• Idea Cellular became Aditya Birla group’s most valuable company overtaking its flagship commodity business.

• The oldest penguin of the world named King Penguin Missy turned 36 years old on 12 August 2013. King Penguins can only live up to 26 years.

• Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won Mali's Presidential elections after his opponent Soumalia Cisse conceded defeat before official results were announced.

• A team of three Indian-American students defeated teams from 17 other regions to win top honours at the 11th National Geographic World Championship in Russia's St. Petersburg city. The team included Captain Gopi Ramanathan, 15, from Sartell, Minnesota, Asha Jain, 13, from Minocqua, Wisconsin, and Neelam Kaur Sandhu, 14, from Bedford, New Hampshire.

• Elysium Space, the new San Francisco-based company founded by Thomas Civeit, the former NASA engineer, introduced Sending Remains of Deceased to Space through Memorial Spaceflight.

• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Government of India signed an agreement for 300 million US dollars as additional loan to upgrade 254 kilometers of severely deteriorated highways in northern and southern Bihar. 

• Scientists at the Ulm University in Germany Developed a New App Called FindMyStuff to Find Lost Things. The new technology makes use of the special search engine on the computer or the smartphone.

• India’s First Cyber Forensic Laboratory (CFL) Inaugurated at Tripura.

• Indian player Sowjanya Bavisetti the Internalional Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Tennis Tournament in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

• A modern and sophisticated breast milk bank was inaugurated at Kolkata Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital (SSKM) by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

• India's shuttler P V Sindhu has settled for a bronze medal in women’s singles category at the BWF World Championships 2013 after suffering a straight-game defeat against world number three Ratchanok Inthanon in the semifinals in Guangzhou, China.

        

• International Youth Day- 12 August. International Youth Day is an awareness day designated by the United Nations to be observed on 12th August every year. This year’s observance of International Youth Day focuses on the issue of youth migration.