PSC Current Affairs - August 19, 2022

  • India’s first fully ‘functionally literate’ district - Mandla, Madhya Pradesh 
  • The first nation to approve booster vaccination for both the original strain of covid-19 and Omicron variant - United Kingdom
  • Private bank that has signed an MoU with Food Corporation of India (FCI) to launch a new scheme called ‘Ultima Salary Package’ - Axis Bank 
  • The first country in the world to pass a law to make period products free for all - Scotland
  • The start-up funded by the industrialist Ratan Tata in August to provide assistance to senior citizens - Goodfellows
  • The country that created world’s first synthetic embryos - Israel
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