• Name of the largest blast furnace of India which was operational by SAIL on 10 August 2013 - Durga• Female tennis player to win The Rogers Cup 2013 and capture her 54th WTA singles title - Serena Williams• Name the captain of the 18-member hockey squad of India in the Asia Cup hockey tournament 2013 - Sardar Singh
• Name of the host country of 7th Asian Junior Wushu Championships - Philippines
• Name the fossil of the oldest known ancestor of modern rats recently unearthed in China - Rugosodon eurasiaticus
• Place at which The Travel & Tourism Fair(TTF) 2013, the biggest travel trade show of India started - Ahmadabad, Gujarat
• India’s under-23 cricket team won the Asian Cricket Council Emerging Teams Cup in Singapore on 25 August 2013, after defeating - Pakistan
• Indian tennis player who lifted the women’s doubles trophy at the WTA New Haven Open along with her partner Jie Zheng of China - Sania Mirza
• Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology 2013 awarded to - Vinod Prakash Sharma
• Nelson Mandela on 27 August 2013 was honoured with the first Lifetime Campaigner for Peace and Freedom of - the Mahathir award for Global Peace
• Prem Bhatia Award for Best Political Reporting of the Year (2013) was won by - Shalini Singh, Deputy Editor of The Hindu.
• The person to be recommended as next ONGC chief by the Public Enterprises Selection Board - Dinesh K Sarraf
• The Joint Air force exercise to be held by China and Pakistan - Shaheen-2
• The 21st round of Boundary talks between Bhutan and China held in the city - Thimphu
• 5th India-China Strategic Dialogue held in the City - New Delhi
• The person to be sworn in as the new President of Iran - Hassan Rouhani
