anderson achieved the feat on day four of the second Test in the ongoing five-match Test series against India.

• Appointments

Smt. Justice Manjula Chellur took Oath as Chairperson, Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, Ministry of Power.

• Justice Manjula Chellur took Oath as Chairperson, Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, Ministry of Power.
• Prior to this, Smt. Justice Manjula Chellur was Chief Justice of Bombay High Court.

• Science and Tech

ISRO is planning to launch a TV channel to promote scientific temper .

• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch a TV channel to promote scientific temper among people and conduct training camps for school students.
• ISRO will select students and organise training camps for 25 to 30 days and the students will be allowed to visit laboratory and make their small satellite.

• States

Justice Kalpesh Satyendra Jhaveri is sworn in as the Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.

• Justice Kalpesh Satyendra Jhaveri is sworn in as the Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.
• Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal administered the oath of office to the new Chief Justice.

• States

Justice Mukesh R Shah is sworn in as the Chief Justice of Patna High Court.

• Justice Mukesh R Shah is sworn in as the Chief Justice of Patna High Court.
• Justice Shah was a judge of the Gujarat High Court before his appointment as the Chief Justice of Patna High Court.

• Miscellaneous

India handed over the first lot of houses built for Indian-origin people in Sri Lanka’s

• India handed over the first lot of houses built for Indian-origin people in Sri Lanka’s tea plantation areas on 12th August, 2018.
• India had committed 60,000 houses under the ‘innovative Indian housing project’.