World No. 1 men’s doubles pairing of Pramod Bhagat and Sukant Kadam won a gold medal in SL3-SL4 category at the Four Nations Para-Badminton International in Sheffield, England.

Bhagat also secured a silver in the singles SL3 category as well as a silver in mixed doubles SL3- SU5 category with Manisha Ramdass. Kadam won a bronze in the singles SL4 category.

Bhagat and Kadam defeated the Indian pair of Deep Ranjan Bisoyee and Manoj Sarkar 21-17 21-17 to secure gold in the men’s doubles.

Prarthana Thombare has clinched the doubles title at the women's tennis hardcourt event in Barcelona, Spain. The Asian Games bronze medallist, combined with Russian Anastasia Tikhonova, edged out France’s Estelle Cascino and Latvia’s Diana Marcinkevica 3-6, 6-1, 10-7 in the final. It is the second title of the year and 26th overall for Prarthana, who bagged bronze with Sania Mirza in 2014 at Incheon.

Siddhant Banthia and Sai Karteek Reddy won their second title this season in ITF men’s event in Astana, Kazakhstan. They defeated Estonia’s Daniil Glinka and Karl Kiur Saar 7-5, 6-7, 10-4 to lift the trophy in the hard-court event. It is the first crown for both the players who had triumphed in their first appearance as a team in an event in Jakarta in June.

Aditi Swami created history on Saturday by becoming the first-ever Indian to clinch the individual World Title at the World Archery Championships final in Berlin. Less than two months after clinching the junior world title, 17-year-old Aditi, became the senior world champion when she defeated Andrea Becerra of Mexico, 149-147 in the summit clash of the compound women's event. With the win, the Satara teenager became the first Indian world champion in an individual event at the Senior World Championships.

Soon after Aditi Swami's gold in the women's event, India's Ojas Deotale created history when he defeated Lukasz Przybylski of Poland 150-149 in a thrilling final to become the new world champion in Men's Individual compound event.

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni has appointed former Prime minister Hun Sen's son - Hun Manet- as the new prime minister of the country. A royal decree was issued today by the King stating that he appoints Dr. Hun Manet as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia for the 7th mandate of the parliament.

While the King has appointed Hun Manet as the PM, the leader and his cabinet must win the confidence vote on August 22 to assume office.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the redevelopment of 508 railway stations across the country virtually, on August 6. The redeveloped would cost more than ₹24,470 crores.

Tamil actor Mohan, who shot to fame for his performance in 'Apporva Sagodharangal', passed away on Friday. The actor's body was found dead under mysterious circumstances on a street near Thiruparkundram temple in Madurai.

On July 31, locals spotted Mohan's body on the road and informed the police. Subsequently, the police sent the 60-year-old's body to Madurai Government Hospital for a post-mortem examination.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik on 5 August inaugurated and laid foundation stone of various development projects in Bhubaneswar. The Union Minister and CM laid the foundation stone for widening and strengthening of Moter to Banner via Ladugaon road in Kalahandi district of Bhubaneswar. Moreover, Shah also inaugurated the much awaited four-laning of Kamakshyanagar-Duburi section of National Highway-53 on EPC (Procurement and Construction).

Other minister including Education Minister Dharmendra Minister and Odisha Minister Prafulla Kumar Mallik were also present at the event

The government has appointed a new Chairman for the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) and a new member for the Centre's apex indirect tax policy making body, showed separate official orders on Saturday.

A finance ministry order said that Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, a 1988 batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) official as the Chairman of CBIC with the status of special secretary to the government of India. Agarwal's appointment is effective from the date of his assumption of charge. Agarwal is currently a member of the Board.

The Indian poet and activist, Gaddar, died on Sunday, August 6. He was 77.

Gummadi Vittal Rao was popular by his stage name Gaddar. He had been suffering from severe heart disease and had been admitted to Apollo Hospital for treatment.

He was referred to as the 'People's Singer' by many.

People on Twitter condoled the death of the folk singer. The official Twitter handle of Telangana Congress wrote, "We express our profound grief over the untimely demise of Sri Gummadi Vittal Rao alias Gaddar. A great poet, a revolutionary balladeer, his voice echoed the soul of Telangana. Our deepest condolences to his family. May God give them strength."

The Indian Space Research Organisation on Sunday said it has successfully carried out the orbit reduction manoeuvre of India's third moon mission Chandrayaan-3, a day after inserting it into the lunar orbit.

The space agency said it will carry out the next such operation on August 9.

"The spacecraft successfully underwent a planned orbit reduction manoeuvre. The retrofiring of engines brought it closer to the moon's surface, now to 170 km x 4,313 km.