Sunday 27 September 2015

World This Week: 3 August-9 August 2015

3 August 2015
• Afghanistan banned mourning ceremonies for deceased Taliban leader Omar
• Dipa Karmakar won bronze medal at 6th Senior ART Gymnastics Asian Championships

4 August 2015 
• Forbes released the World's Highest-Paid Actors 2015 list
• Global satellite named 'GlobalSat for DRR' proposed to be named after Abdul Kalam
• Last surviving Dambusters Pilot Les Munro died
• Fashion designer Arnold Scaasi died

5 August 2015
• India, Mozambique signed MoU to boost ties in Renewable Energy Sector
• Researchers discovered evidence of an ancient lake on Mars
• Zhanna Nemtsova awarded with Poland's Solidarity Prize 2015
• NASA signed 490 million US dollars contract with Russia for International Space Station travel
• Hollywood Actor George Cole passed away
• Forbes released list of 100 Richest People In Technology

6 August 2015
• 70th Hiroshima Day observed to commemorate dropping of Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
• Egypt unveiled New Suez Canal expansion
• 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ meet held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• India and Myanmar inked agreement to set up CESDT in Myanmar
• August Edition of FIFA World Rankings released
• Indian-American Atul Keshap appointed as the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives

7 August 2015
• India decided to boycott 61st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference to be held in Islamabad
• Frances Oldham Kelsey, the anti-thalidomide Canadian doctor, died

8 August 2015
• Michael Clarke announced retirement from International Cricket
• Typhoon Soudelor battered Taiwan leaving four people dead & a trail of devastation

9 August 2015
• International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples observed

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