NPCI's global arm NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) has partnered with UAE-based Mashreq Bank to provide its mobile-based real-time payment system UPI in the gulf nation.

Onam is the most revered and celebrated festival of Kerala, is celebrated every year by the Malayali community across the world. This year, the harvest festival began on August 12 and will conclude on August 23.

Television monitoring corporation Broadcast Audience Research Council (Barc) has introduced the appointment of Nakul Chopra as its chief government officer (CEO) on 25 August 2021.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has come up with an "Announcement of Opportunity' under which it seeks a proposal for scientifically analyse and utilise data from all experiments of the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter

Tropical Storm Henri has made its landfall near western Rhode Island on August 24, 2021.

United Nations (UN) observes 23 August every year as International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.

The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief is observed on August 22 every year since 2019.

None of the Indian universities could make it to the top 100 spots in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released by Shanghai Ranking recently. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore is the only Indian institute to have scored a rank in the top 500.

The second edition of the joint naval exercise, Zair-Al-Bahr, between the Indian Navy and Qatar Emiri Naval Force (QENF) was conducted in the Persian Gulf.