Current Affairs Quiz 14th September 2021 : Daily GK Update Quiz

Exp. Nuakhai Juhar harvest festival celebrated in Odisha

Nuakhai Juhar, the agrarian festival of Western Odisha, was celebrated with religious fervour and tradition. It is celebrated 1 day after the celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi.

Nuakhai is a crop festival celebrated by people of Western Odisha and Southern Chhattisgarh, to welcome the new rice of the season. Nua means new and khai means food.

Exp. Justice Venugopal appointed as acting Chairperson of NCLAT

Justice M. Venugopal has been named as the new Acting Chairperson of the appellate tribunal, National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). This is the third time in a row that an Acting Chairperson is at the helm of the NCLAT, after the retirement of permanent Chairperson Justice S J . Mukhopadhaya on March 14, 2020.

The NCLAT was constituted under Section 410 of the Companies Act, 2013 for hearing appeals against the orders of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).

Exp. Vistara’s Chief Commercial Officer Vinod Kannan to become CEO

Vinod Kannan, Vistara’s Chief Commercial Officer will succeed Leslie Thng as the CEO of the company.

Kannan will take charge from January 1, 2022, the company said in a statement. “Leslie Thng, Chief Executive Officer, will move on to take up a senior appointment with Singapore Airlines from 1st January 2022. The Board of the Company TATA SIA Airlines Limited has named Mr. Vinod Kannan to succeed Mr. Thng effective 1st January 2022.

Exp. Adobe appoints Prativa Mohapatra as India MD and VP

US tech giant Adobe has announced the appointment of Prativa Mohapatra as vice president and managing director for Adobe India.

Mohapatra will lead Adobe’s India business across Adobe Experience Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Document Cloud, reporting to Simon Tate, Adobe’s president for the Asia Pacific (APAC).

Exp. Yahoo Appoints Jim Lanzone as its new CEO

The web service provider, Yahoo has named Jim Lanzone as its new chief executive officer (CEO). He was currently serving as the CEO of the Dating app Tinder.

Jim Lanzone will replace Guru Gowrappan, to the post of Yahoo CEO. As for Tinder, Renate Nyborg has been appointed as the new CEO of the dating app to replace Lanzone.

Exp. Susanna Clarke wins Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021

Author Susanna Clarke won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 for her novel ‘Piranesi’. Novelist and Booker-winner Bernardine Evaristo chaired the Women’s Prize judging panel this year.

‘Piranesi’ is narrated by a man living in a labyrinthine, statue-filled house — alone except for a visitor known as the Other — that comprises his whole universe.

Exp. 14th September: Hindi Diwas

India celebrates Hindi Diwas observed every year on September 14. National Hindi Divas or Hindi Day is observed to promote Hindi as the ‘Matra Bhasha’ or mother tongue of India.

The day is a celebration of the Hindi language and its cultural heritage and values among the people of the country and abroad.

Exp. INS Tabar conducts maritime partnership exercise with Sudanese Navy in Red Sea

Indian Navy and Sudanese Navy carried out a bilateral maritime exercise in the Red Sea off the Sudanese coast on September 10. INS Tabar and two Sudanese Navy ships- Almazz and Nimer- participated in this maiden exercise with the Indian Navy.

The exercise involved multiple activities covering a wide range of naval operations. These included co-ordinated maneuvering, replenishment at sea drills, helo operations, operations for interdicting suspect vessels at sea and communication procedures.

Exp. Capital: Khartoum

Currency: Sudanese pound

Exp. Raja Parba- Odisha’s Famous Festival