Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1 September to 7 September 2021

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1 September to 7 September 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

• Govt introduces “Bharat series (BH-series)” registration
• Punjab Govt. Launched ‘Mera Kaam Mera Maan’ Scheme to Help Unemployed Youth
• FM Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates ‘My Pad, My Right’ project in Tripura
• Assam decides to remove Rajiv Gandhi’s name from Orang national park
• India to host conference on International Climate Summit 2020-21
• PM Modi inaugurates Shikshak Parv-2021
• Gujarat launches Vatan Prem Yojana

International News

• Sri Lanka declares food emergency as forex crisis worsens
• New Development Bank approves UAE, Bangladesh and Uruguay as a new member
• University of Oxford tops Times World University Rankings 2022
• Yoshihide Suga to step down as Japan’s prime minister

Banking and Financial

• LIC launched ANANDA mobile app for Agents
• PhonePe receives direct broking licence from Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI)
• GST collections moderate to ₹1.12 lakh crore in August
• PayU acquires BillDesk for $4.7 bn
• Axis Bank ties up with BharatPe for PoS business
• HDFC Life to acquire Exide Life Insurance for ₹6,687 crore
• RBI to setup committee on New Umbrella Entity (NUE) licenses headed by P. Vasudevan.
• RBI imposes Rs 25 lakh fine on Axis Bank for flouting KYC norms
• LIC buys 9% stake in Bank of India via open market acquisition
• HDFC Bank partners with National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) to offer credit support to MSMEs
• ADB approves $150 mn loan to improve urban housing in Tamil Nadu
• Bank of Baroda tops the MeitY Digital Payment Scorecard for 2020-21

Appointment and Resignation

• 9 new Supreme Court judges, including 3 women, takes oath
• Rajnish Kumar appointed as independent director of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Asia
• B. Mohapatra appointed Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) chairman
• TN Governor Banwarilal Purohit gets additional charge of Punjab, Chandigarh
• Adidas roped Mirabai Chanu for its ‘Stay in Play’ campaign
• Pankaj Kumar Singh takes over as new DG of BSF
• Govt. appoints Atul Bhatt as CMD of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL)
• PPK Ramacharyulu appointed Rajya Sabha secretary-general
• Vartika Shukla becomes first woman CMD of Engineers India Ltd
• L. Tripathy appointed as CMD of United India Insurance
• Equitas Bank appoints Rani Rampal & Smriti Mandhana as brand ambassadors
• Satish Parekh appointed as International Road Federation India president
• Harsha Bhupendra Bangari becomes new MD of Export-Import Bank (EXIM Bank)
• AP Govt. appoints former SBI Chairperson Rajnish Kumar as economic advisor

Awards

• Neurosurgeon Basant Misra receives prestigious American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Award
• Powergrid Wins the Prestigious Global Association for Talent Development (ATD) Best Award
• Ramon Magsaysay Award 2021: Steven Muncy (USA), WatchDoc (Indonesia), Roberto Ballon (Philippines), Muhammad Amjad Saqib (Pakistan), and Firdausi Qadri (Bangladesh)
• Alejandro Prieto won Bird Photographer of the Year 2021

Defence

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Commissions Indigeneously built ICGS ‘Vigraha’
• India and Germany conduct joint maritime exercise in Gulf of Aden
• India Conducts Maritime Partnership Exercise with Algerian Navy
• Indian Army contingent to participate in Exercise ZAPAD 2021
• Gujarat to host Defence Expo 2022
• 28th Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise ‘SIMBEX-2021’ in the southern fringes of the South China Sea
• Naval exercise between India and Australia– ‘AUSINDEX’ begins

Sports

• Max Verstappen won Belgian Grand Prix 2021
• Tokyo Paralympics 2020: India’s Singhraj Adana shoots bronze in men’s 10m air pistol
• Dale Steyn announces retirement from all forms of cricket
• Tokyo Paralympics 2020 : Mariyappan Wins Silver And Sharad Gets Bronze in Men’s High Jump
• Indian cricketer Stuart Binny announces retirement
• Shooter Avani Lekhara Wins Bronze, First Indian Woman To Win 2 Medals At Single Paralympics
• Praveen Kumar clinches silver in men’s T64 high jump in Paralympics
• Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Archer Harvinder Singh won bronze
• Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Manish Narwal wins gold medal, Singhraj Adana wins silver in men’s P4 mixed 50m pistol SH1 event
• Tokyo Paralympics 2021: Pramod Bhagat Won Gold In Badminton Men’s Singles SL3
• Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Krishna Nagar wins gold in badminton SH6, India takes medal tally to 19
• Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Noida DM Suhas Yathiraj claims silver in badminton
• Tokyo Paralympics 2020: India’s Manoj Sarkar won bronze in men’s singles (SL3) badminton event
• Max Verstappen wins Dutch Grand Prix 2021
• Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Highlights READ Detail….

Book and Author

• Know Your Rights and Claim Them: A Guide for Youth by Angelina Jolie

Important day

• 31st August: International Day for People of African Descent
• 2nd September: World Coconut Day (Theme 2021: “Building a Safe Inclusive Resilient and Sustainable Coconut Community Amid COVID-19 Pandemic & Beyond”)
• 3rd September: Skyscraper Day
• 5th September: International Day of Charity
• 5th September: Teachers’ Day
• 8th September: International Literacy Day (Theme 2021: Literacy for a human-centred recovery: Narrowing the digital divide.)

Obituary

• TV actor Siddharth Shukla passed away at 40

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