• Bharti Airtel stated that it launched 1 rupee entertainment store which will allow users to download services such as music, games, videos and photos for one rupee. Virtual 1 rupees Entertainment Store offers a wide range of exciting mobile content (including music, videos, games and photos) and Internet browsing offers all at 1 rupee only.

• Researchers working in the Rio Abajo Nature Preserve in western Puerto Rico, revealed that one of the most endangered bird species of the world, Puerto Rican parrot, made a comeback in the Puerto Rico territory of the US. 

• Senior IPS officer Dilip Trivedi was appointed the Director General of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. He succeeded Pranay Sahay.

• Former Bengal Cricketer and Coach Kalyan Mitter passed away on 16 August 2013 in Kolkata. He was 79. Kalyan Mitter's first class career spanned from 1953 to 1969 during which he played 51 matches for Bengal and Bihar during which he scored 1698 runs and also took 50 wickets.

• Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing and the University of Chicago revealed that a fossil of the oldest known ancestor of modern rats was unearthed in China. The newly named species is called Rugosodon eurasiaticus. The recent fossil was found in Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation in eastern China.

• D.Bala Venkatesh Varma was appointed as the next Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva.

• A part of the York Avenue leading to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba province, in Canada got its new name on 15 August 2013. The street was named Honorary Mahatma Gandhi Way, after the name of Mahatma Gandhi.

• The Government of India and the World Bank signed a 100 million US dollars credit agreement aimed at helping low-income households to secure loans to purchase, build or upgrade their dwellings.