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Today Current Affairs for Competitive
Exams - Current Affairs 2021 Online -
12th September 2021
Weekly Current Affairs One-Liners-1st (5th Sep to • Trade Minister Piyush Goyal has been
4th Sep) appointed as India’s Sherpa for the G20 meet.
• The 28th Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Weekly Current Affairs One-Liners - 4th (5th Sep to
Exercise (SIMBEX) was conducted from 2-4 11th Sep)
Sept'21.
• Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain
• A team from the first battalion of the ITBP has
inaugurated the city's first urban microgrid
successfully climbed the Mount Balbala peak
system set up at Shivalik in Malviya Nagar.
in Uttarakhand.
• TN government would commemorate the
• Indian contingent finished 24th by securing a
death anniversary of Subramania Bharati on
total of 19 medals in Tokyo Paralympic 2020.
11 Sept as 'Mahakavi' Day.
• Lovlina Borgohain has been roped in as the
• Writer Namita Gokhale was chosen as the
brand ambassador for Samagra Shiksha
recipient of the seventh Yamin Hazarika
Abhiyan of Assam.
Woman of Substance Award.
Weekly Current Affairs One-Liners - 2nd (5th Sep to • Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya
11th Sep) resigned.
• Indian shooter Avani Lekhara led India’s Nirlep Singh Rai takes over as chief of National
contingent at the closing ceremony of Tokyo Fertilizers Limited
Paralympics as the flag-bearer.
• Nirlep Singh Rai took over as chairman and
• Manipur CM N Biren Singh has launched an
managing director (C&MD) of National
outreach programme ''Go To Hills 2.0''.
Fertilizers Limited (NFL).
• El Salvador has become the first country in
• Rai is also the nominee director on the board
the world to accept bitcoin as legal tender.
of the joint venture company of NFL,
• The Tamil Nadu government has announced
Ramagundam Fertilizers and Chemicals
to set up a 500-sq km dugong conservation
Limited.
reserve in Palk Bay.
• NFL is an Indian state-owned corporation that
Weekly Current Affairs One-Liners - 3rd (5th Sep to manufactures chemical fertilizers, organic
11th Sep) fertilizers, and industrial chemicals.
• China has successfully launched a new Earth Canadian city to observe Gauri Lankesh Day on Sept
observation satellite 'Gaofen-5-02'. 5
• The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism
• The Canadian city of Burnaby has declared
Corporation will start India's first indigenous
September 5 as 'Gauri Lankesh Day', as a
cruise liner on 18 Sept'21 from Mumbai.
tribute to the noted journalist and activist on
• The world's largest direct air carbon capture her death anniversary.
and storage plant has started operating in
Iceland.
1|Page• Gauri, a veteran journalist who brought out Hindi film industry’s daily wage earners and
the magazine Gauri Lankesh Patrike, was their families amid the COVID-19 crisis.
shot dead by two assailants on September 5, • As part of the initiative, the filmmaker's The
2017. Yash Chopra Foundation would provide
health insurance, school fee allowance, ration
Emma Raducanu beats Leylah to win US Open
supply, annual health check-ups among other
women's Sinlges title benefits to the workers.
• Britain's Emma Raducanu became the first International Day of Charity: 5 September
qualifier to capture a Grand Slam title by
defeating Canada's 19-year-old Leylah • Mother Teresa's death anniversary is
Fernandez in the US Open women's final. observed as International Day of Charity on
• Raducanu, ranked 150th, was the first British Sept 5 every year.
woman in 44 years to win a Slam crown. • Mother Teresa, who is known for her
• Raducanu is the youngest US Open dedication towards the downtrodden, died on
champion since Williams in 1999 and the first September 5, 1997.
US Open women's champion not to drop a set • The day was officially declared by the United
since Williams in 2014. Nations General Assembly in 2012.
• Widely known during her lifetime as the ‘living
Ludhiana opens Punjab's first breast milk pump
saint,’ Mother Teresa founded the
bank Missionaries of Charity in 1950.
