Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 16 August to 22 August 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
- Bharat Petroleum launches door-to-door delivery of ‘High-Speed Diesel’
- PM Announces ₹100 Lakh Crore ‘Gati Shakti’ Infra Scheme To Boost Jobs
- PM Modi sets 2047 target for becoming ‘energy independent’
- CM Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy launches Rs 4,500 crore ‘Naadu-Nedu-2’ to remodel 16,000 govt schools in AP
- Kaziranga becomes India’s first national park with satellite phones
- 75 new Vande Bharat trains to connect all parts of India
- ‘Nation First, Always First,’ theme of 75th Independence Day
- Rice under all scheme to be fortified by 2024
- Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel announces 4 new districts
- Six lakh villages to get internet connectivity by 2024
- India launched UNITE Aware Platform in collaboration with UN
- BRICS signs deal on cooperation in remote sensing satellite data sharing
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched ‘Ubharte Sitaare Fund’
- India’s highest herbal park inaugurated in Uttarakhand
International News
- Hakainde Hichilema as a Zambia’s new president
- Ghaziabad is world’s second most polluted city of 2020, Judbury in Australia cleanest: British company HouseFresh
- Malaysia’s King appoints Ismail Sabri as Prime Minister
- Apple tops Hurun Global 500 Most Valuable Companies list 2021
Banking and Financial
- RBI cancels licence of Karnala Nagari Sahakari Bank, Panvel in Maharashtra
- India Ratings revises India’s FY22 GDP growth to 4%
- SBI Life launches new-age term insurance policy “SBI Life eShield Next”
- RBI to introduce ‘Regulatory GAAR’ for round-tripping
- India-ADB: USD 500 million loan agreement signed for Bengaluru Metro
- RBI to put in place a “PRISM” to strengthen compliance by lenders
- RBI introduced Financial Inclusion Index
- Kotak Mahindra Bank launches ‘Neo Collections’ Digital Repayment platform
Appointment and Resignation
- Priyanka Chopra Jonas named MAMI film festival chairperson
- Amway India appointed Mirabai Chanu as brand ambassador
- PR Sreejesh to be brand ambassador of Kerala adventure tourism
- NK Singh appointed New President of Institute of Economic Growth Society
- Shanti Lal Jain appointed MD and CEO of Indian Bank
Awards
- Gallantry Awards 2021: Here’s the list of 144 gallantry awards announced READ HERE
- Mohammad Azam from Telangana awarded National Youth Award
- Resolution reintroduced in US Congress to posthumously award Congressional Gold Medal to Mahatma Gandhi
- Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Awards 2021: Tamil actor Suriya won the Best Performance Male for Soorarai Pottru, and Vidya Balan grabbed Best Performance Female for Sherni
Defence
- Indian, Vietnam navies undertake bilateral maritime exercise in South China Sea
- Indian frigate INS Tabar takes part in exercises Konkan 2021
- Joint Guidance for the Australia – India Navy to Navy Relationship
Sports
- Harshit Raja becomes India’s 69th Chess Grandmaster
- Odisha to sponsor Indian Hockey teams for 10 more years
- Lionel Messi signs two-year Paris St-Germain deal after leaving Barcelona
- Amit Kumar walks to win silver medal in World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi
Important day
- PM declares August 14 to be observed as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’
- 19th August: World Photography Day
- 19th August: World Humanitarian Day (Theme 2021: #TheHumanRace: a global challenge for climate action in solidarity with people who need it the most.)
- 20th August: Sadbhavna Diwas
- 20th August: World Mosquito Day (Theme 2021: “Reaching the zero malaria target”.)
- 20th August: Indian Akshay Urja Day
- 21st August: World Senior Citizen Day
Obituary
- Former Indian footballer Chinmoy Chatterjee passes away
- Tamil actor Anandha Kannan passed away at 48
- Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Kalyan Singh passed away At 89
- Godfather of Sudoku, Maki Kaji passes away
- Actor Chithra passes away
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