*Current Affairs : <ol> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">1.An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed at a tea garden in this district of Assam, police said Sunday. The incident happened at a small tea garden in Kachari Pathar under Namrup police station Saturday when the girl was out to collect firewood, they said.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">2.Odisha, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday inaugurated a new building with 650 beds at Shaheed Laxman Nayak Medical College and Hospital in Koraput.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">3.INDIA bloc will put up a joint candidate for the vice-presidential polls and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is reaching out to Opposition parties to explore names and reach a consensus on it, sources said Sunday.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">4.The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Sunday announced a 12-hour bandh August 11 (Monday) in Raighar block to protest the death of a female nursing student from Dumurimunda village in Nabarangpur district.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">5.A vital bridge was constructed in disaster-hit areas of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand Sunday, with authorities focusing more on supplying relief materials to people who have been stranded without essentials for over five days now.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">6.The Karnataka chief electoral officer Sunday issued a notice to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, asking him to share documents based on which he had alleged that a woman voted twice.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">7.Veteran Congress leader Anand Sharma resigned as the chairman of the party's foreign affairs department on Sunday to help in its reconstitution and enable bringing in younger leaders.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">8.After marking a humble beginning in the Indian space programme with a tiny rocket supplied by the United States, ISRO would launch a 6,500 kg communication satellite built by the US in the next couple of months, the chairman of the space agency, V Narayanan said Sunday.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">9.Israel aims to take on Hamas’ two remaining strongholds in its new Gaza offensive, which it hopes will conclude “fairly quickly” and end the war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">10.London’s Metropolitan Police arrested more than 466 people at a protest on Saturday against Britain’s decision to ban the group Palestine Action, the force said.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">11. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have pulled out nearly `18,000 crore from Indian equities so far this month, weighed down by escalating US-India trade tensions, disappointing fi rst-quarter corporate earnings, and a weakening Indian rupee.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">12. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy thanked European leaders Sunday for backing his demand for a seat at the table as Russia and the United States prepare for a summit this week where Kyiv fears they could seek to dictate terms to it for ending the 3-1/2-year war.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">13.Nepal has opened nearly 100 peaks in its remote western region for free climbing to boost mountain tourism, according to officials. In a bid to attract climbers to less-visited areas, the Himalayan nation’s government has waived the royalty for 97 peaks in Karnali and Sudurpashchim provinces for the next two years.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">14.Two persons, including a national-level para-athlete, died after being bitten by a dog in Odisha’s Balangir district. The deceased have been identified as Jogendra Chhatria (33) and Hrusikesh Rana (45) of the village. Chhatria was a national-level para-athlete and he had won medals at several national and international events.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">15.A youth was thrashed by the villagers for allegedly attempting to rape a Class-IX girl in Odisha’s Balasore district.</span></p> </li> </ol>