PSU major Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) will soon conduct a trial run for transporting fuel to Tripura through Bangladesh.

During the trial run, the IOC will transport three LPG tankers and seven tankers of petrol and diesel through Bangladesh from Guwahati.

Each LPG tanker can transport 17 mt of gas, while each oil tanker has the capacity of carrying 12,000 litres .

The fuel-carrying tankers from Guwahati in Assam will go to Dwaki in Meghalaya, where they will enter Bangladesh. The tankers will re-enter India at Kailashahar in Tripura's Unakoti district to reach IOC's Dharmangar depot in North Tripura.

After the only rail link connecting Assam's Dima Hasao district and Barak Valley, Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura with the rest of the country was washed away, IOC started moving all its supplies by road via Meghalaya, bearing more than double the cost.

The situation forced the IOC, state governments and the Centre to scout for alternative ways to supply fuel to the southern region of the Northeast.

The distance for transporting different types of fuel from IOC's Betkuchi depot in Guwahati to Dharmanagar depot in Tripura via Bangladesh will be 376 km, including 137 km inside the neighbouring country, against 579 km through the Meghalaya-Barak Valley route.

On September 9, 2016, IOC flagged off seven tankers carrying 84,000 litres of kerosene and diesel from its Guwahati depot to Tripura through Bangladesh for the first time, to avoid the dilapidated national highway in Assam.

Crypto investing app CoinSwitch on Aug 9 announced the launch of Web3 Discovery Fund, the company’s corporate venture capital initiative. The fund will invest in and incubate early-stage start-ups building blockchain solutions for the Web3 landscape.

The Web3 Discovery Fund will curate portfolio start-ups and provide single-window access to marquee investor partners Tiger Global, Ribbit Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Woodstock Fund and Elevation Capital (ex-SAIF partners), and incubation partner Buidlers Tribe, the crypto platform said.

Web3 Discovery Fund will be an active investor and provide strategic support for the rapid growth of the portfolio start-ups.

Toni Minichiello, one of Britain's leading track and field coaches, has been given a life ban after an investigation found he had engaged in "sexually physical behaviour" with athletes.

Minichiello, who coached Jessica Ennis-Hill to Olympic heptathlon gold at the 2012 London Games, was also deemed to have made inappropriate sexual references and gestures to athletes and engaged in "inappropriate and sometimes aggressive behaviour, bullying and emotional abuse".

Former South African umpire Rudi Koertzen, labelled the 'slow finger of death' by the media, has died in a car accident. He was 73.

Koertzen first umpired in 1981, handled his maiden international assignment 11 years later, and retired in 2010 after a Test between Australia and Pakistan in Leeds, England.

Manisha Kalyan and Sunil Chhetri were named the AIFF Women's and Men's Footballer of the year respectively.

The two stalwarts were nominated as winners by their respective National Team coaches Thomas Dennerby, and Igor Stimac.

While Manisha had won the Women's Emerging Footballer of the Year for last season, while this is the seventh time that Sunil won the Award, having last won it in 2018-19.

In addition, Martina Thokchom was named as the 2021-22 Women's Emerging Footballer of the Year, and Vikram Partap Singh was named as the 2021-22 Men's Emerging Footballer of the Year by the two National team coaches.

Meanwhile, Crystal John has been adjudged the 2021-22 AIFF Best Referee of the Year, while Ujjal Halder was named the 2021-22 AIFF Best Assistant Referee of the Year. 

World championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth and young women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand signed off with bronze medals in the badminton competition of the Commonwealth Games.

Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty ensured a third gold medal match for India on  Aug 8 when they downed Malaysia's Chen Peng Soon and Tian Kian Men 21-6, 21-15 to reach the men's doubles final.

It may sound cliche, but the Games did end on a high. The shuttlers ensured there were no surprises on  Aug 8 when they won three gold. PV Sindhu displayed her class and big-game temperament to open India's gold account. Lakshya Sen showed his ability to survive clutch moments while the ever-rising doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty smashed their way into history books.

Commonwealth Games 2022: Overall Medal Tally

Q1. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi owns assets worth over

1. Rs 1.25 crore
2. Rs 2.23 crore
3. Rs 3 .5 crore
4. Rs 4.75 crore
5. None of These

Q2.  Name the Janata Dal (United) leader who has  resigned as Bihar Chief Minister ?

1.  RCP Singh
2. Jitan Ram Manjhi
3. Tejashwi Yadav
4. Nitish Kumar
5. None of These

Q3. Name the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and close aide of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested in Islamabad on Aug 9?

1. Shahbaz Gill
2. Shah Farman
3. Shah Mehmood Qureshi
4. Shahzad Waseem
5. None of These

Q4. Name the famed Japanese fashion designer  who died recently ?

1. Lucie Rie
2. Irving Penn
3. Issey Miyake
4. Shiro Kuramata
5. None of These

Q5. Name the Cabinet Minister in the Yogi Adityanath government who has been  sentenced to one-year imprisonment in a case under the Arms Act with a fine of Rs 1,500 ?

1. Rakesh Sachan
2. Arvind Kumar Sharma
3. Yogendra Upadhyay
4. Sanjay Nishad
5. None of These 

Answers

1----------------------------2    Rs 2.23 crore

2-----------------------------4   Nitish Kumar

3------------------------------1   Shahbaz Gill

4----------------------------3    Issey Miyake

5----------------------------1   Rakesh Sachan