Current affairs 08 August 2023

Tamil Nadu won best State award for organ and tissue transplantation.

• Tamil Nadu bagged the Best Performing State award 2023 in cadaver organ donation .
• Unioin Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya presented the Best State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation award to Health Minister Ma Subramanian at the 13th Indian Organ Donation Day function held in New Delhi.
• Tamil Nadu leads all Indian states in organ donations with 1,705 people donating their organs and saving 6,247 human lives.

India hands over 450 million for Sri Lanka Unique Digital Identity project.

• India has handed over INR 450 million in advance to Sri Lanka to fund its unique digital identity project in Aug 2023.
• It is the most crucial step in the island nation's digitalization program being implemented through the Indian grant assistance.
• Aims: To collect biographic and biometric information which will be stored in a centralised system to issue identification cards as per the standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

Mrunal Thakur honored Diversity Cinema award at Indian Film Festival 2023.

• Mrunal Thakur was honoured with the Diversity in Cinema Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2023.
• The recognition comes as she completes a year of having made her debut in South Indian Cinema with Telugu film Sita Ramam (2022)
• The award is a recognition of her versatile performances across films of different languages.
• The actor, who made her film with Love Sonia, and then featured in movies such Super 30, Toofan, Jersey.

Prarthana bagged doubles title at women's tennis hardcourt event 2023.

• Prarthana Thombare has bagged the doubles title at the women's tennis hardcourt 2023 event in Spain.
• Prarthana and Anastasia Tikhonova, defeat France's Estelle Cascino and Latvia's Diana in the final.
• It is the second title of the year and 26th overall for Prarthana Siddhant Banthia and Sai Karteek Reddy won their second title this season in ITF men’s event 2023 in Kazakhstan.
• They defeated Estonia’s Daniil and Karl Kiur to lift the trophy in the hard-court event.

ISRO transfers satellite bus technology to private firm.

• The Indian Space Research Organisation announced the transfer of IMS-1 Satellite Bus technology to Alpha Design Technologies, a Bengaluru-based private company.
• The transfer was facilitated by ISRO’s commercial arm NewSpace India Limited through an agreement.
• The IMS-1 satellite bus was developed by the UR Rao Satellite Centre and is a small satellite platform designed to enable low-cost access to space.
• This weighs about 100 kilograms and can carry a 30-kg payload.