Current Affairs [ 22 August ]

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• Indian sports player Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, Sakshi Malik, Dipa Karmakar and Jitu Rai have been conferred with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards. Six coach has been awarded with the Dronacharya Awards.

• The 2016 Summer Olympics concluded with a ceremony held at the Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sakshi Malik was the Indian flagbearer in the closing ceremony.

• United State tops the medal table in the 2016 Rio Olympic with a total of 121 medals. Next two positions are held by Great Britain and China respectively.

• The Minister of Culture and Communication, France selected Kamal Haasan for the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight in the National Order Arts and Letters).

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