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Current Affairs 2021 Online Today Current Affairs for Competitive Exams - Current Affairs 2021 Online Chingari inks deal with 2 music labels International World's 'Voice of the Customer' award. Short video platform Chingari has partnered The 'Voice of the Customer' initiative with two independent, non-film music labels recognises airports that continued to prioritise TM Music and ii Music to strengthen the their customers during the novel coronavirus catalogue available for its content creators to pandemic in 2020. engage with. Under the #WeAreHereForYou umbrella of Owned by Tech4Billion Media Pvt Ltd, the BIAL, various campaigns were launched app has got more than 46 million users in to rebuild passenger confidence. India. It also has an alliance with T-Series, Merchant IDFC Floating Rate Fund launched Records and international record label IDFC Mutual Fund has announced the launch company Thrace Music. of IDFC Floating Rate Fund. Nagraj Kashyap to join SoftBank Vision Fund It is an open-ended debt scheme predominantly investing in floating rate SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund is hiring instruments. Nagraj Kashyap as its Managing Partner. IDFC Floating Rate Fund aims to invest a Nagraj Kashyap is the outgoing global head of minimum of 65% of its corpus in floating rate Microsoft’s M12 fund. securities issued by corporates or the He was previously head of ventures at government. Qualcomm Inc. before joining Microsoft in The New Fund Offer (NFO) will open on 10 2016. February and close on 16 February 2021. Managing Partner Colin Fan is leaving his role to become an adviser to SoftBank Investment India to see largest increase in energy demand Advisers. India will experience the largest increase in Wipro names new heads for Japan, Germany energy demand among countries worldwide over the next 20 years as its economy Wipro Limited has appointed Tomoaki continues to develop. Takeuchi as the country head and Managing This was stated by the International Energy Director for Japan. Agency (IEA) in the report - "The India Energy Prior to joining Wipro, he headed the Japan Outlook 2021". operations for Cognizant. India’s combined import bill for fossil fuels is Wipro also announced the appointment of projected to triple over the next two decades, Michael Seiger as the country head and with oil by far the largest component. MD for Germany and Austria. Prior to joining Wipro, Seiger was the global National Horticulture Fair inaugurated head of application management at Atos SE. A National Horticulture Fair was inaugurated Bengaluru airport bags a global recognition by Sri Ravi Shankar Guruji of Art of Living Foundation on 8 Feb 2021. The Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) has won the Airports Council 1 | Page It was organised by the Indian Institute of have granted a conditional exemption to the Horticulture Research in its campus near Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for Bengaluru. the deployment of drones for live aerial The fair to be organised till February 12, cinematography of the India Cricket Season in 2021, with a theme of 'Start up and Stand up 2021. India' is aimed at making farmers successful The Drone Rules 2021 are in the final stages entrepreneurs. of discussion with the Law Ministry and approval is expected by March 2021. HP govt proposes outlay of Rs 9,405.41 crores Hardeep Singh Puri introduces a bill in RS Himachal Pradesh government has proposed an outlay of 9,405.41 crore rupees under the Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs developmental budget for the year 2021-22. Hardeep Singh Puri introduced the National This was announced by Chief Minister Jai Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Ram Thakur while presiding over Provisions) Second (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in MLA's meeting on 8 Feb 2021. the Rajya Sabha on 8 Feb 2021. Out of this amount, Rs 565.52 cr has been It will replace the National Capital Territory of provided for roads and bridges while Rs Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Second 360.72 crore has been provided for minor (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 which was irrigation and drinking water schemes. promulgated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 30th December 2020. Maharashtra: 6th in terms of COVID cases Dr Zakir Hussain's birth anniversary: 8 Feb Maharashtra is ranked 6th in the country in terms of COVID cases and deaths reported 8 February marks the birth anniversary of per million. former President Dr. Zakir Hussain. According to Maharashtra’s Public Health Born on 8 February 1897, he served as the Dept, the state ranks below Delhi, Goa, third President of the country from 13 May Pondicherry, Kerala, and Chandigarh in terms 1967 till his death on 3 May 1969. of new infections and the resultant mortality He previously served as Governor of Bihar rate per million. from 1957 to 1962 and as Vice President of As of 3 Feb'21, Kerala recorded a growth rate India from 1962 to 1967. of 0.6% while Maharashtra's rate stood at just Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2021 0.10%. Rajya Sabha has passed The Jammu and Uttar Pradesh to set up state control room Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, UP government has sent a team of 4 officials 2021. to Joshimath in Chamoli and will set up a It will replace Jammu and Kashmir state control room at Haridwar to coordinate Reorganisation (Amendment) Ordinance of with the Uttarakhand govt the rescue and 2021 which merged the Jammu and Kashmir relief operations. cadre of the IAS, IPS, and IFS with the It will also set up district control rooms. Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and Union 1070 and WhatsApp no. 9454441036 has Territory cadre, also known as AGMUT cadre. been established for people of the state The President had promulgated the ordinance where they can share the details of any in January 2021. missing person in the calamity. NCAP to be implemented in 122 cities BCCI can use drones for aerial cinematography The Ministry of Environment will Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and implement National Clean Air Programme Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) (NCAP) across 122 cities in the country to reduce air pollution. 2 | Page NCAP targets to achieve a 20 to 30% Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate reduction in PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations the World Sustainable Development Summit by 2024 across the country. 2021 on 10 Feb 2021. The number of good quality air days has The theme of the summit is ‘Redefining Our increased to 218 in 2020 against 106 in 2016, Common Future: Safe and Secure and the number of poor quality air days Environment for All’. decreased to 56 in 2020. It will be held till 12 Feb 2021. Energy and industry transition, climate India: Fastest to reach 6 million vaccinations finance, circular economy, clean oceans, are Union Health Ministry informed that in the last amongst the range of topics to be discussed 24 days, India has become the fastest country during the summit. to reach six million vaccinations in the world. Tennis legend Akhtar Ali passes away USA took 26 days to reach the mark while the UK took 46 days to reach six million Tennis legend Akhtar Ali passed away in vaccinations. February 2021. So far 60 lakh 35 thousand and 660 He represented India in eight Davis Cup ties beneficiaries have been vaccinated for against Pakistan, Malaysia, Iran, Mexico, COVID-19 since the launch of the vaccination Japan, and Monaco between 1958 and 1964. drive on 16th of January 2021. He was the winner of the Asian mixed doubles championship. Government to launch portal His last ATP tour outing was against Vijay The government has proposed in the Union Amritraj in Bombay on November 11, 1974. Budget to launch a portal that will collect information on building and construction Film Karavan launches ‘Bandra Film Festival’ workers among others. Online content distribution company Film It will be set up by the Directorate General of Karavan has collaborated with YouTube to Labour Welfare. launch ‘Bandra Film Festival’, a digital film It will help formulate health, housing, skill, festival. insurance, credit, and food scheme for The festival will show more than 50 films from migrant workers. filmmakers across the country & across The rulemaking process is already underway multiple genres, languages & formats. and likely to be completed soon. The festival will also allow viewers to donate funds to support the films and filmmakers of 41.75 crore accounts opened under PMJDY their choice. A total of 41.75 crore accounts have been Maersk appoints Vikash Agarwal as new MD opened so far under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) out of which 35.96 Integrated container logistics firm Maersk has crore accounts are operative. appointed Vikash Agarwal as its new Under PMJDY, a bank account can be Managing Director for South Asia. opened with any bank branch or Business He will take full charge of the business for the Correspondent (BC) including those of private company in South Asia, covering India, sector banks. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives, The total number of PMJDY accounts opened from April 1, 2021. by public sector banks is 40.48 crore. Currently, he is serving as the Managing Director of CEVA Logistics - Indian World Sustainable Development Summit 2021 subcontinent. Water birds census conducted at Pong Dam lake 3 | Page The annual waterbird count at Pong Dam Himachal Pradesh CM Jai Ram Thakur has Lake Wildlife Sanctuary was conducted in the inaugurated a Golden Jubilee Nutrition first week of February 2021. Garden at Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Thousands of migratory birds from all over the Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University world visit the wetlands located at Pong Dam Palampur. in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh.
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