Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 16 September to 24 September 2021

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 16 September to 24 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

• Indian Railways Launched “Rail Kaushal Vikas Yojana”
• J&K Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha launches ‘One Gram Panchayat-One DIGI-Pay Sakhi’
• 100% FDI in telecom sector via automatic route
• Hathei chilli and Tamenglong orange of Manipur get Geographical Indication (GI) tag
• “Ek Pahal Campaign” launched for Justice delivery at doorstep
• Uttar Pradesh Government to set up ‘Electronic Park’
• FSSAI’s 3rd State Food Safety Index 2021: Gujarat tops among the larger states
• Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan to head education ministry’s panel to develop new curriculum for schools
• GoI hosted first India-UK Consular Dialogue

International News

• S, U.K. and Australia announce new security partnership “AUKUS” for Indo-Pacific
• PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee, Adar Poonawalla in Time Magazine’s ‘100 most influential people of 2021’ list
• PM Narendra Modi virtually addresses 21st Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Meeting
• Iran becomes 9th member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
• India jumps 2 spots to 46th rank in Global Innovation Index 2021, Switzerland Tops
• Justin Trudeau wins historic third term in Canada’s Prime Minister election

Banking and Financial

• FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces over Rs 30,600 cr guarantee for bad bank
• Byju’s buys coding site Tynker for $200 mn to grow in US
• UNCTAD projects India 2021 economic growth at 2%
• TCS 2nd Indian company to hit $200 billion mcap after RIL
• LIC launches mobile app ‘Pragati’ for Development Officers
• HDFC Bank ties up with Paytm to launch co-branded credit cards
• OECD trims India’s economic growth forecast to 7% for FY22
• Zee Entertainment signs merger deal with Sony Pictures Networks India
• Yes bank tie-up with VISA to offer credit cards
• BPCL, SBI Card launch co-branded RuPay contactless credit card

Appointment and Resignation

• TAGG ropes in Rohit Sharma as brand ambassador
• Alka Nangia Arora appoints as CMD of National Small Industries Corporation Ltd. (NSIC)
• Charanjit Singh Channi Punjab’s new Chief Minister
• Fino Payments Bank appoints Pankaj Tripathi as brand ambassador
• Air Marshal V R Chaudhari to be new chief of Indian Air Force
• Facebook India appointed Rajiv Aggarwal as Head of Public Policy
• Air India Chief Rajiv Bansal Appointed Civil Aviation Secretary
• UN chief appoints Kailash Satyarthi as SDG Advocate
• K Rajaraman appointed telecom Secretary

Awards

• Sahitya Akademi Award 2020: Politician-writer M Veerappa Moily and poet Arundhathi Subramaniam were among the list of awardees
• 73rd Emmy Awards 2021: READ MORE……..
• SV Sarasvati receives National Florence Nightingale Award 2020
• Bangladesh’s PM Hasina receives SDG Progress award
• Bangladeshi Fairooz Faizah Beether gets 2021 Changemaker Award
• Ghumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka bags Global Goalkeeper Award 2021

Defence

• India participates in SCO Exercise ‘Peaceful Mission’ 2021
• Defence Ministry constitutes High Level Expert Committee to review NCC
• Indo-Nepal joint military exercise Surya Kiran-XV to begin at Pithoragarh
• India, Indonesia begin three-day naval exercise ‘Samudra Shakti’ in Sunda Strait

Science

• SpaceX launches first all-tourist crew into orbit

Sports

• Pankaj Advani won Asian Snooker Championship for second successive time
• GM D. Gukesh of India won Norway Chess Open 2021
• India’s Raja Rithvik becomes 70th Grandmaster
• Pankaj Advani wins his 24th world title in Doha

Book and Author

• Jhumpa Lahiri to launch her new book ‘Translating Myself and Others’
• Rajnath Singh launches a book title ‘Shining Sikh Youth of India’
• Book title “The Three Khans: And the Emergence of New India” by Kaveree Bamzai
• Chetan Bhagat releases trailer of his upcoming book ‘400 Days’
• A audiobook title ‘Jungle Nama’ released by Amitav Ghosh

Important day

• 16th September: World Ozone Day (Theme 2021: Montreal Protocol – ‘Keeping us, our food and vaccines cool.’)
• 17th September: World Patient Safety Day
• 18th September: World Bamboo Day (Theme 2021: ‘#PlantBamboo: It Is Time To Plant Bamboo’.)
• 18th September: World Water Monitoring Day (Theme 2021: valuing water.)
• 18th September: International Equal Pay Day
• 21st September: International Day of Peace (UN) (Theme 2021: “Recovering Better for an Equitable and Sustainable World”.)
• 21st September: World Alzheimer’s Day (Theme 2021: “Know Dementia, Know Alzheimer’s”)
• 22nd September -World Rose day 2021
• 23 September: International Day of Sign Languages (Theme 2021: “We Sign For Human Rights)

Obituary

• Eminent Kashmiri Writer Aziz Hajini Passesed Away
• Renowned Padma Shri awardee astrophysicist Thanu Padmanabhan passes away
• Odia litterateur and journalist Manorama Mohapatra passes away
• Akhara Parishad chief Narendra Giri passes away

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