CURRENT AFFAIRS 21ST AUGUST 2018

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The Supreme Court ruled that the ‘None of The Above’ (NOTA) option will not be applicable for voting in the Rajya Sabha elections. The ruling was made by a bench of Justices comprising CJI Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud . 
NOTA option is meant only for universal adult suffrage and direct elections and not for the polls held by the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote as done in Rajya Sabha.  

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Sri Lanka, the ten-day festival of the historic Esala Maha Perehera began in Kandy with a grand procession. The procession set off from the biggest Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka,S
Sri Dalada Maligawa at an auspicious time.

The Esala Perahera is one of the oldest and grandest of all Buddhist festivals in Sri Lanka, featuring dancers, jugglers, musicians, fire-breathers and lavishly decorated elephants.

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      Digital payments firm Paytm has partnered with China's Alibaba to launch AI-based cloud computing platform 'Paytm AI Cloud'. Alibaba’s Cloud computing business, which opened its first India data centre in Mumbai in January.

     Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Founder of Paytm.

Jack Maa is the founder of Alibaba.

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1   Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat Roger Federer (Switzerland) in straight sets, high-profile championship match at the 2018 Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati. 

With this win,

Djokovic becomes the first men's tennis player in history to win all nine Masters 1,000 tournaments after finishing as the runner-up in Cincinnati five different times.

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     16-Year-Old Saurabh Chaudhary became only the fifth Indian shooter to claim a gold in the Asian Games history, beating a field of multiple world and Olympic champions in the 10m air pistol finals in Indonesia.

     The Host cities for Asian Games 2018 are Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.

     Bhin Bhin, Kaka, and Atung are the mascots of the 2018 Asian Games

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     India got its second Gold medal at the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia when Vinesh Phogat defeated Japan’s Yuki Irie in the final of freestyle 50 kg category in Women’s Wrestling. 

With this victory, Vinesh created history as she is the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in the Asian Games. 

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