• Ludhiana district administration opened a GST collections in August over Rs 1.12 lakh crore
breast milk pump bank in the premises of the
mother and child hospital in the Civil Hospital. • Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST)
• It is the first such kind of bank in the Punjab collections in August 2021 (for sales in July)
where health workers would pump out the crossed the Rs 1 lakh crore mark.
breastmilk and will give it to the newborn as • The August collections at Rs 1,12,020 crore
most of the newborns are unable to latch the were 29.6 per cent higher than in August
milk or mothers face severe pain while 2020.
breastfeeding. • In the last 11 months, GST collections have
consistently remained over Rs 1 lakh crore,
UP govt declares 22 wards of MVNN as holy
except in June (for sales in May).
pilgrimage sites
New book 'A Rude Life' by Vir Sanghvi launched
• The Uttar Pradesh government declared 22
wards of the Mathura-Vrindavan Nagar Nigam • Vir Sanghvi has come with his new book titled
(MVNN) area as holy pilgrimage sites. ‘A Rude Life: The Memoir’.
• Mathura and Vrindavan are the birthplace and • The book has been published by Penguin
'krira sthal' of Lord Krishna. India.
• Dwarkapuri, Vankhandi, Arjunpura, • Vir Sanghvi is an Indian print and television
Jagannathpuri, Gaughat, Manoharpur, journalist, author, columnist and talk show
Bairagpura, Radhanagar, Badrinagar, host.
Mahavidya Colony, Krishna Nagar I are some • He has been a member of many professional,
of the wards among others. academic and government bodies including
the National Integration Council.
Aditya Chopra launches 'Saathi Card' to help daily
wage earners PhonePe starts first digital payment interactive
geospatial platform
• Filmmaker Aditya Chopra launched the
'Saathi Card' initiative to extend support to the • Walmart-owned digital payments firm
PhonePe has launched PhonePe Pulse.
2|Page• It is India’s first interactive platform with data, • Axis Bank has tied up with BharatPe to
insights, and trends on digital payments in the expand its merchant acquiring business in the
country. country.
• PhonePe also launched the Pulse Report, an • It will be the acquiring bank for BharatPe’s
in-depth study on the evolution of digital point of sale (PoS) business, BharatSwipe,
payments over the past 5 years. and will provide acceptance of credit and
• It also has insights about how digital debit cards for merchants associated with
payment adoption across India has evolved BharatPe.
since 2016. • Axis Bank is the third-largest PoS acquiring
bank in the payments acceptance business.
Pankaj Kumar Singh takes over as new DG of BSF
Former IOC President Jacques Rogge passes away
• Pankaj Kumar Singh, a 1988-batch IPS
officer, has taken over as the new Director • Jacques Rogge, the Olympic sailor and
General of the Border Security Force. orthopedic surgeon from Belgium who led the
• While Sanjay Arora has assumed charge of International Olympic Committee as President
the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. for 12 years, passed away in August 2021.
• Singh, from the Rajasthan cadre of the IPS, • Rogge represented Belgium in rugby and was
has been serving as the special DG of the a world champion in sailing.
country’s largest border guarding force that • He led the European group of Olympic
mans over 6,300 km of Indian boundary with committees before being elected as the IOC's
Pakistan and Bangladesh. eighth president in 2001.
Two-time Rajya Sabha MP, journalist Chandan IAF chief attends three day-long Pacific Air Chiefs
Mitra passes away Symposium 2021
• Veteran journalist and two-term Rajya Sabha • Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria attended a
MP Chandan Mitra passed away in three-day-long Pacific Air Chiefs Symposium
September 2021. 2021 in September 2021.
• He was the Editor and Managing Director of • The event themed ''Enduring Cooperation
The Pioneer newspaper. towards Regional Stability'' was attended by
• Mitra started his journalism career with The air chiefs from countries in the Indo-Pacific
Statesman in Kolkata. region.
• He joined The Pioneer, which he headed • Bhadauria was nominated as the Dean for the
editorially for around 24 years, after stints at symposium which was held at Joint Base
The Times of India, Sunday Observer, and Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii.
Hindustan Times newspapers.
