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• A British judge has ordered the Nigerian government to pay $9bn in assets to a small private company.


• The firm, P&ID, had reached a deal with the Nigerian government in 2010 to build a natural gas plant - but the deal fell through two years later.


• P&ID then sued the government for failing to provide the gas or install the pipelines it had promised to build.

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• The US Justice Department has issued a warrant to seize a detained Iranian oil tanker, a day after a judge in Gibraltar ordered it to be released.


• The Grace 1 supertanker, which is carrying 2.1m barrels of oil, was detained on 4 July on suspicion of illegally transporting oil to Syria.


• A last-minute legal attempt by the US to keep the tanker detained was rejected by Gibraltar.

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• Mr. Trump, who is on a working vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, received the briefing from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other advisers on the talks, which have been handled by Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad


• President Donald Trump met with top advisers to review negotiations with the Taliban on a U.S. troop pullout from Afghanistan and the potential for a political settlement between the warring sides.

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• North Korea said leader Kim Jong-un supervised another test-firing of an unspecified new weapon that extended a streak of weapons demonstrations seen as an attempt to pressure Washington and Seoul over slow nuclear negotiations and their joint military exercises.


• Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency said Kim following Friday’s launches expressed “great satisfaction” over his military’s “mysterious and amazing success rates” in recent testing activity and vowed to build up “invincible military capabilities no one dare provoke.”

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• The future of India’s No First Use (NFU) policy on nuclear weapons depended on “circumstances,” Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said from the nuclear test site in Pokhran.


• August 16, 2019, marks the first death anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, under whose government India conducted nuclear tests in 1998.

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• Hundreds of protesters in Srinagar clashed with police on August 16, who responded with tear gas shells and pellet-firing shotguns, an AFP reporter at the scene said.


• The clashes broke out after several thousand people rallied in Srinagar, where a security lockdown entered its 12th straight day after the abrogation of Article 370 and the reorganization of Jammu and Kashmir.

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• NewSpace India Ltd, the new public sector space business company, on Friday launched a formal search for industry consortia which can regularly manufacture and deliver entire PSLV satellite launch vehicles for its parent, the Indian Space Research Organisation.


• It will initially outsource five PSLVs — Indian rockets that can lift light payloads to ‘low earth orbits’ some 600 km in space. NSIL has called a pre-bid meeting of potential parties on August 26.

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• The United Nations Security Council appreciated the measures New Delhi had taken to relax restrictions in the Kashmir Valley and did not pursue matters further, making a point that the steps had been in the right direction.


• Syed Akbaruddin, India’s Permanent Representation at the UN, said after the meeting that the UNSC recognized that Article 370 was an internal matter. “The UN Security Council acknowledged these efforts (by India).

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• Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) will activate the link to view exam city and date intimation letter for CBT 2nd stage for junior engineers (JE) recruitment.


• The link is expected to be activated by 11 pm in the evening. Candidates will be able to check the intimation letters on their official website of their regional RRBs.

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• The posts include Junior Engineer, MTS Surveyor, Accounts Clerk, Accountant, Junior Clerk, Computer Operator, Stenographer, Secretarial Assistant, Electrician, Draughtsmen, Fitter and many other.


• The posts include Junior Engineer, MTS Surveyor, Accounts Clerk, Accountant, Junior Clerk, Computer Operator, Stenographer, Secretarial Assistant, Electrician, Draughtsmen, Fitter and many other.

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• Public sector banks (PSBs) could establish an independent entity on the lines of the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) to use technology for screening borrowers and monitoring them carefully, according to K Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) to the government.


• In the context of the evolution of digital lending, the CEA observed that PSBs are in a better position to have a single-solution interface, the PSB Network (PSBN), to exploit market-positioning and provide credit to a growing market

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• As the 32-year-old Argentine enters his post-prime phase, Valverde has to use him judiciously to maximise his impact.


• 2018-2019 was a curious season for FC Barcelona. The club lost yet another knockout tie in the coveted UEFA Champions League, this time a soul-crushing 0-4 loss in the return leg to eventual champion Liverpool FC.

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• President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind approved 132 Awards to Armed Forces Personnel and members of Paramilitary Forces.


• President is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. There were 2 Kirti Chakras, 1 Vir Chakra, 14 Shaurya Chakras, 8 Bar to Sena Medals (Gallantry), 90 Sena Medals (Gallantry), 5 Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry), 7 Vayu Sena Medals (Gallantry) and 5 Yudh Seva Medals.

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• Ravi Shastri will continue as the head coach of India cricket team for another two years as the Cricket Advisory Committee, headed by Kapil Dev picked the former India captain for the role after conducting interviews in Mumbai.


• Ravi Shastri's tenure has been extended till the T20 World Cup in 2021, Kapil Dev said after the CAC interviewed 5 candidates at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquarters. The former India captain also gave out the top 3 candidates after the interview. The panel rated Ravi Shastri at No. 1, Mike Hesson at No. 2 and Tom Moody at No. 3.

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• Book titled ‘Kashmir’s untold story: Declassification’ by Bloomsbury publishers was announced on August 14, 2019.


• The book portrays the time of political and geographical consolidations of Jammu & Kashmir(J&K), beginning from the era of Maharaja Gulab Singh till the present day.