Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1 October to 8 October 2021

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1 October to 8 October 2021

Dear students,

We all know how essential the General Awareness/ Current Affairs portion is in every exam, whether it’s for SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, LIC, SSC, Railway, or any other government exam. As a result, we’ll be providing weekly one-liner current affairs for any future exam featuring a GA portion.
Weekly one-liner current affairs condense the most important news into a single line, which is required reading for all exams. Weekly current affairs are presented below, which will keep you updated with the weekly one-liner current affairs.

National News

• Nata Sankiratana festival begins in Manipur
• AU SFB- NABARD to boost rural development projects in Rajasthan
• Hurun India Rich List 2021: Mukesh Ambani tops
• GoI launches ‘Waste to Wealth’ web portal
• PM Modi launches Jal Jeevan Mission App and Rashtriya Jal Jeevan Kosh
• Varanasi to Become First City in India to Use Ropeway Services for Public Transportation
• Alibaug white onion gets GI tag for health benefits
• PM distributes 7 lakh e-property cards of Svamitva scheme in M.P
• GI tagged Mihidana from West Bengal exported to Bahrain
• Andhra Pradesh government launched ‘Swechha’ programme
• Palghar’s famed Wada Kolam rice gets GI tag

International News

• Facebook launches Creator education programme in India
• Najla Bouden Romdhane appointed as first woman PM of Tunisia
• Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed takes oath for a second term
• India joins Seychelles’ Tax Inspectors Without Borders programme
• India Slips Six Ranks To Rank 90 On Henley Passport Index 2021, Japan and Singapore tops

Banking and Financial

• ADB Approves $251 Million for Integrated Flood Management in Chennai
• AIIB approves USD 356.67 million loan for expansion of the Chennai Metro Rail System
• IOB out of RBI PCA Framework
• Government collects Rs 1.17 lakh crore as GST for September
• IFSCA has constituted an Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance which will be chaired by K. Mishra
• World Bank approves $150 million loan for Chennai’s Sustainable Urban Services
• SBI, Indian Navy launch NAV-eCash card
• Paytm acquires 100% stake startup CreditMate
• Ola acquires GeoSpoc to build next-generation location technology
• RBI grants licence to NARCL
• Fitch cuts India’s FY22 GDP growth forecast to 7%
• BharatPe launches ‘buy now, pay later’ platform, postpe
• Kotak Bank gets approval from the government to collect direct, indirect taxes
• Air India privatisation: Tata wins bid to buy Air India for Rs 18,000 cr

Appointment and Resignation

• NSDL appointed Padmaja Chunduru as MD & CEO
• Vinod Aggarwal appointed Automotive Skills Development Council (ASDC) president
• Sunil Kataria elected as the chairman of the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA)
• Soma Sankara Prasad likely to be next UCO Bank MD
• Kangana Ranaut named brand ambassador of UP’s ‘one district one product’ scheme
• Amish Mehta appointed as new MD & CEO of CRISIL
• B C Patnaik appointed as MD of LIC
• CoinDCX onboards Amitabh Bachchan as brand ambassador to raise crypto awareness
• Sanjay Bhargava to head Starlink satellite broadband venture in India
• K V Subramanian steps down as govt’s chief economic adviser

Awards

• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2021 announced: READ Detail….
• S. scientists David Julius, Ardem Patapoutian get Medicine Nobel for discovery of temperature, touch receptors
• Shiv Nadar to be awarded Global Leadership Award 2021
• Indian Organisation LIFE receives 2021 Right Livelihood Award
• Nobel physics prize goes to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi for their work on complex physical systems
• Venkaiah Naidu presented Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award
• Nobel Prize 2021 in Chemistry awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan
• Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
• Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov won Nobel Peace Prize 2021

Defence

• ‘AUSINDEX’: India, Australia Participate In 4th Edition Of Biennial Maritime Series
• India, Australia sign ‘Terms of Reference’ for navy to navy talks
• India- Sri Lanka to take part in ‘Mitra Shakti 21’ Exercise
• Fifth Edition Of Japan-India Bilateral Maritime Exercise ‘JIMEX’ will be held in Arabian Sea

Sports

• India won Bronze at Asian Table Tennis Championships
• Kiren Rijiju inaugurates India’s first Sports Arbitration Centre in Gujarat
• Birendra Lakra and SV Sunil announces retirement from International Hockey
• FC Goa Beat Mohammedan Sporting 1-0 to Clinch Maiden Durand Title
• Magnus Carlsen won Meltwater Champions Chess Tour title
• Wrestler Anshu Malik Becomes First Indian Woman To Win World Championships Silver

Important day

• 30th September: International Translation Day (Theme 2021: “United in translation.”)
• 30th September: World Maritime Day (Theme 2021: ‘Seafarers at the core of shipping’s future’)
• 1st October: International Day of Older Persons (Theme 2021: Digital Equity for All Ages.)
• 1st October: International Coffee Day
• 1st October: World Vegetarian Day
• 2nd October: Gandhi Jayanti and International Day of Non-Violence
• 2nd October: Lal Bahadur Shastri’s 117th birth anniversary
• 4th October: World Animal Welfare Day
• 5th October: World Teachers’ Day (Theme 2021: ‘Teachers at the Heart of Education Recovery.’)
• 8th October: 89th Indian Air Force Day
• 7th October: World Cotton Day 2021 (Theme 2021: “Cotton for Good”)

Obituary

• Actor Ghanshyam Nayak passed away
• Arvind Trivedi, best known for his role as ‘Raavan’ in Ramayan, passes away

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