Harvinder Singh wins bronze medal in archery
Alejandro Prieto's image of a bird wins an award
• Harvinder Singh has claimed India’s first-ever
• Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto's archery medal at the Paralympics.
image of a bird at the US-Mexico border wall • World No. 23 Harvinder collected three shoot-
has won a prestigious photo contest. off wins.
• Mr Prieto was named the grand prize winner • In the Tokyo semi-finals, he lost to world No.
of the Bird Photographer of the Year 10 Kevin Mather of the US.
competition after his image was selected from • He was also a gold medallist at the Asian
22,000 entries. Para Games in 2018.
• His winning photograph depicts a roadrunner
UAE to introduce green visa to attract talent and
bird that has stopped in front of the wall.
funds
Axis Bank ties up with BharatPe
3|Page• The United Arab Emirates is set to roll out monetary contribution of 60 percent, with the
green visas and expand eligibility for golden government contributing the remaining 40%.
visas.
Indian biologist wins global award in turtle
• Under the green visa, foreigners will be
conservation
allowed to work in the UAE without being
sponsored by an employer. • Indian biologist Shailendra Singh has been
• These are work permits with residency for awarded the Behler Turtle Conservation
pioneers, entrepreneurs, and other Award.
professionals. • He has been awarded for bringing three
• Green visa holders will be able to sponsor critically endangered turtle conservation
their sons' visas till they turn 25. species back from the brink of extinction.
Amazon India launches Kisan store • The award has been bestowed by several
global bodies involved in turtle conservation
• Amazon India has announced the launch of such as Turtle Survival Alliance, IUCN/SSC
Kisan Store. Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist
• It is an online platform that will enable farmers Group, etc.
across India to get access to more than 8,000 S.L. Tripathy appointed as CMD of United India
agriculture inputs such as seeds, farm tools
Insurance
and accessories, plant protection, nutrition,
and more. • S.L.Tripathy has been selected as the
• Listed by small and medium businesses Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the
(SMBs) these products will be available at United India Insurance Company Limited.
competitive prices on Amazon India. • Tripathy is currently General Manager and
CIFT develops technology to convert fish waste into Director at The New India Assurance
Company Limited.
aqua feed
• He has been appointed as CMD of United
• Central Institute of Fisheries Technology India from the date of assumption of charge of
(CIFT) has built a new technology to the office and up to the date of his attaining
overcome the threat of fisheries waste being the age of superannuation.
turned into fish feeds, while also providing
India’s first building made of bio-bricks at IIT-
feasible income opportunities.
Hyderabad
• The technology developed by ICAR-CIFT will
aid in the conversion of fish waste into aqua • IIT Hyderabad has inaugurated India’s first
feeds. building made of bio-bricks from agro-waste.
• Matsyafed has signed an MoU with CIFT to • The institute will submit a proposal to the
take the new technology for production and Ministry of Agriculture to promote its wider
marketing. adoption by the rural community.
Gujarat rolls out ‘Vatan Prem Yojana’ for rural • Researchers at the IIT demonstrated that
development agricultural waste can be converted into
sustainable materials which, in turn, can be
• Gujarat government plans to undertake public used to build eco-friendly, cost-effective
welfare projects to the tune of ₹ 1,000 crores structures.
jointly with non-resident Gujaratis by
Tamannaah Bhatia launches new book: 'Back To
December 2022 under its ''Vatan Prem
The Roots'
Yojana''.
• Gujaratis living anywhere in the country and • Tamannaah Bhatia, one of the prominent
abroad can pick up villages, projects and actors from the South Indian movie industry,
agencies of their choice by making a has released her book, Back To The Roots.
4|Page• She collaborated with Luke Coutinho for this • Equitas Small Finance Bank has roped
book. in Rani Rampal and Smriti Mandhana as its
• The book has been published by Penguin brand ambassadors.
India. • Rampal holds the record for being the
• She has been a part of several films including youngest player to play in the national hockey
Baahubali, Entertainment, Himmatwala, etc. team while Mandhana was recognised as the
Best Women's International Cricketer by
Rani Rampal, Smriti Mandhana: Brand ambassadors BCCI.
of Equitas Bank • The appointment comes in line with the fifth-
year anniversary celebrations of the bank on
5 September 2021.
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