• The Association of Indian Football Coaches (AIFC) and Football Coaches Australia(FCA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) to support the development of football in both India and Australia.

• To encourage the involvement of more female coaches and increase the access to football for all participants.

• Under this MoU AIFC and FCA will support each other to educate and equip the coaches and work together for the betterment of the coaches.

• Both the organisations will share the best practices, learn from each other and grow and develop together.

• Bryan brothers Mike Bryan and Bob Bryan have announced their retirement from the sport.

• They are the most successful men’s doubles pair in tennis history.

• The brother’s pair captured an Open Era record with 119 trophies in 26 seasons which comprises all four Grand Slams, all nine ATP Masters 1000s as well as the Olympic gold medal.

• India is planning to host BRICS Games 2021, which will be aligned with the Khelo India Games scheduled for next year.

• This announcement came after Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju attended a meeting of Sports Ministers of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).

• India will get the chairmanship of the five-nation independent international group in 2021.

• BRICS Games 2021 will be held during the same time and at the same venues as of Khelo India Games 2021.

• Sumit Nagal (23 years) has become the first Indian to win a singles main draw match at a Grand Slam in the last 7 years.

• He went into second round of the ongoing US Open Tennis by defeating Bradley Klahn of USA 6-1, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the first round of the US Open

• Prior to him, Somdev Devvarman is the last player to reach the second round of the Australian Open, French Open and US Open in 2013

• He will now face Austria's Dominic Thiem in the 2nd round.

• Team of NTPC Limited, the Central PSU under Ministry of Power, has won the All India Management Association (AIMA) Chanakya (Business Simulation Game) National Management Games (NMG) 2020.

• The team from NTPC Vallur, Tamil Nadu won the championship which featured the participation of teams from 112 organisations from different parts of the country.

• AIMA Chanakya National Management Games is an online Business Simulation Game which is conducted every year.

• The championship aims to ensure that executives participating in the event get the onboard experience about the complexities of running an organisation and gain expertise and skills from this event.

• It also enables the Corporate Managers to face the thrill of Managing Business in a competitive mode.

• Indian Grandmaster P Iniyan won the prestigious Annual World Open online chess tournament

• He scored 7.5 points out of a possible 9 with six victories and three draws to finish on top.

• The 48th edition of the annual event was held online from August 7-9.

• A total number of 120 players from 16 countries participated in the event which included more than 30 Grandmasters.

• Iniyan had recently defeated world number two Fabiano Caruana in an online blitz event.

• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, students have launched a free-of-cost mobile scanner application “AIR Scanner”.

• The app saves the scanned document in PDF format and stores directly in the device.

• The AI (Artificial Intelligence) based Reading Assistant and Document Scanner app is developed by Rohit Kumar Chaudhary and Kavin Agrawal.

• AIR Scanner app does not collect any information about the user and all the documents are stored in the phone’s local storage.

• The document scanned using a mobile camera will be saved in PDF format and will be stored in the device only.

• Amid high operational alert by the Indian Navy in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) due to the ongoing standoff with China in Ladakh, India and Russia are scheduled to hold the bilateral naval exercise, Indra 2020, in the Andaman Sea, close to the strategic Strait of Malacca.

• Three Russian navy ships will take part in the exercise along with an equal number from the Indian Navy, along with some aircraft.

• This is also the first bilateral naval exercise since all such engagements were suspended due to COVID-19.

• INDRA NAVY exercise was initiated in 2003 and since then it has matured over the years with increase in scope, complexity and level of participation.

• NITI Aayog has launched the India Component of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)–Transport Initiative for Asia (TIA).

• It is a joint programme, supported by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU).

• It aims to promote a comprehensive approach to decarbonize transport in India, Vietnam, and China.

• It is implemented by a consortium of seven other organisations.

• On behalf of the Government of India, NITI Aayog will be the implementing partner.

• In a major boost for Make in India, the first ever rockets fully manufactured by the private sector have been successfully test fired by the army, signalling that single source dependency on Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) will soon be a thing of the past.

• The Pinaka rockets were tested at a firing range in Pokharan and achieved the desired results by accurately hitting targets.

• The rockets have been manufactured by the private sector after a technology transfer agreement with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

• The rockets have been manufactured by Economic Explosives Ltd (EEL) and are the first munition of its kind made by the private sector in India.