INDIA
– National Conference of Women Police being held in Shimla on August 21-22ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– India’s first indigenously built Hydrogen Fuel Cell bus by CSIR, KPIT launched in Pune
– Vijay Shekhar Sharma to continue as Paytm’s MD & CEO for another 5 years
WORLD
– Somalia: Govt. forces end hotel attack in capital Mogadishu that killed 20 people
– World Mosquito Day observed on August 20; marks the 1897 discovery by Sir Ronald Ross that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans
– International Day of Remembrance & Tribute to Victims of Terrorism observed on August 21
– World Senior Citizen’s Day celebrated on August 21
– Pakistani singer Nayyara Noor dies at 71; her family migrated from India in 1958
SPORTS
– Boxing: Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk defeats UK’s Anthony Joshua in Jeddah; retains world heavyweight title
