Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1 to 7 November 2021

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1 to 7 November 2021

We are all aware of how important the General Awareness/ Current Affairs section is in any exam, whether it is for SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, LIC, SSC, Railway, or any other government exam. As a result, we will provide weekly one-liner current events for any future exam that has a GA section.
Weekly one-liner current affairs contains the week’s most relevant news into a single line, and are obligatory reading for all exams. The weekly one-liner current affairs are offered below to keep you up to date.

National News

• Madhya Pradesh announced “Mukhyamantri Awasiya Bhu-dhikar Yojana” to provide free residential plots to families
• India’s 1st manned ocean mission “Samudrayan” launched at Chennai
• India’s Largest Landfill Biogas Plant inaugurated in Hyderabad
• Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah launched “Dairy Sahakar” scheme in Gujarat
• Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar launched ‘Uttam Beej portal’
• National Tribal Dance Festival 2021 held in Raipur, Chhattisgarh
• Gujarat launched ‘e-Sarkar app’ for Paperless Administration
• IOC will set up India’s first mega-scale Maleic Anhydride Plant in Haryana
• RBI panel on ARCs proposed norms for valuers, reserve price
• Jitendra Singh dedicated ‘Sardar Patel Leadership Centre’ to the Nation
• 73rd Information and Public Relations Day celebrated in Manipur
• RK Singh inaugurated the “Pakal Dul Hydro Electric Project” in J&K
• IREDA launched ‘Whistle Blower’ portal to raise Complaint on Corruption
• Karnataka launched ‘Janasevaka’ scheme and ‘Janaspandana’ platform
• K Rajaraman will chair a Technology Innovation Group on 6G; formed by DoT
• India’s first open-air rooftop drive-in theatre opened in Mumbai
• Prime Minister unveiled Shri Adi Shankaracharya statue in Kedarnath
• Jitendra Singh inaugurated 650 Teraflops Supercomputing Facility at NABI & i-RISE, TBI at Mohali
• Amit Shah launched “Ayushmaan CAPF”, a Pan-India Health Card Scheme for CPPF

International News

• Microsoft surpassed Apple to become the world’s most valuable company by m-cap
• Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2021: Wipro’s Azim Premji topped
• PM Modi participated in G20 Leaders’ 16th Summit in Italy
• 2022 QS World University Rankings: 2 Indian institutions among the Top-50, National University of Singapore topped
• Telangana invited to participate in International Seed Conference by FAO
• India and Bhutan issued LoE to add 7 entry-exit trade points
• PM Modi and Boris Johnson launched the “One Sun, One World, One Grid” initiative
• UK launched commemorative £5 coin celebrating legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

Banking and Financial

• ADB approved USD 250 million loan for India’s NICDP
• Govt approved interest rate on Employees’ Provident Fund for FY21 at 5%
• Federal Bank and Aditya Birla Health Insurance entered into a Bancassurance Partnership
• Yes Bank and BankBazaar launched ‘FinBooster’ Credit Card
• SEBI formed IT Projects Advisory Committee (IT-PAC) headed by Abhay Karandikar and reconstituted Deepak Phatak headed Technical Advisory Committee
• RBI appointed Bandhan Bank as agency bank
• Axis Bank signed MoU with Indian Navy to offer ‘Power Salute’; ICICI Bank also renewed MoU with Indian Army
• World Bank provided $40 million to strengthen health systems in Meghalaya
• World Bank, NITI Aayog to set up $300 million Risk Sharing Instrument for financing EVs
• BoB signed MoU with NCDEX e-Markets Ltd to Support Agro e-commerce Businesses
• HDFC Life acquired 100% shareholding of Exide Life
• ADB approved $61 Million loans under ‘Agartala City Urban Development Project’
• Flipkart signed MoU with the Ministry of Rural Development to aid DAY-NRLM
• ICICI Lombard partnered with Vega Helmets to promote road safety awareness
• ADB, AIIB planning $2 billion loan for India to purchase COVID-19 vaccines
• Government collected Rs 1.30 lakh crores as GST for October, 2nd highest since GST implementation

Appointment and Resignation

• Ashok Bhushan appointed as Chairperson of NCLAT; Ramalingam Sudhakar as President of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT)
• Arun Chawla appointed as Director-General of FICCI
• C S Venkatakrishnan appointed as CEO of Barclays
• Rahul Dravid appointed head coach of Indian men’s cricket team

Awards

• ‘Vax’ named Word of the Year 2021 by Oxford English Dictionary
• National Sports Award 2021 announced: Read More
• Damon Galgut awarded Booker Prize 2021 for “The Promise”

Defence

• IAF participated in International Exercise ‘Blue Flag 2021’ conducted in Israel
• Indian Navy 7th Talwar Class stealth frigate Tushil launched in Russia
• India and Egypt conducted Joint Exercise “Desert Warrior”
• Indian Navy received its first P15B Indigenous Stealth Guided-Missile Destroyer – ‘Visakhapatnam’

Sports

• Javagal Srinath, Harbhajan Singh listed in MCC awards Honorary Life Membership
• Indian GM P Iniyan won Rujna Zora chess tournament in Serbia
• Indian Table Tennis Players G Sathiyan & Harmeet Desai won Men’s Doubles Title at WTT Contender Tunis
• Akash Kumar won bronze in 2021 AIBA Men’s World Championships in Serbia

Book and Author

• Amit Ranjan authored the book “John Lang: Wanderer of Hindoostan, Slanderer of Hindoostanee, Lawyer for the Ranee”
• Subhadra Sen Gupta authored a book titled “The Story of the First Civilizations: From Mesopotamia to the Aztecs”
• A new book titled “The Sage with Two Horns: Unusual Tales from Mythology” authored by Sudha Murty
• Pradeep Magazine authored a book titled ‘’Not Just Cricket: A Reporters Journey’’
• A new book titled “The Cinema of Satyajit Ray” authored by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

Important day

• 1st November: World Vegan Day (Theme 2021: ‘vegan for the less’.)
• 2nd November: International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
• 2nd November: Ayurveda Day 2021 (Theme 2021: “Ayurveda for Poshan”)
• 5th November: World Tsunami Awareness Day
• 3rd November: International One Health Day
• 6th November: International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
• 7th November: National Cancer Awareness Day

Obituary

• Former PM of Afghanistan Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai passed away

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